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Watched Harry Brown on Netflix yesterday. It stars Michael Caine as a former British Marine who goes after a gang that killed his friend. It's a good movie and I recommend it.

I saw Ronin again for the hundredth time today on Netflix. Robert DeNiro is in it and it has a couple very cool car chases in the movie 👍
 
^^I have Harry Brown on my instant queue, looks good.

I saw 2 good movies the last couple days.

The Basketball Diaries is a great movie based off the memoirs of Jim Carroll, and his addiction to heroin and drugs that gets him kicked off the high school basketball team and kicked out of school as well. I felt the story was a little rushed near the end, but overall, it was a great movie. I'd rate it a 7.5/10

SLC Punk was also a really awesome movie. It's a comedy-drama about couple of punks living in Salt Lake City, and them starting to grow out of the anarchist way of life. Matthew Lillard stars as Stevo(not the jackass) who takes you through the anarchist life and has some humorous stuff to share while narrating. I also got a laugh seeing Jason Segal in the movie as their nerdy hardcore friend. I recommend this movie to just about anyone, you don't need to be into punk to enjoy this movie. I'd really give it an 8.5/10
 
Senna

There was a lot more to tell about this amazing driver/person. They did showcase very well his passion and determination to be the very best. I really loved the movie, i've just finished watching it for the second time a few hours ago.

What a lot of people don't know is that away from the track this man donated millions of dollars to foundations to help the poor. His true concern for his fellow drivers in the name of safety, and so many other things that make him a true legend.

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X-Men: First Class: First, I want to say, this was one of the best X-Men movies ever simple because they stuck with the comics and old animated series at bit better than before. The action was good, the acting was...descent enough. (BTW, Kevin Bacon as Sebastian Shaw was a really nice fit.) However....There are a couple things that will bug fans of the comic and cartoons...like why does Moira have an American accent? And Emma...wasn't nearly the badass-no-nonscense woman from the comics. I mean...she is/was leader of the X-Men right? So...wtf is with her obedient little pet routine? And didn't she kill Shaw in the comics? Whatever.

The yellow and black outfits were cool and brought back memories, as did Magnetos tradition red helmet and cape. All in all a decent movie...if you haven't read the comics....or never watched the cartoons...a 7/10 or a 3/5. How hard is it to STICK TO THE COMICS?
 
DA__dogg
Watched Harry Brown on Netflix yesterday. It stars Michael Caine as a former British Marine who goes after a gang that killed his friend. It's a good movie and I recommend it.
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+1 Harry Brown was a great flick. It's a bit slow and suspenseful but I really enjoyed it.

DA__dogg
I saw Ronin again for the hundredth time today on Netflix. Robert DeNiro is in it and it has a couple very cool car chases in the movie 👍
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+99.99 Some of the best car chases in cinema to this day. Artful camera angles, great combination of sound fx and sound track. Plus, its a great movie start to finish. Only one flaw, when the chick is driving through the tunnel in the 2nd car chase, watch for "man hands". The stunt driver is wearing a wig and when they use the back seat camera, you can see they are guys hands on the wheel. I notice it every time.

nizmo_bro
The Basketball Diaries is a great movie based off the memoirs of Jim Carroll, and his addiction to heroin and drugs that gets him kicked off the high school basketball team and kicked out of school as well. I felt the story was a little rushed near the end, but overall, it was a great movie. I'd rate it a 7.5/10
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Another great movie...but very depressing. Great performance by a young pre-Titanic Leo.

nizmo_bro
SLC Punk was also a really awesome movie. 8.5/10
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This one has been on our netflix queue for a while...I'll push it to the top.
 
I never noticed that lol. Now I am not going to look at her the same way anymore lolol.

I watched the second disc of Generation Kill today from Netflix. It's like a Band of Brothers type of minseries, it follows First Recon Marines during the second Gulf War. I highly recommend if you like war movies 👍
 
Cars 2

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Not really worth a review. Felt less like "Cars 2" than an extended "Mater's Tall Tales" episode. The story-telling was wildly imbalanced, the spy-aspect of the story itself combines the worst of "The Tuxedo" and "Johnny English", and the erstwhile stars of Cars 1 act more as props for the action than anything else.

Let's get this straight... Cars 1 was not Pixar's best, but it was arguably good. An enchanting small town, family values type movie with an eclectic cast of characters with lots of personality, some goofy humor and a lot to love for car lovers of all ages.

Cars 2 has some fantastic car-themed backdrops, but the cinematography doesn't approach the lovingly detailed spectacle of the first one, the script ignores almost all character development, and what characters they do feature are just background props to the accidental spy, Mater. The fiendish villain's plot is unnecessarily complex, and you already know who the villain is halfway through. For anyone who doesn't catch it, there's some clumsily obvious camerawork that gives it away near the end, anyway.

There's some pandering to car-nuts, and a lot of potshots taken at lemons. The variety of cars featured are fantastic, and I've no doubt that someone will eventually do a geisha-themed Kei Car in response to this movie, but such good parts are few and far between in a movie that focuses on spy-versus-spy action and slot car style racing (not even as interesting as the racing in Cars 1, past the first half of the first race...)

I knew it was going to be bad, but heck, my kid had a movie night coming up. And except for the sushi bar sequence, she was bored to death. Dare I say it? "Tokyo Mater" was more entertaining. And you don't even have to pay to see that one on TV...

5/10 - worth a rental if you want to pause and enjoy the scenery and design, otherwise, forget about it.
 
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Saw this movie while on the airplane. It was good for some time-killing cheap thrills, but beyond that, it was a pretty bad film. Terrible lines, bad acting, stupid plot, even stupider cars. The car scenes were not even close to being memorable. I had hoped that they would just kill the franchise after this movie, but nope, they had that little clip at the end setting it up for another movie. Not worth watching unless all you want is just to watch something mindless.
 
I saw Ninja Assassin again through Netflix. This movie is very cool, among the best ninja movies I've ever seen 👍

Watching Rain Fall right now on Netflix, it's about a Japanese hit man going after a stick. Lol that's all I know about it because I just started watching it.
 
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides: I don't know...this was pretty much like the other three films. The additions of Penelope Cruz and Ian McShane were a nice touch, but it was still...Pirates. I mean, it wasn't a terrible film, at all. But...it's just...the same thing over and over. It's kind of like American Dad...only instead of 4 or 5 different storylines, these films have one...and it gets old after a while. The third is still my favorite...Pirates 4 gets an 8/10 or 3/5

Oh...and after thinking about it, I'm knocking X-Men First Class down to 5/10 and 2/5. Why? Because this is by FAR the most sexist Marvel superhero movie ever. Raven/Mystique bitched about EVERYTHING the entire movie which kept her from contributing at all, Angel didn't do anything and was a stripper, Emma was a mindless puppet (which...she's the leader of the X-Men/Gen-X...), oh, and Moria got an English accent...like the producers didn't even care about her character despite Moria being important to Xavier. And Moria really didn't do much, either...and she contributed the most out of all the women in the movie.
 
You might as well knock down the Pirates rating too. Penelope was effing annoying and the plot was full of holes. The previous movies have been about pirates but mostly about the relationship between will and jessica. As annoying as both of them could be, it served as a focal point. Jack was simply a supporting character, trying to get by on his own and not really interested in the outcome of anything. The same is true in this film...except that now Jack is the main character. How can you use a character that is doing things on a whim as your main focal point? He doesn't care what happens, and therefore the audience doesn't care either. It was a bad movie and when I watch the series in the coming years I will likely skip that one. PS, I think Johnny Depp is contracted for 2 more sequels...so hopefully they take some notes and improve the next one.
 
DA__dogg
I saw Ninja Assassin again through Netflix. This movie is very cool, among the best ninja movies I've ever seen 👍
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Yup Ninja Assassin was a surprisingly VERY good ninja movie and VERY VERY gory. :dopey:

We started watching "The Day After Tomorrow" again. Just cant ever get enough of this movie. I bet we have watched it 15 times by now and its always fun to watch around winter time, which is right around the corner. I really do see this happening some day.
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chuyler1
You might as well knock down the Pirates rating too. Penelope was effing annoying and the plot was full of holes. The previous movies have been about pirates but mostly about the relationship between will and jessica. As annoying as both of them could be, it served as a focal point. Jack was simply a supporting character, trying to get by on his own and not really interested in the outcome of anything. The same is true in this film...except that now Jack is the main character. How can you use a character that is doing things on a whim as your main focal point? He doesn't care what happens, and therefore the audience doesn't care either. It was a bad movie and when I watch the series in the coming years I will likely skip that one. PS, I think Johnny Depp is contracted for 2 more sequels...so hopefully they take some notes and improve the next one.
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Meh, to each its own, I guess.

I've been a bit away from this thread since I'm catching up on my TV series... been watching Mad Men, The Shield, The Sopranos and Breaking Bad.
 
Mad Men is great. Best show on TV if you ask me. Been meaning to watch Breaking Bad but haven't had the time.

Sons of Anarchy just started back up again. Another awesome show.
 
chuyler1
You might as well knock down the Pirates rating too. Penelope was effing annoying and the plot was full of holes. The previous movies have been about pirates but mostly about the relationship between will and jessica. As annoying as both of them could be, it served as a focal point. Jack was simply a supporting character, trying to get by on his own and not really interested in the outcome of anything. The same is true in this film...except that now Jack is the main character. How can you use a character that is doing things on a whim as your main focal point? He doesn't care what happens, and therefore the audience doesn't care either. It was a bad movie and when I watch the series in the coming years I will likely skip that one. PS, I think Johnny Depp is contracted for 2 more sequels...so hopefully they take some notes and improve the next one.
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Can't knock down pirates for being pirates or Disney for being Disney. Sexist stuff is expected of both. But you're right, Jack Sparrow as a main character does add to the films overall boringness. Especially, since Jack is a pirate who doesn't like to kill anybody.
 
I really wanted to like the film...but i walked out of the theater with my wife, looked at her and said "well that sucked". I couldn't quite put a finger on it...until we started discussing it. The film was simply disjointed and forced. My wife kept remarking about how obvious it was that Penelope was pregnant. My guess is that Disney didn't have the pregnacy clause in the contract and when she showed up for filming there was nothing they could do except get creative with the camera angles and outfits. I hate her with a passion. She ruins every movie with her dumb accent and bad one dimensional acting. They should have ditched her for Salma Hayek. I'll even tolerate J.Lo over her.

Also missing from the film: The two sets of sidekicks. Major deductions for their missing comic relief.
 
CAMAROBOY69
Yup Ninja Assassin was a surprisingly VERY good ninja movie and VERY VERY gory. :dopey:

We started watching "The Day After Tomorrow" again. Just cant ever get enough of this movie. I bet we have watched it 15 times by now and its always fun to watch around winter time, which is right around the corner. I really do see this happening some day.
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I was happy about the special effects in Ninja Assassin. Very cool how the characters appeared out of the shadows. Can't wait for this movie to hit instant play so I can watch it even more.

I am currently watching Monsters on instant play and it is actually very boring but I've gone through my queue more than once so lol...
 
Tom Servo
I like it even better since IRL I do what Don Draper does.
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That's exactly the reason my wife didn't like ER - they continuously got things wrong. "They don't shock that heart rhythm." "Everyone is a bed hopping slut." "You can't mix those two drugs together."

Scrubs, on the other hand, she said was more accurate. Minus the singing.
 
Well i'm a software engineer and i can atest that the movie "office space" is the only movie that gets the average computer guy right.
 
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I've never, absolutely never, in all 23 years of my life cried as often as I did whilst watching a movie -- in fact, I'm still shedding a tear as I'm writing this up. The movie from beginning to end is roller coaster of emotion; from his years in karts up to his run with Williams, all of it is exceptionally paramount to just was Ayrton himself is: exceptional. I've never watched a race during his reign, but after seeing this I honestly feel I know him better than people who actually spoke with him. I went from hating Prost (and Balestre, especially Balestre) to coming to the realization that he wasn't much different than Senna himself, it was merely the way he knew how to play the political side of things that made him appear to be as bad of a person as he came off as.

After seeing this I truly understand why many say while Schumacher very well smashed every record Senna held, that's about as far as the two should go so far as being mentioned in the same breath. Senna was steadfast, marginal, and flamboyant. Flamboyant in the sense that as soon as he gets into a car, he's off into the sunset. The only way you're catching him is if he were struck by lightning. Such an enigmatic individual who has the uncanny ability (from what little I've seen of Youtube footage) to take off in wet conditions as if the tarmac were completely and utterly dry. If you haven't seen this yet, or you keep hearing about it but don't know who Senna is (you've just gotten into F1, or you've genuinely never heard of him), you owe it to yourself to at least give it a good shot, it's worth the 2 hours, 45 minutes (?).

An easy 10 in my book.

Oh yeah, it was nice seeing an (extremely) young Rubens, whom dare I say, was adorable. :lol:
 
I have Senna saved in my queue for Netflix, just waiting for the disc to be available. I got disc three of Generation Kill in the mail today so I'll be watching that tonight or tomorrow. Senna looks real good though. Can't wait to see it 👍
 
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Birdemic: Shock and Terror

Any person that loves bad movies will find great joy in this one. It's bad, as in, makes any Asylum movie look like an oscar winner. I really don't want to spoil the crappyness and honestly even if I wanted to I have no clue how to put into words what I just watched.

If you love craptastic movies, this is a must see!!!!!
 
Just saw Cars 2.

Honestly, I don't see how anyone could consider it a subpar effort from Pixar. It was great.
 
Saw a Japanese movie called Symbols. Dumbest movie ever. It's an art movie towards the end, but, seriously, I wish I had my hour and a half back.
 
I watched Aliens again recently, sci-fi and action all rolled into one. Cameron I salute you. 👍
 
shem
I watched Aliens again recently, sci-fi and action all rolled into one. Cameron I salute you. 👍
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Ah I watched Aliens too recently, was on TV and couldn't help but watch (procrastination issues). Still get the chills due to it's isolated space environment and lack of superheroes to deal with the alien.
 

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