any zombie movies the last 10 years anyone can recommend?

something along the lines of
28 Weeks Later
28 Days Later
Dead Snow
Dawn of The Dead (remake)
Land of The Dead
Rec, Rec 2, Quarantine

man on fire
equilibrium
the departed
one flew over the cuckoos nest
expendables
goodfellas

Although a vampire, rather than zombie movie, I found 30 Days of Night to be fairly fun. I know I am in the minority on this, but it's got a pretty great performance by Danny Huston, and there are some cool scenes.

Star Wars: Attack of the Clones

Those characters may as well have been zombies.

just saw the french zombie flick La Horde (2010). Pretty good, basically a bunch of cops raid an apartment building to go after some criminals. amidst the adventure there's the zombie apocalypse. both sides have to unite to try and escape the building. pretty entertaining character interaction, as good zombie movies always have the true villains as the uninfected. 7.5/10

That sounds neat! I sometimes forget to look for good movies in the foreign market. I really should look there more often, especially when it seems like there are so many good foreign horror films.

Fido

I loved it, though the less time the vampires talked in their stupid vampire language, the better. That was kind of grating.

Zero to do with zombies though.

I'm Still Here confirmed 100% fake by Casey Affleck:

http://www.theboombox.com/2010/09/17...ntary-is-fake/

I am sort of sad now.

im not, who cares

Just saw Devil, not expecting much.

What I got was dumb, goofy, and lacking proper structure and style.

It was WAAAAY more entertaining than I thought it would be. I thoroughly enjoyed it, sort of like having energetic, drunken coital relations with someone beneath my high standards.

Anyway, I really enjoyed it.

By that, I mean, 'it was ******ed."

Just saw The Town this afternoon. Well directed by Affleck. It had a very nice pace to it and the last 20 mins were pretty intense.

Soooo looking forward to seeing The Town in a week. I'm avoiding the OOT thread to avoid spoilers. I have the book coming to my school library on Wednesday. Hopefully I can get it read by then.

want to second this, the action was pretty intense and i enjoyed it alot.

Just saw Gattaca for the first time, starring Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman and Jude Law.

It's a sci-fi film that keeps it reeled in and concentrating on the story but also drapes an unearthly canvas on the film by means of washed out cinematography ala Children of Men or Saving Private Ryan.

All three leading actors are those that I usually don't relate well too. My everlasting image of Ethan Hawke is that of his role in Reality Bites. I can't tell if Uma is a good actress or not as she always seems very robotic and androgynous to me.

This movie, however, lends well to the actors natural traits. Jude Law I think is exceptional and also keeps the role reeled in where he very easily could've fallen on the cliches of a morose drunk. Ethan Hawke doesn't give any of his quirky smirks that usually have me reaching for the remote. And Uma ... well, I don't know what to say about Uma other than she'd make a fantastic Pris if Blade Runner was ever remade.

I think the story falls apart a bit when moving from the second to third act, but things are kept moving along well enough to bring you to the ending without dwelling on its shortcomings for too long.

I give it a B+

That's basically the problem in a nutshell.

The chick stuck with the thankless part of playing Vasquez probably had a more or less career-destroying role, mouthing idiocies and not just cartoon but bad cartoon lines that must have made future directors and moneymen incapable of seeing her as a believable human being ever again. The only other movie I saw her in, she was a vampire.

I was astounded, frankly. WTF? I guess they thought it was a fun homage or something ... but really, it just came across like you say -- as lazy.

Not a lot. Some scenes worked on that a little, but by comparison, Alien was a magnificent scream of despair.

I did like the part where the machine guns up on automated stands were running out of bullets slowly as more aliens kept coming.

The Nostromo was certainly far more eerie. Even in the opening credits, with the slowly unfolding title letters and Jerry Goldsmith's music as it slowly drifts by in some kind of cosmic loneliness.

I was amazed how famous he became for just that couple of lines. I rolled my eyes when I first saw the flick. Now I laugh, but ... it's not totally in appreciation.

The sergeant was another cartoon and didn't say a thing I wouldn't expect a cartoon to say, or strike or time a pose, ditto. Vasquez, as mentioned, was horrible.

I love this guy. He did a good job in a film that didn't give him the beautifully closely observed moments that Holm repeatedly had in the original.

This was a good interchange. I thought the kid was a bit precious though. But there's one thing that annoyed the crap out of me, though it reveals a sort of genius, I guess. The kid's scream wasn't a scream. I mean, it was a musical note, played to evoke an emotion. A piercing, aurally unbearable note, though, and one ******y overused. I had to turn down my sound way too many times. The scream never varies in tone or emphasis in any way. However it got into a synthesizer, that's where it was issued from for the entire movie. An irritating combination of "sort of" clever and entirely lame. Overall, simply brutal on the ears and finally overworked to the point of being pedestrian.
That was an amazing aspect of Alien. Even the throw-away moments and encounters are filled with personality and evince well-developed and on-point acting. How the heck did that happen in a horror movie, so many times?

You paid more attention here than I did. You either had a sharper ear and eye, or I had already tuned out.

It's incredible how well the original holds up. The sequel was not Cameron's best. I loved Terminator 2, though, even with its occasional slack parts and non-revelations (the only future is what we make! OMG!!!). The first was a unique artistic moment, with Giger's enormous originality and creativity barreling over everyone with somehow Scott not only being able to channel it into something workable and mainstream, but while able to do more than saying, "Okay ... and then there's just this ...." And, fairly astonishingly for a horror film, having so many actors to help. I'll throw in great credit for the ship design, too, inside and out, and of course the fantastic score.

It's hard to touch something coming out of deep places in the psyche and touched by genius. The sequel was merely touched by James Cameron.

how you get your name in purple?

Yes, Devil was ******ed

Resident Evil: Afterlife was awful, too. I went in with low expectations, and I still felt disappointed. Just bad stuff.

about to watch now, thx for the recommendation, it got a 71% on rottentomatoes so i hope/assume its goot

By contradicting myself as many times as possible.

Meanwhile, re: Devil...

It was the most entertaining movie I have seen at the theater since Inception, but that's not saying much, considering I have seen The Other Guys, Date Night, Predators, and The Last Exorcism.

So, uh, yeah. We go to the movies to kill a little time sometimes. We just don't do it very well, really.

Did you like the others?

The first fell into that category of, "I'm just so happy they made it." It was serviceable. I felt the second was saved because of my nerdy fandom liking of Jill.

Third I thought was a mess. Fourth was on par with that.

It was just weird. Everything was either really fast action sequences (using slomo) or really slow and drawn out. There's a scene where they're swimming from A to B, and they show like 3 minutes of that with nothing happening. Just weird.

So uhhh. Sort of liked the first two. But the third did have Johnny Cage as a sniper.

I found the last two to benefit more from a second viewing. The first two now strike me as insufferably cheesy, whereas the last two are bad but serviceable. Heh I read a great writeup about them already planning another sequel that started with:

"Paul 'What Script' Anderson and Milla 'Will **** for Work' already planning sequel..."

Finally watched Wall Street on Netflix Watch Instantly. It was alright, but I was expecting so much more from the way I had heard it being hyped. Maybe it's just one of those movies that seem more meaningful when it was originally released and becomes less and less as the years go by. Or maybe I have just seen too many bad rip-offs of Wall Street's concept/premise that the original seems so underwhelming, I dunno. My main problem was that what was going to happen to Bud Fox was entirely transparent from the very beginning. I wasn't really surprised by anything that happened so it quickly lost interest/engagement for me -- I started doing something else in the middle of it. Although I do feel that it was an excellently cast movie - Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Martin Sheen were all really good.

Is Wall Street generally considered that good of a movie? I'm so confused.