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I rented Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants....awww for you girls..ok see that movie!...for the guys out there....it will bore your mind out lol But i think every girl should see that movie. so cute and so happy.

has anyone out there seen Saw 2 yet? im seeing it tonight...i want to just know if its better than the first one. I heard it was.

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I saw Saw II Wednesday night and I thought it was good. Not as great as the first one, just good. The first one was so revolutionary when the end came you were saying "Whoooa." When the end came in Saw II you were ready for some huge twist so it was more of an "aha."

Regardless, it was a pretty good movie and would recommend you re-watch the first one before seeing the second.

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Most recent films I have seen:

Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Ware-Rabbit.

For some reason this one left me a bit cold. I love Wallace and Grommit and they are equally fun here but man something feels lost and it just started to grind down near the end.
It's good but I was hoping for great. They're a vicitm of htier own success.B-


A History of Violence
A good intense thriller with great performances particularly Mortinsen, who deserves to be remebered come Oscar time and Bello. It's fascinating watching Mortinsen's character change into a whole other person. Outright chilling in fact. Highly reccomended!A

Jarhead
A solid movie with a unique personal veiw of Marine life in a time of war when war has changed from a military action to a political statement and the biredom and the frustrations of the grunt on the frontline. Lots of good performaces particularly Jake Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard. It would make an interesting double feature with the intense but remote Black Hawk Down to get two different views of modern warfare. A-


Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Darker and more weighty than the previous entry (and I find that the series has some pretty dark elements). I like that it hit the ground running and got down to business and had less of that "oh gosh look at this neat magic trick" this or that (or not as much) as the other films did. Personally I think the Voldemont story is out of left field but it serves its purpose. The kids are starting to look more like capable actors and though it'll never be LOTR it is turning into a solid series.


Chicken Little
So this is why Disney shut down the cel animation division and dumped Pixar.
That makes this movie even more frustrating to watch because it had some parts that were fun, funny and even spectacular but the overall piece felt slapdash and tacked together without any real idea of what it was doing or any clue of what directioin it was going. It's just a bunch of sequences featuring the characters from the movie.
The animation is top notch and the character are endering but Disney really doesn't get what make Pixar movies great: the scripwriting. They make compelling, touching, funny,amazing, awe-inspiring movies that take youto another world and leave you hungry for more. Like Disney used to. They haven't for a while and I'm afraid that because this movie made alot of money DIsney is going to assume that this movie is a success and continue making movies like this which would be an absolute tragedy and an insult to the memory of the pioneers at Disney who made the company what it was. The artistry was top notch but it was the storytelling that brought the characters to life and it's just not there anymore.
And that is just really sad.C-


The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
Two things come immediately to mind watching this film:
First because this film came out after the Lord of the Rings series it will inevitable be compared to it (unfairly so. They are apples and oranges). That being said LOTR is an absolutely superior work due to the strength of the actors (comapring four children actors to the grown actors that the LOTR series had is very unfair) and the rich evokative story that proved more compelling and intense. I prefered that to the lighter tone of this one. Basially I call this LOTR lite.
Second: The religous allegory. Yes Aslan is supposed to be a CHrist figure and such but any film that deal with the aspects of good verusu evil can have relious overtones. Whether it's using the Force (faith) or following Neo( another Christ like figure) I don't think it's as big a deal as so many people are making it out to be.
The film itself is great looking with wonderful production values and visual effect. The children are good as children go. They're no Dakota Fanning or Haley Jo Osmet but they do well here. Tilda Swinton is quite good. It's a good movie and I hope they do better on the next Narnia book. B-

King Kong
Way cool movie with tremendous visuals and productions values as expected from a Peter Jackson production. Naomi Watts is absolutely terrific and her bond with Kong is not only beliveable but adds weight to the end sequence atop the Empire State building ( I never bought Kong and Fay Wray's bond in the original. She was just this useless screaming rag doll that made me wonder why Kong didn't smash her against some rocks to shut her up. That had to get tiring after a while). At three hours the film is quite a marathon but if you enjoyed sitting thorugh the LOTR films then this much faster paced crod pleaser is a breeze.A+

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Harry Potter 4..dang that was a good movie....
and
The Breakfast Club..in sociology class hehe :p

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Over the past month or two, I've seen:

Rent - I've never seen the stage show, nor do I have much of a desire to. I do like a lot of its music, however. The movie adaptation was weird -- some parts were completely fantastic and did great justice to the music. Other parts were just awful, looking not unlike a really bad Bon Jovi music video.

Shopgirl - This was supposed to be a romantic comedy, but it was really, really depressing. I liked it, but yikes -- not funny at all.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - The best Harry Potter film so far; particularly for its lack of very many of the elements that define the first two as children's movies. I haven't read any books past the middle of the third since I think they're awful, so I don't have much to say about what may have been left out.

The Chronicles of Narnia - This was, uh, bad. I didn't like it very much at all, found the children lifeless, the plot contrived, predictable and boring, and the CG mediocre.

King Kong - This movie is just too long. I liked it on the whole, but I think there was a lot that could've been cut from it. Jack Black was awful, I thought and I grew bored with seeing everyone in mortal danger time and time again. It loses its effectiveness after awhile.

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the last three movies i saw were

chronicles of narnia: the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe

king kong

home alone (we watched it in english)

Boy it's been a while....
 

And the sad part is I haven't watched much since I last posted last year!

Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
In spite of the terrific animation and the good vocal performances(particualrly Queen Latifa) and amusing moments the movie cannot hide the fact that there is no real coherent storyline here. Just pieced together moments that seem like parts of a DVD extra. ANd how may times do we have to see that ratty squirrel try to bag that acorn? Talk about a one note character! C.


Slither
The first thing I thought of when I heard of this movie was this was Night of the Creeps and I was dead on right when I seen it. But I liked Night of the Creeps way better. It revelled in it's genaral cheeiness better. I also kept waitng for Nathan Fillon's sherrif to turn into Mal and start cracking witty one liners (better one liners than what was cracked here). The movie is slimy fun and amusing but it feels ultimately like a gory Outer Limits episode.B-

Inside Man
Now this is more like it!
I enjoy these kind of ensamble twisty mindbenders and that Spike Lee is ffering up something completely different make it all the more interesting. The ending may fall a little short but I heartily recommend this film.A.

Hopefully I'll catch up with my moviegoing now that the FIRST season is done...

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Ice Age 2: The Meltdown

I really liked it. Koko Ed has some great points, but I'll confess I loved the squirrel...then again I'm easily amused.

Poseidon

Uh...yah...this was basically sitting and watching a bunch of people die. It had its high points, but it was kinda mediocre.

That's all my recent stuff.

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last three:
RV
saw it with Tytus, thus it was a ton funnier than it would have been alone

Rent
good music and good acting, just odd

Just Like Heaven
sooo cute!

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RV- YEAH! reminds me way too much of my trip to IRI in 2004, saw it with Anna when i was in Michigan.

Mi3- meh not bad. Killed 3 hours

Poseidon_ omg I can pick that move apart too much stuff that didn't make sense bad acting washed up actors. a 18 year old lifting a 600 pound acetylene tank over his head not much of it made all that much sense what a waste of 8 bucks

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I just saw Scary Movie 4 last weekend with my friends.

It was HILARIOUS!!

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Kung Pow: Enter the Fist: The worst dubing ever, its all on purpose though. Some of the best usage of green screen.


Brighton Beach Memoirs : Started to watch in English. Extreamly funny. Neil Simmon at his best.

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hmmmm...
i dont even know what the last movie i watched was. i think it was black hawk down.(a very good movie by the way :] )

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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire on my 52" TV with surround sound all by myself....GOOD STUFF.

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The last two movies i watched were: Minority Report and My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Both were enjoyable.