I thought JGL may do something with it. He should stop taking dumbass roles.

Premium Rush LMAO I remember seeing that trailer and thinking it looked kind of fun.

I've never bothered to watch it and now I probably never will.

Just saw Interstellar on a full sized 70mm IMAX and the visual experience was pretty incredible. Loved it.

It was. Completely mindless but fun.

Darjeeling Ltd: Intriguing, but not my favorite Wes Anderson film. Probably wouldn't watch it again. Made me think about how annoying my older sister can be, and how I'd like to go to India and smell it.

REALLY liked the symbolism of them "leaving their baggage behind" when they jumped on the train at the end, though. Very nice.

Rogan laughs all the way to the bank playing the same stumbling, fumbling and drunk character in all his movies.

Couldn't make it through Chef, didn't realize it was a Disney movie.

????

Fairview Entertainment, Aldamisa Entertainment and Open Road Films are not Disney companies.

I assume you might mean plot? This was a low budget indie film Favreau wanted to make about his love of food with his friends. I dont know what else you could expect.

Saw Inherent Vice and Big Eyes. Both were interesting.

Inherent Vice will likely be divisive with some people loving it and others hating it. I thought it had a few holes, but I guess that's tolerable in a drug addled detective movie. Has a strong Long Goodbye vibe, and a well tuned mood to it's setting. The story is loose and trippy which I think works for me, but I'm pretty okay with a movie not making sense sometimes if it has purpose.

Big Eyes was the opposite. Very straightforward narrative, made interesting by the two leads who are fantastic. It is also a treat to see Burton take on a story about stealing credit for things when he has a history of being accused of not sharing credit.

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I, Frankenstein was as bad as you might have guessed.

I enjoyed it as well. Rogen's shtick is getting a bit exhausting, but the film was hella funny. And I agree, the guy who played Kim did an awesome job.

For those not familiar, these are writers with a great eye [npi] for story based on real events.

They previously collaborated on Man in the Moon, People v. Larry Flynt, and Ed Wood.

This is the story of the legal wrangling over the copyright on those wide-eyed portraits that were popular for a hot minute.

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An Education.

Great little vignette on what life in 1960s Britain was like.

Would be great to date 16-year olds. ROFL

I was most attracted to the teacher, though. Man she needed to loosen up.

The new Hobbit was very enjoyable. Tons of action.

Oh, yeah.

Boyhood is good. Like, it's boring as ****. But it's really cool seeing a kid grow up.

Guarantee you will relate to it in someway, even if it's only to appreciate that your life was not so ****ed up.

Finally saw Europa Report. Very, very good movie. Really liked it.

I have a question. Every good review I have seen of it seems to harp on the gimmick. Every negative reviews I have seen says remove the gimmick and you have a terribly generic 3 hour movie. Thoughts?

Boxtrolls was pretty cute. Great stop motion.

All I can say is that it was a unique movie that kept my attention. The acting was honestly great...really liked Ethan Hawke in it.

It's a bit dry but well made. A slow burn.

Foreign movie called Ragnarok on Netflix was pretty good, although the title is a bit misleading. It didn't really have anything to do with Ragnarok.

Ha, I watched that last weekend. It was decent.

Unbroken is real good.

It just can't be better than the book. I'm considering not seeing the movie for that reason alone, as weird as it sounds.

Watched an incredibly sad film last night, The Wind that Shakes the Barley. It has been vilified by many British critics for being pro-republican in its portrayal of the time surrounding a peace treaty between IRA leaders and the crown in 1921, but it really has so much more to offer. It is a sometimes off paced, but well made story about a young Irish doctor who leaves his medical career behind after witnessing cruelty by British officers to join his brothers IRA group and fight, until the treaty, when he is suddenly at odds with his own brother as the Irish split into opposing factions. I've been on a Cillian Murphy streak lately, and this was quite good. A big warning about the pacing though. I am pretty tolerant of slow and steady, but this jerks a bit from the fast pace to the deliberate and it hurts the film from time to time, but the really key story moments are paced well.

I sometimes like stories about individuals or small groups in complicated historical situations more than epic tellings of heroes, and this fit that bill quite well.

Wow, that's surprising. I thought it was an excellent movie. Love Favreau as a writer.

Watched "In a World" on Netflix Instant. Under the radar but good comedy cast including Rob Cordry, Demetri Martin, and Ken Marino from The State. Easy to watch and some funny moments.

I just watched "Mr. Nobody" on NetFlix. The description was putting me off. I thought it sounded crappy. I was pleasantly surprised when I finally gave it a shot at the request of my older son. It held my attention throughout. I would recommend it.

Watched The Interview



Well, it wasn't the worst movie I have ever seen.

Watched 'into the woods' with the fam tonight. I liked it a lot. I've never seen the stage play and not familiar with the songs at all. But I truly enjoyed the music and songs with the overlapping lyrics. Good stuff. Funny at times too

I agree. I just said this last night.

Finally got around to Harmontown.

Pause for a second,

shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhOCKING!!!

Man, did it deliver, for its intended audience. I seriously can't get a lens for those who didn't wade through the Harmon experience IRT, but I listened to the podcasts as they went out, then to see the story behind them, and immediacy, and the fluency.

If I had to sum it up in a word, the word would be honest. It's the most honest thing I felt I've seen in a while. Its really weird to have the word 'relatable' be applied to mass media in a manner for immediate, but this documentary really offers a perspective on a life lived that it could be the life you live, yet so brave and quick you don't know if you'd survive. It echoes all the things you'd like to think you would do, while suggesting that you'd never have the courage to follow through.

If it's possible to be both humbled and inspired at the same time, that is Harmontown for me.

Life is full of broken people who are trying to do better. What a message.

ugghhhh Chris Pine in People Like Us.

UGHHHHHHH MY EMOTIONS

Really good flick. Also Michelle Pfeiffer has aged so gracefully.

Just watched The Drop, pretty good flick.

Just got back from seeing The Imitation Game. I like it but it was a really artsy-fartsy movie. Benedict Cumberbatch should win best actor.

I thought it was very good. One if my favorites this year, and Cumberbatch was great.
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I watched Whiplash with the wife last night, we both thought it was.... good. I guess we just expected more because it made so many top 10 list of 2014.

JK Simmons' performance was worth the watch alone.

Gone Girl was all over the place. Good movie though

Inherent Vice screener is available to torrent.

Gonna watch a trilogy of movies tonight.

Before Sunrise
Before Sunset
Before Midnight

Unless I'm mistaken romance movies don't usually come in trilogies. And all 3 have good reviews. Should be interesting.

So, a gay night?

I'm also binge-watching New Girl.

I like that show.

Selma was a good movie.

Have only seen before Sunrise, but the dialogue was very clever. An anti-Hollywood take on love.

No way. Michael Keaton and Steve Carrell were both better. He was good, though.

Speaking of, just saw Whiplash and The Imitation Game. They were both very, very good.

Birdman and Foxcatcher are still up there as my two picks for favorites of this year.

That is a good way to say it.

How was the movie birdman any good?

Was awesome

Last weekend was a free preview weekend for all the premium channels on DirecTV so I watched some of the random movies.

Transcendence - terrible movie with laughable "science"

Rio 2 - I surprisingly liked the first one but this sequel was boring with much, much worse music

Winter's Tale - not quite what I was expecting but I enjoyed it. A nice urban fantasy.

Airport '75 - I saw this movie in the theater when I was around 12 years old. It has all the hallmarks of a great '70's disaster movie - ludicrous "disaster", a lot of screaming and carrying on, blatent sexual harrassment of the female characters and Charlton Heston. Airplane! borrowed a lot from this movie so playing "spot the influence" is fun too.

Took the kids to see "Big Hero 6" this last weekend. It was surprisingly better than I thought it was going to be.

Really enjoyed The Imitation Game. I think nearly every A-Lister Brit made an appearance in that flick. Took me about ten minutes to figure out Hugh was Ozymandias from Watchmen.

It's a dammed travesty how Turing's life ended up, especially considering what he gave to the war effort.

Rollin HARD, playa

These were all really good.

I think Ethan Hawke is probably tremendously underrated as an actor.

We're not doing that anymore?...

American Sniper was excellent, I don't care what your feelings are about Chris Kyle the person, because Chris Kyle the SEAL was one bad dude and he saved countless lives in Iraq.

Some very gritty and realistic battle scenes, its impressive to see how those guys actually operate.

Eastwood pretty much never makes a bad movie and this was no exception.

5 of 5

New to me but just watched this tonight on Netflix,depressing as hell but two thumbs way way up.

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If anyone can watch Birdman and tell me it isnt a FANTASTIC piece of cinema, please do me a favor... go find your favorite Steven Seagal movie, watch it again, and then kill yourself.

lego movie wasnt even nominated for best animated movie. this upsets me more than it should.

Waiting for an HD rip to hit the torrent sites. o:-)

I thought the animation was great, but the storyline sucked.

I finally got around to watching this one today.

It started off great, I thought. I'm a huge fan of the alternate history adventure type flicks and the first half or so of this one delivered on that front.

It did get a little weird near the end, but that's to be expected.



Overall I enjoyed it. It was better than most horror films these days.

Web rips are pretty good quality. Well, except for the Chinese characters... :)

A DVD Screener out for that movie.

Have you watched C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America? It's alternative history that's a comedy. Its funny but kinda grew old after an hour.

3 out of 5 popcorn bags.

Finally got around to seeing Station Agent. Enjoyed much more than I expected. Dinklage is awesome.

Lucy Liu, I'd still hit it.

How does Sami Gayle come across? It's weird how, watching her, your assessment goes from 'that's a boy,' to 'no that's a girl,' to 'she's actually a pretty girl,' to 'and quite talented to boot.'

Off-putting, yet engaging.

Yes. But after Christina Hendricks.

I decided Friday to check out Birdman and see what all the hoopla was about. The first hour I thought, how can a movie this crazy be such a hit, think 'Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind' crazy. The couple in front of us got up and left about 45 minutes in. However, the theater was packed since the film had left about a month ago and the theater brought it back. Most everyone there was like myself, I'm 64 and retired. The first hour I gave it a 6 out of 10. By the end of the film I gave it an 8. I enjoy a movie that goes outside the normal boundaries.

Saturday I saw American Sniper. I don't see how anyone can hate this movie. I gave it a 10. I'm a life long Democrat but when I was 20 I joined the Army in 1970. The film brought back memories of how I felt when I was younger.

Watched A Walk Among the Tombstones last night. I enjoyed it, worth a watch at least once. Not the best movie to watch once your daughter leaves for college, though.

As long as she stays away from coke traffickers and rogue government agents, you're golden!

Saw AKIRA last night on the gigantic screen at Alamo Drafthouse. ****ing amazing.

Caught Inherent Vice this afternoon. I enjoyed it despite having a little difficulty following the story. Really solid performances all the way through. It's one of those where I'd have to watch it again to pick up on things I obviously missed, but doubt I will. Them Katherine Waterston nips tho.

Paddington was pretty cute.

Thor was okay. But damn was it a corny ass movie.

Finally saw Battle of the 5 Armies. Kind of a let down.

Watched that Premium Rush bullshit with JGL on FX tonight. What a turd that movie was..