i really love the scene where the lady accuses mark whalberg of trying to kill her and hes like "whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat nooooooooooo"

it is just so amazingly bad it should've never made it past editing

That, when he talks to the plant, and when he starts singing "Black Water" by the Doobie Brothers to prove how normal he was were my favorite parts.

Quarantine

It was really good. The last 25 minutes were incredibly intense.

i know a lot of people be hatin' on this movie,

but i really agree with you. i really like this movie.


Also, just watched Quest For Fire. totally awesome.

I'm still not convinced that The Happening isn't some kind of avant-garde comedy or something.

I wouldn't give shyamalan that much credit

I'm fed up of people spelling sHyaMaLaN wrong. It's sHyaMaLaN. He had the alternating capital letters legally added by deed poll.

yeah, shamalama's has talent and couple great movies behind him (though rewatching the sixth sense the plot holes are GAPING). i still really like signs. quality entertainment.

I like that I accidentally messed up alternating capital letters in that last post. Twice.

shyamalamalonautotomanotomanatons

I just watched Inception and liked it. What was weird was how, uh, UNWEIRD it was! I'm not being catty, I was kind of dreading that the whole film would just be ~symbolism~ and bad David Lynch pastiche full of craaaazy dancing dwarves etc but it seemed to go deliberately in the other direction. Like for a film about dreaming it was pretty completely unevocative! At first I thought it was just because of the kind of uh glossy and memory-less nature of recent action films (the Bourne ones etc) but looking back I think it was pretty deliberate. Like most of the action takes place in completely sterile, impersonal, memoryless locations like train carraiges, airplanes, empty warehouses, business lobbys, concrete buildings, a snow fortress section ripped from "Tomorrow's Not Enough" for the N64, and iirc there was actually a line in there about making dream locations which weren't constructed from memory at all to make them less noticeable. All the walls are clean and the furniture is classy and new and everything gleams. I guess the whole thing with the dead wife dead wife dead wife constantly breaking in was maybe about how it's impossible to do this and maybe the subconscious will always sneak in and start ripping shit up but I don't think the whole look/tone/pace of the movie supported this at all! IDK that's probably it but it seems really strange and perverse to make a film about dreams which is almost entirely devoid of memory or subconcious or personality or desire. I'm not saying it's a bad thing though and think it's more interesting and possibly had more thought involved than the traditional use of the dream sequence as an excuse to artsy up the joint.

On the other hand maybe I'm overthinking it and it was just a kind of okay film that demonstrates how completely glossy action movies have taken over if they can make a high-concept thing about dreams and just make it another rush of shiny surfaces and a cheap excuse for SLOWMO FIGHT SCENE aaaaa. Gimme ya thoughts.

i watched the Temple Grandin movie on hbo. claire danes is incredible and the writing is really well done. at first i thought it was some lame after school special but im glad i ended up watching it all, it was great.

I feel shit now because I went and saw the expendables instead of inception

the expendables is fucking retarded btw

I had a feeling it would be but I thought it would be fun but it totally wasn't

yeah it was a good dumb action movie. like thecatamites started saying, it's like those other dumb fast-paced action movies that are all over the place these days only Inception actually has a good reason to explain why it is like it is

it was really really formulated tho. like the ellen page character and the dead wife, it was kinda ugh but I don't think it really held the movie back at all