Movies You've Watched This Week?

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Tropic Thunder - The potty humor and cheap jokes were lame, but the lampooning of Hollywood and the actors was hilarious. I’m sure it would be even funnier if I actually worked in Hollywood. The same way Waiting is so much funnier to actual restaurant employees.

Juno - Meh. I guess it was cute. Can I say that?

Benjamin Button - Too long. Several scenes could have been either cut out or sped up. I’ll be the first to admit I’m a big softie, but this just didn’t touch me at all emotionally. I was entertained enough to keep watching, but nothing more.

O Brother Where Art Thou? - I didn’t even realize this was a retelling of the Odyssey until the scene with the Sirens.

Die Hard - Fucking awesome!

Airplane - Fucking hilarious!

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I finally saw Apocalypto…

Say what you want about Mel Gibson, but I do believe the man is talented and makes a good movie. He may struggle with the drink an embarrass himself in the media, but I don’t really give a hell. I think he’s great.

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[quote]AngryVader wrote:
Nic Cage’s character was an idiot. [/quote]

Nic Cage is an idiot.

I watched 3 yesterday:

Blue Hawaii: Once you get past the homo-erotic stuff in the beginning where Elvis is reunited with his Hawaiian pals it’s a great musical frolic.

Bread and Tulips: Good Italian romantic comedy I watched with She Say.

Travellers and Magicians: A Bhutanese film about a guy that wants to leave his small village and travel to America.

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As said in the other thread Seven Pounds is a great movie. Not the most exciting, but a tear jerker.

I’m watching Religulous right now. It’s a doc on religion by Bill Mahr.

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[quote]sen say wrote:
AngryVader wrote:
Nic Cage’s character was an idiot.

Nic Cage is an idiot.

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For a while there, years back, he was one of my favorites. He lost me with Wicker Man and Ghost Rider.

(I actually liked Next but felt the ending sucked ass).

I don’t get how he can’t see that the choices he is making suck. It can’t be about the money for him at this point.

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[quote]Molotov_Coktease wrote:
I finally saw Apocalypto…

Say what you want about Mel Gibson, but I do believe the man is talented and makes a good movie. He may struggle with the drink an embarrass himself in the media, but I don’t really give a hell. I think he’s great.[/quote]

I agree.

I still get a chuckle when anyone says ‘sugar tits’ though.

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[quote]TheDudeAbides wrote:
malonetd wrote:
12 Angry Men

Great movie. Costco has it on DVD for $9.[/quote]

I saw it for the first time last spring. It is very good!

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I watched Big trouble in Little China last week.

Kurt Russel is cool as hell…but for some reason as a kid I didn’t notice that he was kept out of nearly all actions/fight scenes (like getting knocked unconscious while his “sidekick” takes out everyone else). The asian actors played more of a roll but got less credit for it.

Either way, it still holds up well given the era differences.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:
sen say wrote:
AngryVader wrote:
Nic Cage’s character was an idiot.

Nic Cage is an idiot.

For a while there, years back, he was one of my favorites. He lost me with Wicker Man and Ghost Rider.

(I actually liked Next but felt the ending sucked ass).

I don’t get how he can’t see that the choices he is making suck. It can’t be about the money for him at this point.[/quote]

The only thing I can think of is that he got it stuck in his head that he was a ‘leading man’ and stopped taking the type of roles that made him popular in the first place.

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[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
Professor X wrote:
Ledger did a great job. There hasn’t been anyone who has done The Joker better than that as a fleshed out character.

One critic said Ledger had done to the max what is humanly possible portraying the Joker. Case closed.
I find it sad that he died so untimely when the very thing he wanted most was respectable leading-man roles. I think this one would have cinched it for him forever.

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The pencil trick was bad ass!

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[quote]AngryVader wrote:
Professor X wrote:
sen say wrote:
AngryVader wrote:
Nic Cage’s character was an idiot.

Nic Cage is an idiot.

For a while there, years back, he was one of my favorites. He lost me with Wicker Man and Ghost Rider.

(I actually liked Next but felt the ending sucked ass).

I don’t get how he can’t see that the choices he is making suck. It can’t be about the money for him at this point.

The only thing I can think of is that he got it stuck in his head that he was a ‘leading man’ and stopped taking the type of roles that made him popular in the first place.[/quote]

I agree with you guys, but…what did he ever really do besides Raising Arizona? Isn’t he Francis Ford Coppola’s nephew? I know, I know…I’m outta touch with pop culture and shouldn’t blast the guy if I don’t even know what famous person he’s related to… and I know being related to one of the most powerful directors in Hollywood doesn’t necessarily make you a bad actor…

Oh yeah…he was awesome in Moonstruck…

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[quote]sen say wrote:
AngryVader wrote:
Professor X wrote:
sen say wrote:
AngryVader wrote:
Nic Cage’s character was an idiot.

Nic Cage is an idiot.

For a while there, years back, he was one of my favorites. He lost me with Wicker Man and Ghost Rider.

(I actually liked Next but felt the ending sucked ass).

I don’t get how he can’t see that the choices he is making suck. It can’t be about the money for him at this point.

The only thing I can think of is that he got it stuck in his head that he was a ‘leading man’ and stopped taking the type of roles that made him popular in the first place.

I agree with you guys, but…what did he ever really do besides Raising Arizona? Isn’t he Francis Ford Coppola’s nephew? I know, I know…I’m outta touch with pop culture and shouldn’t blast the guy if I don’t even know what famous person he’s related to… and I know being related to one of the most powerful directors in Hollywood doesn’t necessarily make you a bad actor…

Oh yeah…he was awesome in Moonstruck…[/quote]

Dude, after Face Off, he was set up to be one of the top actors out there (especially in that particular action genre). Both he and his costar (Grease) seemed to fall off after that.

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The 2 National Treasure movies are really good. Can’t wait for the 3rd.

He was also good in Matchstick Men (IIRC is the name where he was a con man)

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[quote]sen say wrote:
AngryVader wrote:
Professor X wrote:
sen say wrote:
AngryVader wrote:
Nic Cage’s character was an idiot.

Nic Cage is an idiot.

For a while there, years back, he was one of my favorites. He lost me with Wicker Man and Ghost Rider.

(I actually liked Next but felt the ending sucked ass).

I don’t get how he can’t see that the choices he is making suck. It can’t be about the money for him at this point.

The only thing I can think of is that he got it stuck in his head that he was a ‘leading man’ and stopped taking the type of roles that made him popular in the first place.

I agree with you guys, but…what did he ever really do besides Raising Arizona? Isn’t he Francis Ford Coppola’s nephew? I know, I know…I’m outta touch with pop culture and shouldn’t blast the guy if I don’t even know what famous person he’s related to… and I know being related to one of the most powerful directors in Hollywood doesn’t necessarily make you a bad actor…

Oh yeah…he was awesome in Moonstruck…[/quote]

yeah he is a coppola.
he’s did better roles for vampire’s kiss, peggy sue got married, face/off, family man, wild at heart that david lynch movie when he was like an evil elvis type guy in love/lust with laura dern…and that macho prison escape movie where they blew up stuff and got of an island. people loved it. i didn’t.

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[quote]sdjohn67 wrote:
sen say wrote:
AngryVader wrote:
Professor X wrote:
sen say wrote:
AngryVader wrote:
Nic Cage’s character was an idiot.

Nic Cage is an idiot.

For a while there, years back, he was one of my favorites. He lost me with Wicker Man and Ghost Rider.

(I actually liked Next but felt the ending sucked ass).

I don’t get how he can’t see that the choices he is making suck. It can’t be about the money for him at this point.

The only thing I can think of is that he got it stuck in his head that he was a ‘leading man’ and stopped taking the type of roles that made him popular in the first place.

I agree with you guys, but…what did he ever really do besides Raising Arizona? Isn’t he Francis Ford Coppola’s nephew? I know, I know…I’m outta touch with pop culture and shouldn’t blast the guy if I don’t even know what famous person he’s related to… and I know being related to one of the most powerful directors in Hollywood doesn’t necessarily make you a bad actor…

Oh yeah…he was awesome in Moonstruck…

yeah he is a coppola.
he’s did better roles for vampire’s kiss, peggy sue got married, face/off, family man, wild at heart that david lynch movie when he was like an evil elvis type guy in love/lust with laura dern…and that macho prison escape movie where they blew up stuff and got of an island. people loved it. i didn’t.
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The Rock? I didn’t mind it, but it also had Ed Harris and Sean Connery with Cage. His acting isn’t too bad, but his movie choice has been lately. Wicker Man was one of the worst movies I’ve ever watched, and some of his others were so crap I couldn’t finish them. I enjoyed his earlier movies like Con Air and Family Man.

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This has been posted before, but since we are talking about Cage, we might as well post it again.

See, The Wicker Man is hilarious if you only watch the highlights.

Or the Top Ten moments:

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[quote]hardgnr wrote:
sdjohn67 wrote:
sen say wrote:
AngryVader wrote:
Professor X wrote:
sen say wrote:
AngryVader wrote:
Nic Cage’s character was an idiot.

Nic Cage is an idiot.

For a while there, years back, he was one of my favorites. He lost me with Wicker Man and Ghost Rider.

(I actually liked Next but felt the ending sucked ass).

I don’t get how he can’t see that the choices he is making suck. It can’t be about the money for him at this point.

The only thing I can think of is that he got it stuck in his head that he was a ‘leading man’ and stopped taking the type of roles that made him popular in the first place.

I agree with you guys, but…what did he ever really do besides Raising Arizona? Isn’t he Francis Ford Coppola’s nephew? I know, I know…I’m outta touch with pop culture and shouldn’t blast the guy if I don’t even know what famous person he’s related to… and I know being related to one of the most powerful directors in Hollywood doesn’t necessarily make you a bad actor…

Oh yeah…he was awesome in Moonstruck…

yeah he is a coppola.
he’s did better roles for vampire’s kiss, peggy sue got married, face/off, family man, wild at heart that david lynch movie when he was like an evil elvis type guy in love/lust with laura dern…and that macho prison escape movie where they blew up stuff and got of an island. people loved it. i didn’t.

The Rock? I didn’t mind it, but it also had Ed Harris and Sean Connery with Cage. His acting isn’t too bad, but his movie choice has been lately. Wicker Man was one of the worst movies I’ve ever watched, and some of his others were so crap I couldn’t finish them. I enjoyed his earlier movies like Con Air and Family Man.[/quote]

yeah, the rock. con air with buscemi playing his first mainstream role and malkovich being malkovich was good not great. he just succumbed to the odd half of his personality i guess. he was always half wierd but not in a bad way…until ghost rider, etc.

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[quote]sdjohn67 wrote:
yeah he is a coppola.
he’s did better roles for vampire’s kiss, peggy sue got married, face/off, family man, wild at heart that david lynch movie when he was like an evil elvis type guy in love/lust with laura dern…and that macho prison escape movie where they blew up stuff and got of an island. people loved it. i didn’t.
[/quote]

Dude, Vampire’s Kiss and Wild At Heart were the ultimate in ‘so stupid they must be deep’ movies.

I think Vampire’s Kiss and the ensuing media adulation were when I first thought he must be an idiot.

Back on topic:

It Happens Every Spring is a good movie I just watched.

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I thought Cage was good in Lord of War

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I have to agree with Gran Torino being an awesome movie. Its sad that even at 78 years old, I would cry if Clint Eastwood told me to get off his lawn. After all, this is a guy who said if Michael Moore showed up at his house he would kill him.