What Movie Are You Watching Or Watched Today?

[Mike from Boston]

Horrible Bosses (2011)

Stumbled upon this last night on cable, don't remember hearing anything about it when it came out, so I had no pre-conceived notions. Pretty funny, laughed a lot. Starred Justin Bateman with two other actors that I am unfamiliar with (Jason Sudekis and Charlie Day)-pretty good chemistry. The best part is the talent in the supporting roles-Donald Sutherland, Jennifer Aniston (actually acting a bit), Jamie Foxx, Bob Newhart and an unrecoginizable Colin Farrell (didn't even know it was him until the credits rolled). But Kevin Spacey just adds so much more to his role, in lesser hands it could have been stale, but he is great here.

[Frances]

...Charlie Day...Bob Newhart...

Charlie Day is so funny. I haven't seen the Always Sunny huffing episode(s)? yet but he looks hysterical.



Bob Newhart is awesome and I want to see him live. Just watched his records make an appearance on Mad Men when the uptight dude tosses one out of his office. Mad Men's angle. "It's not Lenny Bruce, but it's good," Paul says as a group listens and laughs at the LP in their office. -USA Today

I will see this based on those two alone.

[Tal]

Vinyl 2012
Aging rock group use a young fresh faced punk band to front new recordings to fool the music industry.
Director ; Sara Sugarman Writers:Jim Cooper, Sara Sugarman Stars: Keith Allen, Phil Daniels, Jamie Blackley , Mike Peters.

[firehazard]

The Machinist. In which Christian Bale loses a scary amount of weight and nearly dies of insomnia.

Good film.

[Tal]

Between the Canals(2011)
Follows three small time criminals from Dublin's North Inner City as they each aspire to be somebody in a fast changing society.
Director:Mark O'Connor Writer:Mark O'Connor Stars:Peter Coonan, Dan Hyland, Stephen Jones ,Damien Dempsey

Another film the Pogues made it on to the soundtrack,the track "A Man You Don"t Meet Everyday".

[old barney greyheron]

The Machinist. In which Christian Bale loses a scary amount of weight and nearly dies of insomnia.

Good film.

That is a hellish film! Saw 'Right At Your Door' last night...a lesson in how to make a low-budget film that's effective and very watchable.

[Tal]

Perrier's Bounty(2009)
Perrier looks to exact his revenge on a trio of fugitives responsible for the accidental death of one of his own.
Director: Ian Fitzgibbon Writer:Mark O'Rowe Stars: Gabriel Byrne, Cillian Murphy, Michael McElhatton

[Tal]

Parked

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Fred Daly returns to Ireland with nowhere to live but his car. Then dope-smoking 21-year-old Cathal parks beside him, and brightens up his lonely world. Encouraged by Cathal, Fred meets ..
Director:Darragh Byrne Writer:Ciaran Creagh
Cast-Colm Meaney, Colin Morgan, Milka Ahlroth.

[Frances]

The Machinist. In which Christian Bale loses a scary amount of weight and nearly dies of insomnia.

Good film.

Can't do it.
What's the one where the guy loses all short term memory? Can't take that one either.
Also had to switch off The Singing Detective because of the burn-like condition of the character.





The Trial

[firehazard]

...
What's the one where the guy loses all short term memory? ...

I think I saw it recently, but I can't remember.

[Low D]

The Smurfs (2011)

One of the things about being family guy is you get to watch all sorts of kids movies. This can be a mixed blessing, but sometimes you're surprised. Smurfs is not a film i would have picked (despite briefly being a fan when i was little), but my 10 year old insisted. I had low expectations, but i didn't hate it. There was some good making fun of Smurfs content, good Gargmel running around NYC scenes, and enuf slapstick to nearly rupture both my 10 and 17 year olds' spleens with laughter. And at the end of the day, it's hard not to like ANYTHING with Neil Patrick Harris in it.

[Low D]

Vinyl 2012
Aging rock group use a young fresh faced punk band to front new recordings to fool the music industry.
Director ; Sara Sugarman Writers:Jim Cooper, Sara Sugarman Stars: Keith Allen, Phil Daniels, Jamie Blackley , Mike Peters.

Just watched this last night. Very enjoyable, more so at the end to learn it was based on/inspired by the true story of Mike Peters/The Alarm a few years back, who also wrote the songs.

Thanks for mentioning it!

[Frances]

Gonna pick up Rhinoceros at the library.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYgR1Pb-lk4

It'll be on the shelf, always is.
My favorite Karen Black movie.

[Low D]

Just watched the "Chronicles of Narnia" Triology this weekend:

The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)
Prince Caspian (2008)
Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010)

Altogether not a bad adaptation, and certainly well produced and acted films. The third installment takes a great deal of liberty with Lewis' work, both in streamlining the plot and Hollywood-izing a great deal of the dialogue. Clearly, it needed to be streamlined to fit into a movie, but it left the film feeling rather random at times. "Prince Caspian" ends with a totally unnecessary kiss, again with the Hollywood...

The older BBC series gave a much fuller telling of the complete set of novels, but a guy flopping around in a cheap lion suit hardly gave Aslan the majesty he requires. They are more like plays, and would be a good introduction to younger children, but older children will laugh when Reepicheep the mouse is not significantly smaller than the humans.


(An interesting aside, the BBC Reepicheep was played by Warwick Davis, who appears in the 2008 Prince Caspian as Nikabrik the Dwarf).

[Frances]