what movie did YOU just see? cuz i ain't seen s*it.

Yesterday I saw Bee Movie, and didn't like it.

why does that not surprise me?

i've been Jonesing to watch Hedwig again...

maybe this weekend.

I saw No Country For Old Men a couple weeks ago. It was amazing but totally depressing. I absolutely loved it, but I don't think I can ever watch it again.

On TCM I watched Meet John Doe last week. It was nice to see that Frank Capra had other good movies besides It's A Wonderful Life. His movies are really interesting to watch.

I've got It's A Wonderful Life on at the moment.

This week I've also watched my sister's DVDs of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (with Kevin Costner) and Misery -- I'd forgotten how funny those were (especially Alan Rickman as the Sheriff of Nottingham in the former, and Kathy Bates in the latter).

i haven't seen It's A Wonderful Life yet this season.

galoot's been watching movies all day, but i couldn't tell you what any of em are/were. he's in his black & white creeper mode today.

I watched Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers because it was on tv tonight. I like that one, but I like LOTR: Return of the King even more so I think I'll watch that tomorrow night. Yeah, nothing new at all there!!

I really want to see The Darjeeling Limited again. I'm totally buying the dvd when it comes out in february

i'd like to see The Darjeeling Limited some time.

i watched Hedwig last night. i loved it again for the millionth time.

i still wanna rewatch the Hedwig documentary again too one of these days...


after that we watched Alice Sweet Alice. it's an old creeper we saw at the drive in when we were kids. turns out (after an IMDb search) it's also called Communion or Holy Terror.

it wasn't as creepy now that i'm all old & jaded.

i can't read your spoilers, but i actually saw that movie... in the theater! YaY me.

i liked it. i'm glad Marty finally got his Oscar. he's so cute, i could just pinch his cheeks off.

I recently saw Notes From A Scandal and really liked it , also For Your Consideration which I didn't think was very good at all.

I watched Blood Diamond... great movie, but pretty damn depressing. Definately more willing to check out Leo's newer movies now, I really liked him in this one.

he's grown a lot as an actor since his days on Growing Pains.

I saw "I Am Legend"
it was pretty good, but I the ending seemed kind of weak

I saw Bella. It was really good! First movie to make me get teary-eyed in years. And it wasn't depressing. I've seen too many depressing movies recently.

i never even heard of Bella.

does I Am Legend beat Omega Man?

Watched Scanners for the first time a little while ago. Great premise but the wooden acting hurt the film.

I took a nostalgia trip recently and watched The Goonies. Hadn't seen it in ages. It was nowhere near as good as I remembered. The kids constantly screaming got on my nerves very quickly. Plus the movie seems kinda corny now that I'm an adult.

My husband and I went to see I am Legend. It was pretty good. Jumped in a couple of spots. My husband thought it got a little predictable at the end, but he said Will Smith did a good job -- boy does he know how to emote.

yeah, he has charisma for sure.

@ the Goonies thang.

I still like the Goonies -- one of my favorite movies.

ohh the goonies


Not a movie, but I just finished watching season 1 of Lost on dvd. I watched the whole thing in like a week, which was definitely too much because I had a scary dream that I think was caused by it! but I couldn't help myself, I watched like 4 episodes a day

ooh, i love Lost.

we've been all about the college bowl games around here.

I just got back from seeing Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street a little bit ago... I had been looking forward to seeing it ever since I'd first heard it was being made, and I thought the finished film was every bit as good as I was expecting it to be. (I saw a college production of the stage show several years ago and loved it; and I also love Johnny Depp's work with Tim Burton.)

The movie version strips the story down to a lean, fast-moving 2 hours to get to the bare bones of the plot, and it takes full advantage of the film medium by offering more intimate performances and more shocking, devastating violence (so much so that, just when you'd expect the camera to pull away, it doesn't). I'd also commend Burton for picking his cast more for their acting skills than their singing ability -- Depp, in particular, would be better suited to glam rock than to musical theater, and Helena Bonham Carter talk-sings her way through many of her numbers, but they both manage to hit all the right emotional notes for their characters. And of course, Stephen Sondheim's score is still such powerful stuff that the stylized gore and the stars' limited voices don't really take anything away from it.

i really wanna see that!

thanks for the review. now when i go i know i won't be wasting my time.

I celebrated the first day of the new year with a Johnny Depp marathon: Dead Man (a very dreamlike and weird Western by Jim Jarmusch, this was the first time I've seen it since I'd first caught it on video some 10 years ago -- it's actually better than I'd remembered it), and my old favorites Ed Wood, Don Juan DeMarco, and Benny & Joon.

The most recent theatrical film I saw was National Treasure 2. It was my sister's birthday and her pick. The movie wasn't that good, but I thought it had a great premise. Just the finished product was missing something. On one hand, there wasn't enough action, but on the other hand, there wasn't enough story. So it was lacking in both departments. I've never seen National Treasure. John Voight, Ed Herris and Harvey Kietel are wasted on this fluff.

On DVD, I watched The Mummy, The Mummy's Hand and The Mummy's Tomb which are all encluded on The Mummy: Legacy Edition (and two other sequels) that I got for Christmas. The Mummy is a great supernatural thriller with a very sympathetic antagonist. Karloff may even surpass his performance as the Monster in Bride of Frankenstein here. Also, I can really see what plot threads Stephen Sommers picked up on for his remake, though still an entirely different story. The Mummy's Hand oddly sets up an almost identical situation, only to turn it into something else entirely, and shruggs off any continuity to the Mummy. Here we have a typical slasher set up, where an isolated group of potential victems are picked off one by one. It also suffers from some unneeded comic relief, however, it still was pretty well done and has some real creepy visuals. The Mummy's Tomb is a direct sequel to The Mummy's Hand and was, pretty much, a peice of crap. The same thing again only not nearly as well crafted, and only an hour long.

I've also watched several Popeye the Sailor shorts on another DVD set I got for Christmas. I guess those are technicly movies too.

I watched The Queen on DVD and I didn't like it at all. It was boring and I thought it felt pointless. My friend was saying his film major friends loooved it, but hey, they're film majors. I wouldn't recommend the movie.

Going to see Juno in the movie theater tomorrow.

The last movie I saw was "I Am Legend". It was really good

i haven't seen a doggone thing but football for weeks!

Natey's coming home on the 11th to take me to see Sweeney Todd though. hopefully Noah will come too & we can turn it into a family event. i wouldn't mind paying for the extras. (heck, it's galoot's money. i'll pay for everybody!)

I want to see Sweeney Todd, but the hubby isn't sure he does

i keep hearing really great things about it. Nathan can't wait to see it, so i'll at least have one person to go with.

he saw it on stage a few years ago, & loved it.

that sounds fun. i didn't see any of em. (but i hear they were all real good)

i'll see Sweeney Todd. when Nathan makes me a promise, he keeps it.

I hope they don't make any more Bourne movies. They have a perfect trilogy and there's no reason to ruin it by unnecessary sequels. But since it's a successful series and since the studio executives love making money, I guess it's inevitable that they'll make more. With or without Matt Damon in the role.

well if it's that good of a series maybe Matt will continue in the role.

I think I read that he didn't want to play the role again if they made further sequels. In any case, the whole Bourne storyline wrapped up nicely and I don't see what more they can do with the character. I'm sure Hollywood will think of something though.

yeah, probably.

Earlier today, I got to see the indie family drama Junebug. I thought it was a very nice piece of work: It's about a guy who marries an outsider-art gallery owner in Chicago and then takes her to North Carolina so she can meet his family and deal with a potential client; I liked that, although it's about a dysfunctional Southern (North Carolina) family, the film treats the characters with affection and dignity rather than making jokes of them. It starts out pretty funny, but it's ultimately very touching.

Klim and I went to see Juno Thurs night with with a couple friends (double date thing)

I have to say I loved it. Its a romantic comedy with out the romantic comedy feel to it.
Its a great movie.

There was this older couple in front of us just craking up laughing.. so it was pretty funny!


I wanna see Sweeny Todd, 27 Dresses and this one movie we saw previewed on Juno about a little girl that wants to know the story of her mom and dad. It has the little girl from Little Miss sunshine, Abigail Breslin and Ryan Rynolds.

i love that kid.


we finally watched West Side Story last night. it's a classic. i need to look up the lyrics, cuz there's a world's address thingy in there.

I was in choir when i was growing up, and we had to watch that movie for that class...

I enjoyed it...

We also had to watch that one Madonna Musical... the one with that song "Don't cry for me, Argentina"

steven and I watched a movie night called "Hard Candy"

It has the girl that plays Juno in it.. It was a great movie. I recommend it...

Ellen Page is a great Actress... And u can see it in this movie. She likes to do the type of movies that make women strong.. she is a "femmenist actress"

I watched The Warriors again last night. Pure 'B' Movie action, but I love it.

i love The Warriors! did you know they're doing a remake?

I just saw The Village with Joaquin Phoenix, who I really like.

yer probably gonna think i really suck, but i've never seen Blade Runner.

i've seen bits of it, but never the whole thing all the way through.

i'd like to see Juno. i wonder if it ever came here?

so did you like The Village, Bones?


Nathan is supposed to come home this weekend to take me to see Sweeney Todd, but i haven't heard much from him since he left, so we'll see.

Last night, Steven and I watched "Pay it forward" and "X-men: the last stand"

When X-men: TLS came to movies, I hadnt seen any of the X-men movies.. i watched the third first... and I loved it. Now, i love all 3 of them
Last night was the fist time I watched Pay it forward.. It was really good... i cried! haha

haven't see Blade Runner though...

i'm not much of a Helen Hunt fan. her voice is too singy songy.

I watched some of Terminator 2 on TV earlier... but it ended up being background noise eventually.

what's the part with the eyes?

Its when the two replicants show up at the lab (freezer-looking place) of the guy that designed their eyes. One of them (Roy) pulls an eyeball from a tank and is kind of playing with it. Than when the other guy is asking the eye-maker questions, Roy starts putting them on his shoulders.

that probably wouldn't bother me. as a Mom, gross stuff doesn't really effect me much.

so, we were gonna go see Sweeney Todd this weekend, so i called around to the theaters & it wasn't on!

turns out it doesn't get here till next weekend.

good thing Nathan didn't come!

Last night, Steven and I watched Grandma's boy. That was funny

and I just finished a movie called "pretty persuasion" and the other night I watched accross the universe...

if u love the beatles, I recomend across the universe!

I watched This Is Spinal Tap because it was on TV. Definitely a good movie!
Then I watched the last half hour of Mean Girls because that was on TV too. I love that movie!

galoot watches Mean Girls every time it's on.

Ah, I love Spinal Tap.

I haven't been gung-ho about seeing Across The Universe, but I think I might like to see it eventually...

At the moment I'm watching a new adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion on PBS's "Masterpiece Theater." It's been quite a while since I've seen the 1995 theatrical version (which I have on video), but I'd say this new one is at least as good as that was; plus, I recognize the main girl in this from Mike Leigh's film Vera Drake, which was excellent.

well, Across the universe is really good!

Steven and I watched Juno again.. well, I watched and he listened.. Lol (I love that movie)

it's still only in theaters, right? did he like... sit there with his eyes closed?

i'm a little confused.

I saw "This Film Is Not Yet Rated" last night, if you haven't seen it I thoroughly recommend it, it's a documentary, kind of in the Michael Moore style about the MPAA ratings system, it's great.

i saw that one on IFC.

I'm gonna change the name of this thread to "What movie did you just about to see?"

I'm about to go see a midnight showing of Cloverfield with a bunch of friends. I don't know if I think it's gonna be good, but I'm pumped. Plus, the Star Trek XI trailer premiers with Cloverfield, and I'm equally pumped for that!

i'm *hopefully* going to see Sweeney Todd this weekend.

I just saw cloverfield, I really liked it but the rest of the audience really didn't

what do you mean? did they all get up & walk out or something?

That sucks, HG. Were people laughing or something? My audience loved it. I did too.

Biff, I've heard Sweeney Todd is suuuuper gory

cool.

i'm glad you liked your movie.

Steven and I might go see cloverfeild soon. I want to see it. people i know say its awesome.

we still gotta see sweeny Todd as well...

it's so cold out, i don't even wanna go anywhere today, but i guess i will.

Over the past week, I recorded the new CBS miniseries Comanche Moon -- a 6-hour prequel to the great Lonesome Dove -- and today I got to watch the whole thing. I wouldn't say it was quite up there with Dove, but I enjoyed it; the leads, Steve Zahn and Karl Urban (taking on the roles originated by Robert DuVall and Tommy Lee Jones, respectively), had kind of an awkward chemistry at first but got much better as the story went on, and Val Kilmer, in his smallish supporting role, was a hoot. I'll be looking forward to the DVD release of this.

ooh, i don't like the shaky cam thang.

i saw Sweeney Todd. it wasn't near as gory as i expected. it was good though. Johnny Depp can do no wrong, & Helena Bonham Carter was adorable. (evil... but adorable)

there was hardly any talking at all. it was mostly all singing. it's true. Johnny can sing.


i wonder why, in musicals, people always fall in love at first glance?

no, i'm a musical nut.

Dead Alive/Braindead is WAY more bloody though. i think that movie had the most of any movie i've ever seen... the uncut (Braindead) version, anyway. THAT movie had rivers of blood.

galoot's new saying...

"remember the part where Sweeney Todd killed that guy?"

Having seen the new adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion on PBS's "Masterpiece Theater" last Sunday night, today I was in the mood to watch the 1995 version again (I have it on video, but I hadn't seen it in a very long time). As fantastic as the leading lady in the new version was, I think I actually like the earlier adaptation a little bit more.

(Speaking of Jane Austen adaptations on PBS, Northanger Abbey is on later tonight -- that's the one I've been wanting to see more than any of them, since I finally read the book not too long ago and I thought it was a fun story.)

Oh, and I've got Batman Begins on at the moment. Given the cast (Christian Bale and Michael Caine of The Prestige, plus Morgan Freeman, Liam Neeson, Tom Wilkinson, and Gary Oldman), I cannot believe I waited so long to check this out.

it was pretty good, for a Batman movie. i love Christian Bale.

i only saw it as a rental myself.

was Ann of Green Gables a Jane Austin story? if so, then i've seen one. i don't watch PBS as often as i used to...