Weekly movie discussion thread.

[SpicyF]

Maybe a weekly movie thread is a good idea. Right now I watch quite a few movies each week and will list and summarize them here weekly. Scoring is done on a 1-10 scale.

Movies I saw last week:



Fearless: Jet Li plays the chinese martial artist Huo Yuan Jia that lived around year 1900 or so. I would rate this movie decent/good and it has some nice fights in it. If you like Jet Li this movie will not dissapoint you.

Score: 7.21


Accepted: Comedy featuring Justin Long about him failing to get accepted to college thus resorting to creating a fake college to fool his parents. Of course this get a bit more complicated than he originally thought. It has some really good laughs and a good looking chick. I think you need to like these kind of comedies to enjoy this movie to the fullest. For me it was very enjoyable.

Score 7.78

I Trust You To Kill Me: Music documentary about a band called DeLuca and the (something) which Kiefer Sutherland is helping to spin off. First part of the docu is mainly some interviews with Kiefer and the band. Not really interesting. Second part features the european tour which the band and KS goes on. Good music, some interesting interviews, other than that, nothing special.

Score: 5.19

Other movies seen last week.

Dreamgirls. Score 7.99
The Sentinel. Score 6.64
Stealth. Score 6.12
Girls Gone Wild Best Breasts Ever. Score 9.12

Will also give a special mention to the new Sci-Fi TV show The Dresden Files. Based on the novels by Jim Butcher.

[SpicyF]

You might notice my scoring seems slighly skewed towards the upper scores, but I rarely watch movies which does not seem interesting/good.

[stabn]

Can we git a bit of a recap for GGWBBE? The score is pretty good but not a 10. I assume some of the breasts were just average?

Also <3 your mention of the Dresden files. I have read all the books and have been trying to force others in #sstakes to watch the show but have been unsuccessful thus far.

[ahnuld]

Sentinel was super weak imo.
Stealth was almost good as a comedy
Fearless was a very good movie for a martial arts film. Solid enough story, and better character development than you would expect from a movie like this.

[astroglide]

the last king of scotland was very good.

[mjkidd]

Are your ratings really significant to 1/100th of a point?

[SpicyF]

Girls Gone Wild: Best Breasts Ever recap:

Camera team stalks good looking girls.
Camera team gets girls to remove clothing.
Boobs.

Highlights of movie.

0:18:17 --- > 0:24:38
0:34:03 --- > 0:45:42

Did I mention there is alot of boobs in this video?

[PokerFink]

Pan's Labyrinth

Extremely good. The cinemetography and sound is unqiue, creating a glowing, surreal world both inside and outside the labyrinth. Very good acting with an engaging story and deep characters.

Despite the misleading advertising, THIS IS NOT FOR CHILDREN. From the trailers, I thought most of the film was going to be a Tim Burton-esque trip through a labyrinth dream world. This is not the case. Very little time is spent in the labyrinth (twenty minutes maybe?); most of the film is a war story. And it's quite violent. But the war story is quite good by itself, and contrasts wonderfully with the labyrinth.

A must-see. http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/600/79002792bf5.gif

[Alobar]

spicyf,

Ive only seen 2 GGW videos and both were several years ago. They sucked EXTREMELY hard. It was a bunch of staged crap and really bad porno scenes. But im seeing like 20 GGW commercials an hour on comedycentral and its making me want to give it a second shot. Did the video you watch contain lots of bad acting and rigid, stale porno scenes?

[tiltowhirl]

I finally saw Out Cold and it filled the gaping hole I thought was left in Hollywood after Dazed'n'Confused--I just happened to miss it completely at the time.

6.9

Other recent notables:
Beerfest 7.1
Boondock Sts 11

[Josh.]

smokin aces was a lot worse than i thought it would be

[MEbenhoe]

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smokin aces was a lot worse than i thought it would be

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I keep hearing this, and its depressing as I haven't seen the movie yet, but had been really looking forward to it.

[ahnuld]

lol anyone who gives boondock saints 11 has to be a 15 yo guy. It was a good movie, but cmon.

[El Diablo]

Spicy,

I saw Children of Men and Pan's Labyrinth in the theater's recently. Both were excellent, but Pan's is the one that really stood out for me. For those who haven't yet heard about it, it's a tale of a girl's experiences living in Fascist Spain and the fantasy world she creates to escape from some of what she sees.

I saw Ultraviolet on cable yesterday. Oh wow. This is in the running for worst movie of all time. I was doing a bunch of other stuff while it was on in the background and I still was able to tell how horribly it sucked.

The reviews of Smokin' Aces have been horrible, but I feel so compelled to see it still.

[BarryLyndon]

I'm not sure about numerically rating films, but, I will say that "Pan's Labrynth" is easily within my top three of 2007. Half Nelson is within that list too.

I'm not sure how to describe "Pan's Labrynth," save for that it makes an earnest effort to blend fairy tale with a somber commentary on civil war. Unlike 99% of contemporary films today, the direction is deliberate and remarkably consistent in tone. Del Toro isn't trying to score any singularly entertaining scenes; rather, he's working on a cohesive blend of fairy tale and neo-realism, allowing the emotional poignancy and earnestness of his work run the film's engine. Very admirable stuff.

Also, this weekend, I saw "Bad Boys" on TBS. I'll give that film a number - 9/10. Just lots of guns, Martin Lawrence is loud and snarky, and Tea Leoni is one of the more stunning and effortlessly sensual women in Hollywood.

Barry

[danzasmack]

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smokin aces was a lot worse than i thought it would be

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Did you go in with high expectations? I don't know if this is a spoiler but i'll put it in white anyway:

<font color="white">that was probably the worst end to a movie I have ever seen, like ever. Also the "twist" was beaten over our heads a little too hard.</font>

And I went into it expecting a flashy crap fest and that's what I got. When I first saw the preview I was stoked too, and each day I got less and less excited about this movie.

[PokerFink]

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and the fantasy world she creates to escape from some of what she sees.

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The labyrinth is not in Ofelia's head - it's real.

Edit: I guess I should elaborate on this.

There are several examples that show that labyrinth is real. I'll put these in white since they could be considered spoilers.
<font color="white">
1) The Captain picks up and crushes the chalk that was given to Ofelia by the Faun.
2) The Captain picks up the mandrake root (again, given by the Faun) and throws it in the fire.
3) Ofelia uses the chalk to create a passage into the Captain's room to get her brother.
4) At the end, a flower grows on the tree now that the toad is dead.</font>

[Boris]

Barry - Why did you like Half Nelson? I thought the movie was horrible.

[durron597]

I saw The Good Shepherd this weekend.

I was expecting it to be one of those "based on a true story" founding of the CIA type stories, with a bunch of action and Matt Damon kicking the crap out of people etc. (kind of like a cross between Bourne Identity and Quiz Show with founding the CIA as the subject matter), but it was really much more of a character drama than that; the story of a very serious, emotionless man thrown into a lot of very emotionally intense situations with his family and his job. I think the writer had a lot of great ideas for a movie that could have been really compelling, but there was just too much going on, even with a 2.5 hour movie. There were so many different plot arcs going on that lots of pieces of the story just seemed glossed over and happened too quickly without much explanation; I can't really go into more detail without ruining the plot, but you'll know what I mean if/when you see it.

In the same vein, the movie had a HUGE, stellar cast but they all had really small parts and no one but Matt Damon's character really got developed well. This was unfortunate because he couldn't really bring off the serious, stoic character across very well; it wasn't believable at all. Some other names:

Angelina Jolie - Has a very small part for someone second billed, and I think you can tell that she's mad about it during the movie
John Turturro - Matt Damon's assistant, and does an awesome job as usual, should have been billed higher
Robert De Niro - Director, and really small part as the force behind the creation of the CIA
William Hurt - Very good, but surprisingly small part for director of the CIA
Alec Baldwin - Another small, undeveloped part but he does a decent job with it.
Joe Pesci - Very good with his very small part, he's lost a LOT of weight, but you can tell it's him because of his very distinctive voice
Michael Gambon - Does an amazing good job as usual

Another gripe I had was that a lot of the characters had very similar looks to them (Alec Baldwin &amp; Oleg Stefan, Billy Crudup &amp; Lee Pace in particular) so sometimes it wasn't trivial to figure out which character we had on screen.

Overall, 5/10. The plot was compelling despite being hard to follow. A lot of good acting, and good plot ideas... basically there was too much good stuff in the movie to actually call it a good movie /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[PokerFink]

Durron,

I had the same gripe with Syriana.

[Alobar]

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and the fantasy world she creates to escape from some of what she sees.

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The labyrinth is not in Ofelia's head - it's real.

Edit: I guess I should elaborate on this.

There are several examples that show that labyrinth is real. I'll put these in white since they could be considered spoilers.
<font color="white">
1) The Captain picks up and crushes the chalk that was given to Ofelia by the Faun.
2) The Captain picks up the mandrake root (again, given by the Faun) and throws it in the fire.
3) Ofelia uses the chalk to create a passage into the Captain's room to get her brother.
4) At the end, a flower grows on the tree now that the toad is dead.</font>

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more in white:

<font color="white"> 1 and 2 can easily be things she got herself. 3 can also be in her head. They show a shot of the chalk outline on the wall when mercedes (I think) is looking for her and I think you can take this to mean that it wasnt real, because when ofelia does it she shes the chalk disapear, yet its obviously still there. Also when she is talking to the faun we see her through the captains eyes talking to herself. 4 is a good one. As is the fact that when she opens the book when alone in the bathroom she sees blood everywhere and then afterwords her mom starts bleeding.

I think this is one of the good things about this movie. Arguments can be made for both cases, real and not real, and both have very valid points. so its up to the viewer to think about it and decide. Im 100% for anything that makes the retarded masses have to use brain power and come to their own conclusion

I actually plan on watching this movie again, purely to look for things that help for my own personal real vs not real debate</font>

[The Yugoslavian]

Jersey Girl - 3/5 stars
Saw this yesterday on TNTHD or whatever. I used to be a HUGE Ben Affleck fan....to the point where it was embarrassing (not for me, but for ppl who knew me I guess, lol) and I basically would enjoy any movie he was in (yes, even Phantoms). More recently there are a bunch of his movies that I haven't even seen (mainly b/c most of them have no chance of being that good). Anyway, I like Kevin Smith and this is his only movie I haven't seen (I think) so I gave it a shot. It was entertaining but not memorable and Ben seemed out of place the whole time....I really don't think his character was that compelling mainly b/c he wasn't very complex....just a workaholic/anger guy doing PR and a honest/lovable guy when not doing PR. Well, whatever, I wanted a non-depressing movie b/c I've been v sick and this fit the bill.

Ninja Scroll - 3/5 stars
A "classic" (?) anime film from the mid 90s or something. It was enjoyable and some parts were cool but first, I don't remember there being a ninja scroll at all in the film (wtf I want my @#%@#$ ninja scroll if it's in the title!) and the setup and stuff wasn't hugely compelling (like maybe a movie on the backstory first would have been better) as it was never fully clear to me how the back story that motivated all the characters went down or how the characters got to their current situations. Part of my issue may be that many anime movies are based off of long TV series and manga and thus there is tons of backstory so that when you get to a movie there are layers of motivational backstory and build-up.

The Dinner Game - 4/5 stars
This movie is pretty awesome in a lot of ways. A very nice example of a really good movie that is basically just a dude in a room talking with other characters with very little actually happening (my dinner with andre and before sunrise come to mind). The movie is about this dude who has dinners with his friends where they try to invite the biggest idiot they can find. Sounds like something 2p2ers should do, actually! Anyway, I was thinking it'd be an actual dinner but instead this dude finds the hugest idiot ever then hurts himself but OH NOES the idiot dude met up with him already and now is trying to help him. Anwyay, the ending setup is predictable but everything is quite funny. Too bad it's a French film or something dumb b/c subtitles are retarded.

Yugoslav
who is sick so who knows if any of this makes sense...
PS These are simply the last 3 movies I've seen, I've been watching mainly TV and anime TV shows recently so, meh, whatevs

[pryor15]

durron,

agreed. the Good Shepherd could have been a much better film had it not tried to do so damn much.

cutting a subplot or 2 would have done wonders. but the cinematography was fantastic.

[Paluka]

Wow. I gotta disagree with the Ninja Scroll review. I love it. I've recommended it to quite a few people and never heard of someone coming away dissatisfied.

[ahnuld]

Durron hit the nail on the head with The good shepard. I found it boring and disappointing. Ok, we get it, he doesnt hsow emotion. Deniro, MOVE ON PLZ.

[7ontheline]

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Wow. I gotta disagree with the Ninja Scroll review. I love it. I've recommended it to quite a few people and never heard of someone coming away dissatisfied.

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I used to love it, but now that I have watched a lot more anime I like it a lot less. It's a nice action flick but there's minimal character development and it's hardly an epic story. It's certainly a fun film to watch but there are far better films out there. Excellent if you just want some pretty violence though, especially considering how old it is.

[Dids]

I can't see Jersey Girl being anything above a 2.5 on a 1-5 scale.

It's just such a meh movie. It wasn't horrible, it wasn't great. It was just kinda there. Mostly it confirmed for me that Smith's really at his best making dick jokes and should avoid any attempt to be taken seriously or make a point.

[BarryLyndon]

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Barry - Why did you like Half Nelson? I thought the movie was horrible.

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To begin, I thought that Ryan Gosling's performance was honest, heartfelt, quietly gripping, and effectively nuanced. I have some problems with the way the film was made, but Gosling is marvelous. I don't like to speak of actor's performances in terms of awards, but it's rare that a small indie film that didn't make a [censored] load of $$ produces a best actor nominee. So, that says something quite significant about Gosling.

The story - which, as I said, is carried by Gosling's emotion - is simple, quietly told, and important to everyone as human beings. You have a highly intelligent person who could probably be making serious $$, but he's too heartfelt, too in want to help people, to take a higher paying job. So he becomes a high school history teacher in an inner city school, which in its own right, is a terrible place for an intelligent, individualistic person to be. Because, basically, that means you're waking up everyday to the same things that distresses you about American Society as we know it - there's a [censored] load of poverty coupled with a gross under-education of those people who lived in impovershed districts. And, of course, most of these people are minorities.

And so, somewhere along the lines, Gosling developed a heroin addiction. And, through that addiction, we see his pain about the society he lives in in an extremely intense, gut wrenching way. While he's killing his body because everything is seemingly hopeless, everything around him is just entirely static or becoming worse - the stories about the civil rights movement become more gruesome as the story goes on, his parents are faux liberals who equate their political affiliations with listening to music and having light conversations in the livingroom, one of Gosling's most gifted students it becoming a crack dealer.

The film is intelligent in that it doesn't get TOO dark through its ending, and yet, it refrains from beig glowingly optimistic, shunning away from providing too much resolution. In this respect, the film is more honest as to the inherent fallibility of our institutions and our humanity - the gifted history teacher may be doing heroine next week, and the gifted student may be in jail for dealing heroine by the time she's 16. But at least their going to give themselves a chance to be better human beings.
It's all we can ask for.

There is plenty that I didn't care for about the film, but most of it was necessary for the higher quality scenes / character study to exist. For instance, I've seen about 100 movies where there is a black family that is struggling, and all of them use the exact same scenes to depict the plight - mom comes home but goes right to sleep, there's a relative in jail, etc. etc. I'm not saying that this stuff doesn't go on, but it isn't exactly gripping and I would have rather seen Gosling on edge than Shareeka Epps having a lethargic conversation with her prison guard mother.

Overall, though, Half Nelson was a strong film - it had heart, it was honest, and it spoke to things that are or should be germane to us as human beings.

[tiltowhirl]

I think a whole thread could be started on Donnie Darko, saw that about a month ago for the first time. I hadn't even heard of the movie because it was going to be released right around 9/11 and they pulled it from most places because it had a scene with an airplane engine falling into a house.

9.1

[7ontheline]

I'm a lousy writer but I'll serve up a quick review for a movie I saw recently, "Curse of the Golden Flower."

This movie is Zhang Yimou's (Hero, House of Flying Daggers) latest film, a period piece detailing a story of the imperial family during the Han(?) dynasty in China. Chow-Yun Fat plays the emperor, Gong Li plays the empress, and 3 actors I don't know play the three sons (although I think the middle son is a pop star in Asia. I heard some of his music when I was in Singapore recently. meh. He's not that good of an actor either.).

As you might expect, the cinematography is quite beautiful. The bright, garish colors of the palace and its golden interior symbolize the superficial appearance of the imperial family - pretty on the outside, rotting on the inside. The family dynamic is odd, to say the least. The empress is the mother of the two younger sons, the eldest son is from before the emperor took his throne. Chow-Yun Fat plays the emperor as an intimidating bully, chilling in how he controls his family. Gong Li is incredible as the empress - there are a number of shots of only her face (kinda like Silence of the Lambs, sans the cannibalism) and the emotion she is able to portray is impressive.

There is some of the soaring, graceful martial arts in this movie for which Zhang has become known recently. It looks fine of course, although it is a bit out of place at times - the theme of this movie is a character drama, so the martial arts bits can seem a touch incongruous. Still, it is choroegraphed well.

Overall, definitely a good movie to watch. Say, 4.5 out of 5. You should note that it is in Mandarin Chinese and subtitled in English, if that bothers any of you.

Oh, one last thing. The actresses in this movie all wear really tight dresses that push up their breasts way into view. (The breasts are admittedly small, but c'mon, they're Chinese.) Just a little bonus. My wife was complaining that this was historically inaccurate. I tried to convince her to wear dresses like this around the house, but no dice.

[Boris]

Barry - I agree that Gosling was good in Half Nelson. My problem with the flick is that the Gosling character was such a horrible weak piece of [censored] for a human being, that I couldn't enjoy the film.

[Dids]

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I think a whole thread could be started on Donnie Darko, saw that about a month ago for the first time. I hadn't even heard of the movie because it was going to be released right around 9/11 and they pulled it from most places because it had a scene with an airplane engine falling into a house.

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There is some very good deconstruction of Donny Darko on Salon.com. I'd suggest checking that out if you're interested.

[The Yugoslavian]

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Wow. I gotta disagree with the Ninja Scroll review. I love it. I've recommended it to quite a few people and never heard of someone coming away dissatisfied.

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I used to love it, but now that I have watched a lot more anime I like it a lot less. It's a nice action flick but there's minimal character development and it's hardly an epic story. It's certainly a fun film to watch but there are far better films out there. Excellent if you just want some pretty violence though, especially considering how old it is.

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Yeah, I guess I was really expecting an epic story and stuff from reviews I had read and such. But I did think it was good (3/5 stars), I simply didn't think it was very good or great. Also, like quite a bit of anime that I've been watching from the early 90s, it looks a bit outdated IMO. I mean it still looks good and the action is pretty sweet but I dno, just not as good as a lot of more recent stuff.

Yugoslav

[The Yugoslavian]

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I think a whole thread could be started on Donnie Darko, saw that about a month ago for the first time. I hadn't even heard of the movie because it was going to be released right around 9/11 and they pulled it from most places because it had a scene with an airplane engine falling into a house.

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There is some very good deconstruction of Donny Darko on Salon.com. I'd suggest checking that out if you're interested.

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Good movie but I'm pretty sure the dude that created it or wrote it or whomever was ultimately responsible for the concept had no idea wtf was going on himself...like it's just not possible. Doesn't mean it wouldn't be a "super cool" discussion thread for the new SUPER COOL forum!

Yugoslav

[Golden_Rhino]

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I can't see Jersey Girl being anything above a 2.5 on a 1-5 scale.

It's just such a meh movie. It wasn't horrible, it wasn't great. It was just kinda there. Mostly it confirmed for me that Smith's really at his best making dick jokes and should avoid any attempt to be taken seriously or make a point.

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I am the only person I know that really enjoyed Jersey Girl (and this is the first time I have ever admitted it to anyone but myself).

Affleck was a bit of a cartoon character, but I'll give him and Smith some credit and say that it was by design. After the loss of his wife, he was dead, and all his actions reflected that.

I really liked George Carlin's character. Maybe it's because I come from working people, but I felt a real connection with him. I think him and Affleck had some chemistry, and their scenes together were very good.

I would give the movie an 8.5/10. (Keep in mind that I can usually find a redeeming quality in pretty much any movie, and have a soft spot for directors that try really hard to put their heart into a movie).

[Alobar]

Rhino,

I also really liked this movie as well. I found it touching and well done and very enjoyable.

I never quite understood all the hate it got and figure its all due to bennifer backlash and people hating it simply because they read everyone else saying they hate it. I can understand people not liking the movie as much as I did, but to just flat out say it sucks and is total crap (like so many people say) I just dont get *shrug*

[The Yugoslavian]

rhino,

Ben did a great job with a couple scenes (especially the part where he "dies" as you already mentioned) but overall I think him as the PR guy didn't work well enough for me to connect to his character as much as I wanted to.

The little girl was awesome and George Carlin was awesome too ofc. The cute video store chick was meh IMO....also, most Smith movies are amazing b/c of the dialog and while it was good in this one it wasn't that stand out and apart from the Will Smith/Ben Affleck scene I really wasn't moved by it at all.

Oh, one completely unrelated thing - I always spell dialogue with the u and e at the end...but Firefox indicated that I'm wrong....am I really? Is there an actual difference? Am I secretly British or something retarded like that?

Yugoslav

[Golden_Rhino]

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rhino,

Ben did a great job with a couple scenes (especially the part where he "dies" as you already mentioned) but overall I think him as the PR guy didn't work well enough for me to connect to his character as much as I wanted to.

The little girl was awesome and George Carlin was awesome too ofc. The cute video store chick was meh IMO....also, most Smith movies are amazing b/c of the dialog and while it was good in this one it wasn't that stand out and apart from the Will Smith/Ben Affleck scene I really wasn't moved by it at all.

Oh, one completely unrelated thing - I always spell dialogue with the u and e at the end...but Firefox indicated that I'm wrong....am I really? Is there an actual difference? Am I secretly British or something retarded like that?

Yugoslav

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Americans spell it Dialog (it looks funny to me)

Canadians and Brits spell it Dialogue.

For some reason we spell a lot of words differently (e.g. centre, center; flavour, flavor; about, aboot etc....)

I actually knew the reason why, but I can't for the life of me remember.

[Claunchy]

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Americans spell it Dialog

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No we don't; at least not usually. I think it might technically be right. We do spell analog without the -ue though.

[Dids]

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I think a whole thread could be started on Donnie Darko, saw that about a month ago for the first time. I hadn't even heard of the movie because it was going to be released right around 9/11 and they pulled it from most places because it had a scene with an airplane engine falling into a house.

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There is some very good deconstruction of Donny Darko on Salon.com. I'd suggest checking that out if you're interested.

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Good movie but I'm pretty sure the dude that created it or wrote it or whomever was ultimately responsible for the concept had no idea wtf was going on himself...like it's just not possible. Doesn't mean it wouldn't be a "super cool" discussion thread for the new SUPER COOL forum!

Yugoslav

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Yugo,

Go read the stuff on salon. The movie is a lot more planned out and developed than you think. The DVD extras help as well.

[Golden_Rhino]

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Americans spell it Dialog

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No we don't; at least not usually. I think it might technically be right. We do spell analog without the -ue though.

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Sorry for presenting it as fact. I have seen it spelled that way many times, and I double checked a dictionary to make sure. Is it possible that different regions in the US spell it differently??

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We also spell it analog (well, at least I do. I won't speak for all of Canada).

[KDawg]

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I can't see Jersey Girl being anything above a 2.5 on a 1-5 scale.

It's just such a meh movie. It wasn't horrible, it wasn't great. It was just kinda there. Mostly it confirmed for me that Smith's really at his best making dick jokes and should avoid any attempt to be taken seriously or make a point.

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dids, I fully agree with this assesment. Its a film that if its on the channel I'm watching, I won't neccessarily change the channel, but I certainly won't seek it out. It got a lot more play because of all of the benifer junk, and granted that put a lot of hate on it, but really it was just a blah movie and is filled with cheap cliches and so-so writing. What it really shows is how limited of a director Smith is(like you noted) and that he should stay with what he's good at

[The Yugoslavian]

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Americans spell it Dialog

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No we don't; at least not usually. I think it might technically be right. We do spell analog without the -ue though.

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SO AM I A RETARDED CANADIAN/BRITAINAN OR AM I A SMART AND SUPERIOR AMERICAN GODDAMNIT?!?!

Yugoslav

[Claunchy]

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Americans spell it Dialog

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No we don't; at least not usually. I think it might technically be right. We do spell analog without the -ue though.

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SO AM I A RETARDED CANADIAN/BRITAINAN OR AM I A SMART AND SUPERIOR AMERICAN GODDAMNIT?!?!

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Firefox seems to think the former. Firefox knows everything.

[7ontheline]

Yugo,

Any recommendations on anime movies or recent TV series then? I've watched quite a bit - of course I liked all the Miyazaki movies and the Satoshi Kon films, although I haven't watched Paranoia Agent. I enjoyed the X, Trigun, Gungrave, Azumanga Daioh, ROD, Berserk, and Last Exile series, among others.

[The Yugoslavian]

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Americans spell it Dialog

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No we don't; at least not usually. I think it might technically be right. We do spell analog without the -ue though.

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SO AM I A RETARDED CANADIAN/BRITAINAN OR AM I A SMART AND SUPERIOR AMERICAN GODDAMNIT?!?!

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Firefox seems to think the former. Firefox knows everything.

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*sigh*

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Yugoslav

[The Yugoslavian]

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Yugo,

Any recommendations on anime movies or recent TV series then? I've watched quite a bit - of course I liked all the Miyazaki movies and the Satoshi Kon films, although I haven't watched Paranoia Agent. I enjoyed the X, Trigun, Gungrave, Azumanga Daioh, ROD, Berserk, and Last Exile series, among others.

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Yeah see, I've only been watching anime for maybe the last year so you're already ahead of me. I really liked Rurouni Kenshin (ESPECIALLY the OVAs trust &amp; betrayal). One cool series I just finished is Kino's Journey. It prolly isn't for everyone but I really liked the philosophical tone and thought experiment type situations it presented. The story is fairly laid back with this girl (not hot, fairly boyish) who travels from country to country....each country has like some weird flaw or twist (like in one machines do all the work and ppl don't talk with each other). Oh, and I also thought the talking motorcycle was funny, /images/graemlins/grin.gif.

One extremely good series (only like 13 eps tho) you don't mention is Elfen Lied. It's twisted/cute/funny/sad/sexy/repugnant/everything else all in one.

I should prolly be asking you for recommendations though, /images/graemlins/wink.gif.

Yugoslav

[El Diablo]

tilt,

Donnie Darko, including a nice collection of links from TME: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&amp;Number=4976589&amp;an=&amp;page=0&amp;vc=1

and at least one more after that:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&amp;Number=7471207&amp;an=&amp;page=0&amp;vc=1

[kitaristi0]

I watched Blade Runner for the first time ever a few nights ago and was thoroughly unimpressed. Sure for a movie made 25 years ago the visual aspects were phenomenal, but apart from that I didn't like it at all. It was very slowpaced to the point where it just felt sluggish, like it wasn't going anywhere. It also never built up to anything.

It could just be that my expectations coming into the film were wrong. I always thought it was just a standard fast-paced action movie with lots of shooting, so maybe if I watched it a second time I would appreciate it more. After one watch I'd give it a mediocre 4/10.

I also watched the new Rocky movie, Rocky Balboa, and unsurprisingly it sucked. Whereas the older Rocky movies are at least fun to watch, this one was just boring from start to finish. Finally when the training scene and the big fight at the end came I thought it might get good but it was all a huge letdown. I didn't have my expectations very high going into this and it still managed to disappoint. 2/10, at best.

[jester710]

I saw Idiocracy this weekend. It's a Mike Judge (creator of Office Space, King of the Hill, and Beavis &amp; Butt-Head for those who don't know the name) film starring Luke Wilson and Maya Rudolph.

The basic plot is that Luke Wilson is the most average guy in the Army, and so he's chosen for an experiment in which he's in suspended animation for a year. Things go wrong, and he ends up in the year 2500. However, due to the fact that stupid people breed more than smart people, society has dumbed down to the point that he's the smartest man alive.

I was pretty disappointed with it, but I had high hopes given that I'm a big Office Space and KOTH fan. It was basically a one-joke premise (and even the requisite Stephen Root cameo was a disappointment), but it did deliver a few laughs. I'd say rent it if you're desperate for something to watch, but all in all I'd say give it a miss. 4/10

[CharlieDontSurf]

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I watched Blade Runner for the first time ever a few nights ago and was thoroughly unimpressed. Sure for a movie made 25 years ago the visual aspects were phenomenal, but apart from that I didn't like it at all. It was very slowpaced to the point where it just felt sluggish, like it wasn't going anywhere. It also never built up to anything.

It could just be that my expectations coming into the film were wrong. I always thought it was just a standard fast-paced action movie with lots of shooting, so maybe if I watched it a second time I would appreciate it more. After one watch I'd give it a mediocre 4/10.

I also watched the new Rocky movie, Rocky Balboa, and unsurprisingly it sucked. Whereas the older Rocky movies are at least fun to watch, this one was just boring from start to finish. Finally when the training scene and the big fight at the end came I thought it might get good but it was all a huge letdown. I didn't have my expectations very high going into this and it still managed to disappoint. 2/10, at best.

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Bladerunner is the [censored]...but I could see it not being well liked by many.
Do you typically not like slower movies in general?

Did you like Unbreakable, The Thin Red Line, The Prestige, most Kubrick films, etc

[kitaristi0]

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I watched Blade Runner for the first time ever a few nights ago and was thoroughly unimpressed. Sure for a movie made 25 years ago the visual aspects were phenomenal, but apart from that I didn't like it at all. It was very slowpaced to the point where it just felt sluggish, like it wasn't going anywhere. It also never built up to anything.

It could just be that my expectations coming into the film were wrong. I always thought it was just a standard fast-paced action movie with lots of shooting, so maybe if I watched it a second time I would appreciate it more. After one watch I'd give it a mediocre 4/10.

I also watched the new Rocky movie, Rocky Balboa, and unsurprisingly it sucked. Whereas the older Rocky movies are at least fun to watch, this one was just boring from start to finish. Finally when the training scene and the big fight at the end came I thought it might get good but it was all a huge letdown. I didn't have my expectations very high going into this and it still managed to disappoint. 2/10, at best.

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Bladerunner is the [censored]...but I could see it not being well liked by many.
Do you typically not like slower movies in general?

Did you like Unbreakable, The Thin Red Line, The Prestige, most Kubrick films, etc

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I don't think I've seen any of the movies you mentioned, except The Shining and Dr. Strangelove, neither of which I thought was particularly good, though not bad either.

Would you consider Lost in Translation, Sideways and Capote to be slower movies? Because if yes, then I love slower movies.

The more I think about it the more I think I should watch Blade Runner again, this time focusing on the little things rather than waiting for a big action packed gunfight scene to the death at the end.

[PokerFink]

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Would you consider Lost in Translation, Sideways and Capote to be slower movies? Because if yes, then I love slower movies.

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Lost in Translation is a little slow, but not that much. Sideways isn't slow at all. Haven't seen Capote. Something like Eyes Wide Shut is way slower than any of those.

[CharlieDontSurf]

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I watched Blade Runner for the first time ever a few nights ago and was thoroughly unimpressed. Sure for a movie made 25 years ago the visual aspects were phenomenal, but apart from that I didn't like it at all. It was very slowpaced to the point where it just felt sluggish, like it wasn't going anywhere. It also never built up to anything.

It could just be that my expectations coming into the film were wrong. I always thought it was just a standard fast-paced action movie with lots of shooting, so maybe if I watched it a second time I would appreciate it more. After one watch I'd give it a mediocre 4/10.

I also watched the new Rocky movie, Rocky Balboa, and unsurprisingly it sucked. Whereas the older Rocky movies are at least fun to watch, this one was just boring from start to finish. Finally when the training scene and the big fight at the end came I thought it might get good but it was all a huge letdown. I didn't have my expectations very high going into this and it still managed to disappoint. 2/10, at best.

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Bladerunner is the [censored]...but I could see it not being well liked by many.
Do you typically not like slower movies in general?

Did you like Unbreakable, The Thin Red Line, The Prestige, most Kubrick films, etc

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I don't think I've seen any of the movies you mentioned, except The Shining and Dr. Strangelove, neither of which I thought was particularly good, though not bad either.

Would you consider Lost in Translation, Sideways and Capote to be slower movies? Because if yes, then I love slower movies.

The more I think about it the more I think I should watch Blade Runner again, this time focusing on the little things rather than waiting for a big action packed gunfight scene to the death at the end.

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Lost in Translation yes..because there was never much of a script.
Sideways, Capote...def no.

[Jurollo]

Pan's Labyrinth was very very very good. I am going to see it again.

[tiltowhirl]

Wow nice links to dd, i feel like watching it again now.

As for Bladerunner, that movie has many more layers than you think at first. I remember a course called Quest for Human Destiny at the U of Iowa and a quarter of the semester was devoted to analysis of the film. Ridley Scott did a masterful job directing and I think he is doing that Numb3rs show on CBS which I like as well &gt;&gt; CSI

[NajdorfDefense]

How can Stealth ever get above a 4-5?

[meep_42]

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I'm a lousy writer but I'll serve up a quick review for a movie I saw recently, "Curse of the Golden Flower."

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Are the fight scenes more like Crouching Tiger or Flying Daggers?

I disliked the flying fighting and treetop fights in Crouching Tiger but generally have no problems with the somewhat more believable and I was wondering if I'd like this.

Thanks,

-d

[Hoya]

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I'm a lousy writer but I'll serve up a quick review for a movie I saw recently, "Curse of the Golden Flower."



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I liked Hero and really liked House of Flying Daggers, but I thought Curse of the Golden Flower was much weaker. Sure, it was pretty, but I found the plot uninteresting, the characters absurd, the acting way over the top, and the action too staged and stale. 2/5.

[LuckOfTheDraw]

I thought Accepted was horrible.

[7ontheline]

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Are the fight scenes more like Crouching Tiger or Flying Daggers?

I disliked the flying fighting and treetop fights in Crouching Tiger but generally have no problems with the somewhat more believable and I was wondering if I'd like this.

Thanks,

-d

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More like Flying Daggers. Ang Lee directed Crouching Tiger.

[7ontheline]

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I liked Hero and really liked House of Flying Daggers, but I thought Curse of the Golden Flower was much weaker. Sure, it was pretty, but I found the plot uninteresting, the characters absurd, the acting way over the top, and the action too staged and stale. 2/5.

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I didn't like Hero as much, actually. Not that I disliked it or anything, but I thought it was only OK. Well, whatever. Certainly if you're looking for an action movie this is not the right movie to watch. Personally I thought both Chow-Yun Fat and Gong Li were really good. The guys playing their sons, not so much.

[Hoya]

I thought Chow's acting was very good, although I found his character to be poorly written and poory developed. On the other hand, I thought that Gong Li made a little too liberal use of histrionics (as did the kids). I think the characters broke into tears at least 15 times in the film. It got old.

[grouchie]

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Pan's Labyrinth

Extremely good. The cinemetography and sound is unqiue, creating a glowing, surreal world both inside and outside the labyrinth. Very good acting with an engaging story and deep characters.

Despite the misleading advertising, THIS IS NOT FOR CHILDREN. From the trailers, I thought most of the film was going to be a Tim Burton-esque trip through a labyrinth dream world. This is not the case. Very little time is spent in the labyrinth (twenty minutes maybe?); most of the film is a war story. And it's quite violent. But the war story is quite good by itself, and contrasts wonderfully with the labyrinth.

A must-see. http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/600/79002792bf5.gif

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I'm going to quote this because it is one of the best movies i have seen in a really long time.

[SpicyF]

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spicyf,

Ive only seen 2 GGW videos and both were several years ago. They sucked EXTREMELY hard. It was a bunch of staged crap and really bad porno scenes. But im seeing like 20 GGW commercials an hour on comedycentral and its making me want to give it a second shot. Did the video you watch contain lots of bad acting and rigid, stale porno scenes?

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There is no straight up porn in this one, you get to see alot of boobs and two hot chicks having fun (seperatly). Also there is no acting, well, it can be acting but I didn't really care. /images/graemlins/heart.gif

[SpicyF]

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How can Stealth ever get above a 4-5?

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I see your point, the movie itself isn't that great. But I love Jamie Foxx and obviously I love Jessica Biel. Josh Lucas is also an actor which I enjoy watching. My scoring is how I saw the movie, not what I think the general concensus of the world thinks about it.

[luckychewy]

I thought 'The Illusionist' was pretty cool and had a good ending.

[Golden_Rhino]

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I thought 'The Illusionist' was pretty cool and had a good ending.

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Most people seemed to really like this movie, but for some reason, I didn't like it at all. I have been thinking about why I didn't like it since I have seen it. It had all the components of movies that I have liked in the past: good acting, good script, and very nice camera work. I still can't out my finger on what I didn't like about it, but I felt like there was something missing.

[LuckOfTheDraw]

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I thought 'The Illusionist' was pretty cool and had a good ending.

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I enjoyed most of this movie but hated the ending.

!!!!!!!!!SPOILER!!!!!!!!!

<font color="white"> I'm really sick of the realization montage scenes at the end of movies, where everything obvious comes together. The ending of The Illusionist is a prime examples. Plus, I would have liked everything to end up being somewhat more magical and mystical. </font>

[El Diablo]

Spicy,

First off, nobody can question your integrity when you give Stealth over a 6. I think you should, however, reveal how many extra bonus points you gave the movie just because it had a talking plane.

[SpicyF]

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Spicy,

First off, nobody can question your integrity when you give Stealth over a 6. I think you should, however, reveal how many extra bonus points you gave the movie just because it had a talking plane.

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Diablo,

i will admit to giving it about 2.8 extra scorejust because of Jessica Biels boobs. However, this talking plane, did have a really gay sounding voice. So given that fact that it was talking, the sound just made it a non-factor in this movie. However this talking plane did download every single mp3 off the internet, that probarbly prompted a 0.4 bump in the score right there.

[Vavavoom]

In the past few weeks :

The Pursuit Of Happyness

I thought this was a good film. I know it has been labelled "The Pursuit Of An Oscar", but I think Wil Smith plays the role really well... Bearing in mind its based on a true story, and the ending is pretty much a given, I still think its a good film..

The Last King Of Scotland

Not the sort of film I would normally go to see...But extremely entertaining and gives an insight into what was really going on inside of Idi Amins head.... Forrest Whittaker ftw on the Best Actor front at the Oscars...

Apocalypto

OMFG - Awesome....Possibly one of the cest films I have seen at the cinema in a very long time...Even though it was in subtitles - The action is relentless...Mel Gibson = WOW !

Blood Diamond

Leo has surprised me again with this role....And along with The Departed has shown that he can do the more gritty acting...I thought this was a harrowing film as it told a story that is often untold....I won't post no spoilers, but throughout the film, you really have no idea what is going to happen...That and Jennifer Connelly is definitely worth leaving Africa for....

Seen a few others this year as well, but Employee Of The Month is absolutely rubbish apart from J.Simpson's Breasts....and White Noise 2...Well lets just say was even more of a Joke... And Rocky Balboa was a fitting end to a great Saga...


Vava

[CharlieDontSurf]

[ QUOTE ]
In the past few weeks :

The Pursuit Of Happyness

I thought this was a good film. I know it has been labelled "The Pursuit Of An Oscar", but I think Wil Smith plays the role really well... Bearing in mind its based on a true story, and the ending is pretty much a given, I still think its a good film..

The Last King Of Scotland

Not the sort of film I would normally go to see...But extremely entertaining and gives an insight into what was really going on inside of Idi Amins head.... Forrest Whittaker ftw on the Best Actor front at the Oscars...

Apocalypto

OMFG - Awesome....Possibly one of the cest films I have seen at the cinema in a very long time...Even though it was in subtitles - The action is relentless...Mel Gibson = WOW !

Blood Diamond

Leo has surprised me again with this role....And along with The Departed has shown that he can do the more gritty acting...I thought this was a harrowing film as it told a story that is often untold....I won't post no spoilers, but throughout the film, you really have no idea what is going to happen...That and Jennifer Connelly is definitely worth leaving Africa for....

Seen a few others this year as well, but Employee Of The Month is absolutely rubbish apart from J.Simpson's Breasts....and White Noise 2...Well lets just say was even more of a Joke... And Rocky Balboa was a fitting end to a great Saga...


Vava

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vava...can u just imagine turning over in bed and seeing that face of Connelly. damn is she stunning. rest of her body is great too

[Golden_Rhino]

[ QUOTE ]
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In the past few weeks :

The Pursuit Of Happyness

I thought this was a good film. I know it has been labelled "The Pursuit Of An Oscar", but I think Wil Smith plays the role really well... Bearing in mind its based on a true story, and the ending is pretty much a given, I still think its a good film..

The Last King Of Scotland

Not the sort of film I would normally go to see...But extremely entertaining and gives an insight into what was really going on inside of Idi Amins head.... Forrest Whittaker ftw on the Best Actor front at the Oscars...

Apocalypto

OMFG - Awesome....Possibly one of the cest films I have seen at the cinema in a very long time...Even though it was in subtitles - The action is relentless...Mel Gibson = WOW !

Blood Diamond

Leo has surprised me again with this role....And along with The Departed has shown that he can do the more gritty acting...I thought this was a harrowing film as it told a story that is often untold....I won't post no spoilers, but throughout the film, you really have no idea what is going to happen...That and Jennifer Connelly is definitely worth leaving Africa for....

Seen a few others this year as well, but Employee Of The Month is absolutely rubbish apart from J.Simpson's Breasts....and White Noise 2...Well lets just say was even more of a Joke... And Rocky Balboa was a fitting end to a great Saga...


Vava

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vava...can u just imagine turning over in bed and seeing that face of Connelly. damn is she stunning. rest of her body is great too

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Pretty much every guy I know who is my age has this image from "Career Opportunities" burned into his skull.

http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/981/bm3055jenniferconnellyciy6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[luckychewy]

luckofthedraw,

'Plus, I would have liked everything to end up being somewhat more magical and mystical.'

without giving anything away to others, didn't you think the movie itself and the ending were magical and mystical enough?

[LuckOfTheDraw]

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luckofthedraw,

'Plus, I would have liked everything to end up being somewhat more magical and mystical.'

without giving anything away to others, didn't you think the movie itself and the ending were magical and mystical enough?

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The rest of the movie did have a cool enigmatic and mystical vibe to it, and I enjoyed it. But, I felt the ending retracted much of what I liked about the movie.

More in white:

<font color="white"> They really took away a lot of the mystery away by showing the schematics to the orange tree. It just reinforced the feeling that, when all was said and done, it was all still just clever smoke and mirrors. </font>

[PokerFink]

This is what I've seen lately. Note that I rate movies based on how much I enjoyed them, not necessarily how good they are in a critical sense.

8 1/2: While I'm not a big fan of foreign or older movies, I'd heard such great things about this film that I put it right at the top of my queue as soon as I got Netflix. It's very interesting and a little bizarre at times. The whole movie is dubbed over (in Italian), which I really disliked. It took away some of the emotion and the dubbing was done rather poorly - it was distracting even though I was reading the subtitles. While I wouldn’t put it up there with my favorite classics, I did enjoy it.
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March of the Penguins: Fantastic! Admittedly, I'm somewhat of a sucker for animals and I watch the nature or discovery channels sometimes. But this was absolutely fascinating. The visuals are great, and their life story is amazing. It's also cool to see their human-like displays of affection towards mates and chicks. Plus they're fat, they waddle, and they fall over. Good times.
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Confessions of a Dangerous Mind: This has been at the top of my "movies to see" list for a long time. Most of the movie is an actual profile of Barris - a lot less time is spent on his alleged CIA exploits than I thought there would be. Perhaps I just expected the wrong thing. While I was entertained, I was disappointed as well.
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[El Diablo]

All,

I saw two movies in the last week that sucked hard.

One was The Benchwarmers starring Jon Lovitz, David Spade, Rob Schneider, and Napoleon Dynamite. Lovitz is the billionaire who sponsors those three guys to play for the rights of picked on nerd kids everywhere. It's a dumb premise and a dumb movie. However, half of it was on in the background when I was doing something else and I couldn't help but watch the rest. It was REALLY, REALLY, REALLY bad. Jon Heder plays the exact same character as in Napoleon Dynamite. David Spade plays a dorkier version of his standard character. JOn Lovitz plays the same guy he always plays. And Rob Schneider stretches a bit and plays a guy that is not part-animal or anything like that. The only positive thing about this movie is the two love interests, Molly Sims and Erinn Bartlett. They are hot.

Four Brothers was the other. This features Marky Mark and Andre Benjamin from Outkast, but it's not a musical. It's the sort of dumb movie I generally like involving shooting and revenge and lots of action. Except that the story was unbelievably stupid and the acting was even worse. Very, very bad. I will say that it was NOT QUITE as bad as the Benchwarmers.

[Bicycles_Biatch]

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smokin aces was a lot worse than i thought it would be

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I thought it was a lot better than I thought it would be.

[Bicycles_Biatch]

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I can't see Jersey Girl being anything above a 2.5 on a 1-5 scale.

It's just such a meh movie. It wasn't horrible, it wasn't great. It was just kinda there. Mostly it confirmed for me that Smith's really at his best making dick jokes and should avoid any attempt to be taken seriously or make a point.

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Are you kidding me... Jersey Girl is a 5+++ you get to see J.LO die.

[Bicycles_Biatch]

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I think a whole thread could be started on Donnie Darko, saw that about a month ago for the first time. I hadn't even heard of the movie because it was going to be released right around 9/11 and they pulled it from most places because it had a scene with an airplane engine falling into a house.

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totally disagree... I think this movie tried SO hard to be an indie flick / cult classic that anything genuine in the plot or the acting was totally lost.

[LyinKing]

Pan's Labyrinth was sheer drivel. I am confounded by the praise foisted on this film.

[Bicycles_Biatch]

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The Pursuit Of Happyness

I thought this was a good film. I know it has been labelled "The Pursuit Of An Oscar", but I think Wil Smith plays the role really well... Bearing in mind its based on a true story, and the ending is pretty much a given, I still think its a good film..

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I didn't see this movie yet [and I probably will because I like Will Smith] but my father and I had a huge laugh when we saw the trailer.

In CA now, before the regular trailers, there are like 20 minutes of little documentaries. One of them was on the making of this movie and it was SOOO melo-dramatic.

Lines like:

"how much would you sacrafice for the ones you love"

"would you rise to the challenge"

"the story of real love, real responsibility, and real sacrafice"...

COME ON... it's about a guy who got a JOB and took care of his son. Those are thing you are SUPPOSE to do...

what a joke.

that being said, I still probably see it.

[LyinKing]

Pursuit of Happyness was good in the fulfilling, generic, has-to-have-happy ending American audience vibe.

The Good Shepherd is the best film to come out since Syriana. Essentially flawless.

[hanster]

This thread could not have come at a better time.

Last week was midterms week, thus I spent a lot of time in front of the computer, trying to study. Except that I have a lot of movies I haven't seen that's in my harddrive, so...
(these are actually seen within the past week, including one today. [I refuse to give rating systems because I see it as a pure enjoyment, even a bad movie. I just separate them into how much I like or dislike it.])

In no particular order (some famous ones don't require introduction so I will void it):
Good Will Hunting: I saw this movie before I moved to America 8 years ago, in Chinese nonetheless. I watched it numerous times on cable but never as a whole movie. I finally got my hands on it and wow it was a freaking awesome movie. You could already see greatness of Damon in the film.

Mystic River: Great movie. Great acting. Definitely an Oscar-worthy film.

Oldboy: A Korean film based on a man who was innocently imprisoned for 15 years and has 5 days to seek revenge. I enjoyed this movie although it might be a little bit too bloody for some. The leading actor does an awesome job in convincing the viewers his hatred and regret.

Pan's Labyrinth: ED and Alobar has said enough.

Last King in Scotland: I had seen Blood Diamond when it first came out, and when i was filling out my "bracket" for Oscar winners I bubbled in Leo's name without hesitation. Boy, was I wrong. Forest Whitaker FTW

Babel: Utterly disappointing. I think the director tried a little bit too hard about making this movie touch people like Crash did, but to no avail. Not Golden Globe or Oscar worthy. I did go into this movie with a VERY high expectation

21 Grams: This movie made me depressed for a minute or two. I liked Charlize Theron at the time she won the Oscar, but I think Naomi Watts was jacked of an Oscar for her performance in this movie. Sean Penn was intense and great as usual.

Saving Private Ryan: Another movie that I never saw as a whole. Definitely up there.

A Beautiful Mind: So many times I have told people that I am a "movie-person" but had never seen A Beautiful Mind. After seeing it I found out how much of a poser I was really, especially being an econ major. (lol.) One of the best films I've seen in my short life.

A lot of these movies are old (within the past 10 years) but I hope my list will make some people go "ah that movie was great maybe I'll watch it again". 06 was a down year for movies and 07 started slow, maybe it is time to go back and watch some good classics. As a matter of fact, I will watch The Godfather for the 9999th time tonight.

[Osprey]

A Scanner Darkly: Extremely good. Funny, bizarre, opaque, difficult to understand. By far the closest I have ever seen anyone get to the feel of Philip K. Dick.

[traz]

The last movie I saw was Smokin Aces. It's an over-the-top action movie, but fairly entertaining. A fairly decent plot twist at the end. The best part of the movie is Alicia Keys...my god she's beautiful.

[XXXNoahXXX]

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I can't see Jersey Girl being anything above a 2.5 on a 1-5 scale.

It's just such a meh movie. It wasn't horrible, it wasn't great. It was just kinda there. Mostly it confirmed for me that Smith's really at his best making dick jokes and should avoid any attempt to be taken seriously or make a point.

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Are you kidding me... Jersey Girl is a 5+++ you get to see J.LO die.

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OMG SPOILERS IN WHITE!!!!

[nyc999]

Only movie I saw this past week was <u>Little Miss Sunshine</u>. I give it 3 out of 5 stars (using the Netflix rating which means 'I like it').

Overall, I thought it was pretty funny and fairly entertaining, but I was somewhat disappointed. It's primarily because the movie has been so overhyped that I was expecting something spectacular.

[CharlieDontSurf]

Aaron Eckhart has been cast as Harvey/Dent/Two Face in the next Batman picutre