What are you watching right now?

[techwizard]

watched Kingdom of Heaven Director's Cut tonight on blu-ray. i've owned the theatrical dvd release for years and never looked it up, so i wasn't even aware that a director's cut existed until a few days ago. it had an extra 50 minutes of footage and was vastly better than the theatrical release, which is saying something considering how much i enjoyed that.

[Sirgin]

Some movies I've seen in the past month...

WarGames - (1983) - A
--> Solid movie, fun to see all the old computer stuff. My only critique would be that I'd have liked to see Broderick doing more of the hacking, or stuff on computers. The movie quickly derails from a hacker movie to an action movie.

Shaft - (2000) - C
--> This one is so average and unremarkable I wonder why they even bothered.

The Stepford Wives - (2004) - B
--> Again with Matthew Broderick, 21 years after WarGames.  This is a fine movie, with a predictable, but enjoyable plot.

A King in New York - (1957) - F
--> Such a bad movie. I don't know who Charlie Chaplin thinks he is, but he sure lost his touch in his later years. I felt the same way about Limelight. Such lame lamenting and self-pitying doesn't belong in a movie. This movie has everything in the works to be a great comedy, and for the first 40 minutes, it is. Then it takes the most remarkable turn I've ever seen in any movie and suddenly becomes a serious satire of the US at the time. If you want your viewers to feel tricked and annoyed, then changing a film's genre halfway through the movie is a great way to do just that.

Wonder Boys - (2000) - A
--> Lovely movie about a univerity professor with a writer's block and a student who is probably more talented than his professor (at writing).

Tower Heist - (2011) - B-
--> Another movie with Broderick, haha. This one is mostly forgettable, but does enough right not to annoy. I would've liked to see some more classic Eddie Murphy.

[Izret101]

Watched Solomon Kane over the last 2 nights. For a movie i don't remember ever hearing about (came out in 2009 i think) it was pretty good.

[The Metamorphosing Leon]

Saw Desolation of Smaug...

Fucking atrocious. There's about thirty to forty minutes worth of good movie that actually ties to the source material, and then there's all the stupid crap they added along with like two hours of overly boring overly CGI'd overly  Rube Goldberg machine'd action sequences.

Almost all the additions to the plot are unneeded. The only one that was okay was the side plot with Gandalf investingating Dol Guldur which, while not being explicit to the Hobbit, is inferred and was to be expected.

But a love interest between Kili and an Elf? Legolas? Stephen Fry the dictator of Lake Town? Again with a new annoying BAD GUY ORC ANTAGONIST?

I have no idea how people are saying this one was any better than the first.

[techwizard]

i should post another big review of DoS like i did with AUJ...i agree there was a lot wrong with this one, but there was a lot that felt so perfect

[The Metamorphosing Leon]

i should post another big review of DoS like i did with AUJ...i agree there was a lot wrong with this one, but there was a lot that felt so perfect

I'd love to hear your opinion. Like I said I liked the base content, but there was so much boring action it just ruined it for me.

[Dergatron9000]

That river scene was very entertaining. But the movie was pretty boring. And stephen fry...  *facepalm.

[nupoile]

Just finished Die Hard. It's Christmas Eve, what else would you watch?

[Zagnorch]

Just finished Die Hard. It's Christmas Eve, what else would you watch?

A Christmas Story, followed by Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer of course. DUH.

BTW I'm probably the only person in the world who prefers to watch that other notable late eighties actioner set in L.A. during Christmas, Lethal Weapon, over Die Hard. Guess it's just the contrarian in me rearing its ugly head once again...

[techwizard]

i've never seen any of the die hard movies, i don't really understand why it's a christmas tradition for people...

i'm watching the fireplace channel on a tv which is on the mantle right above our real fire (which is unlit). 

[SirPsycho]

Die Hard is set on Christmas Eve.

[The Metamorphosing Leon]

i've never seen any of the die hard movies, i don't really understand why it's a christmas tradition for people...

i'm watching the fireplace channel on a tv which is on the mantle right above our real fire (which is unlit). 

Die Hard is set on Christmas Eve.

Yes, best Xmas movie for a red blooded Murican male that there is.

[nupoile]

Just finished Die Hard. It's Christmas Eve, what else would you watch?

A Christmas Story, followed by Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer of course. DUH.

BTW I'm probably the only person in the world who prefers to watch that other notable late eighties actioner set in L.A. during Christmas, Lethal Weapon, over Die Hard. Guess it's just the contrarian in me rearing its ugly head once again...

Yeah, we watched the poor stepchild of Christmas movies earlier this month.....

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Got to cover your bases you know.

i've never seen any of the die hard movies, i don't really understand why it's a christmas tradition for people...

i'm watching the fireplace channel on a tv which is on the mantle right above our real fire (which is unlit). 

Die Hard is set on Christmas Eve.

Yes, best Xmas movie for a red blooded Murican male that there is.

I had to look up what "Murican" meant but yeah, I agree with that.

[Zagnorch]

Hey now,

I'm gettin' down with a new batch of Air Crash Investigation (the Brit-narrator ones):





About freakin' time they covered the Air Florida crash.

Geez, willya look at me, getting all excited over this stuff. Am I a sociopath, or what? But if you think that's bad, I'm gonna watch these again with the non-Brit narrator guy, just to see what footage has been removed, and what's been added between the two versions. Yes, I'm into this show that much.


- 'Late

[The Metamorphosing Leon]

Realized I haven't watched Season 5 of The Venture Bros.!!!

Rewatching season 4 first to refresh my memory as to the nutso plot.