Movies you just recently watched

[GlueTube365]

I saw The Matrix and The Matrix: Reloaded. The first one I thought was really good, and the second one I found a bit wierd and had a fair bit of padding, but it had good action scenes. I'll see the final one on the weekend.

[Matyuv]

Ah, Lost... From what I remember, it didn't make much sense after the second season, but it was still pretty entertaining to watch. Wasn't there a guy named Boon who died like a boon in the first season?

[Adsolution]

Rather creepy? I don't know, I was thinking more like... pant-shittingly horrifying. Disney's version pulled that off pretty well.

Yeah then you're probably not in for it. This certainly was no Disney film.

[Adsolution]

I just saw The Secret of NIMH. What an underrated masterful classic of animation I must say. It was touching, dark, mysterious, epic, moral, and it brought forth an almost Raymanesque atmosphere multiple times. The artwork was beyond beautiful, and it feels like one of those movies you could "love," the kind you always want to keep in your memory. Even though it was made in the mid 80's, it really had that authentic touch many pre-50's animated movies had, almost comparable to Bambi. In fact, much of the movie gave a similar emotion that Bambi brought, and it's really a beautiful feeling.

There's only two things I can point out that did bug me a little, but in truth it's rather nitpicking. One is that they kept calling the bird a crow, even though it had a yellow beak like that of a rook (whereas crows have black beaks). The other is that the resolution to the plot was slightly confusing: [ when Mrs. Brisby touched the stone, it somehow raised her home back out of the sinkhole without much explanation.] I just feel there could have been a little more emphasis on why that worked. All in all though, those little things really aren't noticeable when compared to the emotion and beauty experienced in this film. It's surely something I'll be looking for a physical copy of, and it's definitely inspired me creatively and fueled my goals.

There's something about that retro hand-drawn aspect of animation that just provides so much more than what you would expect from a modern animated film. Not only in the technology, but in the older films, you can truly feel the effort and heart that went into their pleasured work. The animators, musicians, and even the voice actors have a motivation behind them that rarely is present these days, and it makes you wish you lived in that time - even though it was a rougher time - for a much more "real" and "true" media, when money wasn't the main prize. However, living in this time period allows us to appreciate what was there, and perhaps try to be the one to bring back that "true" feeling, regardless of however ambitious that may sound. That, along with the whole spectrum of creativity is what I want to bring back forth and strive forward in a whole new revolution of artistry with - that is my dream.

If you haven't yet seen this movie and you enjoy animated movies, then this is one you absolutely can't miss. I really wish this film had gotten more popularity than it did.


Oh, and of course, thank you Doug Walker "Nostalgia Critic" for making me aware of this movie.

[Spanex]

I saw NIMH too, but I can't make anything of that magic gem. The plot went fuzzy to me at that point.

But it was indeed a lovely piece of animated goodness

[Haruka]

I have that movie in VHS, I want to watch it again when I go to the garage and dig up my old VHSs from that maze of junk.

[Adsolution]

I have that movie in VHS, I want to watch it again when I go to the garage and dig up my old VHSs from that maze of junk.

May I buy it off of you by any chance? :>

[Haruka]

Rewatched Spirited Away for a 2nd time after many time after watching it for the first time. How I was missing this great movie.

[GlueTube365]

Marvel's The Avengers. Being one of my most anticipated movies of the year, there were a thousand and one places that it could have gone wrong, but I thought it delivered and I reccomend it.

[spiraldoor]

Prometheus is insane and extremely good.

[Adsolution]

Watched The Land Before Time for the first time in about nine or ten years. I swear it's even better than I remember it. Don Bluth is probably as if now my favourite animation director (he also did NIMH and An American Tale).

I read a rumour that Bluth originally had far more graphic violence in the original cut in which the five dinosaurs actually died at the hands of the T-Rex, not just Littlefoot's mother, and that the journey to the Great Valley was actually an interpretation of their journey to heaven. Apparently it caused some psychological damage to the young children in the screening room and there were a lot of angry parents, so they had to cut almost twenty minutes of film to fix that (going down from 89 minutes to just 70). I'll admit, after seeing a few tiny two-second clips (the only ones available) of the original cut (only released in Finland in a one month timespan in 1988 due to a misprint), I can see why it was cut. Some of those original scenes were not just intense, but down right disturbing, especially for an animated feature intended for kids: one of them involved the Sharptooth (T-Rex) stamping down in the mud, kicking two or three of the main characters aside as they flop like ragdolls and they're struggling to run, but they're stuck slipping and struggling in the mud as the Sharptooth closes in. Yeesh, when Bluth wants to do something well, he does it a little too well. It was bone-chilling to watch, though I would really want to see the original cut if it ever can be recovered at some point.

[Haruka]

I don't see the original movie since years!

I also didn't know there was a cut in it. Damn, by the description you tell me, I really don't feel wanting to see it either, I believe I would be quite disturbed too.

[GlueTube365]

I saw Terry Gilliam's Brazil. I absolutely loved it, particularly the visual style and the dystopian setting.

[spiraldoor]

I saw Terry Gilliam's Brazil. I absolutely loved it, particularly the visual style and the dystopian setting.

Not to mention the black comedy, the operatic psychological horror, Robert De Niro, and the disintegration of the barriers between reality and fantasy as the main character’s mind slowly fragments. I consider this to be the best film ever.

[Keane]

Watched "Snow White and the Huntsman." Certainly not any kind of top notch movie, but I highly recommend it over Mirror Mirror. That was mediocre at its finest.

Anyone seen "Requiem for a Dream"? Some say It's great, whilst other seem to rant endlessly about it.

[Adsolution]

Anyone seen "Requiem for a Dream"? Some say It's great, whilst other seem to rant endlessly about it.

Some parts of it were phenomenal, others were fairly bad, but overall I would say that it's a good movie.

Watched "Snow White and the Huntsman." Certainly not any kind of top notch movie, but I highly recommend it over Mirror Mirror. That was mediocre at its finest.

I saw Mirror Mirror, and I didn't like it, so I hope I like Snow White and the Huntsman, which I'm going to see this Thursday. Hey, how was Kristin Stewart's acting?

[El Dango]

So I get that these are pretty much two completely different movies based on the Snow White story, who just happen to be released at the same time?

Because that makes me wonder if there was some kind of bet between two directors about who could make the best adaption.

[Haruka]

Prometheus is insane and extremely good.

Curiously last month my father was telling me he would like to see this movie with me in the cinema.

[Keane]

I saw Mirror Mirror, and I didn't like it, so I hope I like Snow White and the Huntsman, which I'm going to see this Thursday. Hey, how was Kristin Stewart's acting?

It's a huge improvement over Mirror Mirror. I have no complaints about the acting either.

[Adsolution]

Ah, that's good to hear!

I just watched Beavis and Butt-Head Do America for the second time - it being the very first American cartoon I had seen when I was five. Well, it's great! If you're in for a highly amusing and hilarious ride, give it a watch. When it comes to watching idiots do idiot stuff in cartoons, there's no better way than the Beavis and Butt-Head way! Plus, just the whole concept of the plot gives it that underlying level of hilarity so that at no point does it ever become unfunny.