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(Jul. 25, 2011  12:42 PM)Dude Wrote: [ -> ]I saw Insidious, last night.

I was actually kinda pleasantly surprised. It has a lot of stereotypes, but they usually exploit them well (For example, there's an old spirit-seeing lady, but she's not a cryptic, half-menacing, riddle-speaking old bat, she's a pretty nice lady) I counted about 20 jump-scares, but the scare level was actually decent and they weren't just something random jumping in your face. Characters are mostly unlikeable and cliché (Crazy mother worried about her son, skeptic father who doesn't believe in ghosts, baby who starts crying at the worst times possible etc.) but its still okay, especially to poke fun at it.

I saw this in May and this movie still haunts me every night. I'm irrevocably scarred by this.

(Aug. 01, 2011  1:09 AM)♥ Wrote: [ -> ]I saw this in May and this movie still haunts me every night. I'm irrevocably scared by this.

Are you serious? '_'

I mean, don't get me wrong, the scare level is decent (A hell of a lot better than most recent horror movies) but not...trauma scary XD

Serious. The latter part of the film was far less scary because it was so supernatural, but the entire premise that it wasn't a haunted house (which would have been a cliche beyond measure) but instead a relatively normal family and people, really got to me. I rarely look into mirrors when I'm alone and dislike closing my eyes even now. The week after I saw this was pretty much hell, and I really don't know why it's made such a huge impact; maybe I'm just a huge wimp, haha.

The absolute scariest part for me was

Ah, yeah, that was a great part XD

That was one of the movie's strength. Scaring us when we weren't expecting it XD

But I was more terrified by the Ring. I dunno, maybe it's because I was younger when watching it

^ I think the creepiest part of the movie not the scariest, but creepiest was when the father's mom showed him pictures when he was a kid and the old lady in the picture got closer and closer. Creepy, this movie made me paranoid for a week though.

I saw a few movies recently:

Captain America - Amazing. I know a slight amount about Captain America so when I saw the shield at the start I could pretty much predict the whole plot. I saw it in incredibly expensive 3D cause the 2D showings were less frequent.

The resident - Probably the worst horror movie ever, and i've seen a lot of bad horror movies... The protagonist was really stupid and all the characters were just the same. I mean she divorces this guy after she cheats on him, finds an apartment cheap which is in a building owned by a stalker and then moves in. She doesn't know obviously. Then after attempting a romance with the stalker she breaks it off then goes back to her ex husband. Who cheated on her! Anyway i'm not suprised it didn't get good reviews. Apart from that it was so boring and predictable.

Babysitter wanted - Seemingly normal movie but has an interesting twist. Thought it was pretty good. She babysits kid then guy attacks them.

Last movie I saw as of late was Metal Fight Beyblade VS Sun: Sol Blaze, the Scorching-hot Invader!, on Youtube. Such awesome credits music also used for one of the openings of Metal Fight Beyblade Explosion!

Just came back from a screening of Rise of the Planet of the Apes, no thanks. You might have fun if you can suspend your belief, and turn your brain off, but otherwise you might get annoyed at some things. I was particularly ticked off at things these apes knew that they shouldn't, and weird writing Sigh, sometimes I just got to tell myself it's a movie... If you can get past those types of things, I guess you'll find an enjoyable, but insanely ridiculous movie. I couldn't ignore those things today, so it's a 4/10. I'd like to note that my theatre laughed at a variety of scenes that happened in this film, and I don't mean the cute, or the funny.

I will say this though, the film perfectly sets up Planet of the Apes, Though I have to ask, Also the neighbour

Well, I also just came back from watching Rise of Planet of the Apes and I guess I must have that ability to turn my brain off, because I seriously enjoyed it XD

Isn't that weird, me, the guy who's always bitching the first chance he gets, I really liked the movie XD Okay, I will admit that all of To's complaints are absolutely true, but I'll try my best to explain some of them.

-Caesar was incredibly intelligent, so he had probably heard Franco's character talk about the effect of what was in the canisters (As we've seen, he likes to talk to himself a lot)

-As for why the hell Franco kept those at home, I can only speculate. Maybe he was a mess after losing two people (The term 'people' is used loosely) he loved at once and because of something he created. Maybe he was planning on doing more illegal testing on people. I dunno.

-Tom Felton tried to get Caesar back in his cage with the tazer because he's an ego-swollen kid that needed to prove something to himself. He wanted to look like a tough guy and convince himself that he was at least better than a monkey. I'm fairly sure a lot of people his age would have done the same thing.

-I have no bloody idea how he got out of his cage. Maybe the monkeys didn't tie him up well enough, but, again this is just speculation.

-Optimus Primal (Wasn't he just awesome?) might actually have seen a car accident, before. They established that some monkeys have been in the field of testing for a really long time and maybe the big gorilla had also been tested on. Maybe he was riding in a transportation truck and saw a car accident similar to that one through his little window. Maybe he thought the car was an animal and, after all, if you throw something heavy on a living thing, it'll hurt it.

-I don't know, for the 3 employees for the Ape Prison. Budget Cuts? Then again, how many people could you possibly need working there, when the employees basically never come in contact with the monkeys?

So yeah, the movie had undeniable flaws, but I still really liked it. There was a very pleasant camaraderie between the apes, the special effects were very convincing (Especially since all the apes were pretty much CGI) and nearly all of the characters were enjoyable. Unlike To, I'd recommend it.

Though I totally respect To's opinion, much like I'm sure he respects mine :p

Caesar was already in ape prison before Franco started developing the gas. It's impossible for him to know of it.

But he understood the human language (As demonstrated many times) so Franco probably explained to him what the intelligence serum was at the same time as he explained his origins (Y'know, your mom was a test monkey, she's dead and so on)

EDIT: Re-reading myself, I think I'm not very clear. What I meant is that Franco probably told him the name of the intelligence serum (Alz...Uhhh...Something like that) and Caesar remembered it. When he found the canisters in his fridge (Though one could wonder why the first place he would look for sciency stuff is his fridge) and lifted the canister, he realized that whatever was in it was not in a liquid form, so must've assumed it to be a gaz.

Harry Potter Movie 7 part 2
I highly recommend this movie it was incredible and pretty much stuck to the book

Haha ,watched two movies,
Yesterday:-Transformers Dark of The Moon:-Its absolutely awesome!Sentinel Prime has a double sword.Although I was a bit sad Ironhide died.Same as Sentinel ,the blue sports car Transformer,and Brains with his friend.I figured that there's a new Transformer Dino.Every year,some Transformer died.
Last week:-Captain America
Quite funny.I liked the part when Steve try to save Bucky then he said:-I thought you were dead,Bucky,I thought you were smaller.I can't beleive the cap slept for 70 years!

(Aug. 06, 2011  1:04 PM)Dude Wrote: [ -> ]But he understood the human language (As demonstrated many times) so Franco probably explained to him what the intelligence serum was at the same time as he explained his origins (Y'know, your mom was a test monkey, she's dead and so on)

EDIT: Re-reading myself, I think I'm not very clear. What I meant is that Franco probably told him the name of the intelligence serum (Alz...Uhhh...Something like that) and Caesar remembered it. When he found the canisters in his fridge (Though one could wonder why the first place he would look for sciency stuff is his fridge) and lifted the canister, he realized that whatever was in it was not in a liquid form, so must've assumed it to be a gaz.

Okay, but the gas was under a slightly different code name than the syringe based formula. How does Caesar know that formula works for apes, and isn't a human specific version? He knows Franco was only doing experiments on chimps to eventually go on to humans. It was years after the syringe based formula that Caesar took those canisters, it likely could have been human-based by then.

Also, this brings up another point of contention for me in this movie. Caesar throws the canisters all willy nilly, yet neither Felton, nor the other dude ever notice them, but the moment Franco steps in he does. I realize Franco would be more aware of what those are, but surely Felton and the other dude would call into question why these canisters from a pharmaceutical company are in their ape prison (which PETA would have shut down in a second). They have security cameras in that hallway, if they noticed those canisters, and reviewed the tape they would have known what Caesar had done, and the movie would've ended with them all being put to sleep.

You mentioned how you liked the characters, but I find it hilarious we can only remember the name of one of them, hahaha. Though, I came up with the name Optimus Primal for the Gorilla, and Dr. Zaius for the Orangutan.

Also, I actually laughed at the sequence when Caesar rides the horse. It's such a bullcarp sequence since there's nothing in the film anywhere that says he can do that, and like Caesar "No", it's not possible his brain allowed him to do that. It takes experience to ride a horse you never seen before, and Caesar does it like it's nothing.

I'm not one to remember character names, actually. For example, as much as I loved Lincoln's Lawyer, I can't even remember the name of the main character XD I probably would have forgotten Batman's real name, if I wasn't a small-time comic book geek.

But, anyway, Caesar saw one of the cops riding the horse and that's exactly the point: They learn extremely fast and are very, very intelligent. I wouldn't have been surprised to see them pick up the guns and use them like pros. That's what the gaz does!

And I'm surprised you question why Felton and the other dude didn't notice the canisters. Wasn't it made painfully obvious that all the employees of the ape prison are a bunch of lazy idiots, especially the Felton character? They didn't notice the canisters because they didn't care about the damn monkeys. They just assumed the apes were too dumb to do anything bad.

That's pretty much the only reason why the apes are so ridiculously victorious, by the end: The humans were unsuspecting. They didn't think the apes could escape their prisons. They didn't think they could understand how to use weapons (Would they only be tazers) They didn't think they could make their way under and over the bridge, rather than just crossing it, which was the police's ultimate downfall.

I actually found Caesar saying "NO!" to be one of the better scene. He's the first ape ever to clearly refuse something. It shows how intelligent they've gotten. Normally, an apes' brain couldn't do it, true, but that's exactly the point: The Alz-something-something changed them, it made them better.

Level of intelligence has nothing to do with riding a horse, but experience does. It's like skating, you can be smart, and still not know how to skate, and looking at other people do it won't help you. It's just a carp sequence.

As for Felton and the other dude, they at least roam the hallways to feed the apes, which would allow them to see said canisters hiding right out in the public.

True enough :p

So yeah, the movie certainly had flaws, but I still liked it. No movie is perfect, though, I'm sure you can agree to that.

On another subject, I saw REC 2.

What is REC 1, you might ask? It's a Spanish movie that the movie 'Quarantine' based itself on. It,s basically about a group of people trapped in a building that's infected with the zombie rage virus (It's one of those super fast insane zombies kinda thing, too) It wasn't great, but it was a decent zombie rent. The second one, though, isn't very good. It actually really sucks. They say that the zombie virus is actually devilish possessions.

Need I say more? That's like saying the Holocaust was actually C'thulu possessing Hitler to do all those horrors.

(Aug. 07, 2011  12:49 AM)To Wrote: [ -> ]Level of intelligence has nothing to do with riding a horse, but experience does. It's like skating, you can be smart, and still not know how to skate, and looking at other people do it won't help you. It's just a carp sequence.

As for Felton and the other dude, they at least roam the hallways to feed the apes, which would allow them to see said canisters hiding right out in the public.

Hthe scene is semi plausible. It is established Caesar doesnt smell like an ape, he verry possible smells human. On top of that, he wasn't really riding the horse, he layed on it's back, semi sat up, and then jumped off, the horse ran in a straight line, if he attempted to control it, the horse would have veered side to side. He didn't even have his hands on the reigns.(I have horse riding experience, Police horses are trained to be extremely docile to strangers, this prevents injury to citizens. The reason horses are used is to cut through traffic easily and get a higher vantage point in crouds, if the horse gets spooked that results in a bad day for everyone.)

The biggest issue it the bridge scene, you are both Canadians so you probably don't know this, but San Francisco PD doesn't have jurisdiction over the bridge, especially the side they blockaded with the overturned bus. That is a different county entirely. The issue is compounded due to the fact that Caesar and the apes would have crossed the bridge before the horses arrived. This is because the route required to get the horses in the trailers to the bridge it excessive and long without traffic. My father was once a police officer in one of the nearby cities and felt the need to explain it to me in detail. Most interestingly, animals are naturally stealthy and over cautious, so they would have opted to cross below the bridge to avoid cars instinctively. I chose to just accept the movie for the fun ride t was. I recommend it, overall it was a well done film. The scarred ape was my favorite afte Caesar. He was the Vegeta to Caesar's Goku..

The last movie i watched is called' The Outsiders'. Its from the olden days but i personally find it funny. It is based of the novel.

The last movie I watched is Shrek forever after it's every sad and good also way better than Shrek the 3rd.

Last movie I watched was Harry potter the it's finally over.

I'm not really a fan of Harry potter, but I didn't mind this one. I don't really have much to say, I wasn't excited going in, and saw what I expected.

2 weeks ago I watched the movie 127 hours. It's the one that is basically a reenactment of this guy that got his hand stuck under a boulder and was stuck there for 127 hours. True story, and it was acted very well. James Franco did a good job. Even though the whole movie was basically watching this dude stuck under a rock, it wasnt boring at all at any times. This was probably my favorite movie in a while other than that train one which I can't even remember the name. Unstoppable, I think...?

127 hours... That was simply great. I also read he book first, and I must say, that dude had some balls. I would NEVER have the guts to cut off my arm, it'd hurt WAY too much. The book itself is called "Between a Rock and a Hard Place" I think.

(Aug. 10, 2011  2:44 AM)Temporal Wrote: [ -> ]127 hours... That was simply great. I also read he book first, and I must say, that dude had some balls. I would NEVER have the guts to cut off my arm, it'd hurt WAY too much. The book itself is called "Between a Rock and a Hard Place" I think.

Has he ever released the actual videos he recorded on the Internet?

His family may have, but I doubt it. He sent them to his family as a goodbye since he thought he was going to die for about two days. The human will to survive never ceases to amaze me. Though he does describe what goes down VERY well in the book, down to how long he had to leave his urine to heat up so it wouldn't be too thick when he drank it. Very descriptive book, and the movie did not disappoint.

Saw Paul, yesterday. It's by the same guys who did Shawn of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, which were two decently enjoyable movies, so I decided to check it out.

And, much like the other two mentionned movies, it's decently enjoyable. It's horribly predictable, but reasonnably funny and makes for a pretty good rent. Five bucks for that is pretty much all I'll spend. I find it fun that they actually go to Comic-Con at the beginning of the movie and that it actually looks like a convention XD