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jack05 09-03-2007 04:06 AM

Just finished watching "Exorcism of Emily Rose"
8/10

Flint 09-03-2007 09:57 AM

Yes: Live At Montreux 2003

Jon Anderson, Chris Squire, Steve Howe, Rick Wakeman, and Alan White. Recent enough to include material from Magnification.

wolf 09-03-2007 02:19 PM

Manic -One of those "independent" films, which in this case means a lot of jerky, hand-held camera work with extreme closeups that's probably supposed to make you feel more a part of the action, but used too much it's distracting. There's also some heavy-handed cinematography, white-out lighting, and so on. It's about teenagers in an inpatient psychiatric facility, which when you first see it, seems to be part of a larger general hospital, and then you find that you're out in the country somewhere. There's a couple things they got wrong about the inpatient setting, but the accuracies outweigh these errors. The filmmaker doesn't just focus on the kids, you see the frustrations on the part of the staff as well, which makes this a very unusual film.

BigV 09-04-2007 10:25 AM

Fracture -- 8/10 Excellent. Anthony Hopkins rules. That Ryan Gosling fellow was a worthy foil and the other supporting actors Rosamund Pike and David Strathaim were pleasant to watch.

Unleashed -- 6/10 Good popcorn dvd for movie night. Surprisingly cohesive story intertwined with the obligatory/headlined martial arts action. Jet Li has some moves. Bob Hoskins in a rare villian role, done marvelously.

snozzberries 09-06-2007 12:51 AM

Last movies I watched were The Magdalene Sisters and Rabbit Proof Fence. Both were very well done, and left me with warm fuzzy thankful feelings of only having had to deal with the regular angsty childhood one would have growing up in the suburbs of (accent free) Cary, NC.

Cloud 09-08-2007 05:39 PM

The Last Mimzy: excellent. totally fun, non-objectionable family entertainment. I looked for one of those mimzy toys, but I guess they are no longer available.

Zodiac: Creepy, sad, riveting, and well acted. Amazing to think they never caught that guy. Some horrible scenes in the beginning, expecially a brutal and gruesome stabbing scene. Jake Gyllenhaal is wonderful and--Robert Downey Jr! I didn't even recognize him until after about the 5th scene he was in. Amazing actor.

DanaC 09-08-2007 06:17 PM

The Hamiltons. A nifty little indy horror film.

skysidhe 09-09-2007 06:49 AM

We watched the The Ex last night.

we're a fan of Zach Braff

Next on the line is Perfume. The story the Scentless Apprentice is based on.
( so says my kid which kinda takes the pleasure out of that song for me)

and then Perfect Stranger

skysidhe 09-09-2007 06:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cloud (Post 383569)
The Last Mimzy: excellent. totally fun, non-objectionable family entertainment. I looked for one of those mimzy toys, but I guess they are no longer available.

Zodiac: Creepy, sad, riveting, and well acted. Amazing to think they never caught that guy. Some horrible scenes in the beginning, expecially a brutal and gruesome stabbing scene. Jake Gyllenhaal is wonderful and--Robert Downey Jr! I didn't even recognize him until after about the 5th scene he was in. Amazing actor.

I've been secretly wanting to see the Last Minzy cloud.

@ The Zodiac.....I thought the suspected murderer had a heart attack?

DucksNuts 09-09-2007 07:00 AM

Nip/Tuck Season 3 - weird season

Cloud 09-09-2007 08:37 AM

The suspect did die, yes, but they are saying that the DNA evidence didn't match him.

bluecuracao 09-09-2007 09:34 AM

Heroes Season 1--Hey, I didn't know George Takei was in it, what a fun surprise.

Ibby 09-09-2007 11:02 AM

Hiro Nakamura is the cutest little japanese superhero ever.

Cloud 09-09-2007 11:14 AM

cute and brilliant. At least the actor is.

rkzenrage 09-09-2007 02:17 PM

Been watching my Planet Earth DVDs still, a bit at a time. They are awesome.

wolf 09-09-2007 04:27 PM

Dexter Season 1, Disk 2
Project Runway Season 2, Disk 1

Happy Monkey 09-10-2007 02:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bluecuracao (Post 383682)
Heroes Season 1--Hey, I didn't know George Takei was in it, what a fun surprise.

Check out his license plate.

King 09-10-2007 05:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rkzenrage (Post 383697)
Been watching my Planet Earth DVDs still, a bit at a time. They are awesome.

You'd probably like Coast then, which is what I've been watching. It's somewhat more about human history than natural, but there is a fair amount of natural history in there as well. Both made by the BBC and in a similar vein.

bluecuracao 09-14-2007 12:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey (Post 384010)
Check out his license plate.

I'll have to rewatch the episodes during which I was snoozing off and on, since I don't know what you're talking about.



Oh eff that, what did it say??

Happy Monkey 09-16-2007 06:42 PM

NCC-1701

elSicomoro 09-16-2007 07:18 PM

I finally watched "Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters" last night. I'm a big fan of ATHF, but the movie was a bit much for me. Of course, it might have something to do with the fact that I watched it after midnight last night. I dunno...

wolf 09-16-2007 09:10 PM

Finished the Showtime series, Dexter, in a marathon session that finished up at 4am. I needed to know how it ended.

Silent Hill (yes, films based on video games suck, but this one had some interesting bits to keep me from throwing the remote at the TV, including the creepy music, the creepy sound effects, and the creepy monsters being right. Then they got to the creepy plot point, and too many creepy people, but overall, it was fun. And creepy. Just like the game)

X-Men: The Last Stand

I caught about the last half hour of Heavenly Creatures with my sister today. It was strange enough that I have added it to my Netflix queue.

rockerreds 09-21-2007 01:25 PM

A Night With Lou Reed

Griff 09-21-2007 01:48 PM

Pursuit of Happyness- good stuff

Flint 09-21-2007 01:49 PM

Firefly. Does anybody here speak Chinese?

Griff 09-21-2007 01:54 PM

goram foreign languages

Clodfobble 09-21-2007 01:56 PM

The internet speaks Firefly-specific Chinese. :)

Flint 09-21-2007 01:58 PM

bUT i DON'T HAVE THE iNTERNET PLZ HAYELP

Ibby 09-22-2007 11:00 PM

Hahaha their pronunciation is SO terrible but it really is chinese that they speak, I understand most of it.

Though it's mostly just a way to get around the censors...

jester 09-25-2007 12:04 PM

The Condemned &

Grindhouse - Kurt Russell - what a hoot

Cicero 09-25-2007 12:28 PM

"The Office" is about to start up again. Wooo-Hoooo!!!!
Can you say hot chocolate and a date with the couch on Thursdays?!?
I can: Hot Chocolate and date with couch on Thursdays!!!
I know...
"get a life Cicero"....
It's the little things.....a lot of little things.

Wait....just because I have the last seasons on DVD doesn't make it the right thread...
sorry...
See Ya!

wolf 10-05-2007 01:31 PM

Barefoot Gen 1 (hopefully will watch 2 tonight.)

Don't watch these while you're eating or if you want to sleep.

Cartoon (not good enough to be called anime, even if it is Japanese) based on the comic books about a young boy who survives the atomic bomb implosion in Hiroshima and it's aftermath. They chopped the story up quite a bit, though.

One thing that I did find interesting is that the Japanese Government is held responsible for the bombing (for not surrendering) as well as the Americans.

wolf 11-04-2007 08:45 PM

Land of the Blind

Fruits Basket, Disc 1 (I will not be continuing, too teenage girly for me)

Jericho, Disc 1 (I will not be continuing, too much stupid melodrama)

Hot Fuzz (possibly the funniest movie I've seen in a while)

Heavenly Creatures (Bizarre, watched on wolfsibling's recommendation)

Rammstein: Lichtspielhaus (loved it, but I am a member of the MTV generation and love watching music videos)

DucksNuts 12-01-2007 07:38 PM

Wolf Creek Im watching it now and sharting myself!!!!

I love/hate/love true story based freak horror movies.

glatt 12-28-2007 11:18 AM

I'm about halfway through The Tunnel, a film about some Germans who dig a tunnel under the Wall in Berlin to help their friends in the East escape. It's based pretty closely on the true story, and there have been several scenes that I've recognized like the image I posted over in the iconic photographs thread.

It's a really good film so far. Only drawback (for some) is that it's subtitled. My German is a little rusty, and my TV screen is too small to easily read those little words on the screen. Still, I recommend it.

Chewbaccus 12-28-2007 01:16 PM

Stumbled onto Red Dawn on tv yesterday, gonna throw in the disc later today.

Happy Monkey 12-28-2007 09:23 PM

House, season one. I always meant to get into this series, as I like Hugh Laurie, but never managed to set aside the time.

I wonder if it'll be canceled now that I'm interested.

busterb 12-28-2007 10:27 PM

Beer Nutz "The quest for the holy ale" Gift from my son. Does that say something about each of us?

Griff 12-30-2007 11:38 AM

Firefly series discs. I just love that Alliance spreading democracy.

Ibby 01-07-2008 01:40 AM

Blackadder series 1!

Aliantha 01-07-2008 01:41 AM

Mostly Kangaroo porn

shina 01-07-2008 11:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aliantha (Post 422148)
Mostly Kangaroo porn

Well that should be interesting.:yelsick:

Watched "300" the other night. What a movie!

bbro 01-08-2008 12:35 PM

300
The Simpsons movie (again)
Waitress
Ocean's Thirteen
The Nanny Diaries
The 6th Season of Scrubs

classicman 01-08-2008 10:33 PM

I'm still fascinated on the Planet Earth series I got for Christs Birthday celebration.

Ibby 01-08-2008 11:15 PM

Watched I Am Legend and Bee Movie 'couple nights ago.

BigV 01-10-2008 06:26 PM

The Chieftains -- Live Over Ireland -- Water from the well.

Excellent.

Giant Salamander 01-26-2008 01:16 AM

Naked Lunch

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/im...ch-Posters.jpg

Strange fucking Cronenberg movie.
I don't know exactly what the hell I just watched, but I have enough of an idea to know that I really liked it.
Slow at times, but well worth it.

I'm going out to buy the book tomorrow, yes indeed.

Cloud 01-26-2008 09:57 AM

LOL! I have a tradition of staying up all night on New Year's eve, getting drunk, and watching the strangest, cult, off the wall movies I can find. Naked Lunch was on the menu one year. Whoa!

Strange fucking book, too, certainly worth a look, even if only for cultural literacy. Support banned books!

Cloud 01-26-2008 11:45 AM

"Sunrise Earth" from the Discovery Channel. Absolutely beautiful photography and natural sounds, featuring sunrises all over. Calm, soothing, and uplifting art for your monitors.

Griff 01-27-2008 09:09 AM

North Country- Charlize Theron

It was really gripping. It's about a sexual harassment case in a Minnesota mining operation. It's interesting that most of the problem lay with her union brothers, but the company is held responsible.

ZenGum 01-27-2008 09:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cloud (Post 427419)
LOL! I have a tradition of staying up all night on New Year's eve, getting drunk, and watching the strangest, cult, off the wall movies I can find.

Try "The Cars That Ate Paris".

Low budget suspense-horror that has become a cult classic down under.

"We may be an isolated little country hospital, but we're at the cutting edge of experimental psychology..."

Cloud 01-27-2008 02:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aliantha (Post 422148)
Mostly Kangaroo porn

oh, so THAT's what that means ("tie me kangaroo down, boy . . . ")

bbro 01-28-2008 09:44 AM

Just had a Scrubs marathon of the last 6 seasons. I also watch Red Dragon, Heathers, and The Futurama Movie.

shina 01-28-2008 03:19 PM

Sentinal

Giant Salamander 01-28-2008 04:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cloud (Post 427419)
LOL! I have a tradition of staying up all night on New Year's eve, getting drunk, and watching the strangest, cult, off the wall movies I can find. Naked Lunch was on the menu one year. Whoa!

Strange fucking book, too, certainly worth a look, even if only for cultural literacy. Support banned books!

Didn't know it was banned. Makes perfect sense, of course; 50's and all.
I will indeed pick it up now, since I've heard the movie doesn't exactly do it justice.

Giant Salamander 02-09-2008 07:14 PM

Strangers With Candy series on DVD

http://www.suttonimpactstudio.com/po...th%20Candy.jpg

One of the best comedy shows ever.
Having it on DVD makes me happy.


extremely biased description

ferret88 02-11-2008 07:44 AM

Madagascar.

over and over and over and over.

My two-and-a-half year-old wanted to watch a movie the other day. That's what I chose. Have I chosen badly? Hard to tell...

glatt 02-11-2008 08:23 AM

Is he/she constantly singing "I like to move it, move it" now?

Tink 02-11-2008 02:03 PM

'The Brave One'. (don't bother).

BigV 02-11-2008 05:48 PM

The Brave One. Had a great time watching this movie. Five stars!


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