Seen any good movies?

DallasBlack wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

Both "Ice Age" movies were on FX yesterday (to pimp today's release of the 3rd film in the saga) so my sons and I watched those while the rain pounded down outside.

I actually had plans on seeing the midnight showing of the new Ice Age (Cinemark plays movies on midnight of the day they're to be released) but that Long Island Ice Tea put an end to those plans. I'll just have to wait til next week.

I just read Roger Ebert's rave review of the new Ice Age in today's paper. He sez it's the best one in the series. If this rain keeps up I might take my older son to see it this weekend just to get us out of the house. He of course wants to see "Transformers" but I think that might be a little bit hardcore for him yet (he's only 6). He liked the first movie but we saw that on DVD at home. I'd bet that the sight of those giant robots on a big screen in super-duper Dolby stereo would probably scare the crap out of him

Besides that, I hear the new Transformers is over two and a half hours long and there is NO WAY a 6 year old is going to sit still in a theatre for that long. He'd probably be asking to go home before the end of the first reel.

Street Fighter : The Legend of Chun-Li

A decent action flick featuring Kristin Kreuk, whom I have a serious crush on.
Don't expect a masterpiece, but it was entertaining for the hour and half it took to watch it.

The last movie I saw in the theater was X Men Origins Wolverine. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I saw the first (and best) Major League on cable after work last night. I had forgotten how funny that movie is. Peace.

Transformers 2 (in cinema)

A Day At The Races

Last night I watched 'Control' a film about the late Ian Curtis of the Joy Divison. An excellent film told in a straight forward fashion with some excellent casting. The movie did not glamorize the band's sort of rise (they did not receive any critical kudos til after Ian Curtis's death) nor does romanticize his life or his suicide.


A really good film if you are into dramas and interested in the history of a very short lived career of a very influential artist and nice mini chronicle of the music scene in the post punk England in the late 70's -early 80's.

Role Models.

Another state of mind-the homemade documentary about social distortion and youth brigades first international tour of the US and canada.

The roadwarrior-first time seeing this, I should have probably watched mad max first but this was still bada$$.

"Prom Night IV: Deliver Us From Evil"

--- generic slasher crap about a supposedly-possessed, crazed Catholic priest who carves up a couple of teenyboppers that are using his old home base as a post-Prom getaway retreat. Occasionally interesting but very slow moving for much of its length. There are some nice T&A shots but otherwise this is nothin' I'd watch again.

Save 90 minutes of your life and just watch the trailer instead. Consider it my Public Service for the day.

I saw Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs yesterday. Great movie and just like the second was even better than the first, this was even better than the second one (what do you know a movie franchise that gets better witth the sequals). Just like new characters Crash & Eddie in the last one made the movie, new character Buck (Simon Pegg-Shaun Of The Dead/Hot Fuzz/Star Trek) makes this one. His character is priceless and the highlight of the movie. Loved it and can't wait to see it again either in the $1 matinee or on DVD.

"Return to Sleepaway Camp" (2008)


A surprisingly good sequel to the Sleepaway Camp movies of the 80's. This new movie has the same low budget feel as the 80's movies and when you are watching it, it's easy to forget you are watching a contemporary movie. Sure the plot is as thin as the hair on my nut sack, but that's what made horror movies fun in the 80's, an even dose of death and campiness. The surprise at the end is really not so much a surprise, but who cares. It kept my interest for 1 1/2 hours. I recommend it to fans of cheeseball horror movies and I know there are a few on this board.

Religulous

A documentary starring everyone's favorite smug douchebag Bill Maher. Interesting enough. Bill asks lots of questions about various religions and gets many vauge/non-answers in response.

Caprica - the "prequal" to Battlestart Galactia. The DVD is the pilot movie that is going to be shown on SyFy later this fall - not bad, interesting ideas.

The Amityville Horror remake. The original is still better IMO.

Monsters Vs. Aliens-pretty cool animated movie. Dreamworks & Pixar hit it out of the park everytime IMO.

Leatherface wrote:

The Amityville Horror remake. The original is still better IMO.

The original was just on American Movie Classics the night before last. I caught about an hour of that one, hadn't seen it in a while. It hasn't aged well but MAN, that flick scared the poop out of me when I first saw it as a kid.

Star Trek - The Wrath of Khan

Star Trek - The Search for Spock

Star Trek - The Voyage Home


Me and the girls have been binging after having seen the new one at the theater.

Imagine my pride when my daughters were riding their bikes screaming "Khhhhhaannn!!!! or the hilarity that happened when I got my five year old to eat by pretending the fork and food was the communicator and screaming Khan! so she would open wide to eat. Two more geeks in training!

I watched The Hammer the other night. It stars Adam Corolla as a 40 year old amateur boxer still trying to make the move to being a pro and get his loser life together. Nothing earth shattering, but I enjoyed it a lot. Peace.

I watched The Terminator again yesterday and Terminator 2: Judgment Day again this afternoon.

Both classics. This was my first time seeing these masterpieces on Blu-Ray however.

Heebie Jeebies.

A bunch of stuff recently:

The good:

Just Buried - funny little indie comedy about a guy that inherits a funeral home.

The fair:

Knowing - "okay" biblical disaster parable, but something about it never fully clicked.

Push - better than average "superpower" flick, nothing earth-shattering but entertaining.

The SUCK:

The Unborn - This is the most un-frightening, completely inept attempt at a horror film since...well...hasn't been that long actually, but it sucks. *note* - Might be worth watching once just to see the chick run around in her underwear.

Transformers 2 - THIS IS IT, I FOUND IT! I've been searching for the absolute perfect horrible film that would illustrate how completely and totally inept Hollywood has become since the advent of CGI. Michael Bay should be launched into space...without a suit.

In preparation for the next one (which starts in about an hour) I watched Harry Potter: Order Of The Pheonix last night.

the sentinel wrote:

I watched The Hammer the other night. It stars Adam Corolla as a 40 year old amateur boxer still trying to make the move to being a pro and get his loser life together. Nothing earth shattering, but I enjoyed it a lot. Peace.

I almost rented that the other night, but the wife vetoed it. I think Adam's a funny dude.

We ended up watching The Happening, the last M. Night Shama-la-ma-ding-dong movie. Interesting concept and theory, but overall a lousy movie. Marky Mark is a terrible actor. We just picked it apart the whole time (bad acting, plot-holes, etc.). Poor M. Night shot his creative load since The Sixth Sense and has been struggling to find his mojo since then.

MetalGuy71 wrote:

We ended up watching The Happening, the last M. Night Shama-la-ma-ding-dong movie. Interesting concept and theory, but overall a lousy movie. Marky Mark is a terrible actor. We just picked it apart the whole time (bad acting, plot-holes, etc.). Poor M. Night shot his creative load since The Sixth Sense and has been struggling to find his mojo since then.

I felt the same way about "The Happening"... the first fifteen or twenty minutes were disturbingly cool, but it completely fell apart after that. By the end my wife and I were laughing at it. M. Night's fifteen minutes are about up, I'd say.

Fat Freddy wrote:

MetalGuy71 wrote:

We ended up watching The Happening, the last M. Night Shama-la-ma-ding-dong movie. Interesting concept and theory, but overall a lousy movie. Marky Mark is a terrible actor. We just picked it apart the whole time (bad acting, plot-holes, etc.). Poor M. Night shot his creative load since The Sixth Sense and has been struggling to find his mojo since then.

I felt the same way about "The Happening"... the first fifteen or twenty minutes were disturbingly cool, but it completely fell apart after that. By the end my wife and I were laughing at it. M. Night's fifteen minutes are about up, I'd say.

Yea, I'd agree. There were definatley some creepy, tense moments, but they were ruined by our laughter at the overall ridicoulousness.