The Movie Review and Discussion Thread

[iam1bearcat]

Originally Posted by Riff Magnum

Laugh out loud at your rant in the middle. I asked all those questions and then decided it didn't matter. The only relevant question is: Was that a stunt dick?

i sure hope so! otherwise Dafoe deserves the Best Actor award asap! and a new "member"!

[SquidPuppet]

Originally Posted by Steve46

Never a good thing when your wife catches you with a breast hanging out of your mouth.

Especially when its foul.

[Riff Magnum]

Originally Posted by SquidPuppet

[Show spoiler]Chaos Reigns!!!

That was definitely one of my favorite moments. Weird when your favorite characters in a movie are a doe with half a dead fetus hanging out and a fox with the voice of James Earl Jones tearing at his guttyworks. Yeah, whatever Lars.

[lDlisturb3d]

Originally Posted by iam1bearcat

gotcha. i didn't hate her for doing that though. she didn't

[Show spoiler]force anyone to listen to the tapes, she just gave them to the people so they could find out if they wanted.

which is partly why i love the film because of the universal question it asks:

[Show spoiler]would you erase a relationship that ends badly, or keep it? keeping it leaves it there so you can learn from it an grow, but to be able to erase the pain, anger, confusion and loss might be attractive to some. and while Kirsten's character maybe shouldn't have done what she did, she obviously changed her mind and felt having memories erased was a bad choice of doing things.

and i liked how it showed that

[Show spoiler]even though you can have your memory erased of some things, you could ultimately find yourself back in that position again, which makes you wonder, is it true love? she fell in love with the doctor at least twice. which may mean something

I agree with you for the most part i just didnt like what she did. I was furious. It felt very selfish! But it was cool that they

[Show spoiler]would of ended up together either way.

[lDlisturb3d]

Originally Posted by Al_The_Strange

Man, I couldn't stop thinking about "Antichrist" long after I saw it. I think thanks mostly to squiddy and surfdude, who've dug up all kinds of articles on it and went on debating the theological implications of it (or lack thereof).

[Show spoiler]Why the F is it called "Antichrist?" Is it the guy? Is it the girl? Do they collectively represent the totality of the human race? If so, does this film suggest that the human race will tear itself apart? What does the dead child represent (if anything)? Are they in Hell? Are they in the garden of Eden? Or some perverse antithesis of it? What's with the wheel in the leg? What does it mean (if anything)? Why does the woman go berserk? What is with the three beggars thing? Are there any other metaphysical questions I missed?! Or am I just overthinking it?!!

I suppose different people will apply different levels of thought to a movie. But for this one, I really felt I could spend hours dissecting it and drafting a multipage essay trying to interpret it. That's just me though.

Believe me you werent alone. Im still thinking about it now. I wish more people could appreciate movies like this. That way i could talk to normal poeple about it

[AKORIS]

Originally Posted by SquidPuppet

Shipping from Netflix today.

Better be good.

it won't be good but it will be great

[SquidPuppet]

Originally Posted by Riff Magnum

That was definitely one of my favorite moments. Weird when your favorite characters in a movie are a doe with half a dead fetus hanging out and a fox with the voice of James Earl Jones tearing at his guttyworks. Yeah, whatever Lars.

Haaaa haaaaaaa haaaaaa haaaaa

[Al_The_Strange]

Originally Posted by iam1bearcat

i have to say, besides knowing nothing of this film, this has to be one of the either most or least (or both) intriguing titles to a film ever

also, i was gonna say this before but forgot, i hope you don't mind my "technical score" score rating that i give in my reviews now. to be honest, i got the idea from you (from where you put entertainment, story, film and other options) in a sense, but also got it from watching the likes of A Clockwork Orange and The Aviator: films that are incredibly well made on a "film" level (costumes, directing, score, et cetera) but just didn't enjoy that much.

and i felt having a 'technical' score and an 'enjoyment' score would make it easier to separate. but looking at it now i see that i'm almost stealing your idea and didn't want you to think that

sorry Al if you cared or noticed at all

I did notice and I thought it was cool.

I started it up with the similar thinking you had, and determined there were these three criteria that affect my enjoyment of all films in general (entertainment, story, film), with intellectual/emotional (and recently the "controversial" factor) impact being optional.

I like "GI Joe" because it's all action and little of anything else.

I like "Life is Beautiful" because it's a great story and provoked some thought.

I like "Antichrist" because the visuals are spectacular, even if the story is weak. I also like it because it made me think a whole lot.

If you really judge/enjoy films the same way, then go ahead and keep on breaking them down, by all means! I don't mind.

[SquidPuppet]

Originally Posted by AKORIS

it won't be good but it will be great

Cool. Tell me what you thought of it. If you have reviewed it here, I must have missed it.

[Riff Magnum]

Originally Posted by iam1bearcat

i sure hope so! otherwise Dafoe deserves the Best Actor award asap! and a new "member"!

For all the hype around Gainsebourg, i thought Dafoe was better. Mr. Overthetop played it prettty cool during those scenes. I think sometimes critics give undo praise to the crazy roles. I'd choke a b**ch too.

[Riff Magnum]

Originally Posted by SquidPuppet

Especially when its foul.

Oh Squid. King of the low hanging fruit.

[iam1bearcat]

Originally Posted by Riff Magnum

That was definitely one of my favorite moments. Weird when your favorite characters in a movie are a doe with half a dead fetus hanging out and a fox with the voice of James Earl Jones tearing at his guttyworks. Yeah, whatever Lars.

did you laugh when

[Show spoiler]the fox spoke

? i did. for about 3 minutes. i wasn't expecting it at all and the

[Show spoiler]voice

was hilariously... "off". but maybe i'm just sick and twisted in the head. for such a serious film that moment really didn't seem to fit in with the film (serious wise).

[SquidPuppet]

Originally Posted by Riff Magnum

Oh Squid. King of the low hanging fruit.

Yeah, I'm lazy that way.

[SquidPuppet]

Originally Posted by iam1bearcat

did you laugh when

[Show spoiler]the fox spoke

? i did. for about 3 minutes. i wasn't expecting it at all and the

[Show spoiler]voice

was hilariously... "off". but maybe i'm just sick and twisted in the head. for such a serious film that moment really didn't seem to fit in with the film (serious wise).

Yeah, you have been laughing at some odd moments.

[AKORIS]

Originally Posted by SquidPuppet

Cool. Tell me what you thought of it. If you have reviewed it here, I must have missed it.

well, it was a long time ago, but let's just say that it's one of my all time favorite ghost stories--

it's such a classy film, yet very scary as well-- Deborah Kerr is outstanding in it and the great thing about this film is that it's never made completely clear what's real and what's imagined (trying not to give anything away)

to me it's kinda like the CASABLANCA of ghosts stories-- as you watch it you know immediately that it's a film way above the rest of it's type-- there's so much style, atmosphere, wonderful photography, it's just something special--

hope you enjoy it, with the hype I just gave it you may walk away disappointed, but I just love this film -- it was announced on blu-ray earlier this year and seems to have disappeared... hoping it shows up on a release calender again soon!!

[Al_The_Strange]

Originally Posted by iam1bearcat

did you laugh when

[Show spoiler]the fox spoke

? i did. for about 3 minutes. i wasn't expecting it at all and the

[Show spoiler]voice

was hilariously... "off". but maybe i'm just sick and twisted in the head. for such a serious film that moment really didn't seem to fit in with the film (serious wise).

It creeped me out.

If it made me laugh at all, it'd be one of those "WTF OMG LOL" reactions, like I gave to "Tokyo Gore Police," "Dead Alive," "The Naked Lunch," "Robo Geisha," "Pinocchio 964," "Videodrome," and a bunch of other super-weird gory films.

I must be the only one who watches them. Maybe I'll suggest one for the movie-of-the-week...

[Riff Magnum]

Originally Posted by iam1bearcat

did you laugh when

[Show spoiler]the fox spoke

? i did. for about 3 minutes. i wasn't expecting it at all and the

[Show spoiler]voice

was hilariously... "off". but maybe i'm just sick and twisted in the head. for such a serious film that moment really didn't seem to fit in with the film (serious wise).

It's one of those moments that will be different every time you see it. For me, i was creeped the f out, but i can totally see it being funny on a "cheesy, because you were trying to be deep, but it comes off as pretentious" sort of way. Really, most of the movie has that double-sided nature.

What's up with the end while we're asking what's up with this movie? I mean the very end.

[SquidPuppet]

Originally Posted by AKORIS

well, it was a long time ago, but let's just say that it's one of my all time favorite ghost stories--

it's such a classy film, yet very scary as well-- Deborah Kerr is outstanding in it and the great thing about this film is that it's never made completely clear what's real and what's imagined (trying not to give anything away)

to me it's kinda like the CASABLANCA of ghosts stories-- as you watch it you know immediately that it's a film way above the rest of it's type-- there's so much style, atmosphere, wonderful photography, it's just something special--

hope you enjoy it, with the hype I just gave it you may walk away disappointed, but I just love this film -- it was announced on blu-ray earlier this year and seems to have disappeared... hoping it shows up on a release calender again soon!!

Thanks.

[SquidPuppet]

Never saw this one before...

[SquidPuppet]

DO not mix these...