The Last Movie You Watched

[Minimalist]

Christianity viewed very positively, so you guys might not like it.

You mean like the fine xtians who called him "nigger?" Those "positive" examples?

[Tonus]

Sinister: A pretty creepy horror film that provides a mix of standard horror tropes (in such a blatant manner that if you've seen enough horror films, you can predict a good half-dozen of the "scares") with some genuinely well-presented scenes. At least one of the standard cliche horror-movie roles is nicely turned on its head, and when the script reveals the truth of what the protagonist is facing, it is done in a pretty clever manner. Unfortunately, that reveal also telegraphs the ending, but it comes only a few minutes before the end, and the end is good enough that I don't think it's entirely ruined. The lame and gratuitous attempt at a cheap scare at the very end is so disappointing that I'm doing you a favor by warning you that it's coming. Recommended because the story and the character portrayals are much more solid that you usually get with this kind of film.

[Minimalist]

Idiocracy.

A very strange little movie but one which makes some very good points about the way society is going.

[Anomalocaris]

Downloaded and watched Prometheus. It was a sadly inept effort at performing triage on the much debased alien franchise.

[Tonus]

V/H/S: I'm of mixed and mixed feelings about this one.

Good: Decent horror stories, good twists, a bit of gore (but not too much). A couple of clever turns on the "found footage" theme that turn a plot hole into a plot twist.

Bad: One of the clever turns gets used twice, a sign that maybe the anthology featured one story too many.

Ugly: Look, we get it. Part of the appeal of the "found footage" genre is the unstable camera work. The shaking, the juddering, the sudden blur-and-refocus when the camera is violently turned in one direction or other, the sudden sense of imbalance and panic when all you see is flashes and zig-zags and hear people screaming and... I think you get the point. This movie features WAYYY too much of all of those, and after a while you wish those stupid fuckheads would have learned to use a goddamn gyroscope or something. After a while, the whole "handheld camera" thing is no longer a feature; it's a migraine-and-seizure-inducing bug. Stop fucking doing it, assholes.

Yeah, I got a bit annoyed at that.

[Walking Void]

I rewatched The Grudge, but not the Japanese version. I might watch similar horror movies later that I saw in previews before the movie started.

[Neo-Scholastic]

2 Guns - I thought the premise of two undercover agents that did not realize the other was also under cover was pretty clever. The dialog was witty and the acting superior.

[Faith No More]

The made for HBO movie Clear History with Larry David. It was quite funny and full of quintessential Larry David style humor.

[Jackalope]

Not a movie, but I'm watching season 2 of "Game of Thrones". Yeah, I got sucked into it.

[Captain Colostomy]

"The World's Fastest Indian", with Anthony Hopkins as Burt Monro. My pop's a huge fanboy of Bonneville's history, so I figured I'd watch it. Actually a good flick.