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Just watched Love Actually again. LOVE it. I'm about to watch The Other Guys.

PrincessofPersia said:

Just watched Love Actually again. LOVE it.

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Must...swallow...my hate...of that film...

Watched To The Devil, A Daughter last night. I feel moderately disturbed by Christopher Lee's arse and Nastassja Kinski's in the same film.

Autumn. Bad zombie film.

I tried to show the original "Psycho" in a film festival in my high school art class because it was made way back when the rating system didn't exist, and I figured today's teens could handle it.

In the years since its origin, the film people have rated it an R. I suppose it is, what'd you think?

And kids now adays are used to fast paced action, making older films seem too slow.

The Social Network. Fantastic.

Still think True Grit was the best film of 2010, but man was there close competition.

Leslie Williams said:

I tried to show the original "Psycho" in a film festival in my high school art class because it was made way back when the rating system didn't exist, and I figured today's teens could handle it.

In the years since its origin, the film people have rated it an R. I suppose it is, what'd you think?

And kids now adays are used to fast paced action, making older films seem too slow.

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Ironically, horror movies are all about slow pacing. Building the suspense, which is what makes audiences jump out of their chairs and scream. Psycho could technically be an R because of the mix of rotting corpses, cross dressing and oh yeah, nice brutal stabbings. But I think it would be closer to PG-13.

So, this week went to see Company Men. It was just OK - a movie about basically a bunch of rich bastards trying to deal with reality after the market crash, usually with disastrous results, might seem like a hard sell, and it's being marketed horribly. But Tommy Lee Jones can do no wrong, and he brings soul and class to his aging grouch caught by his growing conscience. Ben Affleck leads as a young sales pimp who sees his good life crumble, and he's growing a lot as an actor. Plus Maria Bello (*sigh*) as an ambitious young shark, but there's also Kevin Costner attempting a Boston accent. Don't quit your day job, Kevin.
I wish it had a better story, but what a cast. Worth a spot on your queue.

Red - Totally enjoyable.

The Expendables...spent most of that time on the laptop instead of watching it.

RED....will second that it is totally enjoyable. Loved Bruce Willis & Helen Mirren's characters.

Disorganized Crime

New here! **waves***

I just made my husband watch one of my favorite old movies, The Shop Around the Corner. Jimmy Stewart is awesome. It's the movie You've Got Mail was based on, but it's so much better.

The Departed. Finally! Pretty good movie.

Saw Kung Fu Panda twice in a row, followed by Hellboy II: The Golden Army.

I love Tigress! She is the awesomeness of the movie.
I want more focus on the Furious five in the next movie.

I have been watching a bunch of movies every day for the last couple weeks, but the last one I watched was Buried. Ho. ly. Shit. It was amazing. I haven't been physically moved by a movie in a while. Excellent filmmaking.

Diana Hignutt said:

Red - Totally enjoyable.

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Third. I loved it.

Jouese. Loved it. Kevin Kline is so awesome.

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. I saw it in the cinema, but there it was dubbed into English. It really is much better with subtitles.

You've Got Mail ... for about the thirtieth time.

The Town

Titanic.

Watched Lesbian Vampire Killers again last night. Very silly, but it makes me laugh. Which probably says something about me.

Red. With Bruce Willis. Pretty good, I liked it.

Animal Kingdom

Little Aussie film with GREAT CHARACTERS, but script/execution wasn't able to maintain energy for a moving climax/completion. Too much viewer energy required to push through plodding middle.

The Town with Ben Affleck

I enjoyed it

PrincessofPersia said:

Third. I loved it.

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Fourth. (Or maybe fifth, I lost track.) RED was hilarious. I got it off Netflix, but I am so going to buy a copy. Aside from the funny which it brought in truckloads, I thought the writing was very skillful. They sort of wove the backstory of these particular characters in with a lot of generic spy movie tropes. Well done, IMO. I got the feeling that I knew the characters really well without actually knowing them really well.

Good solid A on this one, highly recommended.

brainstorm77 said:

Autumn. Bad zombie film.

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Any idea if this was the same Autumn that was self-published by a guy named David Moody? I originally read it on my PDA, but I've seen it show up in book stores lately. I didn't think it was a spectacular book, but I did finish it. Interesting.