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Re: What was the last movie you watched?
« Reply #125 on: June 05, 2013, 08:55:01 AM »
Last Sunday I saw "Here Comes The Boom" with Kevin James. I was surprised that it was actually pretty good...

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Re: What was the last movie you watched?
« Reply #126 on: June 05, 2013, 08:56:02 AM »
Mud last night.
great movie.
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Re: What was the last movie you watched?
« Reply #127 on: June 05, 2013, 09:45:59 AM »
We watched "Not Fade Away". Typical "band" movie of a group that tries to make it in 1960's New Jersey.

Also "Mama". Started out pretty good, rather creepy but the ending was dumb.
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Re: What was the last movie you watched?
« Reply #128 on: June 05, 2013, 01:16:17 PM »
My God!   :thatsright:  Movies these days suck! 

I'm reading good reviews on the new Gatsby.  Better chemistry between the characters than the original. 


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Re: What was the last movie you watched?
« Reply #129 on: June 05, 2013, 01:38:39 PM »
Yes they do, and They rarely have original story lines.
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Re: What was the last movie you watched?
« Reply #130 on: June 05, 2013, 09:14:20 PM »
My God!   :thatsright:  Movies these days suck! 

I'm reading good reviews on the new Gatsby.  Better chemistry between the characters than the original. 



Has Hollyweird gotten so staid, dull, and unimaginative that they can't even find an original story and make a movie about it?
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Re: What was the last movie you watched?
« Reply #131 on: June 05, 2013, 09:16:06 PM »
Has Hollyweird gotten so staid, dull, and unimaginative that they can't even find an original story and make a movie about it?
Have you counted the number of sequels and spinoffs this year?
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Re: What was the last movie you watched?
« Reply #132 on: June 05, 2013, 09:28:22 PM »
Have you counted the number of sequels and spinoffs this year?

No.

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Re: What was the last movie you watched?
« Reply #133 on: June 05, 2013, 09:31:59 PM »
I walked through the movie theater earlier this week.  It was pretty depressing.
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Re: What was the last movie you watched?
« Reply #134 on: June 05, 2013, 09:48:08 PM »
Has Hollyweird gotten so staid, dull, and unimaginative that they can't even find an original story and make a movie about it?

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Re: What was the last movie you watched?
« Reply #135 on: June 06, 2013, 08:31:28 AM »
Mud last night.
great movie.


Hadn't heard of it bit the trailer looks great

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Re: What was the last movie you watched?
« Reply #136 on: June 06, 2013, 09:27:55 AM »
"Blues Brothers" was on HBO last night. Classic.

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Re: What was the last movie you watched?
« Reply #137 on: June 07, 2013, 12:00:21 PM »
Went to see Star Trek last Saturday. Excellent fun.

Have One Hour Photo, which I have never seen, in the DVD queue.
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Re: What was the last movie you watched?
« Reply #138 on: June 07, 2013, 12:04:35 PM »
Have One Hour Photo, which I have never seen, in the DVD queue.
I was underwhelmed, but I've never cared for Robin Williams as an actor.
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Re: What was the last movie you watched?
« Reply #139 on: June 07, 2013, 10:40:28 PM »
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Re: What was the last movie you watched?
« Reply #140 on: June 09, 2013, 10:52:15 AM »
Star Trek Into Darkness this weekend.  Iron Man 3 last weekend.  Thumbs up for both of them.
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Re: What was the last movie you watched?
« Reply #141 on: June 09, 2013, 12:21:25 PM »
We saw "Seven Psychopaths" the other night. Forget it.
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Re: What was the last movie you watched?
« Reply #142 on: June 15, 2013, 01:03:39 PM »
I watched John Dies At the End on Netflix last night after finishing the novel a day or two ago.

While I had hoped for a Fight Club type movie that surpasses the source material what I got is a movie that represented some of the scenes in the book quite well in the first half but then rushed to get to a conclusion in the second half, again with some scenes represented verbatim from the book but a greater chunk excised.

I was even more disappointed to realize that the movie was directed by Don Coscarelli who did Phantasm back in the day. I don't know that Phantasm has aged particularly well but when I first saw it, it blew me away! And watching the movie I could see how David Wong's book was a literary version of Phantasm, yet wholly original at the same time.

And that is the failing of the movie, other than cramming a whole bunch of stuff that will probably leave people who haven't read the book completely mystified, is where it is true to the novel it fails to be wholly original and where it is wholly original it betrays the novel.

If you are a horror-comedy fan and haven't read the book and decide to give the movie a go, let me know what you think. I think the movie is worth watching if you are a genre fan and have Netflix. It has a few very nice set pieces and the first 15-30 minutes are very well done.
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Re: What was the last movie you watched?
« Reply #143 on: June 16, 2013, 11:40:26 AM »
Last night watched Murder by Decree on Netflix from 1979 starring Christopher Plummer as Sherlock Holmes.

Interesting movie based loosely, one assumes, on Christopher Knight's 1975 book Jack The Ripper: The Final Solution.

I remember Christopher Plumber being on Good Morning America promoting the movie and showing the scene with the scarf but I never could remember which 1970s Sherlock Holmes movie it belonged to as I got older.

Edit: corrected Christopher Plummer's last name.
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Re: What was the last movie you watched?
« Reply #144 on: June 16, 2013, 09:53:50 PM »
For Father's Day, I was treated to a family-friendly chick flick.

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We Bought a Zoo, with Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansen. He's a writer whose wife dies, and he buys a run-down animal park. She is the zookeeper. The menagerie includes a bipolar grizzly bear, an old tiger, and a drunken Scotsman.

It was the chickiest. Bleh.

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Re: What was the last movie you watched?
« Reply #145 on: June 16, 2013, 10:10:05 PM »
Stand up Guys. Pacino and Walken.
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Re: What was the last movie you watched?
« Reply #146 on: June 17, 2013, 09:41:56 AM »
We watched "Extreme Measures" last night. Pretty good flick.
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Re: What was the last movie you watched?
« Reply #147 on: June 17, 2013, 09:49:03 AM »
Pineapple Express

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Re: What was the last movie you watched?
« Reply #148 on: June 17, 2013, 10:11:14 AM »
Mrs. E pretty much nailed when she said that movies released for the summertime are generally geared toward teenagers and bubbleheads who are interested in car chase scenes, tons and tons of special effects, explosions, and general mayhem, and empty-headed romantic comedies that aren't even close to funny -- just stoopid.
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Re: What was the last movie you watched?
« Reply #149 on: June 18, 2013, 02:08:54 PM »
Watched "Oz, the Great and Powerful". It was fun, and definitely made to be seen in 3D. It was interesting they (Disney) treated it as a prequel.
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