Sammo21 (Level 9)

This website put up a collection of the worst reviews of great movies.  Really good read, especially for the Screened crowd.  Here are a couple of my favorites:  
 
http://www.trutv.com/dumb_as_a_blog/gallery/dumbest-reviews-of-classic-movies.all.html?link=DCF  
  
The Shining 
"If you go to this adaptation of Stephen King's novel expecting to see a horror movie, you'll be disappointed. "...the setting is promising enough - an empty, isolated hotel in dead-of-winter Colorado - but Kubrick makes it warm, well-lit and devoid of threat."- Time Out London Film Guide, 1980  
 
Ghostbusters (still my favorite movie of all time) 
"Mr. Murray would be even more welcome if his talents were used in the service of something genuinely witty and coherent, rather than as an end in themselves."- Janet Maslin, New York Times, June 8, 1984  
 
Makes you wonder if some critics don't just go to sleep during their screening.  I read something one time about a movie Roger Ebert reviewed where someone in the theater claimed he was sleeping most of the movie.  Pretty funny.  

Question!
 
I'm sure something like this has been mentioned before, but have you guys seen the original Rec and Rec2 and if so do you agree the scenes with the possessed girl are some of the most frightening on film?  Something about the movement, the looks, sounds, and everything just really unnerve me and I typically watch ANY horror movie for just either a laugh or general entertainment purposes as I haven't seen anything that really frightens me.

@Greenshoes:   For the Hellboy 2 movie there was some old folklore style stuff setup but mostly in a viral sense and not in the main movie.

So, I finally was able to watch Rec2 today.  Not the scariest movie I have ever seen, but damn does that possessed girl from the first movie still creep me the freak out!  So apparently in this film, and I don't remember this from the first,

@organicalistic_: Ghostbusters is my all time favorite movie, but I remember watching it again when I was like...14 or 15 after not seeing it for so many years and then suddenly noticing/catching all of the innuendo and talk I never would have picked up on, or cared about,  as a kid.

So, I was running through Netflix last night with the wife when she spotted Poltergeist.  She asked me what that movie was and I was shocked she'd never seen it before so we loaded it up and sat back to watch the movie.  The last time I had seen this picture was probably....15 years ago...or more.  Anyway, near the beginning of the movie, right before the "counting the time between lightning and thunder" scene, the husband and wife are laying on the bed talking and whatever.  Craig T. Nelson is totally rolling a stash of joints and the mom is just hanging back smoking a jay.  Now, I am no prude or anything but I was shocked I never noticed this or even remembered it.  
 
Anything like this ever happen to you guys?  When you go back and watch a movie from your past and you spot something like that you never noticed before?

Let's be honest here...even if it doesn't make sense for a movie to make a sequel, when one makes the money PA/PA2 has then it will happen.  So obviously at the end of PA2.... 
 

I enjoyed the movies, but I think they lend themselves better to the setting of a theatre than a a living room...even with surround sound I think.  The booms, tiny noises, etc all make up for a better experience of a huge screen and loud speakers. 
 
Also, nice job picking up on the commercial.  

Sounds like this movie is just about boners to me... 
 
But seriously, I am excited.  Based off of the past 2 Nolan-Batman joints I can only have high hopes.  While they aren't great Batman comic book movies (which we've not once had, really) it is a great Batman movie in general.  I am interested to see if we get a new Tumbler/Batmobile or if they stick with the same design.  Is it just me, or a movie in the vein of "Dark Knight Returns" fit kind of well into this setting...just less goofy.

@lazyturtle: : /  it's an origin story.  The bookends for the movie are in the modern day and then it leads into the Avengers, which is modern day.  Also, Chris Evans has signed on for 6 full movies, not including cameos, so the sequels are in modern day.   
 
I also completely disagree with you.  The story of Captain America is a man displaced out of time, so I don't see the point of "poof" he's in modern time.

Added photos from the EW no doubt.  Seems he will originally start off, as reported quite some time ago, as more of a USO entertainer and mascot who then transforms into the fighting American symbol.  I am pretty geeked he has the original shield at the beginning.  This movie is looking better and better.  I can't wait for a teaser... 
 
http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/109625-more-captain-america-photos

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Here is the first official reveal of what Chris Evans will look like as Captain America.  Of course, he doesn't have the mask/helmet on...but who cares?  I think this looks pretty awesome, and as a Captain America...slight fanboy...I am pleased by everything I am seeing so far.  Thought guys? 
 
added:  I know some people saw him in garb @ SDCC this year, but this will be the first time the general public gets an official look.  I am hoping we get a teaser trailer for both Thor and Cap this year in theatres...maybe with TRON because of Disney?

@CharAznable: I thought the exact same thing, lol 

OK, so something popped into my head...I don't know if this is a good question or not.
 
Is there a name for the style a movie uses when no one uses an accent for foreign characters?  The movie that brought this to mind was a group of my friends and I talking about Enemy At the Gates , an odd little movie based around the snipers in Stalingrad during WW2.  No one uses an accent other than their natural accents.  You have posh Brits pretending to be Russian and Ed Norton being German with his American accent.  I know for sure I have seen other movies do this, but can't remember them right now.  Is this an actual technique in movie making, and is this primarily for when they have a cast they like but that can't do accents to save their life?
 
Also, in response to  the "movie company" where the guy wants you to donate to his "American movies" is basically a guy trying to pander to tea party, right wing, conservatives.  Granted, I am a religious conservative, but I'd like to think my intelligence is better than to think that he's not trying a little too hard with his red blooded BS.  
 
Thanks for the podcast, listen to it twice a week to make sure I don't miss anything :p