Movie Reviews

Sheryl · Post by **Sheryl** » Sun May 21, 2006 8:22 am

Watched "The Ringer" yesterday with Johnny Knoxville. I wasn't sure if I really wanted to watch it since it's bout a guy faking mental disability to fix the Special Olympics. I thought it would be a movie where they made fun of the those with mental disabilities. Boy was I wrong, it was a great movie and very funny. so if you get a chance to rent it, be sure and do.

JayDee · Post by **JayDee** » Sun May 21, 2006 2:22 pm

Thanks for that- I'll probably go and see it tomorrow.

pantsonfire321@aol.com · Thu Jun 08, 2006 6:19 am

WHEN A STRANGER CALLS

This movie has been really slated in the press over here in the UK - so

i was quite suprised that i liked it (i did watch the original just before so i could compare):) well , the original only had about 20 mins worth of the baby sitter and sick killer making calls but the remake carry's that part of the story all the way through . Its not really scary but a good watch all the same - i would give it 7/10

Peg · Post by **Peg** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 6:21 am

My 16 year old daughter went to see the Omen. She came home very disappointed. Her words? "Boring and a waste of money and time."

cherandbuster · Post by **cherandbuster** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 10:50 am

Peg wrote: My 16 year old daughter went to see the Omen. She came home very disappointed. Her words? "Boring and a waste of money and time."

Peg, I remember the first "Omen" so clearly from my youth-- I loved it! The suspense was palpable.

Like your daughter said, I've seen some pretty bad reviews on the new one. I'm stayin' away!

Adam Zapple · Post by **Adam Zapple** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 9:32 am

Pirates Of The Caribbean - Dead Man's Chest - This movie was a rolicking good time. Like "Raiders of the Lost Ark" before it, it combines comedy and adventure at a breakneck pace to keep the movie-goer enthralled. This is the most fun I have had at the movies in a long time. Unlike most sequels, this one was better than the original. This is great entertainment for the whole family and that itself is a rare treat. Great film!!:yh_clap :yh_clap :yh_worshp

pantsonfire321@aol.com · Fri Jul 28, 2006 1:35 am

Anyone seen THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA it was quite funny, but the end was a bit cack .I would give it 5/10

Marie5656 · Post by **Marie5656** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 11:46 am

Looking forward to hearing from someone who has seen Night Whisperer with Robin Williams. It looks good.

mimiki · Post by **mimiki** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 2:13 am

American Dreamz was better then i thought

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 6:20 am

I recently watched Munich. It was a solid film worth the rent.

I give it 3 1/2 popcorn kernels.

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Marie5656 · Post by **Marie5656** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 6:44 am

Helefra..thanks for the review of M. Night's movie. That is just the type of suspense I like.

cherandbuster · Post by **cherandbuster** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 9:39 am

Floopy, I took my 10-year-old niece to see "Monster House" a couple of weeks ago. Boy was that a LOUD movie!

Hfra, I liked your review of "Lady in the Water". Sounds very similiar to the review in my "Entertainment Weekly" magazine. Paul Giamatti is good in just about anything.

Marie, "The Night Whisperer" got a C in my EW magazine. It still looks interesting to me. It's based on a book by Armistad Maupin, who did "Tales of the City". Robin Williams is almost always work watching.

Except in "RV", which was horrendous.

Lulu2 · Post by **Lulu2** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 8:00 pm

WOW! I saw this film today, in part because I enjoy Robin Williams and in part because I know it was based on a story by Armistead Maupin, and I'm a HUGE fan of his.

It's very interesting, involving and it leaves quite a few questions in your mind...but then, that's the truth of the tale.

Toni Collette does her usual GREAT job and Sandra Oh has a brief but important role.

I'd see this film again.

Sheryl · Post by **Sheryl** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 8:38 pm

Ok so we bought Larry the Cable Guy, Health Inspector yesterday. Defiantly a guy movie, I've laughed a few times, but the humor is really crude.

Lulu2 · Post by **Lulu2** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 1:14 pm

"The Illusionist" is a lovely film, beautiful to watch, interesting and challenging to the viewer and finally, FUN!

A poor young man with talents as an illusionist becomes involved with a crown prince who's downright ROTTEN! They're both in love with the same woman...."nothing is what it seems."

Paul Giamatti has one of the loveliest GRINS....and the closing sequences are delightful.

cherandbuster · Post by **cherandbuster** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 1:48 pm

Lulu2 wrote: "The Illusionist" is a lovely film, beautiful to watch, interesting and challenging to the viewer and finally, FUN!

A poor young man with talents as an illusionist becomes involved with a crown prince who's downright ROTTEN! They're both in love with the same woman...."nothing is what it seems."

Paul Giamatti has one of the loveliest GRINS....and the closing sequences are delightful.

I think Edward Norton is magnificent :guitarist

Lulu2 · Post by **Lulu2** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 1:51 pm

Go to see it, Cher...he's very...um....well.....attractive!

Adam Zapple · Post by **Adam Zapple** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 5:50 am

Saw "Flyboys". It was very good. I recommend it.

Yavanna · Post by **Yavanna** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 2:37 pm

I went to see the remake of The Wicker Man last week.

Laughed like a drain the whole way through, it was so dire. Couldn't wait for Nicholas Cage to get burned to a crisp. Wanted to kick the director for daring to remake a classic 70s British horror film into a waste of 2 hours of my life.

Don't go and see it - get the original out on DVD. It has a young Christopher Lee dressed up as a pagan in long purple robes, in a long black wig, dancing down the road. If that isn't an incentive, I don't know what is!

cherandbuster · Post by **cherandbuster** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 5:38 am

helefra wrote: For those of you who enjoy true stories and enjoyed "Wolf Creek", then the next film I'm about to tell you which I saw is a lot more gruesome than "Wolf Creek" and also a true story.

Basically, there is this odd-ball family who pick up hitchhikers and take them to their ranch and are given food and a roof over their head. However, what the hitchhikers don't realise is that when they go there to work, they go to work for life - never to be free. If anyone tries to escape the family go after them and do some gruesome things to them. If you think about calling the police, forget it because the Sheriff is in on it too.

This film had me engrossed throughout and I must admit I felt really sorry for the victims. If you're squeemish then this is not for you.

Hi Hfra:)

What is the name of this film? :-6

Adam Zapple · Post by **Adam Zapple** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 5:23 pm

I went to see "The Guardian" today - the Kevin Costner, Ashton Kutcher movie about the Coast Guard. It was okay but nothing great. Rather formulaic and predictable. The same seasoned veteran instructor battling the cocky new recruit routine. It had some good action but I would walk not run to see it.

Galbally · Post by **Galbally** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 2:55 am

I went to see "Children of Men" last night. Its one of these future distopia movies where its 2027 and humans have been infertile for 18 years so there are no new baby's and everyone (especially the women) are a bit pissed off. Also the planet's going to hell etc etc. So its about this guy (played by Clive Owen) who lives in London and gets mixed up in strange goings on based around a resistance movement to the new Fascist-like British government and also a strange and miraculous preganancy that occurs. It also has Micheal Caine and Julliane Moore in it.

Well, I have to say that I enjoyed the movie, not so much for the story which is OK, but its been done before, but the way its directed and shot. Its very gritty and the perpestive is always that of the lead character right way through, so its confusing, and the violence is quite shocking because you never have any build up to is, it just happens as he experiences it, its quite interesting and I've never seen a movie shot exactly like it before. The acting is also very good from all concerned. On the downside the story to me is a bit patchy and some of the ideas about the future don't work or are not convincing if you know what I mean. But all in all, not the worst film I've ever seen.

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 5:29 am

I've seen a better film on my bosses teeth

cherandbuster · Post by **cherandbuster** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 6:52 am

Adam Zapple wrote: I went to see "The Guardian" today - the Kevin Costner, Ashton Kutcher movie about the Coast Guard. It was okay but nothing great. Rather formulaic and predictable. The same seasoned veteran instructor battling the cocky new recruit routine. It had some good action but I would walk not run to see it.

AZeeeeee

It's kind of what I expected the film to be. Thanks for saving me money :guitarist

Yavanna · Post by **Yavanna** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 5:56 am

Pinky wrote: That's one of my all time faves...that slug metaphor always cracks me up!:D

I'm glad you said it's crap before I went to see it at the pics. I'll stick with the original.

No, go and see it for the comedy value! It really is hilariously bad ; Nicholas Cage looks like a horse that's just been gelded or something. God, those teeth!

PS Iddn't the original just the greatest? I love everything about it - from the music, the masks, the hares.....yeah, that's a good film.

Yavanna · Post by **Yavanna** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 12:34 pm

Has anyone been to see The Queen with Helen Mirren in it yet? It's had good reviews in the UK and she's a great actress. I remember Diana's death and the weeks that followed very clearly - can't wait to see how the Queen's reactions are portrayed.

I've seen The Devil Wears Prada. Load of rubbish.

Yavanna · Post by **Yavanna** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 7:09 am

I've just got back from seeing The Queen, Pinky, and I really enjoyed. It has intelligent film-making and great actors.

I remember Diana's death so clearly (and the mass demonstrations of grief which followed). For me, this was a film about a woman of a different generation trying to play "catch up" with the daytime TV emotionalism of the world we live in now.

It was brilliant. Michael Sheen and Helen McRory and Tony and Cherie Blair were brilliant, as was the shark-like guy who played Alistair Campbell.

Helen Mirren was, of course, fantastic.

It was interesting to see a portrayal of Blair at the beginning of his premiership, full of energy and ideas - and to know the reality about him now! There's a great line at the end when the Queen tells Blair that she had never experienced the people hating her before.....but that he would experience it too, one day, and it would come very suddenly. There were snorts of laughter in the cinema around me.

It was also a very moving film, in parts ; God knows I wasn't particularly interested in Diana during her life (I always thought she was a damaged personality) but her death was so shocking.....

Oh, and as to The Devil Wears Prada .....I left after about 45 minutes, it was so bad. Meryl Streep must have done it just for her pension fund.

CrÃ¨me brÃ»lÃ©e · Sun Oct 15, 2006 11:34 am

Yavanna wrote: I've just got back from seeing The Queen, Pinky, and I really enjoyed. It has intelligent film-making and great actors.

I remember Diana's death so clearly (and the mass demonstrations of grief which followed). For me, this was a film about a woman of a different generation trying to play "catch up" with the daytime TV emotionalism of the world we live in now.

It was brilliant. Michael Sheen and Helen McRory and Tony and Cherie Blair were brilliant, as was the shark-like guy who played Alistair Campbell.

Helen Mirren was, of course, fantastic.

It was interesting to see a portrayal of Blair at the beginning of his premiership, full of energy and ideas - and to know the reality about him now! There's a great line at the end when the Queen tells Blair that she had never experienced the people hating her before.....but that he would experience it too, one day, and it would come very suddenly. There were snorts of laughter in the cinema around me.

It was also a very moving film, in parts ; God knows I wasn't particularly interested in Diana during her life (I always thought she was a damaged personality) but her death was so shocking.....

Oh, and as to The Devil Wears Prada .....I left after about 45 minutes, it was so bad. Meryl Streep must have done it just for her pension fund.

I'm going to see "The Queen" in a couple of hours, saw the 'trailer' last week and it looked like it might be good. I'm happy you enjoyed it, I've something good to look forward to. Goody:)