There were two movies that I love that were mentioned before in this thread,
Thirteen and
Léon.
Thirteen was an unapologetically blunt, honest, and frightening look into the lives of teenagers and young adults in our society. I thought it was an incredibly well done movie.
Léon is another great movie, in a different vein than
Thirteen, where someone with not the most admirable of occupations / lives becomes the hero that you root for throughout the movie. That, and Gary Oldman is just plain awesome. I recommend both movies to anyone who doesn’t find the descriptions of these movies on IMDB to be morally reprehensible or otherwise offensive.
Within the past 2 weeks I’ve seen
Good Night, and Good Luck,
Doom, and
The Legend of Zorro in theatres. I strongly recommend
Good Night, and Good Luck to everyone on these boards.
I liked
The Mask of Zorro back in 1998, but I found this more recent movie to be pretty weak. So much so that my brother, our friend, and I ended up pulling a “Mystery Science Theatre 3000” of our own while watching it in a sparsely occupied theatre. The best part of the Zorro movie was the trailer for
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
I played the original Doom video game like a madman when I was younger, and was really excited to see the movie, despite my low expectations for the movie. I saw a 1am showing the day it came out and found it to be entertaining, but was disappointed I had paid $10 to see it at our local theatre. I was especially disappointed in the differences in storyline between the games and the movie regarding the demons’ origin; there was no need to change that much. I mean, if you’re going to take liberties with regard to things like that, you might as well title the movie something else and just credit the game with "inspiration for the movie" so as not to disappoint Doom geeks
Movies Mentioned…
Thirteen
Léon
Good Night, and Good Luck
Doom
The Legend of Zorro
The Mask of Zorro
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe