General Movie Thread

[Pat K]

That final shot of the sky is pretty amazing.

Hell yeah. I'm so glad I caught it on the big screen.

[dave from knoxville]

Saw Role Models last night. Saw Nate Hartley. Laughed a lot. Not going to show it to my wife, who would ground me from movies forever.

[masterofsparks]

Tried watching Army of Shadows on DVD last night. After all the praise I'd heard, I expected to love it, but found it strangely unsatisfying. It seemed to waver between being plot-driven and anecdotal, as if it couldn't make up its mind which it wanted to be. I have NO problem with movies that move slow or take their time getting to wherever it is they need to be, but this was just boring. I started checking the time about an hour in and finally turned it off after 90 minutes.

[Jack from Arkansas]

I'm a sucker for a horror movie if it's made decently whatsoever.  So The Orphanage was very cool and had a great story arc.  It's set in Spain in a coastal area and it's about a lady who buys the orphanage where she was raised and is sort of haunted through her terminally ill adopted son.  No cheap gags.

[jbissell]

Tried watching Army of Shadows on DVD last night. After all the praise I'd heard, I expected to love it, but found it strangely unsatisfying. It seemed to waver between being plot-driven and anecdotal, as if it couldn't make up its mind which it wanted to be. I have NO problem with movies that move slow or take their time getting to wherever it is they need to be, but this was just boring. I started checking the time about an hour in and finally turned it off after 90 minutes.

Surprised you found it boring, I got wrapped up in the story early on and never let go.  The jailbreak scene towards the end is especially wonderful, but it sounds like you gave up before then.

[Trotskie]

can anyone ID any of these stills?

a


b


c

[cutout]

Saw A Serious Man last night. The Coen Brothers can do no wrong for me. Their batting average for funny/weird/complicated movies is pretty exceptional.

Did anyone see The Box or Gentleman Broncos last night?

[eastgrandforks]

can anyone ID any of these stills?

C might be Aguirre, Wrath of God?

[crumbum]

Saw A Serious Man last night. The Coen Brothers can do no wrong for me. Their batting average for funny/weird/complicated movies is pretty exceptional.

Did anyone see The Box or Gentleman Broncos last night?

Heading out to see  Gentlemen Broncos tonight. I really, really didn't like Napolean Dynamite, and found Nacho Libre mediocre, but something tells me this one has potential. At the very least Jemaine Clement looks funny in the previews.

[Martin]

The Box is terrible.

[Trotskie]

can anyone ID any of these stills?

C might be Aguirre, Wrath of God?

I think the answers are:

the original Payback
28 Days Later
Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

[cutout]

The Box is terrible.

Not surprised, I guess. Ebert's review had given me hope.

[Chris L]

The Box is terrible.

Not surprised, I guess. Ebert's review had given me hope.

That's weird.  Ebert is never wrong. 

[crumbum]

Saw A Serious Man last night. The Coen Brothers can do no wrong for me. Their batting average for funny/weird/complicated movies is pretty exceptional.

Did anyone see The Box or Gentleman Broncos last night?

Heading out to see  Gentlemen Broncos tonight. I really, really didn't like Napolean Dynamite, and found Nacho Libre mediocre, but something tells me this one has potential. At the very least Jemaine Clement looks funny in the previews.

Follow-up report: I was right about Jemaine Clement, and there are half a dozen funny scenes involving Sam Rockwell playing the titular Bronco, but otherwise it's the same old crap I hated in that director's other movies. Everyone is a hopeless freak and we're meant to laugh at as they stare off into space with dumb expressions on their faces. Plus the whole movie is essentially based on the notion that sci-fi is all about giving expression to your most deranged repressed longings in the form of childish allegories.

[Jack from Arkansas]

I knew too much about Paranormal Activity's budget so I was itemizing the cost of everything throughout the whole movie.  The movie creates so much tension from just great pacing that it ends up really working.  The audience was pretty freaked out.  I've been watching horror movies for two months straight but this thing is def. haunting the fuck out of me (like when I got home that night).