Well..... I just watched Frozen and have to say that I loved it!! I found myself gushing over Sven and little Olaf! I want them for my very own!! I'm still grinning. I might have to watch it again before I return it to redbox lol.

What can I say?? I'm a sap.

I finally watched We Bought a Zoo....

I had started reading the book many moons ago, then left it at work and it disappeared...

The book (a true story, if I remember correctly) actually takes place in England. This was adapted to take place in California....reallyyyy close :blink:

Interesting factoid: I watched the credits and the author and his children play visitors at the zoo. I love little nuances like that :)

Totally forgot; I started watching the Lord of the Rings trilogy. I'm on the second movie. The Two Towers.

I do really enjoy the movies. There is a lot of detail and I am trying to watch each one twice for that reason.

Also, am I cray cray or does Harry Potter borrow more than a little from these stories (as far as some characters are concerned)??

We just saw Wild with Reese Witherspoon.

Amazing movie. So worth a watch.

My GF said it hews pretty closely to the book.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2305051/

hunger games -mockingjay

umm too bad i missed half the movie to a rather amorous, grunting couple behind me. good on them;)

http://imageserver.moviepilot.com/hu...20&height=1110

20,000 Days on Earth (2014)
Directors:
Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard
Writers:
Nick Cave, Iain Forsyth
This isn’t a document on his career more like an insight in his enigmatic character. I always find it interesting to see the construction of a piece of ‘art’ and i don’t know of many documentaries that have this as a narrative. When he started recording his new album, Push the Sky Away, he’d been alive 20,000 days and the film also shows aspects of his day…. It also showed a lot of Brighton. One for Nick Cave fans really, like the majority of documentaries about musicians or rock stars, if your not interested in the artist then the whole experience may be lost on you.


Husband's review. I liked it a lot, but I adore Nick Cave.

Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
Director:
James Gunn
Writers:
James Gunn, Nicole Perlman
The comic isn’t really know to me but some of the characters are. The science fantasy and humour work well as the story isn’t very complex. I’m glad i waited until i rented though. If people liked this so much why didn’t they like John Carter?


Husband's review. I so hated it!!!!!!!!!! I ended up painting my nails half way through it! What a bunch of utter shit! I liked John Carter a lot more! And that is saying something!

Chinatown, a classic with Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway :movieguy:

jersey boys
 

loved it...wished i had seen it in vegas

I've been thinking about your question and, more often than not, I don't have a problem with book-to-film transfers.... 84 Charring Cross Road, Silence of the Lambs, Waiting To Exhale, Goodfellas, Devil in a Blue Dress, Long Days Journey Into Night, Street Car Named Desire ... all are books (or plays) I read and liked before seeing the film. Granted, I dont read nearly as much as I used to, but I would expect the same reaction these days.

My biggest beef is bad remakes. "The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3" comes to mind.

Last movie at the cinema watch was Paddington
Last movie on tv, can't remember.

Blind Faith (1998) with Courtney B Vance and Charles S Dutton

This is a excellent movie and definitely worth seeing if you can locate it:movieguy:

(MAKE sure you double check as there are several movies with this same title)

Daktari, while I'm not into the Hunger Games (books or movies) I certainly had issues with Thomas Wolfe's book Bonfire of the Vanities being turned into a movie. What were they thinking:seeingstars:

This Is Where I Leave You


It was ok, liked the movie way more than the book:movieguy:

Goodbye To All Of That...
 

I had posted somewhere on the forums about this movie, stating it was opening on Dec 17th and available on Demand, what I forgot to post was..the previews of this movie are the best parts, yup one of those, don't waste you time:popcorn:

Yesterday I watched HER.....interesting...and probably a sign of things to come...

Today I watched Hateship Loveship....very odd little ditty....but well done...some surprising faces in it: Nick Nolte, whom I did NOT recognize right away and Christine Lahti...who I recognized by her voice. Seems she should be MUCH older than she is....

Tonight I watched G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra...cuz this girl can't refuse a cheesy action flick....and it wasn't bad....predictable but action (and humor) packed. I just don't see the big deal with Channing Tatum. He is not all that good looking or that fabulous an actor...I remember him from the less gooder of the two White House movies that came out back to back...no Bueno...

Men, Women, and Children
 

A little different I'd have to say but I still liked it. Enjoyed Adam Sandler in a serious role for a change. Check it out and see what you think:popcorn:

(A group of high school teenagers and their parents attempt to navigate the many ways the Internet has changed their relationships, their communication, their self-image, and their love lives)

Lone Survivor

"Marcus Luttrell and his team set out on a mission to capture or kill notorious Taliban leader Ahmad Shah, in late June 2005. Marcus and his team are left to fight for their lives in one of the most valiant efforts of modern warfare."


Be prepared for a lot of cringe worthy (as in "wow that looks like it hurt") moments. It is as described an in-depth look at a gun fight. Entertaining isn't a word I would use as much as well done. And it was. Based on true events.

Hard to even remember that Mark Wahlberg was Marky Mark the model and rapper. He's come a long way.

:movieguy:

Magic in the Moonlight...
 

I liked it and both these actors but the movie could of been WAY shorter.:popcorn:

Stars: Colin Firth, Emma Stone, Marcia Gay Harden

Homoe's post reminded me, I saw Colin Firth in The New World, and I don't remember if I posted about it.
It was not bad... I always watch the "special features" and they showed some background. They kept the Native American dress and customs as authentic as they could. Actually, they were showing how they were making the Indian village homes, and I was like, OH that looks just like how the Algonquins made their long houses! And...turns out...the Indians (at least as portrayed in the movie, if not the ones met by Captain John Smith) were indeed Algonquins. So...good touch!

<<<studied just enough archeology to make me good at Jeopardy...

Ohhh I came here to post lol

For tonight I got The Heat. I've seen it a bajillion times but, I need a good laugh tonight.

If you've not seen this movie....let me just say. Watch it. And wear some depends cuz seriously. I about pissed myself laughing...lol


:koolaid:

I've been feeling a bit sentimental lately, and so I've revisited my favorite childhood animated film..
 

Last night:

I watched Transcendence with Johnny Depp. Interesting. And scary.

Started last night but finished this morning:

The Young Victoria. I really, really loved this movie. In fact, I felt it ended too soon. I really wanted to see more, rather than the written snippets that tied it up. I could have watched this for another two hours and not been bored in the least. Not to mention, the beauty of the Victorian dresses...sigh..I'd so suffer a corset to wear those babies.

We've been on a movie kick as of late so ... The World of Henry Orient, Sarah's Key, Mirror Has Two Faces, and an old classic In Name Only are a few we've seen and enjoyed recently.:popcorn:

(Yes ,Sarah's Key is based on the book by Tatiana de Rosnay and even tho the book was a difficult read don't let that deter you from the movie)

Tonight was Airplane. I needed a laugh but it wasn't as funny as when I was a kid. But I did pickup on certain jokes I missed then... (mayo clinic lol)

However....I realized half way through, I never should have seen this movie as a kid!

We've been on a holiday movie kick all week, and those go without naming.

But a notable exception, and one that doesn't fit the theme - St. Vincent (Bill Murray, Melissa McCarthy, Naomi Watts). While it had a fairly predictable formula, I was still both repulsed and endeared with Murray's portrayal. The layering of revealed information about the depth of his character was worth watching.


Also, ventured out to see Wild (Reese Witherspoon) since I absolutely connected with the novel by Cheryl Strayed. The movie just didn't have the same emotional pull I was hoping for. I think it was the treatment of the transitions between thoughts, memories, and reality. I just didn't feel it because the harshness of the reality didn't match the intensity of the memory. But Witherspoon was accurately cast for the role.

I've watched this movie several times. It really sticks with you!

Pride..
 

What a wonderful little gem this is and based on a true story about U.K. gay activists work to help miners during their lengthy strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984.:popcorn:

We watched My Big Fat Greek Wedding last night.
We have both seen it before but it is a great movie if you want to laugh.

Tonight I'm watching "A Christmas Carol", the best version to my mind is this one with Alastair Sim as Scrooge from 1951. :xmascandle:

A Christmas Story

1983 with Melinda Dillion and Peter Billingsley

5 out of 5

Movie Review: 'Fruitvale Station'

Michael B. Jordan and Ariana Neal play father and daughter in this debut feature by Ryan Coogler.

In the early hours of Jan. 1, 2009, Oscar Grant III, unarmed and lying face down on a subway platform in Oakland, Calif., was shot in the back by a white Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer. The incident, captured on video by onlookers, incited protest, unrest and arguments similar to those that would swirl around the killing of Trayvon Martin in Florida a few years later. The deaths of these and other African-American young men (Mr. Grant was 22) touch some of the rawest nerves in the body politic and raise thorny and apparently intractable issues of law and order, violence and race.

Mr. Jordan plays Oscar Grant, who was killed by a Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer. Those matters are hardly absent from “Fruitvale Station,” Ryan Coogler’s powerful and sensitive debut feature, which imaginatively reconstructs the last 24 or so hours of Oscar Grant’s life, flashing back from a horrifying snippet of actual cellphone video of the hectic moments before the shooting. But Mr. Coogler, a 27-year-old Bay Area native who went to film school at the University of Southern California, examines his subject with a steady, objective eye and tells his story in the key of wise heartbreak rather than blind rage. It is not that the movie is apolitical or disengaged from the painful, public implications of Mr. Grant’s fate. But everything it has to say about class, masculinity and the tricky relations among different kinds of people in a proudly diverse and liberal metropolis is embedded in details of character and place.

...Even as it unfolds with a terrible sense of inevitability, “Fruitvale Station” is rarely predictable. The climactic encounter with BART police officers erupts in a mood of vertiginous uncertainty, defusing facile or inflammatory judgments and bending the audience’s reflexive emotional horror and moral outrage toward a necessary and difficult ethical inquiry.

How could this have happened? How did we — meaning any one of us who might see faces like our own depicted on that screen — allow it?

http://www.movies.nytimes.com/2013/0...-iii.html?_r=0

How indeed?

This is a very well-acted, directed and written movie. I did not want to watch it as I could feel the inevitably of the outcome. I did, am glad that I did but it is still staying with me. As a society, somehow, someway; we must change.

We have so far to go.