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[Tery]

Watched 2 movies on New Year's Eve (we always stay in, we're boring and hate "amateur night" on the roads):

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot - love Tina Fey and she did very well in this dramedy. I was very surprised to see Martin Freeman in a different kind of role for him. Recommended.

Terminator: Genysis - Liked this one a lot more than I thought I would. Twists are actually twisty and kept me guessing up until the end. Ah-nold still has it. Recommended.

 

[morgan]

Haven't seen a new movie in eons! I did watch Christmas Vacation over the holidays (for the gazillionth time! ). A classic!

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[morgan]

(Holy ****! I remembered how to use a spoiler!! )

 

[danie]

Was by myself on Christmas night and watched the cheesiest movie ever on (newly purchased) Netflix--The Christmas Spirit--about a ghost from the 1800s who comes back to his Inn for the 12 days before Christmas. A human girl falls for him. Gallons of cheese.

Was also by myself on New Year's night and thought, WTH, more cheese for me. The movie was titled High Strung about a violinist who falls for a ballet dancer. Will they win the big Strings/Dance contest? Only a teenager could like this stuff, but I watched till the end.

Monday night, I finally was able to record The Green Mile from HBO (not on TBS with lots of parts cut out and 2 hours of commercials). I had introduced SK to my 15-year-old son a couple months ago by showing him The Shawshank Redemption and Misery, both of which he loved. We both had to return to school Tuesday, so I asked him if he wanted to watch part of The Green Mile. Well, of course, we couldn't stop watching it, so were up late to watch it to the end. My reward was looking over at my "grown-up" boy during the scene where

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John is being executed and asks not to have the hood pulled over his head because he's afraid of the dark,

and seeing him wipe big tears off his face as he cried. He loved it.

 

[Neil W]

Ballerina - CGI movie for ballet dance school girls
Passengers - two hander sci-fi drama with misleading trailer and moral fudging
Monster Trucks - likeable but completely unoriginal high school sci fi hi-jinks
Collateral Beauty - thoughtful bereavement drama
Why Him? - Bryan Cranston adds class to coarse comedy
A Monster Calls - immensely moving and often beautiful drama with fantasy
Silence - long Scorsese drama about Japanese persecution of Christians, especially priests
Assassins Creed - muddy and muddled videogame adaptation with exciting parkour action but little else

 

[do1you9love?]

Watched 2 movies on New Year's Eve (we always stay in, we're boring and hate "amateur night" on the roads):

That's what we call NYE, too! And yep, usually home or at a party in our neighborhood we can walk to.

 

[Doc Creed]

The Fundamentals of Caring. Simply put, it was trite and boring. I laughed in a few places but kept wanting the story to find a different path...instead, we end up where we knew we would from the fifteen minute mark.

 

[danie]

The Fundamentals of Caring. Simply put, it was trite and boring. I laughed in a few places but kept wanting the story to find a different path...instead, we end up where we knew we would from the fifteen minute mark.

I started watching this the other night and didn't get too far into it. The lines seemed forced and, like you said, trite. I'm glad to know I don't need to bother trying it again.

 

[Blake]

Something about a fish.

 

[Doc Creed]

Something about a fish.

A Fish Called Wanda? Jaws? Finding Nemo?

 

[Blake]

A Fish Called Wanda? Jaws? Finding Nemo?

Jaws 3, you learn something because I just looked it up on the internet and Richard Mathieson did the screenplay with Carl Gottlieb. I got it at the Samaritans. I think I saw it in 3-D back when it came out. The first 3-D movie I saw at the movies was one of the Friday the 13th movies. I saw the Judge Dredd movie in 2-D and 3-D. I hope they make another Judge Dredd movie.

 

[Tery]

I think I saw it in 3-D back when it came out.

So did I! It was the first 3-D movie (in my experience) to use the polarized 3-D glasses instead of the red/blue kind. Since I wore glasses, those old kind never really worked for me. These new ones did. I was delighted! Could've been a better movie but it was okay.

 

[skimom2]

For The Love of Spock. Interesting documentary (and it made me tear up a little a few times). I remember watching the original Star Trek with my dad--I liked Kirk because I thought he looked like my dad (and he did, a little--lol), but I wanted to BE Spock.

 

[GNTLGNT]

For The Love of Spock. Interesting documentary (and it made me tear up a little a few times). I remember watching the original Star Trek with my dad--I liked Kirk because I thought he looked like my dad (and he did, a little--lol), but I wanted to BE Spock.

 

[fljoe0]

Johnny Be Good (1988) Anthony Michael Hall, Robert Downey Jr, Uma Thurman

This is a bad movie that could have been terrific. This movie is a good idea with terrible execution. The story is about the shady world of the recruitment of top college football players. The movie has a great cast (with one of Uma Thurman's earliest roles) but is ruined by the unnecessary insertion of broad comedy scenes. This movie reminds me of those Burt Reynolds movies like Stick where Burt had a great cast and a great story but couldn't stop himself from inserting broad comedy where it didn't belong. Johnny Be Good is so disjointed at times, I have a feeling this movie may have suffered from the director and the studio having different ideas of what they wanted and the finished product ends up being a combination of the two ideas. The editing is bad too as there are too many missing scenes (or parts of scenes) that could have connected the story a little better. This could have been very good if they would have played it straight and left out the broad comedy. There is enough absurdity in the real story of college football recruiting to make a good hard hitting comedy without the over the top stuff.

 

[Neesy]

A Fish Called Wanda? Jaws? Finding Nemo?

Jaws 3, you learn something because I just looked it up on the internet and Richard Mathieson did the screenplay with Carl Gottlieb. I got it at the Samaritans. I think I saw it in 3-D back when it came out. The first 3-D movie I saw at the movies was one of the Friday the 13th movies. I saw the Judge Dredd movie in 2-D and 3-D. I hope they make another Judge Dredd movie.

Maybe "The Old Man and the Sea?"

We watched an old black and white movie from 1948 with Loretta Young, Robert Mitchum and William Holden

Rachel and the Stranger

It was really good - I almost cried at the end (Andy liked it too)

 

[Doc Creed]

 

[Brian's Twinner]

I tried watching Dreamcatcher on Netflix. Horrible, illogical mess. A batch of jumbled, incoherent scenes strung together.

 

[Jojo87]

I watched Cell on Saturday. Was a pretty good movie.

 

[Dana Jean]

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I do this! I take it personal. I don't know why. This movie made me react so strongly a certain way, why aren't you feeling it you neanderthal?