40Cent @ the movies

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

I was enjoying it up until they got to the river gorge.  I thought it went downhill very rapidly from there and jumped into Stinky Fred's Discount Cliché Emporium. 

[mirth]

Red Tails was embarassingily bad.  Not as retarded as say, Flyboys or Pearl Harbour

In this day and age that pretty much passes as a positive review :(

[Gusington]

Liam Neeson and probably the best movie air crash I've ever seen. Come on SDR!!

[Centurion40]

I'm interested in seeing Chronicle.

[Gusington]

Anyone see Drive? I just watched 40 minutes of it while exercising and I am actually going to re-watch the beginning and the rest with The Wife. It's been a long time since I've seen a movie with such fine acting...seriously.

[Arctic Blast]

Anyone see Drive? I just watched 40 minutes of it while exercising and I am actually going to re-watch the beginning and the rest with The Wife. It's been a long time since I've seen a movie with such fine acting...seriously.

I really liked it. Performances were good (Albert Brooks was ridiculously good), but man...when the violence kicks in it REALLY kicks in. It actually manages to be fairly stunning, because it's pretty bloody when it happens and there is very little warning of it for the most part.

[Steelgrave]

My wife and I enjoyed Drive as well. The main character is....interesting, for certain, and moves along at a good pace. And pretty much any movie with Ron Perlman has my attention.

[Gusington]

So it does eventually get violent eh? I will warn The Wife before we sit down. The tension in the movie is palpable...it reminds me a lot of Heat.

[Centurion40]

Anyone see Drive? I just watched 40 minutes of it while exercising and I am actually going to re-watch the beginning and the rest with The Wife. It's been a long time since I've seen a movie with such fine acting...seriously.

40 minutes in??!!  You are on the cusp of where the movie REALLY takes off!!

[Gusington]

Wow did it get violent. I read The Wife the disclaimer beforehand. The tension was driving her nuts.

Awesome movie, thanks for the recommendation all.

Also, just watched my first episode of Supernatural (the pilot). Surprisingly good!

[MetalDog]

Just saw Men In Black III.  I liked it because I like Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones as J and K.  Everything after that...meh.  And James Brolin as the young K is really good.  That is as much good as I can say about it.  Not because it was bad, but because it was very...neutral.  Spend your money on seeing Avengers again.  You might have missed something the first time.

20 out of 40

[Steelgrave]

Little behind the curve but I just caught "Safe House" on Amazon. My wife and I are huge Denzel fans and never miss one of his movies. Safe House though......eh. I expected it to be lots better. Denzel kind of walked through the paces in this movie and it was as predictable as every other action movie you've seen in the last dozen years or so.

I can say the same about "The Grey" and Liam Nielsen. A very watchable actor, a very poor movie. And I've lived in Alaska in close proximity to wolves. I'm pretty sure what he had were werewolves or something, everything I've read and experienced says that wolves don't act that way. So the hyper-aggressive super-wolves.....meh. Two blaah movies with two of my favorite actors.

I think I WILL go see the Avengers again.

[ken ellis]

safe house, good 2 dollar movie!

[LongBlade]

I haven't kept up with all the posts in here. Anyone want a review of Haywire?

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

I went to see The Chernobyl Diaries tonight.  I know it's getting panned pretty badly and maybe that coloured my perceptions going in because I enjoyed it a lot more than I was expecting to.

A young 20-something couple and their recently dumped female friend are on a tour of Europe and they stop in to see the male's older brother who lives in Kiev.  The older brother signs them all up for an "extreme adventure" tour of Pripyat, the city just next to the Chernobyl reactors (if you played STALKER or Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, you know the place).  The four of them plus another couple made up of a Norwegian chick and an Aussie pile into Yuri the Ukranian tour guide's van and drive off into Pripyat and not long after the spooky occurs.

The real star of the film is the abandoned town of Pripyat.  It's plenty creepy during the daytime and doubly so once night falls.  The first half of the film is better than the second.  The director builds up a sense of tension and foreboding and it works really well.  He never shows you what's out there, just hints at it with good use of sounds, lighting, and just the occasional quick glimpse of something moving around out there.   

Once things hit the fan, the film loses a lot of it's impact and becomes a pretty generic horror flick.

Not a great film, but pretty decent if you're a fan of the STALKER games and/or abandoned places.