Agreed! When I first watched that show I couldn't believe how good it was, given the setting. But it is. Even the somewhat cheesy game moments are touching, and also the games are very well filmed.

Also, Minka Kelly. 

Was fun to watch. I delves in and out of different genres at times so its not pure horror. 

Minka Kelly is hot but that voice... 

actually like Insidious. 

http://alittlemoreaction.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/minka-kelly-009.jpg 

like a broad spectrum of films, I usually have good taste but I also do like a lot of "bad" films (art is subjective after all!). 

wasnt just directed at you :)

I think someone else mentioned, maybe kona, that they really enjoyed it. So I am in the minority, not you. 

I know I have a habit of enjoying terrible films, films like Trailer Park of Terror and Tokyo Gore Police. ;) 

Insidious- a lot of people I've talked to have loved that.
Haven't seen Trailer park, but I'd say that's a different sort of horror than Insidious - intentional rather than unkowing (pure) camp... based on the title, and association with TGP (which I was kind of disappointed in, actually). 

Yeah mate I didn't mind it. It was a bit slow at first, but once the other side (the realm) came into it and dad had to go over to the other side, that's when I really liked it. I love supernatural horror movies so it fit exactly what I like.

Was this the one where the mum was in the kitchen and she turned around and all the chairs were stacked up? God that gave me goosebumps.

There's better horrors out there - Poltergeist obviously. But it's decent. 

or at least a scene where she turns around and books are in bookshelves. 

Chairs all stacked up is from poltergeist. 

Two horrible movies:

Horrible Bosses, don't watch unless you like 3 obnoxious fucks talk angry nonsense at the same time while filler music plays in the foreground.

Red Tails, don't watch unless you consider a script written by a highschool drama class great literature or if you have negative knowledge of how planes work. 

Hm, I've had quite the bad luck recently. Caught a bit of Red Dragon on TV and will watch that soonish. Seemed very good. 

anyone seen it?

it's probably my favourite film of the past 12 months but i can see it being one that divides opinion, so am interested to read people's thoughts on it.

and nitin, you're not the only one who thought insidious was shit. it felt like someone's college project! 

but I have seen:

Django Unchained - some good bits but seriously Tarantino needs an editor, this and Inglorious Basterds are so bloated its not funny. More about Brumhilda and less shenanigans with aussie accented dumbasses would have maybe made me care about the whole thing. (My horse) Fritz stole the show.

John Carter - also has some good bits but who the hell thought it was a good idea to cast Taylor Kitsch in the lead role. He looks and sounds nothing like a civil war veteran should. Also, the plot is compleltely nonsensical, but there is some good visuals here.

Zero Dark Thirty - really well acted by Jessica Chastain which overcomes some of the other problems, namely a bit of a chaotic screenplay and non existant secondary characters. Last hr or so is also spectacularly well made.

Red - oh dear, and I see there is a sequel too. Not funny enough, not actiony enough, just a very very average action film but with different stars than usual. 

zero dark thirty is pro-torture, religious and unlimited celebrating the military/cia. I was disgusted as it went on without showing no sign of criticism. 

less sober but it's hard not to agree that it is difficult or at least eccentric to judge what is essentially a piece of propaganda (and, despite being a generally angry person I'm disturbed by how such revenge fantasies can be so "feel good") by solely aesthetic standards as a work of art.

Django Unchained - Apparently I am the PC brigade tonight, but I really felt like Tarantino trivialized (and probably could not help but do so) the subject.

Now to be most annoying of all, I predictably liked Man of Steel. 

I meant "solely by aesthetic standards, as a work of art" as opposed to "completely, ie by ethical, aesthetic and intellectual standards." 

trivialised slavery?

It's one of the few films that showed the true nature of slavery. Whippings, brutal murders, hot box torture, lynchings, mutilation...

Yeah it was also very stylised in the tarantino way, but it was certainly not light viewing. 

it was never going to be critical of the CIA expressly, but I cant exactly say it came across to me as pro-CIA/torture/war on terror. It almost showed the whole thing coming together because of luck and one person's disturbing single mindedness rather than because anything valuable was obtained by CIA brilliance or through the use of torture.

Also, Man of Steel, I will agree with the guys above. First 70 min are pretty decent and then the whole introspective mood is smashed to bits by totalling the whole city over and over. If you are going to setup the whole character as one struggling with choice and then finally having him make the choice to side with humans/earth, at least make him try to save some or think before he smashes the next building. 

I have seen Man of Steel yet, but it's superman... it's a comic movie, there's no way I'm not going to like it. 

Great little comedy. Peter Capaldi as Shambler absolutely kills it. 

Cool in places, cheesy in other places. The whole set-up and concept was a fun mixture of epic and ridiculous, but some aspects could have been explored further - "DRift" gimmick was only well used a couple of times (e.g. chinese burd's flashback). Lead character was a turd and any human aspect involving him was dire, the further away one got from him the better.

Giant monster apocalypse = great
Giant robots fighting back = silly but fun
Human issues controlling robots = neat but wasted - needed more exploration
Human drama = putrid cheese 

Oblivion

Despite it's 'Hollywoodisms' and plot holes it's actually a pretty original scifi flick. The visuals are nice, they actually used old fashioned back projection to great effect.

(it's roughly something like Moon meets Independence Day meets Terminator... or something like that)

Oh yeah, it's got Cruise and Freeman parodying themselves as usual, but whatever...

Pacific Rim

It's a movie about giant robots fighting giant monsters. That's all it is, so if you like that, good, if not, bad. Not enough chicks though. I agree with Shambler. My fav part was when they used 'the sword' for the first time, so bad it was good :) The Russians didn't get enough screen time. The bad guys have the same issue as the ones in Avengers, their origin story is completely absent which makes it all very one dimensional. They have no other reason to be there than being pure evil incarnated.