**Rerun's Movie Reviews**

[MooseMom]

Poppy, yes, Keeping Up Appearances was popular here and can still be seen every Sunday evening here in Chicago on our local Public Broadcasting Station!

I, too, had heard that there would be a one off episode of IT Crowd, but I'll believe it when I see it.

I've only seen the first 2 eps of Moone Boy and will probably watch the third today on Hulu.  More eps are available to Hulu Plus subscribers, of which I am not, but they release one ep a week on regular Hulu, so ep 4 should be available later this week.  Yay!

[skg]

Recently been watching Slings & Arrows -- a Canadian comedy/drama about the people running a Shakespeare festival. Hard to describe effectively, but well worth giving a try.

For British series, we really enjoyed Midsomer Murders. A great combination of humor and murder mysteries. Particularly liked the relationship of Tom Barnaby and his wife, Joyce. (Has anyone read the books it was based on/inspired by?)

cheers,
skg

[Lexxtech18]

Just FYI... R.I.P.D. with Ryan Reynolds (hot, hot, hot!) and Jeff Bridges was awesome and hilarious! But very Men in Black-ish. Meh. Now I'm just waiting till payday to go see The Wolverine.

[cariad]

Saw Monsters University last week. I did actually laugh on several occasions but overall I was watching the clock through most of the show.

We have The Dictator on loan from LoveFilm and hoping we can start watching it tonight if G isn't too knackered.

[galvo]

Went to The Conjuring on Sunday. It's about demonic possession, and I can tell you you don't want it! I enjoyed the film; it didn't scare me, because I'm so brave, but I was squirming a bit!

[Poppylicious]

Went to The Conjuring on Sunday. It's about demonic possession, and I can tell you you don't want it! I enjoyed the film; it didn't scare me, because I'm so brave, but I was squirming a bit!

We'll be toddling off to see that at some point next week (it's released here on Friday).  I can imagine you are VERY brave.  I am too, so it won't scare me either.

 

[galvo]

Pops! Bet you squirm!

[CebuShan]

I did an audit of The Wolverine (Watched it 3 times but audited 8 viewings!) LOVED it! May I just say that Hugh Jackman is extremely...FIT!!   

[Chris]

How do you get a job like that CebuShan? That is one job I might be able to do that actually fits into my doctor appointments!

[galvo]

Saw Simon Pegg's "The Worlds End" yesterday. I thought the first of this triology "Shaun of the Dead" was asolutely great , the second "Hot Fuzz" a bit of a let down, and this current one bloody crappy! Cardbord characters, barely sustainable plot, and extremely un-scary roboty thingos. The pious platitudes at the end almost made me throw up! If I hadn't attended on a free ticket, I would have demanded my monney back!

[Poppylicious]

Pops! Bet you squirm!

I didn't.  I just jumped a couple of times.  The only really scary thing about it was the atmospheric music ... somebody should be getting paid lots of money for getting that right.

Saw Simon Pegg's "The Worlds End" yesterday. I thought the first of this triology "Shaun of the Dead" was asolutely great , the second "Hot Fuzz" a bit of a let down, and this current one bloody crappy! Cardbord characters, barely sustainable plot, and extremely un-scary roboty thingos. The pious platitudes at the end almost made me throw up! If I hadn't attended on a free ticket, I would have demanded my monney back!

Oh dear.  You had a sense of humour bypass?     I got quite involved with the characters; I liked that they weren't just two-dimensional but that they had back-stories which made you feel for them.  In fact, the film would have worked particularly well without the need for alien intervention.

How do you get a job like that CebuShan?

I second this question! 

[Chris]

I'm thinking of pre ordering The Worlds End, not sure about  The End though. Of the orders I received of G.I. Joe Retaliation and Oblivion I have watched one. G.I. Joe was a let down with no characters really returning, and the action was blah. I'll watch Oblivion sometime this week. I forgot what movie I have coming at the end of the month, but have 3 next month, and another 4 have no release dates yet.

[galvo]

I went to 'Now You See Me' on the weekend. I actually only saw 2/3 of it, as I slept through the middle 1/3. This lapse was not due to the film. I was tired and the theatre seat was very comfortable. So I can't be too accurate about the plot,but I think it was delightfully clever. The parts I saw were very colorful and full of action. Woody Harrelson(?) looked good in a hat; there were some really neat magic tricks; Morgan Freeman and Michael Cain did very little; and I almost choked as I swallowed my chewing gum, that's what woke me up!

[Poppylicious]

We saw something so good on Saturday that just as I started typing this the name of the film completely and utterly slipped my mind!  Blimey.  Oh, it was Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa.  I'm not sure if this will be understood/appeal to a worldwide audience (Alan Partidge is a popular UK comedy character DJ played by Steve Coogan) and the film was very tongue in cheek and silly.  Blokey loved it, I umm'd and ahh'd over liking it but it did induce a fair few hearty chuckles from my belly.  I mostly watched it because it's set in Norwich and I used to live and work there. 

 

[Chris]

I just finished Oblivion and it was a let down in action and character developement. Tomorrow I get Olympus Has Fallen and I'm sure that one will be better.
 
 
Tuesday/ today Olympus Has Fallen was delivered and watched! It was great. Action was almost from the get go. However the final fight scene could have been better.

[Poppylicious]

Oh, we watched Sharknado at the weekend (on the telly; it didn't get a cinema release!) Wowsers! It was so amazingly stupid that it was good(-ish).  I'm not convinced I'll waste my time with Sharknado 2 when it comes out, but it was still a pleasurable way to spend a Saturday afternoon (if only because it made us chortle so much!)

 

[Lexxtech18]

  The Wolverine was such a disappointment!! Whyy?!!! Hugh Jackman did look amazingly hot as always. (Nothing like he did in Movie 43 thank goodness. Hahahaha)

On the other hand Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters was pretty good. Made me want to go back and re-read the books.

[Chris]

Oh, we watched Sharknado at the weekend (on the telly; it didn't get a cinema release!) Wowsers! It was so amazingly stupid that it was good(-ish).  I'm not convinced I'll waste my time with Sharknado 2 when it comes out, but it was still a pleasurable way to spend a Saturday afternoon (if only because it made us chortle so much!)

 

I haven't seen that yet and the channel that aired it has not replayed it yet. It has a lot of comedians talking about it though dye to how bad it is. So with that I need to see it, just haven't taken the time to lok for it on the web.

[Rerun]

Saw The Butler.  It was good and historical but at the end they linked in Obama and he had nothing to do with slavery.  His Father and kin never touched a cotton field.  To me that was deceptive.

   

[Poppylicious]

We saw Elysium yesterday.  It was pretty decent but the woman in front of me had to be told off (by me) for using her tablet device thingy ... it was in my peripheral vision and I missed about two minutes of the film just trying to pluck up the courage to ask her to turn it off.  I have no idea what she was doing on it but ten minutes later she left (with her partner) and she was crying ...  ... this made me feel guilty but I wasn't sure what I was feeling guilty about because I wasn't rude or mean to her, and if she'd desperately needed to use her tablet device thingy then shouldn't she have sat in a place where it wouldn't have bothered anyone else?  I don't like being made to feel bad when I don't need to feel bad!! 

Grrr ...

Last week we saw Kick-Ass 2.  Gosh, that was violent.  Good, but violent. Although apparently not as violent as the comics.  I actually thought it should have had a higher certification (it was a 15 here) because parts of it were pretty gruesome.  But then, I'm not a member of the British Board of Film Classification so what do I know? 

[Rerun]

Don't feel bad Poppie.  She was being rude.  I dropped my cell phone once and it broke in half.  I had it in my purse thinking it was broken.  Then in the movie it went off!  I could have died.  I didn't know which half to push buttons on.  It was awful.  I felt bad and rightly so.

[lainiepop]

Hvent been to the cinema for ages, hubby is taking our son to see planes tomorrow, but im trying to convince him we should go while my parents stay with us next week, quite wanna see the percy jackson one, but also think the mortal instruments:city of bones looks good, anyone seen it?

[Poppylicious]

Hvent been to the cinema for ages, hubby is taking our son to see planes tomorrow, but im trying to convince him we should go while my parents stay with us next week, quite wanna see the percy jackson one, but also think the mortal instruments:city of bones looks good, anyone seen it?

I'm probably seeing it tomorrow.  Have you read the book?  I read it at the beginning of the year and really enjoyed it so I'm quite looking forward to the film.  I'll probably be going on my own which will be a novelty, but I don't think Blokey is that interested in seeing it because it's based on a teen novel!

[lainiepop]

i haven't read percy jackson or city of bones but seen the first percy jackson. Watched the trailers for both last Night and hubby said the Percy Jackson one looks even more stupid than the city of bones one So city of bones it iS! I've Convinced him we need to have tgis with dessert before the film

I've never been to cinema on my own, but hubby tends to give in even saw the twilight ones with me, he's not overly fond of my taste in Supernatural stuff but has Watched buffy and angel with me but draws the line at Supernatural and charmed!

let me know what film was like!

[CebuShan]

I've never been to cinema on my own, but hubby tends to give in even saw the twilight ones with me, he's not overly fond of my taste in Supernatural stuff but has Watched buffy and angel with me but draws the line at Supernatural and charmed!

let me know what film was like!

My husband has watched all of the Twilight films with me also!
I love Supernatural! Charmed is OK. Buffy and Angel are great!
Even my husband liked those.