Last Movie You Watched...

callalily61 said:

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Edgar Rice Burroughs.

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Thanks.

Priest. Meh, good movie. great cast. entertaining but nothing OMGish about it.

Watched Our Idiot Brother the other day. Hysterically funny, definitely recommended to anyone looking for a good laugh.

callalily61 said:

The Descent 2. Well, the first 60 minutes of it, since I'm turning it off right... now. Boring and derivative.

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that's exactly where I bailed....

Kitty27 said:

The unholy hot mess that is "Smurfs".

My eight year old LOVES this movie. Children shouldn't be allowed to treat parents like this.

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It's a generational stuff. I mean, I remember I would watch Space Jamover and over and over and over. Then I saw it as an adult and asked mom to forgive me doing that to her.

John Carter

I thought it had some pacing issues, but nonetheless a quite enjoyable film. This is the kind of film future geeks will grow up watching and referencing as an inspiration. This is the new Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

callalily61 said:

You young'uns are so quaint. Back in my day, there warn't no gadjits like them thar Vee-Cee-Arrs or Dee-Vee-Dee players.

However, we had other ways to torment our parents. I remember seeinng Disney's Cinderella in the theater. The only tie-in was a couple of 45RPM records with two songs from the movie. Which I played over and over and over... I'm not sure what's worse: an entire movie on the living room TV on repeat, or two songs in an endless loop.

And kids wonder why their parents can be short-tempered.

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For my early childhood I mostly had hand-downs from mom's and her sibling's childhood. Among them there was an old-school record of Alvin and the Chipmunks. You can figure out the rest...

The Hunger Games

http://korsgaardscommentary.blogspot.com/2012/03/hunger-games.html

Needed a better director, and someone who can act to play Peeta, and the violence was too downplayed. Aside from that, very well made and I enjoyed it. 8 out of 10.

Sucker Punch

The effects were fun and I enjoy weird movies that have me constantly asking myself "wtf is going on?". The husband was thoroughly confused by the end, but I was surprised he actually watched it with me. What man would refuse his wife's argument of "It's hot chicks in school uniforms with guns and samurai swords...why wouldn't you watch it?"

thekingsguard said:

The Hunger Games

http://korsgaardscommentary.blogspot.com/2012/03/hunger-games.html

Needed a better director, and someone who can act to play Peeta, and the violence was too downplayed. Aside from that, very well made and I enjoyed it. 8 out of 10.

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The violence had to be downplayed because of the younger viewers. That was something Collins said from the beginning, before they even started filming.

Watched Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol yesterday. I speak Russian, so it was funny to hear the actors trying to do the same. Man, the accents were B-A-D. The movie was ok, I guess. Didn't love it, but didn't hate it either.

NewKidOldKid said:

The violence had to be downplayed because of the younger viewers. That was something Collins said from the beginning, before they even started filming.

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Eh. If it's ok to read, its ok to watch.

msfowle said:

Sucker Punch

The effects were fun and I enjoy weird movies that have me constantly asking myself "wtf is going on?". The husband was thoroughly confused by the end, but I was surprised he actually watched it with me. What man would refuse his wife's argument of "It's hot chicks in school uniforms with guns and samurai swords...why wouldn't you watch it?"

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I enjoyed it too personally. See the extended cut though, it it a lot better.

Rocky II

Top Gun.

It's alright, but (spoiler alert) Goose dies and it's hard to take, as a viewer.

'Onnachanbara'. Loosely translated, 'Samurai Bikini-clad Vampire Killer'. If you can imagine a young woman in a bikini wearing a cowboy hat, boots, and a cape, carving up zombies and vampires, then this movie is for you. Not as bad as I thought it would be, and the lead actress (formerly a model) is both beautiful and not bad in the acting department, either.

Oh, yes, and Source Code. Knew who the bomber was in the first ten minutes but it was fun seeing how Jake Gylenhall's character managed to figure it out going through the simulations umpteen times. Nice.

msfowle said:

Sucker Punch

The effects were fun and I enjoy weird movies that have me constantly asking myself "wtf is going on?". The husband was thoroughly confused by the end, but I was surprised he actually watched it with me. What man would refuse his wife's argument of "It's hot chicks in school uniforms with guns and samurai swords...why wouldn't you watch it?"

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Just watched this, and made about the same assessment. I was scratching my head a lot as to which "reality" was the real one. (Well, apart from the obvious.) Have to say, Emily Browning is way too little and sweet-looking to pull off looking like the badass she's supposed to be; and the action scenes rather bored me. But I enjoyed it much more than I expected to.

Contact. Been a while. Forgot how good it was.

thekingsguard said:

I enjoyed it too personally. See the extended cut though, it it a lot better.

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I'd love to, but I let my niece borrow it and she spilled soda all over it.
Teenagers...