What movies have you seen recently?

[MC Fatigue]

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humm....i personally like the twilight movies, but i take it your trying to Call Percy Jackson bad, whys that?

It would be easier to say what's good about it.

• It had some neat special effects.

[chicubsfan20]

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I saw the Book of Eli last weekend, and the Wolfman this Saturday.

I'm looking to see Shutter Island and possibly Edge of Darkness next weekend.

Shutter Island and The Crazies, are two movies I'm going to see forsure.

[Beantown]

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After reading Shutter Island this weekend, I'm pretty excited to see how Martin and Leo portray it. Should be very interesting.

And yeah, The Crazies looks like my exact kind of movie.

[Gibbz]

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And yeah, The Crazies looks like my exact kind of movie.

Yeah The Crazies looks sick.

[Knight165]

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Just saw Hachiko.
Awesome story....good movie...but great story.
True story.
I wish they would have followed the true events a bit more....but still good.

M.K.
Knight165

[marshallfever]

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Justice League: Crisis on two Earths 8.0

Not as good as some of the other D.C animated movies, but still blows Planet Hulk out the water. The ending segments were very interesting. I would of loved to see more of Batman and Owlman.

Can't wait for the next D.C movie

[trobinson97]

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Couples Retreat. Eh.

[Beantown]

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Invictus

Amazing movie, in my opinion. Freeman continues to cement himself as one of the greatest actors of all time and Damon as one of the greatest current actors. Just all around kick-***.

Also had one or two of the best "feel-good" kind of scenes I've seen in a long time. An absolute must-watch.

[ryanm1058123]

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The Vicious Kind.

Damn good movie. I swear, just about every single indy i've seen this year has been better than anything produced by a major Hollywood studio.

And Brittany Snow with short black hair. Amazing.

[jeremym480]

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Watched Zombieland, Saw 6 and The Hurt Locker this weekend. Saw 6 was the weakest link. Really liked Zombieland.

I watched Zombieland last night and really liked it!

[FinsUp75]

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Inglourious Basterds - what a great film

[VDusen04]

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As someone whose hobby it is to see every film ever with Morgan Freeman, I was obligated to see Along Came a Spider, which I found predictable and lacking on suspense. . .which is a problem, considering it's a suspense film. 6/10.

[Bellsprout]

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As someone whose hobby it is to see every film ever with Morgan Freeman, I was obligated to see Along Came a Spider, which I found predictable and lacking on suspense. . .which is a problem, considering it's a suspense film. 6/10.

Have you seen The Code with him and Antonio Banderas?

I really hope i'm the only person that's sit through that trainwreck. Nobody else deserves to see 2 hours of their life so completely and totally wasted.

(And if you both saw it and liked it, i'm sorry about laying into it just now. )

[Gibbz]

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As someone whose hobby it is to see every film ever with Morgan Freeman, I was obligated to see Along Came a Spider, which I found predictable and lacking on suspense. . .which is a problem, considering it's a suspense film. 6/10.

Have you seen that movie he and Owen Wilson were in?

[SPTO]

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The Sunshine Boys (1975)

I've seen this movie a couple times but haven't seen it in a while. This is the movie that launched the George Burns to true stardom. Incidentally he might've never gotten that shot if his closest friend in life Jack Benny hadn't died as Benny was slated to play the Al Lewis part. Anywho here's the summary:

Al Lewis and Willy Clark were once a popular vaudeville comedy team called Lewis and Clark, also known as The Sunshine Boys. After forty-three years as a team, they parted company over eleven years prior on not too friendly terms as Willy wanted to continue his career whereas Al wanted to retire. They have not spoken since. Willy's nephew, Ben - a talent agent - has been trying to find acting jobs for his uncle since with little success as Willy's age and declining ability is showing. But a lucrative opportunity comes up when one of the major networks is producing and airing a special on the history of comedy, and want The Sunshine Boys to appear. Ben has to try and convince the comedy team to reunite for just this one gig. Ben has to try and manage the individual quirks and personalities of each of The Sunshine Boys while putting on a good face to the network that there is harmony within The Sunshine Boys comedy team. Ben also has to manage the lives of two men in the twilight of their lives

The humor in the movie is rather broad but the best part of it is the relationship between Willy (Mathau) and Al. Willy's a loud mouth who's often more then a bit forgetful and thinks he knows everything. There's a running gag with his apartment door as he can't open it and he yells at his nephew saying to call the latino manager to fix the lock and the nephew yelling at Willy to slide the lock. It's a lot more funny in motion then it is in print.

Al is a very slow guy but once with Willy it's like he's young again and they're constantly getting into fights. The thing about Al's slowness is that while funny is a bit uncomfortable to watch in today's context knowing about alzheimers and such. The scene where Clark's nephew Ben (played by Richard Benjamin) meets Al for the first time is a perfect example of this. They'd talk about something and then Al wouldn't know what they're really talking about then he'd repeat everything Ben told him.

The dynamic between Mathau and Burns is just great and the whole scene where they rehearse their old doctor sketch is a hoot. Strangely enough when they do the runthrough for the studio the actual skit is quite a bore except for the buxom nurse played by Lee Meredith. (best known in her role as the ditzy secretary of Zero Mostel in The Producers) The movie does have a lot of heart to it though at the very end and the ending lended itself to a sequel. I'm betting if the movie had been made ten years later a sequel would've been made.

Watch this film to see the hijinks of Mathau and Burns and look out near the end of the film as the lady who plays mother Winslow on Family Matters has a small part!

I give this 3 out of 5 stars. It kinda drags at certain points but Mathau and Burns makes up for it immensely.