Today I took myself to a movie I really wanted to see and wasn't disappointed.

I saw The Imitation Game. I think Benedict Cumberback was amazing. Interesting, tense story that I won't totally go into but highly recommend.

Christmas Cinema
 

Big Eyes.

Fascinating and somewhat sad story, overall. Time period induced. Amy Adams is a reliably good actress and I dig her. Tim Burton moments, for sure. It was okay. This song was quite compelling from the film.

Tried to watch "The one I love" on Netflix and couldn't get into it.
I love indie movies, but this one meh.

So, I watched In your eyes (Netflix) def recommend. Trailer below


Also watched "Big Sur" Movie about the
awesome Beat Poet Jack Kerouac.
Damn good movie.

I saw unbroken.
Intense but powerful with good motivation.

Mystery Road on Netflicks ( Is that how it's spelled?)... About an Aboriginal policeman, racism, in Australia.

Checked out Refuge on Netflix. I enjoyed it.
It's a tad bittersweet and melancholy.


Did I mention the soundtrack is amazing? :tea:

Cool, glad to know it's worth checking out as i have had this in my list, right after In Your Eyes lol.

Last night we watched the Good Lie on Demand ( I believe its in movie theaters currently as well ) We enjoyed it :popcorn:

Ouija


SUCKAGE

Cloudburst, because my mom wanted to see it. Half way through I turned to my mom and said "omg this is fucking awful."
Mom: yes. It is kind of, isn't it.
Me: you mind if we don't bother finishing it?
Mom: no, it's a waste of time. Let's play some cards then.

There you go. I thought it was awful and even my mom couldn't be arsed to finish watching it either.

So far the only dyke love story I've watched that wasn't hideous was Fire (Indio-canadian), Amie & Jaguar (Germany) and Bound (though bound wasn't hideous, it wasn't exactly fabulous either. I know lots of people love it because it has a butch and a femme in it, but I actually care about dialogue, plot, editing, character development... You know stuff that makes a good film, not just a kind of entertaining one that doesn't ask anything of you. Yes, I can be a snob).

However, the one I watched just before was "the way I live now"
British film about an American girls that chooses to stay in England as WWIII breaks out. It's not loud music, plot shoved in your face crap, it's actually jarring.

Well, it was for me, being a gen X. There is a scene where a nuclear bomb is dropped before war is declared. You don't see the bomb. But the distant effects that are eerie, subtle and very, very frightening, I used to have nightmares about as a teen and in my 20s. They captured my Cold War Bomb nightmares incredibly well. It actually gave me goose bumps.

The ending was a tiny bit of a let down as it seemed to get wrapped up very quickly and suddenly. Bit of a disappointment, the end, but the movie was very well done.
Two fucked up teen agers, both very believable characters, especially the anxious, anorexic, angry, american girl.

I do love a film that has a strong, believable, female hero.

Hey crooked cupcake :)


You might like Tru Love. Nexflix if you have it. It's not tacky or horrible. Little humor and a little drama. I only hit pause once to roll my eyes. That really says something!

Last night I watched The Counselor....

I almost wish I could clean my eyes and unsee some of the stuff I saw.....

I love Cameron Diaz...but I wanted to see her blown up by the end of the movie....

I really think I was waiting for a big ending where the Counselor uses his sharp legal skills to exact revenge and bring about a happy ending. Then I realized, this movie isn't that old. That just doesn't happen these days....

Finally.
 

Finally, finally, finally watched The Hours. Must reread some Woolf now and watch it again to get all the references I missed the first time.

Conflict 1945
 

We watched this old Humphrey Bogart movie last night. Moved a bit slow, but all in all it was a pretty good psychological thriller!:movieguy:

Europa Report- "hard" science fiction (accurate, scientifically sound, well researched) which is so rare these days... It's a thriller and *incredibly* well written and well done. I bloody loved it.

The movie marathon continues...
 

We watched the Equalizer with Denzel, Mr. Morgan's Last Love with Michael Caine, and Last Train to Lisbon with Jeremy Irons. All were rather good :popcorn:

John Wick


Meh

"The Captive"

It was OK. Nothing I would write about.
Something a bit disturbing though.
However, I have seen much better acting.

Fury

I saw this in the theater too but just got it on Amazon.com early release the other night.

Very intense, very psychological war film (graphic but with good reason). Definitely one of my top picks for 2014.

I watched Life of Brian last night. It had been forever since I'd seen it.
Howled. :cheesy:

I watched quite a few movies yesterday.

The Wolf of Wall Street - Most excellent, I feel like Leo was perfect the role. He usually casts well when he does a movie.

No Pain No Gain - totally stupid, would not watch again. I feel like the acting was terrible, the plot was completely stupid and the way it was all setup made the movie hard to follow.

Don Jon - Another great movie, I feel like one of the characters could have used a little more character development, but otherwise it was good.

Mean Girls 2 - It was nice to see it done differently from the first one, obviously low budget film, but it is not a bad movie.

Forest Gump - A classic, can't go wrong with this one.

Not so good........
 

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Always Woodstock (2014)

Don't waste your time, another one of those where the previews are the best parts IMHO at least

Madea Christmas

Lucky Them........
 

Toni Collette, Thomas Haden Church Oliver Platt

A rock journalist is assigned to track down her ex-boyfriend by her boss.

I normally enjoy these actors and actresses but even they couldn't breathe life into this thing! We don't know much about the past, I mean why this guy left and made it look like perhaps he had committed suicide and SPOILER ALERT even when she finds him, we never find out why!

Some parts of the movie were shot in Seattle so we focused on picking out streets and landmarks we knew:popcorn:

I say lucky them who avoided this movie and watched something else:hangloose:

Last night I saw Mr. Turner.

Timothy Spall is hard to look at for three hours. Maybe if he weren't constantly emitting a thick, phlegmy grunt, I'd feel differently.

That said, the landscapes are breathtaking.

And I've always loved his work. J.M.W. Turner, I mean. The painter.

Nemo!
 

Finding Nemo!

Can not wait for "Finding Dory" :fishswim: !

I just finished The Big Year. I'm not a birder and didn't know that that was what the movie was about but I was intrigued at the line up of Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson.

I actually enjoyed the movie. Sure, it wasn't the best one I ever saw, but it was well done and had a message about the cost of our passions.

Heaven is for real. Good movie based on a true story. It moves a little slow, but its based on a true story, real life moves slow

The movie binge continues...
 

A documentary called Standing in the Shadow of Motown. Excellent and the music is fantastic!!!

The Fox. This is a bit dated now but still worth a look at. This is from 1967 BEFORE lesbian movies could have a happy ending..lol

Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (Shirley MacLaine)We enjoyed it very much, check it out and see what you think :popcorn:

Evil Dead 2 from 1987

Laughable now but was scary as hell back then!

Yet Bruce Campbell makes the movie.

Barfly (1987)
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Barfly has held up over time and it's as good as I remember. Written by Charles Bukowski and somewhat autobiographical (I think), it's about people who unapologetically live on the edges of society. Loved the chemistry and honesty between Henry (Mickey Rourke) and Wanda (Faye Dunnaway)—job well done by both.

It's vulgar, violent, insightful, funny, sad, and good.

Bukowski makes an appearance in one of the bar scenes.

Weird, I *just* rewatched that yesterday. I saw it when it came out. There was an evening of charles bukowski at the Rio (the sort of funk repetory theater here that does readings, bands, cult films, animation fests, B-fests etc) and I couldn't go as i didnt have the dosh, so decided to watch it on my own.

It was good. I love mickey rourke and fay dunnaway... both incredibly good actors. bit short for me. I forgot it was more a 3-4 days in the life of.

Starred Up.

Incredible. Really intense, gripping, real to life. Starred up is the term used in the UK for young offenders that get moved up to adult prison early.

It's a UK prison drama and very well done. well acted and very real plot. the violence is not gratuitous and it's not a moral fairy tale like so many hollywood flicks are. That gets on my nerves sometimes. It's just a raw and honest story written by a man who worked in the UK prisons as a volunteer therapist.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/star...h=starred%20up

you can find the trailer there as well.

I love rottentomatoes as a review site, btw, my personal tastes usually run along par with the group reviews done. Sometimes there is a huge discrepancy between reviewers and audience grading - which is interesting...

I tend to follow that rather than netflix (some incredibly good movies on netflix that won tons of international film festival accolades get 2/3 stars and some of the SHITTEST things I've seen gets 4.5 stars) or imbd. Better descriptions, better reviews.

I really do want to see Mr Turner and The Imitation game.

I love biopics.

I loved Wilde with steven fry and jude law.

Id like to see a decent one about Tesla and one about Dirac

Hunger games, Mockingjay


I'm a huge fan of the books. Even tho i like the first 2 better, i did still enjoy part 1. I cannot wait for part 2. Thats when s**t gets real in pan am.

I use Netflix also and have added an extention to Chrome called Flix Plus that adds the ratings for Rotten Tomatoes as well as IMBD to the Netflix rating and they are live links for a straight click over to which ever you want to read in-depth. I like getting to see all three lined up together for an over-all rating.

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