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District 9 was trash.
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The Hurt Locker, Moon, Precious, Ninja Assassin, Fanboys, A Perfect Getaway, Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans, World's Greatest Dad, Anvil: The Story Of Anvil, Collapse, The Road, The Blind Side, Invictus, The Messenger, Zombieland, I Love You...Man, A Serious Man, Trick'r Treat, Where The Wild Things Are, Wrong Turn At Tahoe, The Boondock Saints II, Public Enemies, Defiance, Notorious, Killshot, The Soloist, Funny People, Law Abiding Citizen, Pirate Radio, Couples Retreat, Orphan, The Men Who Stare At Goats, Carriers, Dark Country, Sugar, Shrink, Taxidermia, The Open Road, The Tournament, Fifty Dead Men Walking, The Education Of Charlie Banks, Yonkers Joe, Harry Brown, Whatever Works, City Island, The Last House On The Left, Wonderful World, Tell Tale, and Vengeance. Those are in no way in any particular order. Just decent movies I've seen throughout the year. You might find something you like. If not can't say I didn't try. |
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Watched "Inglorious Basterds" and "Beer League" last night - both were great!
Went old school as well with "Phantasm", "Phantasm II" and "Videodrome" - classics! |
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Antichrist.
WTF was that? Damn this snow. |
Holy balls, Invictus could have been 1 hour shorter and been pitch perfect. As it is, it gets credit for Morgan Freeman and it's South African accents. Other than that, it was horrendously paced with many stupid story lines.
I was so bored I was checking the chick out next to me with my peripheral vision. Apparently, I don't have very good peripheral vision. |
Holmes was okay. Can't really recommend it.
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The Hangover = incredibly over-rated.
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I think you could compare 'The Hangover' to 'Kiss Kiss Bang Bang' and KKBB is easily the better of the two. IMO
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Adventureland: ★★★★★
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Pretty sure Kristen Stewart's scene outside Ryan Renyolds' mom's house is her best scene to date.
Late as I am, I'm officially a Stewart fan. |
Ok, watched the following titles over the holiday...
Paranormal Activity - RI-DIC-U-LOUS! - NOT SCARRY AND OVER HYPED! Jennifer's Body - Best part was the girl on girl kissing scene - bullshit! |
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I think hype kills comedy more easily than any other genre. If you go in expecting to "laugh your ass off", you probably won't. The best comedy catches you off guard. |
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If you can let yourself get immersed in it... it's a very good film. Best seen alone in a dark room, IMO. |
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Now I know why I wanted to see Let the Right One In when it was in theatres. Very good.
Some of the shots were glorious. |
I saw The Hangover about a week after it came out. It's a completely different experience in a theater filled with people when hype hasn't completely built it up to something it can't achieve.
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Ramin Bahrani is the best director you've never heard of. I watch his three films -- Man Push Cart (2005), Chop Shop (2007), and Goodbye, Solo (2009) -- today. They are each astounding. Goodbye, Solo is one of the best films I've seen all year (if not the best) and Chop Shop will be edited into my favorite 25 movies of the decade.
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Anyone remember the film that came out recently about the guy whose wife gets murdered and he is framed for it? He is in custody and he somehow starts killing people. he tells the cops he is murdering the people. I don't know if the killing his wife part is right but the rest is. Not much to go on I know but rep to who ever can think of the movie.
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Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx
Law Abiding Citizen. |
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I must be getting REALLY old...I don't even want to know what theater you went to :shake: |
I watched Tyson this afternoon. If you are a fan of boxing at all, or you were old enough to be a part of the zeitgeist in the mid-late 80's, you really should watch it. It's all in his own words, very honest, and incredibly compelling. There are several moments that made me uncomfortable, a few that were quite touching, some hilarious, and others baffling.
For my money, he might be the most fascinating sports figure of the last 30 years. I only wish that they had spent more time discussing his time from 88-90, when he fired Rooney, hired King, and his skills started to unravel along with his personal life. After finishing, I came away with a lot more respect for Tyson, just solely based on how honest he was. He overtly admitted that he stopped training hard in about '89 until losing to Douglas, and once he won the title back in '96, he stopped working hard in training then too. Also provides an interesting perspective (along with clear video evidence) of the multiple headbutts that Holyfield used in their fights. A must watch for any fight fan. |
Just added Tyson, Chop Shop, and Goodbye, Solo to my Netflix Instant Queue. Love Man Push Cart.
Thanks for the suggestions! |
I watched two harrowing documentaries last night while covering the overnight shift. Darwin's Nightmare and The Cove.
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Just watched Sugar. Incredible film. Most of you have probably heard of it.
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and more of my point Hamas is, why didn't KKBB get ANY credit when it was about 100 times better than 'The Hangover?'
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Not to give anything away, could you give me a sense of it's flavor? I know it's about an immigrant trying to make it in the baseball farm system, but is it mood piece, feelgood, mystery/twist, what? Feel free to analogize to other movies if you wish. |
so am i the only one who has seen 'Mister Lonely?'
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Watched Inglorious Basterds last night. It was a poor, silly, ridiculous movie. Looking forward to the discussion.
Until then: Overall, the movie was a glorified festival of torture and sadism, and an absolute mess and disregard of history. His fantasy world is pathetically distant to anything resembling a decently thought out code of ethics and morals and bears no resemblance to anything good and meaningful. Quentin Tarantino's goal for art seems to be about glorifying himself and his own delusional view of movies as escapism. To hell with him. This was disgusting. |
Here's a list of my top dozen of '09......keep in mind these are movies I saw in '09, and not made in '09....
[rec] (Spanish) Felon Flawless The Uninvited Funny Games Louis CK: Chewed Up Irreversible (French) Suicide Kings Let the Right One In (Swedish) Righteous Kill Eagle Eye Wanted There are more that I liked, but these are the ones I happen to remember the most...I watched hundreds of movies this year. Oh, that reminds me: Watchmen was pretty good too. |
Eagle Eye?
EAGLE EYE????? Maybe for Billy Bob chewing the scenery for pay I'd give it a grudging chuckle, but. EAGLE EYE?!?!?!?! |
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Wanted? WANTED??? ROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFL |
That's about all I remember, but I'm looking back at my renting history and there are alot more good ones.......Boondock Saints, Gran Torino....I went on a foreign movie and exploitation movie bender this year. Shit like Base Moi, Inside (gross) and Tell no One(actually pretty good) made it to my TV. Thriller: A Cruel Picture made me laugh, with all those slo-mo death scenes and square ketchup pads exploding....LOL
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Oh yeah, Midnight Meat Train was pretty good too...I think that had a weird ending to it though....if I'm remembering correctly.
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though a very nice guy and interesting, QT's flicks aren't really my thing. However I respect the hell out of him, he had ONE I loved and that was really it. Oh wait, he had his hand in Killing Zoe, right? Loved that one too.
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I don't want to be preached to every time I go to watch a movie. I can enjoy something that was well put together or unique even if it doesn't take on some incredibly meaningful and moving subject. You are worse than my college know-it-all hippie friends. Edit: Ok.. I just saw that you and I are the same age. I have a lot of friends just like you. We all share a hatred for shitty movies, but some of my friends get too wrapped in this idea that all great movies have to have some sort of preachy message. I tend to disagree. |
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EAGLE EYE AND WANTED!? :D |
That preview of the harrison ford brendan fraSER frazier looks like a tv movie
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I've got Moon coming in Netflix. I'm pumped.
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