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Good Movies That I Have Seen Lately....

This one was very, very WEIRD

PERFUME: THE STORY OF A MURDERER

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ohh the one were he cuts off people's noses?? My friend told me about it... Sounded cool!

I recently watched The Wall... Definitely one of my all-time favorites now :P

And does anyone recommend Clockwork Orange? I've been wanting to see it but haven't had the time yet...

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MUST PONDER

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notdeadyet wrote:
ohh the one were he cuts off people's noses?? My friend told me about it... Sounded cool!

I recently watched The Wall... Definitely one of my all-time favorites now :P

And does anyone recommend Clockwork Orange? I've been wanting to see it but haven't had the time yet...

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I just finished watching THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS (Heath Ledger's last film). It was very good.

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Loved Avatar!

Saturday-May 22

This movie arrived from Netflix a week ago, but I finally got around to seeing it today:

FROM HELL

starring Johnny Depp as the detective who was covering the Jack The Ripper case back in 1888.

This story is somewhat hypothetical, filling in the details of what was known with what actually could have beeen...providing motive...and more.

I will never see another Jack The Ripper movie again. I not going to wonder about who did it anymore...even if this is not true, it's mighty convincing.

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ti8tgowbb wrote:
This movie arrived from Netflix a week ago, but I finally got around to seeing it today:

FROM HELL

starring Johnny Depp as the detective who was covering the Jack The Ripper case back in 1888.

This story is somewhat hypothetical, filling in the details of what was known with what actually could have beeen...providing motive...and more.

I will never see another Jack The Ripper movie again. I not going to wonder about who did it anymore...even if this is not true, it's mighty convincing.

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ti8tgowbb wrote:
This movie arrived from Netflix a week ago, but I finally got around to seeing it today:

FROM HELL

starring Johnny Depp as the detective who was covering the Jack The Ripper case back in 1888.

This story is somewhat hypothetical, filling in the details of what was known with what actually could have beeen...providing motive...and more.

I will never see another Jack The Ripper movie again. I not going to wonder about who did it anymore...even if this is not true, it's mighty convincing.

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Deffo going to see the new Shrek movie!

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ti8tgowbb wrote:
I just finished watching THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS (Heath Ledger's last film). It was very good.

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notdeadyet wrote:
ohh the one were he cuts off people's noses?? My friend told me about it... Sounded cool!

I recently watched The Wall... Definitely one of my all-time favorites now :P

And does anyone recommend Clockwork Orange? I've been wanting to see it but haven't had the time yet...

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I saw ALICE IN WONDERLAND last night. I was only slightly entertained. Considering the talent involved from start to finish, the resources and the money available, etc...It COULD HAVE BEEN much better.

After the kids went home, I watched another Johnny Depp film,: PUBLIC ENEMIES. This time he played 30's band robber/murderer, John Dillinger. The movie is outstanding.

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I can barely wait for Toy Story 3

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TheIceCreamLament wrote:
I can barely wait for Toy Story 3

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Is anyone else a fan of Forgetting Sarah Marshall? If you are go see Get Him to the Greek! It was hilarious and I've had the soundtrack playing in my car for a few days!

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cats_n_cheese wrote:

TheIceCreamLament wrote:
I can barely wait for Toy Story 3

Me too! I love the other 2 :-)

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VioletViolet wrote:

cats_n_cheese wrote:

TheIceCreamLament wrote:
I can barely wait for Toy Story 3

Me too! I love the other 2 :-)

same :D

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I watched 9. As a song & dance musical, I thought it was excellent. I loved the music. The costumes were great. I was surprised how well people I didn't expect to be singers/dancers were singing & dancing. Wow! Quite impressive.

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Has anyone seen Toy Story 3 yet? The reviews were very good, but I really didn't want to go to a theatre full of young kids. Been there, done that.

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I watched THE INVENTION OF LYING last night. It was quite different from the usual...and much better than I expected it to be.

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....waiting for the "the last airbender"...my brother got me into the cartoons it should be good...it has Dav Patel as Prince Zuko.....can't wait....

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Basileus wrote:
....waiting for the "the last airbender"...my brother got me into the cartoons it should be good...it has Dav Patel as Prince Zuko.....can't wait....

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ti8tgowbb wrote:

Basileus wrote:
....waiting for the "the last airbender"...my brother got me into the cartoons it should be good...it has Dav Patel as Prince Zuko.....can't wait....

That looks like a very good movie. I was watching a show on Disney Channel this evening about the making of the movie.

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I watched THE BLIND SIDE the other night. I had a puddle of tears well up in my eyes from practically the first scene, and they puddled there throughout the entire movie, to finally spill over near the end. A sob story worth watching. There really are some good people with big hearts that come together with someone who needs exactly that, and it all turns out beautiful. It seems sort of too much like a fairy tale. That this is a true story, makes it even more endearing to watch,as this story unfolds.

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ti8tgowbb wrote:
I watched THE BLIND SIDE the other night. I had a puddle of tears well up in my eyes from practically the first scene, and they puddled there throughout the entire movie, to finally spill over near the end. A sob story worth watching. There really are some good people with big hearts that come together with someone who needs exactly that, and it all turns out beautiful. It seems sort of too much like a fairy tale. That this is a true story, makes it even more endearing to watch,as this story unfolds.

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ti8tgowbb wrote:
I watched THE BLIND SIDE the other night. I had a puddle of tears well up in my eyes from practically the first scene, and they puddled there throughout the entire movie, to finally spill over near the end. A sob story worth watching. There really are some good people with big hearts that come together with someone who needs exactly that, and it all turns out beautiful. It seems sort of too much like a fairy tale. That this is a true story, makes it even more endearing to watch,as this story unfolds.

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frostedwheats wrote:

ti8tgowbb wrote:
I watched THE BLIND SIDE the other night. I had a puddle of tears well up in my eyes from practically the first scene, and they puddled there throughout the entire movie, to finally spill over near the end. A sob story worth watching. There really are some good people with big hearts that come together with someone who needs exactly that, and it all turns out beautiful. It seems sort of too much like a fairy tale. That this is a true story, makes it even more endearing to watch,as this story unfolds.

a mom of a boy who recently graduated from HS, (she homeschooled him 90 per cent of the way, btw)and he's off to UCLA
highly recommended this very movie to me. The Blind Side

speak ing of Sandra Bullock just saw
the proposal tonight...coinkadink, hey? xxxxxxxx

btw, Clockwork Orange is overrated imo! (A movie to be seen once and over with already!)

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Has anyone here seen A Life Less Ordinary? It's hilarious! It's about this guy, Robert Lewis, who works as a janitor for a really big company. Robert is replaced by a machine and decides to take revenge on his boss by kidnapping his daughter, Celine Naville. The only problem with this; he doesn't know the first thing about kidnapping!
In heaven (which resembles a modern Police HQ), angels have to try and help people find their true love. Captain Gabriel is upset about the performance of O'Reilly and Jackson, whos cases always end in divorce or misery. Gabriel decides that if they do not solve this case, they must stay on Earth for all eternity. So, they must find a way of getting Robert and Celine to fall, and stay, in love.

Brilliant movie, reccomend it to anyone in need of a good laugh.

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Just saw Toy Story 3D, didn't think that the 3D was that great but really liked seeing the animation for the toys.
That was cool. Of course avatar and alice in wonderland were fabulous. Looking forward to seeing eclipse. Also like the music soundtracks for those movies. Remember Me is another good movie. Robert Patterson is superb in that movie. That movie threw me for a loop.

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NessaNemoFitzgerald wrote:
Has anyone here seen A Life Less Ordinary? It's hilarious! It's about this guy, Robert Lewis, who works as a janitor for a really big company. Robert is replaced by a machine and decides to take revenge on his boss by kidnapping his daughter, Celine Naville. The only problem with this; he doesn't know the first thing about kidnapping!
In heaven (which resembles a modern Police HQ), angels have to try and help people find their true love. Captain Gabriel is upset about the performance of O'Reilly and Jackson, whos cases always end in divorce or misery. Gabriel decides that if they do not solve this case, they must stay on Earth for all eternity. So, they must find a way of getting Robert and Celine to fall, and stay, in love.

Brilliant movie, reccomend it to anyone in need of a good laugh.

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I don't know what to say about A SINGLE MAN.

For one thing, Colin Firth wept throughout nearly the entire movie, and got an Oscar nomination for it.

The movie is set in the 60's. It is very artistically rendered. The mood is very sad, but hopeful, then sad but sort of hopeful, then sad to the point that I started crying again...then just when my hope was peaking, I was bawling. This movie has THE WORST AND MOST SADDEST ENDING OF ANY MOVIE...EVER!

I told my 82 year old mother I was sending the disk back to Netflix without letting her watch it. She was not going to watch THE MOST depressing movie I've EVER seen. Her two BFF's are a gay couple in her building and for one of the guys we are all HOPING to hear a good report this week that his cancer has been healed (so far, the reports have be really good). This movie would have plummeted her and her pals into immediate sadness...as it did to me. Non of them (nor I) needed this kind of sad.

Even so, it was a VERY meaningful, if terribly sad, movie. I can surely see why Colin Firth got the nomination.

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I forgot to mention, earlier: AN EDUCATION


All girls HAVE to watch this movie.

That's all I'm going to say about it. If you haven't seen it, do so asap. If you have already seen it (or lived it) then you know what I'm talking about.

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...well this is a really old one but PBS just remade Murder on the Orient Express, with David Suchet as Poirot....well done, I thought it would be the same old same old...kept me riveted through the whole move, just 85 minutes....but really done well....

....and after that they did a documentary on the actual Orient Express by David Suchet for about an hour....a history on the train and the carriages...they showed the actual art deco glass and fixtures, menus, the wash basins, the dining cars....so much....really interesting info on some of the history....Hitler used some of the cars as a brothel during 1943 - 45, some good stuff....good night of TV after the WC....the car Christie traveled in, Josephine Baker was in during an bomb explosion during WWII....

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Basileus wrote:
...well this is a really old one but PBS just remade Murder on the Orient Express, with David Suchet as Poirot....well done, I thought it would be the same old same old...kept me riveted through the whole move, just 85 minutes....but really done well....

....and after that they did a documentary on the actual Orient Express by David Suchet for about an hour....a history on the train and the carriages...they showed the actual art deco glass and fixtures, menus, the wash basins, the dining cars....so much....really interesting info on some of the history....Hitler used some of the cars as a brothel during 1943 - 45, some good stuff....good night of TV after the WC....the car Christie traveled in, Josephine Baker was in during an bomb explosion during WWII....

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I rented CRAZY HEART because my mother wanted to see it so much. I let her watch it first. She said that she loved it and that I would too.

I did not.

I'm not into movies about an out of control sloppy drunkard cowboy singer who drank his once upon a time outstanding respected career into the pits of performing in bowling alleys with borrowed backup bands. Finally he hits the bottom. Then he drags his sorry ass to rehab and does okay after that.

I did say to myself, before the movie started that ANYBODY (you, me...literally anybody at all) can sing Country Western music. And lo & behold! When I saw Colin Ferrel starring as the new and upcoming country music singing sensation who was once in the washed up dude's traveling band...and heard country music coming out of HIS OWN MOUTH...my point was proven.

Did Jeff Bridges deserve a Best Actor Oscar for this movie? If he is not a genuine drunkard who can sing really good country western style songs out of his own mouth...I suppose that he did deserve it.

It's something to watch when there is nothing better on t.v.

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Riding in cars with boys

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ymeynow wrote:
Riding in cars with boys

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Last night I watched MY ONE AND ONLY, which is supposed to be an autobiographical account of George Hamilton's childhood. It says on the packaging and elsewhere that it is a comedy. It is not.

During the movie I went into a shock when they were all finally living in California and a call comes that the dad had passed. I was in shock not because the dad had passed, but because on the wall of the movie room there was a very large print of a pair of cockatoos that on MY WALL directly across from the t.v., hanging above the futon, was THE EXACT SAME PICTURE --- EXACT IN EVERY SINGLE LITTLE DETAIL...same frame and everything (however I painted my previously identical white frame black when I got the black futon).

That picture has been on a wall in every home I have lived in since I was born. My parents gave it to me back in the eighties to keep for myself (because I begged for it, I think) I was completely amazed. It was absolutely identical. That was the best part of the movie for me.

Regarding pictures: my mom only recently gave me the other picture that I've known since birth...a big gorgeous tiger painted on silk that my father got when he was in Japan after WWII. I have that one next to the t.v. I wonder when I will see that one in a movie, too?

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Karate Kid (2010)

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silvergoldghostshadows wrote:
Just saw Toy Story 3D, didn't think that the 3D was that great but really liked seeing the animation for the toys.
That was cool. Of course avatar and alice in wonderland were fabulous. Looking forward to seeing eclipse. Also like the music soundtracks for those movies. Remember Me is another good movie. Robert Patterson is superb in that movie. That movie threw me for a loop.

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TheNewKi2 wrote:

silvergoldghostshadows wrote:
Just saw Toy Story 3D, didn't think that the 3D was that great but really liked seeing the animation for the toys.
That was cool. Of course avatar and alice in wonderland were fabulous. Looking forward to seeing eclipse. Also like the music soundtracks for those movies. Remember Me is another good movie. Robert Patterson is superb in that movie. That movie threw me for a loop.

Oh i wanted to see Remember Me!

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I went and saw Inception last night. It was phenomenal! It was very long, but it never got boring. And while it was really complicated, it wasn't hard to follow. Extremely well made.

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TheNewKi2 wrote:

silvergoldghostshadows wrote:
Just saw Toy Story 3D, didn't think that the 3D was that great but really liked seeing the animation for the toys.
That was cool. Of course avatar and alice in wonderland were fabulous. Looking forward to seeing eclipse. Also like the music soundtracks for those movies. Remember Me is another good movie. Robert Patterson is superb in that movie. That movie threw me for a loop.

Oh i wanted to see Remember Me!

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Karate Kid
starring will smiths son

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VioletViolet wrote:

TheNewKi2 wrote:

silvergoldghostshadows wrote:
Just saw Toy Story 3D, didn't think that the 3D was that great but really liked seeing the animation for the toys.
That was cool. Of course avatar and alice in wonderland were fabulous. Looking forward to seeing eclipse. Also like the music soundtracks for those movies. Remember Me is another good movie. Robert Patterson is superb in that movie. That movie threw me for a loop.

Oh i wanted to see Remember Me!

Remember Me is such a good film!

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maryann wrote:

VioletViolet wrote:

TheNewKi2 wrote:

silvergoldghostshadows wrote:
Just saw Toy Story 3D, didn't think that the 3D was that great but really liked seeing the animation for the toys.
That was cool. Of course avatar and alice in wonderland were fabulous. Looking forward to seeing eclipse. Also like the music soundtracks for those movies. Remember Me is another good movie. Robert Patterson is superb in that movie. That movie threw me for a loop.

Oh i wanted to see Remember Me!

Remember Me is such a good film!

I loved Remember Me too! As I was watching it the first time I was thinking it was kind of slow. But when you get to the end of the movie it all fell into place. Wonderful movie and RP was fantastic. I saw it twice while it was playing in the theatres and then bought it the day it came out.

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last nite my hubby and I watched a campy b movie called
The Brain That Wouldn't Die
It was fun to watch. : ) Keeping one's imagination going helps too. : )

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ti8tgowbb wrote:

ymeynow wrote:
Riding in cars with boys

Riding In Cars With Boys was an outstanding movie. I would like to see that again.

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Eclipse was good :)

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I watched IT'S COMPLICATED last night.

Did I laugh? Maybe once...there was a somewhat funny video chat scene. The rest was a drudge.

I find it tedious watching movies with extremely wealthy characters in their incredibly fabulous homes while I'm in my little apartment with no car.


Of all this movie watching one thing is coming through that I didn't expect: MY 82 year old mother!

She watched 2012 in the early morning yesterday, after I thought I was not able to talk her into it. She loved the movie...she couldn't believe how she was riveted to the edge of her seat (at which I worry she would fall...as she has before under less exciting conditions). That was some of the most amazing special effects that I've ever seen. I swear that they had to use sheets of chocolate cake for the earth to rip it apart like that.

I also managed to talk her into watching and loving DISTRICT 9...which she got mad at me for suggesting, until after she saw it and was mesmerized by how incredible the story and the effects were. I loved that movie.

Also on her "I don't want to see it, I know I will hate it list"...but she watched anyway...was REQUIEM FOR A DREAM. She called me afterwards, and every time since when she hears that eerie music from the film. She did say she has seen the worst of the worst of drug movies now, and doesn't want to see anymore. We both agreed that movie was amazing...but so disturbing that we could not get it out of our heads until weeks afterwards.

The saving grace from all the drama was my (and her) favorite comedy so far, which is the British version of DEATH AT A FUNERAL. Omigod! I was rolled up in a ball, laughing until I could barely breath. It's hysterical.