Since we all like to talk about movies so much, I figured I’d start a thread where we can discuss what movies we’ve watched recently. I’m not necessarily talking about newer films in the theater (since those tend to get their own threads anyway), but new releases on DVD or even older movies that you’ve finally gotten around to seeing.
I’ll get the ball rolling. Last week I watched the following:
Untraceable
Mad Money
The Great Debaters
Surf’s Up
You Kill Me
Gridiron Gang
For this week, I’ll be watching:
2 Days in Paris
Diary of the Dead
Strange Wilderness
High Tension
When I swap these out at Blockbuster, I know I’ll pick up National Treasure 2, but I’m not sure what else I’m going to grab yet.
Since it doesn’t have its own thread, I saw Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian Sunday evening. It was an all-around solid movie, and I’m a little surprised it earned a PG rating. While there wasn’t any blood except for one short scene, some of the shot angles made the violence a bit more graphic then I expected. I’m not complaining, just surprised.
Naturally all the previews were for kid movies, but now I’m really looking forward to “Wall-E” and “Igor”.
Oddly enough, ever since I got the PS3 two weeks ago (with Blu-Ray), I haven’t watched any DVDs. Go figure.
Watched ‘There Will be Blood’ Saturday night. Thought it was excellent. Daniel Day Lewis was intense. That character was scary yet utterly hilarious at times.
[quote]Doug Adams wrote:
Since it doesn’t have its own thread, I saw Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian Sunday evening. It was an all-around solid movie, and I’m a little surprised it earned a PG rating. While there wasn’t any blood except for one short scene, some of the shot angles made the violence a bit more graphic then I expected. I’m not complaining, just surprised.
Naturally all the previews were for kid movies, but now I’m really looking forward to “Wall-E” and “Igor”.
Oddly enough, ever since I got the PS3 two weeks ago (with Blu-Ray), I haven’t watched any DVDs. Go figure.[/quote]
That’s good to know. about Prince Caspian. I actually watched The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe again last week in anticipation for watching Prince Caspian over the weekend, but I ended up not going. I will see it see weekend though, along with Indy 4.
I had a similar experience when I first got my PS3. I didn’t watch anything on Blu-Ray for a while. Finally, my local Blockbuster started carrying Blu-Ray in store though, so now I rent them any time I can.
[quote]Dedicated wrote:
Watched ‘There Will be Blood’ Saturday night. Thought it was excellent. Daniel Day Lewis was intense. That character was scary yet utterly hilarious at times.
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TWBB is one of my favorite movies now. Daniel Day Lewis was just unbelievable in it. I loved the soundtrack too. It was very eerie.
Since it’s only Tuesday, I’ counting last week, too.
Courtesy of Netflix, I watched Raging Bull, 12 Angry Men, Fantastic Four 2, and The Count of Monte Cristo. I have the Bourne trilogy waiting for me for this weekend.
[quote]malonetd wrote:
Since it’s only Tuesday, I’ counting last week, too.
Courtesy of Netflix, I watched Raging Bull, 12 Angry Men, Fantastic Four 2, and The Count of Monte Cristo. I have the Bourne trilogy waiting for me for this weekend.[/quote]
…adds Raging Bull to my queue. You just made me realize that I’ve never watched that movie from beginning to end. I’ve only watched bits and pieces of it.
[quote]AngryVader wrote:
malonetd wrote:
Since it’s only Tuesday, I’ counting last week, too.
Courtesy of Netflix, I watched Raging Bull, 12 Angry Men, Fantastic Four 2, and The Count of Monte Cristo. I have the Bourne trilogy waiting for me for this weekend.
…adds Raging Bull to my queue. You just made me realize that I’ve never watched that movie from beginning to end. I’ve only watched bits and pieces of it.[/quote]
Netflix is great for that. There are so many “classics” I have never seen. In fact, I just saw The Godfather for the first time a few months ago.
I just re-watched The Faculty, because it was on Starz or something. I forgot how good the cast actually was, and that it was directed by Robert Rodriguez.
[quote]malonetd wrote:
AngryVader wrote:
malonetd wrote:
Since it’s only Tuesday, I’ counting last week, too.
Courtesy of Netflix, I watched Raging Bull, 12 Angry Men, Fantastic Four 2, and The Count of Monte Cristo. I have the Bourne trilogy waiting for me for this weekend.
…adds Raging Bull to my queue. You just made me realize that I’ve never watched that movie from beginning to end. I’ve only watched bits and pieces of it.
Netflix is great for that. There are so many “classics” I have never seen. In fact, I just saw The Godfather for the first time a few months ago.[/quote]
That’s funny because I recently added the Godfather movies to queue as I had never seen them either. Despite watching a lot of movies, I’m always surprised at some the classic movies I’ve never seen.
I have about 330 movies in my queue at the moment and most of those are movies that are over 10 years old. Not they they are all classics, but just stuff I never got around to seeing.