Godard hasnt made a good movie since before kioshk's avatar was president

seems to come out of the ground every few years with a crap film, if only as a reminder he isnt dead. kinda similar to a locust.

I have to get my A Christmas Story fix every year. Usually comedies aren't that funny the second time around but I laugh at this one every year.

"I TRIPLE-dog-dare ya!"

Watched two recently:

Tusk:

Not your typical Kevin Smith movie. Described as horror comedy but I didn't think it was much of a comedy but still enjoyed it. Justin Long (Jeepers Creepers, Dodgeball, Waiting) plays a guys who does a slapstick type podcast and travels to the Great White North for his next story/episode. He stumbles on this crazy old guy in the middle of nowhere who he thinks has a grand story to tell but instead has plans to turn this kid mentally and physically into a walrus. Had a creepy feel, then got a little hokie about halfway through but finished pretty decent and definitely not what I was expecting at the end. Fairly different, but decent flick. 6.5/10



Nightcrawler:

Loved this. Down and out guy (Jake Gyllenhaal) learns the trade of freelance camera man recording graphic accident victims and the like and selling to local news station production manager (Rene Russo) for their news. Great performance by Gyllenhaal, IMO. 7.5/10

I just watched Peggy Sue Got Married. Hadn't seen it in about a dozen years. It's strange because there are a ton of things I know I should hate about it, but I enjoy it anyway. Kathleen Turner was really pretty phenomenal in it. Cage is laughably bad with the helium balloon accent but fun to watch in a car-wreck kind of way.

Definitely not your standard Coppola film but a nice nostalgic change of pace.

I love absolutely every bit of this movie! Pure entertainment from start to finish if you ask me. For my tastes and preferences it is a completely top tier movie and has strong rewatch value.

I always turn on the Christmas Eve marathon and pretty much leave it on all day while I am at home. Kinda has become a tradition for me.

Best Cage line: I'd cut off my right arm for you, Peggie!

I love Cage in that movie. Such a goof.

Props to FFC for hiring his struggling nephew.

I changed the yeah yeah yeahs to ooh ooh oohs

Watched World War Z tonight. A rather forgettable zombie movie. I never read the book but I'm sure they did a horrible job of adapting it.

Witness for The Prosecution 1957

Been wanting to see Billy Wilder movies. I really can't say much w/o spoiling. It drags in some parts a bit. Mostly the dialog is good, but some of it is a bit bad imo. It's weird that Tyrone Power plays an Englishmen with absolutely no English accent. Maybe in 1957 they didn't think audiences would notice. All said and done though, quite good.

the 8.5/10 on IMDB seems about right

It is a forgettable movie and very different from the book, but it had to be. It's not as extreme as making a big budget popcorn flick about the Battleship board game still pretty different though.

The audiobook for WWZ is up on YouTube and pretty decent. It omits a couple chapters but you'd get the idea.

+1

I enjoyed it. Need more, ya know, Godzilla in the next one.

In other news:

Captain America: Winter Soldier waa WAY better than the first, and the best thing Marvel has done either ever or in a long time. Terrific action flick. I wouldn't have watched it without hearing good word about it, glad I did.

Safety Not Guaranteed A smart-ass journalist and 2 interns - a naive college student and a better looking version of Janine Garafalo, answer an ad of a guy seeking someone to time travel with him.

I found it watchable and somewhat enjoyable but nothing earth shattering. I think if you like quirky low budget indie films you will like it. If you don't, you probably won't.

I have several issues with Spielberg... the first of which is, I can not stop watching his movies. Several of them are probably in my top 100, but there is also a dark side to Steven Spielberg.

I find his style very formulaic in nature, specially when taken in context of his entire body of work. His movies are Controlled, Safe and with boundaries. Surely this is a... "style"... of film making, but when I see his movies, I know what I am most likely going to see before I go into the theater. Steven Spielberg is certainly no Chameleon.

The closest thing I can think of to describe watching a SS movie is "Disney like"... yet even Disney's GREAT movies of old are much more dark and sinister than Spielbergs for the most part (I am not speaking directly to movies like Saving private Ryan or Schindlers List).

Vanilla was a great analogy for a mainstream Spielberg movie, yet somehow... I don't think that does Vanilla any Justice.

Spielberg is great but that dude seriously need to get over his parents divorce!

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Paragraphing is a useful art form.

You forgot Roger Corman: head of New World Pictures, and also a writer, director, producer, actor, and in his 1955 film, The Fast and Furious, he was a stunt driver.

That you so often miss the obvious is a glaring fault that I always forgive you for.

agree completely

i thought the movie was incredibly forgettable and your standard formulaic thriller

One of my favorite Christmas Movies: A Christmas Carol, 1951, B&W with Alistair Sim. Used to see it every year at Christmas time when going up. That was long ago and far away.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044008/

A Christmas Carol is just a great story full stop, and that's a great movie of it.

How High (2001) starring Method Man and Redman.
Ali G Indahouse (2002) starring Sacha Baron Cohen.

Both are incredible movies, perhaps even better after a reefer or two, or three........