What movies have you seen lately? Now with reviews!Movies 

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Crank 2- OK so some buddies and I were out this afternoon and since we had wasted more than enough money at the go-kart track we went to a movie. Crank 2 was the only one that was playing anywhere near the time we arrived at the theatre. I figured it would be more of the same that was offered in the first one, lots of action, a weak plot, and high entertainment value. That pretty much sums up the entire movie although there were quite a few "WTF?" moments. Is was really entertaining and a fairly good way to kill part of the afternoon.
 
FoolKiller
My biggest concern with Transformers 2 is they already killed their token black guy robot. Where will they get their offensive stereotypes?
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Knowing Michael Bay, he'll either resurrect the previous dead robot in some different way, probably as the newer model. Or he'll create an entirely new robot, whose creative process will come from his ass (Bay's).
 
Joey D
Crank 2- OK so some buddies and I were out this afternoon and since we had wasted more than enough money at the go-kart track we went to a movie. Crank 2 was the only one that was playing anywhere near the time we arrived at the theatre. I figured it would be more of the same that was offered in the first one, lots of action, a weak plot, and high entertainment value. That pretty much sums up the entire movie although there were quite a few "WTF?" moments. Is was really entertaining and a fairly good way to kill part of the afternoon.
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You have to love and respect a movie that purposely doesn't take itself seriously. I fully intend to see Crank 2.

Tom Servo
Knowing Michael Bay, he'll either resurrect the previous dead robot in some different way, probably as the newer model. Or he'll create an entirely new robot, whose creative process will come from his ass (Bay's).
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Based on some clips I have seen, I think he is going with the old man this time around. At least it won't involve break dancing transformations and Ebonics.
 
ferrari_chris
Which The Office character?
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On the American NBC version of The Office the guy from Leatherheads, John Krazinski (sp?) plays Jim Halpert. He's kind of the same character as Martin Freeman's Tim on the original BBC version.

Bram Turismo
Galbatron?
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We were talking about Jazz, but considering Bay has zero respect for any of the Transformers previous storylines, I am guessing the Galvatron name will never be used, even if Megatron is revived.
 
The Couch Trip - 1987 Comedy Staring: Dan Aykroyd, Walter Matthau, Charles Grodin, Donna Dixon, David Clennon and Richard Romanus

A Cook County Mental Facility inmate John W. Burns, Jr.(Aykroyd) escapes for a few days to LA to do a call-in psychologist radio talk show, following the attempted suicide of its original host Dr. Maitlin (Grodin). Burns, Jr. steals the identity of the Cook County head psychologist, Lawrence Baird (Clennon), to do the show and becomes a huge hit as both Baird and Maitlin go on vacation. However, homeless misfit-to-society Donald Becker (Matthau) recognizes Burns as the escaped convict he his and blackmails him to "sharing the good wealth.'"

Although it is a funny movie with a great cast and very zany characters, it's either a 'love it or hate it' kind of movie. A classic 80's comedy that shouldn't be missed. It's filled with funny lines and moments that's sure to get a laugh or giggle. Fantastic and hilarious performances by Matthau and Aykroyd really make this movie worth while.

Example: Becker is seen sucking out the jelly of some donuts. With five of them in his hands with tiny straws stuck in them he asks, "If anybody wants a donut without jelly, they're ready." :lol:

Funny, zany and silly is on order here with simple humor, but don't expect to feel anything else. I like this movie a lot, and give it 8/10


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How To Beat the High Cost of Living - 1980 Comedy/Drama Staring: Susan Saint James, Jane Curtain, Jessica Lange, Richard Benjamin, Fred Willard, Eddie Albert and Dabney Coleman

Three women facing financial hardship plan to steal money from a lame shopping mall stunt.

I didn't care for this movie at all. I was completely apathetic to their situation. The worst characters I've seen a movie in a long time. Not very funny, but had a few chuckles. This movie was definitely made to appease the working class woman of the day. Unrealistic male figures that included them being either lazy, incompetent, sleazy, stupid or vulgar. Oh, please. :rolleyes:

Most of it was boring, so I fast forward through some of it. Tells you a lot, huh? Even the Mrs. Lifters had problems with it. She said it reminded her of all those stupid laundry detergent commercials where the man is a total idiot. Sound like fun? It's not.

4/10
 
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Touring Mars
Pre-emptive post: There Will Be Blood (Blu-ray) - I just got the film (for free! :dopey: ) from Lovefilm.com as part of my free trial, and will watch it tonight probably - I have also got Bladerunner (Blu-ray :D ) on the way, and I can keep them for as long as I want (not quite sure what stops you from keeping it forever, but I guess I will find out :P )
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Sounds like the Netflix service in the States. You can keep the discs as long as the membership is active. :dopey:
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Lovefilm are taking this concept a bit far!... I sent both discs back on Tuesday and promptly received a second copy of Bladerunner today :boggled: I wouldn't mind so much, but I only get 4 movies a month, and this counts as a seperate rental... I am, however, still on the free trial period, so it doesn't really matter, but still, I'm a bit perplexed as to why they've sent me the movie again :ill:
 
Touring Mars
Lovefilm are taking this concept a bit far!... I sent both discs back on Tuesday and promptly received a second copy of Bladerunner today :boggled: I wouldn't mind so much, but I only get 4 movies a month, and this counts as a seperate rental... I am, however, still on the free trial period, so it doesn't really matter, but still, I'm a bit perplexed as to why they've sent me the movie again :ill:
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Check the site. I am sure they have ways of reporting various different issues.

Are they a relatively new service? If so this might just be a minor growing pain for them.
 
Touring Mars
Lovefilm are taking this concept a bit far!... I sent both discs back on Tuesday and promptly received a second copy of Bladerunner today :boggled: I wouldn't mind so much, but I only get 4 movies a month, and this counts as a seperate rental... I am, however, still on the free trial period, so it doesn't really matter, but still, I'm a bit perplexed as to why they've sent me the movie again :ill:
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I'm with Lovefilm too, but via Tesco's cover - They basically just use Lovefilm but you use Tesco's own rental website and the discs come in Tesco branded envelopes.

I've found them to be very good so far. We only have the basic package, i think, which sounds the same as yours. You choose 10 titles online and they send them to you when available and in the order that you give them importance.

The only issue i've had so far, and this tends to be mainly with blu-ray rentals, is that you'll choose a film from the list and when it pops up in your 'queued' list it will show the feature disc and the extras disc as two separate rentals. Even when you try to delete the 'extras' disc you invariably get that one sent to you and not the 'feature' one. I'm still waiting on seing Wall-E a month after trawling through the crappy extras that arrived on my door step! :rolleyes:
 
That's exactly what has happened - it wasn't the movie I got today after all, but the extra features disc :ouch:

Still, they are going to reinstate the extra rental as a gesture of goodwill, which is good enough for me 👍 It does seem rather daft, and it is certainly not clear enough that this is what happens - but I guess they must be getting alot of people complaining about this!
 
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Dear Zachary​

I have been completely blown away by this film. I'm not even sure if I can put every emotion I'm feeling right now into words, there are just far too many to describe. I've spent the last hour or so laughing, crying, feeling a strong sense of hatred and disgust, and then a lot of crying. They are tears of sadness and tears of joy, to celebrate life and the gift it is to every one of us - and how we effect the people we meet on a daily basis. There were reasons why I had attempted to avoid this movie for a while, not wanting to feel any kind of extreme emotional status was one, but this afternoon, I didn't have much going on. I am happy that I watched the movie, and I'm glad that I got that feeling out of me. I can't think of the last time I sobbed like this, it is just such a powerful feeling that you have watching it.

 
The Notebook

A movie about love, simple as that. It's a beautiful movie though, with both funny and touching scenes at times, and the actors did a great job. Movies like these aren't really my favourit category, but this movie was just beautiful. Warning though, if you watch this one with a girl, warn her at the end to keep her strong, even I recieved a "clunck" in my throat at the end. A beautiful, but very emotional ending. I thought I was in for a typical romance movie, but I recieved much more than that. 8.5/10

Here's a good quote on the movie I found on the internet: "Ultimately, the judgment is up to readers be they cynics or romantics. For the latter, this will be a weeper."

The Da Vinci Code

Oh dear. This is just not up to the standards of Tom Hanks. I enjoy him seeing in movies like Cast Away, but he is just too good for this kind of nonsense. Thumbs up for a beardless Gandalf, but the plot was as a whole just rediculous. It took over an hour before it finally went from bad to mediocre. 6/10
 
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North by Northwest

I watched this last night and it was brilliant. I’m ashamed to admit it but I had never seen a Hitchcock movie before this but I will definitely be making an effort now. It was great. Cary Grant is witty and believable as a person mistaken for a person that does not exist. Hilarity ensues but with enough suspense to keep you guessing what will happen next. I really enjoyed the fact that Cary’s character did all the right things. By this I mean, you don’t sit there watching the movie and muttering to yourself, don’t go in there or don’t do that as so often I find myself doing in a lot of today’s poorly written movies that rely on characters making poor choices in an effort to aid a plot. Thoroughly enjoyed 9.5/10
 
Tom Servo
at last! A fellow Hitchcockian!
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👍

Thankfully Fox Classics seems to be having a Hitchock marathon of sorts as I caught Psycho last night.

Loved this as well. Generally I’m not one for horror flicks but I guess this is probably classed more as a thriller. The Characters are well designed and are quite plausible apart from Marion who I didn’t really find that likable or very bright. She is however a necessary part of the movie as she is the catalyst to the entire plot. I found Sam & Lila to be well acted characters and felt their genuine concern for the flaky Marion.

Norman Bates at first is a very likable character, but with every minute of screen time you have with him, the more you start to question his sanity and the dislike sets in. I would have probably given it a 8/10 but the final scene with Bates is so chilling that it gets an extra point for a brilliant and memorable ending. 9/10


Tonight Fox Classics ill be showing Birds and tomorrow will be Torn Curtain, so I will be making an effort to watch both. I think I’ll have to take a trip to the video store over the weekend to hire out some his other movies as well.
 
I saw The Big Lebowski again tonight.
Since being educated on its awesomeness by a certain sarcastician, I have been slowly but surely converting people I know.

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VEXD
I saw The Big Lebowski again tonight.
Since being educated on its awesomeness by a certain sarcastician, I have been slowly but surely converting people I know.

:irked:👍
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If you are ever in the area, I invite you to come to the city that is home to the first Lebowski Fest, Louisville, KY.
http://www.lebowskifest.com/
 
Solid Lifters
That looks like great fun! 👍

You going?
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Unfortnately, no. It falls on the same weekend as my brother's birthday. I have never made it as the timing just never works out. Once I actually thought I could, only to have something come up. My friends have been and they love it.
 
The Birds

Last night on Fox Classics I had a chance to watch The Birds. I found it to be an interesting piece of cinema. I’m actually not quite sure what to make of it. As the saying goes, there is a fine line between genius and insanity and going on Hitchcock’s past performances I’ll lean more towards saying genius.

There is not a lot to this story really. What I found interesting in this was how the general story had little or nothing to do with the Birds themselves. The birds start behaving oddly and no explanation of the events that unfold are given, leaving you thinking “what just happened?” Also very noticeably there is no score. This works well as there is a fair bit of squawking in some scenes making the silent ones far more eerie. One warning I will give, the movie looks quite dated so the bird effects are not that fantastic in comparison to the CGI madness that we are so used to in today’s flicks. I think cause of that, it might loose a bit of the horror that people probably felt when it was first released back in the early 60’s.

I won’t rate this nearly as good as Psycho or North By Northwest as I didn’t find it nearly as riveting but I think bonus points should be given for pioneering a lot of what are now considered clichés of horror movies.7.5/10
 


Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) -- Despite being a 42 year-old movie, and I can see how it could rock the boat in a certain way, many of the taboos pressed in it are still present today. It's not a racist movie, though many racist behaviours appear. And still, teh performances by Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier and Katherine Hepburn are remarkable. All in all, it's certainly not one of the best movies I've seen, but it's a definite must-see. 7/10



It Happened One Night (1934) -- According to IMDb, this was the first screwball comedy... and I have to say, it certainly was funny. None of that fall-on-face or stupid comedy, but real acting and really good perfarmance acting is what makes this movie so great. Probably one of the first romantic comedies, and though it may be a bit kitsch at the end, it's the original behind all those cliched movies that have been so successful ever after. Great movie; #133 in IMDb's Top 250. 8.5/10
 
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Helvetica (2008)​

I walked into this movie knowing, roughly, what it was about. Without ever realizing it, I was drawn in almost immediately as they began to reveal how often a single type face is used in almost everything we use. To think that there are so many contrasting ideas, views and opinions on the entire notion of type face, I just couldn't believe it.

- and yet it all made sense -

A great movie, unreasonably interesting given the subject matter.
 
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 👎👎

There were two fatal flaws with this movie. One is that it failed to understand its own lesson - which left you with an ending that made no sense. The second was it made absolutely no attempt whatsoever to be entertaining.

As you already know, the movie follows a man with a strange fictitious medical condition throughout his incredibly boring life. As best I can tell, they set out to tell as boring a story as you possibly could given a rather interesting premise. I'm 28, in normal health, and my life would make a far more interesting movie than this character's entire life apparently does.

It's a looooooong movie. And you can tell from the first 5 minutes why it is. Endless amounts of time are wasted on the most pointless of scenes. And the movie takes on a "story within a story" format in which an elderly lady is helping narrate a dead man's journal (you find all of this out in the first 5 minutes). What this means is that throughout the movie we have to jump back and forth between the person telling the story and the story itself. This time-wasting format really tries your patience. Especially given that the old lady is apparently so old that her voice is almost unrecognizable. You're left wondering why you're bothering to listen to this tired woman moan unintelligble crackling drivel from her hospital bed when you signed up to watch Brad Pitt and Kate Blanchett.

...which brings me to another point. The movie signs up two very hot actors (Pitt and Blanchett) and then proceeeds to show off just how much makeup and CG can be slathered on these two to make them look ancient. Who thought this was a good idea?

Obviously you already know one of the main themes in a movie like this one - "don't judge a book by its cover". Too bad the screenwriters didn't pay any attention to that when they contrived an ending that consisted of every character who should have learned that lesson repeatedly demonstrating that they had not (this includes Benjamin himself).

It's difficult to sit through a 3 hour movie when you don't get invested in a single character in the film. It's harder to do so when the movie is constantly interrupting itself with one of the most sleep-inducing situations life has to offer - an old person driveling on about her life (my wife literally turned to me and said "if I ever end up like that, shoot me"). But how this movie managed to take an interesting premise and turn it into a documentary about the most routine boring people in the world is beyond me.

Avoid at all costs.
 
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The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) -- Three WWII veterans return home to small-town America to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed. Gets a bit existential, though it's also very American, in the way that people can strive for a better tomorrow and eventually make a better life for themselves. But it's also a very nice movie about the lives of these three veterans, facing the reality of a country in which there's no more war and they have little to offer in terms of job, life and love experience. Though a bit long (172 minutes), it rarely bores you to the point of wanting to skip it. It's #186 in IMDb's Top 250. I give it a 8.5/10
 
Not really a movie, but:

John Adams - (9/10)
I typically do not enjoy biopics, but this was amazing. The story of John Adams' life, beginning with the "Boston Massacre" (he was the defense lawyer for the British troops) through his (and Jefferson's) death on the 50th anniversary of the birth of our country. Paul Giamatti does a wonderful job of playing a man whose principals could not be compromised and who even let his principals get in the way of him being able to find political harmony, nearly destroying his friendship with Jefferson.

It is also a wonderful showing of how the United States came to be, down to the debates in the Continental Congress.

If you have an interest in how the United States were formed the first four episodes (through Washington's presidency) are great, but if you are interested in the man John Adams the whole thing is excellent.

My only complaint is that the beginning of the final episode has a very slow first half as it primarily focuses on his wife and daughter dying, which is good drama, but slow in comparison to all the other impassioned speech filled episodes.
 

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