What Movie Are You Watching Or Watched Today?

[Irishbookish]

Planet of the Apes (Original)

The Orphanage (Spanish Thriller, complete with subtitles.)

[kgrunt]

Just received my copy of "The Hogfather" (I am Still on my Pratchett kick),watched it with the wife and kids who loved it,pretty close to the book...yeah I loved it too.

[philipchevron]

Carnivale Season One.

[Niall]

X-Files:I Want To Believe. An excellent film for fans, non fans may be a bit confused though

[O'Blivion]

Another birthday present...the Howlin' Wolf
stuff in particular is jaw-dropping.

[DzM]

Rather than doing my day job I watched the rest of No Country for Old Men and the first episode of Dead Like Me.

[Billie]

Not really a movie, but I'm amusing myself with the first series of Shaun The Sheep

[Jon]

Rather than doing my day job I watched the rest of No Country for Old Men and the first episode of Dead Like Me.

Any vacencies?

I rewatched Midnight In The Garden of Good & Evil last night and I've got Once Upon A Time In America queued up for tonight.

[philipchevron]

The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford, 1940)

[Mick Molloy]

Dark Knight: AWESOME!!!!

[Billie]

In Bruges (McDonagh, 2007)

What did you think of it? I was quite curious after reading a review, and quite wanted to give it a go (though I usually am a dvd man, rather than a cinema goer - well, actually it never came to cinemas close to me)

[O'Blivion]

I've been a Stones fanatic since the 60s, and they only recently lost me. Their boundless
(and needless)greed finally squashed out the spark of enthusiasm I once thought would
last until their demise or mine, whichever came first.

I knew it was over when Martin Scorsese -- Martin fucking SCORSESE - made a film
about them which played seemingly NOWHERE and which I did not make a special
trip to NYC or Philly to see. I did not go buy it the second it hit the stores as I
traditionally did with their product. I asked for it for my birthday so I wouldn't have
to give them any more of my money. My Sweetheart refused to give the old greedheads
any of her money either so her stepmom, another big Stones fan, bought it for me.

It starts hopefully enough, with a recording of "Just Can't Be Satisfied" playing while
we see Scorsese trying to control a situation which remains out of his control. The
black & white intro is pure Scorsese, down to the brilliant use of Stones songs in the
soundtrack. Then the show starts.

It took me 3 or 4 tries to make it through. And it's not that it's thoroughly awful, although
some of it is. Mick's singing is so much a caricature of itself, and there's so little left of
Keith, that it's mainly a big backup band being powered by the one band member who's as
great as he ever was, Charlie Watts.

Mick of course is physically a marvel, but I've said "wow look at old Mick go" for so many
years that even THAT is sort of old.


SOME of this stuff kicks pretty hard. But the real keepers are Buddy Guy showing them how
to grow old gracefully in "Champagne and Reefer" (Richards, knowing when his head's been cut,
gives him his guitar -a beautiful Gibson ES-335- at the end of the song, saying "Take it. It's yours.")
and, in a very odd and oddly touching turn, Keith performing "You Got The Silver" without a guitar,
wearing a long black coat and a pirate headband, leaving the temporarily sober Ron Wood to recreate
the slide licks his own gnarled arthritic fingers can no longer manage. His next song, the Between the
Buttons gem "Connection",is so touch-and-go that Scorsese decides to intercut interview footage over
most of it.

I'm going to watch it at my buddy Gregg's place on his 62" tv in surroundsound. I'll probably like
it better then. But right now I'm wishing that Martin Scorsese had made this film in 1972.

[philipchevron]

In Bruges (McDonagh, 2007)

What did you think of it? I was quite curious after reading a review, and quite wanted to give it a go (though I usually am a dvd man, rather than a cinema goer - well, actually it never came to cinemas close to me)

I liked it, it struck me as one of those rare comedies that could stand repeated viewing, and the performances by Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes and, in particular, Colin Farrell, are terrific. I don't think Martin McD will ever quite make the impact as a film-maker that he has made as a playwright, but that's mainly because, as a playwright, he has already absorbed all he needed to know about movies and put that to work in his plays.

[Irishbookish]

Heroes - Series One. My eldest son wanted series one and two for his birthday. Lucky it's holidays...I've just started series two and it's even more addictive as Sliders and Quantam Leap.

[FAY]

The Devil and Daniel Johnston