Simple premise, you see 2 movies you say what they were and a little about them. Don't need to do it everytime, just when you feel like contributing.

Chinatown - Young Jack Nicholson needs to be in every movie. I had just seen Reds a bit before this, the guy is flat out awesome. It's a shame he's becoming a charicature of himself, but his past work is classic.

Serpico - Surprisingly a biopic that doesn't suck, pander to convention, and actually has a story. Before Pacino became the "Hoooahhh!!!" guy. Another actor that needs to start trying again.

Lemme see, No Country for Old Men, and...No Country For Old Men

Watch it the first time for the strong cinematic work that it is, and the second time for the phenomenal script and dialog it contains. In particular, the final scenes with Tommy Lee Jones are by themselves worth a repeat viewing just to fully understand their meaning.

sin city and kill bill vol 1&2

I LOVE Sin City i think it has replaced Pulp Fiction as my favourite film of all time, amazing sound incredible looks and moving stories with a great cast, and jessica alba! I<3 it. I had never seen the first 20 min of kill bill 1 and none of vol 2 and i have to say 1 was better but 2 had a great story, i cant wait to finally see deathproof i hope its worth it.

sincity 2 and 3 in 2009 supposedly so WOOP

Superbad - A dirty comedy about friendship and growth

Hot Fuzz - Awesome mocking tribute to over the top action movies

National Treasure 2: The legend of curly's gold, or something. Treasure hunting, fun for the family at the holidays I guess but not worth your time for the most part.

I Am Legend: Will Smith is an army scientist and the last man on earth, trying to discover a cure for zombie cancer. It ramps up quickly and the action is fun, however since Will Smith acts the same way in every movie he does they shouldnt try to put him in a role as a scientist. Not a thinker, but if you've got the time it's a fun watch.

Juno - One of the greatest movies I've seen in a long time. This movie has something for all ages and is one of the true comedies of 2007, like Superbad.

Shoot 'Em Up - Action action action. I wrote a quick review here. Basically, the plot line was thrown in for kicks, this movie is a two hour long, badass, logic-defying, intense, fast-paced, clever, and insane gunfight.

Heh, yesterday we watched (I shit you not): Over the Hedge and 28 Weeks Later. How's that for eclectic? We got 'em both for Christmas; the wee one likes OtH, and we watched 28WL for the first time after we put the tyke to bed.

Superbad - Wicked funny, very quoteable.

Meet the Robinsons - An animated movie that was hilarious. I really enjoyed the humor and the ending was really nice. Sort of touching.

I am Legend- Will Smith, lone survivor in NYC. Survivor of what..?


Across the Universe- Themes: Love, rock music (fantastic Beatles covers)vibrant colors, War, Peace, etc.

AvP-R = Professional Predator cleans up a small town that becomes infested with aliens and a alien/predator hybrid


I am Legend = Will Smith being the only survivor left in NYC not infected with a zombie-essque making virus.

Knocked Up - loser gets hot girl pregnant and hilarity ensues

American Pie - Beta House -> because my wife likes American Pie movies for the shock value

I am Legend - Great film for guys, really recommend it, cinematography at its finest, very good acting, and reasonable plot, with great tension all the way through. Poor Mr Smith, he saved the world rom aliens in Independence Day and now this.

Kung Pow - erm, yeah. Odd movie. Very very silly humour. It's one of my favourite comedies, but if you don't like slapstick comedy or OTT silly comedies then avoid like the plague.

Yeah just to clarify, the idea is that you give a brief reaction to the movie you just watched. Unless it's an obscure one, I doubt we really need the blurb from the back of the cover.

Brother's Grimm - I liked the acting but felt the story just wasn't enough to carry it.

Bender's Big Score - Loved it! such fun and gold plated death stars!

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York - Pretty fun. Proof your kids can look after themselves.

and

Pirates of the Carribean 3: At Worlds End - Amazing movie. I laughed all the way through at the jokes, and loved the action, as well as the frankly superb characters and casting. Captain Jack Sparrow = best character ever created.

I am Legend. It was good.

and an hour later...

Sweeny Todd. I laughed my ass off.

Resident Evil: Extinction- Wasn't horrible and I'll likely pick it up when it drops in price a bit. Although it did raise two important questions for me:
1) Why is it, in ever zombie movie the guy that gets bit doesn't tell anyone? I mean, honestly?
2) Since in all post-apocaliptic (spelled incorrectly, but I'm too tired to keep trying to figure it out tonight) movies when someone dies they bury them with a cross made of two pieces of wood lashed together....what would they do if somebody died who was Jewish?

The Simpson's Movie- The gf loved it, I was rather under-whelmed with the whole thing. Some funny moments, but they were too far in-between for me to really love it. That and the whole thing had such a "we know you've already spent the money so we're going to mock you the entire time and give you a sub-par movie at the same time" feel to it.

Because he doesn't want to be shot in the face once people know he's a threat.

The Princess Bride (1987) - Watches this yesterday for the first time, and wow, extremely cuteish, fun and quatable fantasy movie. It was basically INCONCIEVABLE!

Death Sentence - Odd drama-action mix, that was actually quite good, but a bit too simple. It's basically about Kevin Bacon on revenge for his sons death.

The last legion

Found it to be a very interesting mix between King Arthur and Lord of the Rings. Especially when Merlin/Gandalf leads Ceasar/Frodo and the gang though the mountains.

This movie is so standard it blew my mind. Men takes:
1 Strong guy
1 Flashy guy
1 Female
1 Leader
1 Expendable guy
1 Wise guy

Et voila, the perfect and o so overused party.

Then offcourse, the strange yet mysterious villain. Oh my, HE WEARS A MASK!

Yeah.

What the bleep do we know.

I didn't know Disney made movies about quantum physics.

That's all I'm going to say.

I don't think that word means what you think it means ...

I saw:

Howl's Moving Castle: again, Myazaki shows he's unlike any other animation director in the world. Still, slightly disappointing after Spirited Away, but then again the story is so very different that they're hard to compare.

Re-seen: Willow. God I love that movie. Playful, light fantasy with some great performances and wonderful imagery. The fact that this film can still stand besides current day fantasy flicks even though it's from 1988 proves that no amount of CGI will ever make a good film.

I'd say, Cars and Finding Nemo without the CGI would be real boring. I mean, fish don't act very well.

*sigh* yes, cause that's EXACTLY what I meant.

What I meant was that cramming a LIVE ACTION FILM (so NO ANIMATION) full of CGI will never make it good. What I meant was that directors forgot to think of other ways to solve action sequences in their films than using CGI for everything. What I meant was that real people, real sets and real action will (for me) always look more convincing and enthralling than CGI ones. What I meant was that old, 'outdated' movies like Willow can still immerse people just as good (imho better even) in a story than recent fantasy films that try to outdo each other in 'biggest CGI battlefield with a gazillion CGI orcs and monsters and... ever'.

I study animation, for crying out loud. CGI is NOT the same as 3D-animation.

/rant

Ghostbusters II (<3) and Reefer Madness. I've only not seen Reefer Madness before. Man it was hilarious. Oh, and Ghostbusters is always awesome.

Batman Begins and Casino Royale. I also saw half of Blood Diamond, but that doesn't count as I only saw half of it (got called into work and never got back to the film).

Jet Li's Fearless, and I'm really glad I did because it's a very good film. Choreography aside (excellent stunts and martial arts scenes are pretty much a given when Mr.Li is involved) it was entertaining, moving and even a little bit educational.

It's very weird in places however, particularly when British people appear in the film. They look and sound British, but speak in broken English/Mandarin and are subtitled in English It's done well and it's effective, but still quite an odd experience...

And before that there was Drunken Master, the 1978 classic of Hong Kong cinema It's amazing how little Jackie Chan has changed in the last 30 years, thought seeing 1970's American fashion sense in a supposedly Chinese setting is another odd bit of cinema

Pretty much a Kung-Fu weekend for me, since before these two I saw Ong Bak as well...

I finally watched Rounders for the first time last night. It wasn't earth-shatteringly good, but it was definitely entertaining (and educational). I wish I'd watched it before I lost $50 playing poker Saturday night...

Before that, I re-watched M*A*S*H again for the umpteenth time, just because I found it on Fox Movie Channel while channel-surfing. If you've never seen it, give it a go. The TV series was fantastic, but the movie is a whole different animal.

I haven't seen this in a long time but I remember hearing somewhere that it's almost funny to watch it now for the way they portray people who play hold'em as like a fringe niche thing of outlaws or something. I dunno, I thought that was funny.

Last two I watched were Superbad just because, and the Simpsons Movie. The Simpsons Movie I'd never seen before, but I liked it. I laughed enough, and for the Simpsons, that's all I'm really asking for. Though the animation felt a little too clean, I'd probably have preferred if it looked more like the show in terms of animation quality.

I always thought that Rounder's was a cheap copy of The Hustler

just saw smoking aces for the first time and underdog again, loved both movies

A Scanner Darkly- Seriously had no idea what this movie was about, but I was somewhat impressed, the animation got a little annoying at times, but I think it was better with than without.

Black Sheep- hadn't seen that in forever, I just remembered the chubby line. I don't really have much of a selection, this is a movie my parents sent overseas for me.

There will be blood - DDL was freaking awesome even if he was a HUGE dick. Still trying to work through the ending.

The Departed - If only jack didn't freaking play jack then this movie would have been ALMOST perfect. Baldwin as the uber-cop was still freaking awesome and the orgy of violence at the end was interesting to watch again

The Groomsmen - Edward Burns repeats alot of the themes he's previously explored, but this is definitely his strongest film yet. Great performances by all, including a very surprisingly good Matthew Lillard, but John Leguizamo makes it an Oscar calibre role.

The Battle of Shaker Heights - I love these kinds of movies. Largely slice of life with a smart script and talented actors.

Here's one nobodys mentioned yet:
The Shawshank Redemption; one of my dad's favorite movies, and I love it too. It doesnt hurt that most of it was filmed one county away from my hometown in the Ohio State Reformatory and some of it in my own county as well. "Do you know how to read? You ignorant @#$%?"

and since i don't watch movies all that often, the second latest movie I've watched is..
Juno. I really liked it. They didn't try too hard, and there were a lot of funny lines. The characters felt natural from the actors and actresses. "Pork swords", i mean, seriously?

I saw the Host and Stealth.

The Host was pretty good. Follows a 5 member family (father, daughter, sister, brother, grandfather) as a monster living along a river attacks people. Doesn't take itself to seriously so there are some very funny parts to it. Ending leaves a bit to be desired but again it doesn't take itself to seriously so I think they were just having fun.

Stealth - I've seen Macross Plus which I figured this movie was based on. and it was only Stealth was far far FAR worse. Even Jessica Biel wasn't enough to save it.

Saw The Longest Yard - remake and The Bucket List

Longest Yard was funny and a good remake, the athletes did OK

Bucket List was a good movie!!

Cloverfield and Rain Man (again).

Cloverfield wasn't bad, it was entertaining and worth the price of admission. Rain Man, one of my favourite movies of all time. Dustin Hoffman is brilliant.

Over the weekend I finally watched:

Phantom of the Opera - I hadn't ever seen this until we sat down with it on Saturday night. I've heard all the hype about how it's the Greatest Musical Evar from many sources, but for me it was kinda... meh. Don't get me wrong - I love a good musical (Y'know how I know you're gay??) - but it just didn't wow me like I rather expected it to. I can see why some would really be captivated by the story (I probably would have been if I'd seen it years ago), but Mrs UTM and I both thought it was a little too slow-paced. I'm not saying I won't ever watch it again though; I'm hoping it'll grow on me.

300 - I saw it in the theater on opening weekend, loved it, and finally got around to purchasing the DVD. I watched it last night while puttering around in my Basement Retreat, and loved it again on the small screen. When it was over, I wanted to go out and kill a small-ish animal with my teeth... Thankfully, reason prevailed.

I think they mean the actual musical on Broadway, not the Joel Schumacher movie.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - I'd let this one slip by for far too long and finally got around to seeing it. Brilliant. Crazy concept, excellent surreal depiction of dreams / memories, and at the same time one of the most realistic depictions of relationships. I could watch this movie regularly.

Breach - I was really surprised how much I loved this. I don't know why, but when it first came out I wrote it off as one of those lame suspense movies without an ounce of intelligence. This was really enjoyable, and that last image of Cooper's character was haunting.

Sweeney Todd - Loved the dark cinematics, Depp's acting was stellar, nice moving story, it was however a bit obvious that some of the actors are not used to doing musicals which was a minor smudge on a good movie.

Bee Movie - I love animated movies, and while this was on the silly side, it still brought on quite a few laughs. Although I must say Disney won this years "animals that can talk to humans" joust with Ratatuille

Full Metal Alchemist: Conquerer of Shamballa-Great end to the FMA series wraps up all loose ends the series left behind

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: Solid State Society: A pretty good movie based off the GitS:SAC anime series

and yes i'm a anime whore

You've Got Mail- romantic comedy about two bookstore owners (one for a big-bad-corperate store, one a little family store) and email correspondence in NYC, an old favorite of mine.

Lucky Number Slevin- interesting movie about revenge, bookies, and general plotting. One man 'mistaken' as another gets into running favors to pay off 'his' debt with rival bosses. not sure how else to describe it other than it monologues a lot, but its still a good movie!

The Kingdom

and

Tales of Earthsea

Live Free or Die Hard... (5th time or so..)

and...

John Rambo...

couldn't find my copy of Stealth.. =<

Accepted - This turned out to be far funnier then I expected. I'm going to have to watch this one again.

The Lake House - Girlfriend picked this one. I hate Keanu Reeves but I do like Sandra Bullock. In the end, I kind of liked the whole communication with someone in the futured, and especially how they would recognize a moment as it was happening and then allowed it (like the dog running away). I had the little catch figured out 15 minutes into the movie, but I did enjoy a good laugh when my girlfriend was crying at the end. All in all, it was a decent movie if your g-f insists on seeing something romantic.

Fargo & The Big Lebowski. I've been on a Coens kick lately after seeing No Country, and both of those films pretty much speak for themselves.

Atonemnt and Judge Dredd!

I have a feeling Atonemnet will win at least one oscar. Hopefully it will take the Cinematography, it was shot darn well! Defenitly worth a watch!

As to Judge Dredd I can only say: I AAAM THE LAAAW!

Hercules (Disney)

Sky High - mmm delicious camp

Project A-ko. Oh how I loved that movie when I was younger. Still funny though.

Casino Royale - Good flick. I love how they toned down the stunts and gadgets from the more recent Bond films. But why oh why does he have to keep falling in love. Oh how I miss the days of the Roger Moore Bond.