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Frailty (Bill Paxton & Matthew McConaughey). Saw it at 4 in the morning on the SciFi channel. It was pretty interesting. It would've been nice to have seen it unedited though. Not bad. :shrug:
 
Just watched "Down In The Valley". And it floored me. Great performances by Edward Norton, David Morse and Evan Rachel Wood, and a slowly paced story that could do for the cowboy myth what "Taxi Driver" did for the knight-in-shining-armour myth... The kind of movie that sets up a simple story we've seen a million times before, and then slowly but surely twists it around until there are no heroes left at all. And not even a white hat, a white horse and a six-shooter can be trusted anymore. Brilliant.
 
The Crow: Wicked Prayer
What...the...f... what an awful movie. I can't think of anything worse right now. I feel embarassed having watched the whole thing (I've never been very good at walking out on films)... How embarassing for the actors as well. ::shudders:: why did they do this? Poor script, poor acting. Ugh.
 
The New World; Painfully slow and quiet, but I enjoyed it. Good message in the narrative.

Rumour Has it; Dumb and funny. Shirley McLaine was a hysterical old bag. crude and vulger. Gotta love her.
 
Romeo Must Die - We've had the DVD for awhile. Finally got to watch it. It was okay. Entertaining. It was nice to see Aaliyah.
 
Libra6Poe: Romeo Must Die
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I remember watching that, thinking (or rather hoping) that it would be something different. As you said it was an 'okay' movie.

I finally watched Deliverance last night with Jon Voight and Burt Reynolds and wow. I had goosebumps all the way through. The tension was scarier than in any all out horror film.
 
Gem said:
I remember watching that, thinking (or rather hoping) that it would be something different.
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Right on, that's what I was doing...

Last night (or rather between 2:30am - 5am) I saw The Scarlet Letter (1995) on TNT(?)... it was absolutely horrible, as was Demi's acting. But... but... but... Gary Oldman is soooo sexy! :swoons: :sighs: mmm....:p That is all.
 
Queen of the Damned

Queen of the Damned

Ugh, why have I only been watching crap movies? I really like Aaliyah, she's talented and absolutely beautiful... but my goodness. Ugh. The acting was horrible as well as the script. It was silly and embarassing. No wonder I didn't watch it right away. Stewart Townsend's come a long way from this terrible film.
I don't even want to talk about Jonathan Davis' (KoRn) voice for Lestat's singing... bleh.

Aside from Aaliyah, there wasn't nothing sexy or mysterious or beautiful about this movie.

I rate this movie well below a 5 out of 10. But it isn't as bad as The Crow: Wicked Prayer (which I saw earlier this month).
 
Nanny McPhee was the last movie I saw that I remember. I loved it, my whole family loved it. They watched it at least 5 times, including extras before we took it back. Emma Thompson was brilliant.
 
I saw Constantine the other day. Bleeeecch. I know Keanu can't act, but he was particularly bad in this one. Maybe I just wasn't getting it, but I struggled to watch the whole thing.
 
Libra6poe:Gary Oldman is soooo sexy! :swoons: :sighs: mmm.... That is all.
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I admit to buying the dvd of the shambles that was Dracula, just because Gary Oldman looked yummy in it.

I watched Lady Vengeance yesterday, completely not what i was expecting. Interesting film, although i think I preferred OldBoy.

EDIT: Oh, and Abecedarian, I had to literally force my nephews to watch Nanny Mcphee, but they ended up really enjoying it.
 
I recently saw The DaVinci Code *barfs*

It was an ok book, but the movie blew chunks.

I rewatched Monsters Inc. last night and laughed really hard. I love how they did that little girl. "Mike Wizowski!":D
 
Finally got around to watching "Fearless Freaks", a documentary on The Flaming Lips - one of the best bands around right now. And the movie is highly recommended to fans and just casual interestees alike; it's rare to see a "rockumentary" that really gets this close and personal without just being focused on scandals of sex and drugs. Of course since it's the Flaming Lips, there's quite a bit of the latter, but not treated in a scandalous way; there is one scene of the drummer, a long-time heroin addict, getting ready to shoot up which is as far from "Kids, don't do drugs" as possible yet is scary in its mundanity.

I wouldn't have complained if there had been a bit more actual music and a bit less interviews with Wayne Coyne's brothers (and it should have included their performance on Beverly Hills 90210) but overall it's a very down-to-earth portrait of a band who perhaps are a little crazy, perhaps have taken a few too many substances, but are basically really nice guys. And make some truly unique music.
 
High Tension. A horror movie about a college-age woman who goes to visit her friend's family, only to discover there's a vicious killer nearby. The twist to this movie was weak:
the main character happens to be the actual killer, imagining someone else doing the actual deed
. Despite that, it was creepy and suspenseful. Gory too, so if you can't stand some carnage in your horror films... maybe you should watch something else.
 
Seven Swords - I couldn't get the subtitles to work, but watched it anyway. No idea what was going on - I think a village was being saved from some dodgy bad guys by seven,sword using heroes. I could be wrong. I was able to differentiate the bad guys (punk hair, scary tattoos) from the good guys (long flowy hair, and um pretty swords) though.:D
 
Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest. It was a decent film, but nowhere near as good as the first. Not surprisingly.
 
Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest. It was a decent film, but nowhere near as good as the first. Not surprisingly.
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I saw it yesterday, and I enjoyed it as much as I did the first. The running time could have been shortened a bit, but that's a minor complaint.
 
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