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starring Morgan Freeman and Antonio Banderas. Well put together. More twists than a ride on the Scrambler, and a surprise ending that is near impossible to predict. I loved it.
Come to think of it, I've never seen a Morgan Freeman movie that wasn't excellent.

BF's brother is in that, apparently. I have to watch it.

Blindness is very, very strange, brutal in places.

Ashes Of American Flags - Wilco

We had to sit through Wanted last night. What an incredibly retarded movie. Just like every other screenplay I had to critique in college written by classmates who had seen the Matrix too many times. I am utterly bewildered how this thing got such a big budget, not to mention Morgan Freeman.

When the revolution comes, smarty-pants like you are getting shipped to an island.

They're not DVDs, but I just watched Watchmen and started on Planet Earth on Blu-Ray. Very cool.

Watchmen had deleted scenes restored, which may not be good for people who don't like long movies, but was great for me.

I watched Planet Earth on cable, but the Blu-Ray has the original narration. No disrespect to Sigourney Weaver, but David Attenborough is the voice of nature.

Ya... Wanted sucked for me. One of the VERY few flicks w/ Morgan Freeman that I didn't find exceptional.:mad:

Gran Torino

What did you think BB? My Dad HATED it, but he thinks the Clint of the old days is wonderful and I dont think he likes the modern Clint.

I liked 'Gran Torino',from the point of view that it had shadows of the 'old' Clint Eastwood...especially at the end.

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When he precipates the confrontation between himself and the Gang..there's more than a shade of his 'The Good,The Bad,and The Ugly' trilogy, but the outcome has more....significance.It reminded me more of John Wayne in 'The Shootist',his final movie.

I've just finished watching Ken Burns excellent series of documentaries detailing 'The American Civil War'.I left the experience feeling that I knew more than when I started out, and surely that is the aim of such a piece of work.

I tried to watch Paul Blart: Mall Cop

Couldn't do it.

Went back in the little tyvek envelop after the first half hour or so.

I hate it when all the good stuff is in the commercial.

I made it as far as the bar scene and had to stop. Its pretty bad.

Yup. Sucked. (Mall Cop)
I took a trip down nostalgia avenue (which I am renowned for), and watched American Graffiti today. Great movie. I actually WATCHED it this time since I wasn't making out with a girlfriend the whole time. Hard to decide which time was more fun.....

I just put in Crash. I think it's interesting, though I've seen it before I always find new stuff.

There is nothing on regular cable TV.

final season of BSG was released last week. Second disk should arrive tomorrow.

It's shark week...

Crash is such a powerful movie, to me. I loves me some sharks and stuff... I've swam (dove) with them, but loving this movie.

;)

Don Cheadle is one of our underrated actors, as are many in this film.

Wait...

Which Crash?

I prefer the Spader one...

The Wife and I watched SAW V.
She had to watch Nim's Island afterwards.

This one. I've never seen the James Spader one...though I want to see it now!

Slaughterhouse Five. I watched it 'instantly' on my computer via Netflix. I never read Vonnegut's story so I didn't know what to expect. Strange little movie, but I enjoyed it.

Just finished Five Fingers with Laurence Fishburne and Ryan Phillippe.

WOW, that was an unexpected ending.

The Unborn. Very spooky movie.Creepy "Exorcist" flair.

I watched Hide and Seek the other night (on tv not dvd). Excellent film. Very spooky. Totally taken in by it and didn;'t see the twist coming at all!

Babylon, A.D.
The Happening

Ooo. What was The Happening like?

If I tell you, that will spoil it!

It was cool, but not creepy cool like The Sixth Sense. Probably have to watch it again, but mainly to catch the M. Night cameo. I'd rate it somewhere between Signs and The Village (which I liked ... and not just because one of my cow orker's kids is in it, and my friend's sister owned the property where it was made, although that did help).

I love the local shots. "Hey, look, that's Limerick!"

I shall have to get ahold of a copy :) It's been on my radar for a while now.

Golden Boys. w/ David Carradine, Rip Torn, And Bruce Dern. Also starring Mariel Hemmingway. A little slow at times but in general a good flick.

the last movie i watched on dvd was napoloen dynamite. It was quite
funny.

Watched Galaxy Quest last night. I had somehow missed it when it came out ten years ago. Netflix said we would like it a lot. We did like it. Wouldn't have wanted to pay full price for it in the theater, but there were several parts that were laugh out loud funny. The plot was a neat idea too. I recommend it to anyone who enjoys science fiction and doesn't take themselves or their SF too seriously.

I love me some netflix....

Velvet Goldmine
Recommended by a cow orker, who despite working with me for three years, doesn't have a good sense of "what I'll really like." I rated it a 3/5, although I was probably being charitable because Christian Bale is in it.

National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets
Both cool and funny.

Can we talk about movies we download ourselves and then burn to DVD? If so, then I recently watched the schmaltz Brit scifi classic "The Day of the Triffids". Pure adolescent memory bliss.

Oh I loved that!

I saw it at the theatre when it first came out. Part of it, at least. My big brother got scared and we had to leave about half way through.

Maybe I should see the end of it now.

Revolutionary Road. What a depressing movie.

Slumdog Millionaire was pretty amazing.

Rachel Getting Married was an excellent surprise. It really wasn't about Anne Hathaway, thank goodness. One of the characters said at one point that "This is heaven on earth," or something like that; and really, many of the scenarios depicted would have been my idea of heaven on earth.

I picked up three movies from the library last week. I was kind of in a hurry and picked the first three that were acceptable fodder:

Emma
The Exorcist
Footloose

I was in the E-F section. :) I had seen them all, but not for some time.

I made a bet with myself that darlet #2 would like them all and I was correct.

Don't see why not ... I occasionally list movies I've watched on cable.

Try this version of Day of the Triffids if you can find a copy. It's very different from the 50s version. Actually was quite well done, IIRC.

Tonight, I made a dreadful mistake.

Dreadful in that I'm dealing with a lot with momwolf lately ...

I mean, I should have known better. There are only a few ways for such a movie to end, and it's usually badly. I had a couple of anticipatory sniffles at about an hour-twenty minutes, and then spent the last 15 minutes bawling and sniffling.

I watched Marley & Me.

Heartwarming and heartwrenching at the same time.

Oh crap. I'm starting all over again, just thinking about it.

The book had me sobbing, heart-wrenching sobs. I haven't mustered the courage to watch the movie yet. :)

I joined netflix. I wanted to get back into movie buff mode.

I saw Juno. That Ellen Page really is great. I love all the characters, except the adoptive parents.

The Changeling. I fell asleep halfway through so I don't know what happened.

Junebug. Pretty good.

I love Netflix. It recommended Outsourced for us, and we watched it last night. About halfway through, my wife commented that it was just like Local Hero in India, and she was absolutely correct. Except no Mark Knopfler soundtrack. Outsourced is a good movie you have never heard of.

Year One with Jack Black. Damn funny flick.

That is what is great about netflix, you find movies you think you might enjoy that you otherwise would not have heard of. I'm just starting, but I'm looking forward to further suggestions based on my previous rentals.

Traitor great movie, involves muslim Arab terrorists but not 2 dimensional cliches, gripping thriller.

I thought Watchmen was awesome, but I've been a fan of the graphic novel since college.

Slaughter House five turns pretty odd.

Wanted just gets dumber.

Mrs. Dar and I watched Chinatown Sunday night. It's supposed to be a classic, but neither of us cared much for it.

Not a DVD ... Milk was the HBO premiere movie last night.

It seemed like a cleaned up caricature of gay life in San Francisco in the 1970s. They mentioned some of the things like bathhouses, but seemed more intent on presenting a stable LTR kind of gay couple rather than the wild, amyl-soaked scene that I heard of from my friends in the pre-HIV days.

Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

Not DVD, Magic Box ...

Wire in the Blood, Season 1
MI-5, Season 1 (Ran in the UK as "Spooks")
30 Second Bunny Theater, Seasons 1, 2, & 3
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
Modified (Cloud, you might enjoy this if you haven't seen it, but it's really extreme stuff)
Jihad for Love
We Shall Remain

Taken - Lots of action, and lots of Liam Neeson.

The Wire - Season 1 - Disc 1
One of the cow orkers was going on and on about how cool this is. I kind of remember watching the first episode on HBO and never continued with the series. It's a pretty basic cop drama, with (because it's HBO) a lot more cursing, so you think it's edgier than Homicide, which was also shot in Baltimore. This doesn't have Richard Belzer or a Andre Braugher to save it. The Snot Boogie exchange at the very beginning of Episode 1 was pretty funny, but it goes downhill from there. Mostly I've been watching to see what actor from Oz is going to show up next.

Super Size Me - Man, what a stupid documentary.

The Tudors - now this is awesome television. Season 1 is over and Henry VIII is still not divorced. Just starting on Season 2.

Wire in the Blood - Watching my way through the whole series. It's available on netflix watch instantly, which is my new favorite thing. I have the Roku box for the TV and it is AWESOME.

I absolutely loved The Wire, but it took a few episodes before I got hooked. It's epic. It just builds and builds and builds from one episode to the next.

The Wire is the best show ever made.

It's okay wolf, I feel ya. Mr. Clod was apeshit over The Wire too, but I could never get into it no matter how many episodes I sat along for.

I'm bad at watching my netflix movies, but am trying to improve. :p

Yesterday I watched Gerry. Wow. If you like action, this is not the movie for you. To me, the way their desperation built, it was wonderful. The cinematography is beautiful, even letter-boxed on my small TV. Casey Affleck (never been a big fan of the Ben but I love me some Casey) and Matt Damon wrote and starred in, and the director was Gus Van Sant.

I was very tense watching it, and I think that is partly due to my really bad sense of direction and the frustration I feel when lost...this much grander scale of such a thing fascinated me.

I recommend it, but again, not if you prefer a lot of action. A lot of action is the opposite of this movie. :)

edit: oh, and I liked the music, too.

Charlie Wilson's War. Loved it. The history is fun, the script is really, really good.

Last night we watched It Might Get Loud, a documentary about electric guitars with The Edge, Jimmy Page, and Jack White talking and playing together. I recommend it, and I recommend that you put the sound through your stereo and turn it up a little.

The coolest part for me was The Edge demonstrating his guitar playing with and without effects and him talking about playing with his own effects like he was playing with another player. I'm not a guitarist, so maybe somebody who knows about that stuff would find it boring, but I thought it was good.

I've been wanting to see that, it was only in one theater in Philly when it came out... Didn't know it was on dvd/netflix yet - thanks for the tip.


edit: I :heartpump jack white...

I know one of the ladies who was actually on staff with Charlie, one of the "Charlie's Angels." She is best friend of my ex sis-in-law who worked on Capitol Hill on staff for another guy.

I had some beers with her this summer. She is still georgeous, tall, leggy, smart...and had some great stories! She also said the portrayal was pretty accurate. She told Tom Hanks at the premiere "and we still have great tits."

:lol:

Dollhouse season 1. I'm already so sad this got cancelled. :(

Marine 2 was pretty good.