maybe this will work better
[quote]Uncle Gabby wrote:
To wet your appetites here is the actual Pam Beasley, aka Jenna Fisher.[/quote]
Check out a movie called LolliLove if you’re a fan of Jenna Fisher. No, she’s not naked or anything, but she co-wrote the screenplay and I thought it was pretty funny.
Mirrors- really good. Really freaky a few times
Watched The Italian Job and The Duelists last night and went and saw Choke today.
The Italian Job was an interesting little caper/heist film. Something about it didn’t feel great for it’s genre, but I enjoyed it.
The Duelists was pretty good. I liked the plot and it’s austere lack of bullshit. Two officers in Napoleon’s Army don’t like each other, so they keep fighting duels.
For fifteen years, when ever they run into each other, they try to kill each with swords, sabre’s and pistols according to the rules of chivalry (more or less). That’s it.
The two officers are played by Harvey Keitel and Keith Carradine. Keith Carradine is David Carradine’s brother, and played Wild Bill on Deadwood. Yeah, he hasn’t been in much. I liked the scenery a lot, pre-industrial europe. This was Ridley Scott’s first feature film.
Choke was funny. I like the guy who played the main character. He was the guy in Galaxy Quest who was the ensign in a red shirt that got killed off on the show, and was sure he was going to die the whole time.
He’s not much of a leading man or the kind of guy you expect can carry a film by himself, but he does alright. It also had Anjelica Houston. I <3 Anjelica Houston. I laughed my ass off, but I was also the only guy in the theater, and it’s obvious that Choke wouldn’t appeal to most people.
The Man in the Iron Mask- I saw this for the first time and liked it alot. I thought Leonardo DiCaprio did well playing opposite roles of himself at a young age too. Great story and plot. The cast is stellar with Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich, Gabriel Byrne, and Gerard Depardeau. Highly recommended.
Went and saw Miracle at St Anna and Appaloosa.
I liked Miracle at St Anna ok. The problem was, I think Spike Lee was really excited because he’d never made a war movie and so he threw in everything but the kitchen sink. Way too many plot threads. Way way too many. I’m not going to go into details because I can’t stand motherfuckers who can’t review a movie without giving shit away, but it seems like he didn’t trust the audience’s attention span so he kept throwing new twists and turns at them.
Another odd thing was the movie doesn’t seem to know who it’s audience is. It seems like it’s trying to appeal to young people (aka the retarded) who think WWII was when George Washington discovered America. But then there are scenes where you really have to know your history to understand what he is showing you. A german officer arrives, and we see a close up of his decorations, his resume, so to speak, and because my father is a history buff I knew what the guy’s medals meant, especially his Anti-Partisan Badge. 99% of the audience isn’t going to know what that is. Perhaps Spike Lee was throwing the history buffs a bone? “Here you go, I know you’re out there with your encyclopedic brains judging every little button on the uniforms, every stitch on their ensignia like the salivating dogs that you are. Here’s a table scrap for ya.”
Also, the combat kind of sucked and the ending was sweet enough to enduce a diabetic coma.
Appaloosa was pretty damn good. There wasn’t as much shooting and cussing as I’d hoped, but then Lee Van Cleef and Sergio Leone are dead. It was just a very good story, based on a novel, peopled by real characters. The western genre seems to have calmed down to the point where we can move past all of the ironic, self-conscious bullshit that has plagued that genre and maybe filmmakers can just use that period of american history to tell good stories again.
I liked this better than 3:10 to Yuma. 3:10 to Yuma occasionally defied all logic and made a mockery of suspension of disbelief, but Appaloosa made sense all the way through. The characters were always real and believable.
Bigger, Stronger, Faster - Great movie! Should be required viewing for anyone you know that is misinformed about steroids and why people take them. I think it’s preaching to the choir for many here, but it’s still worth watching.
Pathology - OG was right, this was terrible. I could barely watch this.
Forgetting Sarah Marshall - I liked this. Once you get past all the penis hype, there are some pretty funny moments to this movie.
Leatherheads - This was just ‘blah’ for me. It was too long and kind of boring. It wasn’t funny at all.
Rest Stop 2: Don’t Look Back - It should have been titled Rest Stop 2: Don’t Watch This Movie. The first one was pretty terrible, but this one somehow managed to be even worse than the first.
Iron Man x 2 - I watched it twice this week. Um, yeah, I love this movie. This is easily one of my top five superhero movies
The Wire: Season 4 - Still loving this show. I liked how they kind of changed things up a little this season with spending time in the schools.
I got Iron Man and Bigger Stronger faster, I ended up watching Bigger Stronger Faster 3x
Live Free or Die Hard
What a blast! Loved it.
Bigger Stronger Faster…I think everyone thats into the iron game should give this one a look…
Watched Iron Man last night…
Kick ass flick, but you can tell they left it open for a sequel.
WIDE open.
[quote]OctoberGirl wrote:
I watched Zulu Dawn the other day and man… that is just such a great movie.
I am going to watch Naked Prey tomorrow. It’s about some guy who has to run for his life. I haven’t seen it.
Vader! thanks for the heads up… I will not watch the gory movie.
The Cleaner looks interesting though
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“Zulu” is also a good movie. Michael Caine’s first appearance apparently.
I watched RedBelt with Chiwetel Ejiofor. Great movie!
[quote]Polish Rifle wrote:
Watched Iron Man last night…
Kick ass flick, but you can tell they left it open for a sequel.[/quote]
I don’t know if you had heard this, but even when the first one was being made, they had said that the plan was to make three. Now, I’m hearing that the third film may just end up being The Avengers movie they have planned instead of a third Iron Man film.
I hope they can still make the May 2010 date for Iron Man 2.
Bigger, Stronger, Faster
-This was really good. Like Vader said, most posters here already know the info. in the movie, but it was still presented in an easy, accessible way that hopefully outsiders came away more educated on the subject. Who would’ve thunk we’d see Louie Simmons in a movie?
Blue Harvest
-Saw this again the other night as Cartoon Network had it on. Love, love, love this movie and anyone who is a Star Wars geek like myself owes it to themselves to watch it.
Speaking of Blue Harvest, any word on when the spoof of Empire Strikes Back is going to happen?
[quote]Djwlfpack wrote:
Blue Harvest
-Saw this again the other night as Cartoon Network had it on. Love, love, love this movie and anyone who is a Star Wars geek like myself owes it to themselves to watch it.
Speaking of Blue Harvest, any word on when the spoof of Empire Strikes Back is going to happen?[/quote]
It supposed to be this season. Originally, I heard sometime in 2009, but now I see that it’s planned to be the season finale.
[quote]AngryVader wrote:
Djwlfpack wrote:
Blue Harvest
-Saw this again the other night as Cartoon Network had it on. Love, love, love this movie and anyone who is a Star Wars geek like myself owes it to themselves to watch it.
Speaking of Blue Harvest, any word on when the spoof of Empire Strikes Back is going to happen?
It supposed to be this season. Originally, I heard sometime in 2009, but now I see that it’s planned to be the season finale.
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Sweet. That’s why I like you, Vader. Always willing to go the extra step to get us the information we need.
Babylon AD - Definitely not as bad as people said it was. Only 7% on RT lol. I mean it was pretty bad, but not worse than any other typical Hollywood action movie. I think people must hate Vin Diesel.
Henry Poole Is Here - Really didn’t like this one. Basically Luke Wilson being a bitch to everyone the whole movie because he had a bad childhood and was sick. This got 36% on RT. Babylon was MUCH more entertaining.
Iron Man - completely agree with most of y’all on here that this movie really kicks ass!
Rocky IV- One of the best training clips in a movie ever and probably my favorite Rocky movie.
Harold and Kumar Escape From G-Bay - Stupid stoner movie but I loved the first one and like this one too(though the main part of the movie was 3 minutes and the rest was a side plot!) Love the eurotrip jab and Chris Meloni nails another funny ass character in this one.
Doesn’t really counts as a movie but a new dvd is the new Dream Theater CD/DVD Box set Chaos in Motion, freakin awesome!
Still a whole week to go!(even though my college football team sucks down here still rootin for em thursday night at Wake)
Thought this was too good not to share.
“If All Movies Had Cell Phones”
