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Don't know if it counts as a full movie, but I watched Wallace & Grommit: A Matter of Loaf and Death last night. It was no Were-Rabbit, but it was cute, if somewhat cheesy (heh!)
Brave new world: Netflix is now streaming to iPhone/iPad/iTouch.
aanrijding in moscou (moscow, belgium)
a 43-year-old woman (husband left her for a younger model) backs her car into a truck on a parking lot, which marks the beginning of her relationship with the driver who's 14 years younger than she is. if this doesn't make you smile at least once i don't know what will.
are you going to be mad at me when i say i don't know who that is?
I still remember the "he kissed me stretch marks!" line from the ads, but I don't think I ever actually saw it.
Shirley Valentine is awesome. My book group went to the play once. What an ideal girls night out show.
just watched CITY ISLAND. Amazing, loved it...Andy Garcia and Juliana Margulies were just fabulous in this move. Also watched DATE NIGHT. It was fun and sweet. Steve Carell And Tina Fey have good chemistry.
The Indiana Jones movies have been playing a lot this weekend. I watched part of the original today, and realized a few things that took some of the magic out of it for me.I turned on the set while Indy was fighting that big bruiser who eventually gets chopped up by a propeller. When the plane blew up, Indy got on a horse and charged into action by catching up to the convoy of bad guy autos. During the next ten minutes I kept wondering, "why, when they're driving, don't the bad guys STOP THE TRUCK and KILL HIM?" Even when Indy is hanging onto the grill they don't do this. Instead, they try to speed up and hit the car in front of them to squish him. Why didn't that car SLOW DOWN? STOP?
Later, the writers appeared to get terribly lazy. I can picture the meeting...
"This thing is getting awfully long. We need a way to wrap it up zip-quick. Ideas?"
"How about Indy wakes up and realizes it was all a dream?"
"Nah, too unbelievable. Anyone else?"
"I know! Let's have god wipe out the bad guys and leave only our heroes behind."
"Brilliant! Film it, print it and let's rake in the dough! Anyone have ideas for sequels?"
"Sure, boss. How about a witch doctor who can reach into someone's chest cavity and pull out their heart?"
"I don't know -- think anyone would buy it?"
Yesterday I had a chance to see "Mary and Max".Have you seen it?Here's a link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgRjB8...
For me it was a different kind of animation with a neatly selected soundtrack. The bond of friendship presented in the film is really unusual.
Now it turns out to be one of my favourite movies.
Worth watching;)
I went to see The Girl Who Played With Fire. I liked it better than the first one. It had a different director and I'm not sure what the correct technical term would be, but it just wasn't filmed as dark as the first one. In fact in several scenes, I couldn't read the subtitles because they were washed out by the lightness of the scene. When I say lightness, I mean visually because there was nothing light about this movie. Noomi Rapace was just riveting. Her Lisbeth is still edgy, but she seems just a bit vulnerable. Just perfect.
Misha wrote: "I just finished watching Me and You and Everyone We Know, written and directed by Miranda July. I adore her book of short stories. The movie is pretty similar - quirky, inappropriate..."i've been thinking about watching that one. eyeing it at the library. now i certainly will.
Phil wrote: ""Sure, boss. How about a witch doctor who can reach into someone's chest cavity and pull out their heart?""I don't know -- think anyone would buy it?""
i did. it's fascinatingly gross.
Monika: I really want to see Mary & Max. Your review will move it up my list.Re the Temple of Doom heart scene: ick! ick! ick! That grossed me out so much when it first came out. I saw it before Raiders of the Lost Ark, and I thought it was the definition of a horror movie.
I watched The Informant this weekend. Has anyone else seen that one? Talk about crazy but true...
I watched The Road this weekend, it was a good movie, but kind of depressing until the end.
I would love to know how they played the ending of the movie. Jim, would you post it with spoilers? Or PM me? I'm NEVER going to watch it.
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Re the Temple of Doom heart scene: ick! ick! ick! That grossed me out so much when it first came out. I saw it before ..."
Which one is The Informant? Is it based on the Archer Daniels Midland case?
It was really different. I liked it, too. Or did I already say that?
I missed it too, Larry. Maybe you should post twice, like Jim in the TV thread. The amazing thing to me about Matt Damon's character in the Informant is his complete willingness to talk about it: to This American Life, to Soderbergh, etc.
me and you and everyone we know is waiting for me at the library.
Sarah Pi wrote: "I missed it too, Larry. Maybe you should post twice, like Jim in the TV thread. The amazing thing to me about Matt Damon's character in the Informant is his complete willingness to talk about it:..."
I guess I deemed it important enough to post twice, or I didn't get rid of the glitches, they actually seem to be worse.
i watch the Fantastic Mr Fox last night and really loved it. such an odd quirky fun movie. great dialogue and terrific stop action with kooky music. very cool
While up north at the cottage over Labor Day, I managed to duck OUT of going to see "Despicable Me" with my wife and kids.
I just can't take any more animated, Disney/Pixar-type films for a while. Or anything with talking animals.
I just can't take any more animated, Disney/Pixar-type films for a while. Or anything with talking animals.
Clark wrote: "While up north at the cottage over Labor Day, I managed to duck OUT of going to see "Despicable Me" with my wife and kids.
I just can't take any more animated, Disney/Pixar-type films for a whil..."
I know exactly where you are coming from Clark. Ha ha, it's me who slips off in the other direction when the kids ask to be taken to a movie. I don't even feel guilty.
I just can't take any more animated, Disney/Pixar-type films for a whil..."
I know exactly where you are coming from Clark. Ha ha, it's me who slips off in the other direction when the kids ask to be taken to a movie. I don't even feel guilty.
Gail "cyborg" wrote: "I don't even feel guilty"
Me either, Gail or at least not very much. Mine want to go see practically every kid's/family movie that's released and then rent the DVD when it comes out.
I need to go see a good splatter flick to clear my mind.
Me either, Gail or at least not very much. Mine want to go see practically every kid's/family movie that's released and then rent the DVD when it comes out.
I need to go see a good splatter flick to clear my mind.
Barb wrote: "Awww Clark, but it was good. Then again, I can't get enough animation ..."
Yeah, it got rave reviews on our side as well. But then again, the twins give two big thumbs up to just about anything.
Except for "Wall-E" for some reason. That's another one I managed to avoid.
Yeah, it got rave reviews on our side as well. But then again, the twins give two big thumbs up to just about anything.
Except for "Wall-E" for some reason. That's another one I managed to avoid.
Clark, I suggest a Quentin Tarantino marathon. Then, No Country for Old Men for dessert.
See I had blood on my mind and typed that. Edit complete!
ms.petra wrote: "Clark,
I suggest a Quentin Tarantino marathon. Then, No Blood for Old Men for dessert."
I have a copy of "From Dusk Till Dawn" collecting dust around here somewhere...
I suggest a Quentin Tarantino marathon. Then, No Blood for Old Men for dessert."
I have a copy of "From Dusk Till Dawn" collecting dust around here somewhere...
Phil wrote: "Is "Machete" out yet?"This looks so fantastically cheesy, I just might have to see it (on DVD, not at the movies).
Stacia wrote: "Phil wrote: "Is "Machete" out yet?"This looks so fantastically cheesy, I just might have to see it (on DVD, not at the movies)."
is it the machete from the fake grindhouse trailers? if so, i will have to see it.
saw kick-ass yesterday. it's entertaining and fun (in a bloody kind of way) but i wasn't blown away by it.
watched grease last night. for realz. my wife wanted to. (yeah right)
yeah, sure. who did i catch singing?
well, she really did ask me to get it at the library but i did sing along. sorta got teary-eyed during "hopelessly devoted to you"
Kevin "El Liso Grande" wrote: "well, she really did ask me to get it at the library but i did sing along. sorta got teary-eyed during "hopelessly devoted to you""It's allergy season Kev, I'm sure that must have been why.
That probably would bring tears to the eyes since they are so few and far between.
[doing my Woody the Cowboy sarcastic laugh]"uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh"
Watched Youth in Revolt 2 x Michael Cera is a lot of Michael Cera, but I went in with very low expectations, so I found it somewhat funny. There were a couple of good visual gags. I love Fred Willard.
I watched From Paris with Love Bad writing bad directing, bad acting.
I made my husband watch something called Alaska the other night. I have no idea why I ever put it in the queue, but it was TERRIBLE. The little girl from Harriet the Spy was in it and Charlton Heston played the bad poacher man trying to steal the baby polar bear (he shot the mama bear). It was so, so bad. The topper was Dirk Benedict played the dad who crashes his plane in the Alaskan wilderness. OUCH. BSG, classic...The A Team, classically bad...Alaska, BAD.
Bald General what's his face from SG-1 was in it too, played the local fuzz.
Amelia wrote: "Bald General what's his face from SG-1 was in it too, played the local fuzz."That guy was in Twin Peaks, too.
Speaking of bald...I clicked past RoboCop last night and it was the scene with Kurtwood Smith and Miguel Ferrer and the grenade, and I was thinking "Man! Who would have thought those guys would still have so much hair to lose?"
I really miss Twin Peaks. Remember the scene when David Lynch (as Gordon the hearing-impaired boss) kisses Shelly? And then her loser husband walks in and Lynch kisses her again??
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