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The Page Turner.

A young gifted piano player blows an audition for a prestigious Conservatory because she gets distracted by the president of the jury's offhand attitude. Ten years later, Mélanie worms her way into the jury president's household and proceeds with a plan to destroy her.

Daybreakers.

I was very pleasantly surprised by this movie. I think the gore was a little excessively cheesy there at the end, but overall a very good movie.

The Fantastic Mr. Fox

Boggis, and Bunce, and Bean.
One fat,
one short,
one lean.
These horrible crooks,
so different in looks,
were nonetheless equally mean.

Transformers was on TV while I was doing other stuff. From what I saw, it seemed decent enough, but it's not really my kind of movie.

Bicentennial Man. I know this one gets a lot of hate, but (despite some uneven acting), I actually like this one.

Micmacs. A wonderful French movie, from the guys that did Amelie - and they obviously have a lot of love for the silent classics, working it well with the strange clockwork visual style (most of which may or may not be CGI). But there's also a great story with a nicely delivered message towards the end.

callalily, that's my kind of movie!
Went to see Date Night - what is it about that movie that makes me feel like everything in the world is just good? Aside from it was funny as all hell.

The V.I.P.s

Crazy Heart Good flick!

Nine

Sexy, beautiful, fun. Rob Marshall is brilliant.

The Crazies (the new version) : I thoroughly enjoyed it. A couple of hokey rescues, and the guy from the Pirates movies (fake eye guy in that) was unrecognizable as a normal person, but damn good. I'm also a big Timothy Oliphant fan, so win-win.

Best scene: guy with pitchfork.

ETA: Huh. That deputy wasn't that guy from Pirates afterall. I would have sworn... still damn good job there guy that wasn't that guy from Pirates...

Eclipse. Yes, the Twilight Saga Eclipse. Didn't really like the books, don't know why I am watching the movies. The first one sucked. The second one was much better (mostly because RPattz wasn't in it, LOL). The third was wasn't bad either though. More action (unlike the books, which always wussed out on fight scenes). Maybe it is Taylor Lautner's abs that keep drawing me in. That boy is too hot for his own good.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

Best movie ever.

Rebel Without a Cause

Divorce His, Divorce Hers. Terrible transfer to DVD. Bad sound. Movie was also dull. It was a TV movie from the '70s, so I was only watching for the Elizabeth Taylor/Richard Burton factor. Can't recommend it.

Phantoms (Dean Koontz's's) with a very young Ben Affleck. I saw it ages ago, and found it on our On Demand last night. Great set-up. Peter O-Toole. Rose McGowan. Liev Shrieber. Creepy, yet with a certain B-movie feel. A delight of almost could have been great but (see Ben Affleck"s name above)...

Twilight Eclipse. Victoria isn't much of an arch-villain.

Shutter Island

I enjoyed it overall.

I really liked the music. It was oddly out of place at times for what was happening on screen--but I liked that for some reason.

soapdish said:

Shutter Island

I enjoyed it overall.

I really liked the music. It was oddly out of place at times for what was happening on screen--but I liked that for some reason.

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The DH and I just watched this last night! I've been out of sorts (ill in some way) for the past couple of days, so I picked up on the clues -- "She died in a fire, why is she always wet?" I kept asking DH like a dork, lol, but I didn't catch everything, so the twist still worked for me, even though I had largely guessed what was happening.

Beautifully atmospheric (I'm a sucker for that stuff), and well-acted. Never been a big fan of DiCaprio, but he won me over with this one. We both enjoyed every minute. Except for the weird crescendo of music at the beginning -- it weirded me out.

The Princess Bride, just this evening, with my husband, two sons and two godsons. It was awesome, as always.

Key Largo - Bogart, Bacall, Edward G. Robinson, Lionel Barrymore. Tense, superb. One of my all-time favorites.

Cranky said:

Bicentennial Man. I know this one gets a lot of hate, but (despite some uneven acting), I actually like this one.

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I really enjoyed it too.

mario_c said:

Micmacs. A wonderful French movie, from the guys that did Amelie - and they obviously have a lot of love for the silent classics, working it well with the strange clockwork visual style (most of which may or may not be CGI). But there's also a great story with a nicely delivered message towards the end.

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I'm very keen to see this one!