What Movies are you Watching?

[Htom Sirveaux]

Wednesday next week I'll be faced with a tough decision: MST3K volume XIX, or Doctor Who Season 5? They both come out on the 9th. I don't particularly wanna buy them both (not at once, anyway). Hrmm . . .

[ShiroiHikari]

Recently saw The Mirror Has Two Faces and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Both were great.

[TheSubtleDoctor]

Red - the descendant of Red Riding Hood proves that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree by becoming ...wait for it...a werewolf hunter. SyFy movies are all kinds of epic.

[the_wolfs_howl]

Finished Chariots of Fire; very inspiring. I was amazed at the power of Charles Liddell's final race in the movie. I mean, I don't care much about racing or about Charles Liddell, but...they did a good job at showing where his strength and speed came from.

I also watched the fifth and sixth Harry Potter movies with my sisters, to get ready for the seventh one coming out soon! I was curious to see whether I would jump at the Inferi part in the sixth one, and sure enough, even in my third viewing, when I knew exactly when it was going to jump out, I still jumped.

And I watched Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, which I just recently got on DVD. Ohhhh man, I love that movie!

[GrubbTheFragger]

Remember, remember the 5th of November. V for Vendetta

[Htom Sirveaux]

Mystery Locker Room Theater 3000 Presents Rob Zombie's Halloween. I'm not a big fan of mindless slasher horror, but I indulge occasionally. Not bad.

Picked up Doctor Who season 5 today, watched the first 2 episodes. Matt Smith is great so far.
Also been on a '90s jag lately, so I'm watching X-Men the Animated Series on DVD.

[Atria35]

My library had UP. I still managed to tear up in the first 5 mins, though I've seen it before!

[Mr. Hat'n'Clogs]

So in Film as Lit we just finished The Blind Side, which really surprised me how good it was. I really didn't think I'd like it, and I ended up really liking it.

[FllMtl Novelist]

Watched How To Train Your Dragon last Friday, and watched it again this morning. I loved it very much, both times. It's charming and sweet. I think I like it just a bit better than Toy Story 3.

[Blitzkrieg1701]

Blood of the Vampires as riffed on Cinematic Titanic. Glorious.

[the_wolfs_howl]

I just watched Bridge to Terabithia Even after four or five times watching the movie (not to mention the countless times I've read the book), Josh Hutcherson still brings me to tears every stinkin' time. I love it.

I've also started a Black Beauty movie, one with Sean Bean and David Thewlis, among other familiar faces. I was hoping this one might actually have the horses' mouths moving, since they talk to each other in the book, but I guess that was too much to hope for :/ It does successfully make you sit there and hold your breath and think, "Oh my goodness, horses are beautiful!" Thank God for making such beautiful animals

[battletech]

Right now I am rewatching Godzilla movies. I just watched Godzilla 2000 today.

[MomentOfInertia]

Watched How To Train Your Dragon last Friday, excellent movie,good story great animation, I'm glad to finally see someone giving Pixar some competition.

Then I saw Kick-errr-butt yeah that's right.....and to be honest it was somewhat less than I expected not worth staying up late for thought the last few scenes were decent. It could have been a great movie but they went for the 'just old enough to see an R-movie audience' and the end result was rather cruder than I prefer.

Last Saturday I watched From Paris With Love which was a typical action movie and just what I needed a that point, it was a very good typical action movie, with a bit of humor mixed in as well.

I should try to post theses more promptly

[Shao Feng-Li]

Just saw Unstoppable. Awesome movie. I love trains.

[ich1990]

Gone Baby Gone

Very few movies have held wrapped me up within themselves to the point that I am become emotional and viscerally responsive to them. This one did so continuously. By the end, my nerves and emotions were rubbed raw. At the same time, it kicked my brain into overdrive and I spent almost two hours talking with the group I watched it with about the moral and ethical dilemmas presented within. Because, while this seems like a thriller full of abrasiveness and horror, it is actually a finely crafted ethical dilemma; all sides of the moral and ethical compass are presented in a compelling way, and the film is careful to not take sides and say that any one is better than the other. The result is that you, the viewer, must choose: do the rules of law really apply when you wallow in the muck and filth of the scum of humanity?

It is a very well done, thought provoking movie that I never want to see ever again.

[Sheenar]

I watched Casablanca for the first time last night. Great movie --now I know where all those references/lines I've heard over the years came from.

"Here's lookin' at you, kid."

[TWWK]

Just watched Toy Story 3. I was never a big fan of the series (although I pretty much love everything Pixar does), probably because I'd watched each of the first two movies piecemeal. But I really enjoyed it! It was wonderful - and I've rarely felt such a sense a peril in any film as I did at the end of this one. GREAT.

I also saw How to Train Your Dragon This Weekend. Storywise, nothing spectacular (though solid) - but the animation was AMAZING. And I really liked the main character. The movie surprised me at some parts as well, in a good way. I really enjoyed it.

[the_wolfs_howl]

I watched a Treasure Island movie with Christian Bale as Jim Hawkins and Charlton Heston as Long John Silver. This is my favorite movie version of that story (though Treasure Planet comes pretty close); it was just done so well and fit the book so closely. It's pretty cool to see Christian Bale as a teenager; he was just as good of an actor back then as he is now! And Heston as Long John Silver isn't perhaps what you'd immediately think of, but he does an amazing job. Every time I see it, I start talking Pirate

[ich1990]

Stargate Atlantis season 5

.........

And so, the final season of my favorite sci-fi franchise of all time has concluded (Stargate Universe is not Stargate and doesn't count). Stargate Atlantis, together with Stargate SG-1, have done for me what Star Wars and Star Trek have done for previous generations. I have spent years with these two shows and well over 400 hours watching and re-watching them. They define science fiction for me, and now they are gone. It is a very melancholy day for me.

I have made my thoughts on Atlantis clear previously, but I will recap: Even on its best days it wasn't as good as the best of SG-1, but the average episode was most certainly better than the average episode of SG-1. Atlantis was consistently good, while SG-1 was often times better, sometimes worse.

The worst problem with Atlantis was character balance. Towards the middle of the fourth season, pretty much the whole world (make that universe) revolved around Rodney, just as his ego imagined it did. The rest of the characters existed as side notes or assistants to the great Rodney McKay. As great of a character as he is, the other characters were just as awesome and deserved their fair share of screen time.

And characters are what sets SG-1 ahead of Atlantis in the final tally. You simply can't beat the original team: Daniel, Sam, Teal'c, and Jack when it comes to pure chemistry or viewer interest. Unlike Atlantis, all four got almost equal screen time and development, and it shows.

I am sad that it is over. Greatly so. I still hold on to the hope that Universe gets canceled and replaced by a real Stargate show soon, but I am not counting on it. It seems some people don't know what is good for them and continue to watch it. For now, all that is left is to Doctor Who and try to forget my heartache. And re-watch the shows again, of course.

[Atria35]

Lessee.... Harry Potter 7 was the last movie I watched, and I LOVED it! Overall thoughts in the appropriate thread

[the_wolfs_howl]

I saw Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in IMAX! Duuuude, I love this movie so much! Wish I was rich enough to go watch it like ten times while it's in theaters.

On Thanksgiving my family watched Despereaux, which I'm still trying to decide whether it's a good story or just plain stupid. Obviously, that means it's not amazing, or there would be no question about it, but by that same token it must not be horrible either. It was nice to hear some familiar voices, at least.

[Sheol777]

The Expendables - weak

[TWWK]

Just watched the remake of The Karate Kid. The first 2/3 were pretty good, I thought. But the final 30 minutes were just...just too unrealistic. Jaden Smith doing a backflip on one leg while kicking an opponent and landing perfectly on it? It was suddenly The Matrix...though I think I would've loved the movie if I was about 12.

[Blacklight]

The other day watched The Haunting in Connecticut (for the second time)with my sister. I say it was good. We both like it actually.

Thanks to my younger sisters, I've seen The Last Airbender, and it wasn't as bad as I expected.

While on the trip, saw the latter half of How to Train Your Dragon, and then I saw that David Tennant was in the credits, so my older sister and I restarted the movie to find him, so I also saw the first several minutes of it. She didn't want to rewatch the movie she just saw, so she started watching TV.
And I didn't see(hear) him.

[Mr. Hat'n'Clogs]

I just saw Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and it rocked my socks off.

[ich1990]

Zombieland

Finally saw the whole thing and it rocked. It stayed classy most of the time and was quite funny. The ending itself made it worth watching the movie.

It is a pity there was so much gore, though. A little less (and a little less profanity) and I would be recommending it to tons of people.

[TheSubtleDoctor]

Zombieland

That Bill Murray cameo...

[Sheol777]

That Bill Murray cameo...

[ich1990]

:thumbsdow

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[Atria35]

It's a Wonderful Life

The Santa Clause

The holiday movie watch has begun