You don't have to wait two years, it's being released July 2011.

Machete and Iron Man 2. Jesus! What piles of crap. Just saying.

I wonder the same, and it amazes me how many of these current movies like 'paranormal activity' are pegged as 'scary'



modern filmmakers confuse gimmick and gore for scary

Hmmm...

Comedy- Due Date (HILARIOUS!!)
Horror- Paranormal Activity 2 (The last 25 min of that movie? WOW!)

"THE KILLING ROOM"

I lost 90min of my life (-_-'

was it that boring?

Bug~

F'n wow!!! Michael Shannon is so awesome and insane!!

The Next Three Days--I enjoyed it!

Case 39 - It wasn't the worst movie ever made but it certainly wasn't the best either!

Teenagers From Outer Space '59. Watched this on Elvira's Movie Macabre....great bad movie. Elvira's jokes were a little flat, still best to watch it on MST3K.

Escape From The Planet Of The Apes '71. This is my favorite sequel of the franchise. Sal Mineo's last feature film appearance.

Bloody Pit Of Horror '65. Super cheesy eurotrash. A madman taunts and tortures a group of models in a castle with elaborate traps(what?? You mean SAW's not original? Crazy talk) Mariska Hargitay's dad Mickey plays the madman. Good fun. This was on the Pure Terror 50 Movie set I bought.

Apartment for Peggy '48. One of my favorite 1940's comedies. A lonely professor who thinks he no longer serves any purpose decides he wants to commit suicide. That is until Peggy(Jeanne Crain) and her college student husband(William Holden) move into his attic.

Not all modern filmmakers. Look outside of what is getting released in the mainstream cinemas and you'll find filmmakers who are making good horror films. But you have to go to foreign films, or straight to DVD to find them because Hollywood for the most part doesn't even know they exist.

Some of those actually sound pretty good! Might have to see them, specially Apartment for Peggy. One really weird old movie from 1960 is Something Wild. It is soooo bizarre!

That's an excellent movie. I also like Something Wild from '86.

Oh you've seen it?! No one has seen that movie. ;p Yes, Something Wild from 86 was good too.

Yeah, I'm a Carroll Baker fan.

You would be

I got Harry Potter in and Due Date.

OMFG I love love love HP. Being a life-long die hard fan made it an incredible experience. Anybody else notice the arms on Rupert Grint? Damn that boy grew into himself

Due Date was hilarious. I laughed soooo hard when RDJr was babysitting those kids and he "took care of" the little drug dealers kids. Oh, and the acting lessons

I finally saw the movie yesterday. My how time flies. Not only have we watched three young actors and their respective characters grow up over the course of 10 years before our very eyes, but also the tonal shift from light to dark in the "Harry Potter" movies has been unusually drastic. "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt. 1″ is a true epic — a dark and brooding journey with a tone remarkably akin to "The Lord of the Rings." Director David Yates has taken a film series which was once a fanciful, light-hearted rendering of author J.K. Rowling's imagination and made it feel real and especially dangerous.

The dark turn of the films was inevitable given the content of the books, but Yates has realized it in such a way that these last couple of films have felt completely different from their predecessors. Rowling's tone, in spite of more prolific deaths, has not changed nearly as much. This time around there's lots of blood, characters are dying left and right and the stuff that supplements the main plot, instead of being fluffy and magical, is decidedly dramatic.

Although Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) is still the courageous and impulsive one, Hermione (Emma Watson) is still the smart and prepared one and Ron (Rupert Grint) is still the oblivious one, the dialogue is adult and the moments they share are complex. The three friends must survive on their own in this film as they search for the horcruxes (objects infused with parts of Voldemort's (Ralph Fiennes) soul) and are on the run from the Death Eaters, the dark wizards and witches who have seized the Ministry of Magic and have begun a reign of terror. Considering these once-child stars were initially cast on looks and being able to play their type, they continue to prove themselves as venerable adults in "Hallows."

This maturity is reflected in the writing of screenwriter Steve Kloves (who adapted every book but "Order of the Phoenix"). He provides many tender and dramatic moments between the friends, not all of which were written by J.K. Rowling, trusting them to handle the deeper material. Given the flexibility of a two-film final chapter, Kloves could also resort more to cutting corners than entire sections of the book. Devout fans will notice much of the exposition regarding Albus Dumbledore's "mysterious" past including that involving the wizard Gridelwald has been axed or turned into easter eggs. That's it as far as significant omissions, and it was the right choice on account of a lack of visual storytelling opportunities, even though Harry's growing resentment of/loss of faith in Dumbledore never becomes part of the story as it does so intriguingly in the book.

Yates' patience also improves the series in "Hallows." There's a build up to the events and some lengthier shots that have a lasting impact. It feels more like a dramatic motion picture than a squeeze-it-in adaptation. The film could have easily hopped from scene to scene with action at every turn, but Yates takes his time. The scene in Godric's Hollow, for example, when Harry and Hermione follow the old Bathilda Bagshot to her house only to find she's not quite who they think she is evolves slowly and culminates in a tense sequence lasting much shorter. Succinctly put, the cinematic quality of the films has continued to improve as it has done ever since Yates took over. What used to be the emphasis in the plot-driven scenes (action and visual effects) has changed.

"Deathly Hallows" is not forgiving of those who aren't already familiar with the Harry Potter universe, but at the same time, this darker tone, higher proportion of drama and much more cinematic feel should improve the overall entertainment factor for those hoping to get something out of the "Hallows" despite never reading the books or barely remembering the previous entries.

The movie feels real and the action is palpable. The casting of fighting spells back and forth in battle do some collateral damage for once. The sound and VFX teams deserve major credit for upping that factor to a new level. For once, magical realism has an application to the Potter world: Instead of calling attention to pretty visual effects, Yates and crew make them feel naturally part of the action, which keeps our focus on the characters. CGI in films has also improved over the 10 years of "Potter" movies and as such, Yates sees no compelling need to highlight them more than usual and "Hallows" is better for it.

Maybe most importantly, "Hallows Pt. 1″ sets us up for a dramatic, exciting and cathartic finale to the movie franchise. Yates, Kloves and the entire cast and crew have really upped the stakes with their work on this film and it shows. I have no ounce of doubt that Part 2 will be an incredible send-off for this series given the effort and creativity put into Part 1. If you're a fan who has forgotten how close you've actually become to these characters, "Deathly Hallows" will surely remind you.

Forgotten Silver '95- Peter Jackson and Costa Botes' brilliant mockumentary on New Zealand filmmaker Colin McKenzie.

Tarantino and Rodriguez should have taken tips from Botes and Jackson on how to make film look old.