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One, Two, Three by Wilder starring James Cagney. Incredibly fast paced and witty cold war satire. Instantly one of my favorite movies.

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Zombie Strippers

Was Awesome.

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Pleasure Tranet. I mean Treasure Planet. 7/10.
Pretty entertaining Disney movie! Likable characters, sweet hoverboarding action. And the Treasure Island story, which I didn't really know yet. In space this time.

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So awesome

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Armageddon in HD. 8/10
Still a great movie. Somehow I was pretty emotionally attached. The visual effects were up to par with today's standards. That probably means movie visuals haven't improved in the last 10 years. Which probably means that it's not needed/possible. :)

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30 Days of Night. 6/10.
A horror movie with vampire-zombies in an Alaskan town. Enjoyable, nothing more. Nice concept, decent acting, ok atmosphere. Just some stupid things in there that could have been much better.

Edit: Maybe they were zombie-vampires.

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Not so much a movie but I watched the first 3-4 episodes of Firefly

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I watched Eraserhead last night. Well, that was something. Not much more to be said about that. I feel like the end is a pretty good case for veganism because that thing kind of looks like a chicken.

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Shi mian mai fu (House of Flying Daggers). 7/10.
What can I say? I didn't like the story too much. Not enough action. The flying daggers were cool to see, but the unrealism of them spoiled most of it for me. The pretty pictures weren't as good an as many as in Hero (which I give a 9/10).

Edit: Firefly is great, I hope you like it.

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Barton Fink

Oozing (literally) with symbolism. Almost wish I was still in college so I could write a paper on it for a film class.


Not sure if these count but I saw two Jimmy Carr DVDs, In Concert and Comedian. Hilarious.

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I'm on a roll?
The Breakfast Club. 8/10.
The writer/director apparently died? John Hughes (family of yours Germy?). Some guy was talking about this movie so I had to see it as well. Pretty good, the redhead girl was cute!

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The Cable Guy.

I haven't seen this movie since I was in like 4th or 5th grade...the movie was hated by Jim Carey fans and critics alike, and I can see why. I thought it was pretty good though. It was pretty dark. Maybe a dark comedy? I think critics would appreciate The Cable Guy A LOT more now that Jim Carey has exploited his goofball comedy routine to a point of annoyance.

Cable Guy = Good Movie, nowhere near the level of Eternal Sunshine though.

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Buffalo Soldiers (2001) Alright. US soldiers, 1989, Germany. I wouldn't rush out to see this. Probably way different than actual military life.

Angels & demons I couldn't pay attention to the whole thing. Tom Hanks acting was, in some parts, laughable. It felt like he was warm-up acting for his character in many of the scenes. blah lonnngggg n boring

The Human Condition(Ningen No Joken 1) First film of a trilogy from the 60's. First one was made in '59. Anti War epic. Each movie is over 3 hours. loong but engaging. Just be in the mood for a hardcore war statement. Not overly graphic(60's) but it deals with the comfort women and people's duty conflicting with conscience. director Masaki Kobayashi,, same guy who did Harakiri and Samurai Rebellion. Harakiri imo is a must see.

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Monsieur Verdoux (1947) I love this film. Not perfect but very funny. I'm not entirely sure what Chaplin was trying to say but it got him in trouble over time. I'd recommend if you like CC. Kinda like Ladykillers.

The Thin Red Line (1998) Good war movie. Not so hollywood paced like SPR. I liked it. Nick Nolte freaking out at a captain was good.

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The Spirit...
Wasn't awful
Wasn't good.
Not sure what it was.

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Delicatessen. 7/10 or maybe a 8/10. French movie about an apocalyptic world where a town has resolved to cannibalism. Next up is the new kid on the block, but then the butchers daughter falls in love with him...
By the same director as Amélie, it has the same atmosphere and humor. :)

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Taken (2008). 7/10.
Good story, good acting... just not a very happy theme. Also a bit too violent for my taste.

Edit: reminded me a lot of The Bourne Trilogy, which is good.

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The Bank Job

I was bound to like it since Jason Statham is one of my favorite actors...he's just an entertaining guy. His role in The Bank Job reminded me of his role in Snatch...he had a proper accent and the whole movie was dripping with GORGEOUS cinematography. The movie really felt like it took place in the 1970s.

The Bank Job was a movie I kind of ignored when it came out, and it went fairly unnoticed but it was just a great overall film. The plot is that Statham is given details on a bank heist, so they rob the bank...and by doing so they get MI5 or MI6, the police, and the mob all chasing after them. The movie is paced fairly slow, and there isn't a ton of big explosions. So if you're the Transformers 2 type of moron who needs your action in excess, don't watch The Bank Job.

It was based on a true story too...and the movie really went after all the scandals. Very good film.

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Plan 9 From Outer Space (with live Rifftrax from the MST3K guys).

So I saw this at the movie theater tonight at it was great. It was a much bigger crowd than I expected, but I guess for a one night thing you can attract a bigger audience.

Anyway, I had never seen the film before and needless to say, it was horrible as many MST3k riffable movies are. The riffs were spot on and I had a lot of fun. Wish I had gotten to see them actually live in Philly, but it was too expensive..

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The Great Dictator. 7/10.
The middle is a bit slow, but some parts are hilarious. Chaplin doesn't speak real German, but his pronounciation/sound is great.
Ending speech is nice, too bad it didn't stop the war.

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Journey to the center of the Earth.

I didn't watch it in 3D, but I still thought it was a pretty fun movie to watch.


However, do to massive insomnia, I also watched the commentary (after watching the movie) by Brendan Fraser and the director. The commentary lasts for the entire movie, and I found it amusing as hell just to hear them spurt off inside jokes, how they shot scenes, and hear Brendan Fraser make fun of how terrible parts of the movie are.

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I thought all movie commentaries... lasted the entire movie.

I enjoy watching them at times, but it also hurts cuz like to hear what they are talking about but you can't hear movie and commentary.

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I've only seen a couple movie commentaries that were only a few minutes long.

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

I think I liked it. Maybe. Pretty though. I imagine it would look rather nice in high-def.

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Ahh most of the commetaries, I've listened to tend to go the entire movie.. that's not always to say there is content to talk about for the entire movie.

I remember one of the first ones I listened to was for American Pie, which was fairly interesting. As they spoke about like camera techniques, placements, how to set up stuff... its all fairly cool from what I remember.

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Lakeview Terrace

Sam Jackson can play a good sociopath when he wants to.

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Pirates of Silicon Valley. 7/10.
Interesting movie about the beginnings of Apple and Microsoft. The beginning is the most boring though. Fun starts when Steve Jobs loses his mind and starts shouting at his employees who work for 90 hours a week.

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Soylent Green. 7/10.
Decent movie from 1973. Another one of those weird takes on the future. The year is 2012 and the earth is overpopulated. Greenhouse effect means there's hardly any crops. People eat synthetic food. Then a rich guy gets murdered for suspicious reasons...
The main character makes the whole movie. He's a cop who takes part of the scene of the crime with him. Liquor, real soap, vegetables... He's from the time where police still punched bad guys until they started talking. :)

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Idiocracy. This is a cult classic in the making. Goddamn hilarious and dead on satire.

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Nothing but the Truth

It was an okay movie, which added a lot of points in my book due to the ending, and finding out her original source.

And maybe me curious about journalistic integrity

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This Waking Life

Possibly the dumbest movie ever made. So full of horrific pseudo-intellectual, self-aggrandizing bullshit I thought I was going to puke.

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The Warriors

Unlike Gremlins, I could see the appeal to the movie and in 30 years, it has aged really well.

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Wasn't it good! I liked the cinematography. Like it was filtered but not...I agree. Aged well.




I saw The Good, The Bad, The Weird
Korean western shootem'up. I liked it, a bit drawn out in some scenes but still worthy of a watch.

Inglorious Basterds - I loved the basement drinking scene. imo it made everything else more enjoyable.

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Sunshine Cleaning

This was an okay film. I enjoy watching Amy Adams; she's like a slightly less awkward Pam from The Office. The film had wonderful cinematography and I thought several of the setting shots and compositions were very nice. The rest of the film was cute and quirky. It was weird seeing Alan Arkin (the Grandpa) in Sunshine Cleaning after his role as the Grandpa in Little Miss Sunshine. All in all I would recommend it as a renter, but titles with "sunshine" that are better include (but are not limited to): Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Little Miss Sunshine

Dead Silence

This was a fun movie. Growing up with Goosebumps and Child's Play I have vivid childhood memories of reading about possessed dummies. Dead Silence is a B movie that has a lot of elements of a TV show. The acting is average, the cinematography is hit or miss. But the creep and horror elements are old school horror, something sorely missing from the genre today. If you're sick of slasher films, psychological nappers, or gross out films/gore fests/torture porn, then this film is right up your alley. Like King/Kubrick's The Shining or The Skeleton Key, this film relies on good old fashion creepiness and imagination to deliver the scares. I think this film is underrated if you enjoy fun mystery, suspense style horror.

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The Thomas Crown Affair (1999).

I've always liked Pierce as Bond, he has a charm to him. The problem was that his movies were never that strong.

This is pretty much him getting to play Bond in a different environment. Less superspy, more suave womanizer.

It is a good movie. Enjoyable character, and some nice twists.

Has anyone ever realized how little discussion we have in this thread at times?

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I think we should have a "last movies watched" forum. Every movie watched should be a new thread, and after 1 week of inactivity, the thread should be deleted automatically. What does everybody think?

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^ Sounds like a good idea. Folks would be more inclined to write a bit more.

Little Nicky
It was fun. And now I know where the portal from hell is in NYC. Was also nice to see Chubbs from Happy Gilmore again.

They edited out the twin towers from the DVD case and posters:




Did they think seeing the towers there would distract from sales or something? Know of any other censoring of this sort?

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Exactly. An okay film. Enjoyable, nothing more nothing less.
Can't argue if you agree with eachother. :D

I saw Into The Wild. 8/10. Great movie. And to think it's (based on?) a real story.
Those Danes were crazy. Don't think all Europeans are crazy like that. :D

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I just saw this recently as well. The movie itself wasn't the best constructed thing, but the general concept and the gags involved were outright brilliant and hilarious. I'm a big Mike Judge fan, and it's a shame this film didn't get the dues it deserved. Of course no production team will promote a film that basically calls its audience idiots.

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The Informant

It is a pretty funny movie, and a change of roles for Matt Damon. His design just made me chuckle everytime I saw it.