Revisited after many years...

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 4.5/5 Originally all the flying put me off, but now I appreciate so much more about it. I'm still stunned by the choreography of the fight scenes and the music. Wish it ended happier, that somebody ended up happy after all that.

morningsong said:

Revisited after many years...

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 4.5/5 Originally all the flying put me off, but now I appreciate so much more about it. I'm still stunned by the choreography of the fight scenes and the music. Wish it ended happier, that somebody ended up happy after all that.

An excellent, exquisite movie, and a couple of the flicks that followed in that wave, Hero and (the gorgeously shot) House of Flying Daggers, are very good as well.

I'm going through my Criterions I recently bought.

The Devil's Backbone-Guillermo Del Torro's horror-gothic classic- 4 stars

namepeace said:

morningsong said:

Revisited after many years...

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 4.5/5 Originally all the flying put me off, but now I appreciate so much more about it. I'm still stunned by the choreography of the fight scenes and the music. Wish it ended happier, that somebody ended up happy after all that.

An excellent, exquisite movie, and a couple of the flicks that followed in that wave, Hero and (the gorgeously shot) House of Flying Daggers, are very good as well.

I loved Hero!!

Wolverine

/5

it was too predictable.

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namepeace said:

morningsong said:

Revisited after many years...

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 4.5/5 Originally all the flying put me off, but now I appreciate so much more about it. I'm still stunned by the choreography of the fight scenes and the music. Wish it ended happier, that somebody ended up happy after all that.

An excellent, exquisite movie, and a couple of the flicks that followed in that wave, Hero and (the gorgeously shot) House of Flying Daggers, are very good as well.

I've seen both of those, they were good and I need to revisit them. Soon.

7/10

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Just got back from "The Conjuring". Here is how it shakes out:

If you are between the ages of 45 - 65, you have seen this movie 15 times.

If you are between the ages of 35 - 45, you have seen this movie 10 times.

If you are between the ages of 25 - 35, you have seen this movie 7 times.

If you are between the ages of 5 - 25, you have seen this movie 5 times.

That said, it's still pretty entertaining. Even though it's a rehash of every other haunted house movie ever made, it was rehashed with some skill

I give this movie 3 possessed young daughters out of a possible 5 possessed young daughters.

RodeoSchro said:

Adventureland (2009)

I haven't seen a better performance from Kristen Stewart. A decent movie with some funny moments, a lot of great 80s music, and loyal to the look and feel of the time. Jesse Eisenberg and Stewart lead a pretty good cast top to bottom, and Ryan Reynolds hits the right notes.

This weekend I saw:

Kung Fu Panda 2/ 3 out of 4 stars

Trance/ 4 out of 4 stars

Date Night/2 out of 4 stars

Easy A/3 out of 4 stars

Our Idiot Brother/2.5 out of 4 stars

The Kids Are All Right/4 out of 4 stars

The Hunger Games/ 2 out of 4 stars

RodeoSchro said:

Just got back from "The Conjuring". Here is how it shakes out:

If you are between the ages of 45 - 65, you have seen this movie 15 times.

If you are between the ages of 35 - 45, you have seen this movie 10 times.

If you are between the ages of 25 - 35, you have seen this movie 7 times.

If you are between the ages of 5 - 25, you have seen this movie 5 times.

That said, it's still pretty entertaining. Even though it's a rehash of every other haunted house movie ever made, it was rehashed with some skill

I give this movie 3 possessed young daughters out of a possible 5 possessed young daughters.

Yeah, it's cliched but also entertaining. I liked it better, but I haven't seen a horror movie in years. Went only because a friend was dying to see it. It was better than I expected.

It was so long, and with so many characters, I think I'll have to watch it again. But upon first viewing, 3/5.

Purple Rain but I'm watching it right now, sooo Dogma umm 4/5

Just saw The Heat. I thought it was really entertaining (4/5 stars). I comedies. Sandra Bullock is one of my favorite actresses so I'm a little biased.

I had a Ingmar Bergman marathon this weekend:

The Seventh Seal (1957)-5 stars

Wild Strawberries (1957)-5 stars

The Silence (1963)-4 stars

Through A Glass Darkly (1960)-4 stars

The Magician (1958)-3 1/2 stars

I'm gonna watch his "Summer" movies next.

Tempest said:

Just saw The Heat. I thought it was really entertaining (4/5 stars). I comedies. Sandra Bullock is one of my favorite actresses so I'm a little biased.

I loved this movie!!! Melissa McCarthy could read the phonebook, however, and I'd bust a gut laughing. I was so glad there were funny bits beyond what was in the trailer.

Just saw "The Skin I Live In." I give it 3 1/2 stars and 3 1/2 WTFs.

The Conjuring .....As RodeoSchro said if you're between 35-45 you've seen this kinda movie 10 times....... 6.5 / 10

This Is The End 6.5 / 10 Was told by a couple that it was hilarious so was probably expecting a little too much. Worth a watch though as it had its funny monents.

We watched "16 Candles" last night. I give this movie out of a possible 5 .

What a great movie! It's one of about four movies that make me cry. I am not ashamed to admit that, as the father of a daughter, I tear up every time Samantha mouths "That's the boy!" to her dad as she's leaving the wedding. Heck, I would tear up at that scene even before I had a daughter.

This movie has almost as many great lines as the greatest movie ever made (which is, of course, "Animal House"). It's one of three movies that defined how the 80's would be remembered. The other two are "Valley Girl" and "Fast Times at Ridgemont High".

I'd better hit "Post response" before I start quoting and listing all the incredible moments from "16 Candles".

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Welt am Draht (Germany, 19723) - 8/10

"Somewhere in the future there is a computer project called Simulacron one of which is able to simulate a full featured reality, when suddenly project leader Henry Vollmer dies. His successor Dr. Fred Stiller experiences odd phenomena. A good friend, Guenther Lause, disappears in the middle of a conversation and a week later nobody has ever heard of him. And those fits of dizzyness - Stiller cannot believe himself to be fool. There has to be an explanation for all this. Could Simulacron have something to do with it?"

http://www.imdb.com/title..._=tt_ov_pl

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This is absolutely the blue-print for "The Matrix".

jillybean said:

Just saw "The Skin I Live In." I give it 3 1/2 stars and 3 1/2 WTFs.

3 1/2 WTfs Shows just to what lengths humans will go for 'love.'

The Conjuring...

Swept From the Sea (1997)

With some of my fave actors...Rachel Weisz, Kathy Bates, Ian McKellen...

No matter what they do to us...no matter what they take from us...I'm your home and you're mine." ~Yanko

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120257/


Vincent Perez has the kindest eyes I've ever seen.

Beautiful cinematography...heartbreaking story of human cruelty and love.

2 Guns. 2 1/2 out of 4 stars. Whole bunch of stuff in this movie made no sense but it was entertaining.

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7/10

mjforever said:

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7/10

I want to see this so much! I think it released here today....

I just saw "The Conjuring" I guess it was pretty good since I couldn't sleep after seeing it.

The Wolverine.............

i want my money back!