MOVIES you watched this week? (DVD)

[tilthefirefades]

Originally Posted by cristochango

Harold and Kumar escape from guantanimo bay

That is one of the funniest movies ever! "that's just down right disgusting...BUT I LIKE IT!!!"

[Richard B]

Originally Posted by Zombie

Just got back from the Clash of the Titans remake, which was pretty much like the original, except no puppets, and therefore not as good.

Actually, there were no puppets used in the 1981 version of Clash of The Titans, it was all stop motion animation and it was the last feature film for which Ray Harryhausen created the special effects for. It should also be noted here on The Ledge, that Mick Fleetwood's sister, Susan Fleetwood, played the role of Athena in the film.

Just watch Public Enemies on blu-ray. Pretty good film.

[ILoveFM]

I just watched the black balloon. It is such a powerful and intense movie. It's the story of this family in Australia, there are the parents (the mother is pregnant at the beginning), Charlie is one of their sons who is autistic, and then there is Thomas who is the main character. I laughed and cried and yelled. It is so worth seeing

[LukeA]

"The Census Taker" is on MGM HD right now. Very bizarre and unsettling.

[hayley]

I spent the weekend sniffling on the couch - yay spring cold! I watched Whip It yesterday - exactly the kind of movie I should've loved but I was meh about it. Wondering if it was the movie itself or just my mood.

[iamnotafraid]

There Will Be Blood
Again. This is becoming one
of my most favorite movies.

[iamnotafraid]

Since I'm the only person on earth not to see Avatar,
should I rent the Blu ray DVD or wait until I have a 3D TV and
rent or buy the 3D version of the disc when it comes out?

[Miss Vicky]

Crazy Heart

Loved it. Jeff Bridges most definitely deserved his Oscar for this one. Great performance, great music.

[iamnotafraid]

I'm missing Netflix!

[Sahara]

I watched Vanity Fair in thirteen parts on Youtube. I was only really in it for Gabriel Byrne but I did really enjoy it. Reese Witherspoon is fantastic in everything.

Also, rewatched Funny Face to relax after a week of exams. It was bliss.

[TrueFaith77]

Two movies that get to the essence of Love: Clarence Brown's Emma and D.W. Griffith's Broken Blossoms.

[chelluversu]

Fight Club
This is the first time I actually watched the movie all the way through; everytime I caught it on TV it would always be in the middle of everything and on a stupid ass channel that would cut everything out or change "bad" words to something...unspeakable lol. BTW, I happen really like this movie so much so that I actually watched it over with commentary from brad, norton (I don't really like the name Edward lol), helena, and the director

KICK ASS!!
I love this movie...nuff said =]

[Nikolaj]

1.'The African Queen' - Bogart and Hepburn-- they are good, he won a Best Actor Oscar as 'Charlie' in this film, but I hate the way the movie is underscored, musically-there are unintentionally bad, melodramatic and too-loud musical interludes that are utilized to 'tell you' what you are 'supposed' to feel in the upcoming scene, in the coming moments...it was a technique that was used typically in 70's tv melodramas, where the musical score was almost a character in 'Charlies Angels', 'Kojak' and such tv shows - screechy violins, or 'dum-dum-dum' suspense music loops, and such. To see, and hear, this used so blatantly in a John Huston movie really surprised me and really ups the cheesy factor, of which I was expecting none.
--$40ish, amazon,com, deluxe edition with lobby cards and a Hepburn 'making of' softbound book, and other stuff (film cells)

2.'Michael Clayton'- on sale, crazy cheap at Best Buy last week, 3.99. Seems very good but I haven't finished it yet. I usually like George Clooney, and the price was right.
Next, I'd like to hunt down whatever the name was of that football movie set in the 1930s that came and went a cpl years ago, the film which made him quietly quit The Writers Guild when they didn't allow him a screenwriting credit he seemed to have deserved.
Did anyone know (I didn't!) that if you ever dare to quit The Writers Guild (of North America, I believe, is the organization's full-name)---- that you may NEVER be re-admitted as a member?! That seems soooo wrong to me, like if you dare to dispute them, and have good reasons and quietly resign, as GC did, that you may never rejoin.

3. Almost finishing up, finally, with The Paul Newman Tribute Collection, about $50 at Costco around Christmas, " a collection of 13 of his best films on dvd, accompanied by a bee-autiful 136 Page Book" to quote (with spelling liberties taken) from the back of the box set. Enjoyed 'The Verdict', 'The Hustler' and 'From The Terrace' the most, maybe. Still have yet to view 'Quintet' and 'The Towering Inferno'- the latter which I'm curious to see because of Faye Dunaway and a name-heavy 'A-List' early '70s cast. Somehow I expect a lot of cheesy, melodramatic music in it, though!

[iamnotafraid]

Netflixing again...

The Box
What a boring movie. And a lousy
film transfer.

Edge Of Darkness
Pretty good movie. I guarantee
you will jump out of your socks
during one part (not the porch
scene).

[GypsyBlueEyes]

Alice in Wonderland. It wasn't the best thing I'd ever seen but it wasn't bad either.