movies

[Tambourine Man]

The Dark Knight - Very good movie, but not as great as everyone has said. I guess my expectations were pretty darn high going in though.

That and I don't really like Christian Bale as Batman. The way he talks when he's Batman annoys the hell out of me.

I think the Dark Knight is a downright bad movie.

Totally random here...I watched Dark Knight for the 2nd time a few nights ago and promptly hopped on Netflix to downgrade my original score.

It's now on top of my overrated list. I can only laugh at Bale's awful Batman voice now. And the guy who burned half his face off is just hysterical in a bad way.

[lukethedrifter]

From Paris With Love

It's really bad.

Travolta Is always a red flag. On the list of things that bug me about Tarantino, Travolta's ascendancy out of talking baby hell is right up there.

I totally agree.

[Hungary Jack]

Saw "Blind Side", "Hurt Locker" and "Up in the Air" on the flight from Tokyo. All three very watchable films, but "Hurt Locker" was by far the best. "Blind Side" is all about the script, though the acting is fine, and I don't get the Oscar hype over "Up in the Air". The situation reminds me a bit of Michael Clayton, as if there is some campaign to get George Clooney an Oscar.

[omaha_red]

Excellent. You've just nailed two of my very, very favorite horrors. To quote the Tam Man regarding Event Horizon, "Any movie that has people speaking Latin in it is going to be creepy."

'Event Horizon' had the potential to be one of the scariest movies of all time,
but I thought the ending was eye-rollingly bad. Apparently the suits flipped
out at the more horrific touches during audience-testing and we got a more
boilerplate ending with cool explosions an' stuff.

Too bad.

count me in on the "event horizon is a good horror movie".. but a tad overrated.

[The Third Man]

I got to go catch The White Ribbon in KC last night. Holy [expletive], what an amazing movie. My favorite Haneke yet. It's like he had sex with Ingmar Bergman and the resulting child decided to make a movie and hired Bela Tarr to do the cinematography (so, needless to say, I loved it). It's so bleak and ambiguous and unsettling, with strong religious overtones (see this and tell me that priest wasn't strongly inspired by the one in Fanny and Alexander). The whole thing operates in shades of gray. Might be the best movie I've seen from 2009, certainly up there with Inglourious Basterds and above everything else (hence my new sig and av).

On a side note, I am so glad I found that theater - the Tivoli in Westport, for any other KC GRB members that are interested. Here's their website. Last night's viewing was especially awesome, because I was literally the only person in the theater - hell of an environment to see a dark drama in.

[Jocephus]

ive had "donnie darko" at my house since november...i should try and watch it this weekend...

i also have a documentary about a bad word but i dont think i can post the link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/[expletive]_%28film%29

[JL21]

The House of the Devil

[omaha_red]

The House of the Devil

well, was it good?

actually i know it was cause i told your ass about it

[JL21]

Around the World in 80 Days

[The Third Man]

doc has hijacked JL's account.