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Suspiria is AWESOME. I love Inferno as well.

GekkoP wrote:^ I didn't revive the thread cause I usually watch a film per day...

I do mostly the same.

@DJ: indeed, when you mentioned Jim Carrey i was ready to jump in and throw ESSM at you, but you mention it yourself already :)
John Dies At The End was good fun as well.

i share your view on Hollywood/Blockbuster stuff, mostly. i give shit a chance. i mean, Wolf of Wallstreet is probably a blockbuster, it has Leonardo DiCaprio and such, but it still seems like a damn good movie to me plus i really think DiCaprio is an awesome actor. which reminds me of The Aviator, which was probably Hollywood as well but still awesome (and fuck me that soundtrack is getting replayed here all the damn time).

this just to say: there are some gems hidden between all the cruft. but i haven't seen Prometheus, or Avatar, or whatever else big-ass hyped-up movie - not in the least because all the hype tends to grow too much expectations (Broke Back Mountain was the prime example for me there, expectations too high ruined a bunch of a pretty good movie for me. obviously, i wanted to see more bareback cowboy action, but alas)

^ you're right, you must have wanted 'bareback mountain'

I watched '21 grams' last night, was thoroughly confused, then it starts making sense - then it's over, very Spanish 8p
Really enjoyed it though. nearly made me cry.

Rigor Mortis
This is Juno Mak directional debut, and my oh my it is absolutely stunning. I cannot believe he did nothing before this. I know he's a singer, but that's it. This is a lovely tribute to Hong Kong's vampire cinema of the 80s (Mr Vampire, The Dead and the Deadly, that sort of stuff) with bits of last decade j-horror. But it goes far beyond the simple tribute. I'll watch it again soon.

"John dies at the end" was fucking brilliant.
Saw the departed, that was pretty good, amazing cast, although I thought Mark Wahlberg was Guy Pearce until the end.

Glengary Glen Ross - great fucking acting, but it watches like a play instead of a movie (read: might bore you a bit). makes sense, at it is originally a play. can't hear the word 'leads' anymore after this movie.

Best film ever: Festen (Thomas Vinterberg)
Funny: The guard
Did someone say 70s ? The conversation
Second best film ever: Z (yes, that's the whole title)

. . . anything by Terry Gwilliam or David Lynch is usually pretty interesting.

watched some Spanish thing called 'Fermat's Room' this evening which I rather enjoyed.

Blockbusters meh. Enjoyed Prometheus tho' . . . probably due to interest in the whole intelligent design thing rather than the movie itself.

Glengary I liked a lot and Festen is a hell of a film.
Fermat? IMO very regular, read boring.

Source Code: quite liked it. people say it is a 'difficult' movie, but apparently people are morons.
21: crappy, should've switched it off from the introduction.

back to my college days i watched a great korean movie called "Old Boy" or something...
and as any good far-east asian movie, hollywood decided to recreate the movie but oh well the hollywood remake is... shit compared to the original movie

^ Old Boy is really awesome, though not my favorite Park Chan-wook's work.

I watched:

KINATAY: the only Mendoza I was missing due to too much writings and talkings about it. Shocking, but also shockingly pointless in a way.
THIS CHARMING GIRL: really interesting drama, delicate and intimate.

Recently:

DARKMAN: classic Raimi, I still love it after all these years.
DARKMAN II: terrible in almost every possible way.
DARKMAN III: same as above, just a bit less predictable.
R100: being a huge Matsumoto Hitoshi's fan, I like it though it is not as good as his previous works.

Having been practically stuck in bed the last few days, I have watched a collection of movies. The sad part is that the highlights were Mystery Science Theater 3000 reruns.

i watched Gravity on the recent plane trip . . . utter bollocks with Sandra Bollocks and George Clooney (sorry bones) - give it a miss. So disillusioned I watched documentaries for the remainder of the flight and return

For those of you who are into "hard" SciFi, I recommend Ender's Game.
It's a blockbuster featuring Harrison Ford as a badass army general and Ben Kingsley as a veteran pilot.
Liked the book, but loved the movie (which is good/strange, it's always the other way around in this genre)

Watched recently Summer of Sam. I seem to like many of Spike Lee's movies. But I won't touch Old Boy.

i saw...

Free Birds, an animation about turkeys travelling back in time to stop Thanksgiving Turkeys from happening. it was very predictable yet good for some giggles.

Monuments Men: i'd rather lay under the cover and inhale Black Ivan's farts than watch this again. it is basically a layman's art-loving dryhump-fest. if you, like me, thought a movie with George Clooney and Bill Murray in it had to be good, this movie serves as the exception to that rule. seriously, there isn't even much to laugh or get excited about. cliche'd all over, the story makes no sense most of the time, and it is boring as fuck.

gurtid wrote:...utter bollocks with Sandra Bollocks and George Clooney (sorry bones) - give it a miss.

Haha, no worries, I don't like most of his movies, although I did enjoy "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" Can't go wrong with a Coen brothers film, though.

Looking forward to this Wes Anderson film:

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