i havent seen the old one but does it have any kind of references to the 70's in it? Horror movies seem to mask peoples fears of the time behind blood and monsters.

yr quite right... horror films tend to be a reflection of our shared societal fears.

Romero was always into rather overt socio-commentary with his films. For instance the obvious consumeris (we are all stupid consuming zombies in a mall) in Dawn Of The Dead.

and again, look at the piece of shit remake.

Oh yeah thats a good one to point out. I have only seen the remake of that too Did not sit well with me for some reason. I only watched it once never really had a desire to watch it again. It is most definitly a play on consumerism though.

the original is much better. Trust me on that one.

I hate the remake. The original is a 10/10.

I hated the remake as well. I didn't like ANYTHNG about it. The original is um... 8/10.

How do we feel about this syg?:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1242432/

I for one am opposed

I bet it's nothing like the original...

OMG why??? Sigh. No it's not going to be close. The original is ... wow.

I mean the sheer concept of remaking it is ridiculous. Its probably just going to imitate and add nothing to the original concept.
You'll have a bunch of cinematically ignorant teens who think they've found thte sickest movie ever, and in fact be experiencing a much weaker version of a fucked up classic... I odn't know I just don't likke this idea.

it makes no sense. The original has like 40 mins of rape. I dno't see how they could even TRY to do that now.

Another movie about city people being afraid of the country

as a subgenre, that's been played out too much lately. Way too many Texas Chainsaw ripoffs.

It's like when Hostel came out I was all excited, but by the time Touristas and that one with Elisha Cuthbert hit DVD I was soooooo sick of torture pr9n.

same here i liked hostel but it died there

actually I think Hostel 2 is far better movie. Far better.

BTW does everyone know that Scott F'ing Spiegel is making Hostel 3 ?????

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to deflinus again

LEE VING!!!!!!!!!!!!!

7/10

all 7.5's

I've seen this like 100 times. Love it.

I guess it's around a 7,5/7 point, it's so great even it dated not that well. Well it was mean girls to the 90's I guess...

exactly. It was sort of my Mean Girls until Mean Girls came and totally trumped it. MG = 10/10.

terminator 2. somehow i have lived for nearly two decades and had not seen one terminator movie in full until approx. two days ago. uh.

heartbreakers... lol, i liked it. gene hackman and ray liotta [and pre-funny zach galifianakis]

and ferris beuller's day off, for like the 10th time. maybe the best feel-good movie ever

the acting was often sub-par but it was overall a decent film, with nice effects and a delightful premise..

perhaps Robin Williams was not the best casting and Cuba Gooding Jr was terrible beyond explanation, but some-how I still enjoyed it, perhaps its my mushroom drenched mind..

what dreams may come is a sad movie.

Lonesome Jim and Living In Oblivion are both riots, funny movies. I probably prefer Oblivion.

A while back in this thread there was talk about that Tommy Wiseau film The Room. And I had commented that I'd only seen one scene and dismissed it pretty heavily. Well this is my moment of clarity. The Room is easily one of the most colorful trainwrecks of cinema. It fails in every possible way which is paradoxically why it all works. Plots conceived and abandoned immediately, characters that 180 their motivations on a dime, sometimes several times in a single scene! Four sex scenes, one a repeat of the first, three of which occur in the first half hour of the film, and a mom that regularly visits her daughter for only minutes at a time. As I watched the film I found myself wondering if there was some real significance to the events of the film instead of just immediately labeling them pointless. Such as that alley scene or wherever the hell they were tossing that football around. Speaking of the football, it features so heavily in the movie, more than certain characters, I just wonder if it's the lynchpin to the whole damn movie, that is actually holds some cosmic significance that everyone has missed. Tommy Wiseau easily steals the show, almost every scene without him is fairly boring because you're just waiting for him to get back into the mix. What a movie, I can't wait to see it again.

Yeah, as I said, The Room is a 10/10 easily. I've watched it 15 times in the past year.

1/10
Man. I gave up after 35 minutes. Just unbearably not funny. I laughed twice. I find it hard to laugh at idiots. feelings of pity and loathing overwhelmed any lafffs

then I watched this



10/10 Loved it.

I don't know how to connect with you Rob.

black sun - 10/10

A blind man makes a movie. It ends up being entertaining, unlike Jarman's "Blue".

scott pilgrim - 10/10

seriously.

...scott pilgrim is movie event of the year.. CLASH AT DEMONHEAD!

by the time you hear from me again, it'll be Scott Pilgrim

"vengeance is mine"
9.5/10

yeah......fuck you James Cameron's Visuals, SP has you beat/10

vengeance is mine is a masterpiece


lantana - 8/10

Drag Me To Hell

3/10

The ending ruined what was already a bland movie only slightly redeemed by some cool effects. I mean, c'mon: so what if she denied that old lady an extension on her mortgage? Aren't gypsies nomadic anyway? Why would she live in a house for 40 years? Plus all the relatives at her funeral; couldn't they have helped her out? It's not worth damning some poor farm girl who's trying to make it in the city over!!!

I hope Sam Raimi stubbed his toe after finishing up the script on this overrated pile of drek.