Recently Watched Movies

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Originally Posted by darkjusticex

I tried to watch Sucker Punch the other day....

Yeah. That damned movie threw me for a loop. One minute, the main character is in a dance studio about to dance. Then all of a sudden she's in a temple doing all this badass kung-fu on a bunch of random warriors who have come out of nowhere.... Then after she defeats them, they switch back to the real world where she's supposedly just finished an impressive dance routine.

I saw that shit and I was like... "WTF does ANY of that have to do with one another?" Then there was another time she was gonna dance and they took you to a world war 2 looking scene.... but there was a giant mech.... I just stopped watching at that point because even though the scenes in the movie were great looking, none of it made any sense at all. I usually have more patience than that with movies. But it's like the director just forced in the action with no real justification to do so. A story has to make sense. Not just mindless violence for no reason.

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She's crazy.

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Originally Posted by Tassadar

Show him some Ghibli films, he might love them.

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Originally Posted by johnxfire

Oh yes! This! :wacko: Ghibli films are awesome. My Neighbor Totoro or perhaps Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.

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Originally Posted by Tassadar

Or Spirited away but definintely not Grave of the Fireflies.

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He likes Howl's Moving Castle and Ponyo, but he wasn't too into Nausicaa or Princess Mononoke, and indifferent to Kiki's Delivery Service. He didn't want to sit down at all during Spirited Away, and same for Porco Rosso. Haven't gotten around to trying My Neighbour Totoro or some of the other ones, but I will eventually. They are just expensive as shit to buy them around here, and my DVD player doesn't really like burned movies at the moment. The laser lens is in pretty bad shape.

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Originally Posted by Drageuth

He likes Howl's Moving Castle and Ponyo, but he wasn't too into Nausicaa or Princess Mononoke, and indifferent to Kiki's Delivery Service. He didn't want to sit down at all during Spirited Away, and same for Porco Rosso. Haven't gotten around to trying My Neighbour Totoro or some of the other ones, but I will eventually. They are just expensive as shit to buy them around here, and my DVD player doesn't really like burned movies at the moment. The laser lens is in pretty bad shape.

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Perhaps he will learn to love the other films in the future. And that's a pity with your DVD player, Drageuth. :(

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Originally Posted by Drageuth

I've seen all three Toy Story movies at least 100 times as well. And The Tigger Movie, and Ratatouille, and Mickey Mouse & The Three Muskateers, and Meet the Robinsons, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. And a few more that I can't think of at the moment, but I know I'm missing a couple.

Yeah... kind of tired of kid's movies. :P

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If you dont force him to watch gremlins, im going to call child services.

Watched Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe. I love Burn Notice :D

Watched Nosferatu (1922) last night, and Frankenstein (1931) earlier today.

Watched Bonnie & Clyde (1967) with Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway.

It was good, but I suppose I would have had to have seen it when it was first released to understand the importance of it and just how forward they were being with the amount of "gore" and sexual situations, 'cause it seemed rather bland to me. Still... gotta love the back and forth between Beatty and Dunaway. Also, this was Gene Wilder's debut film -- he has a small part, about five minutes.

Apparently, W.B. had so little faith in this film actually making any money that that, instead of a minimal fee for directing, they offered Warren Beatty 40% of the gross profits. As of 1973, 6 years after it was released, the film had grossed $70 million dollars.

Watched The girl with the dragon tattoo and the girl who played with fire, I loved the first but the second one dropped a lot in quality.

Watched The Sting with Robert Redford and Paul Newman last night. Best line in the movie: "Sorry I'm late guys, I was taking a crap." Said by Paul Newman.

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Originally Posted by Littledood

Watched Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe. I love Burn Notice :D

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Awesome movie, and also the last movie I watched :P.

Just watched Conviction earlier today, with Hillary Swank and... Sam Rockwell? I think that's his name. The guy who played the crazy captain dude from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and Billy the Kidd in The Green Mile.

It was... okay. Unfortunately, with a lot of these "based on a true story" movies, it had a lot of ground to attempt to cover in an hour and fifty minutes, give or take. Trying to show the relationship between the brother and sister, showing the original trial, everything in between, gathering the new evidence and what-have-you left everything feeling a little bit... rushed. It didn't really flow that well. Still, it was passable to kill a couple of hours, and an interesting (if somewhat generic) story. Nothing really earth-shattering... it basically felt like The Hurricane, 'cept without Denzel Washington's charm or the personality of Rubin Carter.

True Grit - Seemed like it had some really pointless scenes and their speech patterns threw me off. But was definitely worth the $1 to see it.
Bubba Ho-Tep - Bruce Campbell plays Elvis, who is living in a nursing home and has to defeat an Egyptian mummy zombie with the help of JFK, played by Ozzie Davis. I didn't get to watch it all in one sitting, will have to rewatch it again soon.
Kentucky Fried Movie - Sketch comedy movie from the 70s. Was still enjoyable, though understandably dated.
Children of Men - Was coming down off acid during this, was kinda hard to follow. Wasn't too impressed but I'll have to see it sober I guess.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Saw this peaking on acid and, not gonna lie, got a bit emotional. Great movie tho.

sharpay's fabulous adventure . . . wasnt half bad... /shot
how to train your dragon -i love that movie. read the books a while before i had even heard about the movie (year and a half or so...)

Since yesterday, I have watched:

Cars (again... >.>)
Toy Story (again... >.>)
Finding Nemo
How To Train Your Dragon
Aladdin
A Goofy Movie


At least we're getting some new movies in. :wacko: And hockey game tonight. :D

watched Final Fantasy VII - Advent Children and Last Order