[HQTheodore]

I'm going to see "Valkyrie".

[hLabXZlK]

Saw The X Files: I Want to Believe. Meh.

[DeronBoltonRen]

Watched Hot Fuzz on Netflix. It was hilarious!

[Beedcardabeme]

Australia, mediocre, very long (didnt understand why it didnt end 40 mins before)

Quantum of Solace: interesting attempt at bringing more character to bond. i didnt remember what had happened in the last movie with vesper though and couldnt get into the story much

[caseferter]

it had a cute singing boy with his magic gandpa though

[tilmprarnerit]

Over Christmas I watched Hot Fuzz (good), Dark Knight (good), Hell Boy 2 (bad), and Rush Hour (good). This is far more movies then I normally watch btw.

I also watched the Read or Die OAVs which were good.

JM
(Hot secret agent extreme book lover? Great idea!)

[usaguedriedax]

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum. Very good!

[acneman]

Gran Torino was good. Although it had a bittersweet question at the end though - you just know that some other gang will move into the area after that one got taken down. But it was a good deed that Clint Eastwood's character did, in the short run.

[ThekvandoVideo]

Last movie I saw was Waltz with Bashir. Excellent film.

I saw Eagle Eyes and Babylon AD on DVD.

Babylon AD was too short to develop the characters and plot well enough, and at the same time it dragged on at the end. Quite an accomplishment, to make a movie too short and too long. The action and acting were mediocre.

Eagle Eyes had nice action set pieces but the plot is preposterous. The acting was blan except for Billy Bob Thorton.

[GtmFeqJJ]

Seven Pounds: seemed like a great story but badly executed...
Will Smith should probably go back to killing giant alien bugs...

[investor]

Salaam Bombay. Very good movie!

[evarekataVame]

just saw Gran Torino. And while you could say that about the ending of Gran Torino, sometimes his endings are a bit simplistic. Million Dollar Baby had that same problem. People on the imdb boards all went apeshit that it wasn't realistic. And perhaps this wasn't realistic either, it was there just to pull those heart strings and pull a few tears out if you are capable of any human emotion. And for someone who always wanted a father figure growing up to teach me to be a man, well I loved it so much . Now if only I could learn to be a man. Oh well, too late for that now.

[Arkadiyas]

I was wondering the same thing. Here's what I found:

The cylindrical corridor which linked the hub of the centrifuge to the rest of the ship, was constructed of two separately rotating sections, with the camera mounted securely to the corridor end. With the hub end rotating, the actors could walk down the static corridor and then step onto the hub as the port came to a position at the bottom. As soon as they stepped across onto the hub, it would stop and the corridor would begin to rotate in the opposite direction. From the camera's point of view the apparent rotation remained constant, but the actors seemed to be completely defying the law of gravity. http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/sk/2001a/page3.html

[yarita]

Next: Neat concept, but hello, can we have some exposition, please? Just a bit? Anything at all? Nope. Okay. Fine. But Jessica Biel is hot.

I was thinking about that, and it occurred to me that it's a fantastic way to set up a sequel that isn't a let-down because all of the interesting stuff was in the first, which is almost always the case with fantasy/sci-fi/supernatural.

[ZZipZZipe]

Saw "Slumdog Millionaire" and "Curious Case of Benjamin Button" this week. Both are fantastic movies. Both involve a bit of fantasy (Slumdog has far less, but its there). I think I'd say Button was the better film, but either would be a worthy Best Picture winner.

[Wvq9InTM]

Ali, check out post #26

Watched again "Crimes and Misdemeanors" a couple of days ago. Great movie!

Saw "Gallipoli" last night, with a young Mel Gibson. Pretty good movie, even though the ending is pretty abrupt.

[JasminBerkova]

Saw "Gallipoli" last night, with a young Mel Gibson. Pretty good movie, even though the ending is pretty abrupt.

One of my all-time faves; being Australian 'n all. It should be mandatory viewing in Australia - too many young Ozzies imagine Gallipoli as some sort of Australian triumph, a cause for celebration, when it is in fact a cause for deep mourning and sombre reflection on the need to ever, ever go to war. The screenplay brings that out very well.

I also love the Oxygene soundtrack - who would have thought electronic music would marry so well with a WWI movie?

[BakerBonce]

Yesterday I saw Oliver Stone's "W". Found it rather bad.

sadly, he can't seem to make movies anymore. Not sure what happened to him. I think some directors have their ego's get in the way.