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« Reply #15 on: July 01, 2008, 06:34:38 PM » |
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Wall-E is a good movie. We saw it this past weekend.
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« Reply #16 on: July 10, 2008, 05:56:05 AM » |
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I saw Wanted with my wife. Really gory and seemed unnecessarily mean.
I saw Martian Child last night. I've decided that I really like John Cusack and this movie was the first for me to see him portray a dad.
We've seen another one of his dad movies on the shelf over at the video store. We'll probably rent that one too.
Oh, we rented and saw the Bucket List. I really enjoyed that movie.
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« Reply #17 on: July 10, 2008, 07:59:07 PM » |
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I saw Wanted last night, and it was gory and mean, but I liked it. It is a very intense movie. It was all thriller no filler.
I saw the Bucket List recently, too. Morgan Freeman is excellent. An excellent movie. Really.
Also, I rented Drillbit Taylor with Owen Wilson in it. For a light comedy, it was pretty good.
Oh, and I want to see the new Batman movie. Not because I'm a fan of Heath Ledger, although he is very good, but just because it looks to be amazing.
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« Reply #18 on: July 14, 2008, 05:50:39 AM » |
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My wife has been suffering with sinus for the last week or so. This means that she hasn't felt like getting out.
I went to see Hellboy II with the boys (my son and one of his friends). It was funny and the action was decent. We enjoyed it.
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« Reply #19 on: July 16, 2008, 01:01:18 PM » |
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Last Friday I saw Hancock (pleasant enough, plenty of humor and a good story, the so-called huge twist came as no surprise to me, but the tipoffs were subtle hints, not obvious giveaways, so if you want to try to figure it out for yourself, be attentive). I also saw Wall-E, and if you haven't seen it yet, please, go see it NOW. I wanted to see it because Pixar movies are always fine entertainment, but unlike Toy Story or Finding Nemo, etc., this wasn't a kid movie with grown-up appeal, this was a very mature movie that happened to have cute characters and enough exciting sequences that kids could appreciate it on a basic level. For starters, there was very little dialogue, and the two main characters had a vocabulary of about three words each. Emotion, humor, and significance are very effectively communicated almost entirely through actions and gestures. The usual convention of a cheerful protagonist with an adorable animal sidekick is turned on its head for a touching portrayal of an immense, profound, and agonizing solitude. As for human society - I have always loved anti-Utopias, and this one evokes laughter - but it's the pained laughter of self-recognition. Pixar has truly broken the mold with this one - it deserves to be compared more with anti-Utopian classics such as Huxley's "Brave New World," or at least "The Giver" by Lois Lowry," than with fine children's fare like "Ratatouille."
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« Reply #20 on: July 16, 2008, 07:10:25 PM » |
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My wife quit her job about 6 weeks ago. She and my son went to see Hancock this week.
She's been feeling better and wants to see Hellboy II, which was a decent popcorn movie. We've heard to pass on Journey to the Center of the Earth. It's too bad, because we like Brendon Frasier. The next Mummy movie looks like it's worth a look.
I went out and purchased The Bank Job, which was a movie that we saw on a "Team Building" quarterly outing. That one was a decent action movie.
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« Reply #21 on: July 19, 2008, 06:34:35 PM » |
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"Dark Knight", the new Batman movie, was excellent, although very long (two and a half hours). It was truly amazing. The acting, effects, plot, music, and everything else worked flawlessly together. I'd highly recommend it.
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« Reply #22 on: July 19, 2008, 08:36:14 PM » |
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"Dark Knight", the new Batman movie, was excellent, although very long (two and a half hours). It was truly amazing. The acting, effects, plot, music, and everything else worked flawlessly together. I'd highly recommend it.
Ditto. We just got through seeing it tonight. My son and I liked it, but my wife didn't care for it. It moves really fast and keeps you going. The thing about the two boats makes you think. Sometimes Joker would provide deliberately misleading information. Do you think that he was telling the truth about the detonators or not? Does it make a difference? |
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« Reply #23 on: July 21, 2008, 04:28:31 PM » |
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POSSIBLE SPOILERS IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN "DARK KNIGHT"!!!!
The boats were a tough situation. I thought they would blow up their own boat. I guess it didn't matter in the end.
END SPOILERS!!! =)
Anyway, the new 007 movie looks great, too. I can't wait to see that. One of my friends even made a note about it on his calendar in his cell phone! Quantum of Solace. That's intense.
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« Reply #24 on: August 16, 2008, 07:44:48 AM » |
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I laughed my ass off with Tropic Thunder. Highly recommended, unless you're offended by strong language or fake guts being on display. The scene where they guy was playing around with his own intestines was really out there.
Tom Cruise is excellent in this as the over-the-top movie studio exec. Matthew Mc plays the agent and he's really great in the minor role.
The movie starts out with the fake trailers for the character's movies. It will be hard to tell when the movie starts until you do the "What the fuck?" number.
Highly recommended.
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« Reply #25 on: October 08, 2008, 05:15:12 PM » |
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Don't bother with Nights in Rodanthe. The initial romance wasn't so bad, but when it turned to romance by postal mail, then it seemed to lose track of itself.
They then through in an unnecessary tragedy and you wonder what the point of it all was.
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« Reply #26 on: October 17, 2008, 05:48:29 AM » |
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I should have mentioned that we really enjoyed Burn After Reading. It was a great black comedy.
My kids dragged my wife and me out to Religulous, which was put out by Bill Maher. That one does make you think and talk. My wife and I do try to keep an open mind.
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« Reply #27 on: October 26, 2008, 10:03:08 AM » |
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Yesterday, my wife and I saw W. at the Cinemark in Cedar Park. We weren't impressed.
It was supposed to be funny. It just seemed tragic, like the play MacBeth. It also dragged.
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« Reply #28 on: November 03, 2008, 06:49:01 AM » |
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No movies this past weekend. Anyone else see anything?
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« Reply #29 on: November 08, 2008, 09:02:19 PM » |
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We rented two movies from Blockbuster this evening. The first was The Amateurs, which is a new video release with Jeff Bridges. A group of people plan to make a porno movie to make some money. It was slow and very much had a train wreck quality to it. We stopped the move about 30-40 minutes into it.
The second one was Smart People, with Dennis Quaid, Ellen Page, Sarah Jessica Parker, Thomas Haden Church. This one seemed painful at first, but it actually became quite watchable. Smart people are actually typical bad at interactions with people and have somewhat unhappy and self-inflicted unhappiness and this movie captures it. However, there is some redemption and a few intelligent laughs. Keep watching it and you'll probably get it, but Dennis Quaid's character is one that you'll love to hate.
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