Movies you've seen recently

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tidwell said:
The Goods. Very funny.
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Glad to hear you say that. I was supposed to go tonight but it got pushed back to Saturday. Early reviews and talk on rottentomatoes, etc. were slamming it pretty hard. I'm still going regardless but it's nice to hear something positive.
 
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Watched District 9 last night and didn't like it except for the alien weapons. Might watch Push tonight but with 60 minutes (Vick interview), True Blood, Hung and the return of Mad Men I'll probably wait until tomorrow night.
 
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Pretty much. The story could have been about anything, what made the movie was the lines coming from just about everyone.
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Exactly. If you didn't like the gag in front of you there was another one right around the corner. It was hilarious.

On a side note I may have replaced my "Everyone has their own personal El Guapo" with "Sooner or later we all have deal with 'querque"
 
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I'm not real big on horror flicks, but I watched the 2007 remake of Halloween last night, and it is really good. I didn't know he made movies, but I told my wife last night that if she is going to make me sit through a bunch of silly teenagers getting hacked to death by a maniac, I want Rob Zombie behind the cameras. It still isn't my favorite genre, but that is what a slasher movie is supposed to be.
 
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watched Red Dawn last night just to remind myself how awesome it is :)

On a side note, if anyone gets the MGM HD channel it shows some great movies. Run Silent, Run Deep was on the other night and there was a Peckinpah marathon last night.
 
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Before we get away from horror, can somebody please explain to me why M. Night Shyamalan still gets the opportunity to make movies, and why anyone would think attaching his name to a film would encourage someone to watch it? At best, you get Sixth Sense or The Village, two quirky little ideas that might work in a 30 minute vignette appropriate for Tales from the Crypt or a single Twilight Zone episode. At worst, you get Signs or, worse, his latest garbage, The Happening.

For some reason, I had it Tivoed, and it is that rarest of films that is best watched in tripple fast forward. Marky Mark is the supergenius middle school science teacher who finally figures out that the plants have rebelled against us, causing anybody who doesn't sing with the Funky Bunch to commit harakiri, so he runs around the countryside with his *****y wife and the daughter of the monkey man from Moulin Rouge with a surprised look on his face until the vegetables make nice again because this was only a test. As far as Apocalypic movies go, this one actually made The Day the Earth Stood Still seem good.

Someone please make Shyamalan stop. He is making the human race dumber with his product. That is the real danger.
 
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caught a bit of a movie last night called Edmond, with WH Macy. Looked pretty interesting. Based on a David Mamet play. Anyone ever seen it? I added it to my queue.
 
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. 7/10

Gonna watch a classic later tonight. Planes, Trains and Automobiles. 9/10
 
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District 9, I enjoyed it very much and I usually criticize Sci-Fi films a lot.....I went in expecting an Independence Day type movie and it wasn't that at all. It's sort of a Sci-Fi Drama with a bit of action thrown in. It's kind of gory I will say. The main character is acted very well. The story builds up as it goes on and the last 30 minutes or so is worth the wait for you action buffs. The CGI is really good if not perfect. There are a couple of scenes that had some subtle humor that made me chuckle a bit. It actually has a lot of heart to it as well. It has some things I could criticize but I won't since there is a lot more good than bad. Well done, very well done.......

I also want to point out that one of the scenes from the trailer is nowhere to be found in the film. It's the one where the humans are interrogating an alien about how their weapons work and the alien replies "We just want to go home". That scene is not in the movie.

It sure out-weighs Transformer II, Wolverine, and G.I. Joe by a long shot and was done with 1/5th of the budget those films had.
 
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The Watcher. Really glad I saw this movie because it showed me exactly what NOT to do when writing a script. Bad in every possible way. I found it sad that they killed a tree so that script could be printed - and I'm not a tree-hugger.
 
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