Recent viewings

[Vik]

Even if you hated it, Magnolia is hardly one of the "worst movies ever made", in the contrary.

[claws]

The Crater Lake Monster (1977) Blu-ray

The movie should be familiar: it's a bit slow and dull sucking most of the fun out of the budget cheese. But when in the right mood it can be entertaining.
The Crater Lake Monster looks stunning on Blu-ray though. Rich colors, lots of fine detail. 3/5 Cheese

[claws]

To be blunt Magnolia sucks and is one of the worst movies ever made.

I'm not the biggest Magnolia fan either but calling it one of the worst movies ever made only damages your street cred.
No one will take your movie opinions serious anymore 

[Psycho Circus]

To be blunt Magnolia sucks and is one of the worst movies ever made.

I'm not the biggest Magnolia fan either but calling it one of the worst movies ever made only damages your street cred.
No one will take your movie opinions serious anymore 

Yeah, there were a couple of things I disliked about it and I wouldn't really be bothered over seeing it again, but on the whole I thought it was a good movie.

[Vik]

Magnolia might just be my favourite film of all time actually, but not many seem to share that position.
Anyway, I think a lot of the things Bob mentioned in his post were actually the point of the movie. They're not supposed to be all good characters because nobody is that way, everyone makes mistakes, and sometimes they're horrible. Them being so bad was the idea, if they were just 'a little bad' then it wouldn't have made sense, whether you sympathize with them or not. And the horidness of their acts makes the forgiving all the more harder, which, again, is the point.

[Rev. Powell]

LE QUATTRO VOLTE (2010): An Italian goatherd dies, then a goat born and dies, then a tree is cut down and made into charcoal in this slow moving, dialogue-free experiment.  It's all made to illustrate Pythagoras' lesser-known theorem that humans are made up of the rational, the animal, the vegetable and the mineral.  It has some hypnotic, documentary-style moments, and the Calabrian countryside is beautiful to behold, but mainly it's film medicine: you get the sense it's good for you, but it's not that much fun on the intake.  2/5, experimental/avant-garde film fans only.

[bob]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxUZuoDQgas

I kid, I kid

Magnolia deeply offended me the same way North and Caligula did with the incest scene

nothing will ever change my mind and  if you disagree with me that's fine too

different strokes for different folks 

[Jack]

Zombies Zombies Zombies (2008) - A group of strippers (the type who for the most part keep their clothes on) and some prostitutes and their pimp are holed up in a strip club while zombies attack.  Yet another comedy, it was fairly amusing.  Especially the pimp with his stereotypical egotism and crudeness played for laughs.  The characters were pretty good (and attractive), and all the bickering about who's the sleaziest, the whores or the strippers, was enjoyable.  3.5/5.

[FatFreddysCat]

"Who Framed Roger Rabbit"
http://www.youtube.com/v/OtnC_BjdJtQ

Still an amazing technical achievement after all these years. "Roger" combines the 1940s noir/detective genre with the anarchy of the best Looney Tunes cartoons in a story of a down-on-his-luck private eye and a rabbit accused of murder in post-war Hollywood.

I've lost count of how many times I've seen this movie, it's definitely one of my all time favorites. I never get tired of it. To this day there are still a few scenes that make me wonder "How the @#$% did they DO that?"

[Vik]

Rise of the footsoldier
Eh, all the characters were a bunch of overagressive dumbasses. The violence was really entertaining in the beginning, but it just got boring as it progressed. The whole thing felt kind of pointless too.

[FatFreddysCat]

"Source Code"

...Jake Gyllenhal (sp?) is a soldier who must stop a terrorist bombing on a train ... by being "projected" into the body of a passenger on the train. Once there, he has 8 minutes (!) to identify and stop the bomber. If he fails (which he does, numerous times) he's pulled back into a super-secret military lab then sent back out to try again.

Strange but compelling sci-fi/suspense thriller from the director of "Moon," which I haven't seen but which got a lot of love so if you dug that, you'll probably dig this.

[Hammock Rider]

I just watched Snow White and Sleeping Beauty with the nieces. ( It was a Princess Marathon!)

  I haven't seen either in quite awhile and I'd forgotten how cute they were. Not too long either. And the animation, especially in Snow White, was amazing.  When I think of the work that went into those movies, it blows my mind.

[lester1/2jr]

Used Cars - marginally entertaining, not very funny or believable comedy starring Kurt Russel as a stereotypical used car guy battling another one. Having the blonde love interest wear a skimpy top in the last half hour was the directors best decision, but not nearly enough to recomend this on. 2.5/5

[major jay]

JOHNNY COOL
Johnny Cool equals sixties cool. Rat Pack Fever! 5 style points out of 5.

[Jack]

Vanity Fair (2004) - Back in 19th century Europe there are all these snooty old rich people and their snooty kids are waiting around for them to die.  Reese Witherspoon is a governess who wants to climb up this social ladder - she's shallow and nauseatingly charming and blah blah blah.  All these rich people, who wouldn't speak to a servant if their lives depended on it, accept Reese into their families as if she was one of their own because, well...because it's a freakin' movie I guess.  She marries some guy who isn't rich, they seem happy enough but then she meets some other old guy who's fabulously wealthy so blah blah blah.  This goes on for like two hours and twenty minutes.  Lots of waltzes are waltzed, lots of snooty old rich folks mill about (WAY more than I could keep track of), etc.  It was pretty;  when you've got a nice big budget you can create a version of 19th century Europe that's quite pleasing to the eye.  As a romance I thought it was a failure - even though Witherspoon's character took a detour or two along the way, I thought it was obvious from the very beginning that she was nothing more than an a$$ kissing gold-digger and how could anyone care how things turn out for her in the end?  3/5.