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Postby Solid Ronin » Sat Jun 14, 2008 10:08 pm

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull -

Wasn't too bad! [spoiler]I thought it was a great way to finally show that Indy is the future of the Star Wars universe![/spoiler]

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Postby Raiden no Kishi » Sat Jun 14, 2008 10:21 pm

I just saw The Untouchables.

DANG. Heavy language, heavier violence (it's about the conflict between Elliot Ness and Al Capone, what'd you expect?), but it is an EXCELLENT movie. Also, it has Sean Connery.

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Postby Warrior 4 Jesus » Sat Jun 14, 2008 11:15 pm

ich, The Prestige was one of the darkest movies you've seen?
Wow. You musn't have seen many.
I suggest you don't see OldBoy. That's brilliant but messed up.
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Postby Radical Dreamer » Sun Jun 15, 2008 12:04 am

ich1990 (post: 1235754) wrote:The Prestige: I watched it with my family upon the recommendation of practically everyone on this site and the majority of my friends. Holy Crow! That was one of the darkest movies I have ever seen. If I was expecting such a movie, I would have probably watched it by myself and analysed it. I don't think my family will ever forgive me. Definately not a feel-good Saturday evening family movie.


I doubt there's much need to worry about The Prestige anyways; it's very clean. Dark, yes, and definitely twisted, but very scarce on the language and sexual content.

It's still epic though. XD The last scene is still one of my favorite movie scenes ever. XD
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Postby ich1990 » Sun Jun 15, 2008 9:45 am

Warrior 4 Jesus (post: 1235787) wrote:ich, The Prestige was one of the darkest movies you've seen?
Wow. You musn't have seen many.
I suggest you don't see OldBoy. That's brilliant but messed up.


I think that the main reason it was so dark, was that I was expecting a happy ending a la The Illusionist. Most movies I watch objectively and laugh when people die. This movie I watched to enjoy, therefore I was surprised at how decidedly unhappy the movie was. No doubt, the movie is brilliant, just know ahead of time that it is not a feelgood-take-your-whole-family-to-see-and-laugh-at movie.

If I were to see OldBoy, I would probably be fine because I know it is going to be messed up and depressing. I would probably laugh when I am not supposed too and be completely unsympathetic towards the characters.

In my opinion, what makes an effective movie is not the senses (I.E. what we actually see or hear) but our perceptions (what we think the movie is going to be like and how we mentally decipher what we see). This is why The Village and Signs can be scarier than R-rated slasher movies. Now that I think about it, that would make a good PhD research project.
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Postby GeneD » Sun Jun 15, 2008 2:26 pm

I saw Prince Caspian on the big screen yesterday. I enjoyed it more than the first one and now want to go read the book to see what they changed.
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Postby Danderson » Sun Jun 15, 2008 7:20 pm

My Dad got Miracle for Fathers Day....So, we watched that.......Very good film.....very inspiring.....
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Postby GrubbTheFragger » Mon Jun 16, 2008 8:54 am

Saw the happening and the Incredible Hulk

The Happening : Not very good at all. Disappointing

The Incredible Hulk: Excellent movie even better than Ironman
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Postby the_wolfs_howl » Wed Jun 18, 2008 4:25 am

Finished watching the BBC version of Pride and Prejudice for the second time. Wonderful, wonderful movie. Very happy ending indeed. And wow, Darcy actually smiled! :hits_self
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Postby Warrior 4 Jesus » Wed Jun 18, 2008 4:49 am

Pride and Prejudice?
Blah.
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Postby the_wolfs_howl » Fri Jun 20, 2008 10:31 am

Warrior 4 Jesus (post: 1236673) wrote:Pride and Prejudice?
Blah.


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Yeah, okay, everyone's entitled to their opinions....

Anyway, I watched an old Hitchcock movie called The Lady Vanishes. It was made in the '30s, I believe, so the sound quality and such weren't the best, but it was a really good movie all the same. The beginning was a little slow and dull, but it got very intense very fast. :thumbsup:
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Postby GrubbTheFragger » Sat Jun 21, 2008 12:04 pm

watched Get Smart last night it was great
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Postby FukuokaGirl » Sat Jun 21, 2008 1:40 pm

I just saw The Happening...and I loved it.
I know people who fell into categories of loathing it whiles others thoroughly enjoyed it. It kept me on the edge of my seat and I was entertained. Plus I thought the concept was cool.

I am also just watched a very, very, *very* weird, underground film called Eagle vs. Shark. I'm still processing through it. It's incredibly awkward and slow. It's look and feel reminded me very much of Napoleon Dynamite but the storyline was rather depressing and dreary. The comedy was entirely awkward, though did illicit a guffaw from my group two or three times. I felt very bad for the main girl, and I completely hated her leading man. It was rather deep in certain ways, but left me feeling rather ... lonely. If you watch it, you'll definitely understand what I mean by that. It's an interesting way to kill two hours anyway.
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Postby ilikegir33 » Sat Jun 21, 2008 2:54 pm

Saw the first Death Note film, and I loved it. The best 2 hours I've spent in a long while.
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Postby Sheenar » Sat Jun 21, 2008 4:13 pm

I watched a bit of What About Bob? this morning. Man, that movie is annoying ... but hilarious.
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Postby Stephen » Sun Jun 22, 2008 1:51 am

Watched the new Rambo. And I adored it. I think I might dump some HGH into my grits tomorrow morning. (In all seriousness I enjoyed this movie)
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Postby SManBeyond » Sun Jun 22, 2008 11:55 am

FukuokaGirl, I also saw The Happening and enjoyed it. I don't think it's one of Shaymalan's best, but I also was really terrified by it and liked the film's ideas. And I totally am in love with Zooey Daschenel now.

Also just saw Get Smart on Friday. Really, really loved it, and I was going in expecting to hate it. I particularly liked how it was a serious spy movie while being a really funny comedy too, and how it sidestepped a lot of cliches. I think it may be the best summer movie I've seen so far.
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Postby GhostontheNet » Sun Jun 22, 2008 7:13 pm

This weekend I saw the following movies:

My First Mister
Dracula A.D. 1972
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Enchanted
Plague of the Zombies
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Postby jon_jinn » Sun Jun 22, 2008 10:09 pm

transformers
pay it forward
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Postby Sheenar » Mon Jun 23, 2008 7:17 am

I watched The Ant Bully last night --it had the typical cliched plot, but it was an enjoyable movie to watch casually.
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Postby minakichan » Mon Jun 23, 2008 9:34 pm

Watched Iron Man... again! >_>;
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Postby FukuokaGirl » Tue Jun 24, 2008 12:30 am

SManBeyond (post: 1237855) wrote:FukuokaGirl, I also saw The Happening and enjoyed it. I don't think it's one of Shaymalan's best, but I also was really terrified by it and liked the film's ideas. And I totally am in love with Zooey Daschenel now.


I don't think it was his best either...for me that was The Sixth Sense and I personally loved The Village and Unbreakable.
But like you said...it kept me scared a lot...and I thought it was creative in the plot. And yeah...Daschenel was great!

I just watched a Korean comedy called My Sassy Girl. I ADORED this! It is a romantic comedy, but it wasn't girly. Three of my guy friends found it hilarious and were laughing out loud a lot, right along with me! I highly reccomend it!
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Postby TallHobbit86 » Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:34 am

The last movie I saw in theaters was Kung Fu Panda. It was pretty funny. XD
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Postby GeneD » Thu Jun 26, 2008 11:33 am

Watched Fight Club. Quite hectic, but very interesting.
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Postby GhostontheNet » Thu Jun 26, 2008 11:35 pm

Tonight I watched The Three Caballeros.
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Postby Kkun » Fri Jun 27, 2008 11:15 am

I just watched Wristcutters: A Love Story and Fido.
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Postby FukuokaGirl » Fri Jun 27, 2008 12:32 pm

I am going to see WALL-E tonight~~!~ I can't wait!
Last night I watched the live action Saikano... hmmm, it was very very different from the anime. I'm still not so sure how I feel about it.
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Postby GhostontheNet » Sat Jun 28, 2008 12:02 am

Today and tonight I watched Enchanted and The Grudge.
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Postby the_wolfs_howl » Sun Jun 29, 2008 5:43 pm

GhostontheNet (post: 1239887) wrote:Today and tonight I watched Enchanted and The Grudge.


Wow. What a combination! :lol:

The Spiderwick Chronicles - I thought it was pretty good, considering I've never read the books and it didn't have the most realistic CG ever. It's also starring my least-favorite child actor of all time, Freddie Highmore (I dunno]can[/i] stand them. For Keira Knightley, it's Pride and Prejudice. For Freddie Highmore, it's The Spiderwick Chronicles. I think his face has gotten better as he's gotten older. Anyway, the movie was enjoyable, if not my favorite thing ever, and I was amazed at the family resemblance between the two brothers. *looks at IMDb* Oh. They were both played by Freddie Highmore :hits_self

Horton Hears a Who - A truly delightful film. Very very good children's movie, I thought. Almost definitely the best children's movie I've seen since I watched Kiki's Delivery Service during Christmas. It was very Dr. Seuss. I suppose much of the narration came from the book itself (I'm not terribly familiar with that particular one), but it had that same delightful rhyme, and even the CG design looked Seuss-esque. Characters who had the dangerous potential to be very dumb and annoying were executed so that they were humorous and delightful instead. And there was a good message. It wasn't some wishy-washy overdone "believe in yourself" crap that doesn't really show you how to do anything. There was actually a point to it all. "So let that be a lesson to one and to all; a person is a person, no matter how small." And that made me think about abortion...but that's a different story. Oh, and I died in the anime parody scene. I was watching the movie in a public area, and it was so hard not to burst out laughing at the top of my lungs XD

One Night with the King - I was NOT impressed with this movie. Sure, it had some outstanding actors (John Rhys-Davies, Omar Sharif, John Noble...), and Esther was rather pretty, but the romance came across to me as very lame and Hollywood-esque (NOT something I appreciated in a movie about a Bible story), and there were a couple historical discrepancies that completely breached the suspension of disbelief for me. For one thing, King Xerxes reads a message silently at one point. Well, if they'd cared to check, reading silently hadn't even been thought of at that period of time! I'm not sure when exactly people started reading silently, but I know it was at least into the A.D. because in Acts there's that eunuch reading aloud to himself from Isaiah, and then Philip starts witnessing to him. The other historical discrepancy was the gallows. In Xerxes' dream (which, by the way, I thought was kind of overdone), it shows the typical gallows we think of, with the loop of rope and all that. But that wasn't what was meant by gallows in those times. As my father, a history major, points out every time we read through Esther as a family, hanging someone meant impaling them on a spear driven into the ground. So...those things led to me sort of scoffing the entire way through the movie.
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Postby Radical Dreamer » Sun Jun 29, 2008 5:54 pm

the_wolfs_howl (post: 1240305) wrote:Horton Hears a Who - A truly delightful film. Very very good children's movie, I thought. Almost definitely the best children's movie I've seen since I watched Kiki's Delivery Service during Christmas. It was very Dr. Seuss. I suppose much of the narration came from the book itself (I'm not terribly familiar with that particular one), but it had that same delightful rhyme, and even the CG design looked Seuss-esque. Characters who had the dangerous potential to be very dumb and annoying were executed so that they were humorous and delightful instead. And there was a good message. It wasn't some wishy-washy overdone "believe in yourself" crap that doesn't really show you how to do anything. There was actually a point to it all. "So let that be a lesson to one and to all]died[/i] in the anime parody scene. I was watching the movie in a public area, and it was so hard not to burst out laughing at the top of my lungs XD


Oh, I agree on all accounts here--I saw this a few months back and loved it. XD And they DID stay very faithful to the book as far as the narration goes. Several lines were taken straight from the book, and the art and design of the film were the same way. I thought it was a very well-done adaptation. XD

Also, I went to see Wall-E last night. LOVE.
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