What's the last movie you've seen?

[King]

Magnolia.

And I agree with everything said in every post since my last post.

[King]

Yes, Netflix is doing a great disservice to its customers by not wasting bandwidth hosting movies everyone has seen and are on television all the time.

[King]

Yes, Netflix is doing a great disservice to its customers by not wasting bandwidth hosting movies everyone has seen and are on television all the time.

it takes more bandwidth streaming movies everyone has seen than it does streaming movies fewer people have seen?  wow, how things have changed since I took digital processing back in 1988, back then, we never heard of the correlation between bit-bloat and the number of viewers.  probably some quantum physics observer-effect thingy

Of course it takes an equal amount money to stream movies people haven't seen as ones people have. 

The difference is that most people are not likely to watch a movie they have already seen or pay $10 a month to watch a movie that's on cable all the time.

[King]

Zooey is always hotter than Portman.  Zooey even looks good in poorly shot Shamayalan flicks.

[King]

Justin Long? Reminds me of Coppola casting Keanu Reeves in Dracula. 

[King]

Crazy Heart.  Excellent.  As someone from the Southwestern US, I really connected with a lot of the environment of the movie, but could see it be boring for many who grown up where country music is popular.  The biggest surprise was Colin Farrell, who actually seemed to try in this one.  Also, while Maggie Gylenhaal isn't particularly attractive, she gets way too much hate and is a perfectly fine actress.

[King]

I of course meant to say where country music isn't popular, but yeah.  Next on the queue is A Single Man.  I've heard that Firth was better in that than The King's Speech (and it's all canceled out by Bridges being better in True Grit than in Crazy Heart).

[King]

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

Most director/actor types are better directors, George Clooney is the exact opposite. His performance and character was great, the direction and movie as a whole was pretty average.

Yeah, Clooney movies are pretty stale.  Even Good Night and Good Luck, though an interesting story, was nothing special looking.

I watched A Single Man.   Now, that was some incredible direction.

[King]

I watched A Single Man.   Now, that was some incredible direction.

Who had a worse time, Larry Gropnik or BushOklahoma?

That was A Serious Man, though George Falconer also went through some hardships.

[King]

Rabbit Hole

Excellent.  Probably should have been nominated for a few more awards than just Kidman's performance.

[King]

Flat, unfunny, unoriginal.

Garbage.

The Hangover: Part II

[King]

Flat, unfunny, unoriginal.

Garbage.

The Hangover: Part II

I think "flat" is the perfect way to describe it. It really just dies on the screen.

I knew I probably shouldn't have seen it, but my date got postponed and I was already at the theater...  Hopefully Super 8 will be a better experience tomorrow.

To be honest, it was so unfunny, that the script probably should have been saved and recast for a drama about a party gone awry in Bangkok.  Bradley Cooper was the only actor who fit the material.

[King]

Though trailers aren't movies, I would also like to say that The Vow might be one of the worst looking movies I've ever seen.  I know it's a chick flick and I shouldn't expect myself to like it, but it looks worse than that... it looks like a chick flick based on a story of what 6 year old girls imagine 12 year old girls imagine 16 year old girls imagine what love is like.

[King]

Super 8

Old school early 80s popcorn flick.  The setup of the four boys in the middle of this big government conspiracy felt like a South Park episode played straight.  They even broke them into cool kid, jew kid, fat kid, poor kid stereotypes.  Probably the best movie of the year so far, but that says nothing. 

[King]

The setup of the four boys in the middle of this big government conspiracy felt like a South Park episode played straight.

Ugh. So I'd hate it?

It's nothing like South Park plot or commentary wise.  I just happened to notice the boys, father, and town reminded me of South Park.

[King]

Green Lantern

I think this got a bad rap for being one superhero/comic book movie too many. It does have some problems but it's actually pretty fun. Also, Blake Lively looks incredibly hot in it.

I might elaborate on my feelings on this a bit more later on.

I heard the CGI was pretty lousy for a 2011 movie.

[King]

Green Lantern

I think this got a bad rap for being one superhero/comic book movie too many. It does have some problems but it's actually pretty fun. Also, Blake Lively looks incredibly hot in it.

I might elaborate on my feelings on this a bit more later on.

I heard the CGI was pretty lousy for a 2011 movie.

Some of it was. Some of it looked pretty cool though.

The biggest problems were really that it felt rushed and several plot holes developed in the second half of the movie.

I thought most of the actors did a pretty good job though. Sarsgaard is particularly awesome due to the extreme weirdness of his character (which some people will hate but I quite enjoyed).

Yeah, I had a friend who saw it and pretty much said that Ryan Reynolds did a good job as the Lantern, but everything else was chopped up and confusing.  Felt more like a sequel than any sort of origin story.

[King]

I last saw Super 8. It was a nice throwback to the 90s. I went in thinking it was about a Super 8 motel.

Don't give Lars Von Trier any ideas.

[King]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_(2009_film)

A crappy movie. Avoid it like the plague.

Saw it.  Humorously illogical.  There were so many opportunities for her to break that stupid loop that she just refused to take.

[King]

The Truman Show.

[King]

I saw Horrible Bosses tonight - a great, entertaining show. Extremely funny. It topped Hangover 1 and 2 for me.

Agree completely; I just got back.

How hard is it to top Hangover 2?

You're right, I just lumped the two together. I'd rate it above Hall Pass even, neck and neck with Easy A.

Hall Pass? Somebody actually watched that movie?

[King]

Let Me In.

Refreshingly subtle for its genre. 

[King]

The Machinist

[King]

Cowboys & Aliens

I don't really understand the critics' beef.  Sure, the premise was odd and CGI aliens are CGI, but the negatives really ended there.  The acting was good and the cinematography was solid.  The story moved along at a decent pace, too.  Frankly, it was a better alien movie than Super 8.

I highly recommend giving this movie a chance if you have nothing better to do this weekend.

[King]

AG wasn't cliched when it was made. Jmfcst, you would enjoy it. Mike Naso moreso.