I watched Amelia tonight. I fell asleep during the middle part.
I like both Hillary Swank and Richard Gere but this movie was a sleeper!

Just watched (500) Days of Summer. Not bad. There were parts which I thought were wonderful and parts that were meh. Touted as a "quirky romantic comedy" and starting out telling the audience "this is NOT a love story" I was pleasantly surprised that it was not the typical boy-meets-girl story.

There were some really clever parts.

Inglorioius Basterds.

Worst movie I've seen in a looong time.

I like Reservoir dogs and think Pulp Fiction is genius, Kill Bill is over stylized and full of movie nerd in jokes, but quite good.

But this totally jumped the shark, I thought I could see what he was going for long quiet increasingly tense scenes with a violent ending. But the the scenes were poor, didn't build tension and once or twice is great, but over and over again totally over egged the pudding.

Oscar nominated, top 250 on IMDB, did I just not get it somehow, or is the Emperors new clothes.

Saw V on Showtime

Kick Ass kicked ass. I expected a fun flick, but this was a real movie.

Cool, I wanna see that.

Really wanna see Kickass!

Last night I finally got around to watching RunFatboy Run (with Simon Pegg). A pleasant little romcom. Liked it a lot.

The night before I watched 'Satanic' lol loved it. Intriguing enough plot to keep me interested but lots of cheddar. I love a good cheesy horror flick.

These past weeks, I've seen Sherlock Holmes, Kick Ass, and Dragons.

Tomorrow, it's Iron Man 2 opening in France.

At home, I saw for the fourth maybe fifth time a wonderful film: "Pan's Labyrinth".

Loved Pan's Labyrinth. Can't decide whether or not to watch Holmes ... I like everybody in it, but the whole thing just looks too Hollywood swashbuckler with added explosions and chase scenes; not what I think of when I think of Holmes.

"The Losers" was a decent mindless action flick. Fun heroes, super-goofy villains.

Oh, I really wanna see the Losers.

I downloaded Glorious 39 as an itunes rental, but haven't got around to watching it yet. Might do that tonight.

It's not "Sherlock Holmes". It's "Sherlock Holmes: Action Hero". Don't expect the the cool mental exercises from the books. I didn't like it.

I thought it was Sperlock Holmes

Last week, I saw IronMan 2.

I staid till the end of the movie. The biggest fun fun for me was that there were maybe 50 or more people in the theater all asking what was the meaning of the f.... hammer !

I saw the new Elm Street, not as good as the original but worth a matinee.

'The Crazies', eh, it was ok.

Anybody seen 'Black Dynamite'?

The Blind Side.
I enjoy true stories.

Yesterday, I saw again The bicentennial Man with Robin William.

A good interpretation of the novel by Isaac Asimov.

'Bicentennial Man', fucking loved it!

A wonderful movie with a magnificent question : what makes a human being ?

Pan's Labyrinth was wicked. In a good way.

we watched Benjamin Button tonight , long Flick B ut we were BOTH teary eyed at the end , good flick

Went out to see Date Night with Steve Carell and Tina Fey. It was more than a little silly, as was to be expected, but very funny nonetheless.

Watching "Che: The Argentine-Part 1" (Steven Soderbergh) as I type-despite my one time fascination with Che Guevara and all things revolutionary and Cuban, this isn't really grabbing me.

Parasomnia: strange. Quite cool in its own way.

Lot of cheddar in it. But I don;t mind that.

Che, a snapshot of the man and the myth.

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1535

Cheers for this - interesting stuff and quite alot that I hadn't heard referred to previously, despite having read a fair amount on the man and the topic. Alvaro Vargas Llosa (son of the novelist and one time candidate for the Peruvian presidency-Mario Vargas Llosa), however, is unlikely to be completely unbiased, but then again it's pretty much impossible to be neutral about someone like Che.

The Wolfman, Daybreakers, The Road, & Edge of Darkness were all pretty good, good enough anyway.

Legion - I thought it sucked.

Appaloosa
Good, a western in the new style gritty realistic. They obvioulsy worked hard on having the clothes and sets true to the time, the gunfights are short and to the point. Great acting, the two main characters are gunfighters on the good sidewho have worked together for many years.

Just a little something to give it more edge could have made this a great western.

Renee Zellwigger is the love interest, so that's a minus :p:

NINJA ASS-ASS-IN
What a bore man!

Freakin' lurved it. ("South of Heaven, West of Hell" is another great western, quirky, but real good)

Did anyone see the Blind Side that didnt like it?

I saw Wolfman, Daybreakers, and The Road and I wasn't impressed with any of them.

Just got back from Toy Story 3. It was surprisingly emotional, and a great way to end the story arc. Loved it.

Go see Inception...you will like it. Remember how you felt when you first saw The Matrix? This movie will take you there again. Its not perfect - the gratuitous gun fights, for example- but it makes for a great summer blockbuster. Try to go without reading or hearing anything about it.

In the process of watching 28 Weeks Later. After that I'm thinking about watching 300.

I'm watching The Machinist... starve much, Mr. Bale?

Saw Salt. Pretty fun to watch, and kept me guessing for a while. I figured out the twist, but pretty late.

'Repo Men' is a six (out of ten).

****SPOILER ALERT****

The movie 'Neighbor' includes one scene that involves a small-diameter glass rod, and a man's erect penis. If you've ever wanted to see blood gushing from the pee-hole of an erect penis, this is your chance.

I gave it a seven.

"The Waiting City-it tries very hard to be worthy and almost makes it. The issues that come out of it (adoption of children from other countries + what a family should be + what constitutes understanding another culture) are more worthy than the movie itself.

"Never Let Me Go" was very good. I went in knowing the premise, and enjoyed it, but I expect that the less you know going in, the better.

My last movie is Avatar 3D and it is superb.

I like to be scared. A little gore isn't going to do it for me. I need tension and build-up and the big surprise.

So, the last couple Saturdays I hit the movie theater for the first showing of the day (only 4 dollah and 25 cent) of the most recent new scary movies.

First Saturday I saw The Last Exorcism. Like most films set in "documentary" style it totally fizzled for me. I loved the beginning: the preacher guy was great as an evangelist setting out to debunk the exorcisms they'd been doing for year. But not one time did I feel even slightly scared.

And I can turn down my brain and suspend disbelief if I can get my WHAT THE FUCK? moment.

Then I saw Devil, by M Night Shama-lama-ding-dong. It wasn't great, it was decent, but there was "that moment" where I'm sitting in the theater, almost completely alone, and I gasped out loud "OHHHHHH FUCK!"

I don't have high hopes for all the other scare fare that comes around this time of year, but I'll probably keep trying, I so love that scary moment.

Resident Evil was 3D.

Got around to seeing "The Informant" last night. I went in thinking it was a drama, so I was pleasantly surprised. Very funny black comedy.

Akeelah and the Bee on tv. Superb!

Glad to know that. I wondered if it were any good.

Great minds! I call him "Midnight Shama-lama-ding-dong"

Is that about an apiarist?

Hahhahahaa! I've never heard it pronounced...so Shama-lama-ding-dong it is!

Watched Melancholia last night. Had the same sort of feel, to me, as Black Swan. Visually, it was incredible, the acting/cast was outstanding, the interaction of the characters was unsettling.

I watched Hesher recently. pretty great

I saw the very first showing of The Muppets in the Dallas area. Awesome and entertaining as always. I loved the nostalgia shots. They still have that same old magic, all these years later.

I noticed that a nearly everyone in the theater with me was my age.

Highly recommended for anyone but especially original Muppet fans.

Super 8. Goonies meets Cloverfield

The Muppet Show was the main purpose of Sundays as far as I was concerned as a kid: bath and jimjams, then cosy on the couch for the Muppets, followed by Heart to Heart (and when they got together it was moyder), then bed :p

Even now, alll these years later, if I think of the opening music it still gives me a little shiver of anticipation.

Just came across Mary and Max, a feature length animation film. It was on TV here, but from the website (very much worth a look) I see it's been around in the UK and Australia and maybe more countries. - Great stuff.

This sums it up for me too:

Oh yes, Netflix streaming has that. Really excellent. Laugh-out-loud funny and also sad enough to make you cry.

I think Mary and Max is on OnDemand, too. I'll have to watch it this weekend, if it is.

Last week we really enjoyed Dreamhouse with Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz (huh, looked up the spelling of her name, and saw that they're married to each other).

I was surprised that I liked Real Steel so much. I wasn't a huge fan of Transformers, and thought that it would be just like it...but it was way better.

I saw Sinister over the weekend. I give it 4 out of 5 GASPS©

I admit to being able to suspend disbelief in order to have the crap scared out of me. Even so, I've been disappointed in most of the scary movie fare as of late (case in point: The Cabin in the Woods can bite me) but this one was sufficiently creepy. And Ethan Hawke. Yay.