What's the last movie you've seen?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Max Payne.

It was pretty awful, even the equivalent R-rated unrated director's cut which is what I watched. Also had virtually nothing to do with the game, the plot was butchered (Jack Lupino is supposed to be an insane mob boss, not an army sergeant!) and the girl who played Mona was simply the worst "action girl" I've ever seen in a movie. She didn't come across as a femme fatale, just a hot girl awkwardly using a gun.

[bullmoose88]

Max Payne.

It was pretty awful, even the equivalent R-rated unrated director's cut which is what I watched. Also had virtually nothing to do with the game, the plot was butchered (Jack Lupino is supposed to be an insane mob boss, not an army sergeant!) and the girl who played Mona was simply the worst "action girl" I've ever seen in a movie. She didn't come across as a femme fatale, just a hot girl awkwardly using a gun.

You mean Mila Kunis?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Yes. Not to mention her sister was played a Bond girl, why not just swap roles?

[Hash]

Pour elle. Quite a good suspenseful movie.

[opebo]

I think its called The CSA - a Movie.  About the Confederate STates of America.  Good film, whatched it entirely on Youtube.  It is fascinating how similar the present is to the future confederacy.

[bullmoose88]

I think its called The CSA - a Movie.  About the Confederate STates of America.  Good film, whatched it entirely on Youtube.  It is fascinating how similar the present is to the future confederacy.

That movie is hysterical.  I was happier than a pig in sh**t when i found it on sale at a B&N.

[Eraserhead]

I think its called The CSA - a Movie.  About the Confederate STates of America.  Good film, whatched it entirely on Youtube.  It is fascinating how similar the present is to the future confederacy.

That sounds interesting. I may check it out later.

[pogo stick]

Bandslam

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I'm focusing on autumn

[angus]

Pinocchio.  Not the one I normally watch from my DVD collection, from 2002, but the real one.  From 1940.  With the voices of Mel Blanc, Don Brodi, and Frankie Darro.  I've probably seen it before, but had become desensitized (or is it "sensitized") over the past couple of decades with political correctness.  I was actually shocked to see all the smoking and exaggerated Italian accents.  I'm 42, mind you, and can remember seeing Saturday morning cartoons with black maids with huge lips and huge butts and exaggerated afroamerican accents, and I can remember not having "car seats" as a child.  I'd never seen a bicycle helmet till I was an adult, and I distinctly remember buying cigarettes as soon as I was old enough to reach the counter.  (I think they started having a minimum age for cigarette purchase sometime after I'd reached the age of 20, so that never affected me.)  But obviously times have changed.  And to see a two-hour Disney children's feature featuring children smoking and calling each other "Jackass" and such was a little jarring.  I always claim to be the least politically correct person I know, yet even I have been sensitized I suppose.  Sad, but true.

The film is a moral story, really.  It's loosely based on a book by Carlo Collodi from the 19th century.  And it chronicles the story of a puppet who wants to be a real boy.  He is aided by his conscience (Jiminy Cricket in the Disney version), a Blue Fairy, and, at times, his Papa, Gepetto, who carves wooden dolls.  There are many versions, and book versions as well.  OUr collection ranges from a four-page board book to a several-hundred page anthem, replete with a vignette of Collodi's life and times.  I love reading them with a feigned Dago accent.  ("oh, Pinochio, my boy.  Whatsa happen to you?")  I think it's a timeless story, and an indictment, ahead of its time, of the latchkey generation and its parentage. 

A great movie it is.  Now that I'm sufficiently desensitized to the gambling, smoking, and cursing that was normal in children's movies from 1940 Walt Disney, I'd like to watch it again.  Unfortunately, it's not playing again till next week.  Also, Dick Morris is about to be on Greta van Susteren on Fox New Channel, and I never miss him.  So I'll have to catch it next time it makes its way to cable.

[bullmoose88]

I think its called The CSA - a Movie.  About the Confederate STates of America.  Good film, whatched it entirely on Youtube.  It is fascinating how similar the present is to the future confederacy.

That sounds interesting. I may check it out later.

not may...must.

[Reaganfan]

Alright...in the last week or so...

Twins, 1988 comedy film with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny Devito as twins. Classic comedy.

Kindergarten Cop, 1990 comedy film with Arnold Schwarzenegger as an L.A.P.D. cop who goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher. Funny.

Junior, 1994 comedy film with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny Devito as scientists who put forth the world's first human male pregnancy. Good flick.

The Negotiator, 1998 film with Samuel L. Jackson and Kevin Spacey as a pair of hostage negotiators who battle it out against each other to find the truth about a police cover-up. Very good.

Role Models, 2008 comedy with Seann William Scott and Paul Rudd who have to join a social workers program to avoid jail time. Expected it to be funnier than it was.

Shoot to Kill, 1988 action/suspense film with Sidney Poitier as an FBI agent tracking down a killer in the woods of the Pacific Northwest with outdoors tracker Tom Berenger, whose girlfriend Kirstie Alley has been kidnapped by the killer. Very good.

Traces of Red, 1992 erotic suspense thriller with James Belushi as a cop hunting down a killer who is murdering hookers in Palm Beach, Florida. Excellent.

[JSojourner]

David Cronenberg's "Crash". If you like weird, fucked up sex, and technology, this is your movie.

I loved that movie.  Holly Hunter is the consumate plain jane with a hottie inside, waiting to get out.

[Gustaf]

Recently, I've seen the Informers and Bronson. And a Swedish film called Man Tänker Sitt. None of them were that good.

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The Mexican

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Inglorious Bastards - The best film of 2009, bar none.  Brad Pitt deserves an Oscar; everything about it was amazing.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Meet Bill.

Just wasn't a very good movie. I couldn't find myself ever caring about the characters or plot and it failed to even be that funny. For a rather indie movie it's rather odd they had to rely on gags like a kid and adult throwing firecrackers at each other or a generic "Stoned people acting stupid" sequence that you would expect in mainstream movies.

[Boris]

Inglorious Basterds

spoilers below



yeah, best supporting actor nomination for Christoph Waltz. Mélanie Laurent was awesome too, although her death scene was kinda gay/too predictable. only part of the movie I didn't like.

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I'm focusing on autumn

[Eraserhead]

Alright...in the last week or so...

Twins, 1988 comedy film with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny Devito as twins. Classic comedy.

Kindergarten Cop, 1990 comedy film with Arnold Schwarzenegger as an L.A.P.D. cop who goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher. Funny.

Junior, 1994 comedy film with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny Devito as scientists who put forth the world's first human male pregnancy. Good flick.

The Negotiator, 1998 film with Samuel L. Jackson and Kevin Spacey as a pair of hostage negotiators who battle it out against each other to find the truth about a police cover-up. Very good.

Role Models, 2008 comedy with Seann William Scott and Paul Rudd who have to join a social workers program to avoid jail time. Expected it to be funnier than it was.

Shoot to Kill, 1988 action/suspense film with Sidney Poitier as an FBI agent tracking down a killer in the woods of the Pacific Northwest with outdoors tracker Tom Berenger, whose girlfriend Kirstie Alley has been kidnapped by the killer. Very good.

Traces of Red, 1992 erotic suspense thriller with James Belushi as a cop hunting down a killer who is murdering hookers in Palm Beach, Florida. Excellent.

Do you watch anything actually worth watching?

[Reaganfan]

Commando, 1985 action film with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Excellent action film classic of the 1980s.

Eraser, 1996 action film with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Vanessa Williams, James Caan and James Coburn. Pretty good.

Planet Terror, 2007 horror film with Rose McGowan, Bruce Willis, Josh Brolin, Marley Shelton, Michael Biehn. Excellent, part of Tarantino's Grindhouse film.

Bad Boys, 1995 action film with Martin Lawrence and Will Smith as two Miami narcotic detectives. One of my favorite films by one of my favorite directors, Michael Bay.

Scream, 1996 horror film with Neve Campbell, David Arquette and Courtney Cox. A really good movie.

Scream 2, 1997 sequel with Neve Campbell, David Arquette and Courtney Cox. Respectable sequel.

Downfall, 1993 con-artist film with Michael Biehn, Nicolas Cage, James Coburn and Charlie Sheen. REALLY good and some hot babe named Sarah Trigger shows her beautiful set of hooters.

So I Married an Axe Murderer, 1993 dark comedy with Mike Myers and Nancy Travis. It sucked, and the whole San Francisco "beat poetry" stuff got on my nerves.

[Beet]

Quentin Tarantino fest:

Hell Ride
Kill Bill Vol. 1
Kill Bill Vol. 2

The Maltese Falcon
The Postman Always Rings Twice (mentioned in Kill Bill 2)
Dial M for Murder

[Reaganfan]

Scream 3, 2000 sequel to the Scream franchise with Neve Campbell, David Arquette and Courtney Cox. Saw it in the theaters back in 2000. My least favorite of the sequels. Talks of a "Scream 4" would totally throw off the notion that this was a "trilogy".

Clifford, 1994 film with Martin Short and Charles Grodin. Horrible, unfunny, weird movie. Filmed in 1990 but not released until '94.

Con-Air, 1997 action film with Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, and John Malkovich. One of my favorite movies. In pure Jerry Bruckheimer and/or Michael Bay style: Good romantic plot, good hit song (from Trisha Yearwood), good laughs, and great action. Everything that makes films from these guys like Bad Boys I and II, Armageddon, National Treasure, and The Rock some of my all-time favorite films.

[JSojourner]

State of Grace and At Close Range.

Naso would be proud...I was in an 80's frame of mind.

[opebo]

Little Children.  I liked it.