movies

[clevername]

I also saw Battle: Los Angeles. I was looking at my watch just over an hour in -- I thought that it really dragged on.

[SHOW]

Why the hell were the aliens so human-like in so many aspects? (similar bodies, extremely similar mannerisms and fighting tactics, etc)

They came here for water??!??!?! Are you kidding me!?!?!??!!

The aliens are planning a full-scale invasion of Earth, and yet the vast majority of them were broken up into tiny little groups -- what gives?

How the hell do they manage to infiltrate the "base" housing the mothership so easily!?


I know we're supposed to suspend our beliefs during movies, but man, this movie really sucked on a lot of levels.

it was like a mash up of Black Hawk Down and Independence Day, right down to the idiotic climax, but it somehow managed to out-stupid Roland Emmerich. I liked the Black Hawk Down stuff, though, outside of the painfully cliched tacked on "human stories" they tried to add to it.

I know everyone says action movies are stupid and all that, most of the time that's overstated and they just fall back on cliches and lazy storytelling, but this one. Hoo boy.

[SHOW]

I sure hope our real life military isn't as mindnumblingly stupid as the military was in this movie. Aliens that flew through [expletive] space to our planet haven't shown us an aeroplanes yet, must mean they don't know how to fly so we rule the sky. Holy [expletive].

Oh, should we have been shooting missiles at those giant flying ships before they all disappeared? You mean they turned out to be important? The ones that were shown on camera on YouTube? Seems like we could have tried shooting them down.

And how the hell were those giant things supposed to magically get underground to hide? Shouldn't there be a huge ass hole somewhere where they entered? And we were surprised to find them there?

It's disappointing because I think the design and shooting of the movie really worked for me. Even the shaky cam had its moments, which I usually HATE (and still did in several parts of this one).

[Bo Hart]

[SHOW]

I sure hope our real life military isn't as mindnumblingly stupid as the military was in this movie. Aliens that flew through [expletive] space to our planet haven't shown us an aeroplanes yet, must mean they don't know how to fly so we rule the sky. Holy [expletive].

LOL, holy cow, I can't believe I didn't pick up on this until you mentioned it. That is absolutely hilarious.

[Maclowery]

Good lord, Tron Legacy on blu ray looks absolutely amazing on my big screen. First one is like my second favorite movie of all time, so I'm incredibly biased. But I love the living [expletive] out of Tron Legacy. Even if Clu looked creepy like every motion capture zombie. Olivia Wilde is unspeakably gorgeous.

[Radbird]

Mrs. Rad ordered City Island, which I had never heard of. And it was a pretty good flick. A little predictable, I suppose, but I thought Andy Garcia was great.

[planet planet]

Mrs. Rad ordered City Island, which I had never heard of. And it was a pretty good flick. A little predictable, I suppose, but I thought Andy Garcia was great.

Loved that movie!

[Richie Allen]

I get the paranoia but it was just so over the top with her trading in the car and driving off with the cop right behind her. It just messed it up for me because I couldn't shake the feeling that he would have just pulled her over and searched her. For a while anyway.
Do you think he included the psychiatrist's scene at the end because he feared audiences at the time wouldn't get it otherwise? From here, it was totally unnecessary and weakened the impact of the movie.
Still, lots to love about it.

I don't necessarily disagree with you that those are two of the weaker stretches of the film, the early scenes with the cop and car dealer and the explanation at the end. I thought Hitchcock commented on the final explanation in his Francois Truffaut interviews but I looked and he either didn't comment or I just couldn't find it.

I do think that Hitchcock wanted to give the impression that the film was going to be centered around whether or not Janet Leigh was going to get away with the money or not, thus the suspense would come from sources like the police, etc. and the impact of what really happened would be that much more of a surprise and shock.

I don't have as much of a problem with a final explanation than I do with who played him and the certainty of his explanation. I think it would have been fine to advance some theories while keeping any number of possibilities up in the air. And I didn't necessarily think Simon Oakland (had to look that up) was very convincing as a psychiatrist.

[haltz]

Watched Due Date last. Despite the fact that Zach Galifianakis can only play the same character in every movie/television show he has ever been in, I still laugh at him every time. I really liked Due Date and I didnt know if I would. Thought it was hilarious.

Have you seen The Hangover, Visioneers, Dinner for Schmucks, Bored to Death, and It's Kind of a Funny Story?

I watched Due Date, The Other Guys and Scott Pilgrim while I was sick in bed yesterday. Due Date was funnier than I expected. The Other Guys was a lot funnier than I expected (I thought I'd hate it, but it made me laugh - at least the first two acts).

I liked and didn't like Scott Pilgrim at the same time (I don't think I liked it as much as it likes itself), but I was thoroughly entertained for at least 4 exes. Just as I suspected, a kung fu battle between Jason Schwartzman and Michael Cera is not awesome.

[IMADreamer]

We watched "Hereafter" today. It was kind of interesting for a while and you got to thinking how is this all going to come together then it ends with a big meh. I don't know if I recommend it.

[lukethedrifter]

I watched Grizzly Man -for the last time- and The Sting.

Werner Herzog is an odd fellow. The footage in Grizzly Man is incredibly beautiful but not enough to make up for Herzog's psychobabble analysis of Treadwell. The second, or is it third, time through I just couldn't enjoy how ridiculous it was focusing instead on the fact that this guy was completely unhinged and wondering what rotten and undiscovered thing happened to him as a child.

The Sting was really entertaining. If I were a chick I'd be Paul Newman over Robert Redford.

[The Third Man]

Hey, I watched The Sting a couple of hours ago (for the third time), weird. *flicks nose*