What Movies are you Watching?

[Atria35]

Flashdance - can you believe I'd never seen this movie until today? Really great soundtrack, and the woman who does the dancing (not the star, the double) is FANTASTIC! ^.^ I also really like the ending song.

[the_wolfs_howl]

The Chronicles of Riddick - Love this movie so much, I can't even say <3 "I'll kill you with my teacup." Classic ^_^ I'm really excited about the third movie!

[Popyman]

^ I am, too! I kind of liked Pitch Black more so I'm really happy that they said the third one will be more like it. ^^

[Scarecrow]

Ink. This is a movie I heard about a long time ago and finally watched it on netflix the other night. I looooved it. But I didn't really love it till after the first hour. I mean, the low budget feel is what kind of made me not interested in it in the first place cause it looked so cheap. But this was a really good movie. The thing is... the thing that was so awesome about it, kind of spoils it.

My favorite scene was probably the Chain Reaction part. And the part at the ending almost made me cry and I never cry in movies as it felt like God was talking almost directly to me. "I choose to see you for what you were intended to be. Not for what you've become".

Sure it wasn't a perfect movie but I really liked it a lot. If you've got a couple hours to kill and looking for something to fill it, give it a try. Stay for the whole thing though...

[Popyman]

Yay someone else saw INK! Still one of my top favorite movies of all time. ^^

[Jeaneon]

I saw Ink with friends and it was a pretty good movie. I really liked it.

Oh and I just finished watching Courageous and Coraline.

[metolosophy]

Saw the 1984 movie Amadeus for the first time yesterday- apparently we've had it for years. ^L^ I loved it very much, but I don't think I'll be able to get Wolfgang's laugh out of my head for a long time.

[Neane]

Watched Super 8. . It was decent. J.J. Abrams is a very talented filmmaker (even if he does go overboard with the lens flares from time to time) but the man needs to make a film based off a decent script for once. The script for Super 8 (which he wrote) is really quite empty & lacking in heart. Visually the film pushes heavily on the Spielberg homages & when Abrams tries to pull off several E.T. moments it just doesn't work.

The film also couldn't seem to make up its mind what it wanted to be. Personally, I really kinda wished it would have just been a simple story of some kids making an 8mm zombie movie for a film festival & how it changed their lives. The kids making a film was where Super 8 really shined. When you see their zombie movie (The Case) play over the ending credits it's the most magical part of the otherwise mediocre film.

Everything with the Alien really failed though, if you ask me. Abrams tries to pull off a JAWS & make the Alien more threatening by never showing it & for the first half or so it really works. But then he tries to make the Alien a sympathetic creature, a poor lost soul, but it utterly fails because we only know the Alien as a threatening Shape for 100 minutes of it's 105 minute running time. You can't make your creature Jaws AND E.T. at the same time... it doesn't work. Also, what doesn't help is how shoddy the Alien design is.You ever see "Return of The Jedi"? You know that creature Luke fights underneath Jabba the Hut's pimp palace? Yeah, take that & add a few more legs & you've got the Super 8 Alien. It's a very forgettable creature.

Super 8 was ok.... but just ok. It shouldn't be ok though. This should be my kinda movie. Kids running around talking about production value & dodging Aliens as the evil military blows **** up good? In the end, Super 8 was just kinda bland.



Also, just watched Bergman's Persona.This film was insane. Amazing.

It felt like the ending dragged a little bit, specifically directly after the wftawesome twist moment. The ending was important, but it just seemed to me that parts of it were slightly redundant (such as the "nurse" putting everything in the home back away before pausing in front of the mirror--and that double-exposure that happens right there IMO was entirely unnecessary, since the little hair-brush-flip thing she does immediately can only recall ONE THING from the whole movie, but whatever meh).

I loved the meta-thing going on, though. Bergman's too bada** to let a fourth wall enclose his narratives! HIS IS THE LENS THAT HAS PIERCED PERCEPTION!!!

But yes. I loved it. Persona rocks.

If you really want to understand Bergman it's best to start with his great 50s films - mainly Sawdust & Tinsel, Smiles of a Summer Night, Wild Strawberries, and TSS - which transition into his late "chamber dramas" that start with his "Faith" Trilogy into films like Persona, Cries and Whispers, Scenes from a Marriage, Fanny & Alexander, etc. Bergman has one of the richest filmographies in all of cinema but it's very easy to get "burnt out" on Bergman unless you really want to put yourself in deepest and darkest of moods and stay there.

[the_wolfs_howl]

Ink. This is a movie I heard about a long time ago and finally watched it on netflix the other night. I looooved it. But I didn't really love it till after the first hour. I mean, the low budget feel is what kind of made me not interested in it in the first place cause it looked so cheap. But this was a really good movie. The thing is... the thing that was so awesome about it, kind of spoils it.

My favorite scene was probably the Chain Reaction part. And the part at the ending almost made me cry and I never cry in movies as it felt like God was talking almost directly to me. "I choose to see you for what you were intended to be. Not for what you've become".

Sure it wasn't a perfect movie but I really liked it a lot. If you've got a couple hours to kill and looking for something to fill it, give it a try. Stay for the whole thing though...

So I'm not the only one! I felt exactly the same way about Ink - including that quote! Amazing.

Anyway, I rewatched Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and the newest Voyage of the Dawn Treader movie for class. Both movies are okay, and parts of them are quite enjoyable, but not the best adaptations of their sources.

On a whim, I decided to watch Ringu and see how it compares to the American remake. I was surprised at how close they stuck to the original when they did the remake (my only experience with watching both versions of a Japanese horror movie is The Grudge, which had a completely different plot structure than Ju-On). I didn't find Ringu very scary, which was the same reaction I had to the remake, but ultimately I'd rate Ringu slightly higher than The Ring, just because some things make a lot more cultural sense in Japan - and because Hiroyuki Sanada is in it

I also got roped into watching Labyrinth for the first time, and am very glad I did! Large chunks of it are very cheesy and dated, and I don't care for David Bowie at all, but it's still a compelling, interesting story. I immediately had a soft spot for it anyway, because I've always liked labyrinths of any kind, and was very impressed that they actually had a sequence based on the impossible staircases of M.C. Escher
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX917y1Ly8o

[Imperial]

Le Mans with steve mcqueen

[Warrior 4 Jesus]

Ink is a great little high-concept movie. It may not have had the budget, but a heap of creativity and love went into it. I rarely tear up at movies but there are moments here where I do. The only negative is that much of the strong language feels forced.

[Popyman]

I love all you guys that have seen INK.

[Yuki-Anne]

Cleopatra with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Liz Taylor is the definition of smoldering and sultry. Good movie. And I like that it was made when it was, because had it been made any later they would have jammed a ton of sex scenes in there and an explicit scene is just never necessary to tell a story. This movie is a classic for a reason; the effects are amazing, the performances are superb, the costumes are beautiful... it's perfect.

[GrubbTheFragger]

Avengers on Bluray last night. So amazing.

[Yuki-Anne]

Avengers. FINALLY. Movie tickets are so expensive in Japan that I had to wait for the iTunes release to see it at all. But it was totally worth the wait. I loved it.

[SierraLea]

I found three different books that were comentaries on movies. WHAT!?

[the_wolfs_howl]

Watched The Fall again <3 Beautiful, beautiful movie. Love it sooooooo much

I also got to see, for the first time ever, the old animated movie of The Hobbit for class It was so hilariously bad! The animation, the acting, the portrayal of the Elves and the spiders and Gollum and the miniskirt-wearing Men of Dale.... I had the time of my life.

[Scarecrow]

Lol... That hobbit cartoon scared the crap out of me when I was about 5ish... We had it on Laser disc I bought it on VHS years later after I started reading LOTR when I heard the movies were coming out. Yes it's bad but... it's not nearly as bad as the animated Return of the King Same animation and style and stuff but... The songs in that one are just hilariously bad... and the whole thing makes the Hobbit look good.

Anyway, not a movie but I've been watching Supernatural (TV series). I just finished the first season last night and had to immediately start the second. Holy crap I love this show! I had had heard about it for years and they always have AMV using clips from it but I never sat down to watch it ever. Started watching it on netflix and I was hooked after the first episode. And the season 1 finale?!? Even if you hated the show, you'd still have to tune in next season after an ending like that! Season two started out good so far too.

[GrubbTheFragger]

[quote="Scarecrow (post: 1590975)

Anyway, not a movie but I've been watching Supernatural (TV series). I just finished the first season last night and had to immediately start the second. Holy crap I love this show! I had had heard about it for years and they always have AMV using clips from it but I never sat down to watch it ever. Started watching it on netflix and I was hooked after the first episode. And the season 1 finale?!? Even if you hated the show, you'd still have to tune in next season after an ending like that! Season two started out good so far too.[/QUOTE"]

Supernatural is currently one of the best shows on TV IMO. I do think it is starting to quickly run out of steam though. Season 3 is also a pretty rough season due to the writers strike.

[Yuki-Anne]

I also got to see, for the first time ever, the old animated movie of The Hobbit for class It was so hilariously bad! The animation, the acting, the portrayal of the Elves and the spiders and Gollum and the miniskirt-wearing Men of Dale.... I had the time of my life.

I grew up with that! So nostalgic.

The past couple of days I've watched Anne Boleyn of a Thousand Days (1969), and the "sequel," Mary, Queen of Scots (1971). I say sequel because the same director/writer team worked on both films, and it shows in the quality of the films.

First of all, Richard Burton was the best Henry VIII ever. None of this silly Jonathan Rhys-Meyers crap. I'ma go on a side-rant here but I think the decision to cast someone so clearly NOT looking anything like Henry VIII in The Tudors betrays Showtime's use of "history" as an excuse to shoot straight-up porn.

Back on topic, Vanessa Redgrave was a great Mary, Queen of Scots. Classic couple of movies. Very well done. And since they were done back when filmmakers still had some small amount of scruples, they're cleaner than more recent work done on the Tudor monarchs--not only The Tudors, but also The Other Boleyn Girl, and Elizabeth (1998) with Cate Blanchett, which have some pretty explicit sexual content. Skip the more recent work]Black Narcissus [/B](1947), starring Deborah Kerr as a Sister Superior tasked with founding a convent in the Himalayas. But something in the air is getting to her and her nuns, and some handle it better than others. It's a very tense, taught drama, with some genuinely suspenseful scenes. I highly recommend it. The only problem is some "brownface," with the very white Jean Simmons supposedly playing a native teen. But considering that this is a 1947 film, that's... well, not surprising. But it's a great film with strong performances.

[bigsleepj]

Two films: the very unique low-budget 'fantasy' "Beasts of the Southern Wilds", which is the story of a young girl from a very poor island off the coast of New Orleans who believes she somehow 'broke' the universe when she hit her troubled, drunkard father, and now a herd of monsters have been let loose. This is a complex, intense drama told from the point-of-view of a very imaginative six-year old and will not please everyone expecting a conventional film, but I think it is a startling, original film.

The other film is 'Die Wonderwerker', aka 'The Miracle Worker', a South African film about a highly fictionalized episode from the life of Eugene Marais, an Afrikaans language poet, naturalist, scientist and writer. The lives of a close-knit but dysfunctional family is interrupted by the approach of a man who asks for water but is clearly having a bout of malaria. They treat him after he worsens and helps him. He decides to stay a little while to do research (which includes dabbling with mesmerism) but despite bonding with the family it clear that his presence is only causing the family to rupture further. It does not help that Marais is addicted to morphine. This is, at times, an intense, intimate drama directed by Katinka Heyns, one of South Africa's best directors with great performances and a literate script by her husband (also an accomplished writer). If the movie has a fault is that it tries too hard, but overall very good.

[SierraLea]

I got to see The Avengers again since we bought it, and it has a lot more gags tha I remember. I really LOVE CAPTAIN AMERICA!

[Yuki-Anne]

The Nun's Story, with Audrey Hepburn. A quiet, masterful little film about one woman's spiritual struggles. Hepburn played the role with grace and subtlety. I highly recommend this film!

[GrubbTheFragger]

Just watched Tall Man with Jessica Beil and it was a fantastic film. Anyone looking for a "horror" film that's more than gore has to see this.

[Hitomi]

Watched ghostship. It wasn't too bad for my liking. One watch kind of movie. Kind of sad about the little girl. I hate how innocent people are killed for greed. Anyway it wasn't that scary more like. What is going on? Lol

And one more. I watched sin city. I really liked how they set it like the comic and more of anti heros then heros. And so good bad twist dark. Bad guys.

[PatchOfSerenity]

Hotel Transylvania! Its was amazing and VERY funny me and my family loved it! It had some very good morals and strong family ties in it and also shows people can change.

[the_wolfs_howl]

The Avengers - I'd been avoiding this movie because almost all the superheroes involved in it look stupid, even for superheroes, but I eventually got roped into watching this anyway. And I'm glad, because even though they did look stupid (especially Captain America ), it was an epic movie

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - For class

Warrior - I wasn't expecting to like this one; it's not at all my kind of movie. But despite all that, I loved the character drama, especially because of the relationship between the two brothers. The ending even made me tear up.

[GrubbTheFragger]

Watched Looper last night and I wanted to like it so much more. It was good but half the movie was great. The tonal shifts were a bit jarring.

[Warrior 4 Jesus]

Which half of the movie was great?

[SierraLea]

I saw The Secret World of Arrietty last night. It was one of the sweetest stories they'd ever turned out! I can tell this movie is going to be one of my favorites.