I watched Sleepwalk With Me and enjoyed it a lot. It won a lot of awards in 2012, and was a pretty unique film. The star and writer is a stand up comedian and that shows throughout the film as he often talks to the audience and narrates much more than most films. Usually that's a huge turn off for me but it worked well here.

The story itself is easy to relate to as he's struggling with everyday things like his career, friends, family, and girlfriend even though his rare sleeping disorder is a major component to the story. The main character is really likable and has a unique way of viewing the world imo. He really articulates everyday problems in a way that is both amusing and realistic. Also the movie itself was hilarious, and while his struggling to become a standup comedian is another central theme, his standup itself does not take up much time in the movie and the movie itself is funny due to his presentation of himself and dealing with problems.

Definitely worth watching.

lol... Zombie Apocalypses Now!

World War Z.

What did you expect when you heard Brad Pitt was going to star in a Zombie movie.

Decent kids movie, just don't expect a gap less storyline much better than say a movie like 2012 or Independence Day... CHOMP!

I think at the core is a fairly good idea, but picking apart this movie would be like kicking a child with down syndrome.

Zombies have become Clowns in 2013.

Great review! I'll go see it right now. See you in a couple of hours.

Agreed.

WWZ

Surprisingly effective. Only a few moments I groaned at. It was as respectful to the source material as I imagine it could have been, given that it's 1) a feature film 2) has a main character instead of multiple sort of connected narratives.

My day so far:

The Bling Ring: painfully boring. Starts out interesting, exciting and goes absolutely nowhere. Yes kids are *******s. Yes the world is obsessed with celebrities. It could have been an effective 20 minute short.

Monsters University: Uninspired, dull, and lacked any spark of interest. It's almost as lazy as a Todd Philips film.

Next up World War Z. If this isn't outstanding I'm quitting films altogether.

Next up: Crashjr asks The Lounge to recommend a good book

Mr. Klein (1976) Starring Alain Delon D: Joseph Losey
It's 1942 and Delon plays an art dealer who is buying up art work at exploitative prices from French Jews who have to sell. He receives a Jewish newspaper addressed to him and decides to find the other Robert Klein. Kafkaeqsueness ensues.
Keep an eye on the tapestry at the beginning and at the auction for a metaphor.
Next up: Man of Steel - will it be as thought-provoking? Only time will tell. (The answer is 'no'....)

Listen to the commentary by the director! It's great. He talks about the entire production, the plot etc. Very informative and interesting. Guy is a crazy perfectionist.

Barbarella has some good and some bad. The good is that Jane Fonda circa 1968 is unreal hot and breaks an orgasm machine; it has a bit of an offbeat sense of humor. The bad is everything else. This equates to a lot of badness. 4/10

Promised Land was on track to be fairly solid until one too many unbelievable plot twists in the last half hour. It almost works in spite of all this, almost. Possibly worth a look. 6/10

I had a ****ing blast with World War Z. Tension you could cut with a knife, a couple of nice jump scares, solid action and a bad ass performance from Pitt. Despite a weak ending I walked out of there ****ing pumped. Run a google search for production problems including several re writes it's a bit of a miracle they turned out an entertaining, satisfying film.

Wow, okay obviously my previous post was supposed to say "CroShow" instead of "crashjr."

Great that you liked WWZ! I too had a great time watching it. The ending felt sort of weak and abrupt, but still satisfying enough that I'm ready for a sequel.

I want to see the original third act

So Before Midnight opened here finally. The only problem being the largest disaster in Canadian history has flooded my entire downtown core including the theatre it's showing at. Guess ill be volunteering with cleanup all weekend. Wonder if ill ever see the film. If I wernt an atheist I'd think god was telling me something!

Damn dude you're from Calgary? Sorry to hear it, hang in there man.

heh yeah I wonder what happened. Such a cluster**** of multiple writers, multiple endings and I recall reading stories of how Pitt and Forster stopped talking to each other at one point. Due to going over budget+marketing I've heard WWZ needs to earn $400m to break even. =O

WWZ was a damn good zombie flick. It starts out intense and doesn't let up the whole way through.

Saw Man of Steel. Decent summer flick, should have been a little more fun (superman doing superman things like rescuing people, stopping bank robbers etc would have been nice) and had at least one ending less than it had.

I give Superman 71/100

I give Supermoon 85/100

Pat and Mike (1952) directed by George Cukor and starring Tracy and Hepburn. (Charles Buchinsky also makes an appearance).

I enjoyed this film. Well shot, decent dialogue, engaging store especially for the time. I'm fifty-fifty that it still holds up well. Tracy is a damn fine actor and Hepburn has a nice firm ass but lacks the upper attachments to be really considered great. I think Jane Mansfield would have been a better pick for the part. And that is not just a minor detail.

I am slightly disturbed we live in the same city.

Watched Looper this weekend. I liked the premise and the set-up but something is really bugging me about this movie. I actually stopped it twice and did something else for a bit just because I wasn't that engaged. All of the actors did a really good job but I just didn't connect with any of the characters themselves. I feel like Joe (JGL's character) wasn't developed enough before they started in with the time travelling. It seemed like his only character development was his job - and they didn't really hint at anything else like These are nitty, but something just felt a bit off to me though I think it was a very interesting concept.

Just finished Upstream Color, it's a freaking cool mind**** by Shane Carruth. A lot of it escaped me. I cheated and read this FAQ over at slate.com Upstream Color FAQ

need to watch another 2301902 times

Agreed. All the hate for the movie boils down to people's inability to get over what they think a Zombie movie should and shouldn't be. If you just go into it simply expecting a decent flick, you'll be happy. Some people actually leave their opinion of the movie at "it didn't have any gore!". Chumps.

I was surprised at how well it kept the momentum of the opening throughout the movie, and the final act was a nice nod to classic Zombie fair.

These days, gore really isn't important in a zombie movie, as long as you can convey what's happening without it.

this movies holes are wholly woeful.

The entire movie has the Pitt character counting down to the zombie change over and is very integral to the storyline 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1,ZOMBIE!
HOWEVER... there is also a international proliferation of zombism based on what can only be air travel that takes at best HOURS on end?

I mean you roll into a shopping center for supplies in a RV during the day time... you run down one isle... separate from your wife and child for 30 seconds... wife almost get's raped... run out to the RV that is still there and it's now night time?

you've got a brilliant scientist that might be able to help humanity and you put that scientist in the field where mortality is running near 100% and that scientist falls over on a gun that you gave him and he kills himself?

You fallout of the sky based on an explosive device emergency in a commercial jetliner into what is essentially a small forest, yet you walk away and just happen to be within walking distance of a WHO Biological Laboratory?

BTW... who the f*ck is the Brad Pitt Character supposed to be? he's certainly not a scientist. Is he like a Michael Clayton guy that gets things done in the open field for the United States?

To be honest... the act of zombie cannibalism has really become comical. a plot complication introduced to villainize the zombie persona in an overly simplified ideology.

I understand and accept that the idea of a zombie is reality(Insects)... but who says they are cannibalistic by nature, maybe they should eat apples or something. At the core of human nature isn't really meat... our teeth aren't made for that.

if you are the one making a 200 million dollar Zombie movie, and the only difference between the current WWZ and a Realistic WWZ is the storyline, why not make a realistic WWZ?

Fiction shouldn't suffer a disconnect from reality simply because it's fiction... especially if we're to accept it as believable fantasy.

I still enjoyed the movie for what it was and don't regret seeing it.

I found this interesting..

Suspension of disbelief or willing suspension of disbelief is a term coined in 1817 by the poet and aesthetic philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who suggested that if a writer could infuse a "human interest and a semblance of truth" into a fantastic tale, the reader would suspend judgment concerning the implausibility of the narrative. Suspension of disbelief often applies to fictional works of the action, comedy, fantasy, and horror genres, as well as in professional wrestling. Cognitive estrangement in fiction involves using a person's ignorance or lack of knowledge to promote suspension of disbelief.

The phrase "suspension of disbelief" came to be used more loosely in the later 20th century, often used to imply that the burden was on the reader, rather than the writer, to achieve it. This might be used to refer to the willingness of the audience to overlook the limitations of a medium, so that these do not interfere with the acceptance of those premises. These fictional premises may also lend to the engagement of the mind and perhaps proposition of thoughts, ideas, art and theories