The wife was sick this week, so I managed to sit down and watch the foreign film “The Counterfeiters”(anything with subtitles and she’s not interested). It’s a true story of the Nazi counterfieting operation setup during WWII. Very good movie, I highly recommend.
I also watched “The Wrestler” starring Mickey Rourke. Excellent movie and the job Rourke does is incredible. It’s a movie that deserves a second viewing for sure, so check it out.
Burn After Reading- sucky movie. Best part was Brad Pitt in the closest, lol. I did like Pitt’s portrayal as a PT though, that was funny
Eagle Eye- I don’t think these types of movies are saying we have this technology now, rather that the way things are going we need to be careful not to let technology run us. Movie was ok, kept me interested
[quote]Cephalic_Carnage wrote:
Oh yeah… Vader, you get bored much on that death star? I mean jesus dude… You watch more movies in 2 weeks than I do in a year lol
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hehe…yeah, I don’t have much going on besides the gym and movies. Those are pretty much my main two interests.
[quote]Cephalic_Carnage wrote:
AngryVader wrote:
Kalifornia - I’m starting to realize that I don’t like David Duchovny outside of The X-Files. Listening to him talk sounds like he’s reading from the dictionary. Another movie I just couldn’t get into. I even tried watching it again, but nothing.
Huh, is this related to californication? (DD in both?). Sorry for the rather idiotic question.
Btw, his German voice-actor is actually pretty good. Kind of like with arnie, his original voice-acting is absolutely awful (or at least it was in predator, don’t think I’ve seen his other movies in English), but his German voice actor is very recognizable and pretty good/fitting.
It’s totally weird to hear arnie’s actual voice when you’re so used to that other voice. It’s even worse when you realize that Germany has only like 4 male voice-actors and you end up seeing 120 lb dudes in movies who talk like arnie.
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No, Californiacation is a different show on Showtime, whereas Kalifornia was an older movie that he was also in (along with Brad Pitt and Juliette Lewis).
A buddy of mine was just telling me how good Californiacation is, so perhaps I’ll retract my Duchovny statment after watching a few episodes of that.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Resident Evil: Degeneration - I thought this was okay. It some parts I thought the animation was amazing and in other parts I thought it looked kind of weird and out of sync. They are getting pretty close to the point where these movies are going to look pretty damn good very soon.
You could tell this movie was foreign made. The reactions some of the people had just seemed drawn out in ways that wouldn’t happen if this were made here. It took away from the feel of the movie and there wasn’t one moment where you felt any kind of “dread” due to what was happening.
They also still haven’t gotten skin tones and hair movement down yet. They have, however, perfected the way CG fire looks on screen. [/quote]
Funny, I remember thinking the same thing when Curtis’ house was on fire. They really had realistic looking fire.
I agree otherwise, the skin tones and facial expressions still just didn’t look right and took away from what was happening in the movie at the time.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
AngryVader wrote:
Eagle Eye - Movies like this piss me off, because they are based on the premise that we are just supposed to accept that there is technology like this currently available.
Question…what in that movie did you think was completely impossible? We may be 5-10 years from that not only being possible but maybe even likely to occur (excluding the actual computer having the self awareness to pull that off without assistance).
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It was mainly the self-aware, psychopathic computer behind it all. I was disappointed when it’s revealed that’s what is controlling everything. I also thought it was laughable when they said it was still in ‘beta’.
I would have totally accepted it if was a group of people/hackers that were manipulating everything. That’s a lot more plausible to me than the self-aware computer angle.
I do think the other stuff will be possible, if it isn’t already, but I thought the execution of those ideas was poor and I thought done better in other movies. Enemy of The State comes to mind as movie where I thought they did a better job of that.
Finally saw Never Back Down over the weekend. I was definitely entertained by it, all while fully acknowledging that it was a “bad movie.” Had to pack it up and send it back to netflix before the GF watched it ridiculed me. 
Also saw the Curious Life of Benjamin Button. Long movie. Like a cross between Forrest Gump (same writer) and The Notebook. Overall, I wasn’t bored. The GF liked it considerably more.
Saw Batman and while I was impressed with Ledger I wasn’t all that enthralled with the movie itself. I thought the fight scenes were always in the shadows and the two face character was a little to drawn out for me. Would have much rathered seen the whole movie with just the Joker.
Tropic Thunder did absolutely nothing for me, but Robert Downey was hilarious he was the only reason I finished watching it.
The Strangers, though not scary at all it did have a few suspenseful moments in it.
We own the night- Great movie not what I was expecting but Phoenix is the shit. I really enjoyed it and the music was great as well.
I thoroughly enjoyed The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. For such a long movie I was never bored and I feel like it hit on some big, important themes very well (mortality, love, etc) and the acting was fantastic.
[quote]Molotov_Coktease wrote:
Yes, he is out of touch.[/quote]
No I’m not.
I watched Batman Begins over the weekend.
I like Maggie Gyllenhall a lot more after suffering through whoever the girl was that played the girl in this movie.
Best 3 movies i saw in the past week:
Slumdog Millionaire
Seven Pounds
My Best Friend’s Girl
[quote]sen say wrote:
I watched Batman Begins over the weekend.
I like Maggie Gyllenhall a lot more after suffering through whoever the girl was that played the girl in this movie.[/quote]
LOL.
[quote]sen say wrote:
I watched Batman Begins over the weekend.
I like Maggie Gyllenhall a lot more after suffering through whoever the girl was that played the girl in this movie.[/quote]
Yeah, she was a real no-name, huh?
I was up all night last night with a stomach bug, so I put the tv on TNT and watched -
Fun With Dick and Jane
The Honeymooners (Cedric The Entertainer version)
Vegas Vacation
One right after another.
I think you could put Cedric in a remake of Schindler’s List and it would be funny.
I watched Road To Morocco last night. My daughter and I like the road pictures.
“Burn After Reading”
An all-star cast of hilarious insanity.
I saw Marley and Me. Nice little movie about life.
just saw gran torino and wow what a great movie
Blockbuster is lagging this week, so I haven’t watched much so far.
Incident at Loch Ness - Mockumentary written and starring Zak Penn (who wrote The Incredible Hulk) about a people making a movie about the myth of the Loch Ness Monster and then ‘real’ stuff starts to happen. Was funny in parts, but I would have enjoyed this more if the disc I had gotten wasn’t so jacked up. It kept skipping and absolutely refused to let me watch the last five minutes of the movie, so I don’t even really know how it ended. I tried different players, so it was the disc.
Bangkok Dangerous - One of the worst films I’ve seen in a while. Terrible plot, and I thought Nic Cage’s character was an idiot. His character states his rules at the beginning of the film and then proceeds to break all of them almost immediately as the film starts and for no good reason.
Stupid, stupid movie. Do not want!