MOVIES: What are you watching?

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Originally posted by KSC02:
In Bruges

First time seeing it?

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Originally posted by steve8:

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Originally posted by KSC02:
In Bruges

First time seeing it?

Yes

Her
Maleficent

i liked Her but i tend to like quirky flicks like this, sci-fi or not, think Lost in Translation or Gattaca... it did have some weird moments though

Maleficent was just eye candy with the fx but i enjoyed Jolie in the role

Enough Said

You Will Be My Son

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Innocence

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Originally posted by wine+art:
Innocence

Kinda of a disturbing poster

I'm no Humbert Humbert.

Up late last night with the little one. Watched We're the Millers. Actually laughed more than I thought I would. Emma Roberts is a cutie.

The Professional- love this movie. I believe it is Natalie Portman's first, but Jean Reno is magnificent and sad as hitman with a heart. What's very distracting for me is that he looks exactly like my brother.

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Originally posted by Board-O:
The Professional- love this movie. I believe it is Natalie Portman's first, but Jean Reno is magnificent and sad as hitman with a heart. What's very distracting for me is that he looks exactly like my brother.

This is a fantastic movie. You're spot on about Jean Reno, and Oldman wasn't too bad either.

Agreed about Oldman too.

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Originally posted by ABryce:

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Originally posted by Board-O:
The Professional- love this movie. I believe it is Natalie Portman's first, but Jean Reno is magnificent and sad as hitman with a heart. What's very distracting for me is that he looks exactly like my brother.

This is a fantastic movie. You're spot on about Jean Reno, and Oldman wasn't too bad either.

+1

Django Unchained

I'm normally a big Tarantino fan, but this didn't really do it for me. A few good scenes, but otherwise pretty silly.

Wolf of Wall Street

What a piece of cr#p. I can't believe this was up for an Academy Award. I read on here or a review that the first half of the movie was very good, but then got too long. I'd be interested in knowing where the cutoff is because I almost turned this off at least twice within the first hour. I've found that about 75 percent of movies that use the main character as a narrator suffer from a bad screen play and/or bad directing. For me, this film fits in that 75 percent. Leonardo's performance was pretty good (not sure if nominee quality), Jonah Hill's merely OK (a nominee -- come on).

I'm not a "big Hollywood films all suck" guy, but this film certainly gives ammunition to that thinking.

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Originally posted by eyesintime:
Wolf of Wall Street

What a piece of cr#p. I can't believe this was up for an Academy Award.

Please remember my famous saying of over 35 years. Just because it won (or is up for) an Academy Award doesn't mean it's a bad movie.

The Monuments Men

Decent enough airplane movie.

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Originally posted by wineismylife:
The Monuments Men

Decent enough airplane movie.

I watched this two nights ago. Interesting story. Anyone read the book its based on? Any good?

Ghostbusters

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Originally posted by The Old Man:

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Originally posted by wine+art:
Innocence

Kinda of a disturbing poster

I'm no Humbert Humbert.

Since you grew up in Chicago, I thought you might mention Balthus as he is well represented at the Art Institute of Chicago.

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Originally posted by The Old Man:
Her--98pts.

Spike Jonze has only done one movie since ending his relationship with screenwriter Charles Kaufmann in 2003 and that was his attempt to make a movie of his childhood favorite, Where the Wild Things Are. In the many years since his brilliant Adaptation he continues to work on shorts and documentaries about skate boarding. Then he bursts back out with his first screenplay and jumps into Godard territory of isolation and connection. An incredibly smart and poignant movie that mops the floor with all the so called Oscar-bait movies of 2013.

And any movie that creates a virtual Alan Watts is OK by me.

Okay, OM, I'm planning on watching on my flight to Atlanta tomorrow.

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Balthus

Indeed.

Amazing Spiderman 2.

Ninja Assassin
--entertaining for a long flight home. Very bloody and gory though so wound up shielding my screen, holding close to myself to avoid others having to see it

Gremlins

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit. Entertaining enough. I found it interesting that Chris Pine is now the main character in the reboot of two different franchises.

Non-Stop

Meh

Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's

White House Down - over the top in so many ways, and none of them good

Her

The Parking Lot Movie

A quirky, interesting little documentary about the band of misfits (mostly grad. students figuring out what to do with their lives) who work st the Corner Lot, a parking lot near University of Virginia. Nothing earth shattering here, but I enjoyed it.

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Originally posted by wine+art:
Her

We finally saw this as well. Did you like it as much as The Old Man?

We thought it well done, albeit 30 minutes too long. Some thought-provoking questions about what truly constitutes a relationship.

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Originally posted by eyesintime:
The Parking Lot Movie

A quirky, interesting little documentary about the band of misfits (mostly grad. students figuring out what to do with their lives) who work st the Corner Lot, a parking lot near University of Virginia. Nothing earth shattering here, but I enjoyed it.

I liked the movie as a rental - entertaining

The Immigrant

Big role for Juaquin Phoenix. A bit of a dark movie, kind of artsy. A bit slow. Good acting.

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Originally posted by T Dub:
Gremlins

Nice!! I have to rent that one evening with my older daughter. I think she is at any age where she might appreciate it without getting unduly scared

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Originally posted by VinT:

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Originally posted by wine+art:
Her

We thought it well done, albeit 30 minutes too long. Some thought-provoking questions about what truly constitutes a relationship.

One part for me is I've always like things about AI. Whether it was HAL from 2001... or reading about the work of Alan Turing it's always fascinated me. Perhaps the closest thing relating to this movie would be the work in the late 70's early 80's of Douglas Hofstadter and his co-conspirator in wacky thoughts about consciousness--Daniel Dennett. A great example is Dennett's short story:
Where Am I?

47 Ronin Not surprisingly, the addition of Keanu Reeves and his character into a 300 year old Japanese (true) story simply buggered it.
Read The 47 Ronin: A Story of Samurai Loyalty and Courage by Barry Till for a better understanding.

Rendition

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Originally posted by VinT:

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Originally posted by wine+art:
Her

We finally saw this as well. Did you like it as much as The Old Man?

We thought it well done, albeit 30 minutes too long. Some thought-provoking questions about what truly constitutes a relationship.

Vin, I enjoyed the movie.

I watched it on an airplane and never really fair to seriously rate in that forum. I plan on watching it again sometime in the future to see if I'm truly in OM's camp, but well executed for sure.

Rome, Open City