What films have you been watching?

[gobias30]

Journey to the Center of the Earth in 3D - If I saw the movie without 3D I would probably give it something like a 3 or a 4 out of ten. With the 3D I would rank it much higher. The 3D was very fun but the story was incredibly weak. I think I'll give the 3D version of this movie an 8/10.

LOTR: The Return of the King - Still as bleeping awesome as when I first saw it: 101/2/10.

That completes my bet that I made with my friend of watching more than 100 movies this summer. The Return of the King was #101. I'm so proud of myself!

[Touchlamp]

Congratulations on watching a hundred movies in a summer! What were some of your favorites that you watched?

You got me thinking, so I went to wikipedia and figured out what was the most movies I had seen at the theaters in a single year. 2003 I had gone and seen 36 movies . 21 of which were summer movies. I didn't even pay for half those movies. That summer I was sneaking in and movie hopping all day. My record was 4 movies in one day.

[gobias30]

Congratulations on watching a hundred movies in a summer! What were some of your favorites that you watched?

Hey thanks!

The Dark Knight was easily the best film that I saw in theaters this summer. Other than that I got to watch all those series that I usually don't have time to watch: Star Wars, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings etc. My five favorite movies (which I watched this summer) are:

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Shawn of the Dead
The Dark Knight
Serenity
Mr. and Mrs. Smith/ The Ring(Tie)

[Pont]

The Duchess Love the period, the costumes, and very much enjoy Ralph Fiennes and Keira Knightley, but it's most definitely lacking. I'm not at all interested in the parallels between the Georgiana Spencer and her distant relative Diana Spencer, and luckily Georgiana was a very interesting person on her own. There's some good period detail in the film, but this kind of thing has been done more interestingly in a number of films ("Barry Lyndon" and "Marie Antoinette" come to mind), but it is well acted and photographed, just wish it had a bit more depth.

Choke Sam Rockwell, Brad William Henke and Anjelica Huston are all great, but poor direction, meandering story, and a weak resolution hamper the movie. It also looks terrible, suprising since it was shot by the great cinematographer Tim Orr. Better to see Rockwell and Orr's work in "Snow Angels," Henke in "Me and You and Everyone We Know," and Huston in a number of better movies, including Wes Anderson's and "Crimes and Misdeameanors."

[sjshark]

Forgetting Sarah Marshall- 7/10
Run, Fat Boy, Run- 5/10

I've also started rewatching some Paul Newman movies. Today was Cool Hand Luke. You don't need me to tell you that's a damn good movie.

[gobias30]

88 Minutes-One of the worst films of the year 1/10

Eagle Eye-The first half was fairly entertaining but it died in the second half of the film. 5/10

[waytoplant]

Religulous: 9/10. Funny throughout most of the movie, although sometimes Maher picks some pretty easy targets while attempting to sow doubt among the big three Western religions (Christianity, Judaism, and Islam).

[Nicholas Angel]

Eagle Eye - For something marketed as an action packed thrill ride, I was bored out of my mind for the majority of the 2 hour running time.
4/10

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist - The most enjoyable film I've seen this year.
9/10

[Nicholas Angel]

Eagle Eye - For something marketed as an action packed thrill ride, I was bored out of my mind for the majority of the 2 hour running time.
4/10

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist - The most enjoyable film I've seen this year.
9/10

[Pont]

Momma's Man A small New York movie by Azazel Jacobs about a 30 something son of two artists regressing back into childhood during a business trip back home. Very intamite, quietly funny and occassionly very sad, but very good and well acted. The parents are played by the filmmaker's actual parents Flo and Ken Jacobs (an avant garde filmmaker himself), and they're both quite good along with the lead Matt Boren.

[Pont]

Sorry for the double post...

The Wrestler Darren Aronofsky is one of my favorite directors, and I've loved his last three films. This is a definite change of pace. Instead of his usual visual flourishes, he strips down his aesthetic, and simply follows the characters. Mickey Rourke is the movie, and through the almost Dardenne brothers like style, we get inside the mind of a man who can do one thing, do it great, but no longer has a place where can excell in that field, professional wrestling. Rourke has few friends, but he does have one person he seems to connect with, a stripper played by Marisa Tomei. As Rourke is sidelined for a time, he begins to try and reconnect with his daughter, played by Evan Rachel Wood, at the urging of Tomei. This isn't a film you need to go into with any predeliction towards pro Wrestling, you can even hate it, and I don't think that'd detract from what a great movie it is and how special the performances are. I'm like Mickey Rourke, and I like even more now that his face is a big hunk of battered flesh. Even in a cartoon role like Marv in Sin City, Rourke brings a sadness to his characters, a kind if big lug with a lot of inner conflict, that you rarely see in men of his build in movies. Tomei and Wood are equally as good in their scenes, balancing out Rourke's tragic hero. The music, much like the wrestling attire, is often cheesy, but it so fits the world of these characters, and what they listen to and like that any other choice would diminish the realism that this film thrives in. A small, human drama that's distincly American, and yet approached from an angle more traditionally seen in European films, The Wrestler is a clear departure for Aronofsky, but one that's not out of line with his creativity or his talent. At the Q&A after the film Aronofsky mentioned that he thought of his first three films as a loose trilogy, building up to 2006's The Fountain, and that he hopes he can continue to reinvent himself and surprise his audience. With The Wrestler, Aronofsky surprises his audience a great deal, and delights them even more.

[Nicholas Angel]

What Just Happened?(Barry Levinson, 2008):
While it doesn't have the off-the-walls crude humor, large budget, and, action scenes that Tropic Thunder has, it ultimately contains a lot more insight into what Hollywood is really like. This film gets so involved at times that it becomes extremely bleak though, so it's not for everybody.
9/10

[The Joker Magician]

Werner Herzog, all the way! My favorite filmmaker these days. Check out his older stuff... Stroszek, Aguirre, Woyzeck, Even Dwarfs Started Small (insane), and Fitzcarraldo.

[OceanWalker32]

Ghost World (2001) - I wish I'd seen this sooner. I thought it was wonderful - very funny, poignant, and perceptive. I only remember reading small parts of the comic book several years ago, so I can't really comment on which is "better," but I enjoyed nearly everything about the film. 9/10

Man Bites Dog (1992) - An extremely dark comedy (in mockumentary format) that consists of the footage of a camera crew following a ruthless (but likable) serial killer around as he murders innocent people, robs their homes and disposes of their bodies, among other things. It's a satire on violence in the media and on the detached nature of documentaries more than anything, and it's as hilarious and thought-provoking as it is nauseating and disturbing. Not for the squeamish or the easily offended, that's for sure! Underrated. 8/10

[Frightened Inmate #2]

Took my 7-year-old daughter to see a movie this weekend. No, not "High School Musical 3." She has zero interest in that movie.

No, we took her to see "The Nightmare Before Christmas" in 3D. She'd never seen it before, and she quite enjoyed it. I thought the 3D effect was quite impressive. My daughter wore the glasses about half the time.

Only thing is, that movie is so short, it felt like we had barely gotten there when it was time to leave. We did miss the first five minutes of the movie, though.