Swordsman_Of_The_Tower
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Posted: Fri Nov 6, 2009 8:43 pm |
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The last movie you saw thread
Similar to the
what are you listening to now?
threads, this is just a way for us to share what we see and what we thought of it. Post the name, and a pic, maybe a brief blurb about it if you want too. You can do multiple in one post, just not more then 3-4.
Waltz With Bashir
Amazingly good, very interesting approach, and great animation.
Innocent Voices
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jadeval
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Posted: Sun Nov 8, 2009 10:40 am |
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Cool thread. I saw Waltz with Bashir a few months ago. I was the only person in the theater! It was good... different, in an apocalyptic kind of way. And I also saw that other film not too long ago.
I don't go to theaters much and recently stopped netflixing (temporarily of course), but let me think...
BOTTLE SHOCK: Not nearly as good as Sideways... actually, script is downright bad... acting is mediocre at best.
RELIGULOUS: Saw it a while back, but pretty funny.
WILD REEDS: Rewatched this recently actually. A great movie imo.
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Telemachos
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Posted: Sun Nov 8, 2009 12:06 pm |
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My wife and I just saw THE BOX. A total trainwreck, but not totally worthless if you're a Richard Kelly fan.
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Gandalf'sMother
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jadeval
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Posted: Mon Nov 9, 2009 6:54 pm |
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You will despise
Bottle Shock
. Except for pretty shots of grapes and helicopter footage of vineyards the film is sheer over-scripted nonsense. The last time I winced that hard was when I watched Travolta in
Michael
. And this is coming from someone who lives not too far from Napa and finds the local history of wine interesting.
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MerriadocBrandybuck
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Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 9:22 am |
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Just watched The Shining for the first time since highschool. Saw it was on around Halloween and DVR'd it. I had forgotten a lot of it. Still a fantastic movie!!
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kaya
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Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 11:14 am |
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I saw 'inglorious basterds' yesterday. Liked it. And firmly pinched my eyes when the violence became too graphic.  But apart from that I was really pleasantly surprised.
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bornilon
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Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 7:41 pm |
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Don't know how I missed it before, but I just saw (on DVD), "The Lives of Others"-- the 2007 Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film. What a fantastic flick!
It's about a functionary in the Stasi (East German secret police, more or less) who is detailed to eavesdrop on a writer. The whole film is basically about his gradual discovery of his own humanity as he becomes more and more invested in the subjects of his surveillance.
It's a very low-key narrative, but excruciatingly suspenseful. The lead actor, Ulrich Muhe (who died in 2007) gives a wonderfully subtle performance (reminiscent, for me, of the marvellous turn by Christoph Waltz in Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds"). This was the first (and, so far as I can tell, only) feature film by Florian Henckel von Donnersmark. I certainly intend to watch for his next!
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jadeval
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Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2009 3:51 pm |
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I watched Wizard of Oz yesterday on TBS!
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It's actually more goofy and weird now that I see it as an adult.
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Swordsman_Of_The_Tower
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Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2009 5:04 pm |
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Changeling
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Daefaroth
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Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 8:17 pm |
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Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 10:44 pm |
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I think the last movie I watched was a quaint little movie called, 'The Secret of Roan Inish'. Nice Irish myth meets modern(ish) piece.
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Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 11:26 am |
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Lies and Illusions.
DO NOT even consider renting this unadulterated piece of *TOS violating descriptive noun*. It is an utter waste of time, amateurish, embarrassing and downright horrible. I'm not sure what was more painful to watch, Christian Slater's gosh-awful high school musical quality acting, or the completely cringe-worthy bar fight scene between the two female leads . . . gaaaahhhhhhhhhh . . . I wanted to poke my eyes out with a burning stick!!
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Erufailon.Atanvarno
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Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 11:29 am |
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Watched 2012 and Julie & Julia this weekend.
Really enjoyed them both.
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Morwenna
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Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 12:12 pm |
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Saw the new Christmas Carol two nights ago.
Finally caught Enchanted on TV a couple weeks ago.
Looking forward to a few more fantasy movies...
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Telemachos
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Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 2:52 pm |
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Saw
2012
last Sunday. Hilariously dumb, in an epic VFX-actular way.
DVRed
APPALOOSA
and
BABYLON A.D.
and finally watched both of them.
APPALOOSA's a decent enough Western... nothing really stands out about it but it's a sturdy genre piece. Worth watching if you like Westerns, Ed Harris, Viggo, or Jeremy Irons, I guess.
BABYLON A.D. was a mess... but there was enough of an idea there that I wish the director had retained control -- reports were that the studio recut the film to emphasize the action and trimmed out most everything else, which means the movie made no sense and had no coherency. But I did like Vin Diesel in it, and there was just a hint of the greater world-verse that had been set up that a longer, more fully-explained story could have been neat. Still, I can't really recommend it to anyone except diehard Vin Diesel fans.
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Telemachos
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Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 11:49 pm |
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Caught an advance screening of
UP IN THE AIR
. Great movie, one of the best of the year and an example of the sort of movie Hollywood can very well: smart entertainment aimed at adults. It reminded me of Cameron Crowe and JERRY MAGUIRE, and also some of Clooney's other recent work like MICHAEL CLAYTON. It's different in tone than either of those, but it shares smart, well-written characters and a carefully constructed script that pays off in many ways without necessarily going for the obvious resolutions. I really recommend it.
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Swordsman_Of_The_Tower
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Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 8:48 pm |
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[i]
The place promised in our early days.
Absolutely gorgeous move, I will have to watch it again to fully understand it though. It deals a lot with alternate realities-dreams, making it hard to at first tell what is a dream and what isn't, but visually every frame is worthy of hanging on the wall IMO.
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Swordsman_Of_The_Tower
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Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 7:26 pm |
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Defiance
Good, liked it.
Home for the Holidays
Gotta watch this around Thanksgiving
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rowanberry
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Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 8:44 am |
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Om Shanti Om
Check your brain and have fun! Lots of eye candy for both sexes.
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jadeval
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Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 10:48 am |
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Casino
(1995) by Scorsese. Excellent.
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Ranloth
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Posted: Tue Dec 1, 2009 9:56 am |
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Ranloth
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Posted: Tue Dec 1, 2009 9:56 am |
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Powder is a great movie. So is...
[img]Doctor Zhivago[/img]
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Swordsman_Of_The_Tower
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krawler
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Posted: Wed Dec 2, 2009 1:30 pm |
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The family rented and watched
Angles and Demons
over Thanksgiving weekend, and I sat alongside them to watch. Egads, what a terrible story! My parents actually know the Catholic Church's rituals and proceedings surrounding the choosing of a new pope, so they were able to clarify and correct the movie as things went along. I provided MST3K-ish snark where appropriate.
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jadeval
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Posted: Fri Dec 4, 2009 6:37 pm |
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Been on the organized crime theme lately:
Good. Long. Tragic. Liked part I a little better.
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Daefaroth
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Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 8:41 am |
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SECOND
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Arvegil
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Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 8:43 pm |
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"Whip It." Should have been good, but it wasn't.
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Swordsman_Of_The_Tower
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Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 11:15 am |
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Jurassic Park 3
Absolute, atrocious garbage
Titanic
Not gonna lie, I still love this movie, for it's flaws, I still love it. Movie snobs may hate it, I am entertained every time.
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holbytla
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Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 7:31 pm |
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I liked it a good deal. It wasn't deep or particularly clever, but it was one of those movies where you could leave your brain at the door and and pleasantly while away a couple of hours.
The characters were far stronger than the plot which was okay.
The soundtrack was awesome.
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