What have you been watching lately?

[Bluntchop]

In my player now: Pirates Of The Caribbean.
Never seen so I'm really excited watching this tonite :)

[Doom]

Renting Se7en, Scarface and Get Shorty for the holidays

[B1ade Runner]

Watching Adaptation after lunch.

[Tick]

I've seen Lost Highway and it was mighty strange.

[GreenTShirt]

I've been an absolute slug today. Laying about watching movies for hours.


I just finished "Amelie". I hadn't seen it until now and I was pleasantly surprised to find that I absolutely loved it. What a sweet little movie. I think it may be one of my new favorites.

An old movie that I'd never seen before (but had picked up many, many times and then put down) was Hope and Glory. It too was a lovely film too.

Rewatched American Beauty for the fifty-ith time because I love it and can watch it over and over. "**** me your Highness!!!" gets me everytime.


Also watched Big Trouble. Not terrible...but didn't quite hit it's mark either.

[B1ade Runner]

I still haven't watched Adaptation. The "on-demand" feature on my cable box is messed up, so I'm still writing about Gigli.

[Bordick]

Originally posted by B1ade Runner
I still haven't watched Adaptation. The "on-demand" feature on my cable box is messed up, so I'm still writing about Gigli.

It worked last night ;)

[B1ade Runner]

Not for me. It's been messed up since Monday night.

[NotSoSecretAgent]

Just watched Christmas Vacation. I watched it with the commentary. Eh. Okay commentary, I guess. Still a funny movie, though.

[Bordick]

Originally posted by B1ade Runner
Not for me. It's been messed up since Monday night.
Just worked for me now, finished Windtalkers

[Cogito]

I made quite the discovery recently: libraries are a superb source for quality movies and documentaries. They generally don't have a very large selection -- nothing like a proper video store -- but not many people seem to make use of it. They are also damn cheep, like 50 cents (but you can only keep them two days -- although if you keep them more, you pay 25 cents extra, so in all, I think it's still cheaper than a normal video store).

Gotten some really cool stuff, like a series on the crusades by Terry Jones, which was extremely informative, and also damn funny. And another called Islam: Empire of Faith, which wasn't funny but damn informative.

Most recently I got two great classical flicks:

Mister Roberts, which is just fantastic -- a war movie, that doesn't show a single shot fired. It shows the crew on a cargo ship that struggles with the boredom of being left out of the glorious, heroic action of war, doing mundane shipping duties. A surprisingly deep and moving flick, that stars John Fonda in the main role, with Jack Lemon and James Cagney in supporting role (Lemon got an Oscar for this one)-- directed by John Ford. Highly recommended. It's got an 8.0 rating on imdb.com, which is very, very high.

A Raisin in the Sun: great Sydney Poitier flick -- certainly not on level with Mister Roberts, but very good. Quite dark.

[B1ade Runner]

I'm going to watch A Christmas Carol, Scrooged, and Miracle on 34th Street (1947).

[Bordick]

Originally posted by B1ade Runner
I'm going to watch A Christmas Carol, Scrooged, and Miracle on 34th Street (1947).
how cliché

[B1ade Runner]

You really are a sad character.

[Bordick]

You wan't some advice......scrape 'em off, B1ade, if you wanna save somebody....save yourself. :D

[Bluntchop]

*smacks Bordick's and B1ade's heads together*

:D

[B1ade Runner]

Watched Eight Crazy Nights and A Christmas Carol. Talk about different sides of the spectrum.

[Bordick]

Antwone Fisher

[Bluntchop]

Watched a couple ...

Pirates Of The Caribbean -
I, Madman -
The Stepfather -
The Sure Thing -
Day Of The Dead -

[Bordick]

Pumpkin

[Doom]

24 on DVD

[Bordick]

Late for Dinner
Air Force One
Moonstruck

[B1ade Runner]

Conspiracy Theory

[Bordick]

Murphy's Romance

[Bluntchop]

I was in the mood for some Karen Black insanity so I gave Burnt Offerings a spin last nite. Still a fun little supernatural haunted house flick.
The trailer used to freak me out as a kid :)

[Bordick]

Volcano

[Majenta957]

Our last batch of rentals:

Gangs of New York.
Dust.
Suicide Club.
Strange Things Happen At Sundown.
Ran.

Ooh, and we caught Beyond Thunderdome on cable!!

[B1ade Runner]

Big Fish

[Ragen]

Last night I watched Dream for an Insomniac at work. Tried to watch Transporter the other night, but my friend fell asleep. Hopefully tonight I'll get to watch SWAT and drool

[Brian]

Point Break
Office Space

[Doom]

Alias Season 1. Love it.

[B1ade Runner]

Tremors

[Ragen]

SWAT - and I did drool

[Matt]

i'm going through the commentaries on the Two Towers.

Going to watch Seabiscuit in a little bit too

[Ragen]

oooh, Seabiscuit....nicey nice

[Bordick]

Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle

Too many cameos. I'm sorry, I just don't buy the guy from Jackass as a part of the Irish mob, that's just me.

[B1ade Runner]

Originally posted by Bordick
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle

Too many cameos. I'm sorry, I just don't buy the guy from Jackass as a part of the Irish mob, that's just me.

As it would happen, that wasn't even the same guy. Though the resemblance is striking.

And yeah, CA2 sucked.

[Bordick]

Originally posted by B1ade Runner
As it would happen, that wasn't even the same guy. Though the resemblance is striking.

I beg to differ (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0690686/)

[Bluntchop]

1:0 for Bordick :beer

[B1ade Runner]

Well excuse me if I thought he was talking about the head villain, who happens to look a lot like Johnny Knoxville.

[Bluntchop]

It's cool. I'm just messin' with you guys :)

[Bordick]

Originally posted by B1ade Runner
Well excuse me if I thought he was talking about the head villain, who happens to look a lot like Johnny Knoxville.

A little, not a lot.

[B1ade Runner]

Originally posted by Bordick
A little, not a lot.

Your opinion, I think they look very similar.

[Bordick]

watched today:

Executive Decision & Old School

[Ragen]

finishing tonight: May

[B1ade Runner]

The Terminator
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

Tomorrow: X-Men and X2

[Ragen]

thus the idea for the poll, nice :) I'm ready for your X-Men poll now :)

watched Thirteen Ghosts last night

[B1ade Runner]

Watched X2 only, didn't have enough time for the first.

[crappertay]

Watched Dune again for the first time in years. It's not as bad as it's rap deserves. It's an oddity more than anything.

[B1ade Runner]

Originally posted by Tay
Watched Dune again for the first time in years. It's not as bad as it's rap deserves. It's an oddity more than anything.

I agree. It confused the hell out of me the first time I saw it, but even the naysayers have to admit there is nothing quite like it. If only they would edit it, then it would be a damn near perfect movie.

[Ragen]

gonna try to watch Underworld and Spun tonight

[Into]

Got a free rental coupon, so we rented Jeepers Creepers 2. What a waste of an hour and 45 minutes. Thinking about popping in one of those "DVD's that I've bought, but haven't opened yet" soon, or watching something on cable.

[Bordick]

K:19: The Widowmaker


The whole time I expected Harrison Ford to ask "Where are the tapestries?!!"

[Bluntchop]

Dracula II: Ascension

Not bad for a direct-to-video sequel.
Worth checking out.

[Ragen]

watched The Believer last night. Great great lil film. Catch it if you can.

[Bordick]

Originally posted by Ragen
watched The Believer last night. Great great lil film. Catch it if you can.

The opening scene, when he beats up the jewish student after getting off the subway......that's like a couple blocks from my place. All the subway shots showed my 'hood....they were all on the 7 Train. I was suprised when I saw that.




anyways, I watched:

Ricochet....I think it needs to be seen in widescreen because to "format fit to my TV screen was shaky". Other than that little nitpick, the film's pretty good. Lithgow needs more work. He was a total sick **** in that one. Kevin Pollack & Denzel deliver as well(I wouldn't expect any less). I especially liked the little Die Hard in joke at the very end.

The Hot Chick....The thing about all the Switcharoo movies is that the switchees usually know eachother. Usually it's Father & Son (Like Father, Like Son, Vice Versa) or Mother & Daughter (Freaky Friday, in all it's versions). Rarely do you see Rob Schneiders REAL character except for a couple times. Other than that this flick had a few chuckles here and there. But that's mostly it.

Punch Drunk Love....Been meaning to see this for a while. At first it was a bit confusing. But after a while I settled in. Definately a good performance from Sandler. Him & Watson do make an odd couple. I mean if you look at Watson's cinematic track record Sandler seems out of place...Robert Carlyle, Daniel Day Lewis, Ralph Fienes. But it works. Philip Seymour Hoffman was okay, I've seen better from him. Then again he was only in like 3 or 4 scenes.

[Wiggum]

Underworld.
Rather liked it, but the whole movie seemed permeated by some essence of Scott Stapp.

[B1ade Runner]

Scream - still a gem.

[B1ade Runner]

Scream 2 - not as good as I remember. The original is better.

[Bordick]

Get Shorty....Haven't seen this in awhile. Caught it on one of the pay stations. I totally forgot James Gandolfini was in this. I'm looking forward to Be Cool.

[B1ade Runner]

Get Shorty is perfect. I used to watch it all the time on video. It's one of the most entertaining movies ever made.

[B1ade Runner]

Scream 3

[B1ade Runner]

Old School - slightly overrated. *** (out of 5)

[Bordick]

Originally posted by B1ade Runner
Old School - slightly overrated. *** (out of 5)

Ah.....the OnDemand's workin' now I take it.

[Bluntchop]

Revenge Of The Nerds (1984)

One of a few 80s comedies that still holds up to this day I'd say.
Funny stuff.
What's even funnier is, I watched this on German TV a couple of years ago and they didn't know how to translate "Nerd" into German.
Instead of "Nerd" they said stuff like "shithead" or "egghead" which really didn't make any sense and kinda ruined the whole movie on all accounts.
Another word they seem to have trouble translating into German is "****".
They say "shit" or "damn" instead :blat

[Bordick]

Originally posted by Bluntchop
Instead of "Nerd" they said stuff like "shithead" or "egghead" which really didn't make any sense and kinda ruined the whole movie on all accounts.


Revenge of the Shithead's? :lol

[B1ade Runner]

Originally posted by Bordick
Ah.....the OnDemand's workin' now I take it.

Yep. :)

[Bordick]

Just Married....What happened to the days when Brittany Murphy was a chunky character actress? When did this "Flavor of the Month" thing start. I mean seriously. She's a great actress. She's played disturbed quite well in 3 seperate flicks. Now all of a sudden she's bubble gum teen comedy candy. Sad.

[B1ade Runner]

Adaptation - still great.

[crappertay]

Pacific Heights - Michael Keaton psychonutter

Watching Cannibal Holocaust 2 later this week. Looks much MUCH cheesier and lot less gruesome/disturbing than the original, not that it's an official sequel anyways.

[B1ade Runner]

Freddy Vs. Jason (http://filmhobbit.com/cgi-bin/movies/movies.cgi?action=showreview&review=freddyvjason)

[B1ade Runner]

True Romance - I like the first half better, when it was a perverse romantic drama. Then it just became a getaway road movie with cops and dealers, nothing special. But I like the performances and the attitude. ***1/2

Wild Wild West - Used to love this movie as a kid, and I still think it's fun, but I can see why people have a problem with it. Funny dialogue, spirited performances, beautiful production design, seamless effects and a good pace, but a lot of "weird" moments, and I'm still not sure what the point of Salma Hayak's character was. ***1/2

[Bordick]

Clean Slate....Note to Dana Carvey..When it comes to movies, if it's not a Wayne's World....pass. Cameo-ing in a few things is okay. But starring in something....Yeah, it's....it's just not working.

[B1ade Runner]

Die Hard - classic.

[crappertay]

Hellraiser VI: Hellseeker:

Good to see Ashley Laurence back. For all the 10 minutes she's in it (damn she's still hot). But I don't really like this whole morality-tale thriller with Pinhead only really turning up to dispence "atonement" in the last quarter hour direction they've gone.

Plus the new music sucks. Chris Young's score was great.

[B1ade Runner]

It could have been worse: he could have popped up for one line in Freddy vs. Jason. :rolleyes

[Bluntchop]

Watched Rosemary's Baby the other night, still one of the best ever!
and Ruth Gordon is just simply brilliant.

[crappertay]

Originally posted by B1ade Runner
It could have been worse: he could have popped up for one line in Freddy vs. Jason. :rolleyes


I'm tellin' ya, that ending woulda been 10 times better and 100 times cooler.

[Ragen]

Just watched Equilibrium...nice

[Bordick]

Little Man Tate....It's sad when I see good acting from a little kid......and realize why he looks familiar....oh wait...he was killed in H20. I wouldn't be surprised if little Haley Joel suffers that same fate.

Gangs of New York....Here's an idea....just a though...Irish people as Irish people, or at least from the U.K. Here you have a movie...shot in Italy, by an Italian Director, Italian & latino stars. And the best performance from someone from the UK was playing someone who was nowhere near it (Day-Lewis). and I know Sean Astin kicked ass in some epic films as of late, but don't try and dig up old child stars for epics, unless they can shake off they're childhood past like Astin did. Hanry Thomas is walking around with scars on his face, I'm waiting for Leo and his broken accent to just be like "ouch"

[crappertay]

Finally watched "Cannibal Holocaust 2: The Catherine Miles Story" the unofficial sequel to the notorious gorefest.

And nothing could be further from the original. This story features almost no OTT gore or shock value whatsoever. What there is is a few cheesy low-fi (by even cannibal movie standard) effects and a female lead who spends most of the movie topless. Oh and the obligatory needless animal violence.

And that's about it. Makes the fatal mistake of just being plain boring.

[Bordick]

About Schmidt....I can see now why Jack Nocholson was given acclaim for this. Definately one of his best performances in recent memory. Noo need for Kathy Bates nudity though.....Boy, did that com out of nowhere.

Daylight....Saw this in theatres...twice, haven't seen it since. I remember it being better. I remember the acting not being as cliche. I coulda sworn this was better. I'm afraid what'll happen if I see Cliffhanger now.

[B1ade Runner]

Originally posted by Bordick
Gangs of New York....Here's an idea....just a though...Irish people as Irish people, or at least from the U.K. Here you have a movie...shot in Italy, by an Italian Director, Italian & latino stars. And the best performance from someone from the UK was playing someone who was nowhere near it (Day-Lewis). and I know Sean Astin kicked ass in some epic films as of late, but don't try and dig up old child stars for epics, unless they can shake off they're childhood past like Astin did. Hanry Thomas is walking around with scars on his face, I'm waiting for Leo and his broken accent to just be like "ouch"

I can deal with an Italin director shooting in Italy. It's not like you could actully have shot it in New York. The only Irish director who might have handled the material well is Jim Sheridan, but he's better at smaller films, anyway.

But the casting just killed it. DiCaprio as an Irishman? And a bland one, at all. He takes a stab at the accent every few mintues and it's just weak. Henry Thomas I can deal with, because he at least looks the part. But what really kills me is Cameron Diaz. DIAZ, who doesn't look even a wee bit Irish, sports the most embarrassing "accent" I have ever heard, and has too modern a face to work in that setting. It's the casting that ultimately kills the movie for me. That, and the worn-out revenge story, the contrived love story, and the huge holes in logic throughout.

[Bordick]

Originally posted by B1ade Runner
But what really kills me is Cameron Diaz. DIAZ, who doesn't look even a wee bit Irish

She does kinda look like my cousin....but then again My cousin's a guy.

[Bluntchop]

Alien: Director's Cut

Not bad and not better then the "original" cut.
I'd still give both the same rating: ***** outta *****

[crappertay]

The Fantastic Four (1994)***1/2

Low budget schlock horror supremo Roger Corman owned the rights the Fantastic Four movie licence back in the 90s, but in 1994 if he didn't do something with it his rights would lapse. So to counter this he stumped up $1.5Million and put one in to production.

Some say it was never released because it was so bad, but Marvel guru Stan Lee has revealed that unbeknownst to cast and crew, Corman never nad any intention of releasing the film commercially, it was merely a shrewd money/licence saving scam.

So, to this day, The Fantastic Four has never been available to rent or buy. Only pirate VHS copies at sci-fi fairs and now online transfers of the VHS on file sharing networks are available.

Which is rather unfair. TFF is neither bad enough to to be derided nor good enough to have the OTT camp value of something like Flash Gordon. But what it is is a movie that was made 15 years after it's time. Had this been made in the late 70s rather than the mid 90s it would have been no different to the Spiderman TV movies and low budget Dr Strange comic-book movies of that time.

The costumes, from the ridiculous spandex to Dr Doom to The Thing are all faithful to their comic roots, the script is rather cheesy, the effects are low budget and the score is suitably pompous but somehow that all works in it's favour. For all it's cheapness it has some intangible charm.

My advice - pretend you are watching one of the 70s DTV superhero movies (which isn't hard coz they do exist and this has the same look and feel. If you were born in the late 70s you're bound to remember them) and you'll have a rather cheesy but enjoyable time.

[Bordick]

Die Another Day....I found this a little odd. I can't quite put my finger on it. Then again I haven't seen a Bond flick since the last one came out. It just seemed strange.

[B1ade Runner]

Same here:

Die Another Day - Haven't seen this I saw it in theaters in December 2002 with two of my friends, who both agreed with me that it was "goofy," but entertaining. And we all agreed on a grade of **1/2 out of 5 stars. After this second viewing, I see that it is an entertaining, but still pretty goofy movie. The action sequences are fun and outlandish, and they have a lot of nice little "whoa" moments. The slow-motion stuff and the speeding of the film is a little too 2002 for my taste. I know the Bond films usually end up reflecting the times, but couldn't they have reflected a better fad?

The movie does get a little long in the tooth, and Halle Berry is pretty bad (no, this is not blatant Berry bashing, she's just not very good here).

In watching this entry, I realized that there are two kinds of Bond films: the realistic take (Goldeneye, For Your Eyes Only), and the outlandish, extrvangantly silly globe-throttling yarn (basically, all of the Roger Moores). Die Another Day falls into the category of the second kind. What I do like is that it is not as dull as TWINE, or as dull AND mechanical as Tomorrow Never Dies. The producers's didn't just treat this as the "new Bond film," they actually attempted to make an enjoyable action movie.

I just find it funny that the two chicks Bond screwed ended up fighting each-other.

***1/2

[Bluntchop]

Reindeer Games.

Plot twists & turns galore and Charlize shows us boobs ... most underrated seasonal action flick ever :)

[B1ade Runner]

Eraser - mini review later.

[Into]

Watched most of Blow last night on USA. Gotta love a film like that being edited for tv.:( Excellent film, nevertheless.

[Bordick]

The Battle of Shaker Heights....Having watched the second season of Project Greenlight, watching the whole making of made it seem like this flick was a huge disaster in the making. However Kyle Rankin & Eframm Potell pulled it off. They finished a the flick, and it turned out okay. Though it was a bit skimpy. Watching the PGL episodes where they were pressured to edit the movie again and again. You tend to question the logic. The flick clocks in at 76 minutes. You'd think they'd have left an additional 15 minutes or so in it, I mean It seemed a bit short. As if Shaker Heights was a TV show itself.

Groundhog Day....In honor of this pointless American Holiday, I caught this on Cinemax earlier. Still funny after all these years. Murray is Gold.

[Christine]

Love, Actually
The Sweetest Thing
Addicted to Love

[Promithcuous]

Do I detect a romantic soul?

[crappertay]

Mirth, quit hitting on everyone ;) :lol

[Bordick]

The Phantom....Cheesy, DTV cast....though I was amazed that I didn't feel any acts of violence what so ever towards Catherine Zeta Jones for the first time, odd.

Big Trouble in Little China....every asain guy who's been in a comedy of sorts was in this thing. Even the guy who was Ghenkis Kahn in Bill & Ted's. Strange seeing 80's kung-fu wire work in a Carpentar flick. Russell through out the whole thing had an appropriate WTF look on his face.

[Bordick]

Tears of the Sun....I liked it. Bruce was cold as **** in the beginning but after awhile he warmed up perfectly. Bellucci, impressed me...unlike her handful of scenes in the last two Matrix flicks. Fuqua's 2 for 2 in my book, though King Arthur looks like it might blow.

[B1ade Runner]

Barely Legal on Vacation - Brilliant. Just brilliant.

[Into]

The Butterfly Effect. It was good, but I still think Kutcher can't act. sort of ruined the film for me.

[Ragen]

American Splendor (not bad)
Under the Tuscan Sun (visually beautiful)
Secondhand Lions (liked this one)
A Mighty Wind (loved it)