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LOL! I don't know. But if I ever come across one, I'll keep going back to that scene. His body is awesome. He's a very nice looking man.
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I watched Charlie St. Cloud. It was an okay movie. I liked it but it almost became predictable. Zac Efron does nothing for me. LOL! I text my sister who is in college and asked did she think he was cute. I heard the young girls like him. Obviously I made myself sound old to her. LOL but she agreed with me. He does nothing for her. LOLAlso I started Avatar last night. This movie didn't appeal to me when it was in the theatre but this is what happens when you make a bargain with your man. He watches sappy movies with you and you have to watch the stuff he wants. I find myself not enjoying this but I'm going to finish it today b/c I fell asleep on it.
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My 10 yr old niece and all her pre/teen counterparts are head over heels for him.
I agree the movie was boooring and really very predictable. Kinda poorly acted too, mostly the little boy and Efron's love interest (who I thought was ... not attractive). I also think she's far too skinny on screen which means she's even skinnier in real life because the camera adds a few pounds to ya. Did not like.
LOL about Avatar. Can you watch it in 3D on your TV? If yes, then by not seeing it at the movies you haven't missed out on anything. But do I want a piece of Sam Worthington? You betcha! :)
LOL! He's rather young but I wonder what they see. But oh well. I finished Avatar this morning. It was okay. I liked it more as it got towards the end. It was too long imo. Sam Worthington is hot! I agree.
Now I'm off to catch a movie at the theatre...I'll let you ladies know what I see :)
Today I went to see Blue Valentine. I really did enjoy this film. There was something missing to make me love it. I haven't quite figured it out yet, I'm still trying to process it. Ryan Gosling did a great job. I like him as an actor. There is something mildly attractive about him. I don't know what though. LOL. His character had a lot more depth and emotion than Michelle Williams. Speaking of her...she honestly don't move me. I'm still waiting for the day where she has this breakout performance. Even when she is emotional, she has a blandness to her. I don't buy it. IDK, maybe its just me. So anyway, the movie features them as a married couple but it displays their love story in different time frames. That was my biggest pet peeve. The scenes changing back and forth and you really didn't know what was going on. Eventually I adjusted but I got confused in the beginning. I saw a lot of myself in this story. Its basically about the triumphs and the heartache in any relationship. Love is hard and there are moments when you really don't know. The relationship was soooo real in this film. One thing that I love was the music and how well it fit the scenes. Superb job at that. Enough...I don't want to give anything away.Then I saw True Grit. I'm not a western fan but I still wanted to see this. I like and dislike this film in equal measure. Jeff Bridges did a great job but I found it hard to understand him at first. The young female actress annoyed me. I found the dialogue great and I enjoyed Matt Damon and the other fellow. He showed up towards the end. Some parts of the film moved slow for me. Overall, it was an okay film for me.
Just saw The Social Network. During the entire first scene as Jesse Eisenberg is talking in that machine-gun dialogue delivery style that is typical Aaron Sorkin, I thought to myself 'Man that sounds very Sorkin-esque' And sure enough his name came up in the credits as the writer. I liked it a lot better than I thought I would. Loved the structure and man, it really makes Zuckerberg out to be simultaneously brilliant, and ass and actually kinda pitiful.
I was incredibly impressed with Armand Hammer who played the Winkelvoss twins. He is incredibly nice to look at and he plays the characters with a nice understated humor.
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The film took a rather mundane, everyday occurrence (the breakup of a relationship) and presented it in a way that was very cautionary and thought-provoking, but not preachy.
The inability to communicate due to differences in social background, education and ambition and that fatalistic sense of being trapped as a result was very well put across to me. Absolutely brilliant.
I too was more able to sympathise with Gosling's character, though Williams' character was clearly very much a victim as well. I think that was more because it was her. Not that I don't like her. I do, but another actress would've probably elicited more emotion from me.
She did a good job overall though. I was able to see and more importantly feel her character's despair, and these days, with all the fame whores out there who can't act for sh!t, if an actor's able to get any kind of reaction from me I'm happy.
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I agree about Michelle Williams. At first she was cold and distant IMO. Then, as I continued to watch I knew she was a victim. However, I think that I didn't care about her character due to her acting abilities as I said earlier. So I watched Inception last night. I'll go over and talk about that.
I just finished watching Inception. Has anyone see Devil?
Who is in Devil? I don't remember that.I woke up to Karate Kid with Jaden Smith. Cute kid. Taraji reminds me of my mother. LOL. Not a bad job to the remake. I think Jaden could go far with his acting career. However, I know there was some flack b/c of his attitude in interviews.
I'm not sure whose in Devil other than Bokeem Woodbine(sp?). I think I may just lay around and reading and/ or watching movies all day. I definitely plan to watch M. Knight Shylaman's Devil. I've been meaning to see that one for a really long time now.
I'm going to look this up. I plan to clean and watch movies all day too. I have a lot to catch up on so today is the perfect day for it :)
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I don't always care for M. Knight Shylaman! I don't always get it. Though I did likst the Last Airbender but that was b/c I've seen the cartoons and he didn't really subtract or add anything that wasn't in the cartoon.I liked Panic Room.
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Is Airbender thrilling, scary or suspenseful? I might have to change my mind and see it.
I did like Panic Room, but I don't particularly care for Jodie Foster (her facial expressions are just weird) and Kristen Stewart ... well she has no facial expression at all.
None of the above D! I guess if I had to label it, I would say thrilling.
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I think Jaden is going places. I saw A LOT of his dad in him. The way he talked, his mannerisms. He's his daddy's boy alright.
How is he in interviews? Is he a diva already at such a young age?
They claim he acts like a brat. Poor baby! He's over confident and arrogant. I don't know how true this is but there was brief talk about his behavior.
I finally got around to watching The Blindside today. I'm not sure how I feel. I liked the movie but part me of didn't really care for it anyone. Too many racial comments in there for my taste. I do like Sandra Bullock and Tim McGraw.
I think with confident, bright parents like Will Smith and Jada Pinkett, Willow and Jaden can't help to be overconfident. The problem is, the public don't like people to appear too confident. Kanye (yes, I love me some Kanye) once said 'People want you to be great, but they don't want you to say you are.'Most recently, the author Terry MacMillan tweeted that she thought their demeanor was arrogant and that is was a shame that Will and Jada were pimping their kids out. Now, mind you, I didn't see anywhere in her tweets where she mentions she spent any time in their company.
So far all I have is questionable fashion taste.
Haha! Tina, I agree about the fashion taste.
I saw the Blindside late last year. I had resisted it like crazy, but finally gave in. I dunno, I hate the 'saviour white people' trope as much as I hate the 'magical negro' trope. But i do admit that Sandra Bullock kicked butt in that movie. She disappeared deep into that role and I grudgingly admit she may have deserved her Oscar. LOL. I just watched Mother and Child. I love not looking at my netflix queue and being surprised when I open the envelope to see what came. So I had no memory of what Mother and Child was about, who was in it, how long ago I put it in my queue. But I sat to watch it. I have to say, my interested in the three storylines shifted throughout. I thought Annette Bening's arc was by far the most interesting. I though the character Naomi Watts played was all over the place. It doesn't help that I have a weird aversion to anything she does. And i wished we had gotten a few more scenes of the Kerry Washington arc. But S. Epatha Merkerson was da bomb! Love her.
Can't wait to see what shows up in my mailbox next!
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Still havent seen Blindside. Not too much of a Bullock fan.
Tina, that is what annoyed me about Blindside. I don't know I have mixed emotions about it.
I watched all of the 'back to the future' series! I decided my kids who are ages 7,9,10,11,12,14 should watch it and they loved all of them (and I loved re-watching them!)
I love Back to the Future. All of them. Love Michael J. Fox.
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Sometimes movies people rave about just fly right over my head. There's massive buzz surrounding this film and it has swept most of the major awards to date. While I did like the film and thought everything about it was well done, the story didn't really engage me. I, of course, sympathised with the characters, but I just couldn't see what all the fuss was about. There are many equally well made human interest films that don't get half the attention this film is getting.
Coincidentally I feel the same about Black Swan. Good, yes. Overrated, definitely.
This year's award picks just don't light a fire in my belly like last year's. I mean last year I was practically foaming at the mouth to see Monique & Gabourey Sibide get their awards for Precious.
This year I'm not as excited about any of the top picks although I still have a few of the Oscar nominated films to see -- The Fighter, True Grit, The Kids are Alright.
Anyway to move on I finally saw Love & Other Drugs. It's your usual cliched love story, but it was aright. All the buzz about Gyllenhaal & Hathaway being naked for 3/4 of the film is just a hoax to get people out in droves. We saw Gyllenhaal naked twice (very nice!) and Hathaway once, and its a 2hr movie.
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I saw 127 hours today and it was very hard for me to watch this film. There was a part of my brain that couldn't connect with it. I don't know. I admit that this was a very interesting film. Since I'm still trying to catch up to some movies, I watched Sherlock Holmes. I liked it but that might be because of Robert Downey Jr. LOL. I don't necessarily care for Jude Law.
I also watched Unthinkable with Samuel L. Jackson. Very interesting movie.
I also watched our MoM but I'll wait for the discussion to share my views.
Just watched The Fighter. Christian Bale and Melissa Leo were both fantastic. I could hardly believe he was the same guy who plays the handsome, debonair Bruce Wayne. He looked like a completely different person. Amazing what weight loss and a change in hairline can do to a face. But that is just the cosmetic stuff, his acting was fabulous. Talk about disappearing into a role.
It is based on a true story so of course I had to google the real Dickey Ecklund. In the movie there is a sub-story that HBO is doing a documentary of Dicky, the Christian Bale character. Sure enough, the real HBO documentary of the real Ecklund is on you tube. As source material it couldn't be beat because the interior and exterior sets in the movie were exactly the same as in the documentary.
Good movie with great supporting characters.
That is good to know, Tina! We were planning to see that tomorrow if we stick to plan. LOL.
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The Fighter which I thought was quite good. Since I'm not a fan of boxing as a sport, the main focus for me was the delivery of the actors. Great performances all around, especially by my man Christian Bale, Melissa Leo and Amy Adams. You gotta hand it to Christian. Say whatever you want about the guy, but he's dedicated. I've yet to see the role he doesn't give 110% of himself. Leo and Adams were amazing. I didn't recognise Adams as Charlene until I read the biographies of the real Micky and Dicky on Wikipedia. This is not the type of role she's normally associated with, but she delivered. Leo was absolutely phenomenal. She missed out on the Oscar for Frozen River so I hope she gets it this time around although she's competing with Adams. Whichever of the two wins the category they'll be worthy. Mark Wahlberg was great in this as well. He brought a certain quiet, grounded quality to the chaotic, white trash setting, but unfortunately he kinda fell in the shadows of Bale, Leo and Adams.
Like I said I was mostly drawn to the interaction of the characters because I hate boxing. I just cringe to see those guys getting pummelled to death. I can't bear it. I have no qualms about watching other contact sports like football (which I love), but boxing freaks me out.
Also very reluctantly saw Get Him to the Greek. My husband forced me to see it with him. I am not in the slightest fond of Russell Brand and his outrageous slapstick British humour, but this was surprisingly entertaining, and mainly because of ... well, Russell Brand. Gosh, I still don't like the guy and he will only ever be able to play the one character, but he was almost convincing as the drugged out rock star (probably because his own life is good enough reference for the character). You couldn't help but feel sorry for the stupid bastard. LOL
My Soul to Take - a complete waste of time. I can't believe Wes Craven would put his name to this as writer/director. Slow, predictable, low on scares and quite badly acted. Scream 4 had better be good is all I'll say.
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Great that you've seen the MoM. I'm really curious to hear your thoughts! I haven't seen it yet. I'm trying not to be influenced by high expectations and just go into the movie with a clean slate. So far its not really working. It's hard not to have high expectations for Michael Hanneke.
I watched Dear John over the weekend. I thought it was cute and I needed something light to watch.I also saw The Proposal with Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds. I love Betty White and she made me laugh. That scene in the woods with her and Sandra Bullock made me holler.
So last night I found myself watching Death at a Funeral with Chris Rock and Martin Lawrence. Why????? OMG!!! So disappointed with this film. They have all of the comedic talent in one film and its wasted. Sure, there was funny moments and I could even relate to some of the characters b/c I have family like that but it was pointless. Lawrence and Rock were boxed in these roles. Glover was useless. Why did Danny Glover sign up for this role? Poor Loretta Devine couldn't shine. I was just disappointed.
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I really liked Dear John for Channing Tatum. God sure was smiling when he put together that child! lol
Davina, she was the mother. She really just cried and played a background role. I was slightly disappointed with that b/c I like her. It wasn't the worst comedy I've seen but I just thought it would have been better b/c of all of those comedians.Channing Tatum is gorgeous. I wanted to smack that chick in the film. I would have waited! Yes indeed! LOL. I normally like the movies that are made from the Nicholas Sparks books.
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No I didn't. It didn't interest me b/c Richard Gere and Diane Lane looked old and boring. LOL I do have the book to read.
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Some of the movies I've seen lately:The Machinist- Christian Bale really sunk his teeth into this role. I was very impressed.
Young Victoria- I liked this but it was boring in spots but it could have been my mood when I was watching it. I was having a bad day period.
The Duchess- I really enjoyed this. I'm on the fence about Kiera Knightly. There's something about her....
ETA: 2012- I wasn't impressed at all!
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Mean Girls - good, cutesy high school flick. I liked the film's attempt to address female cattiness and the fact that it wasn't so sexed up like so many high school comedy/dramas are these days. Lindsay Lohan looked fresh, healthy and at the top of her game. I feel sad for her now when I hear all the mess she's gotten herself into.
Frankie & Alice - I've never been much of a Halle Berry fan because I've never really thought much of her as an actress. I hope I don't offend anyone by saying this, but I think her Oscar win for Monster's Ball was a token win. I thought her performance in this film was by far the best I've ever seen her.
Never Let Me Go - this was a very moving film based on Japanese author Kuzo Izhugiro's novel of the same name. The film stars Kiera Knightley, Carey Mulligan and Andrew Garfield. The film is about the 3 growing up in a boarding school where children are specifically groomed for the purpose of donating all their vital organs once they've reached a certain age. Quite a strong performance by Carey Mulligan, although her style of acting is not really to my taste. Funny you should say you're on the fence about her, Sam, but I really dislike Kiera Knightley for some reason. I can't really put my finger on it, whether its her acting or just her. One thing's for sure though and that's the girl needs to eat. She always looks so gaunt and skeletal you can practically count all the bones in her face. The male lead, Andrew Garfield (was also appeared in the facebook film), was also very unappealing so you didn't even have him as eye candy to distract you from the depressing themes of the film. It's a good movie, but if you're not a fan of any of the leads and you're not particularly looking for a film that will make you cry, I'd skip this.
Trick r Treat - fairly good horror comedy with fairly original protagonists. That little kid was creepy weird.
Legion - very few actors have the versatility to adapt to any role. After all not every actor can use The Method to their advantage like Christian Bale ... lol. Playing these types of sacrilegious characters seem to be Paul Bettany's specialty. He certainly has the looks for it I'd say. I didn't particularly enjoy Legion. I thought the story was slim and the acting relatively poor. I did like the scene with the old lady and the little boy though. Those were perhaps the best parts of the whole movie, imo.
Halle gets no points for her role in Monster Ball. I'm actually appalled that she won an Oscar for it. She lost her status with me right after that point!Kiera Knightly- At first I actually liked her but as I continuously see her out there, I'm not too sure of her. You're right! She needs a sandwich. What really pisses me off with her is that she has this smirky look about her. Always smirking during her scenes. I don't know if that is how she really is or what, but as of late she annoys me. LOL.
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What annoys me the most about Kiera as a person is 'her trying to be trademark' pout. With her bones jutting out everywhere and her lips extended out from her face ... I just wanna punch her. lol
It's funny because there's a group I frequent here on GR and the members are always trying to accuse me of not liking "fat", whatever the ¤%#!&% that means. Well, Kiera sure ain't "fat" and nope don't like her much.
Do you know of any more films were he does nude scenes? I'd be glad to know.