"The Wedding Singer." It has a pretty satisfying ending.

Raiders of the Lost Ark on TV.

Australia is showing all three Indy films every Wednesday in celebration of Indy 4 (even thought we have the DVDs)!

Ratatouille. I'm glad I didn't change the channel when I stumbled on this when it was starting. Definitely worthy of all the praise it received.:D

Iron Man

In a word: magnificent, flawless, a true super hero motion picture masterpiece. Marvel truly has done the best job imaginable for Iron Man's debut movie, I was totally impressed. Robert Downey Jr. is perfect casting for Tony Stark, in fact all of the actors seem to fit the bill perfectly with a masterful script to boot.

The action, the story, the pacing, it was all done so damn well, this was even a better comic adaptation then Spider man's first movie was, (well almost). Definitely a must see movie and IMPORTANT NOTE: Wait until after the credits to see a very SPECIAL scene at the very end of the movie. I won't say what it is, but let's just say if you know Marvel comics at all, you'll love it.

I'm really glad to hear that Iron-man is living up to the hype. I'm looking forward to it!:D

that sounds awsome. ill probably go see it sooner or later.


blank check

eh, it was okay. id kill for that kind of money though.

Iron Man: Though it felt a little fast for me, it's one of my favorite comic movies. When I see it again (on DVD) it may replace SM2 & BB as my favorite comic movie. The action was great, not SM great but still fun. I liked the set-ups for War Machine (Rhodey aka the black guy in the silver suit) &

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Jurassic Park.

My second favorite.

Iron Man.


Needless to say, it was awesome.

Cloverfield

Fantastic 4

After rewatching Cloverfield the other day, I can't tell you how glad I am I bought that movie because it is a freaking wonderful piece of kick assery. Excellent monster, freaky intense drama, very cool and it felt very real.

I'll definitely have to give this film a watch when it's on the movie network. And from the sounds of things, it seems that the viral marketing for the sequel is already trickling in onto the Internet.

The first half of There Will Be Blood. We're watching it in AP Lit since we read Upton Sinclair's The Jungle and this movie was based on his other book Oil!

It's pretty good. It moves slow, but a great orchestra playing some seriously good music makes up for it. I'm also rather weird, so I'm enjoying the blood promised in the title. Seriously-- bloody stuff's going down and I'm sitting there going OMG but finding it rather... fascinating? I dunno.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Oh, man. That was a full two hours spent laughing my socks off. 8D Great movie.

Must Love Dogs

my mom was watching it and i was bored 8D

There's a ringing endorsement if I ever heard one. 8D

um... it had Diane Lane in it? Thats the best i can come up with. 8D

I think my brain shut off after a half hour ;D

Star Trek II: The Wrath of....



Wait for it...




Wait for it...




Wait for it....


KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!

It still holds up as one of the best entries in the entire Star Trek series. It's got action, sensible story telling, engaging plot, and great chemestry between William Shatner and Ricardo Montalban despite both actors never actaully appearing together in the same scene.

8D

ROFL

"Akira". I was actually looking forward to watching this but it was so surreal and creepy that I gave up on it thirty minutes in. I may give it another try some day since I love pre-CGI hand drawn animation.

yeah Akira was freaky

i last saw Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade... still amazing

Definitely my favorite of the three Indy movies. :)

Mine would have to be the first one, "Raiders of the Lost ark".

Last movie I watched was Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, truly the BEST of the prequels and in some ways I think, almost as good as one of the original 3. Almost.

oh yeah.

Sean Connery (not to mention Elsa, the blonde woman) pretty much ruled that movie

Elsa was played by Alison Doody. :)

Australia is airing The Last Crusade on Wednesday, so I might give that a shot, even though I've seen a couple of scenes. The seagull being one of them! :frankiesmile:

Definitely see it if you have the time, it's worth it. ;)

Speed Racer

This movie is fantastic. Unfortunately, it's been getting a heaping helping of bad reviews that all pretty much say the same thing: the racing is cool, but the story drags. This reviewer says this is simply not true. All of Speed Racer moves at a breakneck pace that barely feels like 130 minutes. The entire movie is a visual feast. Never before has the live action world so faithfully emulated the animated. And have I mentioned the colors or the enviroments? Somewhere in between Blade Runner and Oz lies the world of Speed Racer with its futuristic candy colored neon citites and fantastical landscapes.

The movie has also taken heat for being just for kids. I say, "So what?" This is the kind of movie I wish I had when I was a kid and it's just as enjoyable now at 21 years of age. I could go on about this movie or I could just say go and see it. This is another one of Monk's recommendations. In fact it's my favorite film I've seen this year. And yes I did see Iron Man.

That's great to hear, AerostarMonk. I do, however, want to avoid all reviews for Speed Racer, at least until I see it on June 12th (Australian release date).

"Akira". I watched most of it while it aired the night after my initial attempt to watch it. I loved the hand drawn animation (the computer assisted stuff these days just strikes me as "too clean and sharp looking"). But I have to say that it left me pretty unsatisfied. It felt rather shallow because any point of the story the movie had, if any, went right over my head.
This falls into how I feel about many original anime films. They come off as very abstract to me because they are often very surreal but lack a moral or point that I can grasp. I really want to say that I like this movie, so any insight would be appreciated.

Back to the Future

Best movie of the 1980s. I won't go into the full details as to how very much I love this movie and how much it still means to me after all these years, seeing as we don't have half a century to spare, but last night's viewing was particularly exciting in that I finally got to see it on the big screen for the first time. Only slight let-down was that the print was a little iffy in places, but even such an endless barrage of crackles, grains and the occasional missing frames couldn't possibly keep down what an amazing, engaging, funny and delightful piece of sci-fi adventure this truly is. Michael J Fox and Christopher Lloyd have one of the greatest onscreen rapports of all-time, the musical score is beautifully orchestrated, the humour is brilliantly-observed (god, I LOVE that moment concerning Marvin Berry and that phone call he makes to his cousin, Chuck), the special effects still hold up amazingly well to this day...eh, I'll stop, since I'm beginning to ramble. So I'll say one more thing - hurray for 1985! A very significant year for me that, and not just because it was the year in which this phenomenal movie was first released.

Oh yes, and a bit earlier on yesterday, I also caught the ending to The Third Man, which is a classic. I've seen it twice before, and it's a great movie all-round, though those final few moments were all I really needed to see for the time being - the closing shot is pure cinema, simple but fabulously effective.

doody. 8D

LMAO

Yeah, I wonder why she didn't come up with a stage name. "Alison Marquis" has a nice ring to it. :bloogrin:

Back to the Future was my favourite movie when it came out partly because I'd just started getting into wearing those body-warmer/gilet type things that Marty wears (it even gets referred to) and it even made me interested in skateboards, the use of which I never mastered. I think the movies probably slipped a long way down my favourites in the intervening decades but it's still good. Especially Christopher Lloyd. Oddly enough I always thought Bright Lights, Big City was a better sequel than the the next two BTTF films.

I've had no time to watch movies recently. The last one I saw was Rambo 4 which I've already mentioned, so the last film and actually saw at the Cinema was the terrific There will be blood. The music, written by Radioheader J Greenwood, is especially good and rumbles away like all that lovely oil.

In a nutshell, Spoiler Below The manga is far better if you can find it.

Last film I watched was Paprika, an anime film by Satoshi Kon. I love Kon's work, and one of the reasons for that is due to how hard his stuff can be to describe. He's almost like the animated David Lynch of Japan. If you enjoy that director, he's certainly worth a look.

Back to the Future was my favourite movie for a long time back when I was in my late teens, but it was eventually bumped down when I saw the Hudsucker Proxy, which still occupies that spot, and seems in no danger of being usurped for the time being. But BTTF still has a very firm position in my elect list of favourites, for reasons I've already touched upon. I've never seen Bright Lights, Big City, but I do like both BTTF sequels, even if they never quite succeeded in matching the original's brilliance. Part III is clearly superior (IMO) to Part II. The - surprisingly rampant - number of folks who view Part II as superior to Part I I honestly can't see eye-to-eye with. :P

Anyhow, last movie I watched was Alien, with my housemates, which gave me a chance to argue about various symbolisms within the film, and the exact intentions and capabilities of the titular character. We were watching the original 1979 release, which I do generally prefer to the Director's Cut, with the exception of one small scene involving my favourite charater, Jonesy. Awesome kitty cat.

The last movie I watch recently was Iron Man, a good film with some good action scenes, a bit of humor and as always, a great cameo by Stan Lee himself.

Cloverfield

I just got back from seeing this for the first time, having shyed away from all the hype during its rampancy earlier this year. And what can I say? I wasn't wild about it. Beyond the Blair Witch Project-esque gimmick of the entire film being shown from the point of view of a handful of bystanders who just happened to have a camera rolling at the time, the story didn't really feel like it had very much to sustain itself. There were a small handful of shocks here and there, but I found the characters to be a bit flat and unlikeable, and the storyline perhaps a tad flimsy. Maybe I'd have appreciated it more if I had more of an appetite for the whole skycraper-stomping monster movie genre in general, but I'm afraid I don't. On the plus side, the ending was somewhat refreshing, I quite liked the occasional interludes of the previous, immensely more tranquil film on the video, and the whole thing was mercifully short. I don't think I could really have taken it had it gone on for very much longer than an hour and a half. Not because I'm prone to motion sickness or anything like that, but because I was starting to find it a bit frustrating.

All three Indy movies, and I feel fiiiiiine.

Oh, and The Out of Towners, with Steve Martin. It was on TV!

And Witness, which was really good.

Short Circuit 2.

Ugh.....

Chronicles of Narnia Prince Caspian. I hope to go to the movies again today.