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Recent movies reviews/recommendations/warnings

#261 User is offline   gwnn 

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Posted 2010-May-22, 10:05

1eyedjack, on May 21 2010, 05:31 AM, said:

gwnn, on May 21 2010, 12:41 AM, said:

Prince of Persia was quite entertaining. Mind you: entertaining and nothing more. Lots of cool action scenes and above average CGI.

Was it as good as the computer game?

I never played the new one and only played the old one a few times. But some of the action scenes were reminiscent of the game and it was a lot of fun to watch how they managed to put them in an otherwise normal semi-historical* movie. Of course it helped to see the film on the big screen rather than my laptop (I mean DVD's from the store!!!).

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Posted 2010-May-23, 23:22

Mbodell, on May 22 2010, 01:42 AM, said:

Ghost writer was good here recently.

I also liked The Jonses.

I just saw Please Give tonight which was ok, but more a movie with interesting characters/actors but not much in the way of plot and/or theme.

Agree ghost writer is a really good movie........

The Prophet is still my fav movie after 5 months this year.


It just came to my small town...I guess this is a 2009 movie in big cities.
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Posted 2010-May-29, 13:28

Saw Crazy Heart on DVD last night. A little slow at the start but it gets better when Maggie G. shows up. Thought the dude looked a lot like Kris Kristofferson in some of those scenes. Loved the scenes with Robert Duvall and the way Jeff B. lights up in his presence. Who wouldn't?
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Posted 2010-May-30, 07:12

Saw Robin Hood recently and thought it was pretty good, though I may be biased because I like everything medieval such as knights, castles, spears, swords, longbows... Overall I think it is a decent movie with a new take on the Robin Hood legend.
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Posted 2010-May-31, 21:08

Just watched Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story on DVD. This PBS Frontline documentary, which was released in 2008, describes "the rise and fall of the charming Machiavellian godfather of modern take-no-prisoners Republican political campaigns." Highly recommended for political junkies. I am not one of these but I enjoyed it. I thought that line by Howard Fineman was pretty good: "He understood that the media beast can only be chewing on one ankle at a time. Make sure the ankle is the other guy's.".
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Posted 2010-June-01, 02:50

Little Kid, on May 30 2010, 01:12 PM, said:

Saw Robin Hood recently and thought it was pretty good, though I may be biased because I like everything medieval such as knights, castles, spears, swords, longbows... Overall I think it is a decent movie with a new take on the Robin Hood legend.

I like everything medieval, but as much as I like it, the notion of archers charging against swrodsmans makes me vomit. Also having read about all the troubles on D-Day for Normandy Landings and seeing those medieval landing ships suposed to cross the channel on their own its so ridicoulous.

The effects were good though, photografy and such are decent, and the plot is not awful, just that the bad guy is unacceptable, wtf is he doing? what are his motivations? he is just a traitor because he enjoys doing bad things?. That character needed so badly a bit of depth on his history but there is none.
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Posted 2010-June-01, 03:50

New kids movie:

Saw Space Chimps 2 yesterday after my child dragged me to it.

Review:
Horrible.
Not worth the time or the money.
The 3D effects are poor as well.

And this is not an adult's review of a kiddie movie. My kid was thorougly disappointed as well.
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Posted 2010-July-15, 13:59

andrei, on Jan 21 2010, 11:53 AM, said:

gwnn, on Jan 20 2010, 06:39 PM, said:

seen Memento again last night. now officially my favorite movie ever.

agreed ...

Christopher Nolan is very good ...

seems like "Inception" rocks
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Posted 2010-July-15, 14:24

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I like...knights, castles, spears, swords, longbows,


You must had LOVED Errol Flynn, then, because you just described his whole career.
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Posted 2010-July-15, 15:28

I can't speak for the movie, because I haven't seen it, but the real-life John Lackland's motive was simple: lust for power.
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Posted 2010-July-15, 16:58

blackshoe, on Jul 16 2010, 12:28 AM, said:

I can't speak for the movie, because I haven't seen it, but the real-life John Lackland's motive was simple: lust for power.

Which differentiated him dramatically from most medieval kings...
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Posted 2010-July-15, 16:58

Looking forward to "Scott Pilgrim versus the World"
Looks brilliant...
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Posted 2010-July-15, 17:41

A little off topic but my son just got an Emmy nomination for his National Geographic TV animation/graphic work.
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Posted 2010-July-15, 17:43

JoAnneM, on Jul 16 2010, 02:41 AM, said:

A little off topic but my son just got an Emmy nomination for his National Geographic TV animation/graphic work.

w00t!

Anything that we can watch online?
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Posted 2010-July-15, 18:09

hrothgar, on Jul 15 2010, 05:58 PM, said:

blackshoe, on Jul 16 2010, 12:28 AM, said:

I can't speak for the movie, because I haven't seen it, but the real-life John Lackland's motive was simple: lust for power.

Which differentiated him dramatically from most medieval kings...

Fortunately those times are far behind us.
and the result can be plotted on a graph.
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Posted 2010-July-15, 19:11

shyams, on Jun 1 2010, 04:50 AM, said:

New kids movie:

Saw Space Chimps 2 yesterday after my child dragged me to it.

Review:
Horrible.
Not worth the time or the money.
The 3D effects are poor as well.

And this is not an adult's review of a kiddie movie. My kid was thorougly disappointed as well.

Check out Toy Story 3.....4 stars, one of the best movies of the year.

Also check out How to train your dragon.....very good movie....
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Posted 2010-July-16, 00:07

hrothgar, on Jul 15 2010, 04:43 PM, said:

JoAnneM, on Jul 16 2010, 02:41 AM, said:

A little off topic but my son just got an Emmy nomination for his National Geographic TV animation/graphic work.

w00t!

Anything that we can watch online?

National Graphic Explorer Channel

The Virus Hunters

Animation/visual effects. Andy Murdock

you may be able to watch on the NatGeo website
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Posted 2010-July-16, 02:47

Slightly off topic:

My teen-age daughter dragged me to see:
"Twillight-Eclipse"

There is actually one scene that appeals to a grown up evil-spirited person such as I.
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Posted 2010-July-16, 03:36

Watched Toy Story 3. Very little 3D but all around fine movie, if a little dumb.
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Posted 2010-July-16, 06:13

Saw Cool Hand Luke. Paul Newman is dreamy. Oh I thought this was the old movies thread :o
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