Originally Posted by davidlando1

DVD- Land of the Dead 8/10
HBO - The Grudge 6/10 (it did creep me out)

Originally Posted by oliegirl

Since watching that movie I refuse to go in the attic under any circumstances. And every now and then when I am in the shower, I remember the scene and get really, really, irrationally freaked out.

But overall it was a crappy movie.

Originally Posted by ThunderingHERD

Saw The Constant Gardener tonight. Wow, great movie. Blows away the other thriller-with-a-social-conscience films out there, neither of which are much without their non-fiction context(and Syriana a massive bore even with).

Originally Posted by cthomer5000

oh, and Napoleon Dynamite - I really disliked it. There simply isn't a movie there, it's just a collection of ideas that must have seemed funny while the writer was stoned. There isn't a reason to care about any character in any way.

Originally Posted by Easy Mac

Thank you, finally someone else who feels the way I do. It felt like a best of SNL DVD where it was Jimmy Fallon playing the same character in different scenes.

Originally Posted by kingfc22

I didn't see what the big fuss was about Napolean either. Was pretty lame if you ask me. The only part that I really laughed at was the dance scene.

Originally Posted by Scoobz0202

I rented the documentary " Grizzly Man " this afternoon. This was put together by Werner Herzog.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427312/

Timothy Treadwell lived with Grizzly Bears in Alaska during the summer for 13 years. He never took a weapon. In his 13th summer, he and his girlfriend were killed by a grizzly bear the last day of the 2003 expedition. He believed he was protecting the bears from poachers, and other human interactions that would harm the bears. There is much debate as to whether what he was doing was more harmful then good, such as making the bears familiar with humans and therefore making them an easier target for poachers. I do not know how I feel about whether what he did was right or wrong, but I do know that this documentary is amazing. Treadwell had a camera with him for what I believe was the last five expeditions into Alaska. His footage is absolutely amazing. Some of the scenes left me in awe. Treadwell at times came across as an amazingly compassionate man, a very funny man, and very intelligent, but at times he also came across as almost crazy. Some of the things he would do made me think of his mental state. One such instance is where one of the bears he named " Wendy " took a dump and ran over and touched it and he was in pure ecstacy over the fact that this crap just came out of Wendy. Then there are times where I feel such admiration for this man, because for 13 seasons he lived in perhaps one of the most dangerous areas of Alaska, where any normal person would probably die on their first camping trip. To watch him touch a wild grizzly bear and speak to it like a fellow human was amazing. He was also extremely close to the foxes that lived in the area. They were like his pets.

Treadwell actually had the camera rolling when they were attacked, but they did not have the lens cover off. All they got was audio. This audio I believe has never been made public. Timothy's best friend, and one time lover, had the tape and she never even listened to it. There is one scene where Werner is listening to the audio with headphones while Timothy's best friends holds the camcorder the tape is in. Werner's back is to you, and at times he would describe what he was hearing. The lady obviously got emotional, and eventually Werner asked her to turn off the tape and he took his headphones off. He tells her that she must not ever listen to that, and that she should probably destroy the tape. That scene alone I think did more, I feel, then if they actually played the tape in the documentary. It was a very powerful scene.

I could go on and on about other such scenes. I HIGHLY recommend viewing this. 10/10.

Originally Posted by Draft Dodger

a couple recent one:

The Constant Gardner: 8/10. Liked a lot of it, including the performances of Weisz and Fiennes. Loved all the stuff about their relationship. The only negative for me was the lame pharmaceutical storyline, which was so unoriginal and uninteresting it almost ruined the whole movie for me.

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Originally Posted by panerd

I didn't care much for the pharmaceutical storyline either, but I am not sure how you can give it an 8/10 if you didn't. That is like 95% of the movie.

Originally Posted by Draft Dodger

another good one. Crash 9/10. I can see where people wouldn't like it, but I dug it very much.

Originally Posted by Easy Mac

I "liked" it, but I found it a bit too cliched. I know that was the whole point, it just didn't work for me. I spent a lot of the time laughing. My favorite part was the Mexican dad and his daughter. I would have paid good money to watch a whole movie around that.

Originally Posted by Bad-example

I watched Boondock Saints last night after seeing several recommendations on this board. I liked the quirky directing style. A pretty enjoyable movie. Willem Dafoe is always interesting to watch. I would call it a 7/10.

Originally Posted by cthomer5000

Before Sunset - 5/5 (I've seen this before so this may even be posted in this thread)

Sequel to Before Sunrise (1995). I remember being a little worried when I heard this movie was coming out, but it's probably better than the original. It's so perfectly casual, you feel like you're just dropping in on a pair of people for 80 minutes or so (the movie is paced in real time, so it only covers that much ground). I think the passage of time (both real-world and in-movie) since the original make it that much more effective. I find myself a little sad when it ends, just because I enjoy the characters so much.

Originally Posted by Draft Dodger

most overrated underrated movie ever.