What's the latest movie you've seen?

[Mecha Cow]

Finally managed to see Drunken Master 2. I thought the original Drunken Master had better overall direction, but God damn, this one had some amazing fights.

[Cure]

I saw Thank You for Smoking for the first time. I thought it was great and I loved the freedom of choice message.

[Evenstar227]

Rewatched "The Last Samurai" last night. I looove that movie. Ken Watanabe is friggin' hot. Bawled at the end, as usual.

[cowabunga14]

Watched Throne of Blood yesterday, which was some exciting work from Kurosawa. I thought it was neat how was adapted from Shakespeare's Macbeth.

[Sage Ninja]

I saw "The Ruins" recently on ON DEMAND, and it was a total mind f*ck.

Spoiler:

It's about the college students that go to mexico for vaction and they meet up with this young german guy wgos brother went with his archioligist girlfriend to see this aztec piramid (I think it was aztec), but he hasn't returned in while so he and the college students (two couples) go with him to find his brother in the jungle. When they get there they find the german guy's brother's jeep and follow a hidden trail (that was delberately sectioned off)that leads them to the pyrimid covered in vines and flowered plants, that his brother and girlfriend where going to. Suddenly some locals show up and they get hostile and force the german guy and the two couples up the pyrimid and won't let them leave, but not before they blow the head off their greek tour guide (I think he was their guide, I actually don't know why he was there to begin with) and they find the tent and supplies of the german's guy's brother and girlfriend at the top, but no sign of the brother or his girlfriend. They however hear the sound of a cell phone down in a mining shaft going down the middle of the pyrimid that the German guy reconises as his brothers ring tone. Well a mishap involving a weak rope line causes the german guy who tried to go down the shaft, to fall to the very bottom and break his back. Then a blond girl (one of the two couples) tries to go down to fetch him but ends up cutting her knee when she tries to jump down after being lowered in harness but found it didn't quite reach the bottom, but is fine other wise.

The they lower the whinney brunette down the shaft in a makeshift litter and both the blond and brunnet girl lift the paralized german guy on the litter and they get him out of there. One of the boyfirends is in medical school and examines the German guy and says he in bad shape and want last long in this heat. No really sherlock? The next day the blond girlfriend wakes up to find that some of the vines growing on the pyrmid have started growing into her open wound on her knee which freaks her out, the Doctor boyfriend start to pull them out of her knee while the brunnett girl tries to calm her down, they also find the their horror that the flesh on the German guy's legs have been eaten away by the vines from the pyrimd growing into them. At this point the Brunnett girl freaks out and runs down the pyrmid to appeal the locals (who have camped out side the base to keep them from leaving). In her frustration she throws a hand full of vines from the pryrmid at the locals and it hits a young boy in the chest, which causes the loacal elders to turn on the boy making motions for him to go up the pyrmid, and when he doesn't the local elders shoot him dead.

Realizing that the locals behavior has something to do with the vines, the two couples decide the only way to get help is to find German guy's brothers cell phone in shaft and call for assistence. So they send both the blond and brunette girl down the shaft again with torches to find it, they find a corpse of a woman ( the archioligist) but her cell is cracked and not working. But the still hear the sound of cell phone ringing, the two girlfriends go deeper into the tunnel and they find these weird red flowers growing on the wall making vibrating, THE SOUND IS COMING FROM THE FLOWERS! the brunnet girl touches one and the suddely the whole wall of flowers and vines come alive making a shrill sound and start moving toward the girls. In the vines are the corpse of peope who have died in them and the vines litterly start to try to grab the girls. The girls barely make it out alive and they tell their boyfriends that there is no cell phone and that the flowers in shaft have the abilty to imitate sound and that the ringing cell phone was the red flowers vibrating. The two boyfriends don't believe them until they have to amputate the legs of the german guy (whos legs have gotten infected from the vines) and the vines actually carry his severed legs away. Later the german guy dies because over the night the vines grow into his mouth and down his throat sufficating him to death.

The blond girl who had the vines growing into her open wound finds that there are actually vines growing inside her body under her skin and they are seen slithering around under her skin on her thigh and side and head. The Doctor boyfriend tries to cut them out, but the blond girl goes insane and starts cutting her self up baddly to get them all out and when everybody tries to stop her she lashes out and ends up cutting the hand of the doctor guy and accidently stabs her boyfriend killing him, which the vines immediatly carry him away. Over come with grief, with vines still growing under her skin and poking out of her wounds, the blond girl begs to be killed and the red flowers creepily start immitating her pleas to be killed. And the Doctor boyfriend putts her out of her suffering. The last couple alive decides that help isn't coming and that they have to escape so the doctor boyfriend devises a plan to distract the locals so the his brunnet hair girlfriend can get away to get help. He covers her in blood and carries her down the pyrimid under the guise that she is dead, and lays her on the ground at his feet. And draws the locals attention on him as he slowly walks away from her yelling at the locals. When he gets all the locals far enough away from the his girlfriend he gives the signal to her to bolt and she takes off into the jungle. The locals shoot the doctor boyfriend full of arrows and he falls to the ground fatally wounded, as the vines at the base of the pymid start creeping toward him to eat away at his flesh, the elder local comes up to him, and in an act of mercy shoots him to finnish him off so he won't have to suffer.

Mean while the brunnet girl is being chased through the jungle and being shot at with arrows, but they miss. She finds the jeeps from earlier and tries to start it but is gives her problems. But in true Hollywood fashion the jeeps starts up in just the nick of time and she drives away down the path on her way back the hotel. Since she was never wounded it seems she is uninfected with the vines growing into her so she won't spread the plague...maybe. The last seen is the two greek guys apprently looking for their greek buddy who got his brains blown out earlier, coming up to the vine covered pyrmid calling name. Apprently about to suffer the same fate as the other guys before them. the end.

[cowabunga14]

Watched the movie Rudy in school recently and it was an inspiring biography. Thought the acting, especially Sean Astin's performance, was wonderful as well.

[Hamato Yoshi]

Can't believe I might actually have a chance to see Ennio Morricone next yr

[MadPirateBunny]

Originally Posted by Manilow

You know I can't smile without you
I can't smile without you
I can't laugh and I can't sing
I'm finding it hard to do anything

Great movie. Where was it I saw something about HB 3 possible being a TV show...?

[cowabunga14]

Watched Creature from the Haunted Sea last night, which was a fun horror comedy by Roger Corman. I thought it could've spent more time getting to the point, though.

And later, I watched House of Frankenstein, which was very good. Even though Boris Karloff and Lon Chaney didn't play the monsters they're known for, I'm still glad they were in the movie.

[cqb101]

Stop-Loss

I've been wanting to see this movie since I first heard about it, and I finally got around to watching it last night. I loved it. I thought it had great acting, great direction, and was very powerful at parts.

[Revan]

Saw American Psycho for the first time. Took me awhile to get it towards the end. Kind of a scary/different movie. Really made me want to punch over-the-top materialistic people in the mouth.

[cowabunga14]

Most of Crossfire Trail and I enjoyed what I watched.

[Warhorse]

Saw Firewall today. It kind of sucked.

[jeff the cheff]

Death Race. It was great.

[NameGoesHere1066]

I saw "Step Brothers" it sort of sucked but sort of didn't. I couldn't get my self to sympathise with the two characters Dale and...I forget the others name.

[Hannah]

Clerks, looooool

[cowabunga14]

Watched the Cinema Insomnia version of Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome yesterday and the movie itself seemed pretty solid. And Ididn't mind the fact that the story was a bit wacky.

[Cure]

Burn After Reading. It was good. I liked how they managed to make a big deal out of nothing.

[cowabunga14]

Watched Fright Night yesterday, which I've been wanting to see for quite some time and I'm glad I did. The special effects stood out for an '80s movie and Tom Holland's directing was top notch.

Later, I watched Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, which had a nice and gritty feel for an indie film. Michael Rooker's performance as the title character was quite excellent and I like how director John McNaughton wasn't afraid to take risks.

[cowabunga14]

Watched Apocalypse Now this weekend and it was a pleasure to watch. Everything about the movie seemed quite engaging and I can tell Francis Ford Coppola had fun directing it.

Later, I watched the MST3K version of Samson vs.the Vampire Women, which was good fun. There could've more emphasis on the host segments, though.

Concluded my weekend with A Nightmare on Elm Street, which was a pretty good effort by Wes Craven. Even though, horror villain-wise, I prefer Jason over Freddy, I seemed to enjoy the latter's debut more than the original Friday the 13th.