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[saintfool]

Beyond the Sea, but that was also 7 years ago

i know he's been doing a lot of theatre in recent years and that's cool. he's a hammy enough actor to really make a good theatre for a paying audience. he's also serving as the artistic director for the Old Vic in London, which is going to consume his life.

 

[Chaka]

The Ides of March - exceedingly average. disappointing considering the cast. Ryan Gosling just can't carry a movie for me. Needed more Clooney and Hoffman

I have seen The Notebook, Lars & The Real Girl & Blue Valentine and I agree with joffer. I will reserve final judgment until I see Drive.His best role that I have seen is Remember the Titans.

 

[cosjobs]

The Ides of March - exceedingly average. disappointing considering the cast. Ryan Gosling just can't carry a movie for me. Needed more Clooney and Hoffman

I have seen The Notebook, Lars & The Real Girl & Blue Valentine and I agree with joffer. I will reserve final judgment until I see Drive.His best role that I have seen is Remember the Titans.

He carries Drive with ease and its twice the movie of any of the others listed.

 

[Chaka]

The Green Lantern: Not very good. Probably a step below Thor. Not sure how they could have done it much better with the material they had to work with. 1.5/5

That's an insult to Thor.I didn't think it was possible to make a boring main stream super hero movie but Green Lantern managed to accomplish that. A lot of lazy writing and a complete failure to make the effects of his power interesting instead of absurd.

 

[jdoggydogg]

The Ides of March - exceedingly average. disappointing considering the cast. Ryan Gosling just can't carry a movie for me. Needed more Clooney and Hoffman

I have seen The Notebook, Lars & The Real Girl & Blue Valentine and I agree with joffer. I will reserve final judgment until I see Drive.His best role that I have seen is Remember the Titans.

Gosling is incredible in Half Nelson and Blue Valentine.

 

[Chaka]

The Ides of March - exceedingly average. disappointing considering the cast. Ryan Gosling just can't carry a movie for me. Needed more Clooney and Hoffman

I have seen The Notebook, Lars & The Real Girl & Blue Valentine and I agree with joffer. I will reserve final judgment until I see Drive.His best role that I have seen is Remember the Titans.

Gosling is incredible in Half Nelson and Blue Valentine.

I guess he was good in Blue Valentine. The snapshot of the beginning and end of a relationship is an interesting premise, and I guess the film was interesting at times but overall I found it to be tedious.

 

[cosjobs]

The Ides of March - exceedingly average. disappointing considering the cast. Ryan Gosling just can't carry a movie for me. Needed more Clooney and Hoffman

I have seen The Notebook, Lars & The Real Girl & Blue Valentine and I agree with joffer. I will reserve final judgment until I see Drive.His best role that I have seen is Remember the Titans.

Gosling is incredible in Half Nelson and Blue Valentine.

yes, and he carries it. And its as good as Drive.

 

[jamny]

Hmm. Just went through his movies and realized I've never seen him yet. I think I confused him with Ben Foster who I thought was awesome in The Messenger.

 

[cosjobs]

Hmm. Just went through his movies and realized I've never seen him yet. I think I confused him with Ben Foster who I thought was awesome in The Messenger.

He has the longest movie star face since Stan Laurel

 

[krista4]

Catching up on a few odds and ends:

Something Borrowed or Something Blue or Something Old or whatever it was called: Wait, WAIT! I was on an old-timey plane where everyone had to watch the same movie! Well, I guess I didn't have to watch it, but there were no movie options. It was as terrible as expected. Maybe more so. I hate myself, everyone on the plane, and Delta airlines for it. 1/5

Time Out: French movie about a guy who starts a Ponzi scheme after losing his job. Somehow I had misread it to the think the guy was going to become a hit man after losing his job. Turns out, watching a Ponzi scheme develop is not very interesting. 2/5

Elegy: It's hard not to love a movie with Ben Kingsley, Patricia Clarkson, Penelope Cruz, and Dennis Hopper playing, believe it or not, the normal one. However, I managed it. Not awful, but a bit plodding and not enough of a character study of anyone to make it interesting. 3/5

The Fall of Fujimori: For what I find to be an incredibly fascinating topic about an incredibly fascinating character (Fujimori was President of Peru from 1990-2000), this was a bit disappointing. Basic linear narration and storytelling just didn't work here, and diving into Fujimori himself more would have been warranted--didn't get a good idea of why he went in the directions he did in terms of becoming fairly dictatorial. 3/5

 

[jdoggydogg]

Catching up on a few odds and ends:

Something Borrowed or Something Blue or Something Old or whatever it was called: Wait, WAIT! I was on an old-timey plane where everyone had to watch the same movie! Well, I guess I didn't have to watch it, but there were no movie options. It was as terrible as expected. Maybe more so. I hate myself, everyone on the plane, and Delta airlines for it. 1/5

I'm divorcing you. You had other alternatives, you know. You could have jumped out of the plane. Just sayin'...

 

[Homer J Simpson]

Catching up on a few odds and ends:

Something Borrowed or Something Blue or Something Old or whatever it was called: Wait, WAIT! I was on an old-timey plane where everyone had to watch the same movie! Well, I guess I didn't have to watch it, but there were no movie options. It was as terrible as expected. Maybe more so. I hate myself, everyone on the plane, and Delta airlines for it. 1/5

I'm divorcing you. You had other alternatives, you know. You could have jumped out of the plane. Just sayin'...

There are always other options.

 

[Kenny Powers]

Hmm. Just went through his movies and realized I've never seen him yet. I think I confused him with Ben Foster who I thought was awesome in The Messenger.

Ben Foster might be my next favorite young actor besides Gosling, probably him or JGL. He was great in The Messenger, I dont see how Harrelson got nominated (who was good himself) when Foster clearly outshined him. At this point, Gosling just has more notable performances than Foster.

 

[Kenny Powers]

The Ides of March - exceedingly average. disappointing considering the cast. Ryan Gosling just can't carry a movie for me. Needed more Clooney and Hoffman

I have seen The Notebook, Lars & The Real Girl & Blue Valentine and I agree with joffer. I will reserve final judgment until I see Drive.His best role that I have seen is Remember the Titans.

You gotta be kidding me?! Granted if youve only seen those 4 (I havent seen Valentine yet, or Notebook for that matter now that I think about it), I can kind of see what youre saying. In Lars & the Real Girl, he did a great job pulling off an eccentric character moreso than an scene stealing performance that elevates the movie and basically is the best part of it.

For those performances, see The Believer, The United States of Leland, and Half Nelson (and I would say its safe to assume Drive).

Fracture, All Good Things, and Murder by Numbers are a couple other solid performances where he makes the movie better, but not at the same level as the aforementioned.

 

[krista4]

Catching up on a few odds and ends:

Something Borrowed or Something Blue or Something Old or whatever it was called: Wait, WAIT! I was on an old-timey plane where everyone had to watch the same movie! Well, I guess I didn't have to watch it, but there were no movie options. It was as terrible as expected. Maybe more so. I hate myself, everyone on the plane, and Delta airlines for it. 1/5

I'm divorcing you. You had other alternatives, you know. You could have jumped out of the plane. Just sayin'...

There are always other options.

And what the hell are you doing in this thread?

 

[Homer J Simpson]

Catching up on a few odds and ends:

Something Borrowed or Something Blue or Something Old or whatever it was called: Wait, WAIT! I was on an old-timey plane where everyone had to watch the same movie! Well, I guess I didn't have to watch it, but there were no movie options. It was as terrible as expected. Maybe more so. I hate myself, everyone on the plane, and Delta airlines for it. 1/5

I'm divorcing you. You had other alternatives, you know. You could have jumped out of the plane. Just sayin'...

There are always other options.

And what the hell are you doing in this thread?

I'm always in this thread.

 

[hooter311]

http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2011/10/screen-lessons

ROSAMUND PIKE'S affecting performance in “An Education” confirmed that she was definitely more than just a Bond girl. So it’s odd to see her in “Johnny English Reborn” playing a Bond girl once again. Nine years on from her performance as Miranda Frost in “Die Another Day”, she’s the love interest in Rowan Atkinson’s new 007 spoof, effectively parodying herself. It’s a weird choice of roles.

Appearing in a pastiche of one of your earlier films is never a wise move. Not only is it disrespectful to that film, it’s also an acknowledgement that you aren’t known for much else. It turns you from an actor to a punchline. Robert Patrick, for example, seemed as if he might be bound for stardom when he played the T-1000 in “Terminator 2”. But by the time he’d sent up that role not once but twice, first in “Wayne’s World” and then in “Last Action Hero”, audiences assumed that he’d do the same thing at children’s parties. He might as well have taken out an advert announcing that his celebrity was on the wane.

Any actor who doesn’t want to reek of despair should avoid such self-mockery at all costs. That’s Rule One. Here are some other rules for keeping the stench of a decaying career away:

Rule Two: Don’t do a horror film unless you’re the monster. Horror audiences come to see the villains, and they come back again when those villains are in the sequels. The heroes’ main purpose is to look surprised when they’re impaled by a garden implement. So Guy Pearce and Katie Holmes don’t do themselves any favours by turning up in another of this week’s releases, “Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark”.

Rule Three: Don’t play the parents of a child who's the lead character. The message it sends is that your moment has passed, and that you’ve passed on the baton to the next generation. When Dennis Quaid and Helen Hunt play the heroine’s parents in “Soul Surfer”, or when anyone old enough to vote co-stars with Dakota or Elle Fanning, they’re accepting that they’re less of a draw than a 12-year-old. Indeed, the showbiz adage that you should never work with children and animals holds water.

Rule Four: Don’t play a cartoon character’s sidekick. Bob Hoskins is the exception to the rule with “Who Framed Roger Rabbit”, but no one else is immune. When Robert DeNiro hammed his way through “The Adventures Of Rocky And Bullwinkle”, even rehashing his “You talkin’ to me” speech from “Taxi Driver”, it was a sure sign that he didn’t care about acting any more. Brendan Fraser, meanwhile, rubs shoulders with animated animals in almost all of his films, to the point where it now looks as if he can’t do anything else. Jason Lee’s role in “Alvin & The Chipmunks” laid to rest his stint as a leading man. Even though he was barely in the second “Alvin” film, he’s back in the imminent third instalment.

Rule Five: Don’t return to a franchise you abandoned a few years earlier. Any actor who walks out on a successful film series is telling the world that he or she has moved on to bigger and better things. Any actor who then returns to the series is telling the world that those bigger and better things turned out to be smaller and worse. For instance, Vin Diesel made the first “The Fast and the Furious” before bowing out. His co-star, Paul Walker, hung on for the sequel, but they both steered clear of the third instalment (except for a brief cameo from Mr Diesel). For the fourth episode, though, they were both back—an admission that their careers had stalled. As for Walker’s participation in the second film, that brings us to ...

Rule Six: Don’t sign up for a sequel without your original co-star. When Sharon Stone reprised her role in “Basic Instinct” without Michael Douglas, it seemed as if Mr Douglas had better things to do, whereas Ms Stone was left harking back to former glories. Worse still, Ms Stone had already cameoed as her “Basic Instinct” character in “Last Action Hero”. This brings us back to rule one.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Something's wrong with me...

I watched American Graffiti last night and actually enjoyed it quite a bit.

 

[El Floppo]

Something's wrong with me...

I watched American Graffiti last night and actually enjoyed it quite a bit.

1973!was that a talkie?

 

[jdoggydogg]

Something's wrong with me...

I watched American Graffiti last night and actually enjoyed it quite a bit.

Yeah, hard to believe you could like that movie...yanno...it being really good and all.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Like ElFloppo said, it was made way back in '73.

Maybe the goalposts are just moving a bit is all.

 

[Kenny Powers]

Something's wrong with me...

I watched American Graffiti last night and actually enjoyed it quite a bit.

1973!was that a talkie?

 

[KarmaPolice]

Saw IV:

I was enjoying the series for what it was right up until this point. Now it seems like they are just ####### with you just to #### with you. When you are getting to the point of parallel times that things are going on and surprise helpers that don't make sense or are barely introduced in the movie, etc. it is getting hard to get behind the movies. Plus I can barely keep any of the people straight as I am watching this one. My main beef is that there was a big reveal at the end of III that wasn't touched on in this one, but I guess maybe they get back to it later?

Spoiler

WTF happened with the dude's daughter at the end of part 3? Also, why was the cop helping Jigsaw in this one, seems like they took the time to set up Amanda in the other ones, but this guy just seemed to be there just so they could have another twist.

I think I am 'lucky' that I am watching these in fairly quick succession. Seems like to even mildly follow along you'd need to watch them as a marathon. So far this is my least favorite of the series.

 

[Kenny Powers]

Saw IV:

I was enjoying the series for what it was right up until this point. Now it seems like they are just ####### with you just to #### with you. When you are getting to the point of parallel times that things are going on and surprise helpers that don't make sense or are barely introduced in the movie, etc. it is getting hard to get behind the movies. Plus I can barely keep any of the people straight as I am watching this one. My main beef is that there was a big reveal at the end of III that wasn't touched on in this one, but I guess maybe they get back to it later?

Spoiler

WTF happened with the dude's daughter at the end of part 3? Also, why was the cop helping Jigsaw in this one, seems like they took the time to set up Amanda in the other ones, but this guy just seemed to be there just so they could have another twist.

I think I am 'lucky' that I am watching these in fairly quick succession. Seems like to even mildly follow along you'd need to watch them as a marathon. So far this is my least favorite of the series.

Been awhile since Ive seen these, but if its the cop I think youre talking about, he is essentially the next Jigsaw

 

[Kenny Powers]

For the horror fans in here, I recommend checking out the new show on FX American Horror Story. Its only 2 episodes in, and I believe you can watch both on hulu. Connie Britton is in it as well

 

[El Floppo]

For the horror fans in here, I recommend checking out the new show on FX American Horror Story. Its only 2 episodes in, and I believe you can watch both on hulu. Connie Britton is in it as well

whoa... really? I went on record in that thread as saying that the Pilot was a real mess. SO much so that I didn't bother DVRing the series. Did Episode 2 get better, or did you like it from the git-go?

 

[Anonymous Internet User]

X-Men First Class: Not bad, definitely better than most of the comic book movies. I didn't like the castings for Frost or Xavier and I thought all of the 'bad guy' mutants were pretty lame, they could have chosen more interesting characters. 3.5/5

Transformers Dark of the Moon: Super bleh. 1/5

 

[Kenny Powers]

For the horror fans in here, I recommend checking out the new show on FX American Horror Story. Its only 2 episodes in, and I believe you can watch both on hulu. Connie Britton is in it as well

whoa... really? I went on record in that thread as saying that the Pilot was a real mess. SO much so that I didn't bother DVRing the series. Did Episode 2 get better, or did you like it from the git-go?

Episode 2 was better IMO. I dont know if you were 1 of the people who said that too many characters were introduced too fast, but the 2nd episode made it pretty clear they will just be developing the characters already introduced for the most part, ie the family, neighbors, psych patient, maid, burning guy.

 

[jdoggydogg]

The A-Team

No, not the movie. The original series.

My wife figured our son would love this show, and she's right. You know how it's fun to get drunk and / or high with your buddies and watch bad movies? Well, this show is just like that. I haven't watched it while intoxicated yet, but I imagine it'd work for that. Really stupid, very corny. So bad, it's hilarious.

 

[Time Kibitzer]

Just watched Four Lions and thought it was hilarious (well, most of it...).

Just watched this and it was fantastic.

One of the funniest movies I've seen in a long long time. A brilliantly stupid dark comedy film. I remember someone in here saying recently that no one gives comedy films high marks in here, but if I were to give Four Lions a mark, it'd be a very high one. Definitely recommend to fans of British/Dark comedy.

 

[KarmaPolice]

X-Men First Class: Not bad, definitely better than most of the comic book movies. I didn't like the castings for Frost or Xavier and I thought all of the 'bad guy' mutants were pretty lame, they could have chosen more interesting characters. 3.5/5

Transformers Dark of the Moon: Super bleh. 1/5

I like looking at January Jones, but she is terrible in the couple movies that I have seen her in. Really thought she was miscast in this movie as well.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Saw IV:

I was enjoying the series for what it was right up until this point. Now it seems like they are just ####### with you just to #### with you. When you are getting to the point of parallel times that things are going on and surprise helpers that don't make sense or are barely introduced in the movie, etc. it is getting hard to get behind the movies. Plus I can barely keep any of the people straight as I am watching this one. My main beef is that there was a big reveal at the end of III that wasn't touched on in this one, but I guess maybe they get back to it later?

Spoiler

WTF happened with the dude's daughter at the end of part 3? Also, why was the cop helping Jigsaw in this one, seems like they took the time to set up Amanda in the other ones, but this guy just seemed to be there just so they could have another twist.

Spoiler

I think I am 'lucky' that I am watching these in fairly quick succession. Seems like to even mildly follow along you'd need to watch them as a marathon. So far this is my least favorite of the series.

Been awhile since Ive seen these, but if its the cop I think youre talking about, he is essentially the next JigsawThought I read that somewhere else as well. I guess my main question was "why"? At least you have some sort of explanation for Amanda being around, but this dude just seems to show up. I know I am probably putting too much thought into a Saw movie...

 

[Uruk-Hai]

For the horror fans in here, I recommend checking out the new show on FX American Horror Story. Its only 2 episodes in, and I believe you can watch both on hulu. Connie Britton is in it as well

whoa... really? I went on record in that thread as saying that the Pilot was a real mess. SO much so that I didn't bother DVRing the series. Did Episode 2 get better, or did you like it from the git-go?

Episode 2 was better IMO. I dont know if you were 1 of the people who said that too many characters were introduced too fast, but the 2nd episode made it pretty clear they will just be developing the characters already introduced for the most part, ie the family, neighbors, psych patient, maid, burning guy.

I missed DVRing the first two. How does hulu work? Is it free? Legal?

 

[Copeman]

I kinda enjoyed this latest Transoformers movie. I knew what my expectations on it were going into it. It was exciting, had great effects, and I could actually tell the robots apart when they were fighting, something that seriosuly lacked in the first two. I thought it was a fun ride, again, knowing my expectations of it.

 

[jamny]

X-Men First Class: Not bad, definitely better than most of the comic book movies. I didn't like the castings for Frost or Xavier and I thought all of the 'bad guy' mutants were pretty lame, they could have chosen more interesting characters. 3.5/5

Transformers Dark of the Moon: Super bleh. 1/5

I like looking at January Jones, but she is terrible in the couple movies that I have seen her in. Really thought she was miscast in this movie as well.

I generally agree but thought she was good in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. Good role for her.

 

[Kenny Powers]

Ive never seen either of the Pet Sematary movies...if I watch them on AMC will too much gore/violence be cut out?

 

[Kenny Powers]

For the horror fans in here, I recommend checking out the new show on FX American Horror Story. Its only 2 episodes in, and I believe you can watch both on hulu. Connie Britton is in it as well

whoa... really? I went on record in that thread as saying that the Pilot was a real mess. SO much so that I didn't bother DVRing the series. Did Episode 2 get better, or did you like it from the git-go?

Episode 2 was better IMO. I dont know if you were 1 of the people who said that too many characters were introduced too fast, but the 2nd episode made it pretty clear they will just be developing the characters already introduced for the most part, ie the family, neighbors, psych patient, maid, burning guy.

I missed DVRing the first two. How does hulu work? Is it free? Legal?

Yeah, its basically like netflix instant stream. Everything on it isnt free, but usually the latest handfull of episodes from most shows are on there for free. The AHS Pilot is on there. Episode 2 isnt (yet), but FX should be repeating it tonight or tomorrow night around 10pm-2am, that general time area.

 

[Kenny Powers]

Saw IV:

I was enjoying the series for what it was right up until this point. Now it seems like they are just ####### with you just to #### with you. When you are getting to the point of parallel times that things are going on and surprise helpers that don't make sense or are barely introduced in the movie, etc. it is getting hard to get behind the movies. Plus I can barely keep any of the people straight as I am watching this one. My main beef is that there was a big reveal at the end of III that wasn't touched on in this one, but I guess maybe they get back to it later?

Spoiler

WTF happened with the dude's daughter at the end of part 3? Also, why was the cop helping Jigsaw in this one, seems like they took the time to set up Amanda in the other ones, but this guy just seemed to be there just so they could have another twist.

Spoiler

I think I am 'lucky' that I am watching these in fairly quick succession. Seems like to even mildly follow along you'd need to watch them as a marathon. So far this is my least favorite of the series.

Spoiler

Been awhile since Ive seen these, but if its the cop I think youre talking about, he is essentially the next Jigsaw

Thought I read that somewhere else as well. I guess my main question was "why"? At least you have some sort of explanation for Amanda being around, but this dude just seems to show up. I know I am probably putting too much thought into a Saw movie...

I think they explain the why? in the next movie or 2

 

[hooter311]

Ive never seen either of the Pet Sematary movies...if I watch them on AMC will too much gore/violence be cut out?

The only thing I can really remember is when the kid's face gets put under the motorcycle tire. I think that was in the 2nd one. Definitely need to see that uncut.

 

[Cliff Clavin]

Ive never seen either of the Pet Sematary movies...if I watch them on AMC will too much gore/violence be cut out?

Big fan of the first one. Can't remember the 2nd.

 

[saintfool]

Ive never seen either of the Pet Sematary movies...if I watch them on AMC will too much gore/violence be cut out?

not really any gore that i can recall. not really a good film or adaptation of king's work.ETA: the thing i remember most about it was ed "herman munster" gwinn using the worst maine-northeaster accent ever committed to film history.

 

[El Floppo]

Ive never seen either of the Pet Sematary movies...if I watch them on AMC will too much gore/violence be cut out?

not really any gore that i can recall. not really a good film or adaptation of king's work.

for good, you need to see TommyKnockers.

 

[Cliff Clavin]

Ive never seen either of the Pet Sematary movies...if I watch them on AMC will too much gore/violence be cut out?

not really any gore that i can recall. not really a good film or adaptation of king's work.ETA: the thing i remember most about it was ed "herman munster" gwinn using the worst maine-northeaster accent ever committed to film history.

One scene from the first that might get cut would be a guy getting his Achilles sliced. Other than that I don't remember much gore.

 

[saintfool]

for good, you need to see TommyKnockers.

you know, in all honesty, i have never been much of a fan of king's work. i understand how he could be popular with folks but he never grabbed me. i was a Poe and Lovecraft fan by contrast.

 

[El Floppo]

for good, you need to see TommyKnockers.

you know, in all honesty, i have never been much of a fan of king's work. i understand how he could be popular with folks but he never grabbed me. i was a Poe and Lovecraft fan by contrast.

I have never read King.I have, on the other hand, seen TOmmyKNockers. Possibly the greatest translation of book to movie ever made**again, I have never read King.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Wow, had to dig to page 4 to find this thread.

Red State:

Kevin Smith has done comedy and "action", so this was his attempt at a thriller/horror I guess. Centers on a cult-like church in the vein of the Baptist church that protests the funerals of homosexuals and soldiers. We get 3 kids captured after replying to a sex ad and taken to a church to so they can make an example of them. The rest is just a 20min long sermon and a terrible looking shoot out with really bad acting and dialogue. Thought the idea sounded mildly interesting, but Smith really doesn't have anything fresh to say during the movie. Feels like in his mind he was shooting a Tarantino-type movie. I am a fan of his first few movies for what they are, but really he hasn't put out a good product in quite some time. 5/10

Bad Teacher:

I know this is going to be a surprise around here, but I found this to be quite unfunny. Diaz is looking rough and can't carry a movie by herself. I chuckled at a couple of scenes with Timberlake, but that's about it. Easily the worst of the three comedies I've seen this month - I would rank them Horrible Bosses, Bridesmaids, Bad Teacher. 3/10

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Win, Win - 7.5/10

A touching movie and Giamatti is terrific as always.

 

[jdoggydogg]

Red State:

Kevin Smith has done comedy and "action", so this was his attempt at a thriller/horror I guess. Centers on a cult-like church in the vein of the Baptist church that protests the funerals of homosexuals and soldiers. We get 3 kids captured after replying to a sex ad and taken to a church to so they can make an example of them. The rest is just a 20min long sermon and a terrible looking shoot out with really bad acting and dialogue. Thought the idea sounded mildly interesting, but Smith really doesn't have anything fresh to say during the movie. Feels like in his mind he was shooting a Tarantino-type movie. I am a fan of his first few movies for what they are, but really he hasn't put out a good product in quite some time. 5/10

Politically, I'd say that my views are pretty similar to Smith's. But there's no part of me that wants to see this movie. The real Westboro Baptist Church is horrifying enough on their own.

 

[jdoggydogg]

Win, Win - 7.5/10

A touching movie and Giamatti is terrific as always.

This trailer looks terrible to me. But I've read enough good reviews to want to see it.

 

[Kenny Powers]

Wow, had to dig to page 4 to find this thread.

Red State:

Kevin Smith has done comedy and "action", so this was his attempt at a thriller/horror I guess. Centers on a cult-like church in the vein of the Baptist church that protests the funerals of homosexuals and soldiers. We get 3 kids captured after replying to a sex ad and taken to a church to so they can make an example of them. The rest is just a 20min long sermon and a terrible looking shoot out with really bad acting and dialogue. Thought the idea sounded mildly interesting, but Smith really doesn't have anything fresh to say during the movie. Feels like in his mind he was shooting a Tarantino-type movie. I am a fan of his first few movies for what they are, but really he hasn't put out a good product in quite some time. 5/10

I think he wrote or directed Vulgar. Its not a horror film in the classic sense, but Id probably classify it as a horror.