What movies have you seen recently?

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Err, hate to be the bearer of bad news but there isn't going to be a Hellboy 3: http://io9.com/dont-hold-your-breath-fo ... -628075624 - this was also reiterated with Legendary Pictures splitting away from Warner Bros after Man of Steel; it's not confirmed who is going to be in charge of the Superman-Batman team-up movie.

And isn't it a bit early to be predicting a Pacific Rim 2 when the first international run hasn't even finished yet...?

Anyway, del Toro's next confirmed project is Frankenstein: http://www.hindustantimes.com/Entertain ... 90316.aspx

And staying on topic, the last (arthouse) movie I watched this week was a documentary on Woody Allen.

I can live with his take on Frankenstein.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Pitfall (1948)

A man with a wife, a kid, a good job, and a nice house in the suburbs is bored with it all and before you know it he's having an affair and fighting with a co-worker and somebody ends up dead. It's a fine enough movie until the end, when one of the main characters, who's a good and decent person, kills a total scumbag who's ruining her life and she gets arrested and everyone just forgets about her. Who cares, right? The main guy gets everything back on track, so screw her, I guess.

Whatever.

Cowboys & Aliens

A posse of cowboys and natives fight against an alien spaceship in Arizona's Wild West in 1873.

Me too. Let's hope Frankenstein will be his masterpiece.

The conjuring.

well...sorry...i thought paranormal activity was better.

Doom

Based on the video game. Space Marines fight killer monsters at research facility on Mars.

Bridesmaids.
It was quite funny, but I couldn't stand the food poisoning scene, ugh I hate it when they show people throwing up in films.

Ew, yeah, I don't like it when movies show that, either.

Bridesmaids was one film i almost walked out of, it was about as funny as bout of dysentery.

Contagion--then 2 days later started running a fever...
Super-8--it was fun, but a little hokey. I wanted to watch it because I thought it was set in Lillian, Alabama.

The "best movie title ever" contest is over:



It's Perry Mason meets Murder, She Wrote. Sort of. It does star Raymond Burr and Angela Lansbury, and he plays an attorney. But the plot here is that he gets her acquitted of murder, then realizes she was actually guilty, then goes about manipulating her into killing him since she can't be tried again for the first murder. It's pretty tepid stuff, but the actors are good enough to make it worthwhile.

It's in the public domain, so you can watch it for free on YouTube or download it at the Internet Archive.

Please Murder Me is pretty good - I saw it a few years ago; man, you don't get character-driven movies like that anymore.

Anyway, continuing the thread, I could only survive ten minutes ironically of Surviving Summer (US original title: According to Gwen). Then again, the movie did star Hilary Duff in not too dissimilar a role from herHannah Montana days, so it serves me right.

This might be the greatest movie ever made. No wonder Quentin Tarantino loves it so much.

Twenty minutes into it, I had seen a fight inside a cramped jail cell, a prison break, an eye gouging, a guy falling to his death after doing a flying kick through a window, and a ten-on-one fight which ends with a guy spitting his teeth out like a goddamned cartoon character. He then goes back to his boss and explains to her what happened, with his teeth shoved up his nose.

It just gets crazier from there, but there's no way I'm spoiling it. Just go watch it immediately. It's in the public domain, and you can download a DVD-quality version with the original soundtrack (and English subtitles) at the Internet Archive.

It's with a sense of irony I report I just watched One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest again.

Eraserhead.

David Lynch's surrealist, sometimes absurd, sometimes nightmarish take on the unintended consequences of sex, including seeing one's baby literally as a monster.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer