The Vanishing, with Kiefer and Jeff Bridges, Nancy Travis and a little tiny cameo from Sandra Bullock.

The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre (meh...) The Exorcism of Emily Rose (more fun once I realised Emily was being played by Dexter's sister!) and now I'm watching Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

You should watch the original movie('spoorloos'). Way better than the Vanishing ;)

Just completed Lucy's Batman degree with the Dark Knight Trilogy ... onto her Masters soon with the 3 discs of special features :))

Actually planning to do a load of really bad stuff so Batman tells me off...

*LIKE*

Okay, so apparently this is movie fortnight... Last week I went to stay with Cathie for the weekend, we watched Les Misérables, Dreamcatcher, Serenity, Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream, Scream 2, Scream 3, Triangle and Hairspray.

So far today I've watched Gothika, The Hard Way and I'm in the middle of The Matrix Reloaded - The Matrix was on the other day and I saw it then...

potd, brilliant

Looks like he's already caught her

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Second best day of my life. Wedding day first, then that.

Death Hunt (Charles Bronson and Lee Marvin)... Such a Classic although I watched also North Face after!!

One of my guilty pleasures: Big Trouble in Little China

Skyfall - awesome film. A good one off reset - the Bond we have known and loved is now fully formed - hope the next one is a little grander in scale but keeps the excellent quality of Skyfall and Casino Royale.

Looper - very good indeed! I think JGL is amazing and it was great to see Bruce back on form.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show.. and that was yesterday afternoon. :) :) Even watched it with a buddy whose never seen it before.. friggin' priceless. He asked me what's it about.. and the first 3 words that come to me was 'Sexy Science Fiction' haha :)

Malena.

going to watch Hard Times aka the streetfighter and Keith Lemon Movie (again)

Deep Rising (another Guilty Pleasure)
and 'The Mad' - sleazy horror comedy at a diner :twisted:

big miracle starring drew barrymore

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Collector's Edition)

Some like it hot and half of Identity theif

Ballad of Lucy Whipple Friday afternoon, and doesn't really count as I took the dogs for a walk halfway through, the bounty hunter Friday night

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Twilight, then New Moon, and I'm halfway through Eclipse...

Okay, that's the lot, Twilight marathon done!

Did they ever do a part 2, to their Breaking Dawn?

Argo - Brilliant. Have to love Emirates' ICE - so many movies.

Yep, it was released on DVD here in the UK on Monday, hence the need for a marathon ;0)

the haunting of whaley house... good film.. enjoyed it

Last Night...the legend of Lizzie Borden (starring Elizabeth Montgomery) (very rare)... eerie as hell

Now watching MEAT LOAF LIVE AT WEMBLEY 1982 (vhs to dvd transfer)..

Les Miserables

Maison Close (season 1)(blu ray) (cant wait for 2nd season)

Skyfall. It was very good, but not as amazing as everyone would have me believe. :rly:

Polish Bar last weekend and Lincoln this weekend.

I liked Meat in Polish Bar. I haven't decided about Lincoln yet. I heard so many great things about the movie but I am not sure.

The Evil Dead (the original)

Identity Thief

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I absolutely love that film :)

I didn't really know much about it when we decided to go and see it, my sister picked it.

There were some quite funny moments though. :D

lemon popsicle

Documentary 'Classic Albums - Bat out of Hell'

The Classic Album clips during the concert made me want to watch it again :-P

I need a copy of that :(

Oz the great and the Powerful

Resident Evil, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Resident Evil: Extinction (are you spotting a pattern yet?!) and Les Miserables - the 1998 Liam Neeson/Geoffrey Rush version.

karate kid... recent version

The Princess Bride followed by Silence of the Lambs, currently watching Alien: Resurrection...

Brilliant!

I'd heard loads about it, knew it was a bit of a cult classic, but had never actually seen the film, and I was watching Sherlock, turned the DVD off and happened to catch it about 15 minutes in!

Star Trek: Into Darkness

Fantastic!

Star Wars - Empire Strikes Back

And tonight Return of the Jedi(with my wife who never saw any of the Star Wars movies before)

Star Trek : Into Darkness

Not dark but very bright and shiny, too many computer graphics, too much action actually! Showing a woman in her underwear for absolutely no reason. Captain Kirk is more like iron man than a captain with responsibility. He is reckless and Starfleet don't respect him. Hate what Star Trek has become. Long gone is the "sci fi" of good stories with moral/human overtones. First Contact is a billion times better. Off the scale in comparison to this stuff. JJ Abrahms said to make a good film you shouldn't play into the hands of what fans want and do too much. He has done exactly that. Well done JJ. Oh well. At least I have the old Star Trek movies and series to enjoy.

Fast & Furious 6.
Flipping awesome! Highly recommended. 9 out of 10. Amazing action.

Total Recall (2012)


That's 113 mins of my life I won't get back

So far today? Resident Evil 5, Cabin in the Woods, Zombieland, Shaun of the Dead... Can you tell I'm staying with Cathie?!!

(the original) Nightmare on Elmstreet

Maybe Star Trek.... ha ha

Man of Steel.
Worst Superman movie in history. If you like constant CGI, 100% destruction, no character development, no setting establishment you'll love it.
Richard Donner knew what he was doing in 1978. The clowns who have made this mess have managed to put together the most forgettable and most boring piece of entertainment I've ever sat through. Loud and visually too overwhelming to comprehend.
Shame as I had high hopes for this. Bryan Singer's Superman Returns is miles better even.

I walked out of Ghostrider 2, Transformers 2 and would have done here as well had I been on my own but had a relatively nice outing with the family anyway. :-)

Worse than Superman IV? :shock:

:yikes:

At least in that one it was interesting to see where in Milton Keynes it was filmed, mostly near the square at the train station. :-)

No other Lex Luthor will be as good as Gene Hackman was playing it. Thought Kevin Spacey would be good in returns as he is a decent actor but thought he sucked and he got far too physical for my liking. But to be honest I'm no expert on comic books and perhaps the Donner films were more just what I liked rather than an authentic depiction. :shrug:

... SHUT ...UP :shock:

*scrap MoS from my watchlist*

I never got the hate for Superman returns :( I'll be watching MOS in about 2 hours

Man Of Steel. A good solid 4 out of 5. Great cast, much better character development in terms of who they are and what drives them, a great modern update. The fight that ends the movie is spectacular and epic fun. Just needs a little more levity next time and the well constructed world of cause and effect kind of falls apart once the fight starts.

But the two hours just flew by and overall it was very good.

Life of Pi

Bolt

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Really enjoyed Man of Steel answered a lot of questions I had and was a great way to spend Father's day.

Like are we alone in the universe? ;)

Like why he wore an S on his chest; as much of a geek as I am (and proud of it!) I don't know a lot about Superman

Those are just made up stories for this particular film rather than really giving you an explanation from the Superman universe.

Originally the S did mean S for Superman but that actually was given some more background story in the original (and in my opinion FAR, Far, far superior) Superman film from 1978. Subsequent comics have used it as well.

Originally he got his costume from materials from Krypton which Martha Kent put together so again David S. Goyer is just making some shit up here.
He was never a fisherman. He actually had a degree in journalism and thus got the job at the Daily Planet and THAT's how he met Lois Lane. Man of Steel completely twists this around to the point it doesn't really make sense.

But alas the film certainly entertained a lot of people by the looks of it but I am quite flabbergasted by the approach they have taken here. I am probably getting old but so much CGI I think really isn't interesting. I truly detest what they have done.

I said it before and I will say it again. If Donner had been given the oportunity to finish his Superman saga there wouldn't have been a reason for other Superman movies today! Superman was brilliant (eventhough Donner had to use the original ending for Superman II) and Superman II could have been equally brilliant :cool:

Personally I've enjoyed every superman film/series (apart from Smallville which was God awful imo)/comic I've seen because I like to see the different aspect of him they choose to highlight. I absolutely loved seeing Krypton and seeing Jor El and Lara I felt it fleshed out that part of his life exceptionally well. Henry Cavil was superb imo and I really enjoyed seeing Lois Lane do something other than be saved every two minute. The bit I most enjoyed is that they didn't rush in and push a love story on us.

Well I think it's true the best has already been done with it. But still I thought this might be watchable to some degree. I thought it wasn't. You should go see it and see what you think for yourself.

The problem is that DC Comics and Marvel are going mental. They are trying to fast track Man of Steel 2 for late next year or 2015. A Justice League movie thereafter as well (Batman again with Superman and introducing Wonder woman and Flash), a full Wonder Woman movie, probably a full The Flash movie and even Aquaman (!) Marvel: Avengers 2, Thor 2, Captain America 2, Spiderman 2, 3 and even 4, Fantastic Four, Guardians of the Galaxy and Ant-Man (!).
All those in the space of less than 5 years whilst we also get Star Wars episode 7 and 2 Avatar sequels. If I was working on a film I'd make sure it wasn't released in 2015 that's for sure.

I think Spielberg and Lucas are correct. Hollywood is going to implode very soon. $250 million movies are unsustainable at this level I think. I think they need to go back to basics and spend less money on hiring an army of computers to make things completely ridiculous. I thought that's exactly what they did well with The Dark Knight trilogy (although somehow they still managed to spend that much money on the films, it certainly didn't go towards visual fx). Now DC Comics is turning things towards the ridiculous shiny Marvel computer animated world. But hey what do I know? If people want this type of stuff it will get made I guess.

Andrew, the Superman backstory has been recreated so many different times within the comics that you'd have to back to the golden age to get to the 'original' origin. Even the Donner films take massive liberties with that (and I grew up with those films).

As for Man of Steel - thought it was great. The Krypton bit at the beginning was maybe unnecessary, and it felt like there could've been a little more in the way of dialogue with Kal/Clark in certain scenes, but it has definitely done the job that Superman Returns didn't do in 2006.

Superman's origins have been constantly reiterated and adapted in the comics, I don't see why film should be any different. Unless you want a carbon copy of the Donner films (or no Superman films at all...).

A Haunted House (The Marlon Wayans movie) - Don't think I had a real laugh. Too predictable.

Mermaids: The Body Found - Actually a pretty entertaining mocumentary from Discovery Channel

Monsters University

Paul, then The Astronaut's Wife...

Argo.

Brilliantly filmed, capturing the tension of the events perfectly. Haven't watched any of the other possible Oscar of BAFTA contenders that Argo beat to the titles this year, but can see why this won.

Black Dog - Just watched it Tuesday night. I had never seen this movie. It was better than I anticipated. Meat's character was pretty funny in it. I need to see more of his movies. I have only seen a handful of them.

I am a proud nerd as well and I know nothing about Superman. I never really got into this character. Then again I do not read comic books so that might be why I never followed Superman.

Olympus Has Fallen

World War Z

Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters

Seven Psychopaths - hilarious movie! It is kind of off the wall humor but it is a Christopher Walken, Woody Harrelson movie so I wouldn't expect anything differently.

Evil Dead (2013)

Sure a lot of gore, but that was about it.

How is that movie compared to the original? The original series is a true cult hit. Does this remake do it any justice?

There are refferences to the original(s) but it doesn't have the cleverness and wit of the originals. Plus it doesn't have Bruce Campbell... Characters were just not interesting with perhaps the exception of one.

All in all I didn't hate it but it wasn't anything I hoped for

When I first saw the previews for it I wondered how it would be without Bruce Campbell. The previews looked okay but it didn't really look like a promising story line. I still want to check it out but I think I will wait to rent it... ;)

3:10 to Yuma

Really enjoyed it

Which version?

07

Excellent taste :0D

Oblivion. 3.5 out of 5. Not very original but well crafted none the less.

The Heat - very funny movie. There are a few scenes that aren't to funny but the rest of the movie had me in stitches. Sandra Bullock did a great job but Melissa McCarthy stole the show!

The Conjuring ....really good movie if you like supernatural films ,wouldn't say it was the scariest I have seen but really enjoyed it and have since read up on Ed Warren the investigator it was about and quite an interesting read

hell boy 2
the hole

Snatch. Just brilliant.

Almost as good as Lock, stock and two smoking barrels :cool:

Gonna watch Oblivion now. :shock:

I do love Lock, stock.

FallingDown

The one with Michael Douglas? 'Cause that one is brilliant :cool:

K-2 starring Kate del castillo (brilliant!!)

the principal most excellent film:D

Insomnia, a phsycological murder mystery/thriller from 2002 starring Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Hilary S~~~~ and Jonathan Jackson who was Lucky Spencer on the soap opera General Hospital and was also on the TV series Nashville. Just happened to come across it while switching TV channels. Awesome movie

Monsters University, prior to that it should have been the second Star Trek reboot on the outbound flight ... but the in flight entertainment wasn't working so we had 11 hrs staring at a blank screen!

Not fun. The Star Trek movie was good too. To bad you had to stare at a blank screen! How was the flight back home?

Apart from the fact neither of us really slept it wasn't too painless ... Just hated leaving Vegas where everyone is happy and polite and arriving back in a grey rainy country full of miserable grumpy people .

Dear Zachary.

Very emotionally draining but a must see.