Grindhouse was great stuff, loved the fake previews, and the real ones (Cant wait for Halloween, dont think it will be better then the original, not a chance)
Yeah i think Death Proof was better but damn Planet Terror was amazing.
i watched too many movies this weekend because of easter. everyone i know is reglious and canât go out of the house cause theyâre at church all day, so i was stuck at home with nothing to do
mission impossible 1/2 (hd) - the visuals didnât even look good, iâm not sure if it was because a bad HD transfer or if its just old. i was surprised cause i liked 3 so much. 2 was the worst, iâm not a big fan of john wooâs directing style so maybe thats why i hated 2, but 2 didnât even seem like it was in the mission impossible world. only thing that was the same was the mask gag. tho the sound was pretty nice on the HD DVD
vanishing point - wanted to rewatch this after grindhouse. awesome movie, if you havenât seen it check it out.
the departed - got the HD DVD so i rewatched it, great movie. HD transfer is great.
babel - i got it on blu ray for $5 from some glitch and finally got to watch it. blah. did anyone like this movie? it seemed too much like crash where itâs just playing on stereotypes trying to make you feel upset. tho that deaf jap girl was messed up in the head. wish she was a lil hotter tho, but then i guess she woulda got fucked by then even if she was deaf.
I agree that MI:2 was the worst. The trailer was so hot when it came out but then the movie was ass. I havent seen the first one since it was in theaters and dont remember too much about it beyond lots of scooby-doo moments.
I watched Fearless Fighters off showtime. It was alrightâŚIâm just not much of a kung fu fan.
Im not much of a fan of The Devilâs Rejects but for the past couple weeks I canât get âTootie fuckin frootieâ out of my head
I have the Brian Yuzna movie âSocietyâ at home from netflix. Yuzna has made some good horror films, some not so good, but I always enjoy the energy and pacing of them, and they usually always have good gore effects
When Grindhouse came out on Friday I was in such a B-Movie mood so me and a friend went to see what was on the TMC Underground and that nights showing was âA Bucket of Bloodâ
The basic plot is that Walter is a busboy at a hippie cafe, and pretty much everyone just dismisses him even though heâs a big fan of all their work. He decides he wants to be an artist and buys some clay. After trying to get the land ladies cat out of his wall, he accidentally stabs it. Taking inspiration from a poem said by the worlds greatest hippie that had a beard made of steel wool, he decides to cover the dead cat in clay and pass it off as a sculpture, and the hippies love it and the amount of detail, and they want to see a human sculpture. You can guess what he has to do to sculpt a humanâŚ
Amazing film for laughs. It has THE GREATEST HIPPIE Iâve ever seen in a film. Every time he popped up on screen he said something brilliant that just made me laugh. The main character was a delight to watch especially when his terrible deeds messed up his mind, heâs just a complete failure in every way and agrees to all the idiocrity that he hears. The whole cast is VERY dumb as itâs incredibly obvious what heâs doing. The effects are bad, and OH MY GOD, the events leading up to him sculpting that cat are HILARIOUS.
My only compliant would be, itâs an old film, and it doesnât live up to the title. Thereâs no blood in the film at any point, just those cheesy deaths. While the deaths are great and provide some good laughs, Iâd just like to see a bucket of blood in a movie called âA Bucket of Bloodâ
If youâre in the mood to watch a B-Movie with a friend I really recommend this one, not very violent or shocking but a solid script and a well executed idea really make this one, including the âgreatâ bad acting
iâm not much of horror fan, but i liked devilâs rejects. i like zombieâs nods to other films in it. his wife, however, annoyed the fucking shit out of me.
ok, so did i miss your review of grindhouse, or does it not exist yet? i
m going tomorrow morning, iâll have my review to follow.
yupâŚhavent seen it yet, was in boston this past weekend.
there is a remake of a bucket of blood with anthony michael hall that they show on cinemax a lot
three things about the grind house flop disturbs me:
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lot of good reviewed wide release movies in the past 6 months have done horrible at the box office. zodiac and children of men are the first that come to my mind. even âthe lookoutâ which was well reviewed and had a young cast bombed.
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this movie could bankrupt dimension/weinstein - which is my favorite studio. everyone said the budget was 50 million, but now theyâre saying its more like 100 million. it sucks for that company since they split from miramax their only real box office hit was scary movie.
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this ties in with #1 but weâre probably going to get more formulaic, âsafeâ movies - instead of experimenting due to the poor performance of so many well reviewed movies and crap like âAre We Done Yet?â or even The Reaping (made a lil less than Grindhouse on a much smaller budget) making a lot of money at the box office.
Plus maybe if the movie did good at the box office they coulda shot movies for the fake traliers and threw them on the DVD. I wonder if this will effect the Machete DVD release.
Im thinking this wont be the case. The budget was 50 million, plus probably another 50 mil in P&A which the weinsteins love to spend which is where the 100 mil figure comes from. They are splitting them into two films for the international markets (so two 25 mil films by directors that the international market love) and there is even talk now of releasing them as two films here in the U.S. as well.
I think an optimistic final domestic gross estimate for the double bill is 25 mil. Both Kill Bill and KB 2 took in about 50 million MORE internationally than they did domestically so I think the seperate movies have a strong chance of bringing in the dough, maybe 40 million each.
Add to that the strong dvd sales that are associated with QT and RR and I think TWC comes out just fine in the end.
I find the press coverage of the âflopâ to be disturbing and disingenuous in many respects. All the pre-buzz in regard to box office was that no one had a clue how a 3 hr double feature in a genre not many people are familiar with would do. Now people are trying to act like it was supposed to be some blockbuster, when that was never the case.
I agree that a lot of crappy movies have done well this year and a lot of well-reviewed movies have not. We will have to wait and see what the consequences are. Regardless, I donât foresee QT and RR not making movies any time soon
I think they fucked up in marketing. They took the base for granted and instead spent all their time getting it in to all the critics and getting write-ups in the NY Times and those kind of places while ignoring a big internet/video game/comic push. They should have had 15 minutes of Planet Terror available to watch for free online, plus online-only trailers long before the movie opened to go viral and create buzz.
Itâs just like politics - play. to. the. base. Look what pieces of shit like Saw 3 and TCM: the beginning gross. You dont think those audiences would love Grindhouse that much more?
the thing about wein/dimension is since the break up they really havenât had a hit. the only profitable movie i can think of was Scary Movie 4
they gave clerks 2 to mgm to release, so mgm prolly took some of that money.
i read an itnerview somewhere with harvey where they said theyâre failing at the box office, but they diversified enough where theyâre not in trouble financially (strong DVD sales + they co own project runway)
but i mean how many bombs can you release before youâre out of money?
about saw, i donât understand it. the first one was alright, didnât think it needed 2 sequels, and now a 3rd is on the way.
thing about those movies too is theyâre made dirt cheap
1 cost 1.3 million, 2 cost 4 million, 3 cost 10 million
1st made 103 million, second made 147, 3rd made 164 million
just in ticket sales
sick ROI
just finished watching The Good Shepard, pretty dope movie right thereâŚvery intenseâŚ
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Man, wtf happened to Pathfinder? Wasnât that supposed to be good at one point?
Viking movies are cursed
wasnât it supposed to be out like last summer? i remember reading about it in premier last year in their summer blockbuster issue
Just watched Turistas with a friendâŚsurprise surprise it sucked royally. :tdown:
weekend report card:
Aqua Teen Hunger Force - good stuff (see thread)
300 Imax - finally got around to seeing it, thought it was alright, not much depth
The Howling III - had its moments, liked the the soundtrack and the director. Itâs no part 2 though
Curse of Frankenstein - was not very impressed, thought the frankenstein makeup wasnt very good. The relationship between the two guys was cool though.
The Muthers - good stuff all around
Fight For Your Life - they dont make them like this anymore (did they ever?)
yo anybody ever seen this movie âdie amerikanische freundâ?? saw it last night and it nearly destroyed my mind. definitely the darkest movie iâve ever seen because of its particular surreality. directed by wim wenders. any comments?
man i gotta watch some more movies, i got a grip loading of movies on my list that i need to watchâŚi think one weekend, imma sit down and watch movies all fucking weekendâŚ
i wonder why movies fasinate people so much that we seak to watch themâŚthat is pretty interesting, the form of entertainment they provideâŚ
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never heard of it, but i am a fan of wim wenders work
Man seriously.
Watching 300 is like buying an energy drink for 9 bucks.
Just saw Lock Stock and 2 Smoking BarrelsâŚgreat movie.