I've just watched The ABC's of Death. It was different. If you plan to watch it, skip M, it's not good. T was pretty funny. And Z is absolutely insane.

A Bittersweet Life

As far as plot goes this is an average mob thriller, perhaps less so because of it's unoriginal concept but the way its filmed and the acting in some situations is phenomenal, I didn't expect that from that kind of movie. Even part of the action was interesting because of the way main character looks at things. Subtle but effective.

I've just watched Daimajin. I've had the movies on Blu-Ray for a year or two and just got around to seeing it. I really like the special effects actually, the picture was pretty clear and the props looked mostly believable. Of course it's a period samurai/ giant monster-ish film from the 60s so Daimajin himself (I think?) is sometimes hilarious, sometimes somewhat menacing. Of course, when the big bad at the end got his I broke out laughing. I really enjoyed it, little less than an hour and a half and was pretty good fun the whole time.

Best movie based on truth.. documentary .. best there is..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7e6gLht6OQ

What is... I... I can't even...

I can't, I just can't produce a straight line of thought. I'm not even from the USA.


:V

I've just watched Let the Bullets Fly.
I have not actually seen a non HK Chinese movie before this. It was pretty good, the non-goofy CG special effects looked good, it was a quick film even if it ran kinda long with snappy dialogue and fast paced shootouts. Although, it could have had more what with it being called Let the Bullets fly. Chow Yun-Fat was pretty amusing as the main antagonist, but it was weird (spoiler) that he didn't shoot anyone, or if he did I don't remember. (spoiler) All the performances were good from what I could tell and the movie was really funny, if in a dark kind of way. I really liked it.

High-Rise. Didn't like it at all.

I found it to be a huge disappointment. I was really looking forward to it- something fresh and different, with Jeremy Irons and Tom Hiddleston? Sign me up! But it turned out to lack any narrative coherence, Hiddleston (who I have changed my mind on this year, much for the worse) was barely giving a performance, mostly was just bland and boring and was entirely overshadowed by Luke Evans of all people... the whole thing is a mess of vignettes and ideas that never actually form a worhtwile movie. Some scenes are quite impressive, there is some good cinematography and great soundtrack there, but ultimately it all falls flat. I'm sure it will gain something of a cult following, but for me it's one of the biggest disappointment's of the year.

I'm very agreed with you :)

I semi-recently watched:

Edge of Tomorrow - Pretty good, but seemed surprisingly low-budget for a Cruise film.
Only God Forgives - Cool atmosphere and music/sound, but looking back on it now nothing much actually happens in the film events wise.
Looper - Good, but not nearly as good as "Brick", the same director's previous film.
Kizumonogatari (anime film) - Pretty cool for only an 1 hour long, can't wait for the other 2 parts.

I've just watched Suicide Squad and it was really good. The thing I enjoyed most was the character interactions and how they deal with the mission at hand and the conditions placed upon them for their release. The fights were standard, save for some showing off Deadshot's incredible efficiency and the fight at the end. I also really liked how they portrayed Amanda Waller, who seems as bad or worse as the super villains, except she's working for the government and therefore won't be locked up for all the things she does. It's like, you're allowed to kill people as a soldier, but not as a civilian. One will get you a medal, the other will get you in jail, despite both of them being about the same thing - killing other people. The movie isn't deep in any way, those are just my thoughts after seeing it.

Yeah I've always loved the movie, it is one of those movies where I had high expections (because of the praise I had heard) and it still managed to surpass my expections.

I love many other Coen brothers movies as well like Fargo and Arizona Baby (see them too if you haven't). Arizona Baby was the first movie I saw from them and it really blew me away as I was expecting some run-of-the-mill romantic comedy or family movie. O Brother Where Art Thou I liked less, it didn't have the same impact on me. Maybe I didn't like George Clooney on the lead that much.

I had one former girlfriend who didn't like The Big Lebowski though, she complained The Dude was "trying to be too cool" or something. Maybe she was annoyed the movie made a bit of fun of upper class people too, as to me she was a bit of a upperclass wannabe snobbitybobbity, refusing to live anywhere but in more expensive areas of the town, collecting lots of shoes (she had a wall full of shoes; now I can understand someone collecting old video games, but SHOES? THEY STINK! I mean some arab threw a shoe at George Bush Jr, you didn't see him throwing a Super Mario Bros cartridge at Bush) etc.

No wonder she is an ex.

"Dead Silence". Nope. Boring. Flashy cool exhilarating effects and transitions don't fit with horror atmophere. And anyway, the whole thing felt more like a hidden object videogame (plot and design) than a scary movie. Felt like a cheap tv movie with too much money.

"Alphaville". Didn't work either. Loved the way it toyed with music, words and atmosphere (mundane urban context turned into eerie scifi-like setting) and vaguely sympathized with message, but still, felt too long and bloated and self-indulgent to me (random reference quotes, etc). Felt torn between its self-awareness (winkwink names, cheesy space terminology) and its heavy-handed philosophocal/political message. Godard is no Tati.

"A tale of two sisters". Sweet movie. Weird lack of suspense in the last parts, when a twist is explicitely revealed and the story continues as if it wasn't (re-revealing the same twist later). Very odd scenaristic choice, defeating the point of some supposedly misleading sequences. But apart from that, a very nice, involving, melancholic movie.

Star Trek I Ii and III. Apparently, the review of the first one is crap so I didn't have any expectation and I didn't have much knowledge of the Star Trek universe. But it turned out to be the best scifi movie I ever watched. I enjoy it much more than Blade Runner. I can see how this movie inspired Deus Ex 1 and 2, some scene in the games are literally carbon.copy of the movie.

It's like 2001 Space Odyssey, but not suck and pretentious. (I rather play no man's sky for 200 hours than spend 15min watching that movie).