Anyone seen a good movie lately?

[Phanatic]

...and the kill scene is so cliche now but it is so well done and you don't really see anything of the act. I think that makes it worse because your imagination makes up the rest. Her cold staring eye from the bathroom floor at the end of the scene. Chilling!

The only reason that scene is cliche is because every movie after it was made tried desperately to remake it. It was a first and it is a classic. Psycho is amazing.

So far it's been the best of my recent Hitchcock kick which have all been good to great. Birds is number 2.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Oscar and Razzie nominees were announced.

[SunMo]

So far it's been then best of my recent Hitchcock kick which have all been good to great. Birds is number 2.

i thought i read somewhere that the Birds is the latest of classic movies to be modernized...which is a terrible idea

[rjs246]

...and the kill scene is so cliche now but it is so well done and you don't really see anything of the act. I think that makes it worse because your imagination makes up the rest. Her cold staring eye from the bathroom floor at the end of the scene. Chilling!

The only reason that scene is cliche is because every movie after it was made tried desperately to remake it. It was a first and it is a classic. Psycho is amazing.

So far it's been the best of my recent Hitchcock kick which have all been good to great. Birds is number 2.

North By Northwest and Rear Window are my other two favorites (along with Psycho). Never saw The Birds, thought Vertigo and most of the others I've seen were good but not great.

[Phanatic]

...and the kill scene is so cliche now but it is so well done and you don't really see anything of the act. I think that makes it worse because your imagination makes up the rest. Her cold staring eye from the bathroom floor at the end of the scene. Chilling!

The only reason that scene is cliche is because every movie after it was made tried desperately to remake it. It was a first and it is a classic. Psycho is amazing.

So far it's been the best of my recent Hitchcock kick which have all been good to great. Birds is number 2.

North By Northwest and Rear Window are my other two favorites (along with Psycho). Never saw The Birds, thought Vertigo and most of the others I've seen were good but not great.

Loved North by Northwest. Cary Grant was dreamy....

Haven't watched Rear Window yet. Basically saw all these movies as a kid watching those Saturday afternoon horror specials but don't remember them all that well so it's liking a new movie that's familiar to me.

Remaking the Birds is a horrible idea. Didn't they learn from the Psycho remake?

There might be a case for remaking North by Northwest.

[Wingspan]

I saw the Halloween remake last night, finally.

A few thoughts.

As a director, Rob Zombie is still pretty much useless. His schtick of trying to shock you with over the top vulgar language is laughable.

The was no point to the backstory, it was about as cliche as it comes to explaining a psychopath...ooooh the mother is a stripper...ohh the "dad" is an abusive drunk....ooohh look, he was picked on at school. (Besides, Michael Myers works better as a sociopathic killer).

Myers paper mache masks were funnier than they were scary.

I am/was a huge overall Halloween fan, and this prequel aka remake was pointless, and stupid...the only character that I thought was better was Dr Loomis.

This was, however...the first time where seeing a girl topless was uncomfortable, in that when Myers goes after Annie, she is half naked the whole time, the issue being that Annie is played by Danielle Harris, who played the little girl in Halloween 4 and 5...so that was a little creepy, in an old pervert kinda way.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Complete list of 80th annual Academy Award nominations announced Tuesday:

1. Best Picture: "Atonement," "Juno," "Michael Clayton," "No Country for Old Men," "There Will Be Blood."

2. Actor: George Clooney, "Michael Clayton"; Daniel Day-Lewis, "There Will Be Blood"; Johnny Depp, "Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street"; Tommy Lee Jones, "In the Valley of Elah"; Viggo Mortensen, "Eastern Promises."

3. Actress: Cate Blanchett, "Elizabeth: The Golden Age"; Julie Christie, "Away From Her"; Marion Cotillard, "La Vie en Rose"; Laura Linney, "The Savages"; Ellen Page, "Juno."

4. Supporting Actor: Casey Affleck, "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford"; Javier Bardem, "No Country for Old Men"; Hal Holbrook, "Into the Wild"; Philip Seymour Hoffman, "Charlie Wilson's War"; Tom Wilkinson, "Michael Clayton."

5. Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett, "I'm Not There"; Ruby Dee, "American Gangster"; Saoirse Ronan, "Atonement"; Amy Ryan, "Gone Baby Gone"; Tilda Swinton, "Michael Clayton."

6. Director: Julian Schnabel, "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"; Jason Reitman, "Juno"; Tony Gilroy, "Michael Clayton"; Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, "No Country for Old Men"; Paul Thomas Anderson, "There Will Be Blood."

7. Foreign Film: "Beaufort," Israel; "The Counterfeiters," Austria; "Katyn," Poland; "Mongol," Kazakhstan; "12," Russia.

8. Adapted Screenplay: Christopher Hampton, "Atonement"; Sarah Polley, "Away from Her"; Ronald Harwood, "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"; Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, "No Country for Old Men"; Paul Thomas Anderson, "There Will Be Blood."

9. Original Screenplay: Diablo Cody, "Juno"; Nancy Oliver, "Lars and the Real Girl"; Tony Gilroy, "Michael Clayton"; Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava and Jim Capobianco, "Ratatouille"; Tamara Jenkins, "The Savages."

10. Animated Feature Film: "Persepolis"; "Ratatouille"; "Surf's Up."

11. Art Direction: "American Gangster," "Atonement," "The Golden Compass," "Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street," "There Will Be Blood."

12. Cinematography: "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford," "Atonement," "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly," "No Country for Old Men," "There Will Be Blood."

13. Sound Mixing: "The Bourne Ultimatum," "No Country for Old Men," "Ratatouille," "3:10 to Yuma," "Transformers."

14. Sound Editing: "The Bourne Ultimatum," "No Country for Old Men," "Ratatouille," "There Will Be Blood," "Transformers."

15. Original Score: "Atonement," Dario Marianelli; "The Kite Runner," Alberto Iglesias; "Michael Clayton," James Newton Howard; "Ratatouille," Michael Giacchino; "3:10 to Yuma," Marco Beltrami.

16. Original Song: "Falling Slowly" from "Once," Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova; "Happy Working Song" from "Enchanted," Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz; "Raise It Up" from "August Rush," Nominees to be determined; "So Close" from "Enchanted," Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz; "That's How You Know" from "Enchanted," Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz.

17. Costume: "Across the Universe," "Atonement," "Elizabeth: The Golden Age," "La Vie en Rose," "Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street."

18. Documentary Feature: "No End in Sight," "Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience," "Sicko," "Taxi to the Dark Side," "War/Dance."

19. Documentary (short subject): "Freeheld," "La Corona (The Crown)," "Salim Baba," "Sari's Mother."

20. Film Editing: "The Bourne Ultimatum," "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly," "Into the Wild," "No Country for Old Men," "There Will Be Blood."

21. Makeup: "La Vie en Rose," "Norbit," "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End."

22. Animated Short Film: "I Met the Walrus," "Madame Tutli-Putli," "Meme Les Pigeons Vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go to Heaven)," "My Love (Moya Lyubov)," "Peter & the Wolf."

23. Live Action Short Film: "At Night," "Il Supplente (The Substitute)," "Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)," "Tanghi Argentini," "The Tonto Woman."

24. Visual Effects: "The Golden Compass," "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End," "Transformers."

[rjs246]

I really need to see There Will Be Blood. And Juno. But not Michael Clayton.

[hbionic]

Cliche time!

North by Northwest was probably ahead of its time. That movie is better than 80 percent of the crap that is out there now.

Story was great. The older film style, lighting, etc....there's a classic feel to it. The cropduster scene, Mt. Rushmore. Great flick! 


Another classic:

The Graduate.

[MDS]

saw a few movies over the weekend...

Derailed - stupid and predictable

Children of Men - very good...didn't read the book, so i can't compare, but i liked it.  clive owen was good, but michael caine was great

Magnolia - 3 hours of mess...a bunch of great acting performances that didn't result in a great movie, which is weird.  i understood what PT Anderson was going for, but he didn't pull it off, imo.  and then the frogs...wtf with the frogs.

kill yourself john john.

[Rome]

The joke Caine told about the stork in Children Of Men was worth the price of admission alone.  Just hilarious.

[reese125]

I really need to see There Will Be Blood. And Juno. But not Michael Clayton.

Im jut not seeing where Juno gets all this hype from. That movie was more cute than anything.

For Kornheiser on ESPN's PTI to announce to everyone at the end of his show to go see Juno was very odd to me...especially to a predominantly male audience. Yes, there was good acting and the plot was very well played, but not worthy of all this hoopla

[ice grillin you]

my goal this weekend is to see four of these five movies

no country
into the wild
juno
there will be blood
bell and butterfly

[MDS]

bell has to be the gayest movie since atonement.

[SunMo]

it's a pretty good rule of thumb to pass on any movie that has 'butterfly' in it's title