2011 New Release Database [Archive] - Page 4

Henry Gale

07-10-2011, 07:57 PM

All of those movies are good with one huge exception. Shallow Hal is probably the worst thing they've ever done.

Well, for a filmography that includes The Heartbreak Kid, I don't see how that's possible. But at the same time, I can only look to 12-year-old me for any recollection of Shallow Hal, though I'm pretty sure I liked it.

Either way, I agree with all the other ones Raiders brought up. I think Stuck On You is the most underrated thing they've done.

Rowland

07-11-2011, 11:41 AM

Black Death - Yay

Raiders

07-11-2011, 02:09 PM

All of those movies are good with one huge exception. Shallow Hal is probably the worst thing they've ever done.

I think it is likely their best.

dmk

07-11-2011, 02:26 PM

insidious - yay

NickGlass

07-11-2011, 02:44 PM

Green: Yay (I don't believe this has distribution yet, though)

Bridesmaids: Nay (the Apatow film effect remains in place)

Raiders

07-11-2011, 04:22 PM

Bridesmaids: Nay (the Apatow film effect remains in place)

This film feels next-to-nothing like an Apatow film.

NickGlass

07-11-2011, 05:01 PM

This film feels next-to-nothing like an Apatow film.

I'm more referencing Derek's prescient comments in the Bridesmaids thread:

[Apatow?] So it'll be funny through 40 minutes, start wearing out welcome at 90 minutes and spend the last 30+ minutes making me wonder why in god's name it's still going.

There are similarities, at least in marketing/word of mouth. It's being lauded for being hilarious when its humor is not belly laugh-heavy (which I'm ok with) and more of an analysis of relationships and personal worth. Given that, I didn't find it particularly revealing in the well-know "truths" it was pushing. It's fine, and the cast tries their best, but struck me as inconsequential.

Pop Trash

07-11-2011, 09:53 PM

This film feels next-to-nothing like an Apatow film.

Not true, but I don't think feeling like an Apatow film is a bad thing.

TGM

07-11-2011, 10:23 PM

I think I'd like to change my Yay for Limitless to a Nay.

Time has not been kind to that movie.

Lazlo

07-12-2011, 02:48 AM

Battle Los Angeles - Nay

Stay Puft

07-12-2011, 02:54 AM

Ong Bak 3 - yay

I am sorry to report that yes I kind of enjoyed this. It's silly but I sorta like what Tony Jaa is trying to do here, and there are a couple ridiculously awesome action scenes.

True Legend still has the greatest fight scene of the year, though.

Rowland

07-12-2011, 03:04 AM

Horrible Bosses - yay

Ong Bak 3 - yay

I am sorry to report that yes I kind of enjoyed this. It's silly but I sorta like what Tony Jaa is trying to do here, and there are a couple ridiculously awesome action scenes.

What I thought. (http://www.match-cut.org/showpost.php?p=351761&postcount=55025) I'll admit it is kinda endearing in retrospect. And that one fight I linked to is really spectacular.

True Legend still has the greatest fight scene of the year, though.Lookin' forward to this one.

Also:

Ong Bak 3 - nay (third time I've posted that? :frustrated: :P)

MadMan

07-12-2011, 04:19 AM

Yeah, they're still subjecting audiences to their particular brand of bad comedy.Um, no. I didn't expect Raiders and others to back me up on this, though. Kind of surprising. Dumb and Dumber is probably their best movie, but I haven't seen seen all of Shallow Hal, or any of There's Something About Mary, yet.

Horrible Bosses-Yay
Battle LA-Nay

Huh Battle LA is probably the first nay I've had in quite a while. Should have listened to the critics on that one, as it was predictable, the action sequences were a mess, and the characters all sucked. What a dull film.

B-side

07-12-2011, 05:25 AM

There's Something About Mary is terrible.

Pop Trash

07-12-2011, 06:11 AM

There's Something About Your Mom is terrible.

B-side

07-12-2011, 06:13 AM

There's Something About Your Mom is terrible.

Never heard of it. Is it a newer release?

Pop Trash

07-12-2011, 06:14 AM

Never heard of it. Is it a newer release?

:lol:

but seriously...

:|

Boner M

07-12-2011, 08:43 AM

There's Something About Your Mom was picked up by Strand, but won't be released until next year.

transmogrifier

07-12-2011, 09:12 AM

There's Something About Mary is terrible.

Terrible as a searing social drama on the pressure that's brought to bear on good-looking females whose lives are constantly framed by the quality of the men that chase them.

Luckily, as a comedy, it's bloody funny.

Bosco B Thug

07-13-2011, 12:47 AM

Super 8 - yay

Watashi

07-13-2011, 05:37 AM

Horrible Bosses - yay

Ivan Drago

07-13-2011, 05:48 AM

Green Lantern - Yay

dreamdead

07-13-2011, 03:12 PM

Bridesmaids - Nay

Raiders

07-13-2011, 03:15 PM

Bridesmaids - Nay

The ridiculousness continues I see.

dreamdead

07-13-2011, 03:17 PM

The ridiculousness continues I see.

I know. Imagine thinking Sucker Punch is better. Bizarro-world is fun. :pritch:

Lazlo

07-14-2011, 02:26 AM

Insidious - Yay. This was a surprise. Super creepy.

TripZone

07-14-2011, 02:27 AM

HP72 yay

B-side

07-14-2011, 04:14 AM

insidious - 8
battleship potemkin - 5

:lol:

Rowland

07-14-2011, 10:02 AM

Stake Land - nay

Boner M

07-14-2011, 10:11 AM

The Beaver - nay

Even more discombobulated than I'd expected, but not in a particularly interesting way.

eternity

07-15-2011, 12:29 AM

Rubber - nay

Derek

07-15-2011, 12:36 AM

Bridesmaids - Nay

I'll have what he's having.

Ivan Drago

07-15-2011, 09:32 AM

X-Men: First Class - yay
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 - yay

dreamdead

07-15-2011, 02:06 PM

Hahaha - yay

Bosco B Thug

07-15-2011, 06:49 PM

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows PART 2 - very mild yay.

It has all the adeptness and good sense of the first half, but makes a lot more missteps and clumsy dramatic shorthand and is generally less inspired outside of some great ominous build-up to the ensuing (less great) battle.

Philosophe_rouge

07-16-2011, 05:43 AM

Rubber - nay
Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Eternal Flame - yay
Attack of the Block - yay
Red State - nay
Love - nay
Horrible Bosses - yay

baby doll

07-16-2011, 06:39 AM

Arietty the Borrower - yay

Any word on whether this has a US distributor?

B-side

07-16-2011, 06:43 AM

Arietty the Borrower - yay

Any word on whether this has a US distributor?

IMDb lists it as getting a US theatrical release February of next year.

Rowland

07-16-2011, 06:39 PM

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Part II - mild yay

Philosophe_rouge

07-16-2011, 07:38 PM

The Beaver - nay
Black Death - nay
Insidious - nay
Kaboom - mild yay

TGM

07-16-2011, 09:39 PM

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 - Mild yay

EyesWideOpen

07-16-2011, 10:53 PM

HP72 - big yay

Derek

07-16-2011, 11:50 PM

Super 8 - yay

Henry Gale

07-17-2011, 02:59 AM

Kaboom - nay

Probably would have yay'd it if it hadn't fallen apart so quickly in its last quarter.
There's some unabashedly spastic fun and genuinely creepy stuff before that point, though. It just didn't come together in the end.

But yay for Perry Hallows: Pot 2.

Lazlo

07-17-2011, 02:59 AM

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 - Yay

Pop Trash

07-17-2011, 04:06 AM

Insidious - mild nay

baby doll

07-17-2011, 06:51 AM

The Myth of the American Sleepover - mild nay. Very mild.

B-side

07-17-2011, 09:25 AM

The Eagle - yay

EyesWideOpen

07-18-2011, 01:45 AM

Summer Wars - yay

kopello

07-18-2011, 03:04 AM

Rango - yay

Wasn't really digging it during the first few minutes, but goddamn does it pick up. Pleasantly surprised.

Philosophe_rouge

07-18-2011, 04:18 AM

Another Earth - nay
A Lonely Place to Die -yay

Henry Gale

07-19-2011, 03:47 AM

Hall Pass - nay

The funniest scene in the movie is the one with Stephen Merchant's hall pass fantasy, and that's in the middle of the credits. Plus, that was the scene he brought with him on talk shows while promoting it, so I had already seen a TV-safe version of it multiple times. It also would have been better if Richard Jenkins showed up earlier than the last 20 minutes.

It's just not an enjoyable movie, and I've liked pretty much all of the Farrelly's stuff before this and their irritating Heartbreak Kid remake. Oh well, there's better people making raunchy R-rated comedies these days anyway.

Boner M

07-19-2011, 05:45 AM

Daydream Nation - NAY

I supposed 'feels like it was written by an angsty 16-year-old' is what it's going for, but doesn't make it any less cringeworthy. Decently directed & acted, though.

transmogrifier

07-19-2011, 07:49 AM

The Tree of Life - nay

Pop Trash

07-19-2011, 04:47 PM

Hall Pass

I managed to make it 20 minutes into this before pulling the plug.

NickGlass

07-19-2011, 08:03 PM

Beastly: Nay

A botched attempt by my friends and I for some late night laughs. IT doesn't even have the audacity to be campy (although MK Olsen and NPH try their best to be).

Henry Gale

07-19-2011, 08:56 PM

I managed to make it 20 minutes into this before pulling the plug.

The rental exclusive version of the DVD I had didn't even have Scene Selection on the menu or the capability of remembering where I was when I turned it off to have dinner around the 40-minute mark. I could have easily given up, but I stuck with it, mostly to see Jenkins and more Merchant and Smoove from the supporting cast. Too bad they were pretty much wasted. I didn't think the movie was outright terrible, just a really missed oppurtunity of a comedy, especially with the premise and cast they had.

Henry Gale

07-20-2011, 01:28 AM

Hanna - huge yay

Probably the biggest surprise of the year for me, and maybe even my new #1. I don't what it was about the marketing that sucked the life out of the footage the way it did, because I basically had no interest in it until people started praising it, and even then I didn't check it out until now.

Such an insanely enjoyable movie.

EyesWideOpen

07-20-2011, 02:20 AM

Horrible Bosses - yay

Philosophe_rouge

07-20-2011, 06:07 AM

One Hundred Years of Evil - nay
The Wicker Tree - yay

Derek

07-21-2011, 04:03 AM

Harry Potter 7, Pt 2 - mild nay

[No longer] giving it the benefit of the doubt since it was the first I've seen and was still mildly entertaining out of spite. Blame Raiders.

Raiders

07-21-2011, 01:31 PM

Harry Potter 7, Pt 2 - mild yay

...first I've seen...

:|

I guess I must amend my earlier question regarding who watches Part 2 before Part 1 to say "except for losers like Derek."

Derek

07-21-2011, 04:03 PM

:|

I guess I must amend my earlier question regarding who watches Part 2 before Part 1 to say "except for losers like Derek."

Yes, I admit I'm a loser b/c although I hadn't seen the other Potter movies, I didn't want to be a dick to the friend whose house I was staying at that night. In retrospect, since this is the second time in a row you've been unnecessarily rude to me, Imma switch my mild yay to mild nay out of spite. Score! :)

Raiders

07-21-2011, 04:40 PM

Yes, I admit I'm a loser b/c although I hadn't seen the other Potter movies, I didn't want to be a dick to the friend whose house I was staying at that night.

Well, acceptance is an important step.

In retrospect, since this is the second time in a row you've been unnecessarily rude to me, Imma switch my mild yay to mild nay out of spite. Score! :)

In retrospect, I have no idea what you are talking about.

Derek

07-21-2011, 04:51 PM

In retrospect, I have no idea what you are talking about.

:pritch:

transmogrifier

07-21-2011, 09:53 PM

Yes, I admit I'm a loser b/c although I hadn't seen the other Potter movies, I didn't want to be a dick to the friend whose house I was staying at that night. In retrospect, since this is the second time in a row you've been unnecessarily rude to me, Imma switch my mild yay to mild nay out of spite. Score! :)

Don't watch any of the others. Seriously.

Bosco B Thug

07-21-2011, 11:47 PM

Rowland

07-22-2011, 12:24 AM

Deathly Hallows Pt. 1 is pretty damn good, though... If you were somewhat entertained by this one, you'd have definitely enjoyed the first half. Then again, the series is a major mixed bag, so you may just want to cut your losses before you tumble into the Harry Potter rabbit hole or something.Deathly Hallows Pt. 1, the Half Blood Prince, Order of the Phoenix, and Prisoner of Azkaban are the most successful entries at transcending their overly dense, contrived mythologies to really capture an artful, textured essence. I do admit however that none of the Potter movies exactly rub me the wrong way, though I have no interest in revisiting the first or fourth entries again. Chamber of Secrets is probably the best thing Columbus has ever directed, but even then it's only middle-of-the-road by Potter standards.

Bosco B Thug

07-22-2011, 12:52 AM

Deathly Hallows Pt. 1, the Half Blood Prince, Order of the Phoenix, and Prisoner of Azkaban are the most successful entries at transcending their overly dense, contrived mythologies to really capture an artful, textured essence. I do admit however that none of the Potter movies exactly rub me the wrong way, though I have no interest in revisiting the first or fourth entries again. Chamber of Secrets is probably the best thing Columbus has ever directed, but even then it's only middle-of-the-road by Potter standards. See, of the Yates entries, I liked Deathly Hallows, as well as Order of the Phoenix, but I thought Half Blood Prince was deathly boring. Goblet of Fire I also thought was mind-numbing, so the Harry Potter series is pretty 50/50 for me.

Raiders

07-22-2011, 01:26 AM

Chamber of Secrets is probably the best thing Columbus has ever directed

It doesn't even graze the wings of Thor's helmet in Adventures in Babysitting.

Pop Trash

07-22-2011, 01:32 AM

It doesn't even graze the wings of Thor's helmet in Adventures in Babysitting.

Fun fact: Elisabeth Shue is very short.

Rowland

07-22-2011, 01:32 AM

It doesn't even graze the wings of Thor's helmet in Adventures in Babysitting.Hmm, never seen it.

Kurosawa Fan

07-22-2011, 01:36 AM

It doesn't even graze the wings of Thor's helmet in Adventures in Babysitting.

Hell yes! "Don't fuck with the babysitter!"

Lazlo

07-22-2011, 03:46 AM

happythankyoumoreplease - Nay

Rowland

07-22-2011, 04:00 AM

If a movie never receives an official US theatrical release, not even just in NYC, and thus essentially debuts as a DVD release, should we include that as a new release for the year?

Bosco B Thug

07-22-2011, 06:04 AM

If a movie never receives an official US theatrical release, not even just in NYC, and thus essentially debuts as a DVD release, should we include that as a new release for the year? You mean a DTV movie? We all knew it would be you to clutter up our New Release database with Asylum releases.

:P

TREE OF LIFE - Yay

B-side

07-22-2011, 06:10 AM

If a movie never receives an official US theatrical release, not even just in NYC, and thus essentially debuts as a DVD release, should we include that as a new release for the year?

Ruiz's A Closed Book never got a theatrical release here and debuted as DTV last January and we counted that.

Rowland

07-22-2011, 07:39 AM

You mean a DTV movie? We all knew it would be you to clutter up our New Release database with Asylum releases.

:PI actually did watch a few minutes of Asylum's Almighty Thor on Netflix Instant several weeks back, but no, in this particular instance I'm referring to Tsukamoto's Tetsuo: The Bullet Man, which only screened at a US festival in 2010 but officially had a release on DVD in 2011.

Rowland

07-22-2011, 07:40 AM

Ruiz's A Closed Book never got a theatrical release here and debuted as DTV last January and we counted that.Well then.

Tetsuo: The Bullet Man - mild yay

baby doll

07-22-2011, 07:59 AM

How I Ended This Summer - reluctant nay

I'll have to see this one again, since there's a lot here to admire. That said, it just seemed to last forever.

Kiusagi

07-22-2011, 07:33 PM

Tree of Life - yay
Horrible Bosses - yay
Pirates 4 - nay

Henry Gale

07-23-2011, 07:33 AM

Captain America: The First Avenger - nay

I sorta liked it, but just not enough.

NickGlass

07-23-2011, 05:47 PM

I had a half-day at work yesterday ("Summer Fridays" in NYC media-lingo), so I decided to sit in a movie theater with friends for seven hours. Here's the result:

Bad Teacher: nay
Beginners: yay
Friends with Benefits: NAY

My three-course recap: Bad Teacher is an extended theatrical trailer, with all the implications of unsubtle humor and erratic character behavior; however, it's almost too much of a mad, bold mess for me to really hate it. Beginners is earnest and warm, and seamlessly weaves together its emotional and narrative fragmentation. It makes a nice contemporary companion piece to The Tree of Life, oddly enough. Occasionally, though, it's undone by forced affectation. Friends with Benefits is ONLY irritating affectation; it's full of rom-com hypocrisy, and the actors yell their lines at a rapid speed (either mistaking that for clever presentation, or cleverly avoiding any chance they might have to taste the rancid dialogue). A brutally desperate film that spends a majority of time trying to skewer its own genre, yet falls into all its character pitfalls from the oversexed mom, to the oversexed gay-panic/homophobic portrayal, to the sassy sister, to the HILARIOUS--ugh--Alzheimer's papa. This film needs more low self-esteem, even though it is boastfully obnoxious enough to spend every minute trying to make you like it and feel above-it-all. Ugh, brutal. All in all, though, my day was certainly a mesmerizing way to spend seven hours in A/C with a few tallboys and a humungous juice box of wine.

TGM

07-23-2011, 09:46 PM

Captain America - Yay

Rowland

07-23-2011, 09:47 PM

Very conflicted thoughts on this one:

Winnie the Pooh - reluctant mild nay

Derek

07-24-2011, 01:37 AM

Very conflicted thoughts on this one:

Winnie the Pooh - reluctant mild nay

Oh bother!

Derek

07-24-2011, 02:32 AM

Captain America: The Last Money-Grubbing Tie-In - mild-ish nay

Kurosawa Fan

07-24-2011, 03:36 AM

Captain America - mild-ish yay

Dukefrukem

07-24-2011, 03:46 AM

Fast five was better than the fourth, but i still need to give it a nay

EyesWideOpen

07-24-2011, 06:22 AM

No Strings Attached - mild yay

Rowland

07-24-2011, 08:18 PM

Blubberella - NAY

*shrug* Yeah, I know.

transmogrifier

07-24-2011, 08:22 PM

Source Code - mild nay

Superficially entertaining for most of the run time, and Gyllenhaal is better than he's ever been, but the movie overall botches the rules of the Source Code - it either needed to explain nothing (like Quantum Leap!) or explain the rules of the universe clearly, but instead explains just enough to have you wondering "But why...?" the entire time. And so the only appropriate reaction at the end is a shrug.

Lazlo

07-25-2011, 04:17 AM

Ceremony - Huge Yay

Pop Trash

07-25-2011, 05:44 AM

Captain America - yay

baby doll

07-25-2011, 07:50 AM

Source Code - yay

It's hard not to see this as a sort of response to Inception (multiple levels of reality, traumatized protagonists in love with dead brunettes), but here, while there's obviously a lot of exposition, the way that the film dolls out story information in small niblets as the action moves forward is really well done.

ThePlashyBubbler

07-25-2011, 09:09 AM

Winnie the Pooh - nay
Melancholia - yay

Rowland

07-25-2011, 10:10 AM

Winnie the Pooh - nayOhh, thoughts?

Rowland

07-25-2011, 11:35 AM

Vanishing on 7th Street - mild yay

Ezee E

07-25-2011, 01:17 PM

Passion Play - nay

Yikes....... Curious as to what got Bill Murray, Mickey Rourke, and Megan Fox interested in this. They are all adequate in it, but the source material is just embarassing.

ThePlashyBubbler

07-25-2011, 11:17 PM

Ohh, thoughts?

Loved the animation, its wistful earnestness, and the meta/text gags (the paragraph bit in particular), but ultimately felt it pandered a bit too much toward its audience. Still prefer it to the Dreamworks branded reference-heavy mode, but wish there was more resonance for adults. The songs kind of threw me off too, not for Zooey's presence, but more just their tone in relation to the rest of the movie. Coulda been better.

Rowland

07-26-2011, 02:59 AM

Loved the animation, its wistful earnestness, and the meta/text gags (the paragraph bit in particular), but ultimately felt it pandered a bit too much toward its audience. Still prefer it to the Dreamworks branded reference-heavy mode, but wish there was more resonance for adults. The songs kind of threw me off too, not for Zooey's presence, but more just their tone in relation to the rest of the movie. Coulda been better.Agreed. I liked what it was trying to do, but it felt insecure about itself, straining a bit too obviously to appeal to an audience hungry for loud, busy, and dumbed-down antics, which proves counterintuitive to its intended effect of charming whimsy. The voice-acting kinda got on my nerves too, and the songs weren't very inspired. The lovely animation and clever metatextual material is indeed what makes the film work as well as it does, saving it from coming across as completely ersatz.

Rowland

07-26-2011, 03:10 AM

Captain America - yay

Derek

07-26-2011, 03:24 AM

Passion Play - nay

Curious as to what got...Megan Fox interested in this.

Really? I'm curious what gets any director interested in having Megan Fox act in their film. Aside from the obvious.

Rowland

07-26-2011, 03:29 AM

I've been tempted to watch Passion Play as well. Not because of Fox as much as Rourke and Murray, I figure it may be interesting even if it lives up to its reputation as a complete bomb.

Stay Puft

07-26-2011, 04:33 AM

I know Bill Murray took the role because he has been friends with the director ever since said director wrote the screenplay for Scrooged. And I would like to point out that Bill Murray is awesome in this movie, even though as E says the movie on the whole is pretty not good.

Scrooged > Passion Play

Thirdmango

07-27-2011, 12:12 PM

Cap america - yay

NickGlass

07-27-2011, 01:57 PM

Three (Tykwer): Nay

Lazlo

07-28-2011, 12:44 AM

Trust - Yay

eternity

07-28-2011, 02:59 AM

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt. 2 - nay

Kurosawa Fan

07-28-2011, 03:03 AM

Harry Potter Pt. 2 - Nay

Lazlo

07-28-2011, 03:15 AM

The Lincoln Lawyer - Mild yay.

Clever idea and McConaughey is charming, but most of this is pretty rote. Decent enough entertainment though.

transmogrifier

07-28-2011, 04:22 AM

Martha Marcy May Marlene - yay

Bosco B Thug

07-28-2011, 04:27 AM

Uncle Boonmee - Yay

Might very well be a 7.5, but things that should've worked magic on me didn't, like the climactic jungle walk to the cave. Yes, I watched this in the middle of the day with mediocre sound. I felt the film dropped off for its latter half (though the "future" sequence is good stuff). Definitely less virtuoso stuff than in his other films. A bit too many intentionally vague, coy moments that come with Weerasethakul films.

baby doll

07-28-2011, 04:30 AM

Hobo With a Shotgun - nay

Nearly every line of dialogue consists of people shouting obscenities at each other, so that got monotonous pretty quickly.

Stay Puft

07-28-2011, 04:37 AM

with mediocre sound

Unacceptable.

Bosco B Thug

07-28-2011, 05:33 AM

Unacceptable.
Yeah, I know... but I dunno, I'm kinda a stickler with movies needing sound design to achieve effect. In any case, I just remember thinking during it that I wish Jacques Tourneur were directing this sequence. Sad but true. Sorry Joe.

Stay Puft

07-28-2011, 05:43 AM

Bosco B Thug

07-28-2011, 06:40 AM

Sound design is totally Joe, though - in my mind he's sitting next to artists like Lynch where I think sound is the most important element of their work - and while Uncle Boonmee is not my favorite of his features it might feature the best sound work, so... don't be a stickler, Bosco. :)
I'm already itching to re-watch and have it just wash over me. Was loving the first half. I can criticize, but he definitely is making the most valuable, one-of-a-kind movies. Scott Tobias said in a tweet that he makes the most "gently reassuring" movies, and they are just so tranquil and peaceful.

NickGlass

07-28-2011, 02:36 PM

Bellflower: Yay

What a nice surprise.

Philosophe_rouge

07-28-2011, 04:18 PM

Bellflower: Yay

What a nice surprise.

Also a yay from me.

Lazlo

07-29-2011, 01:22 AM

Submarine - Yay

Ezee E

07-29-2011, 01:51 AM

Really? I'm curious what gets any director interested in having Megan Fox act in their film. Aside from the obvious.
Yeah, it does go both ways. Regardless though.

Ezee E

07-29-2011, 01:52 AM

Three (Tykwer): Nay
Twyker has a new movie? Nice.

transmogrifier

07-29-2011, 04:12 AM

The Day He Arrives - mild yay

Lazlo

07-29-2011, 04:36 AM

Heartbeats - yay

baby doll

07-29-2011, 05:52 AM

Certified Copy - certified awesome

Philosophe_rouge

07-29-2011, 06:37 PM

13 assassins - yay
foxy festival - nay
Project Nim - mild yay
The Innkeepers - yay
Love & Loathing & Lulu & Ayano - nay
Captain America - nay
Underwater Love - yay

Lazlo

07-30-2011, 03:22 AM

Cowboys and Aliens - Mild Yay

Henry Gale

07-30-2011, 03:25 AM

Cowboys and Aliens - Mild Yay

To which I'd have to say:

Cowboys & Aliens - Mild Nay

Lazlo

07-30-2011, 03:49 AM

To which I'd have to say:

Cowboys & Aliens - Mild Nay

Interestingly enough, I agreed with pretty much your whole review. I'm a little more liberal with my "yays" I guess.

Henry Gale

07-30-2011, 05:18 AM

Interestingly enough, I agreed with pretty much your whole review. I'm a little more liberal with my "yays" I guess.

Well, I was pretty close too, but in my head it just came down to whether or not I would recommend for someone else to go and see it, regardless of if they had the same level of willingness or curiosity that I did or not. It just didn't leave me with enough of that type of enthusiasm by the end, despite it being halfway there for a lot of it.

I'd just say to people that it'd be a perfectly good thing to sit back and watch on a lazy night once it's out on home video (if that's even a term anymore) in the less blockbuster-oriented autumn months.

transmogrifier

07-30-2011, 12:23 PM

Melancholia - yay

dreamdead

07-30-2011, 12:27 PM

Crazy, Stupid, Love - Mild Nay

At times thoughtful and intelligent, but the film seems misguided in terms of its presentation of women, especially the 17-year-old.

Ivan Drago

07-30-2011, 05:57 PM

Captain America: The First Avenger - Yay

TGM

07-30-2011, 07:48 PM

Cowboys & Aliens - Mild Nay

I didn't hate it, though I wouldn't say I liked it, either...

Raiders

07-30-2011, 09:50 PM

Captain America - sadly, nay

Is there a more boring protagonist? Sheesh. The first half of this film is so dull I actually contemplated sneaking into The Smurfs... OK, maybe not. Still, I couldn't have been less interested in almost everything that happened. Johnston deserves credit for making what is technically a highly proficient film, and the USO re-enactments were a small joy. But, no sir, didn't like it.

Rowland

07-30-2011, 09:57 PM

Attenberg - Yay

Watashi

07-30-2011, 09:58 PM

Thirdmango

07-31-2011, 01:23 AM

Pop Trash

07-31-2011, 01:47 AM

The hell were you expecting from a Cap Am movie Raiders? I mean that's about as good as it's gunna get.

Philosophe_rouge

07-31-2011, 03:00 AM

Stake Land - nay

eternity

07-31-2011, 07:18 AM

Crazy, Stupid, Love - nay
Cowboys and Aliens - nay

B-side

07-31-2011, 07:47 AM

But, no sir, didn't like it.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jL684u6yL0E/TAfV8NXzQxI/AAAAAAAAAIc/xcpqjObVDlg/s1600/mr_horse.jpg

Rowland

07-31-2011, 08:29 AM

horrible bosses yay.

Just wanted to mention that I wasn't sure if I should see it and then I was like, I wonder what match cut says and I saw 7 yays and no nays and was like, alright now I'm seeing this movie. Good on ya match cut.I'm surprised by the uniformity to be honest, though it's only eight votes so far. I gave it a very mild three stars, which I have my doubts about it deserving, but I gotta go with my gut and admit that I laughed more than with anything else I've seen this year, including the slightly overrated Bridesmaids and the slightly underrated Hangover Part II.

Rowland

07-31-2011, 08:38 AM

Stake Land - nay
:cool:

Ezee E

07-31-2011, 04:03 PM

AUGUST BOX OFFICE:

1. Tree of Life - $280
2. Super 8 - $270
3. Rango - $250
4. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall Past Lives - $250
Certified Copy - $250
Rango - $250
7. Source Code - $240
Bridesmaids - $240
9. Thor - $220
10. X-Men: First Class - $210

eternity

07-31-2011, 07:03 PM

American: The Bill Hicks Story - yay

ThePlashyBubbler

08-01-2011, 02:12 AM

The Myth of the American Sleepover - mild yay

Rowland

08-01-2011, 07:45 AM

Umshini Wam - yay

Rowland

08-01-2011, 11:41 AM

Carancho - mild yay

elixir

08-01-2011, 01:54 PM

Super 8 - nay

Ivan Drago

08-01-2011, 02:46 PM

Rubber - Nay

Fezzik

08-01-2011, 06:09 PM

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 - Mild Yay
Captain America - Yay :)
Cowboys and Aliens - Nay :(

Lazlo

08-02-2011, 01:40 AM

Cedar Rapids - Nay

Rowland

08-02-2011, 03:51 AM

Rango - yay
Insidious - yay

Derek

08-02-2011, 04:11 AM

Curling - yay
Another Earth - nay

Lazlo

08-02-2011, 05:33 AM

Captain America: The First Avenger - Yay

Winston*

08-02-2011, 08:12 AM

Tree of Life - Yay
Summer Wars - Yay (saw this last year)
The Man From Nowhere - Nay
Arrietty - Yay

DavidSeven

08-02-2011, 07:39 PM

Tree of Life - Yay w/ reservations

Lazlo

08-02-2011, 08:12 PM

Cold Weather - Yay

elixir

08-02-2011, 08:20 PM

Bad Teacher - nay

Melville

08-02-2011, 11:53 PM

Despite my criticisms of it, I actually gave Tree of Life a marginally positive score (6/10 on IMDb), so I should probably be in the 'yay' column.

MadMan

08-03-2011, 04:23 AM

Cowboys & Aliens-Yay

Philosophe_rouge

08-03-2011, 06:02 AM

Kidnapped - mild nay
Night Fishing - yay
Cold Fish - nay
The Woman - yay

Rowland

08-03-2011, 06:08 AM

Mega Python vs. Gatoroid - Nay

C'mon, you know you want this counted. :lol:

Rowland

08-03-2011, 10:29 AM

Kaboom - yay

Boner M

08-03-2011, 02:34 PM

MIFF isn't finished but I finally have a solid connection at my shitty hostel so 'ere we go:

Trigger - yay
Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles - yay
Beginners - yay
The Innkeepers - yay
Littlerock - nay
Michael - nay
The Kid With the Bike - yay
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye - yay
Finisterrae - yay
The Black Power Mixtape - yay
Sodankylä Forever - nay
It May Be That Beauty Has Strengthened Our Resolve: Masao Adachi - yay
Hanna - yay
Polisse - nay
Winter Vacation - yay
The Yellow Sea - yay
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia - yay
Outside Satan - nay
The Day He Arrives - yay
Skoonheid - yay
Familiar Ground - yay

transmogrifier

08-03-2011, 10:38 PM

The Yellow Sea - yay

Same here. Na Hong-Jin does a superb job in the first two-thirds, with the editing razor sharp and storytelling clear and dynamic (seriously, the trip to Korea from China is a small masterpiece of narrative economy and cinematic editing), and it's a shame that he let's his love for random blood and gore and violence to swamp this in the last section, deadening the film with repetitive scenes and overly-complicating the motivations. He could be the next big Korean director if he learnt either (a) restraint or (b) how to make his violence have more of a point, rather than just being there as puncuation.

Lazlo

08-03-2011, 11:40 PM

Winter in Wartime - Yay

Philosophe_rouge

08-04-2011, 01:18 AM

Beyond the Black Rainbow - yay
Wasted on the Young - nay

dreamdead

08-04-2011, 02:21 AM

I Saw the Devil - mild nay

Boner M

08-04-2011, 02:50 AM

Wasted on the Young - nay
Probably the worst movie I saw last year. Annoying that it's being seen beyond Australian shores.

Lazlo

08-04-2011, 03:04 AM

Horrible Bosses - Yay

Derek

08-04-2011, 03:07 AM

Probably the worst movie I saw last year. Annoying that it's being seen beyond Australian shores.

Are you sure?

http://ramascreen.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Love-And-Other-Drugs1.png

Sorry to have to remind you...

Boner M

08-04-2011, 03:15 AM

I've purged all about L&OD from memory except for two things, so WotY gets the edge.

Pop Trash

08-04-2011, 03:32 AM

I've purged all about L&OD from memory except for two things, so WotY gets the edge.

DA CENAMATOGRAFY AND SOUND DESINE???

Philosophe_rouge

08-04-2011, 03:55 AM

Probably the worst movie I saw last year. Annoying that it's being seen beyond Australian shores.

I saw it at a film festival and it was playing in the smallest theatre by the time the fest is basically finished. It is not the worst I've seen, but it's easily one of the two or three worst films of the year.

Philosophe_rouge

08-04-2011, 03:55 AM

Absentia - yay

Rowland

08-04-2011, 09:08 AM

Can't believe I'm the only 'yay' for Kaboom (granted, out of 4). That movie's fun as fuck.You're not the only yay anymore, but your sentiment remains valid. Fun as fuck indeed.

Boner M

08-04-2011, 01:48 PM

DA CENAMATOGRAFY AND SOUND DESINE???
1) The scathing satire of the worst crimes of pharmaceutical corporations & 2) the sensitive, non-awards-baiting treatment of Parkinson's, naturally.

Pop Trash

08-04-2011, 02:30 PM

1) The scathing satire of the worst crimes of pharmaceutical corporations & 2) the sensitive, non-awards-baiting treatment of Parkinson's, naturally.

OHHH IF I HAD TO PIC TO THINGS IT WOOD BE DA BOOBIES!!! LOL!!!!111111

elixir

08-04-2011, 05:18 PM

Green Lantern - nay

kopello

08-04-2011, 11:29 PM

Midnight in Paris - yay

eternity

08-05-2011, 07:40 PM

Source Code - yay

Rowland

08-05-2011, 09:46 PM

3 Backyards - mild nay

Philosophe_rouge

08-05-2011, 11:46 PM

Don't be afraid of the dark - mild yay

Dukefrukem

08-06-2011, 03:39 AM

Stake Land yay

Fezzik

08-06-2011, 03:44 AM

Rise of the Planet of the Apes - Yay!

elixir

08-06-2011, 03:45 AM

Beginners - yay

eternity

08-06-2011, 04:12 AM

The Change-Up - nay

Pop Trash

08-06-2011, 05:37 AM

Rise of the Planet of the Apes - yay

Philosophe_rouge

08-06-2011, 06:51 PM

Cold Fish actually gets a big fat NAY from me.

Spinal

08-06-2011, 07:41 PM

Midnight in Paris - nay

Bosco B Thug

08-06-2011, 07:46 PM

Friends With Benefits - nay.

I like Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis. I like them together in this movie. But they both have chipmunk voices. And this movie is cloyingly pat and simplistic.

Watashi

08-06-2011, 08:26 PM

Rise of the Plannet of Them Ape - yay

elixir

08-07-2011, 03:52 AM

Horrible Bosses - yay

EyesWideOpen

08-07-2011, 05:56 AM

Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Crazy, Stupid, Love.

both big yay's

Rowland

08-07-2011, 08:06 AM

Post Mortem - yay

Boner M

08-07-2011, 10:21 AM

Cold Fish - nay

Also I nay'ed Septien, E.

Boner M

08-07-2011, 10:24 AM

Also, there're two Sleeping Beauty's - Breillat's that premiered last year but got a US release this year, and the Emily Browning one that'll be released later this year. I yay the former, and I assume that's what Brightside & Rouge's votes are for as well.

Kiusagi

08-07-2011, 05:38 PM

Rise of the Planet of the Apes - yay

Winnie the Pooh - yay

B-side

08-07-2011, 07:50 PM

Rowland

08-07-2011, 09:00 PM

Polytechnique - Yay

Philosophe_rouge

08-08-2011, 03:09 AM

Rise of the Planet of the Apes - yay

Rowland

08-08-2011, 10:37 AM

Cedar Rapids - mild nay

NickGlass

08-08-2011, 03:37 PM

Oh, I've "nay"ed Cold Fish, as well. Too bad it feels so wrongheaded, and didn't put its bonkers vibes to good use.

Pop Trash

08-08-2011, 03:52 PM

X-Men: First Class - nay

Stay Puft

08-08-2011, 09:09 PM

Cold Weather - yay

Watashi

08-08-2011, 09:52 PM

Hobo with a Shotgun - big yay

I'm definitely going to be campaigning for Hauer during the MC awards.

Philosophe_rouge

08-09-2011, 02:47 AM

Poetry - yay

Lazlo

08-09-2011, 04:20 AM

The Eagle - Mild Nay

Lazlo

08-09-2011, 09:17 PM

Super - Yay

TGM

08-09-2011, 09:57 PM

Horrible Bosses - Yay
Rise of the Planet of the Apes - Big yay!

Lazlo

08-10-2011, 02:14 AM

Beginners - Yay

Fezzik

08-10-2011, 02:44 AM

Horrible Bosses - Yay
Crazy, Stupid, Love - A surprising Yay

Melville

08-10-2011, 03:21 AM

The Trip - very mild yay. Plenty of funny moments sandwiched between tedium and a lame midlife-crisis plot.

B-side

08-10-2011, 03:27 AM

The Trip - very mild yay. Plenty of funny moments sandwiched between tedium and a lame midlife-crisis plot.

I'm not fucking finished.

Henry Gale

08-10-2011, 06:27 AM

Bad Teacher - very borderline nay

I've thought about this for a little while, and since I did laugh several times I find it hard to call it "bad", but I do think that it wastes its potential more than it fufills it, and even though everyone in the cast (except for a mostly wooden Timberlake) more than deliver in their roles, it just never feels like it's the funniest version of the movie currently playing out on screen. Though at the same time, I do admire it for never trying to fully redeem Diaz's character, and using Segel as someone who more or less shares the same views, but expresses them in much more admirable ways.

It's fun to watch, but ultimately amounts to very little. A good rental / Netflix-type impluse watch at best. The first Jake Kasdan movie I haven't fully liked (if that means anything).

Rowland

08-10-2011, 09:53 AM

Cold Fish - mild nay

For all the wildly polarized reactions, I can only mount a mildly disappointed shrug. As a considerable appreciator of the man's work, it's evident that Sono still has "it", but this is far and away his most hit-and-miss effort that I've yet seen.

Melville

08-10-2011, 02:28 PM

I'm not fucking finished.
Ha. That bit was great, but I laughed even more at this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8BPP4ASQWo

Stay Puft

08-10-2011, 03:32 PM

Cracks - yay

But the mildest of yays. The performances are the strength of the piece. Eva Green is fantastic, and the girls are all great and have good chemistry together and so on. It's engaging but it's also too obvious dramatically, by which I mean it's the sort of film where a character will literally spell out a piece of information in dialogue and then there will be two seperate closeups of the same photo to visually back that up (trying to be vague here since the scene I'm thinking of is played as a big reveal and I don't want to spoil anything, but it just comes off as clumsy and unnecessary). A lot of the visual storytelling to that effect is perfunctory and it feels like Scott or her editor or whoever is trying to put as much coverage in as possible. Quite often I'm sitting there watching the film going, "ah, why did you cut from that angle? That was good, but now you've ruined it." But it's also to the film's credit that two of my favorite scenes are constructed entirely with reverse angles, though again I'd put that back on the performances.

B-side

08-10-2011, 08:57 PM

Ha. That bit was great, but I laughed even more at this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8BPP4ASQWo

Haha. "Gentlemen, to bed, for we leave at 9:30... -ish."

Henry Gale

08-11-2011, 07:56 AM

Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes - yay

I still wouldn't go as high in my praise as a lot of others have, but this was still way better than I assumed it was going to be even a few weeks ago, before any actual reviews started coming out. I think it's the emotional core that helps the movie work more than anything, even if a lot of what's used to structure those storylines doesn't feel like they're things being done for the first time either, but just with more apes involved.

Boner M

08-11-2011, 11:32 AM

Cowboys & Aliens - nay
The Woman - yay

baby doll

08-11-2011, 03:42 PM

Post Mortem - yay

Incidentally, does this have a US distributor?

Rowland

08-11-2011, 07:13 PM

The Woods (McKee, 2011) ***I presume this is supposed to be The Woman. How does it compare to his previous work?

Boner M

08-12-2011, 03:57 AM

I presume this is supposed to be The Woman. How does it compare to his previous work?
D'oh, yeah. I don't remember much about The Woods and May, though I loved the latter at the time (didn't care for the former). The Woman is one of the more tonally strange films I've seen in a while, with extensive music montages and Sundance-y disfunctional family quirk placed alongside the requisite carnage and degradation. Its satire and overall themes are a little muddled but the absurd humour always works, and Sean Bridgers is pretty excellent as the sadistic patriarch. I wish I saw it with a big crowd rather than the shittiest screener I've ever been given.

That said, I interviewed McKee and the hot lead actress so clearly I'm being a shill and my opinion ain't worth shit.

Philosophe_rouge

08-12-2011, 04:54 AM

I think The Woman is pretty awesome. 'i loved it's tonal absurdities. It was also really terrifying for me.

B-side

08-12-2011, 09:01 AM

The Greatest Movie Ever Sold - yay

transmogrifier

08-12-2011, 09:14 AM

The Greatest Movie Ever Sold - yay

Really? I couldn't think of a more boring subject for a documentary. How does he make it worthwhile?

B-side

08-12-2011, 09:27 AM

Really? I couldn't think of a more boring subject for a documentary. How does he make it worthwhile?

There's a throughline of doubt in the film; questions of whether or not Spurlock is selling out if he's so transparent about it, whether or not he'll be able to be taken seriously as an artist when he comes out the other end and such that give it a more personal and intimate anchoring, but I'd wager the most fun is to be had simply by way of the meta-play. Seeing how he decides to incorporate all of the contractually obligated things and ideas into the actual arc of the film, its sense of humor about itself and its creative process are all pretty interesting. As usual with Spurlock, he reconciles the big questions raised in the film with reasonable modern solutions. It gets a bit more serious as it goes along and he starts exploring some of the newer methods companies are secretly using to assist in advertising and how a few bands/artists approach the subject and still maintain credibility and integrity.

transmogrifier

08-12-2011, 11:59 AM

There's a throughline of doubt in the film; questions of whether or not Spurlock is selling out if he's so transparent about it, whether or not he'll be able to be taken seriously as an artist when he comes out the other end and such that give it a more personal and intimate anchoring, but I'd wager the most fun is to be had simply by way of the meta-play. Seeing how he decides to incorporate all of the contractually obligated things and ideas into the actual arc of the film, its sense of humor about itself and its creative process are all pretty interesting. As usual with Spurlock, he reconciles the big questions raised in the film with reasonable modern solutions. It gets a bit more serious as it goes along and he starts exploring some of the newer methods companies are secretly using to assist in advertising and how a few bands/artists approach the subject and still maintain credibility and integrity.

That's way more of an answer than I expected. I'll never see the thing, but at least I have an idea of how it might appeal to others. Kudos.

Bosco B Thug

08-12-2011, 09:13 PM

I think The Woman is pretty awesome. 'i loved it's tonal absurdities. It was also really terrifying for me. Yay.

I like to think my heavily-inclined upcoming horror movie expectations are perfectly propped up by your opinions thus far:

The Woman > The Wicker Tree > Don't Be Afraid of the Dark

Lazlo

08-12-2011, 10:16 PM

Rise of the Planet of the Apes - Yay

Philosophe_rouge

08-13-2011, 02:42 AM

Yay.

I like to think my heavily-inclined upcoming horror movie expectations are perfectly propped up by your opinions thus far:

The Woman > The Wicker Tree > Don't Be Afraid of the Dark

I am not sure which I prefer, The Woman or the Wicker Tree. I think the Woman is slightly more emotionally effective, but there is a wonderful richness in the Wicker Tree that i can't quite discount. Of the 30+ films I saw at Fantasia Film Festival they are my favourite "first run" films. If you want to trust my horror taste a little more, I'd also venture to recommend Absentia, which is an amazing low-budget horror-thriller.

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark just isn't in the same league as the others.

Philosophe_rouge

08-13-2011, 02:45 AM

Robin Hardy actually read my review for the Wicker Tree and was confused because he thought I was writing for Sight & Sound (the website I write for is Sound and Sight), and was perturbed by this. There is actually a voice mail of him talking about it that he left on the Fantasia Festival programmer's phone. My co-host has it at the moment but STILL hasn't sent it to me.