What Movies Have You Seen Recently?

Last night watched Pinnocchio!! :D Cause I haven't seen it since I was child... It was very good to see again.. We have dow..Got every Disney cartoon ever made on HDD :D And we are watching them all again it is amazing to go back over them hehe...

Also bit of a "different" pace... Watched Hooligans II (Well that is the American title here it will most likley be called Green Street II) Alot grittier than the first.... At the end of the first there is the brawl.... If you've seen the first you will know... Anyway... This carries on from the brawl... BUT in prison!? ZOMG!! no!!! Yes, well it shows the two firms (millwall and the GSE!!! Here's ya G.S.E! lol).

Knowing alot.. *ahem* about prisons and prison systems this film is very.... Very..... Very unrealistic and that straight away makes the film worse off... So much happens that would NEVER happen... Quite graphic with the fights too... For most here probally too graphic... Although there still is a plot... And it becomes frustrating lol... And the only reason you will say "the ending was good however" is because if you sit there for what like over an hour watching what the GSE have to go through, the injustice and nonsense... You naturally are going to enjoy the ending... It's natural to do so... Don't be ashamed ;)

Anyway... NO WHERE near as good as the first no hobbits or other big actors in it really.... The magic and excellent plot has died... But, I expected this before watching so not really that upset lol. Oh if you haven't seen these films, then I would suggest seeing the first.... It is really good.

Forever blowing bubbles..
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Alex P said:
Last night watched Pinnocchio!! :D Cause I haven't seen it since I was child...
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I saw Aladin recently, luv'd it! It wuz my favourite (until Lion King came out)...

that reminds me... theres a couple of old disney flicks i wanna see again. One of 'em is about this mouse that gets lost in NY city... cant remember the name? "An American tale" ?? The name of the mouse was "fifel" sumethin...

and there were a couple of others too... can't remember.


............ but hey... at least I didn't forget about Dre !!


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Forgot About Dre (Uncensored)
 
I wanted to marry teh princess ;/ She had it going on! The second aladin sucked.... The third wasn't too bad... But that is because They got a guy that sounded like robbin williams lol and the forth was meh lol

Gonna watch peter pan tonight!!

It's the d. r. e.... :O
d. r. e.....
don't forget about me!
Cuz I'll pee pee pee...
And my pants will be
all wet and soakey!!!
ooooooo okie kokie kokie!!!

What what what freestyle what... Oh you're gangster? I'm pretty gangster myself.
 
u mean u actually watched the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th parts !! :eek:

lol, fail! : p
 
Running out of films that I haven't seen.....

Searching today for "funniest films ever" I came across one I didn't have... And Surprised I've never heard of it.... As it has two of my favourite actors in it, Bill Murray and John Candy. It's called "Stripes" Currently watching it now lol.. Bill is a wanna-be photographer / bum. And he drags his friend with him (forget his name! but in loads of funny comedies) into the army!! :D Only like 15mins into it... But tis funny! Anyway that is all.
 
Namaste all,

i just saw W., the movie from Oliver Stone about President Bush.

i'm not quite sure since Oliver like to make some interesting edits but i think the movie only dealt with some of his personal life and his first term in office.. which seemed odd to me since the movie could have had more recent material.

i really liked Richard Dryfuess' performance in the movie, i think that he did a really great job of capturing as the vice president. i would have liked a different actress for Condelezza Rice though i had the impression that Oliver Stone may not like her very much as the character was oft portrayed as a simpering sychophant which is pretty inconsistent with the personality that is oft exhibited by her.

unfortunately every time i see James Cromwell i think thinking of the movie "Babe" and i imagine him saying "that'll do pig" to everyone in the movie at any point which such a response my be apropos but i think that he did a pretty good job of portraying Bush Sr.

in any event, it wasn't much of an historical movie or documentary but something inbetween. i found it entertaining and informative and others may as well.

metta,

~v
 
Alex P said:
Running out of films that I haven't seen.....

Searching today for "funniest films ever" I came across one I didn't have... And Surprised I've never heard of it.... As it has two of my favourite actors in it, Bill Murray and John Candy. It's called "Stripes" Currently watching it now lol.. Bill is a wanna-be photographer / bum. And he drags his friend with him (forget his name! but in loads of funny comedies) into the army!! :D Only like 15mins into it... But tis funny! Anyway that is all.
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Stripes!

that's a classically funny movie! i'm always sadden when i recall that John Candy has ceased to arise on this world system, i shed many tears when i heard the news.

in any case... "That's the fact, Jack!"

:D
 
Vajradhara said:
Namaste all,

i just saw W., the movie from Oliver Stone about President Bush...
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I saw W. It was mediocre, but I did like the way that most of the administration was caricatured. I actually found Rice's caricature particularly amusing, and Dubya himself was portrayed as such a clueless and manipulated tool that I almost felt sorry for him. Almost.
 
Just finished watching Full Metal Jacket, which I had seen once or twice before, but years ago. A damn powerful movie. The character of Gomer Pyle/Leonard Lawrence always stands out for me in the first half of the movie, which is I guess what he's supposed to do, but this time in particular I noticed how the marine training affected him: from a happy-go-lucky young man who can't wipe the grin off his face, he degenerates into a ridiculed and debilitated suicide.

The whole movie is incredibly hellish.
 
It wasn't bad stripes ;) films like this are hard for me to watch though as I look for realism heh. Hard not to.

Pathless... We watched that film loads in the army I was for awhile Private Joker. And pile wasn't mentally strong and he was broken, a broen soldier is dangerous.... He could of been a good soldier... Needed to lose weight though... But he was broken down and wasn't strong enough to rise above it. To a degree that is his own fault, he was joining the infantry.... what did he expect. To become one that walks with no expression upon his face in the killing fields, staring into the void ready to destroy all life that it encounters, He needs to be prepared :p A man can't go out there, cause he won't last and if he does last he will be haunted forever lol

Watching Napoleon Dynamite now.... Different.....
 
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Alex P said:
Watching Napoleon Dynamite now.... Different.....
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Final thought: Alot to do about nothing...... Do not understand it's popularity the film is ****.

Off for a walk on the moorlands and dinner at mothers then going to start tucking into the Police Academy's again... Wonder if I shall find them still funny.
 
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I agree Stripes is a classic comedy, haven't watched in years.

Full Metal Jacket was not enough and at the same time too much. The Gomer character was a simplified exaggeration of the worst case scenario of boot camp gone wrong. An experienced DI (as the one in the movie was supposed to be) would know to watch for such psychological breakdown, and the man probably would have been medically discharged before reaching that point. If the DI was not experienced, there would have been a senior DI in charge (they work in pairs). So it was just a bit inaccurate...I suspect to make the political point. Later in the film it did show a more raw seamy underside of the American occupation (f*cky s*cky long time, fie dollah).

I must be on a Bruce Willis jag this weekend: Mercury Rising, pretty darn good I thought, Willis has to protect an autistic kid (whoever played the kid was absolutely fantastic). The end of the movie sucked though, Baldwin just isn't a credible bad guy. Tears of the Sun, another modestly good film, I've seen better "war" movies, but this one does show some great African scenery and does expose rather harshly man's inhumanity to man. (Hotel Rwanda did a better job in this regard I thought) 12 Monkeys, stunk. Jackal, first rate, excellent all the way, Bruce does the best job I have seen of him being the bad guy...quite a turn and he performs admirably, supported by a great cast including Sidney Poitier and Richard Gere (I normally don't care much for Gere, but he does a good job playing a reformed IRA terrorist turned informant). Jackal was the best of the 4 movies, by far.
 
Alex P said:
Final thought: Alot to do about nothing...... Do not understand it's popularity the film is ****.
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Napoleon Dynamite is a quintessentially American film about desperate and angst-filled living within the void that is suburban America. Yes, the film is dumb and also to a large extent pointless, but life as a teenager within suburban America is also dumb and pointless. Yet both are not without their moments of humor and sweetness.
 
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