Walk Hard is ****ing hilarious!

It really is. Significantly better than any of the other comedies by the Apatow co. Very smart and well done, especially if you have seen enough biopics to really get it

Walk Hard is great.

So I finally saw Boyhood.

...I liked it. As a "Before" fanboy, I was really looking forward to seeing this...especially because of the unique filming process.

But it didn't really grab me. I thought it was well done, but I was really turned off by the ogre husbands Patricia Arquette kept marrying. It seemed like manufactured drama.

And the boy who played Mason - while stunning to look at - just seemed morose and introverted and not that interesting. His sister seemed more interesting to me.

One scene I loved was at the bowling alley when Ethan Hawke is giving his kids the condom discussion. It was charming.

But the rest of it...meh. It's a minor work with a thoroughly unique stunt that makes it more interesting than it really is.

The One I Love was great. Lots of fun. Fantastic performances by Duplass and Moss. I certainly did not see that twist coming.

Mark Duplass has a very winning way about him. He's going places.

And Elisabeth Moss may be the best actress in America.

I thought Gone Girl was long, boring, uninteresting, and unrealistic. Usually when a film is as highly rated as this was (8.4 on imdb), I can at least appreciate it as a good movie even if I don't love it. I actually thought this was a bad movie. Affleck and Pike were both annoying and hard to watch for 2.5 hours.

Nightcrawler, on the other hand, was a pretty good thriller. Kept me interested the whole way.

I had no idea that the term Japs is offensive. It just seems inline with stuff like Aussies, Yanks, Poms, Canucks, etc to me.

She's very good!

Predestination

Interesting and entertaining scifi thriller about time travel and the paradoxes therein.

It's worth a watch, but I felt the twists were telegraphed too much.

So happy that Walk Hard was mentioned in this here thread : it made my day. The directors is hilarious and largely contributes to the movie.

Other notable biopics :

- Chaplin
- La Vie en Rose (Edith Piaf)
- The Aviator
- Control
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Sid and Nancy
- What we do is Secret
- Ali

Yeah it was indeed, I quite liked it. Have you seen Sint from the same year?
That's another offbeat but fun Christmas flick.

Thanks. Added to queue.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Not so much the first three, but plenty of spies. In fact everyone in the movie is a spy. Set in the 70s, A spy gets shot by another spy which causes some other spies to get fired. Of the remaining non-fired spies, there is a mole spy. One of the fired spies tries to find the mole spy with the help of lots of other spies. There are literally spies EVERYWHERE.

This movie has sort of a droll tone to it. It's not that nothing happens. Lots of stuff happens. But it's sort of the anti-James Bond spy film. It just feels slow.

I liked it. However, I couldn't follow everything. I got the gist of it but there were so many little things that happened that I couldn't quite piece together. I think I would need to watch this again to really get a grip on all of the details.

Oldman is great as usual. Would recommend.

oral history of boogie nights

long and engrossing. must-read for any fan of the movie.

The Equalizer. A more Hollywood version of Man On Fire, in the sense of a washed out/retired Washington killing bad guys with his skills. Not bad but no where near as good.

Still brutal though? MoF, he was vicious. Loved it!!

Bird, I liked Prefontaine, even if it pulls out all the sports movie cliches.

There's certainly some satisfactory kills, just had a bit of gloss where MOF had grit. Still well worth checking out.

Went and saw Exodus (I'll post my ticket stub later for proof).

I found it very boring. Seemed to drag out unimportant parts and the battles were a letdown compared to the previews.

Well put on the grit/gloss thing. That tells me a ton right off the bat. I'll check it out on Netflix probably when it comes out.

awesome thanks for the link

Agreed that it came out of left field. I just wanted them to focus on that and their relationship given the twist, as opposed to it becoming a little too sci fi-ey like it did towards the end.

Stories We Tell

This is a breath of fresh air of a documentary. It takes the classic "I'm gonna make a documentary about my family because they ****ed me up in the head," and spins it around.

It's filmed by Sarah Polley, who is an actor turned director (she directed "Take this Waltz") and the movie is her interviewing her relatives about the history of her family, but it plays more like a detective story with a bunch of twists and turns along the way. It is great to hear everyone's own little spin on the events that took place and how they don't always sync up. I don't want to give anymore away because I think that would detract form the experience, but believe me that it is engrossing and never boring.

I watched Stories We Tell, very interesting.