movies

[clevername]

I believe Final Destination 4 was called The Final Destination, which would seem to bring some much needed finality to the series, but I've read that the 5th one is in the pipeline suggesting that the 4th one wasn't so final. It will probably be called something silly like 5-nal Destination or something.

With that, I know waaay too much about a movie series that I haven't actually viewed outside of trailers and commercials.

[Leroy]

Heh. I only watched that because Friday I had nothing else to do. I had seen one before (I was thinking VI, but must have been III) and just had this feeling that I needed to see them all. It was on my list of on demand movies, so I gave it a go.

[cpebbles]

Exit Through the Gift Shop is up on Hulu now. It's hard to imagine there was ever any question whether or not it was a hoax, and it's definitely a little distasteful to watch what is essentially the two most commercially-successful artists of their medium mocking its commercialization, but it's worth watching just for some glimpses of the art.

[heyzeus]

Last night I saw True Grit, which was very good, but a little disappointing. And then I realized it's because I expect revelations from the Coen Brothers, and for them to take a genre and turn it on its ear, but this is in fact a very faithful western. Good performances, their usual excellent cinematography, a classic story.

Then I watched This Film Is Not Yet Rated on netflix. Great doc, an excellent takedown of the MPAA cartel. And timely, having just watched True Grit (multiple hangings, butcherings, people getting shot in the face, but earning a PG-13) and comparing that to The King's Speech (talking, no sex or violence, but a few f-bombs in one scene, so: R rating!)

[Bo Hart]

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Godfather

(I had not seen either)

[Radbird]

We went to see 127 Hours last night. I wasn't sure how I would react since I thought I might feel claustrophobic. But it was a very well done movie - Franco was terrific.

And the AR Rahman music was pretty good too.

[InvincibleCakeEater]

Got roped into watching Love and Other Drugs recently. Not good, but the gratuitous Anne Hathaway nudity made it worthwhile from my male perspective.

[lukethedrifter]

We went to see 127 Hours last night. I wasn't sure how I would react since I thought I might feel claustrophobic. But it was a very well done movie - Franco was terrific.

And the AR Rahman music was pretty good too.

I didn't love the opening sequence and music.

[Leroy]

The Green Zone.

Not sure how true or plausible, but it was pretty good.

[Cronos]

Just saw "Buried" the other night.

Great directorial work by Cortes; it's pretty tough to pull off a film all taking place within a small box underground. I'm normally pretty "meh" on Ryan Reynolds, but he did a pretty good job, too.

[SHOW]

The ending was predictable but still depressing as hell.