**Rerun's Movie Reviews**

[mcclane]

I'm big on those disaster movies too !!  I also want to see contagion, but my wife isn't too keen on it so I'll have to wait until it is on dvd.

Twister (good movie, but whatever happened to jan de bont ?), day after tomorrow (I did like it until i found out it was a political environmental movie), and numerous others !

[natnnnat]

Oh, I gave up long before The Ring came out!  I think the Shining was enough for me - I watched it on video when I was about 12, and that was the end of wanting to see horror movies.  I did watch Seven, though - and generally wished I hadn't.  My then-hubby rented it, popped it in and said, "It's a cop movie."  Well, yeah, I suppose.  Ugh.

shudder.  I avoid horror.  "The Amityville horror" is the last horror I watched, except onetime I went to see a sci fi film and it turned out to be horror, boy was I grumpy about that!  Can't remember the name of it.  Hurrumph.

Do they all have dancing in them?! (That's what's put me off in the past ... I find musicals really difficult to process.)

I don't mind a bit of mad dancing, its often very amusing (and tongue in cheek).  Not that I've been to see any movies at all for a very loooong time. But last weekend, I took the boys (gregory and his father) for a walk after dinner, and we found ourselves in Hyde Park, Sydney.  There was a smallish crowd / large group of people miilling around, and there were big lights set up (turned off) and cameras of different kinds..  it was a bit mysterious, and Gregory said to me "you're the talkative one in the family, go and find out what's going on."  So I did, I spoke to this lovely young man who explained that his friend was off in a nearby restaurent having dinner with his girlfriend.  Then they were going to come past the park on a romantic stroll, and then he was going to propose to his girlfriend at the fountain in Hyde Park.  And he had all his friends there to do a big bollywood style routine around them, and his parents were sitting on a bench nearby ready to come forward with signs saying "marry me" or some such. 

How delightful!  I said, what happens if she says no?  The young man grinned and said, well its all over then, we go to the pub!
I wonder how it went.  We found them at 9pm, and though they couldn't say when the couple would come past, they expected it would be around 10pm so we didn't wait.

[Poppylicious]

We saw Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy today ... it was pretty good actually (not usually the sort of film which would be my cup of tea).  I even managed to work out who the naughty one was, despite never having read the book nor seen the Seventies BBC adaptation.  I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not.

 

Last night we nearly missed Panic at Rock Island, an Australian made for tv film (2011) about a highly contagious man-made virus sweeping through a rock festival.  I liked it, despite its mediocrity and need for copious scenes of vomit.  I'm not sure how they managed to get Grant Bowler (True Blood, Ugly Betty, Lost) on board though ...

[pitagory]

OMG this a grate thread I have to say this will help with my Job a lot since I don't have to much time to watch a lot of movies you guys are going to help me a lot. I am that person that magically puts those movies in those red boxes at the grocery stores the ones you rent from. I am always being asked what is a good movie.I know I know what you guys are going to say I have all these movies for free and I don't watch them well sorry guys I like to read better.

[cariad]

The boys watched Enchanted the other night. I could see it from my desk, but did not really watch. It looked cute enough.

I know it's not a film, but we are fairly addicted to Gavin and Stacey right now. There were only 3 seasons shot of it, so we've almost finished the lot. Ruth Jones has created just about the funniest character ever, and she is so very Welsh with her red dragons everywhere. Gwyn has said her Welsh pronunciation is quite good, though he could tell she is not a native speaker. I love the absurdity of her type of character, people who have lived about a dozen lifetimes, mention anything and she stares off into the middle distance and tells a tale of wild adventure and intrigue, as well as the inside dirt on a random array of celebrities.

We only have two episodes left to watch.

[CebuShan]

OMG this a grate thread I have to say this will help with my Job a lot since I don't have to much time to watch a lot of movies you guys are going to help me a lot. I am that person that magically puts those movies in those red boxes at the grocery stores the ones you rent from. I am always being asked what is a good movie.I know I know what you guys are going to say I have all these movies for free and I don't watch them well sorry guys I like to read better.

Pitagory you have an awesome job! I used to take care of Sony DVD displays in 3 different Menard's stores & I loved it! ( I had to give it up after being on D for awhile, the drive [120 mi. round trip] got to be too much for me. I also do movie audits for the various studios. (That's about the only time I get to see movies.) We have quite a large collection of DVDs ourselves so we don't rent many. (I am a little old-fashioned, I guess, I have never rented from one of the kiosk's. I have belonged to Netflix before but usually when I rent, I rent from a real live store) I loved taking care of the displays mostly because I was able to find a bunch of the older movies that we have been looking for. Ever since the format changed from VHS to DVD we have been trying to replace all of our tapes, not easy!

Are you an independent contractor or do you work for Redbox? I am an independent contractor.

The boys watched Enchanted the other night. I could see it from my desk, but did not really watch. It looked cute enough.

I loved Enchanted! It was such a cute movie.

[MooseMom]

The boys watched Enchanted the other night. I could see it from my desk, but did not really watch. It looked cute enough.

I know it's not a film, but we are fairly addicted to Gavin and Stacey right now. There were only 3 seasons shot of it, so we've almost finished the lot. Ruth Jones has created just about the funniest character ever, and she is so very Welsh with her red dragons everywhere. Gwyn has said her Welsh pronunciation is quite good, though he could tell she is not a native speaker. I love the absurdity of her type of character, people who have lived about a dozen lifetimes, mention anything and she stares off into the middle distance and tells a tale of wild adventure and intrigue, as well as the inside dirt on a random array of celebrities.

We only have two episodes left to watch.

Enchanted was quite clever; I enjoyed it thoroughly.  I love Amy Whats-her-name (didn't get any sleep last night, not thinking clearly.)

I am soooooo glad you've been watching Gavin and Stacey because I have seen all episodes EXCEPT for the Christmas special.  I don't know why my DVR didn't record it!  I've seen parts of it on YouTube, but I cannot for the life of me work out what happened on the fishing trip!!!!  Can you tell me?  I've been dying to know!!!  Isn't Ruth Jones just brilliant?  But PLEASE TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED ON THE FISHING TRIP!

[Poppylicious]

But PLEASE TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED ON THE FISHING TRIP!

They never actually reveal what happened on the fishing trip.  There's a brief discussion about how it was cold, and how it wasn't illegal but that's all you get.  I think it's up to us to use our imaginations!  (At least, I think that's the case ... it has been a while since I saw it!) I get the impression it's just a trivial thing which has caused embarrassment to Bryn, but wouldn't necessarily to anyone else.

 

[cariad]

I am soooooo glad you've been watching Gavin and Stacey because I have seen all episodes EXCEPT for the Christmas special.  I don't know why my DVR didn't record it!  I've seen parts of it on YouTube, but I cannot for the life of me work out what happened on the fishing trip!!!!  Can you tell me?  I've been dying to know!!!  Isn't Ruth Jones just brilliant?  But PLEASE TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED ON THE FISHING TRIP!

We've not watched the Christmas Special as I cannot stand anything remotely Christmas out of season. Boxing Day I want the ornaments stashed and the tree gone, but it usually takes us until New Years Day. Anything later than that and I become really testy. Uptight? Me??

Apparently that episode was originally meant to be the final installment, but then they went in for a third season. Anyhow, if I remember we'll watch it in December - but why wait? $2 on Amazon Instant Video and you could watch it on your computer, or television if you have that capability. We watched all the other episodes for free, but that takes a bit of extra effort. (We do not go in for anything illegal like bit torrent.)

Watching these episodes brought me right back to time spent with my in-laws - everything is 'fair play' with them. I don't care for the adjective 'lush' and that one does not strike me as particularly Welsh as I heard it in England from the kids. Cannot argue with 'immense', 'genuine' or 'tidy'. Love those! And Ruth Jones' deadpan delivery was just superb.  I read that they were going to do an American version, and I so desperately hope that does not/did not happen. It was going to be a Jersey boy with a Southern girl. It just does not have the same classic tension, and I know New Jersey people think the whole country is au fait with their various quirks and regionalisms, but it would all go straight past me.

We are going to see if we can get into Peep Show as I've seen David Mitchell on Graham Norton and he is always quite funny. We are also considering starting on Lost. I watched a few episodes of Glee back when I was so ill, but it just did not do it for me. Not enough Jane Lynch, and her character fell a little flat I thought. (I better go hide now, as I know there are devoted Glee fans everywhere....)

[CebuShan]

Are you familiar with the show: "Are You Being Served?" That is my husband's absolute favorite! A couple of years ago I bought him the complete series. A bit expensive but worth it! I love Mollie Sugden!

[Poppylicious]

I don't care for the adjective 'lush' and that one does not strike me as particularly Welsh as I heard it in England from the kids.
We are going to see if we can get into Peep Show as I've seen David Mitchell on Graham Norton and he is always quite funny.

As an English gal I can promise that I never EVER heard the word 'lush' used in the same context as it is in G&S, before it became popular due to G&S.  I'd suggest that it didn't really catch on because it's very unusual to hear it now, at least in my part of the world.

As an aside I only ever watched G&S because I used to have a massive crush on Mathew Horne, back in the days when he was in Teachers which was a brilliant British comedy made by Channel 4.  It ran for about four series' in the early to mid Noughties - I think the States liked it so much they made their own version, but it was very British in its humour so I'm not sure how well the Stateside copy worked. 

I never really watched Peep Show.  However, if anybody wants some Brit sitcom ideas I can recommend Spaced (a few years old, but starred Simon Pegg and Nick Frost), Lead Balloon (with Jack Dee) and Sirens (which has just finished its first series and has Richard Madden - he who plays Robb Stark in Game of Thrones - in it.)

 

Hmmm, not very movie reviewish ...

[pitagory]

Cebushan- I work for them. It is the best job ever. I go in when ever I want and work as many or as little hours per day that I want as long as the new releases are in the kiosks the day before they are to be released and I get them one week in advance.the company is in the top 25 on fortunes 100 fastest growing companies list.

[cariad]

I heard 'lush' used as a synonym for awesome waaaay before Gavin and Stacey, but with little kids, maybe 10 years old or so. I found the Gavin and Stacey characters to be the dullest of the ensemble, oddly, so if I hadn't been testing out our new Roku connection, I probably never would have got into it. Gwyn was delighted to discover it, because it was filmed on location. That little church that was shown all through the series is where his brother got married. Loved the uncle. Rob Brydon is a brilliant impressionist and has excellent comic timing. Most important, they are all genuinely Welsh. So many of the truly superb Welsh actors were forced to give up their accents and pretend to be English that it is nice to see people hired for the accent instead of in spite of it.

Ah, CebuShan, I know what Are You Being Served looks like, but have never watched. Gwyn utterly hates it, no idea why. We've never been big television watchers, and did not even own one until we had kids. Before all the strict laws about telemarketing, we used to have people attempt to sell us cable over the phone and at the door. I loved the stupefied looks/sounds when I would tell them that we did not own a set, and therefore cable would be a bit pointless. They really could not overcome that obstacle....

[CebuShan]

Cebushan- I work for them. It is the best job ever. I go in when ever I want and work as many or as little hours per day that I want as long as the new releases are in the kiosks the day before they are to be released and I get them one week in advance.the company is in the top 25 on fortunes 100 fastest growing companies list.

That is so great! I wish more companies would let you set your own schedules. That's why my husband & I started our own.

Ah, CebuShan, I know what Are You Being Served looks like, but have never watched. Gwyn utterly hates it, no idea why. We've never been big television watchers, and did not even own one until we had kids. Before all the strict laws about telemarketing, we used to have people attempt to sell us cable over the phone and at the door. I loved the stupefied looks/sounds when I would tell them that we did not own a set, and therefore cable would be a bit pointless. They really could not overcome that obstacle....

     I love doing that now! Ever since the switch to digital, we have been unable to get any TV reception (We live out in the middle of nowhere and can't get cable. We can get Dish Network but I don't want to pay for a bunch of channels that we would never watch!). I know the looks you are talking about. They just can't seem to understand how anyone could survive without TV!
People also are shocked to find out that I still have dial-up! Where we are located, can't get anything else.

[cariad]

  I love doing that now! Ever since the switch to digital, we have been unable to get any TV reception (We live out in the middle of nowhere and can't get cable. We can get Dish Network but I don't want to pay for a bunch of channels that we would never watch!). I know the looks you are talking about. They just can't seem to understand how anyone could survive without TV!

Ah, so you have seen the look, then. This is exactly it. They look at you as if thinking Surely you're breaking some law here.... I remember telling one woman over the phone that I did not own a television, and she spoke in this knowing tone, as if she were now going to get right to the heart of the problem with We have lots of educational programming. Yeah, OK, we still don't have a television, honey.... Talk about your hard sells!

[CebuShan]

Ah, so you have seen the look, then. This is exactly it. They look at you as if thinking Surely you're breaking some law here.... I remember telling one woman over the phone that I did not own a television, and she spoke in this knowing tone, as if she were now going to get right to the heart of the problem with We have lots of educational programming. Yeah, OK, we still don't have a television, honey.... Talk about your hard sells!

      Sometimes I like to answer the phone to telemarketers just to play with their minds! I had one call that was trying to sell me siding. I let him go on with his spiel then told him that sounded great. I asked about cost, let him go on, THEN I asked how much for a mobile home. There was dead silence on the phone before he finally said we don't do mobile homes. Well, I said, I live in one. He apologized and hung up!.

Anyway, back to movies, I watched Dennis the Menace last night. What a cute movie! Reminds me of almost all of the boys I have ever known! Christopher Lloyd was perfect as the "bad guy".

[kristina]

I finally managed to watch the film “Valkyrie”,
the story about Count Claus von Stauffenberg’s resistance and the plot.

The film claims to be truthfully based on facts, and many facts in the film agree with what I have read.

But the film makes events very “picturesque”, and that makes me doubt whether I am really told the true facts.

Why?

Because von Stauffenberg was a realist and very well trained in the army.

He also originated from an old aristocratic family and they would not have sent him
to the family’s traditional regiment and the Academy if he would have been the “fool” of the family.

But in the story he acts like a fool: he takes the fact, that his bomb went off in lots of smoke and noise,
as a fact that Hitler was killed by this bomb. He fails to look for any evidence.
Would an intelligent army-person act like that? I doubt it.

I am sure that von Stauffenberg – like many other Germans – worked in the Resistance
and I am sure he took lots of risks like many other Germans at the time, but I don’t think he was a fool.

Perhaps one day we have a chance to find out the true facts.

[CebuShan]

I finally managed to watch the film “Valkyrie”,
the story about Count Claus von Stauffenberg’s resistance and the plot.

The film claims to be truthfully based on facts, and many facts in the film agree with what I have read.

But the film makes events very “picturesque”, and that makes me doubt whether I am really told the true facts.

Why?

Because von Stauffenberg was a realist and very well trained in the army.

He also originated from an old aristocratic family and they would not have sent him
to the family’s traditional regiment and the Academy if he would have been the “fool” of the family.

But in the story he acts like a fool: he takes the fact, that his bomb went off in lots of smoke and noise,
as a fact that Hitler was killed by this bomb. He fails to look for any evidence.
Would an intelligent army-person act like that? I doubt it.

I am sure that von Stauffenberg – like many other Germans – worked in the Resistance
and I am sure he took lots of risks like many other Germans at the time, but I don’t think he was a fool.

Perhaps one day we have a chance to find out the true facts.

If you want to see an excellent movie about Hitler watch "Downfall". It is a German film and it is one of the best films I have ever seen!     Right now, we are up to "E" and we are watching "Eragon". Love the movie but the books are even better!

[kristina]

Hello, CebuShan.

What is the film "Downfall" all about?

Is it to with plotting to overthrow the regime ?

Thanks from Kristina.

[CebuShan]

Hello, CebuShan.

What is the film "Downfall" all about?

Is it to with plotting to overthrow the regime ?

Thanks from Kristina.

   "Downfall" is about the downfall of the third reich and Hitler's downward spiral.

[Poppylicious]

We saw Don't Be Afraid of the Dark at the cinema last weekend.  It was ... hmmmm ... okay.  Ish. 

I'd recorded Antichrist the other week and finally settled down to watch it last night.  Has anybody else seen it?  Ever-so dark, and a little bit odd.  And very sad. 

[CebuShan]

Has anybody seen "Courageous" yet? We're going to see it this week.

[cariad]

We watched Topsy-Turvy over again last night. I love that film. For some reason I just adore Jim Broadbent (I almost cried catching a bit of Moulin Rouge on the television - what the hell was he doing in that horrible pic??) Topsy-Turvey did get me all moody about not being involved with theatre any longer. I miss it.

We did watch the first episode of Peep Show a few weeks ago. I really liked it, but have not bothered to watch anymore. Have not even kept up with Colbert Nation. I just have not been in the mood for any of it lately. Since we no longer see television adverts, I have no idea what films are coming out, so there is nothing that I am actually excited about seeing. Just as well. On the rare occasions we do go to the cinema, it is always for kid films.

[CebuShan]

Jim & I did get to see "Courageous". It was great! Only their 4th movie and they just keep getting better and better. I highly recommend it!   As far as our movies, we are up to G. Ghost Rider tonight. Not a big Nicholas Cage fan but I do like him in this one. Watched The Full Monty the other night. I absolutely LOVE that movie!

[Big E]

It's almost Halloween!  Anyone planning to watch any scary movies?  I'm really excited because Turner Classic Movies is showing two of my all-time faves back-to-back on Halloween night -- The Haunting and The Innocents.  What are your favorite scary movies?