secret window. i was entertained but the ending was a little downer... y'know because Spoiler Below

Dreamgirls

I didn't care for it. Granted there were some good songs and some gorgeous dresses, but I thought the movie was very pageant-y and over choreographed. (My dad compared it to Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, but that comparison was mildly lost on me.) It just wasn't my type of film.

Drop dead Gorgeous

Santa Claus conquers the Martians

Two really good comedies, the latter being a Mystery Science Theater 3000 movie I never saw before and my GOD it was a crap fest. Perfect movie for parodying and ripping on.

Many people don't remember or care at all for the first movie, which is a shame because i thought it was a hysterical movie, one that's seriously under looked and not really appreciated.

I think we have the Santa Claus one on DVD with some other vintage Christmas cartoons. We didn't watch it though, although I can't remember why...

Actually its not a cartoon movie, its this really stupid, crappy, moronic live movie they made years ago. Its pretty bad even for shows like Svengoolie and MTS3000 to air.

Night on Earth

Another superlative anthology film from Jim Jarmusch, master of the understated and the minuscule detail. The DVD is currently out of print, at least in region 2, so I was delighted to discover that my local library had a copy.

This one follows a miniature episode in the lives of five different taxi drivers and their passengers, all set within the same night but each within a different area of the globe - Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Rome and Helsinki, to be precise. The one set in Rome was definitely my favourite of the bunch, being by far the funniest and the quirkiest, if a little morbid toward its conclusion, but all of the segments had something special to offer, with the final one in Helsinki being the saddest and most powerful. As with every Jarmusch film, the gentle attention to detail is truly entrancing, and here you also get some lovely panoramic shots of each of the featured cities at night or in the early hours for your money.

No Country For Old Men

The most shocking bits seemed to have been saved for the things you didn't see in this movie although some of the events you did were plenty enough not very nice. Terrific action sequences greatly enhanced by the pacing between them and all the characters were great, you didn't want to lose any of them.

Now of course I'm aware there's a book and I'm wondering what I've missed out on.

Strange Wilderness

Definitely not the cleanest or most intelligent movie you'll ever see, but it was a lot funnier then I was counting on. They make some great use of the whole animal geographic parodying going around and Steve Zahn is such a funny actor, I really want to see more of him.

Made by the same guys who made "Grandma's boy", this is MUCH funnier but also a lot cruder and crass. Definitely some nasty moments but some really funny ones too, overall, I'm glad I saw it and btw, Justing Long played an AWESOME stoner :D.

Rambo

freaking brilliant, John is trying to rescue a group of missionaries from pseudo-Khmer Rouge types in Burma.

All i'm going to say is that the .50 caliber cartridge sees liberal use in this flick :D

"Beavis and Butt-head do America". Again. I have become dead set on getting the B&B dvds if I find them.8D

My friend Brooks and I watched two films on Thursday.

Coffee and Cigarettes -
Fantastic, fantastic movie. I loved every little bit of it dearly, as it was a great set of "slice of life" vignettes. I'll have to actually buy a copy of the DVD when I get the chance.

Meet the Spartans -
Awful. My God, was it awful. Now, understand that we had known this going in, as we occasionally enjoy seeing awful movies, but this......don't even bother. Worst movie I ever saw, and the only thing I have to say about it is that I feel sorry for Kevin Sorbo and Diedrach Baker for having to be in this.

Rambo

I am now 35% manlier than before.

We'll have to run that past Partymember. He seems to be the expert on gauging the manliness scale.8D But Rambo really does look good. I'll try and watch it sometime. I'll just have to take some time beforehand to prepare myself for the violence that lies within.;)

LOLOL

i felt pretty gosh darn manly after watching that flick.

If you have a weak stomach seriously reconsider seeing this, dude, i was cringing throughout. Seriously. Not your regular blood n' gore, its a pretty accurate depiction of genocide. Nasty stuff.

Thanks for the warning, bud. I've seen the trailer (dismembering, soldiers turned to hamburger via machine-gun, etc) but the genocide thing... I've seen my share of war movies, Schindler's List probably being the most difficult to watch, but I usually brave through the gore and violence if it has a point (Black hawk Down, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List) and not just gory for the sake of it.

Yes, it is accurate, except for one thing.

The civil war/genocide in the Sudan has been going on for much, much, much longer than the Burma violence. Therefore, Burma is not the longest-running civil war.

Other than that, yeah... I really enjoyed the film. Between this movie and playing Contra 4, I am soon going to become the manliest manly man ever yo manly my way across the manly country.

That much manly should earn you a theme song.:D

That song about Barnacle Bill the Sailor is coming to mind for some reason. :cheesegrin: 8D

I can't even remember the last time I sat down and watched a full-length movie from start to finish; when I want entertainment I usually end up in front of my computer or watching a TV program that comes in half-hour blocks. Kind of sad in a way, I suppose, but it seems to work for me. :)

Yikes, so much male posturing. This thread is in desperate need of a woman's touch once again.

Last movie I watched was The People vs. Larry Flynt, which I can't say left me with any particularly strong feelings of gender identification, though Woody Harrelson gave a charming performance as the infamous peddler of, a-hem, specialist adult art, and I like just about any movie where James Cromwell manages to show up.

I don't read this thread, but I wanted to say that late last night I watched Slingblade and I was completely floored and stunned. It's seriously one of the best films I have ever seen. When I can afford it I'm going to get the DVD; I assume there's a commentary, and I want to hear it. All I'd ever heard about that movie before was people quoting the "french-fried potaters" line, I had no idea what the film was about or if it was a comedy, horror, or what. I mean, I cried after seeing this movie. That's how awesome it was. Okay I don't read this thread so I won't see any replies to my post, I just wanted to share. :terrsmile:

Me? Well, I unleashed the Numbuh 4 within me and rented out Shoot 'Em Up. It was unfortunately released as a direct-to-DVD release in Australia.

I thought it was wild, brilliant and wonderfully funny. The best part was in the beginning when Spoiler Below
I also loved the music choices in this film, particually Joker and the Thief by Wolfmother, and Kickstart My Heart by Motley Crue.

Again, it's funny, brilliant and wild! I loved it.

Disturbing Behavior

Duel

I had always loved "Disturbing" and hated how the movie has ultimately become forgotten and ignored even crapped on by most viewers. I love the whole plot behind this movie and it features some excellent acting from one of my favorite actors, Nick Stahl.

I never saw "Duel" before, the very first film made by Steven Spielberg and aside from some dry/slow paced parts, the movie was really well made and very effective as a creepy killer truck movie essentially.

Duel is an absolutely fantastic movie.

The Darjeeling Limited

A very charming and visually pleasing film about three estranged brothers (Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman) who embark upon a train journey across India in the hopes of renewing their fraternal bonds and being reunited with their missionary mother. As with every Wes Anderson film it's an effective mixture of dry humour, whimsy and understatement - not a great deal of plot, perhaps, but it's the character interactions and resonant motifs (including an intriguing cameo appearance from Bill Murray) which win out in the end. Oh yes, and it comes with a short film called Hotel Chevalier which serves as a pretty nice prelude to the main event.

Conan the Barbarian

exceptionally underrated flick from the man who brought you "Red Dawn"

Is that the one that stars the Governator or am I thinking of something else?

yes :bloogrin:

Arnold is incredible.

Jumper

Definitely different then what i was expecting. While the story bits at times seem to float around a bit, there was a pretty damn good cast working here and the visuals in this movie are absolutely amazing. No matter how you may feel about this movie, its certainly far from boring and extremely entertaining.

There's some excellent fight sequences and some interesting story concepts behind this whole teleporter/jumper concept with these MIB styled hunters after them. Its a pretty good movie, definitely a fun flick.

Mr. M: I'm glad to hear Jumpers turned out to be good, as I've really wanted to see it, though I was worried about the guy who played Anakin in Episodes II/III of Star Wars being in the main character role. Anyway...

North By Northwest:
Fantastic film. Simply, simply fantastic. But, then again, Hitchcock tended to make good films to begin with.

Hayden wasn't so bad in ROTS. I think it's just the script for AOTC was so crappy he didn't know what to do with it.

Slacker

An interesting film from Richard Linklater, which feels in many ways like a prototype for his later, more polished Waking Life, but still stands up as a very fine piece of film-making in its own right (any flick which utilises the glorious Fisher Price PXL-2000 camcorder deserves respect, IMO). It basically consists of a chain of cleverly-structured character interactions, working its way around a suburban neighbourhood and shifting from one resident to the next, each providing some sort of brief reflection or musing upon themselves or upon life in general. I was particularly taken with Louis Mackey's performance as an "Old Anarchist".

The Aristocats

I'll always have a special place in my heart for this one: It's a charming film I fell in love with when I was a kid, it's about cats and I just like it. Got to see the remastered edition that came out a few weeks ago, and it's captivating as it was when I first saw it.

Sure, it wasn't the most perfect Disney film, there were some flaws and such, but I still like it. I feel it's a touch underrated compared to some of their other movies, but that's fine.

I kinda felt the bonus features were a bit lacking, though. Really wanted more behind the scenes stuff and deleted footage, but this was an older film, so these things would have been somewhat difficult to find to put in the DVD. My two cents on the matter.

August Rush

Hmm...you know, the trailers made this film look flippin' amazing (at least I thought so), but I've got to admit that I was more than a little disappointed with it. The greatest thing in its favour was that it contained a couple of pretty damned transcendent musical interludes, but sadly the storyline was nothing more than a tired and annoyingly transparent variation upon Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist (one of the few really interesting points being that they cast Robin Williams as the Fagin-type character, but they didn't exactly do a huge deal with him), and much of the dialogue was equally trite. It proclaims to be a movie about the importance of discovering the magic of music in all of life's various rhythms and encounters, and with that in mind I suppose it made its point well enough - the flick is at its strongest by far when everyone shuts up and lets the music do the talking.

yeah that did look good.

i saw "Legend" last. I'll always be a Tom Cruise fan, no matter how crazy he gets

Salem's Lot

The original and not the crappy TNT remake. This one is far more scarier, creepier, and features some excellent acting if you ask me. There are some really fine performers in this movie and being someone who enjoys King's movie adaptations, I really feel this one gets pushed under the carpet a lot.

I love the Barlow Nosferatu style vampire monster in here, and the creepy glowy eyed vampire kids clawing at the windows are some of the classic horror moments around. Its a long but very, very good movie.

Ninotchka

Great movie. Romantic comedy about a super-serious Soviet envoy (Greta Garbo) who goes to Paris to straighten out a problem the USSR is having with some of its goofball agents trying to sell jewels there. This film is absolutely hillarious, when Ninotchka gets off the train the agents ask her about the latest news from Moscow, she says, "the last mass trials were a great success. There will be fewer, but better, Russians"

LOL great movie

Im watching the chase which is a pretty cool movie. its about a guy who got a 25 year sentence because he was mistaken for a clown-dressed bank robber. then goes the run with a hostage.

Be Kind Rewind

Wonderful, enjoyable film. It possessed a good deal of both humor and heart, and was a treat to watch. I'll definantely be buying it on DVD when it arrives on that format.

The Signal

Very intense movie, and freaking creepy too. I didn't think this movie could impress me but it really was a terrifyingly realistic horror movie with good, unknown actors who really know how to steal a scene. The movie has a very "28 days later" "Dawn of the dead" feel to it but it feels so much more real.

Phantasm

I kept hearing good things about the film, both the original and the series, and decided to begin watching it. While it's not the scariest film I've ever seen, to say I was disappointed by it would be a huge overstatement. The film was marvelous in doing what it set out to do, which I believe was to display a nightmare as well as it could. It was a film with images that are incredibly haunting (not to mention the utterly incredible soundtrack), and yet only a few genuinely stick out and persist in your mind, as if you'd awakened after having watched the film, which had turned out to be a nightmare.

Brilliant film.