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Superbad uncut - D
not even very good comedic value but the occassional burst got it above the F mark
Saw IV - B
I give this a B, because I thought it did a good job of carrying Johns Legacy over and keeping the SAW games alive not to mention the suspense
I am Legend - A
No doubt going to be one of the best movies of the year.
the Heartbreak Kid - C+
this would have had a B or an A if not for the fact of Ben Stiller playing th part of the guy who keeps putting himself into the horribalist( is that a word) positions in a Romantic Comedy.
There Will Be Blood - A
Awesome Awesome Awesome. this movie is An hour and 40 minutes and well worth every minute

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i've seen Juno recently, it's a good movie. definitely for teens. .

saw bell and the butterfly. Was expecting an artsy fartsy movie...but it was incredible. highly recommended

Asylum (1972) Robert Powell is Dr. Martin, applying for a job at a mental institution somewhere in the English countryside. The chief of staff, Dr. Starr, has recently become a patient. To win the job, Martin is asked by Dr. Rutherford (Patrick Magee) to decide which patient is Doc Starr. Most of the film deals with the stories of the patients Martin visits. These patients include Bonnie (Barbara Parkins) who was involved in a bloody & eerie marital affair; Bruno (Barry Morse) the tailor who made a special suit from a magical fabric for Mr. Smith (Peter Cushing); Barbara, (the young & very hot Charlotte Rampling) who's mysterious girl-friend Lucy (the equally hot eye-candy Britt Ekland), is driving her insane; and Herbert Lom as Dr. Byron, who owns a collection of small but dangerous dolls. Excellent collection of short stories, very interesting SPX that add to the story-telling and fine acting all the way through.

I generally find myself watching films that I love whenever they're on television and otherwise not watching too many movies.

Lately I've seen The Matrix and Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind ad nauseum, but I still love them both.

I just saw Persepolis, the animation and story was were fantastic! Definitely recommended! Should of won the Oscar for best Animated Feature!!!

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I just saw Persepolis, the animation and story was were fantastic! Definitely recommended! Should of won the Oscar for best Animated Feature!!!

i saw this when it came out here, in Paris, with one of my best friends. He was born in Iran in '80 and came over to France in '91 so lived pretty everything the girl did. It was moving to see him watch it, seeing his eyes light up as he remembered certain situations he had also gone through, just as the girl. After the movie, we went out for dinner and he just couldn't keep it in anymore. He shared a whole bunch of stories that he'd forgotten about. it was a really great movie and i'm glad i got to see it with him

i saw The Notebook, very good story. . very touchy!

Delirious

This is THE FUNNIEST stand up act I've ever seen! Especially with his out-dated "knowledge" that only gays have AIDS and that you can get it from a kiss! The funniest part for me is when he's discussing his family life. My mother was the same way his was when it came to a quick pop for disrespect or doin' wrong! I haveta say I was exactly like he was, too! I was all "IHATEHER! IHATEHER! IHATEHER! IHATEHER! GODPLEASEKILLHER!" just like he did! I've seen it a hundred times and am still floored everytime I watch it! One of the best things about the DVD is that they have deleted scenes when people from the audience shouted things out and Eddie turned it around on them and made 'em look stupid than a mug!

A+

Bourne Identity and Supremacy..superb films.

Alien Vs Predator:Requiem

Four Brothers, it was a great movie. . i liked it!

I caught The Darjeeling Limited last night. I thought it was okay, but I also think Wes Anderson is stuck in a serious rut. I loved his first three films, but his directorial quirks are really overshadowing his films at this point. He's becoming a caricature of himself. Every time I see dead-centered framing, an anachronistic prop, a Futura font, or a slow-mo montage set to a British Invasion tune, I want to scream. I'd like to see him do something really different.

B-

Beowolf Beowulf

I actually enjoyed the story quite a bit. That Beowulf! What a man! With as tough as he was and the way he oozed manliness, he shoulda been played by Bruce Willis! But what are ya gonna do?

I was disappointed with the CG. I dunno, but I thought that we've come far enough in CGI technology that we would get things better than they were in this movie. I'm really confused about why there was so much talk about this movie winning an Oscar for its "excellent use of CGI" when it first hit theaters (I did notice it didn't get a nomination), there were many times that the characters' eyes looked cold and dead. Even the way they moved was... off. Not only that, but they seemed off-model at times. Sometimes they looked like the actors, other times they didn't.

I haveta say, I don't really like CG movies that go for such realism. If you're trying to make the people look that real, why go CG at all? (I had the same complaint with "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within".) Especially when they made the characters look like their voice actors. If they wanted us to see the actors they paid for, they shoulda made the movie the way they did "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" or "300", with the human actors surrounded by CG. The humans were the only real problem I had with the movie! I'll probably haveta see it on Blu-ray to make sure that it really looked as bad as it did. I've found that most DVDs really don't look all that great when they're upconverted.

Story: A
CGI: C- (at least until I see it properly to make sure it doesn't suck as much as it seemed)

EDIT: I just realized I spelled the title/lead charcter's name wrong!

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In the Valley of Elah

This probably would've landed in my top 12 if I'd seen it before I made my list. I like that it works on several levels.

Tommy Lee Jones plays a father who's notified by the army that his son has returned from Iraq, but has gone AWOL. Jones, an ex MP himself, spends a couple of days trying to track his son down only to find that he's body's been found, apparently the victim of a gruesome murder. Unsatisfied with the Army's investigation, he enlists the help of local detective, Charlize Theron. I like that film is a subtle commentary on the Iraq war, but ultimately a thrilling detective story.

It's also a little weird seeing this movie after seeing No Country for Old Men. Tommy Lee Jones' characters in both films are very similar - men from another time trying to solve a crime in a new world that seems foreign to them. I also wondered if Paul Haggis hired the Coen's casting director when Josh Brolin and Barry Corbin turned up for small roles, both sporting their NCFOM moustaches.

I really liked this a lot better than NCFOM though. The story is tight, the acting from Jones and Theron is really terrific, and it has a great supporting cast including Brolin, Susan Sarandon and Jason Patrick.

A-

Pick-Up (1975)
Two girls, Carol and Maureen, hitch a ride with Chuck, who's delivering a mobile bus home somewhere in Florida. During a storm, they detour into the swamplands where the the bus gets stuck. Carol is a hot little honey and makes out with Chuck at every opportunity. Maureen is on a spiritual quest and has hallucinations and flashbacks, all made to look arty but the result is silly. Still, the flashbacks the trio have are the best thing about this otherwise deadly dull flick.

The King of California
Evan Rachel Wood is Miranda, a 16 year old working double shifts at McDonalds. Her dad, Charlie (Michael Douglas) has just been released from a mental institution. Miranda's mom left years ago, so she's been on her own while Charlie was locked up. Now that he's out, he's on a treasure hunt for Spanish gold, supposedly buried beneath the suburbs. I enjoyed the movie, it wasn't great and a lot of the situations have been presented better in other films but Wood and Douglas have chemistry. I hope it was okay for me lusting after Evan Rachel Wood, she was 19 when the film was made.

I took a break from my catching up on 2007 movies on DVD to go see Michel Gondry's Be Kind Rewind tonight. Despite the mixed reviews I enjoyed the film a lot. I don't think it was as great as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, but for a low key comedy, it was pretty well executed.

Mos Def plays a guy who works at a small VHS rental shop owned by Danny Glover. While Glover's away, Mos Def and his pal Jack Black accidentally erase all the tapes after Black becomes magnetized in a freak electrical accident. In order to keep the local customers happy and not risk Glover, who's already in danger of losing the shop to a condo developer, find out, they decide to try to reshoot the films themselves, starting with a hilarious version of Ghostbusters, and pass them off as the originals. It doesn't work, of course, but the locals oddly end up liking their versions better, and Def, Black, and the very funny and charming Melonie Diaz turn it into a very successful business.

Their takes on Ghostbusters, Rush Hour 2, Driving Miss Daisy, and a handful of other films are hysterical, and I like the commentary Gondry interjects about the importance of community, locally owned businesses, and artistic freedom.

B+

Finally got around to watching Long Good Friday, which Mark F recommended somewhere in these forums. I really enjoyed it.

Bob Hoskins plays a high-level London gangster who finds himself targeted by an unknown enemy. And he tries to find out who this enemy is before they get to him first.

The acting, directing and script were all solid. My one complaint was with the heavy London accents, especially from Hoskins. I would've used subtitles if it was available. That and the soundtrack, which was a little over the top, were my only complaints, minor as they are.

B

I watched Death at a Funeral this past weekend. Took a few min to get into..but thinking back on it..it had some really funny parts.