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MKJ wrote:

Jackal wrote:

MKJ wrote:
IMDB;
thats some great trivia right there :icon14:

It's not the konami code though. She doesn't say "up" or "down" at all. When she started I thought it was the code too, but it's not.

havent seen it myself.. what does she memorize ?

She's memorizing the map of the hospital so that she can get to Alessa's room.

no i meant what are the directions she memorizes?

Jackal wrote:Silent Hill: 7/10
Jarhead: 8/10
Advent Children: 6/10
Reservoir Dogs: 8/10

jarhead on equal footing with reservoir dogs? Silent Hill 'almost as good as' reservoir dogs? !

Foo wrote:

Jackal wrote:Silent Hill: 7/10
Jarhead: 8/10
Advent Children: 6/10
Reservoir Dogs: 8/10

jarhead on equal footing with reservoir dogs? Silent Hill 'almost as good as' reservoir dogs? !

It's all relative to the film itself, not to other films.

Reservoir Dogs is definately a better movie than anything else up there.

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

Most excellent, dude.

werldhed wrote:The Great Race - 6/10
Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtic, Natalie Wood, Peter Falk.
Good goofy fun. Too many stupid characters make it a bit annoying though. (i.e. the "liberated woman" who demands a man walk her to the train, and stupid Tony Curtis and his bad acting.)

thats my favorite movie of all time :icon30:

Wet Hot American Summer - 9/10.

Still one of my favorite comedies.

I know they play it on Comedy Central all the time, but they cut out a lot of the funny stuff on TV. And with commercials every 5-10 mins, it ruins the movie.

Inside Man - 7/10
Just a really weird movie. I don't have much to say about it at all, except that it's pretty unremarkable.

Derailed - 5/10
Stupid stupid stupid. Clive Owen goes to incredible lengths to protect Jennifer Aniston's marriage. He even allows a violent rapist/murderer to remain in his house and speak with his wife and daughter. And what's with the really creepy, unnecessarily lengthy nutsack-grabbing scene? The bottom line: this movie was offensively unintelligent.

Silent Hill - 1/10
Speaking of offensive, Silent Hill was a huge hilly pile of shite. I cannot find a single positive thing to say about it, because Radha Mitchell isn't even very hot. I was furious I spent money to see this, which I only did because I owed someone a movie and she wanted to see something "scary" -- which this emphatically is not. I could go on for ages about how horrible it was, but instead let me just say that movies I previously considered among the worst ever made (Anaconda I & II, Soldier, The Whole Ten Yards) are masterpieces compared to this awful awful film, which is mostly an excuse for the audience to voyeuristically enjoy the brutalization of women. Laurie Holden should have been its saving grace (she's hot and was good in the X-Files), but even her attraction factor is ruined by weird lesbo hair.

sliver wrote:
Silent Hill - 1/10
Speaking of offensive, Silent Hill was a huge hilly pile of shite. I cannot find a single positive thing to say about it, because Radha Mitchell isn't even very hot. I was furious I spent money to see this, which I only did because I owed someone a movie and she wanted to see something "scary" -- which this emphatically is not. I could go on for ages about how horrible it was, but instead let me just say that movies I previously considered among the worst ever made (Anaconda I & II, Soldier, The Whole Ten Yards) are masterpieces compared to this awful awful film, which is mostly an excuse for the audience to voyeuristically enjoy the brutalization of women. Laurie Holden should have been its saving grace (she's hot and was good in the X-Files), but even her attraction factor is ruined by weird lesbo hair.

lol worse than mine.

You go into a horror movie with the intent on seeing brutalization of the actors/actresses. It's known before going into it that that's what you're going to see.

Silent Hill had mostly a female cast, but to try to make it into something it's not (i.e. some political statement about women/fetish/whatever you're trying to say) is just stupid.

You should play the game.

Edit: and knocking the movie because the females weren't that attractive is moronic. Sorry you didn't get a chubby watching Silent Hill, but I don't think that was the intent.

i recall the games scaring me in some parts. i had none of that with the movie.

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:i recall the games scaring me in some parts. i had none of that with the movie.

Yeah, which is why I deducted points in my rating as well. I just think what he points out in his review is fucking idiotic.

Heavens no that people get brutalized in horror movies. If it's a female dominated cast, females will get brutalized in horror movies - why is that worse than when men do?

And I already pointed out that knocking the movie based on if the leads are attractive or not in a horror movie is moronic.

ctrlnuke wrote:You go into a horror movie with the intent on seeing brutalization of the actors/actresses. It's known before going into it that that's what you're going to see.

Silent Hill had mostly a female cast, but to try to make it into something it's not (i.e. some political statement about women/fetish/whatever you're trying to say) is just stupid.

Familiarize yourself with some film theory and get back to me. A good starting place with respect to this might be Linda Williams's "Discipline and Fun: Psycho and Postmodern Cinema." You see the repeated victimization of women as a result of a mostly-female cast, but I see the causal relationship going in the other direction.

I should also point out that I didn't take issue with the violence, only with the fact that the movie itself was a pitiful excuse for the showcasing of said violence. The savagery is to be expected, but most vehicles for it at least try to justify themselves.

As for the game, I don't really enjoy video games any more (once I grew out of q3, that was it). If you are suggesting it as a way of better understanding the background of the movie, fine, but I expect films to be able to stand alone -- sequels notwithstanding.

Edit: and knocking the movie because the females weren't that attractive is moronic. Sorry you didn't get a chubby watching Silent Hill, but I don't think that was the intent.

I don't generally care if movies star superhot women or not, but that could have been a redeeming factor, and it is one that the folks behind Silent Hill really missed out on. That's all I said. Reading too much into such a statement is "moronic."

And do you really think they put Laurie Holden into Trinity-style skintight latex because that's what cops wear? She squeaked when she walked, for fuck's sake.

Last Days (written and directed by the wonderful Gus van Sant): 8/10

Jarhead: 8/10

Well shit sliver... it sounds to me like you wanted another Hollywood cookie cutter churned out flick. One that has a hot actress, is also politically correct, and has happy ending.

The fact that you like Anaconda more says to me you have some really bad taste. Saying the actress wasn't hot enough, kind of makes me really think you went to the movie with the wrong intentions. Then when the horror movie shows some horror you become appalled by it. I’d have to say your review gets a 1/10.

seriously. how hard is it to wrap your mind around the fact that it's just a jerk-off film for fans of the game who want to see some chicks get torn up? forget hwo much you loved the superleetomgwow game. how in any way is that a worthwhile film? it's a two hour commercial for a video game trying to pass as genre film. nuff said.

riddla wrote:no, you fucks just totally missed sliver's point - much like 90% of threads posted here.

His point being that the main actress wasn't hot, and the other had a lezbo hair cut.

Aside from that, it was the brutal scene or two in the movie had a women in it, and the movie didnt scare him. I can't think of a single movie out now that scares any adults really. Just reading over what he said, it seems he was more upset about the appearance of the female actors than anything else.

sliver wrote:

ctrlnuke wrote:You go into a horror movie with the intent on seeing brutalization of the actors/actresses. It's known before going into it that that's what you're going to see.

Silent Hill had mostly a female cast, but to try to make it into something it's not (i.e. some political statement about women/fetish/whatever you're trying to say) is just stupid.

Familiarize yourself with some film theory and get back to me. A good starting place with respect to this might be Linda Williams's "Discipline and Fun: Psycho and Postmodern Cinema." You see the repeated victimization of women as a result of a mostly-female cast, but I see the causal relationship going in the other direction.

I should also point out that I didn't take issue with the violence, only with the fact that the movie itself was a pitiful excuse for the showcasing of said violence. The savagery is to be expected, but most vehicles for it at least try to justify themselves.

As for the game, I don't really enjoy video games any more (once I grew out of q3, that was it). If you are suggesting it as a way of better understanding the background of the movie, fine, but I expect films to be able to stand alone -- sequels notwithstanding.

Edit: and knocking the movie because the females weren't that attractive is moronic. Sorry you didn't get a chubby watching Silent Hill, but I don't think that was the intent.

I don't generally care if movies star superhot women or not, but that could have been a redeeming factor, and it is one that the folks behind Silent Hill really missed out on. That's all I said. Reading too much into such a statement is "moronic."

And do you really think they put Laurie Holden into Trinity-style skintight latex because that's what cops wear? She squeaked when she walked, for fuck's sake.

christ, you read more like a film critic every time you post. you'll easily land a job with a paper or magazine when you leave college.

Pooinyourmouth wrote:Well shit sliver... it sounds to me like you wanted another Hollywood cookie cutter churned out flick. One that has a hot actress, is also politically correct, and has happy ending.

The fact that you like Anaconda more says to me you have some really bad taste. Saying the actress wasn't hot enough, kind of makes me really think you went to the movie with the wrong intentions. Then when the horror movie shows some horror you become appalled by it. I’d have to say your review gets a 1/10.

I don't know where you read anything about political correctness or happy endings. I will reiterate at this point that the only reason I complained about the actresses' looks was because they robbed me of the one last-ditch pleasure one can usually get out of nearly any movie, no matter how awful -- hot women. Silent Hill would still have been absolutely terrible even if, instead of Radha Mitchell, it had starred Sarah Michelle Gellar and Jessica Alba as lesbian nudists looking for their adopted lesbian daughter (played by Elisha Cuthbert) in Silent Hill. The point is, the movie really really sucked in just about every way possible, and the director was so overwhelmed with his own little sense of mythos that he forgot he was making a horror movie and put in endless boring exploration/landscape shots & scenes that ruined the pacing and looked like they should have been in a whited-out Lost In Translation.

I believe I've made myself pretty clear now, so I'm going to stop derailing this thread. If you liked that abortion of a movie it's your own problem. I'll be back tonight, hopefully, having seen The Jacket and The Machinist.

sliver wrote:...The Machinist.

You will and must like.

Think I'm going to rewatch that soon.


EDIT: Hey, your avatar is a caricature of mine.

MI:3 - 4/10

steaming pile of shit

Final Fantasy Advent Children

not decided yet/10
great visuals, a lot of fanservice, but the overall story was too much in the background to enjoy as an actual movie. there were times where i though "yea ok, cool. but why are we doing this exactly?". also; motorcycle battles - very cool, but not 20 minutes long.
music made me cream, as did the limit breaks :icon32:

end the ending left me with a tear. but thats just because the whole aeris history is just so damn sad

Alfie - 9/10

seremtan wrote:MI:3 - 4/10

steaming pile of shit

oh really? please expand.

MI:3 - 7/10.

I quite liked it But i guess its not for everyone.