Movies you've recently watched

[Syt]

And that's why you love me.

[Darth Wagtaros]

I kind of liked The Spirit, but have no desire to see it again.


Saw the new HP movie today.  Big meh.  The big fight at the end was nixed.   Just seemed like all the wrong parts of the book were dragged out in the movie.

[Neil]

So Snape didn't kill Dumbledore?

[Lucidor]

King of Kong. Excellent portrait of a arcade game nerds. The video game referee Walter Day is the least geeky of them. Billy Mitchell comes across as a sort of David Brent style super-villain, being a general asshole, but not really doing anything villainy.

[HisMajestyBOB]

question:

Does anyone remember a movie that was about a battle in North Africa, where the allies were guarding a village that had the only source of water in the area.

I was this movie in the 90's when I was a kid so I don't know how old this movie is. Does anyone know it?

Could it be this one?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114324/

Sahara a made for tv movie with James Belushi. I remember seeing myself in the 90ties.

I saw the original of that on TCM one night. That was pretty good. I can't imagine the remake being anywhere near as decent.

[Scipio]

An American in Paris.  Still an amazing movie.

[jimmy olsen]

Wall E.

An excellent and funny movie. 

[Lucidor]

Wall E.

An excellent and funny movie. 

Indeed! Quite scifi-y for a mainstream film.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Yeah, Dumbles got greased.  But the whole scene was just rushed.  What should have been the penultimate moment in the movie, and perhaps, the series, was taken care of in 3 minutes.

[Octavian]

question:

Does anyone remember a movie that was about a battle in North Africa, where the allies were guarding a village that had the only source of water in the area.

I was this movie in the 90's when I was a kid so I don't know how old this movie is. Does anyone know it?

Could it be this one?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114324/

Sahara a made for tv movie with James Belushi. I remember seeing myself in the 90ties.

I saw the original of that on TCM one night. That was pretty good. I can't imagine the remake being anywhere near as decent.

Well it's a made for tv movie so I tend to agree with you.

Although I haven't seen the original.

[Korea]

I Huckabees

I pretty much liked it.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Coraline 3-D on DVD. The 3D is underwhelming compared to what they can do in a theatre these days. The story though is awesome and lifts this scary and beautiful fable above the need for 3D or any gimmickry at all, actually.

9.00000001 very very odd tenants living above & below you as well as in a parallel dimension you can access occasionally through a tiny door in your dens outta 10

[Admiral Yi]

One Eyed Monster.  Ron Jeremy heads up to an Alaska mountain top to film a porno.  An alien infilitrates his penis, detaches from his body, and starts to kill off the crew.

It's not funny, it's not scary, and they show one pair of average boobs.  How did this film get made?

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Wise Blood - John Houston from that Flannery O'Connor story you read in Uni.

No not that one, the other one: "Wise Blood".

Great Houston from a period that was fruitful but forgotten due to the films being hard to find for so long... Fat City being another that needs to get into a DVD pressing asap. Thank You Criterion.

Gorgeously shot, realized adaptation of a great story. Brad Dourif is revelatory.

9.0000111 "thin for a fat guy" singing Ned Beatty Cameos outta 10

[swallow]

Public Enemies.  God, it was awful, right from the start.  Utterly predictable dialogue, camera shot tricks that didn't link to what was going on and so many gunshots that when I woke up after quite a substantial snooze, they were still shooting each other.  At the very start, there was a very brief moment when i thought it would be an Ennio Morricone spit and hang from the scaffolds, bloke flick - but no, just ug.