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**Some_Call_Me_Tim?**

In honor of the "what are you listening to right now" thread, I thought it would be cool to have a thread for talking bout movies. To start, I watched Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. It was nowhere near as good as the 1st one, and the only thing that made the movie worth watching was Amy Adams' performance as Amelia Earhart, though her pants were a "little" bit, ehrm, "distracting" . Amy Adams is pretty good looking for a 34 year old, though she was to good looking for the part of Amelia Earhart, since the real Amelia Earhart was quite rough looking. Kamunrah was also pretty funny, and the lisp was classic, though he was quite over-the-top at times. And as usual, the monkeys slapping Daley were pretty funny.

_Tim?

**jetjetex**

i just watched megamind yesterday,it was awesome,will ferral is histerical!

**Mordoskul**

Ever seen Shorts? That movie made me cry................................................

TEARS OF RAGE!!!!!!!!!
I have never seen a more poorly executed film in all my life, bad plot, bad acting, hell, I doubt that movie was even entertaining for the preschool audiance that it was obiously geared to.

**Mike Noble**

Well, I watched Predator the other, that was cool.

**Albatross**

I watched 'The Colditz Story' today. Awesome. I also watched 'Guns At Batasi' and 'Sink The Bismarck!' the other day. 'Bismarck' in particular is a brilliant film - it's very rare that I react outwardly when watching a film, but I punched the air when that fether goes down at the end.

I'm going through and old-school British war films period at the moment. They're just amazing.

**Mr Mystery**

Recently....Iron Man 2, Kick Ass and Predators.

I be a happy film fan!

**Asherian Command**

Iron Man 2, Kick Ass
I can't remember any more.

**George Spiggott**

I've just finished watching The Dark Knight and watched This is England last night, I may watch Paths of Glory later.

@ Albatross: Maybe you should follow it up with Battle of the River Plate. Is there a Tirpitz film to make a trilogy?

**mattyrm**

Albatross wrote:I watched 'The Colditz Story' today. Awesome. I also watched 'Guns At Batasi' and 'Sink The Bismarck!' the other day. 'Bismarck' in particular is a brilliant film - it's very rare that I react outwardly when watching a film, but I punched the air when that fether goes down at the end.

I'm going through and old-school British war films period at the moment. They're just amazing.

"The Cockleshell Heroes" brother!

Aquire it!

**Ifalna**

Last 3 days, Inception, Predators, and while chilling with a friend, my fav horror The Thing.

Inception is stunning and is what the matrix 2 and 3 should have been, but needs repeated viewing to appreciate it all. Predators, awesome for the first 50%, thought they were actually going to pull off a good sequal, then became terrible for the second half and really let me down. The Thing, well, it's The Thing, it needs no explanation

**Maelstrom808**

Watched The Crazies last night. Thought it was kinda meh. One point there was a huge hole in the continueity (sp?) of the storyand there just wasn't nearly as much tension in the film as I'd thought there would be.

**Khornholio**

Eyes Wide Shut, The Lady Killers and Capricorn One. A Lot of good old films are popping up on google video these days.

**Albatross**

mattyrm wrote:
Albatross wrote:I watched 'The Colditz Story' today. Awesome. I also watched 'Guns At Batasi' and 'Sink The Bismarck!' the other day. 'Bismarck' in particular is a brilliant film - it's very rare that I react outwardly when watching a film, but I punched the air when that fether goes down at the end.

I'm going through and old-school British war films period at the moment. They're just amazing.

"The Cockleshell Heroes" brother!

Aquire it!

What, 'cause it's full of bootnecks? Between you and Moz I get quite enough of them, thanyouverymuch!

Not that they aren't 'hoofing', you understand.

@George Spiggott - I think 'Battle Of River Plate' was on the other day but I missed it. Mrs. Albatross doesn't let me watch old war films, sadly. Thankfully she's away this weekend. I tried to make her watch 'The Wooden Horse' but she was having none of it.

**Ahtman**

Saw Due Date this weekend. It was amusing enough. Not the greatest comedy, but still had some good laughs and Downey Jr. and Zach G. are fun to watch.

**FITZZ**

Last two movies I watched were The Deer Hunter and Young Frankenstein...enjoyed both...but of course I'd seen both a dozen times already.

**Monster Rain**

I've been watching nothing but MST3K episodes on Netflix via my Wii.

Most recently: Blood Waters of Doctor Z and The Crawling Eye.

**FITZZ**

Monster Rain wrote:I've been watching nothing but MST3K episodes on Netflix via my Wii.

Most recently: Blood Waters of Doctor Z and The Crawling Eye.

I went on a similar self imposed MST3K "diet" a few years back,I think I watched every "Joel" episode in existence.

**Howard A Treesong**

Last night we watched Plan 9 from Outer Space.

To sum up from something I wrote elsewhere...

Well, it lived up to its reputation I'll give it that. There's the cardboard mausoleum and the gravestones that wave around or even fall over when people are running around, the walls for the outside of the spaceship are clearly rearranged to make the interior, actually the few sets there are were recycled a couple of times for the story. And then of course is the guy filling in for the bits Bela Lugosi didn't film because of his death, handily disguised by him holding a cloak up to his face, a cloak which at one point nearly falls off forcing the guy to adjust it and fails to disguise the fact he was about a foot taller than Lugosi.

But what got me wasn't the naffness of the sets built and the props, that was a given, but the diabolical dialogue and delivery. Almost all the lines are delivered in a stilted wooden fashion with strange pauses, almost no scene flows, it's like watching an early rehearsal for a play. People say things just to fill the screen time, whole conversations are padded out with people saying the obvious, then repeating the obvious back.

My favourite line was "But one thing's sure. Inspector Clay is dead, murdered...and somebody's responsible."

Commendations have to go to "Visits? That would indicate visitors." and "Future events such as these will affect you in the future" or when an undead is reduced to a skeleton "He wasn't like that a minute ago!"

Delightfully awful.

**Frazzled**

Episode 3-4 of Tru Blood. Probably seeing Megamind next week. Waiting for Monsters and Skyline.

Storing up quite few videos to rent: Respetol (sp); Four Lions, Paranormal 2; Easy A.

**reds8n**

Watched "Fanboys", "The Horde" and "Iron Man II" ..and enjoyed them all.

DVD wise working my way through X Files -- just hit season 6 -- and also have season one of the Clone Wars to watch.
TV wise Fringe is awesome, as is Modern family. Oh , "Psychoville" Halloweeen special was great too, it followed on very nicely from Mr. Gatiss excellent series on horror films.

**Mr. Burning**

This thread has made me realise that I haven't seen the films Lovefilm have sent me this week.

Im looking at a lot of foreign language films atm, the wife is into Spanish Cinema, which is always good cause penelope Cruz or other hot looking starlets provide full frontal nudity.

I watched Audition last night and have viewed Conspiracy and Downfall again over the last few days.

**Albatross**

Much full-frontal nudity in 'Downfall'?

'Oh, Herr Hitler - looks like the rumours AREN'T true!'

**halonachos**

Black Dynamite.

**Albatross**

halonachos wrote:Black Dynamite.

Sounds like a dildo.

**FITZZ**

Albatross wrote:
halonachos wrote:Black Dynamite.

Sounds like a dildo.

It's actually a some what amusing parody of the old Rudy Ray Moore "blacksploitation" films of the 70's....
...But now that you mention it..yup..it does sound a bit like a dildo.

**ChrisWWII**

Just watched Eurotrip last night with a friend. Next up is Zombieland.

Not to mention lots of Axis Powers Hetalia. Note. I watch it for the 'historical parody' side....not for the reason yaoi fangirls watch it.

**Locclo**

Movie-wise, I've recently seen Saw 3D (Featuring what is literally a fanboy twist ending), Julie & Julia (for school) and Stargate. I'm looking forward to seeing Dune and 1984 when they air on TV, and I'm planning on doing a classic sci-fi movie fest while I get some painting done over the next couple of days (original Planet of the Apes, Logan's Run, Blade Runner, and I'm hoping for Escape from New York).

Series-wise, I have started watching Death Note through again (onto about my fifth watching of the series...) and plan to watch an old sci fi show, Blake's 7 when I get the time.

**fastchocolatesurprise**

I was dragged to the movie Red by the lady. Pretty good. Some halfway decent action and decent humor. Not amazing, but good and given most movies lately, thats pretty outstanding.

**sebster**

Saw Let Me In the other night. Arguably superior to the original, in that all the best bits were recreated shot for shot, and the kids were much better in this version. A good, properly horrific vampire movie.

Other day I saw The Town. It's a little gem of a bank robbery/family crime saga. Great action scenes and a plot without any flat spots. A couple of bits are a little contrived, but it's well worth seeing.

I saw The Disappearance of Alice Creed last week. It won't change your view on cinema or anything, but it's a pretty slick thriller with a couple of big twists.

Week before that I saw The Killer Inside Me. This movie sucked. Completely without meaning, full of characters acting in the most bizarrely passive ways to what was going on, and in no way justified the horrible violence we were forced to sit through.

Albatross wrote:I watched 'The Colditz Story' today. Awesome. I also watched 'Guns At Batasi' and 'Sink The Bismarck!' the other day. 'Bismarck' in particular is a brilliant film - it's very rare that I react outwardly when watching a film, but I punched the air when that fether goes down at the end.

I'm going through and old-school British war films period at the moment. They're just amazing.

If any war story demanded a modern remake it's the story of the Bismarck. Can you imagine the fight between The Hood and the Bismarck with modern technology?

Howard A Treesong wrote:Last night we watched Plan 9 from Outer Space.

To sum up from something I wrote elsewhere...

Yeah, it's awful, but it's also kind of sweet in a way. I don't like that many bad movies because they're boring and they kind of hate humanity, but Ed Wood's general likeability permeates this movie. I mean, even when the aliens are telling us that we're too stupid to be allowed to live, it's still of sweet in a way...

**Ahtman**

sebster wrote:Week before that I saw The Killer Inside Me. This movie sucked.

That made me think of this: