[Woja-]

The point is to post a quick review of the film(s) you watched today/recently, preferably with a link to the release thread on Hddump if there is one. I'm not only talking rips of course, films you watched at the cinema or on TV are fine, too.

[MovieNinja]

Alien
Aliens
Aliens3

5/5 all

[Jagd]

Munich...

[Woja-]

Well... I finally got around to watching Avatar.
Watched it at the cinema with 3D and all.
I must admit that the 3D is pretty cool for the first 10 minutes, but you kinda stop noticing it after that.

As for the movie, it was better than I expected. At first I was really overwhelmed and amazed by what Cameron had created.. It's probably the best CGI I've seen. The time really flew by, and I didn't really notice the 3 hours that went by.
I don't know if I'll watch it again since the plot wasn't all too thick...

All around, good fun. Keeps you interested throughout the movie and you don't find yourself sneaking a peak at your watch every 10 minutes.

8/10

[uberfly]

Saw Inglourious Basterds yesterday.

It had all Quentin Tarantino's trademark direction and soundtracks as usual.
Quite a violent flick in my opinion, something my girlfriends didn't quite appreciate : :lol:

All in all, I didn't go into this with too much expectations, so I wasn't disappointed. Quite enjoyed it, despite being 2 1/2 hours long :shock:

Brad Pitt and that Nazi guy really put on a good show IMO

8/10

[Woja-]

Went last night to see the premier of [/b]"The Ghost Writer"[/b].
Not half bad actually. Good acting and insteresting plot all around.
The ending was a bit of a disappointment, but I won't say anything more so as not to give it away
All in all I'd have to say 7/10

[uberfly]

Saw Armored today.
Not too bad, but also not great. A bit predictable actually, and I had the plot pretty much pinned down after the first 10 minutes. That may be just me. Expected a bit more action and entertainment actually, especially with this kind of cast.
6/10. There are definitely better movies out there to watch

[ilyathereis]

I keep a list of films I've seen.

http://blurring.org/

[ilyathereis]

Recently I watched A Certain Kind of Death (2003).

It's a documentary that follows around the coroner, morticians, and personnel in Los Angeles county who tasked with finding relatives of people who have been found dead. The dead people are just normal citizens who died of old age, health problems -- not murdered by anyone. The filmmakers actually go into a hotel room where a man was found dead on his bathroom floor. He had slipped on something and hit his head. That's all that had happened. A city employee whose job it is to sift through belongings and call up relatives (whom she sometimes finds in little black books people leave behind) goes through his stuff but finds everyone and all friends of his are also deceased. Four months later, no relative can be found to claim his body, so he is cremated. Interestingly, once cremation has been done, the process of finding a relative to claim or take away the person's ashes starts all over again.

After years and years have gone by, the boxes of unknown people's ashes in the coroner's building build up. I can't remember the cut-off time, but what's really sad is that each year there's a non-descript grave marker made (e.g. 2003, 2004, etc). It's a simple metal grave plate. Because no one been in touch with the coroner's office and all resources (time and money) have been exhausted, all the cremation boxes for each individual year are simply emptied one by one into a single grave. The cemetery workers open each box of ashes and pour the contents into the freshly dug grave --- they do about 40 boxes. The grave is buried over and the year plate is put on the grave. So all the people who died in 2004 are buried under an iron name plate, 4-inches by 6-inches, that reads '2004'.

You see everything in this documentary. This isn't a made for TV documentary. You see workers move a body from a hotel room or a house. You see the guy's decomposed face. You see the body bags in the coroner's crypt. Blood is washed (actually sprayed with water) into the drainage pipes, as if one is washing a car, outside the autopsy room. It's not quite as gruesome as it seems, but nothing is really hidden -- nothing is pushed into your face. It's a bit of a macabre documentary, but nothing darkly Gothic about it.

If you can't find this to download, PM me and I'll send you links.

Here's the documentary's homepage:

http://www.acertainkindofdeath.com/

[iTommy]

I watched Predators last night, Knight and Day the night before, and Shrek the night before, all of which i enjoyed for different reasons.