What I like - sorted in no order:
Shawshank Redemption (just brilliant), The Dark Knight, Star Dust (beauty), Pitch Black, WALL-E, House MD (ehm, not movie I know), The Incredibles, Dawn of the dead (Zack Snyder's version), Leon (especially director's cut), Terminator 2, Starship Troopers, Fight Club, Sense and Sensibility (Ang Lee), Blues Brothers 2000 (I prefer electronic music, but this one works), Naked Gun trilogy, and, and, and...

What I've seen most recently:
Scream 4 and Final Destination 5. No, I'm not a horror fan, I've just wanted not to broke the series. And it was worth it, both movies are fine. Regarding horrors, I can't really say I recommend it, but French movie Martyrs is interesting one. Other genres: GI Joe (see below), Centurion, A-Team, Scott Pilgrim, Watchmen.

What I don't like:
Armageddon (bullshit of the last century), GI Joe (bullshit of this decade), Joel Schumacher's Batman movies, RoboCop 3, Borat, Ring 2.

What no man should see:
Don't know, I don't watch movies I should not. Like that Serbian Film which my colleague have seen and from what she told me I know I won't be seeing this anytime.

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Damn...

Flying saucers on visible strings for the win.


Are we talking Japanese or American?

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Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see.

I heard about A Serbian Film several weeks ago. Was somewhat curious to see how bad it really was, but I am somewhat concerned I might get slapped with a felony charge if I store it on my computer.

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I see so much hate for GI Joe, I have no fucking clue what people expected from it. If you imagine the story and the characters are being controlled by a kid upstairs then the movie makes sense. It's fucking GI Joe, the cartoons and the toys you fucking fags. As for the other Batman movies, seriously when they came out they were movies aimed for the kids and the toys that would follow. Unless you are a moron who has one of those fucked disorders where you are just not normal in the head and can't read emotions then you would of been one of the millions of kids that liked it. Wait I remember now everyone here is meant to be those fucked up people who have some disorder that doesn't allow them to be normal. My mistake guys.

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You're telling me Batman had nipples so he would appeal to children?

Try again.

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Yeah, considering Joel Schumacher directed both Batman Forever and Batman & Robin, and both of those movies featured nipples on the suits as well as enlarged codpieces...not sure they were intended for children. Schumacher even claimed the design of the costumes was supposed to be anatomically erotic.

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That is your entire argument? You're right we'll forget all about the special effects and the simple story and the gadgets and vehicles. Nipples on a suit trump everything else.

Try again.

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In the words of Mr. Freeze I think we should all just "Chill out".


I'll describe a scene for you. A guy has a woman chained to the ceiling. One by one he pulls all her teeth out with a pair of pliers as she pleads for her life. He proceeds to fuck her ruined bloody mouth until he has his jollies at which point he chokes the poor woman to death by deep throating her. This is all shown very graphically. Oh and he was also filming all of this. This isn't even the worst scene; trust me just don't watch it.


I thought Martyrs was fairly interesting and thought provoking too, a bit violent though. Someone gets full-body flayed.


"It looked like some sort of flying cigar."

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The chemistry must be respected.

Here's an odd movie that I saw on Netflix; Otto; or Up with Dead People
Takes an interesting spin on the zombie genera. Otto is a teenager who somehow rises from the grave and questions the meaning of his existence.
Despite the movie being very well done, I don't recommend watching it unless you can handle zombies having sex with each other. Gay zombies. Well, they're not technically zombies...the movie contains a movie, in which gay zombies rise from the grave, in an effort to show the living they have a right to both be dead and gay. Oh, and that movie within a movie is a porno. The only one who's actually a zombie is Otto, everyone else is playing a part. It's pretty funny how it's played out, though. The gay zombies kill people, wait until they reanimate, and then have sex with them.

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I get the feeling I've mentioned this before; but has anyone else seen Pandorum?

I only saw it recently but it's very quickly become a cult classic in my eyes.

I really enjoyed that movie. Actually, I think I'll watch it again, now that you've brought it back to my thoughts.

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Nope. It seemed promising and I love Dennis Quaid so I bought it on a whim. I haven't viewed it yet, but I'm sure I will before long.

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My North Star: Jose Gomez
I'm an introvert. Now shut up so I can be happy. Except for you, helpful sales bot. Also, download this.
Away from The House, yet forever near to my heart

Are we talking Japanese or American?[/quote]

American one. Boring and stupid.

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I'm going to go out on a limb here and say I thought that the American version of the first Ring film was better than all the Japanese ones put together. I found all of the Japanese ones I've seen to be boring and stupid, the American one still remains quite creepy even though I've seen it a few times. For the Grudge on the other hand, I would say the reverse is true. But yeah the American Ring 2 is pretty dire.

Another good film I watched last night was the 1986 remake of The Fly. You've got to love Jeff Goldblum.

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Your argument is that the complete inanity of the film was designed to market to children because filmmakers feel that intentionally making a film bad is what lures in kids? While ignoring the Disney Renaissance?

Try again.

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For me, the film was worth watching, if only to see the scene near the end in which[spoiler]Samara climbed the well in a most inhuman and creepy fashion.[/spoiler]


The Japanese series made me fear things which I did not see. Things that were hiding in the darkness, inches behind me and things that were watching me from within my very own head.

The American series, on the other hand, decided to explain and show me all of the scary stuff in full detail, therefore not leaving anything for my imagination to create and be actually afraid of.

It also replaced the unnerving silence with a soundtrack which most probably tried its best to be unnerving, yet was not. If fact, it was calming, because it reminded the viewer that what he's watching is just a movie, a work of fiction.

When the shadows come for you, there is no soundtrack. Silence is more realistic, it makes you think you actually participate in the horrors you are witnessing. That's one of the reasons why "28 Days Later" was such an intense movie.

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Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see.

"28 Days Later" really was a good movie, but it's good they didn't put one of the original endings in; the cure for rage.

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[possible spoilers]

I agree, the whole premise behind that ending was contradictory with everything that was shown about rage thorough the movie.

Not that I liked the ending that did end up as the official one. It seemed like a forced happy end to me. I definitely prefer the "What if..." ending, which was in fact the original one, later replaced with the more optimistic one.

Yes, the one above is bleak, depressing and unsatisfying, but it's the only thing I really see happening under those circumstances. It also matches the overall atmosphere of the movie, which did not at any time - except for the official ending - try to be comforting.

[/possible spoilers]

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I actually liked the what if? and the given ending. I actually thought it was a [spoiler]breath of fresh air to find the contagion hadn't spread everywhere, and that it happened to be localized to the UK. Bad for them, but I suppose it's good for the rest of the world when your murder-virus is transmitted by direct contact with blood and can't seem to cross bodies of water.[/spoiler]

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That wasn't my argument.

Try again.

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I see a compromise. Warner Brothers merchandised the fuck out of both Batman Forever and Batman & Robin. Especially Batman & Robin, because WB wanted something more family friendly. To this end, Schumacher thought that by completely undermining the entire franchise, he was making a good movie. This made the toys that much more attainable for all the kids who could never have gotten into batman if it was as depressing and real as if it was in a comic book. However, Schumacher's desire to put nipples on the costumes of male characters, as well as codpieces, plus random lengthy butt and crotch shots, made people think he turned the dynamic duo gay. Which, if you followed the comics during the Silver Age, you knew there was no way he could make it any gayer. However, George Clooney actually approached the character of Bruce Wayne/Batman, not only as an eccentric billionaire playboy, but as a gay eccentric billionaire playboy. So, there's a great deal of evidence for both sides of the argument. Now that I've seen the Bat-Signal, I've got to put the lives of two well-meaning kids in danger, and hopefully my arch-nemesis doesn't kill one and cripple the other.

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The suit up scene of batgirl was hot though.

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I do agree that silence is better for realism in horror films, but at the same turn I also found all the references to ESP in the japanese version destroyed the realism somewhat for me. Paranormal goings on in horror films shouldn't be so easily quantified through scientific means, I think it diminishes their impact if you try to provide a reason instead of just leaving the horror as a complete unknown. I also feel as if the director probably just tacked on a reference to ESP because it was what was in vogue in horror stories at the time, why else would he bother including something like that randomly? Also the references to the volcano in the film irked me too, I found them over the top.

In regards to the other ending for 28 Days Later, I agree that the cut ending was better. The best horror films always finish with an ending that gives more questions than it does answers, and the more grim the ending the more it unsettles the viewer which is what a horror film is essentially designed to do anyway. That's one of the reasons why I like the book Christine so much.

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The chemistry must be respected.

Try again.

I think you're all putting a lot more thought into those Batman films than Schumacher ever did. They're just dumb films, over-analysing them is an exercise in futility. I heard that Michael Keaton was going to be in Batman Forever, but took one look at the nipples on the suit and left.

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