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One of my favorites.

I probably will watch it again with someone that hasn't seen it before...my gf suprisingly liked it and the looks on her face when DDL performed on certain scenes was priceless. Esp towards the end...

He did a great job in that movie and i was suprised i liked it myself, the way it started off i wasn't sure if i'd stay interested, glad i did. I will probably buy it when the price goes down sometime. (bluray)

ROFL

You should reply to that dude's comment with the link to Ebert's review.

I think you should see if Ebert has an e-mail you can forward this to.

One more thing...the music was excellent! (there will be blood)

Saw it yesterday. I thought it was pretty funny. The action scene at the end got a little too long for my taste, but I was laughing basically any time James Franco or Danny McBride were talking.

Go to page three.

Reading just one page of IMDB boards is pretty tiring.

Sent to The Answer Man with appropriate hyperlinks.

I guess the most troubling thing about this minor incident, is that the poster said he submitted this for a class.

So what's the real word? I've been assuming it was going to be the shit. Then Phillips and Roeper both panned it, Lyons was meh, while Shailes panned it too, and they gave it an A- at AV Club, but some of the staff had to get on record as not liking it in another column.

Seems like the consensus is it starts strong, but the action stuff is putting people off [including, possibly, one noa].

I saw it and it's been a while since a movie made me laugh out loud that much. I know it is stupid and you have to accept some pretty out there plot points to roll with the action movie part of it, but the characters are so sweet and funny, I just accepted it and enjoyed. I think it might actually be a cleverly disguised chick flick.

So I was looking through my DVD's last night and decided to pop in Nighthawks with Stallone,Rutger Hauer, and Billy Dee Williams since it had been quite some time since seeing it.

Doesn't hold up too bad for a 25+ year old movie,a couple of minor holes here and there but still quite entertaining,and the subject matter of terrorism on American soil definitely hit a little closer to home.

I watched Sunshine last night, the sci-fi flick with Cillian Murphy. I thought it was quite good, although there were flaws. But, the visuals alone made this a worthy watch for me. The transition 2/3rds of the way through the movie didn't really flow, and seems to be the primary complaint by reviewers. I would recommend it though, as I stayed pretty locked in throughout the movie.

Last night I decided on Clay Pigeons,one of my favorite dark comedies starring Juoquin Phoenix,Vince Vaughn and Jeanne Garaffalo(sorry for the sp?).Probably my favorite Vince Vaughn role as he plays Lester Long an outgoing yet strange cowboy with a secret.

I won't give any spoilers because if you like these actors and you like dark comedy,put this movie at the top of your list.

I love that movie.

Billy Dee! Billy Dee!

And Stallone with a beard married to the Bionic Woman.

Music by Keith Emerson.

Awesome!

Do you remember who played Lindsay's Wagner's boss?

None other than Jamie Gillis,the pornstar of years past,I thought that was interesting with Stallone's past and all.

No, I didn't know that. Interesting.

Sorry I missed this. Yeah, I would definitely say the action was the only thing that lowered my opinion of the movie, not because it wasn't cool or funny (it was both); the action scenes just went on way too long IMO. But the very last scene is still a hilarious dialogue between Rogen, Franco, and Danny McBride that was actually my favorite part of the movie. I would still give the movie a good grade overall, I just thought it could have been tightened up a bit.

Dang dude, i'm googling Jamie Gillis, expecting to see a girl pornstar pictures. As to no clue to who you are talking about.

And its a dude! :eek: =:rolleyes:

LMAO

I watched "Son of Rambow" with my 10 yr old son tonight. (Yeah, a bit early. It comes out on DVD August 26th)

I liked it, he absolutely loved it. It's a bit slow in the middle... but the ending was great. Sappy as hell, but worth it.

Synopsis:

i was majorly disappointed....Franco is perfect, but the rest are pretty sorry....and the script was bad....it felt tired, like "apatow" in a bag, just add water!

Thats too bad. Franco, Rogan and Apatow go all the way back to "Freaks and Geeks". Great show if you have never seen it.

Tropic Thunder


great ****ing movie, funniest and smartest since South Park...Stiller's best

there are moments when the movie is totally unhinged...that is so rare, when the absurdity seems to overtake the movie....the last 40 minutes were awesome, each character simply losing their minds, but in unison....

Downey's performance is god damn brilliant, imo...his expressions are priceless, his face shifts constantly...all those close-up scenes at the camp at the end, when the actors are in the dark and only lit by a faux-camp fire light are great, and Downey just freaking off the hook, he deserves a nomination, honestly

he makes everything look easy, but think how hard that role was to do without simply becoming racist blackface.....

Downey is the best actor living, i think...hope he stays off drugs and starts cranking out movies....

compare the fight scene, and the character development, at the end of Tropic Thunder and Pineapple Express to understand just how one movie is brilliant and one is basically a hack job b-movie....

Watched "The Namesake" with Kal Penn, pretty damn good movie, in a way reminds me of how i grew up. It's basicall about an indian family that moves to NY after marriage and kal penn grows up american and tries to fight between his culture and american culture he's grown up in. Good movie.

Cant wait to see this. Honestly, i really love Stiller and always have all the way back to the "Ben Stiller Show" days on FOX.

Heck, even Reality Bites had its moments and Cable Guy is an overlooked gem.

i'm one of the few that love cable guy....


tropic thunder exceeded my expectations as much as pineapple express fell short of them....

I am heading here in about 45 min to see Tropic Thunder, stoked! So i assume Pineapple Express is a rent only?

Here's one that might have slipped through the cracks, unless you are a die hard Balehead.

"Equilibrium".

Dystopian flick set in the early 21st century where human emotion has been outlawed due to the consequences of it--war, violence, etc. Very 1984-ish. The first half is more of a philosophical character piece, and the second half is a bloodbath. The effects are a little hokey, but I really enjoy this movie.

Worth a watch.

Hell yeah!

I would assume that unless you are a major stoner, and are really stoned, then this movie wouldn't be funny.

Seeing how I am a stoner, and was completely stoned when I saw it, it was worth the $10.

The wife just saw Mamma Mia today. She loved it.

just saw a trailer on TV for a new Coen brothers film. Of course the name escaped me and I'm too lazy to look it up. I definately want to go see it!

ROFL

Was it, Burn After Reading?

http://www.apple.com/trailers/focus_...nafterreading/

I could do without the gun kata stuff but the rest is very good.

Tropic Thunder was pretty funny....esp one of the main characters was excellent, never laughed so hard at him, esp the end

I will buy on dvd

The thing I liked about gun kata...it's a sabermetric way of killing people.

Watched this old 70's flick last night called "Rolling Thunder" on netflix.

Very, very cool. Apparantly its gotten a rep over the years because it was a huge influence on Tarantino.

It stars William Devane and a young Tommy Lee Jones as Vietnam POW's who return home and of course have a dificult time adjusting. Devanes characters family get murdered by some Texas thugs and then he goes nuts and decides to go after them himself and get some revenge.

Check it out. Its not high art, but its got that great gritty 70's quality to it. It was a pleasant surprise for me.

I saw it at the theatre when it came out,one badass movie,I love when the Major goes to see Tommy Lee and tells him he found the men that murdered his family and Tommy Lee stone cold faced says,"I'll just get my gear Major."

Hell yes, that was awesume.

What was great about this flick was the character development and just a ton of little scenes that were great. Better written and performed than they had any right to be.

Devane gave this really strange, slow burn performance that was weird, but great. Whatever that means... :)

Here's the trailer

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I thought it was moderately funny. The ending was priceless. The acting was good. But the story was so dumb that I couldn't overcome it. I was hoping for some semblance of a story to supersede the ridiculous number of cameos (which, admittedly, were hilarious).

I'll admit it was overhyped for sure, but i still had laughs here and there. There were alot of slow parts esp at the middle of the movie. The cameos were pretty funny, i just expected most of the movie to remain that way. The reerun part the movie theater couldnt figure out if they should laugh or not

That was what really dampened it for me. And not for the political correctness but for the shear stupidity of that story line.

Great trailer. They really did a great job of lampooing (with loving affection) those old 70's style trailers in "Grindhouse"

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Yeah dude, Frazod already gave the heads up on that a couple years back. Sleeper movie, went to DVD.

So i rented it. Good movie, solid movie to rent and to recommend.

It's headed my way from Blockbuster online...looking forward to it.

Just watched Smart People. Nothing groundbreaking, but it's a nice little movie with some great acting. Good script, good dialogue, interesting characters.

Acerbic, taciturn widower professor (Dennis Quaid) raises brilliant, dysfunctional family who hate each other. His screwup, stoner adopted brother moves in with his family and begins to serve as yin to his yang. Meets a former student, now a doctor who he falls for. Complications ensue. Nice cast as well.

I was pumped for it and then it got absolutely panned by anyone and everyone who I heard saw it.

Good to hear a good thing about it. Maybe I'll actually rent it.

Yeah, I'm not sure I'd sing its praises or anything. I can see how people panned it. It's probably one of those movies that I liked because it dealt with material that resonated with my own life.

Fair enough.

I just finished watching "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb." Little late to the party.. I know. I enjoyed it, but it's not all it's cracked up to be.

I am floored that Hancock is still playing in some first run theaters. It finally ended it run here in Topeka.

Really enjoyed this film......that movie and Gattaca....seem so much more possible as the days and years go by...

for the indie film fans....

I just watched "It's all gone Pete Tong" for the 3rd time the other night....absolutely love that film.

Won two USA comedy arts festival awards...Toronto International film festival, etc.

Starts off like a movie about the rave/club scene in Ibiza, then takes a turn towards a more meaningful road....

You dont necessarily have to like the techno/house, Ibiza scene to like this film.....

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388139/

I haven't checked in on this thread for awhile. Yeah, I loved this movie - the only knock on it is it's utter lack of any semblance of originality (basically Logan's Run meets 1984, with a bit of Matrix and Highlander thrown in for good measure). My DVD is currently floating around the office, since almost no one has heard of this movie, which is a shame. Everybody I've shown it to loved it.

You forgot to add Brave New World as part of it. :p

Just watched these three:

Equilibrium: On the advice given here. I enjoyed it. Nothing ground-breaking, but surprised it's not a more well known flick.

City of God: This is an outstanding movie. I was completely engaged in all the characters. Highly recommended.

Stop-Loss: I wasn't really expecting much, but it was reasonably well acted. Predictable, for sure. Interesting topic, and I think I'd have the same struggle if put in these soldiers shoes.

Yeah, not really groundbreaking in the story way as it's basically a stew of like 8 books. However, what was groundbreaking was Bale. It's basically the movie that cast him as Batman.

Yes, yes it is. City of Men is out now. I haven't seen it but it's the same director.

I thought the trailer sold it as a different thing. I was pretty disappointed. But I do like Ryan Philippe.

On the City of God DVD there's an interesting mini-documentary about the actual area the movie was based on (a favela they call it, like a ghetto). It's a crazy place. The police are almost combat soldiers.

A movie I'm looking forward to is The Road. It's supposed to be released Nov 26th or 28 of this year. It's based on the Cormac McCarthy novel. Pretty heavy novel, I'm curious to see how the movie comes across. Viggio Mortenson stars in it.
Another movie I heard about that sounds awesome is going to be called The Fighter (sometime in 2009). It's about the boxer Irish Micky Ward and his half brother. Mark Wahlberg plays Irish Micky and Brad Pitt plays the brother (Dick Englund). The brother (who was also a boxer that once fought Sugar Ray Leonard) was in the HBO High on Crack Street documentary a few years ago.

Sat night i watched Stranger than Fiction and i thought it was a cool movie. I didnt think Will Ferrell can actually act in a serious role. I enjoyed it.

:D

It's one of my sleeper hits. I love it, it always makes me feel good.

Last night I watched Gangs of New York for the first time and I thought it was a long, but great movie.

Watched 30 days of night last night, pretty dang good horrorish flick, exceeded my expectations

Also saw "the other boylen girl" pretty reeruned movie, if you're into seeing natalie portman be a bitch and then get it from eric banana go for it...(no nudity) and saw Meet Bill, which was kind've funny, def. netflixable

Watched "Son of Rambo" last night. GREAT all around movie - Hate that this one slipped by me in theaters.

Anyone seen this?

That movie sucked big time.

Wonder how good Tropic Thunder really is....

It was good, just long.

Just watched Hard Candy.

Holy shit, that was really messed up. Superb acting but overall really, really well done. I loved the close up hand held shots. Just perfect.

From what i understand wait and rent it.

It's really funny; Hot Shots kinda funny.

Robert Downey Jr. is pretty hilarious.

Wat?

I still think that AP had probably more to do with that than anything. Of course, he's gold in everything.

Hell, I even liked him in Laurel Canyon, but I really wanted to see someone open up Kate Beckinsale in that.

I really enjoyed this movie also. I thought it was very well done. All of the characters were interesting and deep. Good story. OK ending. Great acting IMO. Maybe it is because I was expecting total shit when I watched it, but I've watched it several times and still enjoy it.

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too bad, but the script was pathetic, and "Dwight" just can't carry a movie...

I rented Doomsday a little while back but forgot to comment on this thread. Overall it's a pretty terrible movie but I enjoyed the hell out of it.

I love that movie, but I don't much care for the ending. I want to see the two gangs rumble and Leo kick the crap out of DDL!

Thank you for recommending this. I just watched it and loved every second of it. The movie kicks complete ass.