Movie Critics Thread

[SkyWarp91]

Movie theatre critics thread time? Gold Class has it's pros and cons.

Pros: The seats are great, the theatre is small and people paid a lot so you are unlikely to get bored teenagers chatting on their phones, you can call for service at anytime instead of going out for a drink or popcorn, and you can drink alcohol.

The main con: it can feel like every ten minutes (or less) the staff come in to deliver somebody their food or drink or popcorn or whatever which is distracting. They can come in to start clearing plates/glasses from the tables a bit too soon too, sometimes during the big climax. It can also feel a bit more lonely if you go by yourself since it's set up for 'couples/pairs'.

I've been several times (saw the first two TF films that way and just last weekend saw Titanic 3D in Gold Class for examples) and my main criteria for choosing GC is to avoid the annoying crowds on opening days and for long films. Relaxing on a fold out chair was great for a film over 3 hours like Titanic.

I can sort of see how it'd get annoying having staff continuously walk in front of you or into the cinema to serve you or others something especially during intense parts of movies.

Gold class
Pro: On weekdays before 5pm it costs $25 per ticket.
Con: Every other time it is $40 per ticket.

Damn I'm busy all weekdays and am only really free weekends. Ah well, least it was a birthday present.

Inside (À l'intérieur) - 2007

This is the second film I've chosen to watch as part of my "extreme French horror" weekend. The premise is this: A pregnant lady crashes her car, the boyfriend dies (baby lives). Late one night she receives a knock on the door from an unknown woman. Madness ensues.

As with Martyr's this film left me emotionally and physically exhausted! What a movie though, I thought it was absolutely brilliant. No one is doing horror like the French these days, they are quite simply in a league of their own. Martyrs and Inside truly are horror movies, they don't have any supernatural elements, they don't try to lighten the mood with humour, they don't provide much in the way of hope. They are realistic as all hell and that's what makes them so incredibly effective. In all of these French films (and another one I saw lately, Ils) the antagonists are all fascinating and part of the fun is finding out what drives them. This is one of the key separators between these kind of films and the garbage that Hollywood puts out. They make the bad guys interesting!!

In the case of Inside, the bad guy is in fact a woman known only as La Femme (the woman ). This lady is the embodiment of evil! La Femme is largely what makes this film so utterly insane. I've not seen this actor before but she does an amazing job, I'm struggling to think of a more effective villain in recent times and I got nothing. The way she dresses in black with a matching corset, those facial expressions *shudder*, her witch-like presence, her body-shape even. What makes her more fascinating is that she often shows her vulnerable side reminding us that this is a normal person (albeit a very fubar in the head one).

The atmosphere this film creates with the sets and the use of light & shadows is beyond anything I can remember. The main set (this film mainly predominantly takes place in someones house) has a kind of hazy, smokey look to it which gives it a fantastic dream-like quality. It's terrifying before anything's even happened!

I could go on about this movie for ages but I'm not sure if anyone will even read this. Don't want to score Inside or Martyrs as they're both experiences that no horror movie fans should miss (if you can stomach them!).

Have you seen Anti-Christ with Willam Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourgh? Now that's when sh!t really hits the fan.

I'm a huge Joss Whedon fan and though I've only seen a handful of horror movies in my lifetime, but do want to see The Cabin in the Woods as it was co-written and produced by him.