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[Jim]

Rented 28 Weeks Later last night. I wasn't completely in love with 28 Days Later, but I thought that it was a better than average horror flick that looked really good despite being shot on a really low budget. I would put this one right alongside it in terms of quality, even if they didn't achieve the effect with a low budget.

It's not great, but it is worth a watch based solely on a scene involving a helicopter and hordes of infected.

[blacktoothgrin]

Stranger Than Fiction. i loooooved it.

[Maynard,]

It's not great, but it is worth a watch based solely on a scene involving a helicopter and hordes of infected.

Quoted for emphasis.

I watched In The Shadow Of The Moon. It's a documentary about the moon landings told in the words of the astronauts themselves. It is extremely similar to For All Mankind, but tries to be much more emotional. I really loved this.

[Wat, But A Girl]

I saw Goodfellas the other night for the first time. It was pretty good, but I kept getting distracted by the number of extras that were later in the Sopranos.

[Duzzy Funlop]

saw bourne ultimatum which was good except for the super corny flashback scenes

[Illinois Smith]

I somehow laughed my ass off watching Hostel II. Anyone calling this thing torture porn with a straight face is clearly off their rocker. Example:

The last group was lured to Slovakia by the premise of boatloads of Slovakian babes craving their manchowder. How do they write a group of girls there?

"Wheee, off to Prague to get drunk and have sex!"
"Hey wanna check out some awesome spas?"
"ok overly friendly nude model from our art class"

They also somehow managed to write three even more unlikeable characters than last time. Good job, Eli Roth.

[SayWhatNow]

Just got back from Gone Baby Gone. It was the bomb-diggity.

Also, there was a trailer for Juno, which is looking quite nice, if only for the Arrested Development cast.

[A Link to the Matt]

checked out Thirty days of Night with the wife.

pretty standard vampire fare. Minion does Dirty work, Vampires eat people, death and destruction, explosions, end. I actually really liked the premise, but I find it really really really really hard to tkae Josh Hartnett seriously in any role, so it lessened my enjoyment a little bit.

I am not ashamed to say that I am excited for "Dan in Real Life"

[Duzzy Funlop]

i thought it was a prequel to 40 days and 40 nights
i guess a sequel would make more sense

[Cory/Corrinna]

I too saw 30day&Nights, and knowing it was based on a decent comic, I was pretty stoked, and my fangirl friend said the movie was true to the book, so I can't type up any complaints on that.

What I could appreciate about it was, the lead vampire didn't have those typical appealing features much like Ann Rice's stock characters. He was kinda dumpy, short haired about your dad's age. Basically, he looked like someone that would of been telling you to invest in "bluechips" for your RRSP just before he got bit hten drove to Alaska.
What was nice about all the vamps, really, was that they were extremely stylized. They reminded me of a series of art I once read about.

As for the delivery, I enjoyed it, but I would of ditched the scene with the kid in the general store. Sure the movie was all about gore, but I think that scene just made it "wal mart cheap" into "dollarstore cheap".

[Andy]

I saw Into the Wild and it was really really good. Very intriguing and actually for like the first time ever, it was a movie that was better than its book. The book was a little difficult because it read like a looooong magazine article, but I loved it, and now the movie has surpassed it. Excellent.

[Alan]

30 days of night was really bad

I'm pretty sure it was a comedy. They should have cast Bruce Campbell in the lead instead of Josh Hartnett and it would have been so much better.

[Cory/Corrinna]

That is probably the best suggestion I've read all night. As for Into the Wild, I'll have to keep an eye out for it, the trailer conveyed a great movie, but I kept thinking,

"Sooooo...is some hollywood teen cashcow thing trying to 'represent' the way of life of some of my old friends?" which kinda made me tense up.

[Captain Hot Stuff]

Just got back from Saw IV (lured away by friends when I should have been doing an assignment) and it was pretty shitty. I mean I wasn't really expecting anything good after the nosedive that was Saw III - and it was actually somewhat better than Saw III - but still, shithouse.

One thing I did appreciate was that it reintroduced a cop storyline, which was what Saw III lacked.

[emily]

He was kinda dumpy, short haired about your dad's age.

This is all true, but I'm going to go on the record as having a giant old man boner for Danny Huston.

[A Link to the Matt]

I'm pretty sure it was a comedy. They should have cast Bruce Campbell in the lead instead of Josh Hartnett and it would have been so much better.

Jesus, thats what it was missing. I couldn't put my finger on it, but there it is.

[Matt W]

I just watched An American Tail for the first time in 16 years, and not only does it still hold up, it seems better than ever. Melts my heart of ice.

[Maynard,]

Saw Michael Clayton and it was very good indeed. It's nice to see a movie that doesn't feel the need to spell everything out for the audience. Instead of explaining everything, they filled the time with character details and development. What a novel idea.

[Cory/Corrinna]

This is all true, but I'm going to go on the record as having a giant old man boner for Danny Huston.

You, and my friend! You're not alone Emily. My pal is only 19 though, which kinda weirds me out that she has a thing for a guy that could pass as her Dad. Though to relate with you like a girl, I will say I agreed whole heartedly when you wrote about "Egon" in some of your past articles.

[TheEvilGingivitis]

Michael Bay's Transformers.
I'm not much of a Transformers fan, and I never even saw the original series, so I don't think I'm being a fangirl when I say "Where were the gorram transformers?"
I can't believe it. There was a cast of like twenty extremely annoying main characters (see: Sam, that woman with the completely unconvincing Australian accent) who are just picked up and removed from the story whenever its convenient (see: that girl's boyfriend, that one government official guy) and the only one who's name I even remember is Sam (see: that hacker kid who's name doesn't even really get said). It wasn't necessarily a case of "not enough transformers". There were a good number of transformers sequences. It's a case of too many human sequences. There was absolutely no reason to spend half an hour waiting for another Decepticon attack while continuously reestablishing that "SAM IS AN AWKWARD KID. HE BOUGHT BUMBLEBEE. HE LIKES THIS ONE GIRL."
I could go on. I haven't even gotten to the Mountain Dew robot and the specific praising of a Nokia phone.

I would say the movie rapidly fluctuates between an 8.4/10 and a 2.3/10