What are you watching right now?

[video_game_addict]

http://imdb.com/chart/top

Number two.


Actually the whole list is pretty f'd up if you n=know anything about movies.

IMDB's top 250 list comes directly from users' ratings of the films on their website. The more popular the movie is, the more hits it receives, the more ratings it will most likely receive, in turn gives it the momentum it needs to travel up the rankings to make that top list.  

It's based entirely on their point scale & number of votes.

So what happens is as new movies are being released, or coming out on dvd people are reading about them online, and viewing them & then voting on them while they are still current.  


Most of your older movies just as good or better than recent titles have been overlooked as they are not generating as many new hits on the site, and not nearly as many votes.  


I will say this much, Shawshank Redemption is one of my favorite movies of all time! I don't know how you can compare alot of the movies across the various genres & especially across so many years of film, but Shawshank would be in my personal top 10. I'm not sure what number order I'd place on any of them, but it's be in the top 10 for sure.  

Green Mile is very good as well, but Shawshank had a more realistic storyline. It's a simple, believable story about a guy who's been wrongfully accused & how he's able to overcome this hand he's dealt. There are no super powers at work, and nothing out of the ordinary. The warden & staff play such evil men that you really hope for the best & that justice will prevail in the end.  So maybe it is a happy story, but it's one that I enjoy very much, and one I would place very high on any list of top 100 movies.  

Another good prison movie I like is Dead Man Walking. This one, written & directed by Tim Robbins, takes a different angle on good vs bad. The bad guy ultimately gets what he deserves in the end, but you're left feeling sorry for him in the process. I thought it was very moving. Sean Penn plays alot crybaby roles! I like him alot in 21 Grams too.

[Zimbacca]

The Daily Show: Evolution Shmevolution.

[Izret101]

Watching what is probably going to be a rerun of NOVA on PBS.
Whatever i migth still learn something.....

Mutant X on ABC isn't interesting to me right now and i don't even care what is going to be on NBC because they suck bigtime on weekends.

[Izret101]

Watching some show about  animals and they just showed this Red Capped Cardinal. Those things are insane!
The make these awesome sounds by hitting the tips of their wings together 80x per second. Faster than a hummingbird flaps its wings.
And they moon walk and stuff do. They had to use a high speed camera (500 times per second) in order to film many of its movements.
It was doing a moonwalk type thing too. It is the fastest thing  
One of the coolest things i have ever seen.

To bad i missed most of this show...

[Izret101]

The premier of Lost and then some other mini series after that.

[Sauza12]

The premier of Lost and then some other mini series after that.

Hey what do you know, I watched that last night too.  The show after it was called Invasion.  Invasion better pick up the pace with the next episode though, because it is dragging so far.

[Izret101]

Hey what do you know, I watched that last night too.  The show after it was called Invasion.  Invasion better pick up the pace with the next episode though, because it is dragging so far.

You alerady know the entire season just from that first episode though.
They gave way to much away.
Unless somewhere along the lines they have a pretty huge plot twist. Which doesn't happen much in miniseries.

[The Metamorphosing Leon]

The 1956 Moby Dick with Gregory Peck. Actually really awesome. Had to watch it for a class. Gotta love them puritans.

[Izret101]

Surface just ended now Las Vegas is on.

[Izret101]

Just got back from the movies.

Waiting is a hillarious film.
Many parts reminded me of day to day school activities. Many of which i have not taken part in.

Dane Cook had a rather small role in it.
It was excellent

[The Metamorphosing Leon]

Porn.

[Izret101]

Primetime i think...
They sent people to get into nuclear reacter plants.
It is disgusting how shitty the security was.
Not surprising though.


hahahahahahahaha
This guys who was running one of the plants which left doors proped open from 9 Am one morning till god knows when the next day(yes over night) was not worried about people coming in and being in there.
The best part was his name was Muhamed Shake(sp?) Al-zeer
Or something similair. I got a kick out of that

Ohio State and Perdue University where also goten into
Ohio State there was a security lock on it but a guy let them in and showed them around
Perdue was open all the time with noone there

[Izret101]

My Name is Earl

This show is great.
This guy did bad stuff won the lottery got hit by a car and now he uses his money to help make up for the bad stuff he did.
Purifying his Karma.
The cast and ways in which things get done though are hillarious

and now soem show having to do with Rumsfeld on PBS and Office on NBC

[CatchFiveBats]

Both of those shows are hilarious.  The Office is definitely my favorite thing on TV right now.  The situations in that show are always so awkward...it cracks me up...

- Zac

[The Metamorphosing Leon]

Where did arrested development go?