What movies have you seen recently?

[jeremym480]

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My wife and I had been talking about Patrick Swayze and his movies; she hadn't seen Waking Up in Reno, a movie from 2002. We Netflixed it and watched it last night. A goofy situational comedy, but it was fun. Sad, half of that cast is gone: Swayze and Natasha Richardson.

Have you guys watch Next of Kin with Swazye and Natsha Richardson's husband, Liam Neeson? Because that's a fantastic movie, IMO.

[jeremym480]

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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen- Good action but way too many stupid scenes and lame writing.

I watched this last night. It was about what I expected and I consider it a disappointment considering how good the first one was..

[Bellsprout]

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Transformers 2: God awful. Any movie with robot testicles has no chance of being good.

The Dark Knight on Blu-Ray: I specify "Blu-Ray" because the picture and sound are so insane it was like I was seeing it for the first time, even though it was like the 1000th. Love that movie. Words cannot describe Ledger's performance.

[GAMEC0CK2002]

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Transformers 2: God awful. Any movie with robot testicles has no chance of being good.

The Dark Knight on Blu-Ray: I specify "Blu-Ray" because the picture and sound are so insane it was like I was seeing it for the first time, even though it was like the 1000th. Love that movie. Words cannot describe Ledger's performance.

Agree on both counts. Especially, didn't find the "twins" in T2 very funny. Guess my expectations were too high and not counting on 10-12 year old humor.

TDK is a must own on blu ray.

[Pappy Knuckles]

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Transformers 2: Garbage. Awful script and a bunch of characters I didn't care about. I basically watched two hours of metal flying around the screen a million miles per second. I vaguely remember the first one, but I know I enjoyed it more than the sequel. 3/10

La Moustache: This was a foreign flick about some dude who shaves his moustache one day but nobody notices. Not his girl, friends, or anyone. The movie started off really good but kind of lost itself. I get what the director was trying to say with this one, but it was just an alright movie. 5/10

Crazy As Hell: A psychologist takes a job at a state hospital and comes across a patient who claims that he's Satan. This was written by Eriq La Salle, who also played 'Satan'. I'm not aware of other stuff that he's done, but I thought this was a good effort. 7/10

Danika:

Danika is a thirty-five year old overprotective mother with a beautiful family composed of her successful husband Randy, two sons - the teenager Kurt and the little Brian, and one teenager daughter - Lauren. Danika is disturbed and near a breakdown, having dark and terrifying nightmares and daydreams; distracted in her work and consequently committing mistakes; and under psychiatric treatment with Dr. Evelyn. Her problems originated when her husband cheated on her with the nanny of their children, breaking her confidence in him. The lack of attention caused by her disturbed mind leads her family into tragedy.

This wasn't a great movie but Tomei's performance made it good. 7.5/10


Kidulthood: The best way I can describe this is a modern, UK version of the movie 'Kids'. The difference being that Kidulthood has a stronger story and doesn't have that same gritty, almost documentary style to it. It was written by a guy named Noel Clarke, who I will definitely have to check out more from. He also played the bully, Sam, in the movie. I didn't know anything about this one going into it, but I found myself glued to the screen. It might be tough to make out some of the dialogue because of accents, but the longer you continue to watch it, the easier it becomes to understand. I just found out that he did a follow up to it called Adulthood that I plan on checking out soon. Great music in this one too...9/10


Julia:

At an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, Julia Harris (Tilda Swinton) agrees to help her friend Elena (Kate del Castillo) kidnap her son (Aidan Gould) from his industrialist grandfather. But when Julia takes the scheme into her own hands, she quickly descends into a dangerous world of Mexican con men. This Cassavetes-inspired drama from acclaimed French director Erick Zonca screened at the Sundance and Berlin film festivals.

Great flick. Excellent job by Tilda Swinton. 8.5/10

[MC Fatigue]

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I watched Tank Girl yesterday. Not sure how I made it all the way through...

[WeLLWeLL]

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I watched Tank Girl yesterday. Not sure how I made it all the way through...

Lol. I have never made it all the way through that movie. Even as a kid I knew it was terrible.

[Bellsprout]

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The Happening-6/10. I thought it was cool at the beginning but lost interest fast. Overall it wasnt a bad movie, just didn't like how it jumped right in to the action without explaining much, and then just ended. But in the beginning Mark Wahlberg said there is no reason to nature so that was the main point this movie was trying to drive. I read some bad reviews on this movie, but I thought it was decent.

And the acting and script was just plain bad. I think Mark Wahlberg is an excellent actor but some of his lines just made me LOL, it made him look like a mediocre actor.

Agree with that completely. I bought this movie blind without reading reviews and I found it stale, but not terrible. Wahlberg was laughably bad though. It looked like he was giving half effort, especially after I had watched him in The Departed.

I can never get enough Zooey Deschanel though, so that was good.

[SPTO]

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Transformers 2: Garbage. Awful script and a bunch of characters I didn't care about. I basically watched two hours of metal flying around the screen a million miles per second. I vaguely remember the first one, but I know I enjoyed it more than the sequel. 3/10

I saw the movie today as well and i'm not going to be nearly as harsh as you but yeah it wasn't very good at all. The movie in 3 words is: Big, Loud, and Stupid. The "acting" was so broad that it became unintentionally funny in a bad way. I can't believe such a good actor like John Turturro got snookered into this franchise.

The basic premise is actually not bad at all but the focus is totally wrong. The movie is called Transformers not Sam Witwicky, Boy Adventurer. There were two scenes in the movie that showed how bad the focus is. It's something I kinda noticed in the first film but couldn't put a finger on but it's clear as day here. This is spoiler-rific for those who haven't seen it so stop reading now if you don't want to know:


The scene where Optimus Prime sacrifices himself for Sam should've been done with a lot more heart. I mean it starts to slightly get emotional then BAM! It's back to the craziness of the fight scenes between the robots however near the end of the movie where Sam apparently dies it's done in a super "This is an Emotional Moment" way and having the Primes telling Sam it was his destiny to get the Matrix of Leadership.

WTF! That's kinda thing should've been done with Optimus Prime's death and then his resurrection. Instead he just comes back to life and Jetfire merges with Prime so he can save the day in typical Michael Bay action crap.

UGH!

2/5

[Herky]

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Halloween 2. Posted my non-spoiler impressions in thread for the movie.

Watched Wrong Turn 2 last night. It was better than I expected considering the budget. Cheesy and campy, but it held my attention (and I was ready for bed).

[Hammerhunker]

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Transformers 2: God awful. Any movie with robot testicles has no chance of being good.

But, Megan Fox sure looked something in those tight white pants that never seemed to get dirty. That's the only thing that held my attention Sorry, I have a slow maturity leak.

[LionsFanNJ]

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But, Megan Fox sure looked something in those tight white pants that never seemed to get dirty. That's the only thing that held my attention Sorry, I have a slow maturity leak.

Thats the only thing making me want to watch the sequel. I enjoyed the first one and don't mind the story finished there.


Also, I just saw G.I.Joe and it was as good as i'd thought it be. Not the horrible piece of filmmaking everyone makes it out as. And Sienna Miller. nuff said.

[WeLLWeLL]

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Also, I just saw G.I.Joe and it was as good as i'd thought it be. Not the horrible piece of filmmaking everyone makes it out as. And Sienna Miller. nuff said.

I don't know if we watched the same movie then, because GI Joe was terrible.

[trobinson97]

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I didn't think G.I. Joe was bad at all. I liked it much more than Transformers.

[MizzouBravesFan]

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Watched Apocalypto last night, forgot how badass that movie is.