TODAY I WATCHED (Movies, TV series) 2014

Sleepy Hollow

Fat Freddy wrote:

"Red Line" (2013)


A low budget thriller that revolves around a terrorist bombing in the Los Angeles subway system. While waiting for rescue, a small group of survivors must deal with the fact that the bomber may still be among them. Pretty average stuff; I've seen better, but I've seen lots worse.

Yeah but to paraphrase my brother, "You've seen more turds than the bottom of a public toilet."

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Yeah but to paraphrase my brother, "You've seen more turds than the bottom of a public toilet."

This is true.

I ride the Red Line train frequently...still not going to watch the movie however.

Watching the Buffalo Sabres vs. the St. Louis Blues

Restaurant: Impossible

Graduation Day

"Blood and Chocolate" (2007)

A gothic/horror/romance set in Bucharest, Romania about a female werewolf who breaks away from her "pack" when she falls for a puny human. Her fellow wolves, naturally, don't take kindly to her betrayal. Stylish flick with some nice European scenery but a little too "Twilight-y" for me.

S.D. wrote:

I ride the Red Line train frequently...still not going to watch the movie however.  

Just watch Alfred Hitchcock's "Lifeboat" again... it's essentially the same story, with the setting changed to a subway tunnel.

Finished Godzilla (2014).

I don't know why I read so many complaints about the pacing in this movie. It's paced like most Godzilla movies. And the MUTOS appear early enough in the film that I didn't mind waiting for the Big G. This film is much more entertaining than several other Godzilla movies (like Godzilla vs the Sea Monster). I think anyone complaining about this film isn't familiar with the Toho catalog of Godzilla flicks.

"The Taking Of Deborah Logan" (2014)



A surprisingly effective faux-documentary horror flick shot in "hand-held" style, which usually irritates the crap out of me. A grad student is filming an alzheimers patient's struggle with the disease as part of her senior thesis, but as symptoms progress and events begin heading in disturbing new directions, it appears that there may be something supernatural at work within the woman as well. My wife picked this flick and though I bitched at first about the "Blair Witch" POV style, I'll admit I got drawn in quickly and even jumped a few times...which I rarely, if ever, do.

I just watched this video of my mother-in-law, Toni Myers, talking to Christoper Nolan:

http://www.space.com/27742-interstellar-imax-featurette-exclusive.html

The world is a crazy place.

tohostudios wrote:

Finished Godzilla (2014).

I don't know why I read so many complaints about the pacing in this movie.  It's paced like most Godzilla movies.  And the MUTOS appear early enough in the film that I didn't mind waiting for the Big G.  This film is much more entertaining than several other Godzilla movies (like Godzilla vs the Sea Monster).  I think anyone complaining about this film isn't familiar with the Toho catalog of Godzilla flicks.

If there isn't an explosion every 5 minutes modern movie audiences don't know what to do.

Not only is it paced identically to most 60s Godzilla films, the structure is a combination of 50s monster movies and Jaws. Remember Jaws? The film where the creature is only seen for about 7 minutes of the entire running time? Modern audiences wouldn't be able to handle that, they'd be squirming in their seats.

The Dirty Dozen.

Cujo and Firestarter on AMC

Witchfinder wrote:

I just watched this video of my mother-in-law, Toni Myers, talking to Christoper Nolan:

http://www.space.com/27742-interstellar-imax-featurette-exclusive.html

The world is a crazy place.  

That was very cool, thanks for sharing it with us.

"The Muppet Christmas Carol" (1992)



...yeah, the Christmas movies are turning up on Netflix already, so my kids asked me to watch this with them.

Anyway, Kermit, Fozzy, Gonzo and the gang's version of the Charles Dickens holiday classic is actually quite faithful to the source material (aside from some added Muppet-y sight gags), with a great turn by Michael Caine as Ebenezer Scrooge. This may actually be one of the better film versions of it that I've seen!

"Video Games: The Movie" (2014)

A disappointingly dry documentary about the video game industry and its effects on technology, the entertainment industry, and pop culture in general that looks nice but has very little to say. I was hoping for something a little more in-depth about video game history (particularly the early years of arcade games ) but this flick barely scratches the surface, giving you a condensed, Cliffs Notes version mixed with interviews with various gaming biggies all saying, in effect, "Video games are cool and they'll always be cool." Skip this one and watch "The King of Kong" instead.

Futurama

Kelly's Heroes.

Required Fields wrote:

Kelly's Heroes.

Love that movie! I think that I still have it on videotape around here.......... somewhere.

Pawn Stars

Dumb and Dumber To

Netflix double feature last night:

With the kiddos:
"The Aristocats" (1970)

A family of spoiled French kitties must find their way back to Paris after they're dumped in the wilderness by a villainous butler in this Disney 'toon. Along the way they befriend an alley cat and his friends, a gang of jazz loving "scat cats." Not one of Disney's best but the animation is charmingly old fashioned and the kids were entertained.

"Turbulence" (1997)

A serial killer (Ray Liotta) being transported on a cross country Christmas Eve flight by federal marshals breaks loose in mid-air, turning it into a hell ride for the airline stewardess (Lauren Holly) he's fixated on. This action/suspense thriller doesn't rank very high on the believability scale but the constant mid-air mayhem is fun to watch.

"Dumb & Dumber" (1994)

Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels are a pair of morons who set out on a cross country quest to return a "lost" briefcase to Carrey's dream girl (Lauren Holly), causing chaos and mayhem everywhere along the way. "D&D" is stupid as hell but it appeals to my inner 12 year old.