Great Weekend Releases

Just came back from seeing Wall E, the animated Pixar flick.

Best movie I've seen in years. Favorite animated movie ever.
Go see it.

it looks cute! reminds me of Short Circuit

ETA: Just checked Rotten Tomatoes on this one--96%!!! with more than one reviewer saying it's "perfect." That's pretty unprecedented.

Just back, it's not perfect but it's pretty damn good.

Man, I'm jealous. We're thinking of taking the kids next week--which really means that Mr. Clod will take the kids and I'll stay home with the young'uns. Sigh. I might get to see it after Christmas, when someone inevitably gets one of them the DVD.

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I want to see Wanted, too.

I want to see Wanted. McAvoy is a good actor.

Went to see Wanted. Good. Violent, action-packed. A story type I always like (Everyman becomes not-so-Everyman. This guy has special assassin powers!)

Spent half the movie staring at Angelina's makeup, wondering how they get it so freakin perfect.

And just what up with Morgan Freeman's face? Are those freckles? It's almost like virtual scarification. Like Seal, only natural.

Cloud;465700 wrote:

Like Seal, only natural.

Erm... Lupus is natural.

I would quite like to see Wanted too. Will see what next week brings.
I still have 2 free tickets to my local independent cinema, but I don't want to use them on mainstream films - I'd rather see something there that I couldn't see elsewhere.

They've been a bit slack on foreign films recently.

Do you know what I want?
A really, really good horror. Or black comedy. Not fussed about the language - although pref English if it's comedy.

Good and short. 90 minutes is plenty (although I make an exception for Edgar Wright)
Noisy beginning - this helps me overcome other people's noise and suspend my disbelief so I can coast the rest of the film without hearing them.
Good clear dialogue or ideally subtitles (I watch all DVDs with subtitles)
Any scenes in the dark are still clear enough for me to work out what is happening.
Horror to have at least one gasp moment, and creepy enough to stay with me for days.
Comedy to have at least one belly laugh and other lines clever enough to make me grin inwardly for days.

Demanding, moi?

Tcha. I'd pay £20 to watch that film.
And buy the DVD.
And then buy it for other people (I distribute books & DVDs if I love them enough)

Anyway. As you were.

(sticks out tongue); I mean as opposed to self-inflicted scarification.

Cloud;465747 wrote:

(sticks out tongue); I mean as opposed to self-inflicted scarification.

Seriously - Seal's scars are from lupus. A disease.
He's been a name here from the 80s onwards so it's been covered many times (sorry to be too slack to provide a link)

how strange--I didn't know that. I withdraw the comparison. (looks at WikiP--ugh; seems really unpleasant)

But--Morgan Freeman?

Oh Morgan Freeman I have no idea
He's one of yours :)

You can find absolutely anything on the internet.

well, whaddya know. thanks, clodfobble!

Loved it.

Heath Ledger as the Joker was brilliant.
Also I pretty much knew where everything was filmed too because it was in Chicago haha.

Easily the summer blockbuster of 08.

But dude, too bad Joker can't make a return in the 3rd installment. What a movie!

TDK - everything you ever wanted in a summer movie. Go see it.

saw Hellboy 2 yesterday.

Only because Dark Knight was sold out for the next four shows.

Meh. It was OK, but short in the dialogue department. But if you like the basic story and visuals, go see it.

I *will* see DK and Wanted soon though. Wall-E was cute, according to the wife. I liked the visual humour but had to translate it for her.

You guys should check out the Wanted graphic novel.

The movie plucks one part of a much different story and uses it.

I saw the movie and read the comic. They're sufficiently different you could call them not the same story.

Both good though.

Mama Mia!

WAS TERRIBLE