**Rerun's Movie Reviews**

[pelagia]

Julie and Julia - we went to see this because Jenna is going to France and many people recommended this movie. Julia Child wrote a cookbook that changed American culinary history and Julie Powell cooked her way through 524 recipes in 365 days. Meryl Streep is great as Julia Child - it's a sweet movie - "maybe a little too sweet," says Jenna, but we both liked it anyway.

Nora Ephron is known for happy endings!  She also directed Sleepless in Seattle and You've Got Mail.  I'll take the happy ending over violence any day.  I laughed a lot through the first half of J&J and then just enjoyed to rest of the story - actually two love/life stories. And it makes me want to cook and eat.

I also just went to see Time Traveler's Wife last weekend with my son.  I read the book and had a hard time with the leads because they did not match what I had in my mind's eye.  The movie captures the essence of the plot and my son liked it.  For me it wasn't nearly as interesting as the book

[Bajanne]

My grandson's father gave him Kung Fu Panda.  It was there for a while.  I refused to watch it because I was sure it wasn't my kind of movie (though I have watched many of the animation films with Chris and enjoyed them).  One day, because I had nothing else, I watched it.  It is a tremendous film with a tremendous message.  To date we have all watched it (Sam, Chris, myself) more than 10 times and counting...
Mall Cop with the guy from 'the King of Queens' has a similar theme and we watch it lots.

[cariad]

My husband and I have started reading through these reviews from the beginning to get film rental ideas. We have not seen an adult film in a theater since Hotel Rwanda, so the field is wide open. Films that have been out a few years are easy to find at our library.

We saw Notes on a Scandal last night and really enjoyed it. This is a great topic! 

[marti824]

I don't get to watch many adult films either.  Kung Fu Panda was good, UP was great.  I liked Mall Cop too.

[YLGuy]

Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards
 
It was definately a Tarantino flick.  I really enjoyed it.

[Des]

What do you think about the "District 9" from South Africa just released?
It's about prawn-like aliens.

Has anybody seen it yet?

[marti824]

saw THE WATCHMEN  last night.  could't make heads or tails of it, very confusing weird movie

[okarol]

What do you think about the "District 9" from South Africa just released?
It's about prawn-like aliens.

Has anybody seen it yet?

I saw it - it was great - it's quirky but  good story. 

[Des]

What do you think about the "District 9" from South Africa just released?
It's about prawn-like aliens.

Has anybody seen it yet?

I saw it - it was great - it's quirky but  good story. 

Well now you sort of know what SA looks like.....
I enjoyed it too.

heheheh

[Chris]

saw THE WATCHMEN  last night.  could't make heads or tails of it, very confusing weird movie

Yeah that's what I petty much felt. First time I tried watching, I fell asleep so the next day I watched it and it still was full of loop holes in the story. I guess if you knew the background of the characters, you where fine. Only character they spent time telling how he got his powers was the blue man. Glad it was only a $2.40 to rent!

[Rerun]

Inglourious Basterds (2009) R          
Five Stars:  A Jewish cinema owner (Mélanie Laurent) in occupied Paris is forced to host a Nazi movie premiere, where a radical group of American Jewish soldiers called the Basterds, led by Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt), plans to roll out a score-settling scheme. The face-off is about to go down -- that's if Col. Hans Landa aka "The Jew Hunter" (Christoph Waltz) doesn't get in the way. Quentin Tarantino directs this World War II-set spaghetti Western.

[Wattle]

Seven Pounds (2008) I think TynyWonder recommended it.  VERY GOOD especially for people on this site.  Five Stars         

Distraught over his wife's death -- and convinced that his own actions had something to do with it -- a depressed IRS agent (Will Smith) begins plotting his suicide, vowing to improve the lives of seven strangers in the process. But a chance meeting with a woman who has a life-threatening heart defect (Rosario Dawson) makes him think twice when their budding relationship suddenly feels a lot like love.

 

I agree with Rerun and TynyWonder. This is a great movie. Having just received a kidney transplant from a cadaveric donor I was even more grateful.

[okarol]

I just watched "There Will Be Blood" on cable (Daniel Day Lewis) - wasn't that up for an academy award? Ι guess it was ok... kind of long and drawn out and not a happy story... don't think I would recommend it.
 

[YLGuy]

Defiance 
DEFIANCE is a different kind of World War II movie, one that looks at the Holocaust from a unique angle--telling the true story of a group of Jews in Eastern Europe who fought back. On the run from...  DEFIANCE is a different kind of World War II movie, one that looks at the Holocaust from a unique angle--telling the true story of a group of Jews in Eastern Europe who fought back. On the run from the Germans and the local police, the three Russian Bielski brothers--Tuvia (Daniel Craig), Zus (Liev Schreiber), and Asael (Jamie Bell)--hide out deep in the forest. Their numbers swell as more and more refugees join them, coming together to form a community while also patrolling with guns and shooting the enemy to stay alive.

I just watched the DVD during dialysis today.  I thought it was pretty good.

[cariad]

I am sure most all here have seen it, but my husband borrowed Dr. Strangelove because he had never watched it.

This was only the third time I've seen it. Very clever script, dry humor. When I was an undergrad, every time my computer would come up with an error message it would play the Peter Sellers line "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!"

[marti824]

i watched NIGHTS IN RODANTHE  with Richard Gere and Diane Lane.  NOt a bad movie, but the book was much better.  It was written by Nicholas Sparks, who also wrote The Notebook.  What an amazing author.

[Rerun]

Tea with Mussolini (1999) PG
Based on a true story of the director's life as a young boy in Italy when they declared war on England and France.  Very good movie.  It is very lite considering the subject matter is very dark.  Stars... Cher, Lily Tomlin, and Joan Plowright to name a few.

4 stars        

[cariad]

Finished watching Into the Wild last night. I could not sleep, it was just so haunting. I keep discussing it with my husband, analyzing it. It reminded me of Grizzly Man the Werner Herzog documentary about the conservationist who decided to live with grizzly bears. I knew how both of those stories ended before I saw the films because they both depict true stories, but knowing the ending seemed to make them both more riveting in some way. Of the two, I preferred Into the Wild, but both are worth watching.

We are now watching a 1950s film called 14 Hours about a man on a ledge threatening to jump. It is amusing if only to see how laughable their method of dealing with this is. At one point a psychologist (or maybe a psychiatrist) advises the cops to put a stimulant into the glass of water the jumper requests, to cheer him up. They try it.   

[pklipe57]

Does anyone know the name of a movie that is out (not a new movie) that is about college students learning how to win in Vegas (at least that is what I think it is about).  That's the problem about Netflix - it doesn't have a describe this movie in detail. 

Thanks.

[Chris]

I know what movie your talking about, but can't think of the name. It was based on a true story too. It was talked about on The History Channel or Discovery Channel too.

[Wenchie58]

Breaking Vegas?

[monrein]

I just watched The Station Agent which came out in 2003 or so.  I really enjoyed it but will warn you that it's a gentle little movie, not fast action, with quirky but interesting characters and the movie builds slowly.  I'm not a fan of the usual "hollywood schlock".

[YLGuy]

Does anyone know the name of a movie that is out (not a new movie) that is about college students learning how to win in Vegas (at least that is what I think it is about).  That's the problem about Netflix - it doesn't have a describe this movie in detail. 

Thanks.

21

"21" is the fact-based story about six MIT students who were trained to become experts in card counting and subsequently took Vegas casinos for millions in winnings.

[Chris]

Saw Deja Vue tonight on the FX channel that stars Denzel Washington, Val Kilmer. Basicallly the gov't can see in real time 4 days in the past and the FBI enlist Denzel Washington for his help to solve a terrorist case. They find the guy, but Denzel still wants to stop the killing of this woman that the terrorist killed. He goes back in time to save her discovering things that he noticed in the present that did not make sense at the time and saves the day except that his future self is killed in the process to stop the bombing and the girl meets him againin the end, but doesn't know her.

It's not the best movie, but it keeps you entertained. Not sure if it's classified as a thriller or mystery and suspence. Definitely not sci fi even though it has it a little.

[YLGuy]

I thought it was a pretty good movie