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Post by X factor on Jul 11, 2015 21:37:19 GMT -5
 Watching this movie right now, it was released to theaters in 2008, around 7 years ago. Special effects are decent, and the movie doesn't really seem 'dated' yet. But one thing I do find annoying about the film, and others in it's genre is the way they always elevate Government officials as always being the best qualified to confront issues. They really try to ooo and ahhh audience with 'The Government' having ultimate authority and resources to get what they want, and maybe they do, but it doesn't really seem cool to me anymore. After hearing how much Government messes up, not sure why movies all prop Government agencies up as being so grand. I'm not wording it right, but in these movies they always make it seem as if everyone else is dumb, and that only high ranking Government officials have the wit, brains or insight to deal with issues. They always show helicopters flying around, high ranking officials being whisked here and there, and make it appear as if everyone else is dumb and clueless. Nor do I like the way they always force inject characters that seems they're there just for the sake of 'diversity'. Like 'Ok, lets make this scientist African female, and this one Chinese, and this one fat and this one Greek', ect ect. The social chemistry between characters in many of these 'We must save the world' movies just feels forced at times. In Chinese produced movies, you don't see a black scientist working along side white blonde scientist working next to Puerto Rican guy. No other nation does that. In Chinese movies, all the scientist are Chinese ect. But I understand America is a culturally/ ethnically diverse nation...so I do get that, but sometimes still feels forced. Another thing that annoys me about these movies is sooner or later the idea pops up in villain that 'Well, maybe man is worth saving', yuk That also feels forced. Often alien or super villain sent to destroy humanity always has a change of heart, and it's always usually and only do to a 'Caucasian' lady. Funny how the alien or super villain always and only changes mind about all of humanity do to encounter with Caucasian lady....every movie in this genre is like that, without fail. So I guess if not for the 'White lady', they'd go ahead and destroy the Earth?  Anyways, back to the movie. |
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Post by X factor on Jul 11, 2015 23:02:48 GMT -5
summary of above movie 'The day the earth stood still'.
Even when I watched it long ago I was annoyed by the ending, and now I know why.
Seems every movie like this is written basically like the bible, where man has a chance to redeem itself.
But it's all so fake.
In reality Alien spheres should of wiped humanity off the face of planet, but in movie, at last minute, Alien in human form has a change of heart, and reverses human obliteration all based on relationship it had with just two people!
Stupid alien...say if this really occurred back in 2008, the real year movie released...what has man learned since then???
Have any wars stopped?, hell no, and new evil has arisen, new terrorist groups, new criminals, people are still dishonest, powerful institutions still defraud people out of millions and so forth.
Stupid alien...he saved humanity for what?
Jesus had pity on humanity for what reasons?
After a while all story lines seem the same, whether the bible or current Hollywood movies.
1. Monster/villain wants to destroy Earth = Satan
2. Hero shows up in movie = Jesus or other prophet
3. Hero sees 'Man has value' worth saving = The cross
4. Bad guy defeated = Satan being cast into hell
Seems every movie in the sci-fi or drama genre has this exact same story line, kind of makes you wonder.
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Post by X factor on Oct 25, 2015 4:22:05 GMT -5
Wish they would take the 'soft corn dizzy' element of females out of horror moviesI'm not really sure what value element most females add to horror movies for purists, other than pure annoyance. Females are always cast in a way that appeals to the 1930's King Kong model.  At least in Western films, the 'white woman' is always held up as being the 'victim' of some darker sinister beast, either in color or nature. And the woman is always portrayed as some ding bat who loves to scream at first sign of trouble or grizzly discovery. Like soft corn or something or what I call 'porror'. It's like there's a sadistic Ted Bundy inside every 'white' male writer or producer who gets off, or can't get scared, unless the victim is the center of his soxual fantasy. It's corn and horror combind = Porror. Every horror film follows the exact same pattern. But as a horror movie purest I think many movies would be a lot better if they deleted the whole female character part, deleted the annoying as hell screams, and irrational behavior of female characters. And always the subtle or not so subtle suggestions of 'lust'. It spills over into society even, this idea that only white women characters are pure enough to contrast with monsters. So everyone else is the predator, it spills over into police departments, court rooms, and everywhere else. If I ever created a horror film, every female character would be bland and ugly, like real life, so as to not take away from theme of movie. And all of my characters would be equally victimized, not just the dizzy white blondes. I often hear the 'right' say how victimhood gives ya status in the political world, well it's been like that in cinema forever for the Anglo white woman.  So very annoying. You don't see males screaming when confronted with scary situations... And leave out the freagin screams!!
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Post by X factor on Dec 4, 2015 1:54:15 GMT -5
Broke back Mountain
Broke back Mountain, gross, watching it now, but about to turn channel after I write this.
I don't see how this movie ever won all those awards back when it came out.
Not cause the characters are suppose to be gay, but just cause pace of movie sucks.
And filled with a bunch of back wood, thick necked, unattractive extras.
The movie totally bores me, annoys me, and to me doesn't reflect anything gay.
Seems it was written by a straight person who thinks he knows what gay people struggle with.
The movie sucks, I can't stand it, it doesn't 'talk' to me at all..
Like this kiss scene I'm watching as I guess cowboy who eventually opens up to his gay side, makes uncomfortable s-x with his wife.
The characters are boring, look boring, movie feels stiff.
Gay and cowboys just don't go together very well.
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Post by X factor on Jan 10, 2016 1:09:26 GMT -5
The new Mad Max remake Mad Max 'Fury road'...the newest Mad Max rendition I guess...watching it now and it sucks. Like all classic male driven movies from the past, they always seem to re do them in a female sox sleaze dominated fashion. In other words all the new movies are Matriarchal in nature, where the female dominates the screen, the theme, and the male or males are just hapless follow alongs. I hate new movies when comparing them to the originals. These new style directors just throw a bunch of untalented females in these roles, make them run round claddly dressed, half naked, as if that will make up for bad script and performance. These new movies suck, and only try to appeal to lust (assumed lust)...and it's an insult that they would think movie goers familiar with past Mad Max films would go for this slop. The older Mad Max movies were male driven, they did not attempt to exploit women on film, the older films better depicted how real life would be, I mean just look at the middle east those desert places over there, you don't see females dominating the terrain. Females only rule in the West where you have law and order, in lands where law and order don't exist, it reverts back to the strongest survive, male dominated societies that are ruthless. I go by real life, and in real life women don't protect me at all, never have never will, men do. In real life women aren't tough, love to accuse, love to scream over nothing and lie on others. So when they fictitiously show these warrior women in these movies it just wreaks of fakeness to me, total fiction. (just turned channel I'm so disqusted by the scenes) Males are being over ridden by women in all movies now, where the females needs, ways, always has to override male characters where the male characters artifisially suppressed now to simply obey the whim of the woman. As such male characters in Hollywood have become far less interesting, and instead replaced by female, who's only real appeal to audience is soxual. I'll take the old Mad Max Mel Gibson series of movies any day over this new stuff, back when males were allowed to be males, both young and old. 
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Post by X factor on Jan 31, 2016 11:54:36 GMT -5
Unfriended This is categorized as a scary movie, I just chanced upon it, and what made me continue watching before I knew it was suppose to be scary was all the googaly online button sounds. There's something hypnotizing about hearing the 'click' sounds and button sounds of watching other people on the net. This was a decent movie, in as far as horror goes. It's so hard to do unique movies anymore, but this one was done fairly well, and definitely aimed at todays social media generation by going right at the heart of their fears. The movie flowed, and seemed very spontaneous, not sure how you direct a movie like this, and that's why I give it cred, cause the movie played out naturally, and seemed to be no lines the performers read, a lot of improve seemed involved in this movie. I give this horror movie a thumbs up. I think it's about a year old though, watched it on HBO.
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Post by X factor on May 28, 2016 19:03:45 GMT -5
Carrie Carrie is one of the few older horror movies that just seems to get more horrifying each time you watch it. The theme that is, the theme seems to live on, play out to one degree or another even real time with people we know or observe in the media or headlines. As usual the remake sucked. Today's producers, directors, totally miss the mark, and simply try to make up the lack of script with 'sox' appeal and loud music or 'gotcha' sound moments. What worked about the old Carrie movie is that they just used ordinary looking performers. Todays casting producers don't know how to do that anymore, instead they pick victims that look like models. Well in real life rarely do every day victims look like perfect models. Todays casting producers go for lust over substance. And I despise them for that. The classic writers knew better than to do that. In the original Carrie, Sissy Spacek looked totally ordinary, like the girl you'd go to school with, like the typical nerdy girl other girls in high school would pick on, that's what made the movie work so well, cause it was so believable. The blood, shower scenes, crazy religious mother scenes, even by todays standards it's just disturbing. No over the top gimmicks needed either, just the uglier side of human behavior. Watching now and just wanted to jot down a few thoughts.
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Post by X factor on Jun 2, 2016 20:19:59 GMT -5
The following is a dumb meaningless post...but it's about why I still like horror movies.
I don't know, maybe cause in the end all of our own lives are basically 'horror' and or will end in horror.
And maybe watching horror movies softens that reality.
I don't know.
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Post by X factor on Jun 11, 2016 16:49:23 GMT -5
Watching 'The Devils Advocate' Watching the devils advocate right now...sometimes I feel like if I submitted to 'evil' that my life would greatly improve... Following 'good' in my life, just seems to get you laughed at, mocked and rejected... Footnote Donald Trump has name drop cameo in this movie in scene where wife and husband attend first party in apartment.
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Post by X factor on Jun 17, 2016 20:48:09 GMT -5
Black Hawk Down Black Hawk Down, one of the many smaller regional conflict type skirmishes troops got caught up in pre 9/11. This movie came before many, and after others, but one thing for sure, it really demonstrates how bloody war is, and how hero's get plowed down to by bullets. Flesh, no matter how brave one is, is no match against shrapnel or lead, or fire. This movie is based on true life events, and occurred before the whole 'Terror network' exists as we know it today, back when smaller regional Islamic warlord types ruled the day, they didn't have same global Islamic ambitions as todays modern Islamic networks do. Most were more like 'pirates' and simply wanted regional power and control over own territory.  Individually maybe not a threat, but they had the power of 'numbers'...I don't care who or what force you are, when you have 1000's of armed to the teeth 'stoned' 3rd world fighters running at you, it's like a wall of bullets. And that's what the movie 'Black Hawk Down' is about, incredible any of the servicemen survived at all. If not for superior equipment and communications, doubt they would have. To this day still not sure who armed those Somalies to the teeth like that, the Russians? Some day maybe the story will be told from their side, as they took like 1000's of times more casualties than the American forces did. Many of the Somalies untrained and just blindly firing weapons in direction of U.S. forces while doped up on kanga weed or some cocaine like substance which made them feel invincible. I give this movie a A+ for some reason, just cause I know it was real...and went far and beyond to depict the horrors of 3rd world conflicts before it was popular to do so. It's a forgotten conflict, but not here in the Zone.
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Post by X factor on Aug 7, 2016 19:08:45 GMT -5
Hanncock, the hero we all would be if had superpowers, clumsy and imperfect Watching this movie now, by random selection. But the older movie gets, the more I kind of like it, even though when released didn't get the best reviews. A imperfect, alcoholic being with super human strength who happens to be on the side of good. This character deals with same issues we all do, loneliness, chemical addiction, high expectations by society or others, all the while trying to be a superhero to others. It's a movie worth seeing again if missed first time around during original release. 'Getting' a movie is often about 'timing', where you're at in life at moment of viewing.
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Post by X factor on Feb 1, 2017 20:40:15 GMT -5
Empty Rooms 'B horror' Empty Rooms, is a 'B' horror low budget type horror or scary movie, but worth mentioning. I purchased it in one of the horror bundle DVD packages. It's one of those 'B' horror type movies that within seconds, minutes of watching you want to eject from DVD player and get on with life. But, But, I would not bother bringing it up here if not for that extra something this particular film delivers, but only if willing to sit through first 15 minutes of it. I won't give anything away but will say it's 'different', and has a few surprises that might even make you jump. It's one of those films that if only maybe had slightly different director, who knows. I mean with proper editing, deletion of dud scenes, and more scary slant offered to others, this film could of easily been a 'A' horror movie, but it is what it is. And for being a 'B' type of low budget horror movie, it will still shock you at times more so than even a few supposed 'A' list horror movies of today. If bored, like horror, and have nothing better to do on a Saturday night, give this movie a try.
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Post by X factor on Jun 11, 2017 20:21:33 GMT -5
Dead Presidents
One of the most under rated Vietnam related era movies ever...
Some things never change though, in that people still desperate...whether Vietnam or Afgan or Iraq vets returning to nothing...
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Post by X factor on Nov 16, 2017 21:26:43 GMT -5
Wish they would take the 'soft corn dizzy' element of females out of horror moviesI'm not really sure what value element most females add to horror movies for purists, other than pure annoyance. Females are always cast in a way that appeals to the 1930's King Kong model. At least in Western films, the 'white woman' is always held up as being the 'victim' of some darker sinister beast, either in color or nature. And the woman is always portrayed as some ding bat who loves to scream at first sign of trouble or grizzly discovery. Like soft corn or something or what I call 'porror'. It's like there's a sadistic Ted Bundy inside every 'white' male writer or producer who gets off, or can't get scared, unless the victim is the center of his soxual fantasy. It's corn and horror combind = Porror. Every horror film follows the exact same pattern. But as a horror movie purest I think many movies would be a lot better if they deleted the whole female character part, deleted the annoying as hell screams, and irrational behavior of female characters. And always the subtle or not so subtle suggestions of 'lust'. It spills over into society even, this idea that only white women characters are pure enough to contrast with monsters. So everyone else is the predator, it spills over into police departments, court rooms, and everywhere else. If I ever created a horror film, every female character would be bland and ugly, like real life, so as to not take away from theme of movie. And all of my characters would be equally victimized, not just the dizzy white blondes. I often hear the 'right' say how victimhood gives ya status in the political world, well it's been like that in cinema forever for the Anglo white woman. So very annoying. You don't see males screaming when confronted with scary situations... And leave out the freagin screams!! To the keen, this now makes so very much sense, as in always wondered why in seems like 99% horror movies, their always centered around 'white women'...and who lusts after 'white women' the most?...white men, who are the majority of script writers in Hollywood...whom simply project their dark lust of what they wish they could do to 'white women' into this sick movie plots, such as 'SAW', and other type slasher movies. Then with recent 'casting couch' exploitation of women, even makes more sense. |
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Post by X factor on Jan 20, 2019 18:22:40 GMT -5
The Windmill' horror
For some reason I find myself attracted to the movie 'The Windmill' over and over again, well maybe about 3-4 times now.
Most watched horror movie by me is 'Drag me to Hell'. 20 + times.
By now, you should know I'm very picky when it comes to horror movies.
Most I turn off in less than 5 minutes cause so predictable and simply turn into 'porror'.
What I like about 'The Windmill' is that all people are equally brutalized by 'ugly force', the young, old, ugly and cute, which to me better reflects real life.
It's just one of those movies could see self injected into.
I mean not bad people, just average people who have bad luck, like the most of us, those are the types of scary movies I can relate to the most, is when the victims are just average.
More comments on this movie in the future, and may create section on horror movies I watch over and over again, and why.
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