I quite liked the Mist, also. Despite it's rather twisty ending.

Worst ending ever.

Thinking about it, the Mist wasn't actually that bad. Also, did Nate's avatar just move?

Nate's avatar hasn't flipped for months. You're probably imagining things.

I've started watching Daria. Occasionally hilarious, and almost always entertaining, yet I can't help but find the titular character slighlty unbearably, repetitiously, obnoxiously misanthropic after a while. Maybe I've just been watching it too much and her monotone musings are getting under my skin.

It's a good thing the rest of the characters are (mostly) brilliant, though. The football player-cheerleader duo of Kevin and Brittany is one of the funniest comedic pairs I've seen in a long while.

I watched Let the Right One In, a Swedish horror/drama movie about a bullied kid who meets a vampire kid and they become very close friends and maybe even more than that. It might sound a bit weird but honestly, it was one of the best movies I have seen. Every actor in the movie does a great job and the main characters' relationship is just so genuine and lovely. It's not that scary, but many scenes have an eerie feeling of uneasiness. I don't want to spoil anything about it, go watch it pleeeeeeease. It is on Netflix I believe. Don't watch the American remake called Let Me In, it is supposedly an alright film on its own but it has a completely different atmosphere than the original movie.

Oh yeah and I also watched Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. What a trippy movie. Liked it very much.

The American version is one of the few remakes that stands up extraordinarily well when put against the original. I do like the original better (I actually own it on dvd), but Let Me In is pretty great, too.

Edit: If you want to watch another amazing vampire movie, check out Thirst.

You think so? I thought the American version was a piece of shit made for retarded audiences who don't want to "read a film". It butchers the original's masterful use of subtlety, replacing it with "HEY GUYS LOOK AT THIS BET YOU DIDN'T KNOW THAT" camera work and exposition.

Also, the characters are completely different.

That's not a sentiment I had heard before. I thought it was still a fairly subtle movie. I expected them to try to action it up for American audiences, but they didn't really do that. I enjoyed it almost as much as the original.

I thoroughly enjoyed Let Me In.

Explain your opinion, Nep. Sorry for coming across as a big wank but that read like a lot of buzzwords rather than an informed analysis of the film.

That's pretty much all of my posts in a nutshell, though.

Lightning fast.

This latest season of anime was kind of bad and I dropped about half of what I started. There were only two shows I'd call great.

Am I cool yet?

Space dandy is fantastic, especially if you've seen Cowboy Bebop.

I thought Bebop was 'good' at best, and the first season/half of Dandy was infuriatingly inconsistent, but almost every episode in the second season was a winner.

I watched the first two episodes of Texhnolyze and I have no idea what just happened, pretty sure I enjoyed it, though. I also watched the first episode of Psycho-Pass and I liked it, but not nearly as much.

They both get better. Texhnolyze especially is damn near art by the finale.

Really? I would call the first episode art if I knew what it was getting at.

I liked the first half of Texhnolyze but lost a little bit of interest during the second. But I think that's mostly because I liked Yoshii as an antagonist way more than Kano. The ending was still good though. The soundtrack is also really good.

Definitely agree with that.

I've just seen Mad Max 3, a.k.a. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. It's an adventure of Mad Max which happens at thunderdome, and then beyond it. It was... it was a mixed bag, really. There were some great original ideas, but there are many small problems with this movie that in overall make it the worst movie in the trilogy.

It's not bad, though. It is enjoyable. But not as exciting as MM2. Also, it's PG-13 now, which made most of the charm gone.

I pre-ordered the new Alien game that's coming out next week and felt a need to watch the movies before I play it so I watched Alien, Aliens and Alien 3 (I guess I'll watch Alien Resurrection too if I have some time tonight). I really like Alien and Aliens, both are great movies but man, Alien 3 is just... ugh. I watched the Special Edition of it which is supposedly better than the theatrical version but it's just so mediocre in comparison to the previous movies, I didn't like it at all.

I also watched The Hunt, Superbad, Moonrise Kingdom and Rushmore.

The Hunt is a Danish movie that tackles a pretty sensitive, not-so-talked-about subject. It's about a man working in a kindergarten whose life turns into hell after one kid's little lie gets the other daycare workers thinking he's a pedophile and the word spreads around in the small town where everyone knows everyone. It was really fucked up in a way and really uncomfortable to watch at some parts, but it was a great movie overall. The original name is "Jagten" if you want to look it up.

Superbad you all probably already know about that one. Great comedy, this is the second time I watched it.

Moonrise Kingdom was something I've wanted to see for a while now and I finally got around to watching it and man oh man, I absolutely loved it. Loved it loved it loved it. The vintage colours, the soundtrack, the way it's shot, the casting and just everything about it. It was just a fantastic movie in every possible way. I wish I'd watched it sooner.

After watching Moonrise Kingdom, I got interested in Wes Anderson's other movies and decided to check out Rushmore. I quite liked it, but I thought it wasn't as accessible/easy to watch as Moonrise Kingdom, I felt like some things just went straight over my head but man, Schwartzman was great in it and some scenes had me in stitches with their quirkiness like the dinner scene ("O.R. they?" legitimately made me burst with laughter) and the part where Mr. Blume (Bill Murray) is hiding behind a tree and spying on the teacher. Really good movie, but I did prefer Moonrise Kingdom a lot more.

So yeah, a lot of movies. I'm also planning to watch Audition, Cache and I'm Still Here soon. I also bought the novel Let the Right One In is based on, excited to read that.

Alien and Aliens are both masterpieces. Alien is arguably better than Aliens but I do enjoy the latter more. Alien 3 is kind of shit and Alien Resurrection is a huge pile of decaying donkey jizz.

Alien: Resurrection is better than Alien 3 and I still don't know why that's controversial.

It's not.

Seeing good arguments on both sides here.

I liked Alien Resurrection.

But AVP II was the best one.

Moonrise Kingdon has nothing on Rushmore. I always go back and forth between Rushmore and Royal Tenenbaums as to which is my favorite film of all time.

Moonrise Kingdom was great, but yeah Rushmore is really one of the best, and most hilarious movies I've seen (Tenenbaums too, but I think I like Rushmore a tad more). Took me a couple views to realize its brilliance, though. Moonrise was a lot more immediate.

I loved Moonrise Kingdom, but Rushmore is just one of the most beautiful things ever put on film.

So here we go. A Serbian Film.
I watched it because of it's reputation of the "most disturbing film ever made" and yeah that's pretty spot on. I didn't personally find it scary or disturbing but as far as films go it's probably the most fucked up one out there before you get into snuff films.

But you know what? It's really good.
Like yeah, it's really unpleasant but as a film, it's so well made. The directing, the writing, fuck even the characters and acting were just spot on. You really feel for this guy who has to do these awful awful things, and the whole tone of the film was just perfect. I don't know if I'd go so far as to call it art but it wouldn't be that far off.
I recommend it if you can stomach it.

Also, the music's fucking awesome.

The soundtrack is pretty good, on a creepy ironic note I just listened to a track from the OST two minutes ago. The film however, is cack. The actors are cack and the plot is as tripe as a cow's stomach.

Nah fuck that, it was bad. A few scenes were shot well and like you said the soundtrack was good, but everything else was just bleh. It tried so hard to be shocking and edgy.

Like an electrified blade.

You mean a power sword?

So I encountered Transformers 4. It was fucking garbage. Here's an analysis it doesn't deserve.
Transformers 4 starts off very strong; there's a subversive sense of humor about the previous films in the series and Mark Wahlberg feels like a tongue-in-cheek self-insert for Micheal Bay, representing a creative force muzzled by things beyond his control. Unfortunately this is simply Bay trying to trick you into thinking this film has some kind of pathos or sentimentality. The visual effects are amazing as usual, particularly on Hound and Lockdown; an obese cursing autobot whose entire body seems to be made of ammunition and an unsettlingly dense 'evil' transformer who takes pleasure going all kali-ah on Autobots and tearing their robo heart/souls out. Being three hours long the film uses that ONE WEIRD TRICK to keep your ass planted through the whole thing in that you become so suffocated by the noise and wretched messy visuals that you can't pull yourself away until the angsty credits music brings you back to feeling emotions (mostly guilt, regret, shame, arousal and confusion).

High points:
-Mark Wahlberg is hilarious in this movie, intentionally or otherwise. However his earnest wonder at finding a dead transformer at the start of the movie is just endearing enough to make his character likeable.

-A man is literally kicked in the face by a car. Not by a transformer mind you, just some guy in a sort of dune-buggy who punts some idiot in the shnoz.

-Optimus Prime riding around on Grimlock (or whoever, the tyrannosaurus robot) is a pretty cool image and if both the hour of film leading up to it and the battle that follows composed the entire film it would be the best in the series and a decent movie.

-Optimus Prime ends the film by going all intergalactic schoolyard bully and threatens anyone who might attack earth, the super-vulnerable planet he just flew away from.

Re-watching Dexter, I can now totally see where OANST was coming from. It has some of the most obnoxious, unlikable characters in TV show history, mainly Astor, who one second is being a shit because Dexter was treating her like a little kid, and next minute she's jumping on the bed like a 5 year old. Make up your mind writers, is she a generic stereotypical teen or a generic stereotypical 5 year old?! Also, a lot of the side story arcs are insanely boring and go nowhere.
I can see all them flaws now, but I still enjoy the programme because some of the other characters are just so great (Dexter, Deb, Masuka, Batista), as well as the main story arcs which make it actually worth watching.

Stargate SG-1 is now my favorite Sci-fi ever. I swear, every season gets better and better. It's been a LONG time since I've been in to a show like this, I binge watch like 3-4 episodes a night.

I'm a bit worried about the last few seasons however. Apparently there is a major cast change and the overall opinion between the fans is split completely down the middle. I hope it doesn't ruin it. :/

In case anyone knows, Don't post any spoilers. I'll never forgive you.

I don't know if you've actually sat down and watched The X-Files, but it has a similar structure (monster of the week, interspersed with an over-arching mythology) and is, frankly, a much better show. I would recommend that.

Also, if you're into Sci-Fi, the first couple seasons of Battlestar Galactica are amazing. Major decline in the later seasons, though.