The "I Just Watched..." Thread

I would watch a movie about Julia Stiles eating potato chips--I find her remarkably dreamy.

Speaking of Bill Murray, I just watched What About Bob. I just end up feeling bad for Dr. Marvin the whole time. He just wants to enjoy his vacation, but this goddamn asshole lunatic won't leave him and his family alone.

District B13 Ultimatum: Man, this was LAME. After fun, energetic first film filled with some crazy, breathtaking action (well, first half anyways :)), this completely by the number sequel is totally MEH. Its a rehash of the first film with a bigger scale and with another government conspiracy to wipe out B13 and lots of humor thrown in instead of more hardcore action.

Lets see: Opening with Bold cop taking out the big gang by himself - Check. Leto character being ambushed and chased out of his apartment by baddies - Check. Heroes fighting back to back while breaking into enemy fortified quarters -Check.

Nothing wrong with those scenes, and if there wasn't first film, most of this might even look interesting (not exceptional, or great, but interesting nevertheless), but as it stands, in Ultimatum, every of those sequence feels like a rehash of the original, and not surprisingly even below the quality of the first. After watching this, I went and re-watched some of the action of the first, and it still takes my breath away. Here it was just lame attempts to do more of Jackie Chan's action gimmicks.

What also hurts it, just like first it really runs out of steam past half way mark, and gets more boring then exciting, as it reaches the climax.

Damn, I had some great hopes for this. Sucks that it so mediocre.





WTF, My internet is fucking with me. Mods can you delete the second post PLS :p

Gotcha.

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The Hangover - I give it a B-, maybe a C+. It's ok but there's no plot, they just move from wacky situation to the next wacky situation. The ending is completely anti-climactic. Like when you leave your wallet in your pants, and the next day you're like where's my wallet, oh, it's in yesterday's pants. You've heard all the jokes before and it tries too hard to be alpha male - I can't stand the guy from wedding crashers. The characters aren't real likable except 1, and they swear for the sake of swearing. The movie goes on too long, I fell asleep for 10 min right before they find Doug.

Everything funny in the movie involves the weird bearded guy, he was great, and Carlos was great. That baby needs an Academy Award. His expressions were always spot on. I'm wondering if they used cg to get the right look out of him, it was that good.

The rest of the theater liked it better than me. They were laughing all the time at the dumb stuff. One of my friends called it an instant classic, so don't let me talk you out of going if you think you'll like it. I love dumb movies but this one didn't click for me. YMMV

I can't believe people are saying it's like Memento. It's not a comedy Memento, it's basically Dude Where's My Car 2. Only Dude Where's My Car is better.

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no plot? their looking for there friend after a night in which they can't remember. It's not the greatest plot but it's the plot of this movie. I agree that the baby's expressions were spot on, I was thinking CG was to thank for this as well. I personally liked the way it ended, a very good way of keeping the audience's interest up until the end as well as making them laugh. Also, the bearded guy eventually grew on me but I felt in the beginning he was the most cliche part of the movie.

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I thought the hangover was hilarious, I haven't laughed that hard in theaters in a long time. And I didn't like Dude Wheres My Car.

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same here. Saw it last night, I laughed pretty much through most of it.

I watched the Hangover Wednesday. I was unsure of it for most of the movie. It had some great laughs sprinkled throughout, but there were whole chunks of time that I didn't laugh at all. Then the spot right before the credits hit, and I was rolling off the chair. My eyes were watering I was laughing so hard.
So yeah, the last thirty seconds saved the movie.

Watched the first four episodes of Weeds Season 4 last night. Such a great show!!!

I liked everybody in The Hangover. It's unoriginal plot, but they veered away from hitting every cliche and kept it moving (there seems to be a few gaps, I'm thinking some heavy editing was done that should appear on the DVD). I really, really liked Zach Galifianakis' take on Alan. He walked a fine line of retard and psychopath, never going too far in either direction. The payoff during the credits was brilliant and made the ending of the movie 100x better.

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Watched the first four episodes of Weeds Season 4 last night. Such a great show!!!

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Season 5 just started, really good start.

Snow Angels - Fuck, talk about a kick in the gut. Sam Rockwell is such a good actor, and David Gordon Green is such a good director.

Hangover - Hilarious movie, anyone who hates on the movie hasn't gone to an insane bachelor party before. And like everyone said, the ending just topped it all off.

Now I'm watching Total Recall <3

Frost/Nixon - Awesome movie. Micheal Sheen had an awesome performance as David Frost. And Frank Langella as Nixon was amazing. I mean TRULY amazing.

So I saw Up in 3D last night, it was great. I admit, I cried though! It left me a little sad even though the ending was good. I loved Kevin. <33

Doomsday - Despair doesn't lie. It was awesome.

Oh yeah ...

About a week ago I saw Night at the Museum2: Battle at the Smithsonian.

Loved it. As funny as the first. Custard was hilarious.

watched the new friday the 13th, whole lotta nothin that hasn't already been seen but did have a few nice racks in it

Everest: Beyond the Limit Season 2

Now I wanna go climb Everest.

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The Ramen Girl starring Brittany Murphy. Something of a homage to Tampopo, a girl staying in Tokyo while her boyfriend is there on assignment gets broken up with, and distraught doesn't know what to do with her life. She ends up learning how to make ramen from a ramen cook.

This had potential to be really touching and cute (and was at points), but somewhere along the way when outlining the plot, the screenwriter didn't see some really obvious ways to make this a lot better. Still, it was pretty good I guess.

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I watched this. It was good, although a bit ABC Family. I still love Brittany Murphy. I can watch her in anything. One of the Netflix reviews pointed out how it is the opposite of Lost in Translation. Instead of feeling alienated and pulling away from the Japanese culture, the main character is drawn into it. That was an interesting thing to think about while watching. They have a very similar set up and go two totally different directions.

It will be available for Netflix streaming 6/25/2009

maybe i'll watch that! i like Brittany Murphy too.

Watching Ratatouille again. Every frame of this movie is solid gold. GOLD. Wonderful fucking animation.

Speaking of which, I've seen no Linguini/Tatou porn. I officially am Rule 34ing it.

Edit: Found it. http://berkolounger.livejournal.com/179008.html And there's a lot more than that.

Shit god damn it this movie is such a fucking rollercoaster of EMOTION

http://rule34.transceration.net/_ima...atatouille.jpg

What?

I'm beginning to think Rule 34 is really true.

How about you clear up what you're talking about.

-Edit - Also, I watched Summer School over the weekend. That movie fucking rules.

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City of Lost Children. What a crunkass movie and I never even heard of it until a week ago.

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How about you clear up what you're talking about.

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What didn't you understand?

Nevermind, I just googled it.

Started watching Angel, and surprisingly liking it quite a bit. Its like a predecessor to Supernaturals in many ways, but with bits of more madcap silliness and lots of pop culture references. Good times.

Saw Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles at a midnight screening Sunday. Good times. :D

Gonna go see Shaun of the Dead at the Brattle Theater tomorrow, they just started serving beer. :tu:

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I'm beginning to think Rule 34 is really true.

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it is

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City of Lost Children. What a crunkass movie and I never even heard of it until a week ago.

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Yeah, Jean-Pierre Jeunet is excellent at surreal environments, characters, etc.
If you haven't seen it, see Delicatessen. It's one of his earlier movies and is awesome.

Then watch Alien 4 and want to hit him in the nose.

Maybe they didn't translate the script into french for him.

Whedon sucks for that one, too.

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Yeah, Jean-Pierre Jeunet is excellent at surreal environments, characters, etc.
If you haven't seen it, see Delicatessen. It's one of his earlier movies and is awesome.

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Yeah! i think Delicatessen takes more than one watch. I didn't enjoy it as much the first time i saw it as i did the second time.

Finally got to watch Requiem for a Dream - WOW what a fucking powerful, dark and bleak film.

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Yeah, Jean-Pierre Jeunet is excellent at surreal environments, characters, etc.
If you haven't seen it, see Delicatessen. It's one of his earlier movies and is awesome.

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I thought City of Lost Children looked cool but the story was meh. Delicatessen is fucking awesome however.

"We gonna change the world."

"Not before we change ourselves."

That's an actual exchange of dialogue in Notorious. Most of the movie is similarly wooden. Biggie's mother's selectively Jamaican accent is distracting.

Um...the actress who played Lil Kim looked an awful lot like Lil Kim. That's probably the best thing I can say about Notorious.

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Finally got to watch Requiem for a Dream - WOW what a fucking powerful, dark and bleak film.

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ASS TO ASS.

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I'm surprised people enjoyed Underworld RotL...like most prequels, there was zero suspense or excitement since you know which characters are going to survive, but as a second, greater failing, everything in this plot was already completely explained by a 5-minute bit in the first movie. Although I like Rhona Mitra, her casting seemed to be based on her ability to ape Kate Beckinsdale's Selene, which is odd since the Sonya character was already portrayed blonde and is not related to Selene at all.

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Mitra had to be cast in a way where one could see the similarities between her and Selene, no? After all, it was Selene's resemblance to Sonya that persuaded Viktor to spare her in the first place.

I enjoyed this trilogy; I found it stylish and very entertaining.

I saw The Wrester again and have decided it is a film I must own.

The Wrestler is unbelievably good. It's almost unfair to other movies.

The Wrestler is greatness indeed.

Valkyrie

I'm a sucker for most things WWII or anything with Nazi's. I was worried this movie wasn't going to be all that great, but I really enjoyed it. I am surprised I had never really heard of these events until the movie was released. Either we were never told about it in high school, went over it extremely briefly, or I was sleeping or absent that day, but it seems to be a pretty significant event. Can anyone recommend any good books on the subject? I'm sure the movie was Hollywoodized a crap ton so I would love to read about how things went down.

King of Kong and The Devil and Daniel Johnston.

Both were good movies, I'm not sure which I preferred. I thought I would have a good handle on the characters in King of Kong because I had played fighting games, but man, outta this world.

Iron man

Really enjoyed RDJ and the shiny armor. Even Paltrow is tolerable in her role. Thank god for this movie to wash my memories of Spiderman 3.

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Mitra had to be cast in a way where one could see the similarities between her and Selene, no? After all, it was Selene's resemblance to Sonya that persuaded Viktor to spare her in the first place.

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I think it was more he lost a daughter and she was parentless, thus reminding him of Sonya circumstantially, not physically or behaviorally...unless he was reminded of Sonya at the same age he found Selene, which is speculative. Either way, there was nothing to suggest Sonya had anything to do with what Selene does (Lycan hunter), and Mitra's Sonya is pretty much just retro Selene...if they would have at least made her blonde, I would have accepted everything else, but glossing over that makes it seem like they're willfully disregarding what they've already established.

Which, sure, who gives a shit it's Underworld, but they had so little story to work with already they might as well build on what's there.

Just tried to Watch: Army of One with Dolph Lundgren...it is not recommended.

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Valkyrie

Can anyone recommend any good books on the subject? I'm sure the movie was Hollywoodized a crap ton so I would love to read about how things went down.

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It's not a book, but there is a documentary on the subject with Valkyrie in the title (it might be a history channel documentary, I'm not sure), I've never seen it, so I can't comment on it's quality, but I doubt it's as "hollywoodized".

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anything with Nazi's.

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Just trim a little off of both sides of that stach!

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Finally got to watch Requiem for a Dream - WOW what a fucking powerful, dark and bleak film.

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Watching this movie, drunk, in the dark room of a girl who still lived with her parents, was a life changing experience.

It remains in my top five movies; the best addiction movie ever.


The Wrestler is fantastic as well.

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Watching this movie, drunk, in the dark room of a girl who still lived with her parents, was a life changing experience.

It remains in my top five movies; the best addiction movie ever.

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First time I saw this I was rolling face. I felt like crying, while rolling, only time that could ever be possible.

Slumdog Millionaire : Just like it was said by many, a good film. Not Oscar worthy but definitely a good movie experience.

Man, I am on the roll with watching all of real good films of lately, I need to watch some of my usual junk quickly :)

Some suggestions to follow up, Despair.

Let the Right One In
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Before the Devil Knows Your Dead
No Country for Old Men
The Night of the Hunter
The Sasquatch Gang
Let the Right One In

Weird how everyone is mentioning The Wrestler now as I just watched it too. Really enjoyed it, great from beginning to end. Another movie where Marisa Tomei rules.

Defiance- Nazis vs Daniel Craig. Powerful movie, really well made, I give it a hearty recommendation.

I've seen Let the Right One In and No Country for Old Men. Both were excellent.

I think I will check out Before the Devil Knows you Dead next, after I finish In Bruges.

Those are both really good movies too.

I particularly enjoyed In Bruges.

I just watched How to Lose Friends and Alienate People (awesome), Big Nothing, and Run Fatboy Run.

Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and the above movies) is hilarious.

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Some suggestions to follow up, Despair.

Let the Right One In
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Before the Devil Knows Your Dead
No Country for Old Men
The Night of the Hunter
The Sasquatch Gang
Let the Right One In

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That's quite a lineup, coach. I haven't seen Night of the Hunter, but I just added it to my Netflix queue.

A good chunk of those (Let the Right One In, No Country for Old Men, The Sasquatch Gang, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead), are available to Watch Instantly.

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Defiance- Nazi's vs Daniel Craig. Powerful movie, really well made, I give it a hearty recommendation.

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THANK YOU!

I spent a half hour yesterday searching for this movie.

I vaguely remember the previews from last year but couldn't recall the name.

It was in and out of theaters pretty quick and the DVD just kinda popped out of nowhere too.

I've got Let the Right One In on blu.

Shit never gets old.

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THANK YOU!

I spent a half hour yesterday searching for this movie.

I vaguely remember the previews from last year but couldn't recall the name.

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It was a question to a Jeopardy! answer this week too! And it does look great.

Drag Me to Hell. Alison Lohman is not great eye candy. A lot of the CG sucked. Justin Long's talents were wasted on being a pussy boyfriend with zero personality. The kitty scene was no big deal, I was expecting something really gross. I completely called the mix up, but the ending did throw me. I was expecting pussy boyfriend to step up and accept the inevitable.
Still I did laugh at some of the shit, and Ali constantly getting bukkaked by various shit was entertaining.
2.5/5 dildos.

In Bruges - Interesting flick. Some great locales, cinematography and dialogs were a blast.

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I think I will check out Before the Devil Knows you Dead next,.

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I really liked this movie.

I just finshed up Diary of the Dead. I remember the movie getting a lot of flack. Granted it wasn't a great zombie movie, I didn't ever sit there thinking "my god this movie sucks." The fx were a bit shitty but there was something about the lead girl. I just wanted to do unspeakable things to her.

Diary of the Dead is terrible and I am VERY forgiving of zombie movies. It was just so--hokey and not in a good way.

Friday the 13th Remake - It was quite good. Jason was deviously brutal, some of the kills were fun and seeing Sam from Supernatural taking on Jason was a blast.

Timber just showed me a trailer for a new movie called Zombie Land and it looks amazing!

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Justin Long's talents were wasted on being a pussy boyfriend with zero personality.

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Justin Long does not have talents unless you count being incredibly annoying.

Anyone seen Skins? It's a BBC show. I'm an episode and a half in, but not really sure what to make of it yet. It's like a cross between Kids and 90210 with some Apatow thrown in and set in England. Cassie is so cute she became my new av, so I will keep watching.

In the Valley of Elah

Yes Man

I really liked it.

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Diary of the Dead is terrible and I am VERY forgiving of zombie movies. It was just so--hokey and not in a good way.

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I liked Diary of the Dead more than Land. Then again I watched it during my 31 day horror fest last year, so everything that I saw that month is a bit of a haze.

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Anyone seen Skins? It's a BBC show. I'm an episode and a half in, but not really sure what to make of it yet. It's like a cross between Kids and 90210 with some Apatow thrown in and set in England. Cassie is so cute she became my new av, so I will keep watching.

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Skins was really popular when I was in the UK. I've only seen a few episodes but I think you'll probably enjoy the rest of the series. I don't know if they've done this yet, but for the third season they completely replaced the cast with a new set of kids. There are some super cute girls on that show.

Let the Right One In is excellent. I watched Paris, Texas the other day. It was a good one. I think it's the first Wim Wenders movie I've seen.

Hangover.

It's not as funny as Old School

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Let the Right One In is excellent. I watched Paris, Texas the other day. It was a good one. I think it's the first Wim Wenders movie I've seen.

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Awesome, Paris is next on the netflix queue.

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Hangover.

It's not as magnificent as El Cantante

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Oh, really? I heard it was pretty good.

Paris, Texas is pretty good, I liked it more than Wings of Desire. I find Wim Wenders a bit sleep inducing.

Harry Dean Stanton is in Paris, Texas, so is Al from Quantum Leap. So you can't go but so wrong.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. I don't make a habit of watching silent films, but I came across an Ebert review of Caligari and had my hand forced by curiosity to add it to my NetFlix queue. As it turns out, it, as well as a lot of pre-40's movies, are available to Watch Instantly.

This movie did not to much to assuage my fear of Germans! Ninety years after its release, it's still genuinely creepy and affecting. Caligari himself, the sideshow operator who commands a man he claims has been asleep since birth to murder, is scary has hell. The painted, stylized sets, which were unheard of at the time, I understand, are mesmerizing. I wish I saw this movie before Tim Burton did so I could have made a gajillion dollars off of imitating it for a few decades.

Its runtime is only 70 minutes and change if I recall, so if you don't like it, you won't have wasted very much of your life finding out. Highly recommended!

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Justin Long does not have talents unless you count being incredibly annoying.

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I used to think the same, but I thought he was great in Die Hard and Zack and Miri. I won't go to a movie based on him being in it, but I won't discount it as crap just because he's in it like I used to.

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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. I don't make a habit of watching silent films, but I came across an Ebert review of Caligari and had my hand forced by curiosity to add it to my NetFlix queue. As it turns out, it, as well as a lot of pre-40's movies, are available to Watch Instantly.

This movie did not to much to assuage my fear of Germans! Ninety years after its release, it's still genuinely creepy and affecting. Caligari himself, the sideshow operator who commands a man he claims has been asleep since birth to murder, is scary has hell. The painted, stylized sets like the ones in Caligari, which were unheard of at the time I understand, are mesmerizing. I wish I saw this movie before Tim Burton did, so I could have made a gajillion dollars off of imitating it for a few decades.

Its runtime is only 70 minutes and change if I recall, so if you don't like it, you won't have wasted very much of your life finding out. Highly recommended!

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Watched it in a film class I took years ago, you are most definitely correct, the film is brilliant.

SSJN and I share similar opinions on matters like Justin Long.

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Watched it in a film class I took years ago, you are most definitely correct, the film is brilliant.

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This is definitely a token film class flim, I had to watch it also for a class too.

The remake was such shit.

American Ninja - It started promising some antiquated ninja hijinks and hilariously bad women drivers, but quickly became too stupid to withstand. I have the feeling someone's 12 year-old son was consulted for much this, simply because no one else knew anything about ninja...or writing dialogue. I skipped to the end and there was a cheesy action finale that was pretty entertaining in its outright amateurism, but otherwise steer clear.

Enter the Ninja - This is more of what I thought American Ninja was going to be like...in fact, it was pretty awesome right until after he gropes that ugly chick from Conan (who refuses to wear a bra the entire movie). After that it devolves into some turkey story with horrible characters, although you try to hold out because the main guy's moustache is so epic. So you skip ahead to the final 15 minutes and the finale is all right.

Raw Deal - A total snoozer featuring Schwarzenegger. My guess is that this wasn't written with Arnold in mind, so he's completely under-utilized (aside from a few nicely delivered one-liners) and none of the characters react in any way to having this huge muscle god around. It's really slow, has lame characters, and goes out with a sputter. The domestic scene with his wife is great comedy though.

you keep talking shit about american ninja and michael dudikoff is gonna go to your house and roundhouse kick your head off

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The remake was such shit.

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I'd say that goes without saying, but the Nosferatu remake is supposed to be pretty good. I liked Shadow of the Vampire too.

My Bloody Valentine Remake - Not as good as F13 remake, but fun nevertheless. Some great and gory kills and it was fun seeing Dean Winchester causing some bloody mayhem. Funny how both of Supernatural leads got theatrical films to deal with somewhat iconic screen murderer characters, though Dean's got to have more fun on the Dark side lol

3d FX look so silly.

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I liked Shadow of the Vampire quite a bit, too. It was on and watched it a few weeks ago actually, John Malkovich is just great in nearly every role he does.

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Slumdog Millionaire. Suprisingly good. I'm usually weary of movies that get critical acclaim *cough There Will Be Blood* but the older variant of the girl was smoking hot. There was something about the montage at the end of his life that was really emotional.

I thought that was a good movie. But not nearly as good as *Ahem There Will Be Blood* WTF is wrong with you?

Anyone here truly love silent films? I've been submerged in Charlie Bowers' films for the last month. Completely amazing.

Anvil! The Story of Anvil. An awesome music doc. Lots of heartfelt and comedic moments. Those guys have a lot of passion for their music even though they've been at the bottom for so long. Also, In Bruges is excellent.

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I thought that was a good movie. But not nearly as good as *Ahem There Will Be Blood* WTF is wrong with you?

Anyone here truly love silent films? I've been submerged in Charlie Bowers' films for the last month. Completely amazing.

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TWBB was a movie I had to watch in four different spurts. Nothing happened in the movie until he killed the preacher fag at the end with the bowling pin. The other three hours of nothing pretty much negated the awesome end.

Nothing has to happen, Dine. Movies don't have to be action or romantic comedy anymore.

Except i guess the title was somewhat misleading as to the amount of blood shown in the film.

went an watched Year One tonight, it was a fun flick

Gran Torino - Drunken Irish Goon, Zipperhead, spic, ching chang, ding dong, charlie chan.

Loved every minute of it.

Outlaw Josey Wales.

Pretty good, it's been sitting on my table for two weeks, finally got to it.

Everybody needs to go see Moon right now.

NO. IT LOOKS ABSURD. LIKE YOUR FACE.

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your face isn't really absurd

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