A movie was filmed in my backyard. It was even directed by me !!



I still hate it though.

He's amazing. Love him too.
Dracula, Ninth Gate. Belissimo.

I just saw The Thing. I thought it was pretty good, I found it pretty suspenseful. Even though the effects now seem corny, for an 80s movie, I thought the effects were rather good. Good movie overall in my opinion.

i once saw From Hell It Came.

heh, funny stuff. brilliant array of accents, too.

It isn't poorly done. It's just highly stylized.

I love how thin the line is between "shitty" and "stylish."

Like Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban?

That's a different barrel of fish. More like with films like Gerry and the music of John Cage and Philip Glass. Especially John Cage.

Hot Fuzz is set where I live. It wasn't filmed there though.

I also saw Deck The Halls. Pretty run of the mill Christmas movie, featuring Danny DeVito in an unimpressive role, and Matthew Broderick being his usual talentless self.

Really? I love the effects in The Thing. I mean, the spiderhead was...different, but otherwise I'd like to think it still stands pretty tall nowadays. Especially since everything is goddamn CG now.

I loved the first one when I was a kid.

Well yea, some effects good, but some other things like the mutated dog seemed sort of corny to me at least. But otherwise, the effects were good.

I know what you mean, CG takes away the creativity.

The Thing is a barfbag classic. If you think the FX are corny, then the point probably wasn't completely lost on you.

God, the Thing gave me terrible nightmares.

Anyway, I watched Star Trek and Ghost Rider.


Star Trek was nice. I've seen some of the original series before and loved the goofy nature of it, but all the super-seriousness of the other four serieses or so bored me to tears, and the fanbase is the biggest load of basement fatties in the world outside of Alternate-Universe-Auschwitz (run by Jews who lock Germans in the dungeons and feed them cake). But thankfully, the movie violently blows up the continuity. I still can't believe they had the balls to do that. The "new" Star Trek was fun, exciting, and interesting. I liked it.

Ghost Rider was basically a cheesy pile of redneck crap. But it was hilarious. I love watching Nicholas Cage movies, he's the biggest unexpressive dork ever. It's like a dork superhero. Plus he turns into a cackling skeleton that's on-fire. It's great. I've never been much a fan of demons and hell and stuff in stories, but here it was pulled off pretty cheesily well.

So yeah, I had fun.

The onboard promotion to captain kind of beggered belief for me and I grimaced at the few 90s Sci-Fi cliches I saw played straight, but I did thoroughly enjoy that movie when I saw it. (Which was a fortnight or so ago, I should have mentioned that at the time :B)

<3 Leonard Nimoy.

I like how they did something new and didn't kill off Old Spock.

Uguu~ Old Spock <3.

Wonder if XII can improve any :D.

XII?

...Damlasca?

Star Trek 12, shush you.

Uuuuu~

I thought it was a pretty mediocre film. Not once did I actually care about what was happening.

I liked the part where Kirk is being chased by the alien goat thing, then a big red monster is like "Eh bonjour mon ami" and attempts to devour him, so Kirk RUUUNS into a cave and old Spock gesticulates with a SINGLE LIT TORCH, and the thing is like "Oh, merde" and flees.

Yeah, that part was great.

Ultraviolet. I liked it, i'm not sure why all the critics hate it. The fight at the end of the film with Daxus was the best bit.

It came out around Aeon Flux, I think, and the whole plot was kind of incomprehensible. "IT'S THE FUTURE AND THERE ARE DISEASE AND VAMPIRE AND THIS MAN HAS A GAS MASK FOR HIS NOSE."

I liked it more than AF, though.

I didn't hate Aeon Flux. I didn't particularly like it, but I didn't hate it, either.

I just watched "Fred Clause" I wasn't that keen on it at the beginning, but it gets better as it goes on.

I only just noticed the unscrupulous pattern of made-for-tv Christmas films that center around the drama of Santa's son and/or daughter taking over the family business/getting married. Actually, this seems to be the basic plot structure for over 50% of TV Holiday specials.

On that note, they all suck, with the exception of the one with Kelsey Grammar as Santa's son. But hey, it's Kelsey Grammar, and that's about where the pros of the film end.

But does it really?