Which Movies Have You Seen Lately? V for Five
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SchoolzSoKewl
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I saw this Swedish film called Evil today, it was ok, but it mostly left me angry because the end wasn't gratifying enough for me.
Also saw My One and Only with Renee Zellweger and Logan Lerman, and then I watched Meet Bill with Jessica Alba, Elizabeth Banks, and Logan Lerman. I thought they were really good movies but I can't be sure if it was the films or Logan Lerman that I liked most.
Also saw My One and Only with Renee Zellweger and Logan Lerman, and then I watched Meet Bill with Jessica Alba, Elizabeth Banks, and Logan Lerman. I thought they were really good movies but I can't be sure if it was the films or Logan Lerman that I liked most.
aelf
Ashen One
Yeah. Doesn't that have rather controversial implications if the movie was supposed to be an allegory for apartheid?
That's why we shouldn't compare movies with real life, folks, even if the movie does contain lessons for real life.
Formaldehyde
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warpus
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Watched Edward Scissorhands on Blue Ray a couple weeks ago.
Still a masterpiece, but some parts looked just.. silly.
Still a masterpiece, but some parts looked just.. silly.
Just saw Bruno and The Hangover back to back on Saturday. Boy was that a great night! 
edit: I also saw The Hurt Locker, and was that an amazing film. But definitely a hard one to get through, probably won't be able watch it again any time soon.
edit: I also saw The Hurt Locker, and was that an amazing film. But definitely a hard one to get through, probably won't be able watch it again any time soon.
scherbchen
well that can´t be good
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guy ritchie run. never liked the bugger for some reason but RocknRolla and Snatch are awesome movies.
Martacus
World's Greatest Warrior
My wife and I watched Patton a while back. I had only seen bits and pieces before, and she hadn't seen any of it. We both enjoyed it. It certainly didn't feel like it was three hours long, though.
More recently (for Valentine's day) we went to see Crazy Heart. Kind of blah in my opinion; I guess the fact that it wound up with a very anticlimactic "happy" ending bugged me. Robert Duvall's singing was definitely the high point.
More recently (for Valentine's day) we went to see Crazy Heart. Kind of blah in my opinion; I guess the fact that it wound up with a very anticlimactic "happy" ending bugged me. Robert Duvall's singing was definitely the high point.
For reasons too complicated to get into, about a month ago I saw the movie Leap Year with Amy Adams. The problem with "chick flicks", I decided, is not that it is a bad genre but that it is full of formulaic rom-coms that are all a variant of the same ridiculous basic plot. Some woman whose only noticeable feature is that she is a shallow, materialistic yuppie (at least this movie mixes things up by putting her in Boston, not NYC) gets some guy to fall all over her for no good reason. And ditches her bland boyfriend, even though he is always more like her than the love interest. What, don't middle-class Midwestern women with personalities ever find love?
Also saw Definitely, Maybe, which is also a "chick flick" but a decent example of how to do one. Not completely formulaic.
Also saw Definitely, Maybe, which is also a "chick flick" but a decent example of how to do one. Not completely formulaic.
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I saw The Book of Eli last week and thought it was really good.I was quite sceptical at first about the bible thing but it didin't bother me too much, there were also some logical flaws in the story, but i can find those in practically all works of fiction.
The aesthetics seem do be heavily inspired by Fallout 3. I saw it with a friend and we were constantly cracking jokes about the game and the movie. "Oh, that's the place where he gets the dog.", "First loot them, shame the chainsaw is so heavy"...
The aesthetics seem do be heavily inspired by Fallout 3. I saw it with a friend and we were constantly cracking jokes about the game and the movie. "Oh, that's the place where he gets the dog.", "First loot them, shame the chainsaw is so heavy"...
Ansar
Détente avec l'été
Revenge of the Nerds
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I saw District 9 couple weeks ago. Or half of it, to be exact, at about the time when they were going to get that black fluid back I picked a magazine and took only couple glances at the rest of the movie.
The premise of the film was quite good, and I waited much of it. Especially as it has been lauded so much. But from the begining I was irritated by it's reality-TV style, handycams and such. First I thought it was just an introduction, but it continued and continued. I'm not either fond on how the film had to underline all the time protagonist's noncomfortable situation, nor that cutting technique involved with it (like showing when he's eating -cut- he's pouring something in his mouth -cut- he's doing something else. I can't explain it, but if you see the scene, you'll notice what I mean).
I didn't either like the pace of the movie, and how it concentrated on action and one day (or was there two? Can't remember). I was hoping for more wide portrayal of the alien-human conflict.
From what I saw of the rest of the movie, it looked like it was just standard action thing.
I know I'm in minority with this view, and am not trying to troll here, but I honestly can't understand what's so good about the movie. Ok, the whole idea is kind of neat, but unfortunately I read it from the paper when the movie came out, and the film itself failed to add anything new to what I already had read about it.
It must have something to do with your wife, or females in general.
There are some things in female mind that I can't understand and romcoms are one of them. Even more so, if they contain Hugh Grant (hope I got it right, I always get the Notting Hill-Hugh mixed with the Wooster-Hugh).
The premise of the film was quite good, and I waited much of it. Especially as it has been lauded so much. But from the begining I was irritated by it's reality-TV style, handycams and such. First I thought it was just an introduction, but it continued and continued. I'm not either fond on how the film had to underline all the time protagonist's noncomfortable situation, nor that cutting technique involved with it (like showing when he's eating -cut- he's pouring something in his mouth -cut- he's doing something else. I can't explain it, but if you see the scene, you'll notice what I mean).
I didn't either like the pace of the movie, and how it concentrated on action and one day (or was there two? Can't remember). I was hoping for more wide portrayal of the alien-human conflict.
From what I saw of the rest of the movie, it looked like it was just standard action thing.
I know I'm in minority with this view, and am not trying to troll here, but I honestly can't understand what's so good about the movie. Ok, the whole idea is kind of neat, but unfortunately I read it from the paper when the movie came out, and the film itself failed to add anything new to what I already had read about it.
It must have something to do with your wife, or females in general.
There are some things in female mind that I can't understand and romcoms are one of them. Even more so, if they contain Hugh Grant (hope I got it right, I always get the Notting Hill-Hugh mixed with the Wooster-Hugh).
More or less, sure.
Movies focusing on relationships and romance and the like are not inherently bad - but most of them are. In fact, most of them insult women as a gender.
You're right. I think I've even seen a romcom that wasn't bad.
Hmm.. Does being comedic and romantic make a film romcom? High Fidelity for example was both, but lacked most of the distinctive characteristics, for example it doesn't start with the charcters meeting each others.
The biggest repellant in romcoms, I think, is how they rely so much on awkwardness. The target group seems to find awkwardness not only funny, but also romantic.
Luckily I've known quite a few females who do not watch romcoms or force me to watch them, and I know it isn't any general rule that females like them. However, I've also been unpleasantly surprised upon learning that a girl whom I have wrongly profiled likes them.
Shekwan
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I think its supposed to look silly. People don't really live in pink houses.
How does it depict Ireland? I love watching foreign movies set here to see how they sell the place to the audience back home. For example I found the movie Irish Jam entertaining because if its hackneyed stereotypical depiction of Ireland which verged on offensive.
Also, I agree with your assessment of romcoms.
Such a person would have to exist in order to find love.
I was quite dissapointed by it. Its a great idea but I don't think it has any longevity - it would have been better used in a comedy sketch than a feature length movie.
Yeah pretty much.
I am afraid I cannot speak to the accuracy of the depiction, but it focused on small towns, and pubs, and the like (the Ireland part of the movie was mostly a road trip) - it seemed to portray small town Ireland the way most movies like that treat small town USA, as a sort of curiosity into which our yuppie protagonist finds themselves thrust.
I mean, it was a positive portrayal in the sense that if Ireland were really like that, it would seem like a nice place to visit or even live, but I don't really think Ireland is like that by and large.
Gilder
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Saw The Crazies last weekend with some friends. The town wasn't being infected with zombies or insanity or whatever it was, it was infected with high grade, purely distilled stupidity.
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