Unofficial Tex Murphy

Music by ABBA. Which, for some, is like a magnet to this movie anyway.

Personally I pass on them, but I recognize the fact that they're big internationally, and universally loved.

-Fred

Insert obscure movie reference here........................"Is that an ABBA turd?"


5 points if you know it.

Insert obscure movie reference here........................"Is that an ABBA turd?"

Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

Speaking of Musicals, I'm going to see a Live Performance of West Side Story on Thursday...

Went to the Silver Cinema last night and saw Prince Caspian (2nd installment of The Chronicles of Narnia). Absolutely delightful, esquisitely entertaining, and refreshingly well acted. I highly recommend this movie, along with the first movie, and please read the book as well.

DrPaul wrote:

Insert obscure movie reference here........................"Is that an ABBA turd?"

Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

5 points to the movie master!!!

Thanks for the five points.

I haven't been keeping up on my movie log. Where did I leave off...<scanning the thread>...Ok. The last film I logged in was mama Mia. Since then, I've seen:

Tropic Thunder - Crazy, funny, Robert Downey Jr. stole the show. Also features Ben Stiller and Jack Black. Written, directed, produced and co-starred by Ben Stiller. My movie buddy said that this movie is proof that Ben Stiller should be committed.

Henry Poole is Here - The power of faith. Stars Luke Wilson. His character is dying and he want to die quietly, in peace. A stain on his house resembles the image of Jesus and the accompanying miracles disrupt his peace and quiet.

Vicky Christina Barcelona - Woody Allen wrote/directed. Basically, one guy having an open relationship with 3 women. Can you say manage de quad?

Kabluey - An independent film. Very enjoyable. Hard to describe but I highly recommend it, if you can find it.

Finally got around to seeing No Country For Old Men. I have to say I liked it...up until the point where it started shitting all over itself in the name of art. Also could have used a soundtrack.

Finally got around to seeing No Country For Old Men.

What did you think of the ending?

I didn't really like the ending. I could of used a little more closure to it, a little more sense in why certain scenes were presented. There's one scene in the movie that I think demonstrates the nature of the film. Tommy Lee Jones is talking to the main characters wife, telling her some horrific story, and she asks him, "Why are you telling me this?" And he says, "I don't know. My mind wanders."

To me that's most of No Country. Half of it's important, the other half isn't. The Coen Brothers minds wandered.

Vracar wrote:I didn't really like the ending. I could of used a little more closure to it, a little more sense in why certain scenes were presented. There's one scene in the movie that I think demonstrates the nature of the film. Tommy Lee Jones is talking to the main characters wife, telling her some horrific story, and she asks him, "Why are you telling me this?" And he says, "I don't know. My mind wanders."

To me that's most of No Country. Half of it's important, the other half isn't. The Coen Brothers minds wandered.

It's a very faithful adaptation to a book. The main character is Tommy Lee Jones. He is the one who decides that this is "No Country for Old Men," and decides to retire. He's seen too much.

Took my son to watch the new Star Wars: The Clone Wars Animation movie...

It wasn't bad, but it was a little misleading or hard to believe...







Spoiler... If you haven't seen it skip to next post...

I don't understand how they could give Skywalker a Student, when he never became a Jedi Knight... He was rather pissed about that in Part 3, that he felt ready, but he was being held back... If my understanding of the Jedi Knight process, you need to be a Jedi Knight in order to take on a Student Learner... But they gave him one anyway... Yoda in fact was the one that recommended it...
Also another piece of the movie I had a hard time with... I remember Jabba The Hutt having a Wife in Part I... But I don't recall him having a Child {son}... But in this Animation he did, in fact it is mostly what the movie is based around, because the baby Hutt gets Kipnapped by Count Dooku to frame the Jedi... But when Part 4, 5, and 6 come along, Jabba doesn't have a Child in any of these movies...

I feel that making this animation and wedging it in between Part 2 and 3 was a mistake, especially the way they ended up doing it... Like I said, it's quite misleading and hard to fit it in with an in between story to go along with the movies...


Good action and animation... It was a good movie, but don't try to relate it to the Real Movies...

I felt the same about No Country.....

It started out well, then about halfway I was like..... "Where is this going?" and it just felt like it was going and going and when I got to the end..... there was no conclusion at all.

It didn't even feel like a movie... I felt like I was watching a snipet of a person's life and then someone just decided to stop filming.

I definately thought that There Will be Blood deserved best picture over No Country. That movie was absolutely amazing. Slow to start, but the ending was so fitting. To see a man fall so far was absolutely chilling.

Last movie I saw was Iron Man and Batman.... we ve heard enough about those two already though so I'm not going to bother =P

I saw The House Bunny on Friday night. It stars Shelly Darlingson as an ex-Playboy bunny who becomes the house-mother of a geak-girl sorority house and helps the girls find themselves - so to speak. Are old pal Hugh Hefner is in it and shows his sensitive side. It's a cute movie and exactly what you would expect.

For you Peter Jackson fans, I also saw Dead Alive a.k.a. Braindead at the Saturday midnight show. From the man who brought you Lord of the Rings, this is a low-budget, gore-fest, horror-comedy. To some extent, it is in the same spirit as the old Bruce Campbell/Evil Dead movies. Lots of blood, gore and zombies, but roaringly funny. Worth seeing if you haven't and if you like zombie movies.

lestat666 wrote:
It didn't even feel like a movie... I felt like I was watching a snipet of a person's life and then someone just decided to stop filming.

My thoughts exactly.

On another note, saw Tropic Thunder on the weekend... best opening to a comedy film ever! It lost a bit in the middle as it was left to the comedy to carry it through a bit becuase of the lack of action and pace (and there are only so many Ben Stiller'esque jokes one can take at once), but towards the end it all came together nicely.

-Cub. =o)