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Saw Ted. Still laughing.

Yeah I cackled through Ted, though I thought it could have been cut down by at least 30 minutes.

I also watched Lawless and I thought the same thing, it took a really long time to get going and could have cut about 30 minutes and been a bit stronger for it. As it was I love Shia, but his character was dumb as dirt, and I continue to not get Tom Hardy for the most part (I think he's good but doesn't have that super IT that makes you stand up and go gaga). Absolutely great soundtrack though with Mark Lannegan, Emmylou Harris, and Willie Nelson.

Eris Rising wrote:Saw Ted. Still laughing.

I'm still trying to forget I saw it.

A League of Their Own is never not delightful, even if it's not seasonally appropriate.

OH, PISS ON YOUR RED HAT!

Unlucky Bear wrote:OH, PISS ON YOUR RED HAT!

Well, that seems uncalled for...*clutches pearls*

God, I love that movie!

Cynara wrote:Oh my God. Chris and Cathy are Treadstone escapees but also JOAN ALLEN'S SECRET CHILDREN. Ultimately they trick her into an empty house where, in a brutally silent fight scene, they shove an arsenic-laced cookie down her throat. Chris waits outside, but Cathy watches her die. As they leave, they torch the place behind them and live PTSDly ever after on an island in Greece. BAM. BLOCKBUSTER.

Truly, this was a role Julia Stiles was made for.

I often think of Jimmy Dugan when I open a cold Coke and blissfully sigh, "Ahhh..."

Family viewings of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and Pitch Perfect on Christmas. When my younger niece requested Pitch Perfect over Men in Black III or Ice Age III, my brother sniffed, "Do you really think that will be on the level of Men in Black III or Ice Age?" Way to be snotty about popcorn movies, doofus.

I've seen Men in Black 3 and Ice Age Whatever. While MIB3 edges out any of the IAs, even if Pitch Perfect was mediocre it'd still be better than those options.

Cynara wrote:Oh my God. Chris and Cathy are Treadstone escapees but also JOAN ALLEN'S SECRET CHILDREN. Ultimately they trick her into an empty house where, in a brutally silent fight scene, they shove an arsenic-laced cookie down her throat. Chris waits outside, but Cathy watches her die. As they leave, they torch the place behind them and live PTSDly ever after on an island in Greece. BAM. BLOCKBUSTER.

Isn't that basically how it goes anyway?

I made my husband rent Pitch Perfect and despite his protestations, he was totally into the end song. What a fun movie! Predictable and obvious, but really fun anyway.

My parents bought me The Sting on blu-ray for Christmas. It's like the format was designed specifically to showcase the unearthly prettiness of early 1970's Newman and Redford, oh my god.

(Also, just by referencing the movie, the song's in your head, so why not have a listen?)

I've come to realise that my tastes in entertainment are pretty low-class. Case in point: I just watched the Total Recall remake, and really enjoyed it. Now, it's not a wonderful movie, it's an also-ran already, but it was good fun.

Lots of interesting details about the world, even if they didn't make any sense. A lift through the centre of the earth. Right. That can withstand both heat and gravity. Right. With technology like that, why don't they have outposts on the moon? Or, say, Mars? Why did they even develop that technology, instead of focussing on cleanup technology? Most strange.

So the colony is Australia. Right. But they show no Aussie landmarks. They have maybe one Aussie accent, for a moment towards the end. Well, the influx of refugees probably increased our population to the point where it was overridden. The majority of the population is Asian. Well, that plays into the fantasies of our homegrown nutters. But! The written language is Cyrillic? Which is only used in Eastern Europe? You're telling me that it was easier to head down through Asia and island-hop instead of heading straight west for Britain? There's a lot less water to cross that way. Maybe west and central Europe were all contaminated by that point.

Resources! Gosh, that's a lot of steel used in the construction of the cities. Where did it all come from? Most of our iron ore goes overseas these days, and Britain has been using up its own iron since, well, the iron age. Did it really have that much left? Apparently so.

The hand phones. Implanting a hone in your hand? I love it. But I'm not convinced it would work. Apart from the plausibility of reception through the meat, I just think it would feel really uncomfortable, especially if you happened to hit your hand really hard.

And yet, as I said, I really enjoyed it. Good fun. If you don't mind gratuitous lens flare, of course.

We watched Dark Shadows last night. I expected unwatchable, so I guess I was surprised. It was pretty terrible, though. And Michelle Pfeiffer just seemed to be channeling Pam from True Blood through the whole movie.

Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol. It was a bit bonkers plot wise, even for Mission Impossible, but it was enjoyable and a fun watch. I have to say that as much as much as I'd probably go running from Tom Cruise in real life (going here by the hyper-intensity he seems to bring to everything to his life, judging by how he seems in interviews and not even going into the Scieno stuff), I do find him very charismatic on screen and he plays Ethan Hunt very well, especially during the stunt scenes. That whole climbing up the building thing had my mother all agog and white-knuckled. Not being great with heights, I wasn't far behind her!

Then we watched Basil, The Great Mouse Detective. Classic Disney. Love it.

A couple days ago I saw The Queen of Versailles, because I had just seen Django Unchained and I needed something lighter. It turned out to be much more serious than I expected (the money problems, the fighting, the son's stories about what kind of a father he had, the sales pitches), though there were some funny moments. The wife when she was picking up her rental car at Hertz, oh boy.

A few weeks ago I saw Tiny Furniture. I haven't seen anything else by Lena Dunham, and was curious as to what the big deal was. I still don't know. I thought it was whiny and terribly acted. One tiny good part? There are a lot of casual, "unattractive" underwear scenes, by which I mean, ordinary-looking women walking around looking shlubby and not sexy in their underwear or spanx. So rare, so it's startling and realistic at the same time. One bigger good part? The closing dialogue between the main character and her mother. The rest of the movie I found irritating.

puddingcup wrote:A couple days ago I saw The Queen of Versailles, because I had just seen Django Unchained and I needed something lighter. It turned out to be much more serious than I expected (the money problems, the fighting, the son's stories about what kind of a father he had, the sales pitches), though there were some funny moments. The wife when she was picking up her rental car at Hertz, oh boy.

I saw that on Netflix and almost clicked on it before it clicked that the David Siegel in that documentary is the same douchenozzle who threatened all of his employees with lay-offs if Obama won re-election.

I think it's worth seeing. I knew it was the same guy before seeing it, and he doesn't come off too great in the doc either. He sued the filmmaker after the film was released, because he was unhappy about how he and his business came off. He also backtracked on his Obama comments. But yeah, not really a nice guy.

I just watched Malcolm X for the first time in years, and remembered why that is my favorite of Denzel's performances. I'm not sure if it's because he had so much footage to work with, but he completely nailed the tone of the character.

I also adore Ossie Davis' eulogy at the end, his voice is so soothing and that speech is fantastic.

puddingcup wrote:I think it's worth seeing. I knew it was the same guy before seeing it, and he doesn't come off too great in the doc either. He sued the filmmaker after the film was released, because he was unhappy about how he and his business came off. He also backtracked on his Obama comments. But yeah, not really a nice guy.

My daughter's English class just watched this in school as a comparison to reading "Walden." i haven't seen it yet but judging by her rants, it seems like an interesting one to pick up.

puddingcup wrote:I think it's worth seeing. I knew it was the same guy before seeing it, and he doesn't come off too great in the doc either. He sued the filmmaker after the film was released, because he was unhappy about how he and his business came off. He also backtracked on his Obama comments. But yeah, not really a nice guy.

Agreed. It was really interesting. As superficial as the wife comes across, you see how much she wants to be loved by her husband, and he thinks she's an idiot not worth his time. That made me so sad.

Morning Angel wrote:

puddingcup wrote:I think it's worth seeing. I knew it was the same guy before seeing it, and he doesn't come off too great in the doc either. He sued the filmmaker after the film was released, because he was unhappy about how he and his business came off. He also backtracked on his Obama comments. But yeah, not really a nice guy.

Agreed. It was really interesting. As superficial as the wife comes across, you see how much she wants to be loved by her husband, and he thinks she's an idiot not worth his time. That made me so sad.

I read an interview with the director and she seemed to have a lot of compassion for the nutty wife (not so much the jackass husband), which made me really interested in it knowing it wasn't 100% a schadenfreude project. I may try to watch it tonight.

We watched Ted last night. It was funny enough, but I just kept thinking that Mila Kunis deserved less of a jerk for a boyfriend, and she really should have just cut and run.

mokey75 wrote:We watched Ted last night. It was funny enough, but I just kept thinking that Mila Kunis deserved less of a jerk for a boyfriend, and she really should have just cut and run.

Hey, just like real life!