#27.
ICHI THE KILLER

Probably Takashi Miike's most notorious movie, although I'd say AUDITION is far more fucked up.

Ichi is a crying, brainwashed, fucked with killer of Yakuza. Kakihara is a sadomasochistic and sadistic Yakuza henchman.

Basically, they kill in fucked up ways. And I love it. The gore is fantastic. The story is surprisingly good.




Plus the fact that Miike seems to piss off and annoy people a lot makes me love it even more. For example, from Wikipedia:
"Audition had its share of audience walk-outs. When shown at the 2000 Rotterdam Film Festival, one enraged woman viewer confronted Miike by shouting at him: "You're evil!""

Love that guy. Also, he's often dismissed as being misogynistic. I don't believe so, since most of the women in his movies are more powerful then the men (Audition, Visitor Q).

Also check out his non fucked up movies like Zebraman and The Happiness of the Katakuris, if you can find it, a wonderful horror comedy filled with fucked up stuff.

#26
 
FINAL DESTINATION 3.

 Not bad. I know, shocking. The strength of the movies is in the how do they kill them this time formula. And there are some very nice and bloody deaths.
Tony Todd is in it again, as the Devil's voice in the beginning. Only actor to appear in all three. Also, Todd rocks.

Like I said, the story and acting is so so. The killing is oh yes!

#25



STARSHIP TROOPERS.

Heinlein purists will cry and kick and scream. But Starship Troopers is an awesome movie. And you really have to watch it with the knowledge that it's directed by Paul Verhoeven, the man who had Murphy shot to fuck in Robocop.

It's actually a clever satire. Come to think of it, so was Robocop. Verhoeven (A dutch dude!) lived through WWII and the movie has a lot of fake government propaganda. Which is pretty awesome.



I will give the Heinlein fans one thing; this movie was never meant to be an adaption of the novel. The writers weren't even aware of the book.
Do I care? No. Why? Because Hollywood has messed up books way worse. Not too mention that this movie kicks ass. Ridiculously pretty people shooting bugs. There is not a single thing not awesome in that sentence.

Anyway, Verhoeven himself says in the commentary: the movie's message is "War makes fascists of us all". I dare you not to see this. He also sees it as a satire of the American militarism. Again, I dare you not to see this.

Anyway, even if you don't see all the subtle (Dude! It's like inches thick on it. It basically fucking swims in it!) satire, it still has ridiculously pretty people shooting giant bugs.

And either we all agree that's awesome, or, well, you kind of suck. But I can forgive you.

#24



THE EVIL DEAD 2: DEAD BY DAWN!

Aww yeah. The remake/sequel to The Evil Dead. It's really bad. Really. I love it, I love Bruce Campbell and I love Sam Raimi, but it's not a good movie. It is, however, an awesome movie to watch. It's just genuine fun.

Ash is dumb enough to go to the cabin again (Seriously, that's what Bruce and Sam say in the commentary). Find the tape with the Necronomicon Ex Mortis being recited. Crap! Girlfriend becomes Deadite! Decapitation by shovel! Bury! Cue lightning!

Shit! Bruce deadite! Oh thank god, the memory of his girlfriend saves him. Phew!

Anyway, I'm not awesome enough to go through the whole movie this way.

One word to describe this movie: Groovy.

Oh, here's a funny thing. The poster of the movie? Has nothing to do with it.

#23



THE HOST.

The Host is a pretty good movie, if not a bit overhyped and I think a bit wrongly marketed (I went with the South-Korean poster, which shows the family. The US and international poster shows the girl and the tail of the monster. As I said, wrongly marketed). It's not so much a monter movie, as a movie about a disfunctional family, which happens to deal with the monster situation and have to rescue the daughter from the monster, mixed nicely with some politics.

I think many people went in with the expectations of monster action (At least the horror/monster crowd did) and were disappointed that they got this.

#22

DARKMAN.

To whoever denied Sam Raimi the right to make a film of The Shadow (Although he's apparently going to do it anyway now), thank you.

If you hadn't,we wouldn't have Darkman, which is an awesome movie.

Also, watch Evil Dead 2, Darkman and Spider-Man back-to-back. You can see scenes repeated throughout the movies.

I am tired, bye.

#21



LAND OF THE DEAD.

Romero's fourth ...Of The Dead movie, and I've heard many people were a bit disappointed. I'm not sure why. Every thing you expect from a Romero Zombie Movie (TM) is in here. Social commentary? Check. Gore? Check. Interesting characters? Check.

It's just another good Romero flick.

Don't get me wrong, it has it's fair share of faults, some of the actors don't mesh well with the characters, but it's all forgivable.

And we get to see the zombie evolution that started with Day of The Dead's Bub (Greatest zombie ever).

#20.



A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3: THE DREAM WARRIORS.

My third favorite Nightmare movie (1. Original. 2. New Nightmare. 3. Dream Warriors).

Freddy's back (And thank god, ignoring part 2). And now the last kids of Elm Street need to stop him.

Why do I love this movie? Well, it has the thing every horror movie has to have, and I think some horror writers/directors forget sometimes, likable and individual characters. Yes, they can be somewhat stereotypical, and of course dated (The movie is exactly 20 years old), but still.

Love it.

(What seems to be horror month! Yay)

#19.



DAWN OF THE DEAD (ORIGINAL).

Oh yeah. The zombie movie. What can I say about it that hasn't been said before? A fantastic almost comic book zombie movie, filled with subtle, and sometimes not so subtle, social satire.

Really, the essential zombie movie, and I think a movie everyone, horror buff or not, should have seen. I highly recommend The Ultimate Edition, which has four discs, including the US theatrical cut, with commentary by George Romero and Tom Savini, the European cut, with commentary by David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott H. Reiniger and Gaylen Ross, the extended cut with commentary by Richard P. Rubinstein. And a fourth disc with documentaries. Highly recommended.

#18.



DAWN OF THE DEAD (2004).

I like it. It's a good movie, well shot, greatly lit (Seriously, fantastic lighting job).

And has running zombies. If you're a zombie purist, that might piss you off. Me, in this movie, it works, so I'm cool with it.

The original is one of my favorite movies ever, more for the social commentary, which Romero's zombie movies are, even the fourth one.
Here, no. No social commentary, just a good straight up horror flick.

I wish we'd have seen more about the zombie baby, but oh well.

(Watching now: The original, with commentary on the Anchor Bay Ultimate Edition)

#17

D.O.A.

Yes, I watched it. And I agree with dustinofthedead, it was actually fun.
Filled with ridiculous fights, a ridiculous plot and bad acting.

Oh, and lots of panty shots. Oh god, the panty shots.

But it is fun. I might actually get it on DVD, for drinking nights, or with buddies.

AND THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO, BEFORE SIGOURNEY WEAVER, I WATCHED MOVIE NUMBER 16.



Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters.

First off, if you're not a fan of the ATHF, you won't like it. I personally love it. And even if you love the ATHF, you might not like the movie, I know nick_thesaint didn't, and he shares my love of [AS].

It's basically a long episode, with the fucked up dial turned up to 11, which some great music, and out of nowhere dialog.

It's not perfect and it might be a bit too messed up and lacking a clear story. The incredible abrupt ending doesn't help either.
Still, I like it.

Do check out the DVD, it has some great special features.

#15

INITIAL D.

Oh yes. I have no idea why I like this movie. It's of course based on the manga/anime of the same name.

Actually, I don't like it. I mean, I like it, but because of it's stupidness. The races are accompanied by the most awesomebad Japanese rap ever.

And the races are cool. The acting is lame. The story, to be honest, is Initial D very, very abridged.

But god, is it stupid fun to watch drinking.

#12, 13 AND 14. (Cheating? Maybe.)

THE BOURNE TRILOGY.

This is, in my opinion, one of the, if not the best spy/thriller/action trilogy so far.

Adapted, loosely, of Robert Ludlum's novels of the same name, about Jason Bourne, government black ops killer who loses his memory and retraces who he was.

Identity is a great set up, Supremacy is a fantastic middle chapter, and Ultimatum (While lacking an actual, well, Ultimatum) a fantastic end. I truly hope they will not do a sequel.

Just watch them.

#11.



300.

I like it. It's a movie of cutting people with swords.

Of course, only a fool would take anything in the movie as historically accurate. The Spartans wore loads of armor, they encouraged the men to have sex, to build a team solidarity.

But it is a nice story, although the queen subplot is entirely unnecessary.
It's pretty too. Snyder might love slow mo a bit too much though.

Next: BOURNE TRILOGY!

#10
(TEN!)

The 40-Year-Old Virgin.


Again Judd Apatow. Anyway.

This movie is surprisingly sweet and kind. Yes, it features a 40 year old Steve Carrell as virgin, yes, his friends can be jerks, but at the heart it's a movie about love, and excellent comedy.

With lines like:

Wait for it to grow into a plant, and then you fuck the plant.

I'm a bit tired, so no full on review, but this movie rocks.

(Yes, I watch a lot)

#9

ANCHORMAN: THE LEGEND OF RON BURGUNDY.



I love this movie. Great, great comedy. Maybe the best Will Ferrell did so far.
And Christina Applegate is fantastic in it.

The story is completely ridiculous of course. Ron Burgundy is the most awesome anchorman ever. Applegate comes in, this being the what? 70s? and Burgundy falls in love with her. He's a buffoon, yadda yadda.
News teams are street gangs, which provides us with a fantastic fight.

Judd Apatow produced it, and I like Judd Apatow. He's also behind the great show Freaks and Geeks and the movies The 40 Year Old Virgin and the recently released Superbad, which I need to see so fucking badly. DAMN YOU DUTCH RELEASE SCHEDULE!!!

Anyway, watch this movie, for it rules.

#8

Predator 2.



Okay, first off... GAME OVER DUDE FROM ALIENS IS IN!!

Ahem.

Sure, it's ridiculous. LA in 1997? I seriously doubt it was that bad.

But god is the action good. Danny Glover is always awesome (I will fight you over this).

Story? Predator on the lose in LA, bla bla, government knows, government agent man Busey (Rocks hard) is after him, Glover wants him too, blabla blood.

Also, it gave us this:


Oh yes.

Is it as good as the first? No. It's still awesome though.

Next: Maybe Alien. Maybe one of the other movies I bought today. We'll see.