Movies you've recently watched

[Sheilbh]

My mother would kill you if she knew you.

Her and my nan's bridge club.  Christ he wouldn't stand a chance.

I watched Mr Smith Goes To Washington.  I love Jimmy Stewart.

[CountDeMoney]

Watched Whale Rider.  Interesting, special little movie.

[Syt]

Sci-Fi is re-running Super Force. Hod, the amount of technobabble puts Star Trek TNG to shame.

[Capetan Mihali]

Saw The White Ribbon, Michael Haneke's new number, in theaters.  Thoroughly engaging and depressing, but still seemed to lack a clear point, in a way Hidden, for instance, didn't.

[Syt]

Saw The White Ribbon, Michael Haneke's new number, in theaters.  Thoroughly engaging and depressing, but still seemed to lack a clear point, in a way Hidden, for instance, didn't.

I agree that it left a lot out there unclarified. Actually, you don't even know if he married the girl.

I think the point to the movie was to capture (IMO rather realistically) a year in the life of a small rural community in Northern Germany shortly before WW1 through the eyes of a resentfully respected outsider. The narrative took a backseat to that.

[MadBurgerMaker]

Watched The Happening last night.  I'd say I'm on a roll with shitty movies, but unfortunately the next things in my queue are all of Chuck:Season 2, followed by The Hurt Locker, which I heard is rather good.   

I suppose I could move GI Joe up a few slots. 

[DisturbedPervert]

Boondock Saints 2.  The original is one of my favorite movies, so was looking forward to this.  This was good, but it was also a disappointment.  It spent way too much time basically reenacting scenes from the first movie.  Has a Mexican dude that is basically a tough version of Rocco, and Dexter's wife as the hot female version of William Dafoe.  Enjoyed it but after 10 years I was hoping for more.

[Capetan Mihali]

Saw The White Ribbon, Michael Haneke's new number, in theaters.  Thoroughly engaging and depressing, but still seemed to lack a clear point, in a way Hidden, for instance, didn't.

I agree that it left a lot out there unclarified. Actually, you don't even know if he married the girl.

I think the point to the movie was to capture (IMO rather realistically) a year in the life of a small rural community in Northern Germany shortly before WW1 through the eyes of a resentfully respected outsider. The narrative took a backseat to that.

I agree, but the extremity of what he depicted, especially in the mystery-narrative format (of the unexplained crimes) seemed to foreground some kind of excruciatingly meaningful premise that just never materialized.  Of course, there is the kind of banal "this is the atmosphere that created the Nazis" message that he hints at in the narrator's foreword, but I wasn't satisfied by that.  I think the film was definitely more provocative and interesting than that.

[Syt]

Seems a cable station is showing the first season of True Blood this weekend (once today, once tomorrow).

Oddly, I talked to friends about this yesterday. In the words of a female friend, "Yeah, it's all about fucking, and I can see how it wuld appeal to the gay crowd, given how the guys look."

Do I dare to watch? I'm not afraid of being gayified, but I don't like vampires.

[katmai]

Seems a cable station is showing the first season of True Blood this weekend (once today, once tomorrow).
but I don't like vampires.

Then don't watch.

[Syt]

I agree, but the extremity of what he depicted, especially in the mystery-narrative format (of the unexplained crimes) seemed to foreground some kind of excruciatingly meaningful premise that just never materialized.

I think it did, but in the sense that those crimes could never be solved in this communities because it would have meant asking questions and bringing things to light that would destroy the village community. Whatever the grudges within the families or towards one another, that was something that the people would never allow.

[Syt]

Then don't watch.

My question between the lines was meant to be, "Is the story good enough to be of interest, even if you don't care about vampires?"

[katmai]

Not really imo.

[Syt]

Anyways. Pleasant saturday afternoon movie on MGM: Khartoum.

[DontSayBanana]

Caught Rocky Horror on VH1 Classics last night; many lulz at the editing choices made by the network and a groan for it being the shitty American version without the song "Superheroes."