the internet tells me that Casshern is a live-action anime movie - oh dear. Yeah, I'd probably dislike that. 

for 5-6 years, but the film retains the essence of the comic I thought while amping things like action at the expense of character.

Is it better, probably not, the comic was created to be a comic and even though the movie is a decent adaptation, it loses things along the way. 

but its meant to have 'awesome' visuals.

Assuming the dvd I saw was reasonably faithful to what was intended, 'awesome' has a far different meaning to what I thought. Havent seen a more vomit inducing visual style since or before. 

Casshern looks pretty wicked. Saw the Japanese trailer for it a few years ago and pretty much flipped out. Looks like it's mainly story progression broken up with periods of over-the-top CGed action scenes. 

I saw Casshern once and I forgot almost everything about it. That should say all... ;) Didn't think it was thaaat bad. 

It probably would have been a lot more memorable if we saw it when it came out several years ago. The CG was probably cutting edge then, but nowadays good CG is like toilet paper. 

at first i was going to argue against this being among the worst, since it is a bad movie and quite dissapointing, but was at least memorable and somewhat distinctive.

Movies like Highlander 2, Avengers, and Catwoman are as bad or worse, though perhaps the problem is that the truly worst movies are actually quite forgettable, so it's harder to recall the exact level of badness. Like i'm pretty sure Zardoz should be on this list but it's kind of an indistinct blur in my memories.

(Interesting how Sean Connery is in so many of the above movies)

So 300 might not be the worst, but it may be equal peers with other worst movies. 

oh come on, that movie is a classic! it's extremely memorable; where else can you see sean connery shot put a naked woman? 

yeah I know, but I did put a disclaimer saying I dont watch stuff I know I'd hate and the ones you mentioned would fall into that category. As does I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry.

But out of stuff I've chosen to see 300 and Casshern would be my picks. 

necros: strangely, I don't remember that scene... :)

nitin: fair enough, I don't seek out crap either, but I sometimes get out-voted in group situations. 

So my friend and his wife invited me out to see a movie. Our choices were Hellboy 2 or Hancock. I wanted to see Hellboy 2. They wanted to see Hancock.

To this day, they refuse to refund me my money. 

but yeah you lucked out, H2 is heaps better 

Why did I not see http://www.celephais.net/board/view_thread.php?id=3545&start=2166&end=2166 earlier? Ok, maybe I would have thought "perfect plain hollywood popcorn for a saturday evening" but that would have been aimed too high.

Amazingly stupid and bad movie.

"Let's shoot that scene somewhere cool!"
"How about in some high snowy mountain scenery? We could play with like totally awesome camouflage and make it look like Hoth!!!"
"OK, Cool!"
"But would it make any sense?"
"No."
"OK, COOL!" 

Actually, what I wrote sounds remotely funny. The movie is shit, seriously. 

talking about Shooter? 

Yes, indeed. 

Has anyone here seen Lachende Erben? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024236/
It was banned in Germany by the Nazis and still kinda is (well, banned for minors so yay censorship!). Looks like a nice comedy actually but very hard to find. I wonder if it would be worth the effort getting it. 

very bizarre I must say... 

Let The Right One In.

Cool, atmospheric, slow paced. Impressively retro clothing, I shall now assume all Scandinavians dress like that especially computer game mappers. Nice relationship between the two kids. I thought the vampire kid was well cool, I like some of the scenes where they're chatting casually/awkwardly with blood dripping off her. Quite arthousey and quite good, quite a good blend of genres too. I'd have prefered a little bit more bite and tension tho, and a bit more exploration of what it was like being a vampire.

Rating 22.75 - 23.05 / 28.95

Zoo.

Mrhands.wmv explained. Or, rather, not really. An entirely tasteful and again semi-arthousey docu-drama about bestiality. Which to be honest does some of what it says on the tin, but not nearly enough. It's quite well done and shows the different and curious characters involved (MrHands himself coming across suitably weird), and shows their....dedication to bestiality. But it doesn't explore the pathology nearly clearly enough, nor answer pressing questions like: "Why do you want a horse cock up your arse??". In it's quest for tastefulness it leaves too much unanswered, and I still don't "get" bestiality from it.

Rating: 12/21 - 14/20 / 25/27 

is that the one whee they guy comes to earth for the water or some thing because his planet is fucked and they are running out so he has all these gold rings on a string to sell and shit and he starts building a rocket back because he was only a scout or something and all the stupid rednecks see it and start a rumor of him being a communist and them shit happens but i cant remember what? (i suppose i could have broken that sentence doon to smaller ones but anyways,)
oh is this a black and white film? 

finally, a scoring system that makes sense. Also, will definitely have to check out the vampire film, heard good things about it from other folk too. 

but I agree on Let the Right One In, excellent film.

meTch - yep, thats the one, not b&w though. With David Bowie. Dont know about the communist angle though, maybe thats from the book. But he basically becomes rich and starts building his ship but gets sidetracked by becoming addicted to sex, alcohol and tv :) 

Agreed.
American remake probably redundant, stereotype-fueling.

Is the man how takes care of Eli in the beginning basically an old version of Oskar - like, did he meet her in the same way that Oskar did when he was at the same age? And if so, omg wtf etc? 

thats what I assumed was the case. The book probably has the answer. 

yes it was a pretty good science fiction movie

i should get it watch it again