[FigureItOut]

I saw it my sophomore year in a pre-AP History class. The teacher destroyed it though, constantly pausing the movie to give us her commentary. I watched it again earlier this year and got so much more out of it.

[muenginerd]

Originally Posted by Full Effect Ed

V/H/S (2*)

I'd consider this my biggest disappointment of the year. I had very high hopes for this anthology horror film, but only enjoyed 2 out of 6 stories.


BTW, fuck all the hate for Sleepaway Camp. Film's a classic in the genre!

Saw V/H/S at our Film Festival, was suppose to be the highlight of the midnight showing series. I fully agree with you it is a HUGE disappointment.
For all the hype, the theater I was in was kinda bored with it.

And Sleepaway Camp was amazing, and the first Horror movie I ever watched!

[cshadows2887]

Saw Kind Hearts and Coronets. Holy fuck, what a movie. Haha. I love Ealing but this is by far the blackest, meanest, most subversive thing I've seen from them. And Alec Guiness is a genius.

[secretsociety92]

Dr. No - 10/10

50 years, still looks great.

[drat!]

Lawless

Great movie. Tom Hardy stands out as always.

[sargentlgfuad]

Originally Posted by domotime2

was i supposed to? it's pretty well-known as one of the better twists of all-time

Really? It was so blunt. They even called her queer at one point. And it was so dumb. "Oh, she's killing people because she's actually a boy!" ...yeah cause that makes so much sense.

[sargentlgfuad]

Originally Posted by Argentine

I've seen Sleepaway Camp twice and it was in my pre-high school stages of adolescence, but there's no way it's as abhorrent as The Room.

Yeah it is. They are both so god-awful that they are hilarious. And I love both of them!

[Argentine]

Ratcatcher - 7.5/10

For whatever reason, I had to keep coming back to the death at the beginning. I became much more interested in James' sense of escapism and the state of his living situations causing him to grapple between a fantasy world and a physical one. Just watching this kid trudge through these garbage laden streets, unhopeful about his life, and attempting to keep his hopefulness about his future fairly grounded is touching.

Overall, I prefer Morvern Callar though.

[luckykaruba]

Hotel Transylvania: 7.65/10 lots of fun with some racist moments! Also sends a message to the kids I don't agree with! Get with the times Song pictures!


Fat Girl 10/10 lovely lovely lovely.

[vivatoto56]

My mission for November is to see every bond movie since I have only seen a handful.

My girlfriend has almost all of them on dvd and I'll netflix the rest...I'm excited, probably post those reviews in here.

[secretsociety92]

Originally Posted by vivatoto56

My mission for November is to see every bond movie since I have only seen a handful.

My girlfriend has almost all of them on dvd and I'll netflix the rest...I'm excited, probably post those reviews in here.

Please do, always like discussing the Bond series.

[cshadows2887]

Originally Posted by vivatoto56

My mission for November is to see every bond movie since I have only seen a handful.

My girlfriend has almost all of them on dvd and I'll netflix the rest...I'm excited, probably post those reviews in here.

She sounds like a keeper!

[TJ Wells]

Frankenweenie (Tim Burton, 2012)
B+
http://nursingshorelines.com/2012/10...m-burton-2012/



By returning to the relatively simple combination of gothic horror and comedy that he was so successful with in films like Ed Wood and Beetlejuice, Tim Burton has made his best film in almost ten years. A 100% Burton original (even if it is based on a short he made in the early 80s, as well as skeletally just an updating of Frankenstein), Frankenweenie is the story of a young boy named Victor. When his dog, Sparky, is run over by a car, he is devastated. Unable to live without his dog, he uses the power of science to bring him back to life.

The combination of gorgeous black and white photography and grotesque character design gives the film a style all its own. This is a complete 180 from the sumptuous (but soulless) design of recent films Dark Shadows and Alice in Wonderland. Frankenweenie is Burton’s first film in years that actually has a heart, due in no small part to the fact that, for once, he has a more than tenuous connection to the material.

While it could have easily devolved into a basic Frankenstein remake, the film succeeds in a big way because of the other directions Burton takes the story. There are homages to everything from Gremlins to Godzilla, from Dracula to Edward Scissorhands. It’s also a decidedly pro-science film, ballsy in a political climate that seems to reject anything of that nature.

There’s not a lot of heft to Frakenweenie. It hasn’t stuck with me twelve hours later, and I doubt I’ll watch it again. But the combination of all the elements I’ve already mentioned, as well as a great voice cast (including Burton vets Winona Ryder and Martin Landau, as well as Catherine O’Hara and Martin Short in multiple roles) and some incredibly subtle dry humor, added up to one of the more pleasant times I’ve spent watching a movie this year.

[TJ Wells]

Taken 2 (Olivier Megaton, 2012)
F

I feel torn. I have a lot to say about this movie, but I don't want to act like it deserves any sort of response. This is a putrid, vile, soulless, empty, awful, very bad film. It's everything I hate about Hollywood wrapped into one messy, 90 minute package. I'll expand on that tomorrow, though I guess I don't really need to.

And this is coming from someone who had a lot of fun with the original.

[SlappedActor]

The House at the End of the Street - 3/10

Typical lame horror film. Jennifer Lawrence deserves better.