I Have Just Seen... III -

scrabface · #**871** 12-04-2010, 07:04 AM

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I watched 30 days of night 2: Dark Days yesterday and it was pretty stupid.

I didn't enjoy it, but I didn't dislike it either. Usually, that's the case with horror movies for me. Actually, I think I only enjoy old horror movies. Only some new ones are good.

old like Carpenter's The Thing ?

Dynamithix · #**872** 12-04-2010, 08:24 AM

Can you read minds? You nailed it perfectly.

OANST · #**873** 12-04-2010, 10:36 AM

I was going to go see Black Swan tonight, but there isn't a single theatre within driving distance that is playing. That's fucking stupid.

Daxter King · #**874** 12-04-2010, 11:40 AM

I saw Operation Endgame. It had its moments, but it wasn't that good.

scrabface · #**875** 12-04-2010, 02:31 PM

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I was going to go see Black Swan tonight, but there isn't a single theatre within driving distance that is playing. That's fucking stupid.

driving distance? ...america...

abe is now! · #**876** 12-05-2010, 02:43 AM

Harry Potter 7 (part 1) and Saw 7. I didn't really enjoy this Saw's chapter because too many people are involved in the butchering, it's plot has not continuity.

Mac Sirloin · #**877** 12-05-2010, 06:33 AM

Oh yeah, Harry Potter 7, I saw that too.

In summary:
-Cut too much from the book
-Ron was gone for like half of the movie. This is inexcusable, as Ron is the best.
-They skipped over Harry yelling at Lupin. That was a good part that would have fit in relatively well.
-The guy who played the Minister was some really good English actor whose name I can't remember. He was rad. Same guy who played Slartibartfast.

So it was okay.

Wings of Fire · #**878** 12-05-2010, 07:05 AM

Cut too much aimlessly wandering around the english countryside angsting?

Mac Sirloin · #**879** 12-05-2010, 07:09 AM

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Cut too much aimlessly wandering around the english countryside angsting?

No. Little things like the Dursley departure and most of the stuff involving Kreacher and Grimmauld place. The scene where they steal the locket seemed a lot like "Here's some half-comedy. Now some almost-action for two minutes. Now camping FOREVER."

Oh, and I guess you didn't notice but the movie was already pretty angsttastic.

Wings of Fire · #**880** 12-05-2010, 07:19 AM

Oh I haven't seen the movie and don't intend to. I'll watch the second part for the Battle of Hogwarts I guess.

Laser · #**881** 12-05-2010, 07:39 AM

The Misfits and The Walking Dead have been on for a while and both have been utterly flawless.

I highly reccomend both.

I have also been watching Fringe and House, both once again being brilliant.

OANST · #**882** 12-06-2010, 05:45 AM

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driving distance? ...america...

I keep forgetting that Austrians don't have cars. Sorry to rub it in.

scrabface · #**883** 12-06-2010, 09:32 AM

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I keep forgetting that Austrians don't have cars. Sorry to rub it in.

Yeah we still use carriages. The White Ribbon is a Science Fiction movie in Austria.

OANST · #**884** 12-06-2010, 09:33 AM

Horses haven't been invented yet either? Jesus Christ, you people are backwards!

Dynamithix · #**885** 12-06-2010, 11:51 AM

I saw Cop Out a while ago.

It was 'Meh' for most of the time.

One funny reference was when one of the cops acts during an interrogation and says "Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker" and Bruce Willis' role says "Don't know that one"

OANST · #**886** 12-06-2010, 12:47 PM

Boy, howdy. That does sound funny.

Dynamithix · #**887** 12-06-2010, 01:24 PM

I know. It was so fun.

OANST · #**888** 12-06-2010, 01:32 PM

It sounds really fun.

Dynamithix · #**889** 12-06-2010, 07:31 PM

It really was. Fun.

Sekto Springs · #**890** 12-07-2010, 01:52 PM

Watched the A Nightmare on Elm Street remake out of curiosity. It was shit. Really shit.
I don't care what kind of geeky fandom Jack Earle Haley has garnered, he was a terrible Freddy.
The only thing I liked about it was the new glove design, which was pretty cool.

OANST · #**891** 12-07-2010, 01:53 PM

Because the other films were good?

Sekto Springs · #**892** 12-07-2010, 01:55 PM

Is that sarcastic rhetoric or are you asking an actual question? I can never tell with you.

Dynamithix · #**893** 12-07-2010, 01:59 PM

Sekto, didn't you just looove Freddy's completely original one-liners? I sure did.

Sekto Springs · #**894** 12-07-2010, 02:00 PM

In the new one or in general?
Classic Freddy cracked out some gems, I'll tell ya. New Freddy not so much.

Dynamithix · #**895** 12-07-2010, 02:02 PM

Of course I meant the new one. I thought Freddy was horrible in the new one and I thought he looked like a potato/alien.

Sekto Springs · #**896** 12-07-2010, 02:07 PM

Agreed.
Jack Earle Haley's facial structure didn't work with the character. He didn't look sinister, just goofy.
He gets points for trying to bring his own interpretation of the character to the table, but on the whole, he wasn't up to the task of stepping into the shoes of such an iconic horror hero. Robert Englund is Freddy, and no one else can replace him.

Dynamithix · #**897** 12-08-2010, 08:27 AM

word.

MA · #**898** 12-08-2010, 08:56 AM

i love the original Freddy films.

Mac Sirloin · #**899** 12-08-2010, 08:59 AM

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Agreed.
Jack Earle Haley's facial structure didn't work with the character. He didn't look sinister, just goofy.
He gets points for trying to bring his own interpretation of the character to the table

Nope.

Watched a 'Making of...' interview about the new Nightmare On Elm Street. Robert Englund expounded in great detail on a dossier/character profile he created for Freddy, a great detailed document pertaining to every single reason why Freddy does what he does.

Jackie Earle Haley said "I wanted him to just be evil."

I thought that Haley's face fit rather well. It was very lizardlike, though not at all Freddy.

But seriously, the movie was total garbage. The old ones you can enjoy ironically or out of genuine appreciation for horror, anyone who thought there was anything redeemable about this shoddy remake can go choke on a stack of Paranormal Activity.

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Robert Englund is Freddy, and no one else can replace him.

This is the exact kind of attitude that gets people like JEH into these roles.
There are plenty of more than capable actors who would fit into the role of Freddy in our modern day (Like Micheal Cera). What bogged this one down more than anything was the shitty script and feculent cast.

I'd like to see a Nightmare movie with Nicholas Cage. Shit would be so cash.

OANST · #**900** 12-08-2010, 09:04 AM

I didn't see it.

I also have never seen any of the other ones.