watching season 2 of house of cards. great stuff. saw devil's knot with colin firth and reese witherspoon about the trial of the 3 teenagers from west memphis, arkansas who spent 19 yrs in jail for killing 3 little kids to be let out of jail due to shady evidence and a public out-cry that the cops lied and hid things left and right just to put these 3 away bc they were involved in devil worship and satan and cults. i've seen the 3 HBO series about this but the movie was good. regardless of their innocence or guilt, those 3 were shady characters. they didn't deserve what happened to them but the things you do and the people you surround yourself with says a lot about you.
saw lone survivor. didn't like it. the title obviously gives the ending away and there was no backstory to the 4 main characters and their decisions were borderline on based with the dumbest army of all time. sorry but going or jumping or sliding down 2 cliffs with rocks below was or is insane. stand your ground man! and very little dialogue among the 4 characters as well. kind of boring. and they don't explain why the 2 apache helicopters couldn't join the other 2 later on. some confusion there and never explained to why they went back undermanned?
saw pompeii--it was bad and it steals half it's plot from gladiator. and kiefer sutherland as the roman senator is as bad as it gets for an easy paycheck. ugh.
Gonna grab a couple movies currently in theaters this weekend. "Let's be Cops" is one I'm looking forward to.
Inferno (1980) an ok horror movie, but it's directed by dario argento, so it's a visual treat. he's got a distinctive look to his films.
it's a horror movie? i thought it was one of those paul newman, steve mcqueen, george kennedy movies like the tower inferno and those airport movies. haha
saw erased with aaron eckhart. ugh. the plot was barely pointed out and he was on the run the entire movie. lame.
I saw the Amazing Spiderman 2 last night. It was long but good and predictable. The storyline is very different than the other Tobey Macguire Spiderman movies. The acting is still bad however. Garfield acts like a total douchebag. Emma Stone can't act her way out of a sock and this is after I thought Kirsten Dunst couldn't act. They certainly open the 3rd movie up with some villains from the second, which is nice and a backstory already.
2 old flicks i saw this weekend - dead ringer with bette davis and wait after dark with audrey hepburn and a young alan arkin. dead ringer was crazy and an ending even crazier. really good flick. wait after dark was good but frustrating. still recommend it.
ahem, it's wait until dark. surprised you've never seen it before. one of the best suspense films ever made. alan arkin is great in it.
sorry lulz, i didn't know anyone was even reading this thread anymore. one of the best suspense films? that's kind of a reach. there's no violence in it. it's all sounds and her reaction. after awhile those 3 bumbling fools should've just beat her up and trashed the place. and that annoying little girl - she doesn't leave either. i mean she outsmarts 3 guys and she's blind ? and why did the hot lady in the beginning give the doll up in the first place? cold feet for carrying drugs? i don't watch a lot of older movies. i caught these 2 from a netflix recommendation.
easy lulz jeez. that's not what i meant. not until the end is there any threat on her life. they try and be nice and try and con it out of her and get the safe open. arkin and his silly costumes trying to dupe her etc. for that much heroin - where is the real threat on her to give it up? even though the little girl had it at first - where is the threat to "give us the doll or else?" it didn't happen. all that charading as cops and other people and the phone calls only goes so far and it was cool to see at first but silly later on. eventually any criminal would've been fed up with her and done something. these 3 do nothing until arkin takes over. that's what i mean. since she is blind - one of those 3 just telling her a threat is coming is terrifying as she can't see them. that's what i mean.
maybe it's time u started. but then, what seems important to u is likely not to be found in most of them. http://www.flickchart.com/Charts.aspx?genre=Mystery&perpage=100 that's a list that, at a quick glance, looks pretty good to me. notice the average age of those films. most of those movies at the top of the list have little or no violence in them. to me, charade is a great suspense film, and a great film transcending genre. very little violence in it. don't get me wrong, i watch plenty of violent films lol. but to me, violence is not an important ingredient in a suspense film. this ties right back into the first thing i quoted. once upon a time, the answer to everything wasn't "i'll kill u". put yourself in her shoes, in her situation, and tell me u wouldn't be terrified? ya, ok. would it have been better if arkin played hannibal lecter and threatened to eat her face?
