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Raw Meat is great. It's part of the very underrated "subway cannibal" genre. :p

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Yeah it was a really solid little flick, suprisingly gory for 1972 as well. I really dug the slow pan around the "Man's" lair and Donald Pleasance's character, always being sarcastic and yelling about tea.

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Yeah it was a really solid little flick, suprisingly gory for 1972 as well. I really dug the slow pan around the "Man's" lair and Donald Pleasance's character, always being sarcastic and yelling about tea.

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Donald Pleasance was one of those actors that instantly made a movie better.

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Pirates of the Caribbean- On Stranger Tides: Certainly the best Pirates since the original. Maybe even the best of the entire series. I liked the return to a simpler, standalone story as opposed to the overbloated and complicated epic that was the last two sequels. Depp's Jack Sparrow is still as fun as ever, and the action scenes and visuals are well done, though not quite as "strange" as one would hope given the title. The script had some superfluous elements that should have been excised, however. The pacing could have been better. Even though this was the shortest Pirates, it still felt as long as the others. Nevertheless, it certainly isn't as bad as the critics make it out to be. 7/10.

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I agree with this on all points but I'd give it an 8/10. I also saw The Hangover part 2, they somehow managed to make an even better movie 10/10.

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I also saw The Hangover part 2, they somehow managed to make an even better movie 10/10.

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I strongly disagree with you on The Hangover II. I saw it yesterday and while I did enjoy it and I did laugh quite a bit, it was essentially just a carbon copy of the first. It was quite literally more of the same. It was as if they used the same outline as the first movie and just wrote new jokes. Ultimately I thought it was good but nowhere near as good as the original. I'd give it a 7/10. And a good amount of that ranking is because of the chemistry between Ed Helms, Bradley Cooper and Zach Galifianakis.

I did not care for Hangover 2. I'd give it a 6.

I watched Thor a few days ago. It was very meh.

The beginning made me think about The Lord of the Rings, then he got banished to earth (spoiler?). At first, I thought it was going to go straight downhill with him adjusting to Earthling lifestyle, but then finally the plot started moving... fairly slowly. Near the end, there were some clever ideas, but I did see a huge hole in the plot.

Below is said hole which includes spoilers.

(When Thor's adoptive brother lets the ice giants into Valhalla, he says to the gatekeeper that there are other ways of getting in besides the main gate. But when Thor tries to break the bridge, he is told that he would not be able to see his lover ever again, when we all know damn well that his brother found other ways.)

/Spoiler

All together though, it's just your average super hero flick. Which I've never liked. I came to the movie for the popcorn and pop, wishing I'd brought my ID so I could watch The Hangover 2 with my friends instead of being the odd one out.

6/10

Watched Psycho II last night. Now, I used to love this movie back when I was 10 or whatever (which was incidentally the last time I watched it) but after watching last night, I found they totally ruined the image, the shock, and ultimately the legacy of Hitch****'s classic. I actually kinda hate it now. when I was 10 I couldn't appreciate the original as much as I should (funny, since I watched B/W back then and liked them, but found Psycho boring when I was 10), but I certainly do now.

Also watched Psycho III and Psycho IV back then and disliked them totally. And don't even get me started on that disgusting reshoot in '99. I'm just sticking with Hitch****'s flick. All the others blow.

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Watched Psycho II last night. Now, I used to love this movie back when I was 10 or whatever (which was incidentally the last time I watched it) but after watching last night, I found they totally ruined the image, the shock, and ultimately the legacy of Hitch****'s classic. I actually kinda hate it now. when I was 10 I couldn't appreciate the original as much as I should (funny, since I watched B/W back then and liked them, but found Psycho boring when I was 10), but I certainly do now.

Also watched Psycho III and Psycho IV back then and disliked them totally. And don't even get me started on that disgusting reshoot in '99. I'm just sticking with Hitch****'s flick. All the others blow.

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As it's own film Psycho II isn't bad. No, it's no where near up to par with the original. But it is entertaining and that's ultimatly the goal, so I'd say it's successful.

The last movies I watched were Dr. Strangelove... Or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb and the Hangover Part II. Dr. Strangelove is hilarious. Definitely one of my favorite comedies. Them Ruskies are after our fluids!

The Hangover Part II was real funny too. I think it lived up to the first one, but I don't think they could do another sequel successfully.

Went to the drive-in to see a double-feature of Hangover Part II and Bridesmaids. I didn't have high hopes for Hangover 2, but it was the perfect little roundabout way to suggest Bridesmaids to my guy friends without looking like an utter f**. (Open gayitude notwithstanding.)

For all my lowered expectations, I'd be lying if I said Hangover 2 didn't at least give me a good time. I laughed, I had fun, I was on board with it for as long as the film ran. That said, I'm going to try my damnedest to forget it, because the first movie got by on being so utterly ridiculous—a perfect s***storm of things that could go wrong—to imagine an eerily parallel adventure taking place mere years (if that) afterwards to the same people just kinda subtracts from the lightning-in-a-bottle of the first. So I guess, don't say no to it if you're renting it/seeing it on the cheap, but I wouldn't recommend paying $12 or whatever cinemas charge these days. Unless you're well aware of what you're in for.

Are we supposed to grade the flick, too? Uhh... 6/10? That feels generous, but I had too much fun to feel good about a five.

Unfortunately, the friend I went with got food poisoning from whatever he had for dinner beforehand, and it started acting up mere minutes into Bridesmaids, and as much as I hate those people who fire up their engines and headlights and leave in the middle of shows, I hated the prospect of cleaning someone else's fecal matter out of my car seat more.

The fifteen minutes I saw was good, though! (Jill Clayburgh's character of Wiig's mother was gold - she's an AA member even though she's never had a drink in her life... but she's just sure she'd be an alcoholic if she ever started! It's difficult to write realistic dialogue where one character not just accidentally insults the bejeezus out of another, but does so as an ironic consequence of a botched attempt to be comforting. Delivered spot on. God rest that woman's soul.)

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The Hangover Part II was real funny too. I think it lived up to the first one, but I don't think they could do another sequel successfully.

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To quote Todd F***ing Phillips himself:

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Obviously we always envisioned it as a trilogy.

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(...Obviously.)

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Originally Posted by Todd F***ing Phillips Himself

The third would be very much a finale and an ending… I haven’t discussed it with these actors yet. [It would] not follow the same template, but is very much a new idea.

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