movies

[Maclowery]

I just watched Troll Hunter. That movie is a blast.

I am so very happy that someone else on GRB enjoyed this movie. Some American production house picked up its rights to remake it, which I proactively think is a terrible idea. It'll never be a profitable gig. It's still terrifically entertaining (as Iv'e repeatedly said here, especially in a social setting, assuming beer and/or greenery)

[Schlich]

I just watched Troll Hunter. That movie is a blast.

I am so very happy that someone else on GRB enjoyed this movie. Some American production house picked up its rights to remake it, which I proactively think is a terrible idea. It'll never be a profitable gig. It's still terrifically entertaining (as Iv'e repeatedly said here, especially in a social setting, assuming beer and/or greenery)

it's been on my to-do list for a while now, mac, you've been raving about it nonstop. Maybe I can convince the host to throw it on at this new year's party i'm going to.

[Maclowery]

Of course i'd drunkenly talk about it at 5am. Predictable.

I watched about half of Goodfellas on tv yesterday. I don't know why - Joe Pesci's character is so despicable that I wince - but I feel like I've partially watched that movie more times than just about any other oft-aired TV movie. Shawshank wins that prize.other than the first time, I don't think I've ever watched the whole thing through, and yet I've seen every scene probably 10 times.

Other nominees for 30-minutes-at-a-time off the top of my head are Caddyshack, Die Hard 1 and 2, Pulp Fiction, and Meet Joe Black (random, but I find myself lingering on it through a few commercial breaks. That Brad's so dreamy I guess)

[Freed Roger]

A Face in the Crowd was in the most recent top 50 movie list I made but it'll probably drop out by the next one. I still like it a lot and Griffith is amazing ("Stupid Idiots...") but it seems to be less fun to watch every time I see it. But it is amazing how well they had our society today pegged in that movie.

It was an unexpected treat - was looking for something to watch while wrapping Xmas gifts and had it on DVR recently from TCM.

Introduction of the laugh track was pretty cool touch. Patricia Neal was great, a strong independent women -but subject to the charms of Lonesome Rhodes to almost the end.

[JL21]

The Innkeepers is one of the best haunted house/ghost movies I've seen in a long time. Also, the poster art is cool as [expletive]. (spoiled for size)

[SHOW]

If you like your horror smart and with a slow burn, you can't go wrong.

[cpebbles]

I just watched Willow for the first time in roughly 20 years. The standards for the fantasy genre have always been pretty low, but that movie just does not hold up at all. The plot is surprisingly nonsensical, the character development is forced and unnatural 100% of the time, and the brownies are some of the most grating comic relief this side of Jar Jar Binks. I never would have admitted this 15 years ago, but Val Kilmer just does not have the charisma to carry a movie. Then we get to the climax, which is cut between some of the least realistic combat scenes ever put on film and footage of two old women in a fistfight, while our main character stands by looking like he's about to piss himself. To top it off, the whole joke that Willow eventually saved the day with a parlor trick is undercut by the facts that he apparently really did teleport the child across the room a short distance (Would it have really been that hard to just stick a prop for him to use in front of him?) and that it was all incidental anyway. The world was saved because the bad guy was incidentally struck by lightning, plain and simple.

[MrSaigon]

The Innkeepers is one of the best haunted house/ghost movies I've seen in a long time. Also, the poster art is cool as [expletive]. (spoiled for size)

[SHOW]

If you like your horror smart and with a slow burn, you can't go wrong.

The first thing that came to mind for me in seeing that poster was 'isn't that the chick from Top Gun's name?' I was surprised that bell rung. But anyway, it is. And she doesn't take my breath away anymore.

[SHOW]

[jeffbgoofy]

Saw Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol and Sherlock Holmes this weekend. Both were good, MI a little better. Looking forward a bit to the Gina Carrano movie...

[thrill]

Fright Night was awesome. The coolest horror movie in a long time.

[Jocephus]

i watched "127 hours" last night. i enjoyed it. the tendon scene was rough even though it didn't show a *whole* lot...but the musical spike helped you know what was happening.