Anyone seen a good movie lately?

[ice grillin you]

watched mail order wife last night...a very well made pretty funny mockumentary about a pig from queens who buys a burmese wife...played like a long episode of curb your enthusiasum...if you like that show i think you would really like this...it starts out a little slow but the last half is quite funny

7/10

[Diomedes]

Saw 300 last night.  Awful.

[Feva]

Deja Vu - Pretty good action thriller.  Decent concept and plot with a couple holes, but nothing too condemning.  Denzel was good as always and Paula Patton... good God, Paula Patton!



Movie alone: 7/10

Movie because of PP: 21/10

[NC_Eagle]

Idiocracy - 3.5/5 - Funny in the low brow fashion at times (hey, it's Mike Judge after all), and had some points about how stupid our society is becoming, but didn't quite hit the 'good movie' mark.

This Movie is not Yet Rated - 6/5  - Seriously, see this movie today!  Quite a few clips from NC-17 movies in it, mainly sex scenes, so it's not for the puritans among us.  Very interesting in how it asks, 'just who the hell is it that rates movies?' in the USA. Main part of the movie is hiring private investigators to determine who makes up the MPAA. (supposed to be a secret)

Lots of discussion in it is about sex vs violence in USA movies, and how big studios get away with more than independent movies.  For example, one part talked about some independent movie with a couple of racy sex scenes in the movie, but what got it an NC-17 (aka Kiss of Death) was about 5 seconds of the woman's bush in one shot.  The director said during his interview 'so what, nobody on earth has pubes, and you're offended by them?'. 

Another part talked about how 'Gunner Palace' originally got an NC-17 rating...for BAD LANGUAGE!!  Hello, it's a farging IRAQ WAR DOCUMENTARY!  Stupid Fargers!

[MDS]

Yea I saw that last year and really liked it. It's silly to get worked up over it, though. Nothing is ever going to change.

[MadMarchHare]

History of Violence had a shot of Mario Bello's hairiest twat ever, and that was only rated R.  High comedy.

[Zanshin]

That was the scene I was talking about when I was mistakenly in the Monica Bellucci conversation.

[rjs246]

I'm rewatching Children of Men and, in addition to the outstanding steady cam shot towards the end, the opening sequence is absolutely top notch as well.

[Diomedes]

Oh, it's a damn good movie, no doubt.

[rjs246]

I read the book after and was stunned at movie adaptation... same premise, but seriously, plot wise there are not very many similarities. Enjoyed both quite a bit, though.

[MadMarchHare]

When I watched that movie, I actually watched that opening about 10 times.  Felt nauseous watching that women run out with her arm.  Wow.

Thought the movie was OK, but they payoff at the end was fantastic.

[Drunkmasterflex]

I don't mean to be too much of a pain in the ass, but there isn't nearly enough talk here about how ridiculously good No Country For Old Men is. I'm considering starting a Miller's Crossing-esque thread just so I can orgasm all of my thoughts in one place.

I watched it the other day, unbelievably good.  Can't wait to see a non-bootlegged version.

[rjs246]

Stephen Hunter has never been my favorite movie reviewer but his review of no Country for Old Men is the nail in his coffin for me.

He tries so hard to come up with minor plot details that he doesn't like that it almost appears as though he decided ahead of time that he wasn't going to like it, watched the movie, recognized that it was amazing, and then stuck to his guns in the most ineffective and almost juvenile way possible. He even goes into the mechanics of the cattle-stunner and how he doesn't think it's realistic for Anton to be using it the way he does. What the farg?

Anyway, the thing about his review that really killed me was that he tries to lay responsibility for the plot line at the feet of the Coen brothers even though they followed McCarthy's story nearly word for word. From beginning to end it read as though he knew that he had no ground to stand on but kept desperately grasping for ways to make his readers agree with him and disagree with literally everyone else who has seen the movie.

It was a hack job of a review and, like him or not, his readers have certainly come to expect more from him.

[ice grillin you]

yesterday was movie day for the old govt monday off

enron: the smartest guys in the room - GREAT documentary on the enron collapse...i never realized how instrumental they were in the califronia rolling blackouts in 2001...sickening and fascinating all at the same time....only negative and it wasnt the movies fault was that i wished it wasnt almost three years old...i would have liked to see it go thru the trials and to current day

9/10


zodiac - another great movie...im admittedly a true crime guy so this was right down my alley but above that ti was excellently made...almost three hours long it played more like an hour and a half...and it did well staying true to the real story which is the best thing any true crime picture can do

8/10

waitress - nice little indy movie in the same mold of a little miss sunshine or sideways....it was much better than little miss sunshine and not as good as sideways....but definitely worth seeing...felicity was surprisingly good


6.5/10

[MDS]

little miss sunshine was superb and sideways was elitist garbage. you suck.