Movies

[irishjayhawk]

Yeah, so I saw a lot of movies this weekend.

Elizabeth: The Golden Age - Mediocre, at best. Slow and dragged on. Shorten it to 2 hours and it's golden. It's not, so it fails.

Michael Clayton - Amazing. Everything about it is awesome. However, it's VERY complex and mind bending. You have to think, so be prepared. I still feel like I'm missing key details of exactly what happened. Gotta see it again.

Across the Universe - Perfect is one word that comes to mind. It just works. And, contrary to many people I bet, the movie is best viewed sober. Trust me.

[Micjones]

Has anyone seen "Beasts of the Southern Wild"?
I saw the trailer and was intrigued by it.

[frankotank]

Originally Posted by Inmem58

Anyone see the Man of Steel teaser?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jKWJ...e_gdata_player



Sorry too lazy to embed.

Super Man....hitchhiking!

[phisherman]

Originally Posted by lcarus

I watched Martin Scorsese's "After Hours" again this weekend. I've probably seen that movie like 6 times and I just love it. It's one of my favorite movies. I don't really know why. I doubt ANYONE else - maybe in the world - has that particular movie in their "top whatever" favorite movies list. Something about it is just entertaining as hell to me. The music is really kinda creepy too, and it suits the movie well. Check it out if you haven't seen it. I'm not saying you will think it's a great movie, but I believe you'll be entertained by it if you have the ability to watch and enjoy under the radar 80s films.

It's a Scorsese film, it's not under the radar.

[lcarus]

Originally Posted by phisherman

It's a Scorsese film, it's not under the radar.

Maybe it isn't. I don't know. I just haven't ever heard anyone talk about it. I wouldn't have ever known about it until I caught it on some random movie channel late at night.

[Fairplay]

Originally Posted by phisherman

It's a Scorsese film, it's not under the radar.

I haven't heard of it. Jenson has, he is big into Scorsese and probably seen it at least 10x.

[ThaVirus]

Originally Posted by Micjones

Really? I was disappointed in "Safe House".
The action was great, but it wore on too long.
I was thought the ending was meh...

Well the whole government corruption plot has been done a million times in a million different ways, so there was nothing fresh about the film. I just thought the acting was ****ing fantastic and the action was pretty tense. I didn't feel the drag you say. Honestly, they could have added 30 more minutes of Denzel and Reynolds just interacting and I would have been happy.

I will say again that I had almost no expectations going in, thanks to some idiot friends. Movies that pleasantly surprise me tend to make more of an impact. The same thing happened with Thor recently. I didn't even care if I ever saw that movie. I saw it, it was good, now it's one of my faves.

[frankotank]

hey, I know this is a little out there for this thread.......but I just gotta share....

stumbled across this a few weeks ago on some movie channel at about 2am. watched about 20 minutes and fell asleep. woke up next day and was very surprised to search and find it showing again so I set a timer. one of those soft porn things.
it was absolutley hilarious! I just had to see the whole thing. man its horrible, yet you can't look away!

for your viewing pleasure I give you.....

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by frankotank

hey, I know this is a little out there for this thread.......but I just gotta share....

stumbled across this a few weeks ago on some movie channel at about 2am. watched about 20 minutes and fell asleep. woke up next day and was very surprised to search and find it showing again so I set a timer. one of those soft porn things.
it was absolutley hilarious! I just had to see the whole thing. man its horrible, yet you can't look away!

for your viewing pleasure I give you.....

Red X is a severely underrated motion picture.

[mikeyis4dcats.]

Originally Posted by Baby Lee

Red X is a severely underrated motion picture.

works for me. though I almost wish it didn't.

[ThaVirus]

Ted was OK. Worth a Redbox, nothing more. Was only funny when the bear was cussing, smoking, doing coke, etc.

[Micjones]

Saw this last night.
Wasn't the most cohesive film, but it was deeply emotional.
I enjoyed it.

[TrueFanDave]

Watching Hunger Games.

Kinda hokey.

Jennifer Lawrence is beautiful.

[KChiefer]

Originally Posted by Dave

Watching Hunger Games.

Kinda hokey.

Jennifer Lawrence is beautiful.

Take a book with adult ideas but written for tweens, then condense it down to what was a fast 2hr20mins and the result is not good. It just felt so damned rushed.

I did like the games themselves though.

With premium TV making more and more quality adaptations, I'd like to see what HBO or AMC could have done with a 3-4 part series per book.

[Micjones]

Originally Posted by Dave

Watching Hunger Games.

Kinda hokey.

Jennifer Lawrence is beautiful.

She is. First time I'd ever seen her was in "X-Men: Origins".
Hawt.

[KcMizzou]

Originally Posted by Micjones

She is. First time I'd ever seen her was in "X-Men: Origins".
Hawt.

Check out Winter's Bone. Seriously. It's on Netflix. She's a hell of an actress too.