I've spend pretty much my whole weekend watching DVDs, so here goes:

Chapter 27 Basically this is little more than Jared Leto dressed up as Mark Chapman holding a 85 minute monologue. It doesn't really help this movie that Chapman is really an incredibly uninteresting person.

Sam's Lake A very typical movie about a group of friends who go on a trip to a deserted little cabin in the woods and get slaughtered by a bunch of psychos. The actors are so bad that you really don't mind that they get killed though. Nice unexpected plot twist in the middle, but after that the movie really doesn't go anywhere and then stops without a decent ending.

Chronos No actors, no script, no talking, just a 45 minute montage of speeded up footage of landscapes, cities and monuments with strange music. Not too exciting, but there are some really spectaculair images.

Night at the Museum I don't think that movies really need to be realistic, but a somewhat believable plot would've been nice... Some parts were funny and Robin Williams is always great, but I thought that was more a children's movie.

Premonition Sandra Bullock loses her husband in a car accident. The next morning she finds him in the kitchen having breakfast. It turns out the days of the week have been scambled. Instead of seriously trying to prevent the accident from happening she decides it's better to just go running around, acting confused and yelling at people. Interesting concept, dissapointing execution.

I haven`t seen any of the above mentioned unfortunately. Recently, i ve seen Hancock with Will Smith. The movie is stupid and the plot is banal, though some scenes are very funny. I didn`t like the first part of the film, but the second part improved the whole impression.
The films I really enjoyed were: An Incident In Las Vegas (not sure what it is called in English) with Ashton Kutcher and Cameron Dias, a comedy, very funny; and the second film is In Brugge (again don`t know the English name) with Colin Farrel. This is a very good film, clever, psychological, a lot of close-up scenes.
On DVD I ve seen lately, though it is not a new film, Coffee and Cigarettes by Jim Jarmusch. A series of conversations about life, some of them are really good.

Quoted from Joost

Sam's Lake A very typical movie about a group of friends who go on a trip to a deserted little cabin in the woods and get slaughtered by a bunch of psychos. The actors are so bad that you really don't mind that they get killed though.

I want to see a movie in which a bunch of Hollywood writers and producers go off into the woods and get killed by some random psycho / nerd who rents a bum movie from Blockbuster and wants his five dollars back after watching it on TV in his parents' basement.

Quoted from Jane

I haven`t seen any of the above mentioned unfortunately.

Good. Apart from "Chronos" I wouldn't really recommend any of them.

The Dark Knight- awesome

The Happening what the hell ! i havnt seen such bad acting since i watched Plan 9 from outer space .  
There Will Be Blood - Brilliant acting and a watchable drama  
Hell Boy -Yeh just hit the spot for a comic based film , had to watch it Hell Boy 2 looks good  

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The Happening what the hell ! i havnt seen such bad acting since i watched Plan 9 from outer space .  
There Will Be Blood - Brilliant acting and a watchable drama  
Hell Boy -Yeh just hit the spot for a comic based film , had to watch it Hell Boy 2 looks good  

There Will Be Blood- Great Movie, Excellent Acting

Titanic- I cried pretty much the entire time.

National Lampoon Presents Cattle Call - Hilarious!

Basketball Diaries - haunting, tragic, thought provoking. Leo DiCaprio is amazing in this one.

The Dark Knight - A-M-A-Z-I-N-G.

I'll third here... Dark Knight was possibly the most awesome movie of this year!!!  (I saw it twice this weekend.  Pretty good birthday weekend )

^ happy birthday Jude  

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JUDE!

Haunted Forest Amateurish horror movie. I didn't really understand it...

The Departed - Really enjoyed this movie , great acting from all the cast .
Hocus Pocus - Bette Midler makes a great witch , Sarah Jessica Parker looks so young and fit in this movie , great Sunday afternoon film .

a clockwork orange - i guess i was the only person who hadn't watched it. i really really enjoyed it but i don't think i will watch it again. it was plain disturbing. but i'm planning to read the book.

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I'll third here... Dark Knight was possibly the most awesome movie of this year!!!  (I saw it twice this weekend.  Pretty good birthday weekend )

yes. you are SO right!
I'm seeing it a second time on saturday

"Hancock". I thought it was pretty funny. It had its moments.
But for me, nothing's going to beat Bateman!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to you, Jude!!!

On DVD - Pride and Prejudice with Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen. The film is beautiful, classical. And what a man! Impossible not to fall in love with. Though i doubt all me are crazy about Keira.

Quoted from Jane

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to you, Jude!!!

On DVD - Pride and Prejudice with Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen. The film is beautiful, classical. And what a man! Impossible not to fall in love with. Though i doubt all me are crazy about Keira.

Yes, that one is not bad, but I like the older version with Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle better.

The Mist , from a Stephen King storey , i thought this was well spooky , had me on the edge of my seat , great ending too .

Oh my gosh!
I saw "The Mist" awhile ago.
So creepy.
The ending was so good.
But it was kind of sad though.

Quoted from Oh Pineapple

Oh my gosh!
I saw "The Mist" awhile ago.
So creepy.
The ending was so good.
But it was kind of sad though.

The ending was a shocker , not your typical Hollywood ending , and that mad Bible bashing women was really scary

I saw Mama Mia the other day. It was cute. Not as good as the play, but still fun. And oh yeah, The Dark Knight.

I want to see 1984 again. Maybe I'll get it on Netflix. This is a movie I think would be cool if they redid it. It's certainly more relevant today than when both the book and the movies came out.

Quoted from DaveRam

The ending was a shocker , not your typical Hollywood ending , and that mad Bible bashing women was really scary

Marcia Gay Harden. She's a brilliant actress. I love her! Best thing about that movie probably. It's hard to do a Stephen King story right.

Quoted from Sandra

Marcia Gay Harden. She's a brilliant actress. I love her! Best thing about that movie probably. It's hard to do a Stephen King story right.

Agree Sandra i liked her performance very much in this film .

I watched Malcolm McDowell in Lindsey Anderson's "O Lucky Man" last night , what a cinematic masterpiece , this film is it's  just so surreal .
And it's got a very foxy looking Helen Mirren in an early role and dear old Aurther Lowe and Sir Ralph Richardson giving great perfomances .
Alan Price's musical score is also very good .

Funny Games with Michael Pitt, Brady Corbet, Naiomi Watts, and Tim Roth. This is a movie where it is really to describe what the movie is about  and still make it sound as good as it was. It was a perfect balance of pshycotic brilliance with a dash of comedy. Because what they were doing was sick and twisted but you found yourself laughing at points and never really hating them. The director was also brilliant in how he just made it what it was, and it is a screen by screen remake of the original which came out in 1997. It's hard to explain but here's the trailor and it is worth watchng.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=vSuDmrJcBeQ

pulp fiction, i watched today. for the first time but not for the last time. amazing movie. what a soundtrack. i also loved seeing tarantino acting.

"10 Things I Hate About You"- It was very cute and funny!
Its kind of a oldie though...

Quoted from Oh Pineapple

"10 Things I Hate About You"- It was very cute and funny!
Its kind of a oldie though...

An oldie? What's something like The Breakfast Club than? Ancient?  


Just thought of that one because of the annoying new JC Penny commercial where they mimic scenes from the movie. All of a sudden the eighties are retro.

I saw Good Will Hunting again, I guess for the 10th time or something like that. Man, I love that movie... The story is really cheesy, if I would've been an actor or director and would've gotten the script on paper, I probably would've rejected it... But Gus Van Sant managed to turn it in to one of my all-time favorite movies. Has hand down my all time favorite soundtrack, probably my favorite closing scene and I guess Robin Williams plays the best role I've ever seen anyone play.

Gus Van Sant he directed My Own Private Idaho and Last Days. Two good movies, in my own opinion.

10 Things I Hate About You isn't really old, it came out in like 2001, didn't it? I like that movie, but I can't stand how the poem at then end lists way more than 10 things. But besides that it is a cute little movie.

I love The Breakfast Club!

Quoted from Sandra

An oldie? What's something like The Breakfast Club than? Ancient?  


Just thought of that one because of the annoying new JC Penny commercial where they mimic scenes from the movie. All of a sudden the eighties are retro.

hah oh yeah! When I first saw that commerical, I was like.."Seriously, another Breakfast club!" hah
You can't beat the original, sorry.

We belong to that Netflix web rental thing and right now at the house I have "Bucket List" and "No Country for Old Men" waiting to be watched.  Any feedback from y'all on these two????

Quoted from DarkSweetLady

I love The Breakfast Club!

Me too. Incredible how they made such a great movie with five actors and a high school library... And the characters are so good... Last time I saw that movie I realized that you really just have to ask anyone who has seen that movie which character(s) of The Breakfast Club he or she relates to the most, and you pretty much know what kind of person he or she is...

Quoted from aspinall_lover

We belong to that Netflix web rental thing and right now at the house I have "Bucket List" and "No Country for Old Men" waiting to be watched.  Any feedback from y'all on these two????

The Bucket List was very cute. Made me cry a little too! I thought I was gonna hate No Country for Old Men, but I LOVED it!! It was an amazing movie. I was just talking about this movie the other day with the friends I went to see The Dark Knight with! We were comparing actual Oscar caliber performances. Javier Bardem definitely deserved his! And Josh Brolin was pretty great too. Hope you enjoy them!  

Oh, and I saw The Pianist a few days ago. It's always hard to watch those 2nd World War movies...

Quoted from Joost

Me too. Incredible how they made such a great movie with five actors and a high school library... And the characters are so good... Last time I saw that movie I realized that you really just have to ask anyone who has seen that movie which character(s) of The Breakfast Club he or she relates to the most, and you pretty much know what kind of person he or she is...

I love John Hughes' eighties teen angst films!!! He really caught teen life at that time pretty accurately.

I related to the Judd Nelson character most at that time, with a little of the Ally Sheedy character thrown in. Don't know what that says, but I've changed a lot since then.  

Quoted from Joost

Oh, and I saw The Pianist a few days ago. It's always hard to watch those 2nd World War movies...

That film stayed in my mind for days after i saw it .