I thought it would be a great idea to have a thread dedicated entirely to the discussion of movies. I saw Shutter Island last night and it was a brilliant film! Creepy, moving and a wonderful "Oscar-worthy" performance from Leonardo Dicaprio. The twist was as good if not better than "The Others."

I'm not sure if the idea will work since alot of films hae seperate threads like the Harry Potter films and Pirates of the Caribbean.

I had no desire in seeing the movie since I geussed the "twist" at the end when I first saw the trailer. I looked up the plot and saw I was right.

Can we discuss movies that aren't new?

I just watched Hotel Rwanda. Very good, but hard and distressing to watch. Knowing it really happened makes it that much harder to get through.

Yes, talk about any movie you like.

I remember watching that a few years ago and being so shocked that people could actually do that kind of thing to each other. It was a great film, though.

I rented Precious to watch tonight. I also want to rent Up In The Air.

I have that on DVD, but I've not seen it yet because I'm never really in the mood to sit and put myself through a film like that. Besides the obvious bad bits, is it a good film? As in a REALLY good film?

Currently watching The Pirate (1948). Love Judy Garland's performance and her voice is absolutely gorgeous, but the material isn't anything amazing. She steals the film of course. GOD I LOVE HER.

After this, I am watching Dark Victory with Bette Davis.

I think I've seen every movie Judy was in. The Pirate wasn't one of her better ones IMO. My favorites are The Wizard of Oz (duh), Meet Me in St. Louis, and A Star is Born. For Me and My Gal and Easter Parade are also pretty good. She's so underrated as an actress.

I saw Precious yesterday and what an amazing film! Monique defiantly deserved that Oscar.

I agree with everything you said; she was such a brilliant actress! I find her speaking voice to be so beautifully soothing as well. She had so much depth and emotion and is hardly appreciated nowadays... I haven't seen For Me and My Gal yet, though! My favorite films of hers are The Wizard of Oz, Meet Me in St. Louis and Babes in Arms. I know I loved A Star is Born, but haven't seen it in nearly a decade. Wow. Haha.

I watched Fingersmith again last night, since I hadn't seen it in a really long time. I love that movie so much.

And tomorrow night I'm going into town for a showing of The Big Lebowski, which is pretty much my favorite movie of all time, and I'm dressing up as Walter. I'm pretty excited.

Do you think we could change the title of this thread to "The Official Movies Thread"?

We could do that. But I also think we'll leave the Harry Potter movie threads and the Twilight movie threads in their own separate areas. Those are big movies and the discussions would probably bury the rest of the movies and posts in this thread.

Yeah, that's a good idea!

I hate that movie. So much. *coughs*ActuallyIloveitlookatmysignature...**

going to see "Alice in Wonderland" tonight with some friends...I think it looks pretty good lol..hopefully it will be!

Warner Brothers has a new film franchise planned after they finish Harry Potter. The Oz books by Frank L. Baum will be made into movies beginning with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. However, there will be no musical numbers like in the 1939 film would be more faithful to "Oz" author L. Frank Baum's source material. The other verison they are planning is set closer to the present and most likely be even darker. Do you all think this could work?

http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/movie-talk...anchise.html?nc

It might work. At least they are not doing a remake of the 1939 classic Wizard of Oz film. I do remember the books being a lot darker so it could be interesting!

I hear AiW is disappointing. Not bad, just not to to par with other Burton/Depp movies.

Uh oh, look out.... its.......... DINOSHARK!

lol.


http://tv.yahoo.com/blog/it-came-from-the-...-tv-debut--1060

Currently watching Mr. Skeffington. Bette Davis was such a goddess.

I just watched The Barkleys of Broadway again. I love Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire (still working on watching all ten of their movies they did together though). Their dancing is just mesmerizing. I've said for a long time that if I could have one impossible wish granted, it would be to dance with Fred Astaire (they do say he could make anyone look good!) Anyway I love The Barkleys of Broadway and I am absolutely obsessed with the white dress that Ginger Rogers wears near the end during They Can't Take That Away From Me.

Also, The Princess and the Frog is coming out on DVD next Tuesday and I am ecstatic.

I really liked Alice in Wonderland. It was really good!

Also, anyone else notice Helena Bonham Carter sometimes pronounces her "r's" as "w's"?

Is that just a quirk she does or something?

I watched Memento last night and it was quite good. It's fascinating how the movie plays out in mostly reverse order, and it was surprisingly easy to follow.

Up in the Air is awesome! My favorite movie od the year.

I saw Remember Me the other day. I really think the ending was a bit of a cop out.
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I mean, couldn't they have just finished the story instead of having some surprise September 11th plot twist? They held the Sept. 11th stuff from all the advertising, which bugged me. I would like to know that Im going to see a movie that is about the lives of people affected by 9/11. They hinted to it throughout the movie very subtly, but I really think it was unnecessary.

I'm excited for the release of How To Train Your Dragon! It looks like it's going to be good.

I saw Alice in Wonderland for the second time last night. I thought it was great, I especially love Alan Rickman, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, well basically everyone in it

I saw Remember Me last weekend, and really enjoyed it. I can understand how there's going to be mixed feelings about the ending (and frankly, I'm surprised it's not getting more news for being pretty controversial). But anyway, I thought the movie was well cast, and was a very moving story.

^^I thought it was well cast we well and I was moved by the story, but I wish the ending was further developed and didn't just BAM end. I don't see how it's controversial in any way though?

I think this is the first movie that's been about 9/11 without clearly stating so in the previews. I know there have been a few 9/11 movies, but people know they're going to see a 9/11 movie when they go. However, people had no idea this was a 9/11 movie. I'd imagine some people would be very upset by that...

^^^I had read the ending on perezhilton.com and was quite surprised they would do that. Because yeah, the trailer doesn't mention anything about it.

I saw it today and it was a very sad film.

I saw Repo Men today. It wasn't great and it didn't suck either. Its very violent though, like graphic. So if you don't like blood and such, its probably not the film for you. It does have an interesting twist at the end as well.

It only made like $6 million this weekend too.

I saw She's Out of My League today. Surprisingly, I found it to be a great wonderful comedic film. Very good writing and they didn't rely on gross/raunchy humor that's in extremely poor taste like most comedy movies now do. Very hilarious and I'd actually love to see it again.

I saw Remember me this past weekend, and i thought it was fantastic. Robert Pattinson isnt normally my favorite person ever, but i deffinately give him kudos after watching this movie. The ending confused me a little, but after thinking about it afterwards, i understand it. I think it was very well casted& done. (:

I saw The Bounty Hunter this weekend. It was highly enjoyable I thought, though some elements of the plot didn't really make sense. Oh, and if you see it, see if you can spot Carol Kane, Jayne Houdyshell, Mary Testa, and Christian Borle!! They were all in it.

Watched the following yesterday/today:

Dark Victory (1939): 10/10
Requiem for a Dream (2000): 8/10
Of Human Bondage (1934) 8.5/10

Currently watching The Best Years of Our Lives (1946).

Chris Evans has been cast as Captain America.

http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/movie-talk...in-america.html

According to director of the Austin Powers films, Jay Roach, Mike Myers is currently working on a fourth installment.

I hope it's good! Goldmember was the best and funniest one out of all the three.

^^^I will definitely agree with you on that one. I LOVED it!

Just watched "The Informant!" for the second time tonight. It's a cute, funny little film I laughed hysterically the second time around, already knowing everything that happens.

Angelina Jolie might play Maleficient in one of Tim Burton's upcoimg films.

http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b173868_ha...=imdb_tv-movies

Am I the only one that's excited for The Last Song? I read the book and I cried like you wouldn't believe.

My friend and I went to see it today. It was a sad movie, but I liked it. Miley proved that she can play other roles than Hannah Montana and she is growing up.

I saw it today and I sobbed for an hour straight. i've been really depressed all day, ever since I got back. It's good just incredibly sad. Be prepared to cry A LOT. And dare i say this, Miley Cyrus was actually GOOD in it!!!

Anyone waiting for Blood Trail to come out? To see the trailer, just youtube the title. I don't think I can even link it, it's so gruesome. And it's animation, which makes it 100X worse to watch. But maybe that's just me. Adult animation scares me.

Strange enough, I can't seem to find anything on the full length movie. Everyone says it's coming out, but I can't find anything on it.