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Brother Bear

Surprisingly good. Like Pocahontas meets the Lion King with a bit of Bambi. Didn't care for the few songs (not a Phil Collins fan) and the moose were too stereotypically Canadian (never have I heard so many "ehs" before), but other than that a great film. Enjoyed the beginning a bit more methinks. The animals were the most realistic I've seen in a Disney movie and it was starting to feel really epic with the fight...and then it got all cutesy.

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Last movie I saw was One Million Yen and the Nigamushi Woman.I like the kind of life in the film ,the main character settle in a place and work ,after she collect one million yen ,then she move to another place ,she did diiferent kinds of jobs and live in different places.

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Trick 'r Treat

Very fun movie...which is surprising being from the writer of Superman Returns. And it has the cutest killer whatever it was. Great Halloween atmosphere. Reminded me of Hocus Pocus in that respect.

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Whoa, there's an ad-bot posting intelligent, on-topic posts, and managing to advertise in it's signature. Props to whoever pulled that off :)

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Swingers (1996) Jon Fauvre n Vince Vaughn. I actually really liked this. dialogue driven.

Hana-Bi (1998) Kitano film that's bleak but good. Cop's wife has cancer. Yakuza+beat kicking heads.

Starting Out in the Evening (2008) About an author nearing death. Bit of a bore.

La Femme Nikita (1990) gooood shit.

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Finished Akira. Pretty boring. But I can see how it was really awesome 21 years ago.

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Six-String Samurai (1998) I liked this post-apocalypse guitar king samurai movie. Recommended. low budget

Legendary Assassin HK flik that stars donnie yen's 'enemy' in Sha Po Lang. Bad movie, some cool kicks but not really worth all the melodrama.

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Paranormal Activity

This film is gonna get a lot of shit but I enjoyed it quite a bit. It was way better than the Blair Witch Project. It was like a Blair Witch/Exorcist/Poltergeist hybrid.

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I read about this a few days ago somewhere. I want to watch it as well.

Why do say it'll get a lot of shit?

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Because it has been hyped to infinity. It's not the scariest movie you will ever see. It's also an obvious budget film. And it requires you to suspend some disbelief. The characters follow a few of the horror cliches and you just want to scream at them, "why on earth did you do that!"

So if you do see it, go into the film with an open mind and no expectations. That's what I did and the film scared the crap out of me and entertained me immensely. It was a genuinely frightening film that played off of some good psychological conventions. And the director of the film understands that what REALLY makes a movie scary is the unknown. The things left in the dark scare us the most.

I think it is totally worth seeing and it is definitely one of the scariest movies to come out in theaters in a looooooooong time. I haven't been on the edge of my seat like that since seeing The Descent.

So yeah, definitely go see it. In fact I insist you go see it because I need someone to talk plot and spoilers with. :p

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I'm not really a big fan of horror movies, for 2 reasons:
1. I get too scared, and sometimes lose sleep (true) :))
2. They're almost always very cheap movies, with some cheap scares and almost always the same plot.

But this one took my interest, because I like seeing stuff from other people's POVs. I don't really care how scary it is, but I like the idea of keeping things away from the screen and in my imagination.

Unfortunately, I don't know when it's going to be released here in Turkey :(

Edit: Found the release date. December 4. You're going to have to wait :)

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Well, good news. This movie doesn't rely on cheap scares. In fact the real scares come from the buildup and the natural tension that escalates throughout the film.

And I have no qualms with waiting. See it when it comes out. It definitely seems like a film best viewed in a theater with an audience. :p

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I love that movie!

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Yeah, The Descent is one of my favorite films.

What's with American movies getting the endings changed though? The Descent has two endings, the happy American ending and the logical, scary and real ending.

The Descent has all sorts of symbolism and themes going for it. Plus it's this feminist-driven horror film (imo).

Apparently Paranormal Activity has an alternate ending that was changed for the theaters. The original ending sounds much better than what we got at the theater. Still, the ending wasn't changed that drastically and it is still very scary. I'm still reeling over Paranormal Activity. The movie really taps into the psychology of sleeping. All the worse, me and my girlfriend both suffer from sleep disorders.

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I also think I should see it in a theater :) It's more than a month away.. Oh well...

Oh, and if anybody remembers that movie we had a thread about, Moon. I can't find a Turkish release date. Does anybody know of a site that would list international movie dates? IMDb doesn't have one..

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Did you know they made a sequel in which both Juno and Sarah are still alive?

..and it's supposedly following the original ending. Haven't seen it yet, but sounds to me like it was crap.

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I just watched the trailer and it looks like crap. She clearly died at the end of the original movie. The American theatrical version left a window for a sequel with their happy ending, and it's too bad they took up the sequel. It looks really crappy, not to mention it's ripping off Aliens' plot.

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I started watching the series Farscape.
I went in expecting something terrible, but it was really ok. First episode at least.

Of course it can't touch Firefly.

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Inglorious Bastards

This movie was great, I went in with low expectations, came out pleasantly surprised. It is a very dialogue driven movie, feels like you are reading a book at parts, awesome movie. Christoph Waltz steals absolutely every scene he is in this guy did an amazing job.

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If Waltz is Hans Landa, then yes, I absolutely agree with you.

And I loved the dialogue and those loooong parts :)

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Just watched Paranormal Activity.

Meh.


I do agree that most movies these days tend to go for the jump out and scare you approach but I think this one was too far at the other end of the spectrum.

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I thought paranormal activity was probably the worst movie I've ever seen.

The only saving grace for it was the fact that I think the girl could actually be a good actress later. She had a lot of natural beauty and I don't think she was terrible. I think she might actually do well in a comedy type thing, like a sitcom or romantic comedy type thing.

Anyway not a scary movie and I think mostly I laughed at the stuff that was supposed to be scary. I also laughed at the girls who were seated behind me especially when I heard "OMG this is the scariest movie I've ever seen in my life I'll never watch it again!"

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I saw Twilight.
Was entertaining, I'll give it a 7/10. Without the hype, it might actually have been better received.

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Law Abiding Citizen.

It was actually pretty decent. I would watch it again, not in theatres though.

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I really want to see him kill EVERYBODY

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He does. The only person who lives is Jamie Fox. Even Gerard Butler dies.


The one thing that made me lol on the inside constantly is the look on Gerard Butler's face/lip expression when he's pronouncing things with a North American accent.

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I saw Paranormal Activity last weekend. I also saw the DVD screener with the different (better) ending a couple of nights ago, although the screener did lack some good scenes that was in theaters.


Spoilers, in case anyone cares:



Maybe I bought into the hype, but I really didn't think this movie was great. I disliked Micah's character. I mean seriously... he starts off in disbelief, yet willing to film whatever may happen. Even after he witnesses odd occurrences, he's still not willing to do anything to help the situation.. instead he exacerbates the situation throughout the film by challenging the demon/ treating the entire thing as a joke. And seriously.. I don't know how much a 'demonologist' can help with the entire thing, but he was against calling the damn demonologist until his girlfriend got dragged out of bed one night.


...and seriously, what the fuck was the point behind pouring powder all over the floor? He knew the damn thing existed before seeing the footprints.

Holy crap, his character sucked... haha

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Outlander. 7/10.
Decent monster movie. It's always nice to see another culture (the Vikings in this case).
One complaint: the movie didn't have enough Arabs.

Also: The people of my generation are getting old. :( I saw this woman:

as somebody way older than me. Somewhere in her thirties.

Turns out she's just 3 years older than I am.

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Forgot to mention A Guy Thing. 5/10.
Just not entertaining enough. I guess I watched it for Julia Stiles, but she's really not that great in her role.

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The Proposal

Saved by Ryan Reynolds who is just a fun guy who you want to hate but you can't. And seeing Sandra Bullock like 95% unclothed...I think she is sexy, but she's a bit of an enigma. She goes through phases where in one movie she is hot, then the very next movie she isn't hot. Hot/not hot/hot/not hot/etc.

As far as chicky-flicks go, Definitely, Maybe was a much better film.

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All three Ice Age movies.

I really enjoyed these. The first had the best story but the animation improves dramatically with each new one. Extremely fun.


Up.

The first 10 minutes were amazing. After that...well, I did not expect it to get that crazy. Though for the most part I did enjoy the--SQUIRREL!--talking dogs. Kind of wish it kept the tone of the beginning. I was expecting the movie to be a tear jerker after that.

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Serenity (third time). 8/10.
Great sequel to Firefly.

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Knowing. I recommend NOT seeing this.


Acting is only decent for about half of it, special effects are really fake loooking for alot of things and the story is a silly bitch

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Too late. I already saw it twice.

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I finally watched Coraline last night. I really liked it. I was surprised how legitimately creepy/scary it was. Much more intense than most recent horror movies.

I also saw Fantastic Mr. Fox, I guess I was on an animation kick. It was really incredible. It looks so cool visually. It's weird having a Wes Anderson style of film be animated, but it worked pretty well. It deserves some Oscars for its technical achievements.

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Enchanted. 7/10.
Fun family movie.

Sunset Boulevard. 6/10.
Supposedly one of the best movies ever made, but I thought it was rather boring. Always interesting to take a look into older times though.

Scoop. 8/10.
Quite enjoyable movie with Woody Allen and Scarlett Johansson.

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Synecdoche, New York

So this is Charlie Kaufmann's (writer of Adaptation, Being John Malkovich, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Eternal Sunshine) directorial debut. It's really quite a bizarre film, but there's something about it I can't get out of my mind. I don't think I could even begin to explain exactly what happens and how and in what sequence, but it's all pretty interesting to watch. The best that I can say is that it's a film about a man (Phillip Seymour Hoffman) who believes he is dying and he stages a play in a warehouse about his life as he is currently living it. It's very "Adaptation-esque" in that regard, very self-referential, etc.

It's probably not for everyone, but I don't think I've ever seen a film like it, and that's a good thing.

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I really wanted to see Synecdoche, it was shown as a festival film here, but when I heard about it, it was already gone. Maybe I should buy the DVD.

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5 Centimeters Per Second. 7/10
Anime with a nice atmosphere.

The Untouchables. 7/10
Enjoyable Mafia movie.

Cloverfield. 7.5/10
Third time I saw it. It seemed like a good movie to watch with friends in a snow storm.

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I saw Sherlock Holmes.

You really got to love RDJ. I can't make any claims as to how he was in comparison to the actual character, but he made the movie fun. It was an enjoyable movie, if not a bit slow.