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irishjayhawk · 10-13-2007, 11:31 PM

Yeah, so I saw a lot of movies this weekend.

Elizabeth: The Golden Age - Mediocre, at best. Slow and dragged on. Shorten it to 2 hours and it's golden. It's not, so it fails.

Michael Clayton - Amazing. Everything about it is awesome. However, it's VERY complex and mind bending. You have to think, so be prepared. I still feel like I'm missing key details of exactly what happened. Gotta see it again.

Across the Universe - Perfect is one word that comes to mind. It just works. And, contrary to many people I bet, the movie is best viewed sober. Trust me.

KCChiefsMan · 02-11-2010, 03:08 PM

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Damn, I guess I just need to bitch about Netflix here and good things happen.

I had been waiting on The Hangover and The Hurt Locker for well over a month, and now I've received and watched Hangover and am getting HL tomorrow.

Zombieland has been "very long wait" for 3 weeks, so I'll be curious to see how long it takes.

ya, I'm still waiting for the Hangover and Zombieland on the top of my que. I did get Inglorious Basterds on the day it came out though.

DJJasonp · 02-11-2010, 03:10 PM

I saw zombieland in the theaters.....came away extremely disappointed.

They hedged their bet...and what I mean by that....they could have made the humor much darker by having more kills (and more gory/funny kills at that).

I'm a huge zombie movie fan....and like most of them....but this just didnt live up to the hype (in my opinion).

**Fire Me Boy!** · 02-11-2010, 05:30 PM

I watched the original German version of Funny Games. Better than the remake.

**Reaper16** · 02-11-2010, 06:31 PM

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I watched the original German version of Funny Games. Better than the remake.

Both versions were by Michael Haneke, curiously enough.

**Fire Me Boy!** · 02-11-2010, 07:33 PM

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Both versions were by Michael Haneke, curiously enough.

I knew that. You can tell too, the English-language version is damn near a shot-for-shot remake.

Miles · 02-12-2010, 03:10 AM

Before The White Ribbon I had seen two previous Haneke films; Cache and The Time of the Wolf. I really disliked Time of the Wolf and while it did have some interesting things going for it, Cache overall didn't do much for me. Fortunately, while I found The White Ribbon to be of a similar style, it worked this time. It will probably take a second viewing on DVD to fully digest but I felt much of the praise about this one is deserving.

blaise · 02-12-2010, 06:15 AM

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Before The White Ribbon I had seen two previous Haneke films; Cache and The Time of the Wolf. I really disliked Time of the Wolf and while it did have some interesting things going for it, Cache overall didn't do much for me. Fortunately, while I found The White Ribbon to be of a similar style, it worked this time. It will probably take a second viewing on DVD to fully digest but I felt much of the praise about this one is deserving.

I though Time of the Wolf was pretty good. It was depressing, but I thought it was good at showing what life could be like after a catastrophe.

Miles · 02-14-2010, 07:26 AM

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I though Time of the Wolf was pretty good. It was depressing, but I thought it was good at showing what life could be like after a catastrophe.

It has been a while since I have seen it and I can't really recall that much other than it was a bit of a struggle to get through. I just generally recall being annoyed with it because, unlike The White Ribbon, the slow burn pacing didn't work for me since I didn't find any of the characters or plot-lines to be very compelling.

**OnTheWarpath15** · 02-16-2010, 08:59 PM

Has anyone seen Bronson?

**Reaper16** · 02-16-2010, 09:56 PM

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Has anyone seen Bronson?

Its in my queue but I don't feel compelled to put it at the top at the moment. It'll probably come in the next couple of weeks.

TrickyNicky · 02-16-2010, 10:34 PM

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Has anyone seen Bronson?

Its not a great movie, but the performance is something else.

**luv** · 02-17-2010, 09:00 PM

Just watched 500 Days of Summer. LOVED IT! Haven't read back to when everyone else was talking about it in here. Everyone hate it?

**Lzen** · 02-17-2010, 10:32 PM

Just watched Surrogates. It wasn't as good as I hoped, but not a bad sci fi flick. I will say that the plot was very unoriginal, but the whole concept of the surrogates was kind of cool. Not great, but it didn't suck, either.

Sure-Oz · 02-18-2010, 02:10 PM

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Just watched 500 Days of Summer. LOVED IT! Haven't read back to when everyone else was talking about it in here. Everyone hate it?

I thought it was great

**Fire Me Boy!** · 02-18-2010, 03:58 PM

I got Felon in the Netflix today....

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