movie time

last night SWMBO and i were poking around netflix and stumbled on shutter island. lil on the long side but it was a pretty good phsycological thriller type movie. so just thought i would throw this out and see were it ends up.. anyone with thoughts?

We watched the Muppet movie on Comcast On Demand on Sunday. Pretty edgy stuff.

A couple of friends and I watched "Rabbit Hole". Pretty intense, but well done.

Watched Water for Elephants last night, it was pretty descent

eh... I saw Water For Elephants...it was...

We just watched "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close". I know the kid had Asperger Syndrome, and his dad died, but it only made me hate his mother, and I couldn't connect with the child on an emotional level, because he was a jerk.

After that we watched "In Time"... not great. not unwatchable, but not great.

Saw 3 stooges today...............................I laughed.

Watched "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" at the local library. There were a few people in tears.

DeadSkunk wrote: Watched "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" at the local library. There were a few people in tears.

Yeah, good movie.
I just saw "Chimps" by Disney Nature. Very good. Not as good as African Cats, but good.

1988RedT2 wrote: We watched the Muppet movie on Comcast On Demand on Sunday. Pretty edgy stuff.

Your joking right?

I've tried to watch that movie 3 times and fell asleep each time. The Muppet Show TV show was pretty good and sometimes even edgy, the movies OTOH are lame, unless your under 10.

I also watched We Bought a Zoo. I thought it was touching. Definitely a good movie to watch with SWMBO.

I feel the need to watch Blazing Saddles again. A type of movie that could not be made today

The directors cut of Alien is on HBO, I should probably check that out (Prometheus is coming out soon, which is apparently a prequel).

I watched 'Oh Brother Where Art Thou" again for like the dozenth time tonight. Never gets old.

World's Fastest Indian

EastCoastMojo wrote: I watched 'Oh Brother Where Art Thou" again for like the dozenth time tonight. Never gets old.

This place is a Geographical Anomaly! Two weeks from anywhere!

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"If you don't go when you want to go, when you do go, you'll find you've gone."

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EastCoastMojo wrote: I watched 'Oh Brother Where Art Thou" again for like the dozenth time tonight. Never gets old.

This place is a Geographical Anomaly! Two weeks from anywhere!

Well, I don't want Fop, goddamn it! I'm a Dapper Dan man!

Mrs. Hogwallop done R-U-N-N-O-F-T.

I'm trying to get the girlfriend to watch Escanaba In Da Moonlight with me. It is kinda a test.

Thomas the tank engine on Netflix....alllll morning. My 2 yr old loves her Thomas, Percy, Gordon and all the rest. It was all good though, i got to play trains with my kid on the living room floor while we watched (We have several boxes of Thomas stuff passed down from her older siblings)

I think it's time to watch Repo Man again. And Straight to Hell. Also the quarterly viewing of Hot Fuzz and the annual watching of The Reduced Shakespeare Company's "Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Abridged".

I'm all out of 2011 Isle of Man highlights...

^In the vein of Repo Man, I watched SLC Punk the other day. Cool film.

Also, wow, Straight to Hell. I've been trying to find that.

And finally, I saw this piece of trippy, French cinema recently: Enter the Void. It seems a little self-indulgent at times, but visually it's quite stunning.

mtn wrote: I'm trying to get the girlfriend to watch Escanaba In Da Moonlight with me. It is kinda a test.

Realistically, if I had a GF that liked most of the stuff I watched, I probably wouldn't be with her.

Of course, if she can't watch, she must at least APPRECIATE the Rocky Horror Picture Show, or else, once again, I probably wouldn't be with her (or more accurately, there is no way in hell she'd ever think of being with me)!

Shutter Island, is that the one with DiCaprio? Been a while since I have seen that but I recall it was pretty good

Watched The Social Network on friday because it came up on our netflix list. Kind of a boring movie, mostly because you don't end up giving a E36 M3 about any of the characters, and is a bit long.

Then all I could think about was this.

So I guess I am thankful for that.

I liked Shutter Island. I thought it was well thought out and the acting was good. I like Ben Kingsley a lot too.

I just watched Inception for the umpteenth time - I cant get enough of that movie. I think it may be my all time favorite movie...its got everything - special effects, good acting from a great cast, storyline twists, imagination, some pretty clever fight scenes, car chases, gunfights, explosions....its got it all.

If anything, that movie makes me keenly aware of how badly I need to cobble together a decent surround sound setup for my home - watching it in HD, on a decent tv, but only having the measly stereo TV speakers to give me the audio part is notably lackluster, and takes away from the movie...so glad I saw it in the theater in Hi Def with 10,000 watts of sound...awesomesauce

I think i'm turning into a grumpy old man too fast to enjoy movies anymore. Shutter Island for instance. Nothing that happened in the movie actually happened, and at the end he gets a lobotomy. What was the point of that? Inception was the same thing. It never happened, it was all mind games. They could create a train in the middle of a street, build entire cities, but not come up with a simple handgun when needed? What was the point? I got such motion sickness during The Hurt Locker that I had to walk out after 15 minutes. Dude, TRIPOD. Look into it. And my wife wants me to go see the new Zach Efron movie with her. I will honestly puke in popcorn if forced to see that.

I guess it is the influence of the MTV generation that movies are all about special effects and flash rather than a good story. The only good stories seem to come from Pixar these days! And the price of a ticket! In my day we used to get popcorn for a nickel...