I finally saw Borat today.

I didn't think it was anything that special. Some laugh out loud moments, some amusing moments, mostly EHHHH moments.

I agree--everyone was acting like it was some comedic revolution and it really wasn't. It's not something I need to own on DVD--that's usually my test.

I just finished watching "An Awful Truth". It was great, but it wasn't Cary Grant's best comedic performance. That being said, he was still charming as ever. I dunno why anyone would want to divorce him, even though it's in a film lol:. The ending was so cute & that dog has also been used in the "Thin Man" series & another Cary Grant film, "Bringing Up Baby". I wish my dog was that smart. Anyway, I enjoyed the film & I plan to add it to my DVD collection. One of my favourite scene's was when Cary Grant's character smacked the hat outta the guys hand. Priceless .

If you love 300 & The Office as much as I do, check this out:

The Office 300 Style

Frigging hilarious!

Ocean's 13 rocked it was just as good as the 11 in my book it rebounded from 12 to say the least check it out .

I saw Hostel 2 last friday by myself, and then I took my son to Shrek the Third.

I would not give Hostel 2 a thumbs down. I would rather give it the finger.

I posted this elsewhere, but for Star Wars fans, there is a show on Sunday night that re-imagines (or makes light of) the Star Wars saga, in cartoon form, with George Lucas' approval. Here is the link: http://www.adultswim.com/shows/robotchicken/stuff/rcsw/

It is a show called Robot Chicken--I've never watched it, but my husband will be glued to the set on Sunday night when this premieres!

EXCELLENT AFI's 100 greatest movie quotes montage here! 7 minutes worth of the 100 greatest movie quotes

#72 is my FAVORITE!

Stupid AFI

Where's Pulp Fiction?

I used to hear #66 on dates.

thats one of my husbands favorite movies

I remember seeing it as a really little kid. I was scared to death.

TOGA TOGA TOGA!

One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How it got in my pajamas, I don't know.

Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!

Stella!! (mmm, Marlon Brando )

I'll be back!

You know how to whistle Steve. You just put your lips together, & blow.

I'll have what she's having.

You can't handle the truth!

Play it, Sam. Play "As Time Goes By".

Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

They call me Mr.Tibbs!

The stuff that dreams are made of.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

You talkin' to me?

Here's looking at you kid.

I coulda been a contender.

I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a ****.

Robot Chicken is HILARIOUS! =P It was created by Seth Green (Scott Evil in the Austin Powers movies )

If you want to get an idea of what the show is all about, there's PLENTY of snippets on youtube. My personal favorites were about The Transformers and Michael Jackson vs. Michael Jackson. I know for a fact that those are on youtube. Let me know what you think!

New movie coming out this weekend for all the moms of teenage girls...Nancy Drew opens this friday...

http://nancydrewmovie.warnerbros.com

She'll be the secret crush of teenage boys everywhere. They'll lie to thier friends about wanting someone like Christina Aguilera, but they'll pine for a girl like Nancy Drew.

Huh. I guess this is Nancy Drew for the Millenium? It doesn't seem to have any of the style or spirit of the books I grew up reading. (and isn't she supposed to be strawberry blonde?)
I know that it's wise to make a movie based on a character that's already well-known, from a marketing perspective, but this just looks like it could easily be its own entity.
I'm sure the tweens will love it.

my girls want to see Nancy Drew, I think i kind of do as well but I wont tell them that.


Miss Potter with Sour Puss and Ewan McGregor comes out next week

Awesome! I'm really excited about seeing it. My husband didn't want to go last weekend, because it was opening weekend, but maybe I can get him to go this weekend. Thanks for the review .

I stayed up last nite to watch Ghost Rider. I only need 3 letters to give my review....W-T-F??

seriously, nicolas cage? eva mendes? And what was peter fonda doing in that? It was like watching the longest verison of the dead's, Touch of gray video ever! I loved the superimposed hot body on nicolas cage too. yeah like you couldn't see that was fake. Even a blind person could figure that out. Only part I like was the narrator. I love the raspy voice. Very cowboyish. worst part, the whole thing. I actually caught myself talking out loud to myself, am I really staying up for this? Just no more nicolas cage ever.

Thanks for this review! You saved me a few hours!

After the terrible 'Wicker Man' (the original is one of my favorite movies) I had my doubts about Ghost Rider.

I think I'll skip it now. Much appreciiated!!!

welcome creed. Unless you like his style of soap opera over acting then by all means watch it. The special effects are great either.

And I did like spider man 1&2 and some of the batman movies so I'm not anti comic book movie.

There was absolutely NOTHING i liked about the movie. I watched it w/ my friend who had read the comic books and her name happens to be roxi. =P We both didn't like it.


As In Living Color's "Men On Movies" would say...


HATED IT! *2 snaps down with a twist*

Ghost Rider was bad. I mean...I guess overall it wasn't the worst movie I'd ever seen, but man was it boring.

The only cool part is them riding through the desert at night...on the bike and the horse. I absolutely loved the imagery there, but that was the high point of the movie. Pretty sad

I LOVE Robot Chicken! I listed it as one of my favorites on the TV thread.

OMG, Dee, I can't stop laughing. That was beautiful.

I giggled when I typed it out. Now I can't get those teenie little hats that Damon Wayans wore in those skits out of my head.




That's it, FB..you're my board BFF!

Dangit OH, I was just about to post that. I loaded it my photobucket and everything.

Oh well. I think it looks cool. Fanboys are already up in arms because it kinda looks like the Tron suit.

No Bat-Nipples, so I'm happy.

I personally love the "realistic" turn Batman has taken. The fanboys can cry, but given the success of Batman Begins, I'd say they're doing something right.

And now he's got wrist blades...like the Predator!

Talking about superhero movies who else thought Spiderman 3 was the worst thing they could have made.

I love the new Bat suit! Christian looks awesome. TDK 2008 - I can't wait!

I'm really looking forward to "Superbad". It's from the makers of "40 year-old virgin", and looks very funny. Google the trailer.

Michael Keaton is the only Batman for me.

Meh.

He was alright I guess. He didn't look as awkward in the suit as Val Kilmer. But him as Bruce Wayne? Boooring. I blame Tim Burton for that, crappy filmmaker he is.

Bale is where it's at. He looks good in the costume (I mean that in a non gay way) he's got the Bat-voice down, and you don't want to skip past the Bruce Wayne scenes. Which is good, considering Batman was only in 1/3 of the scenes in Begins.

No one could be as bad as George Clooney though. Not even Adam West.

G,

I don't get to this thread enough. Okay, ever. So if this has been posted already, I apologize. Have you seen this abomination? I'm sure you have.

I love Day of the Dead. For a long time, that was my favorite of the original zombie trilogy. This just makes me feel sick to my stomach. I'll still see it in the theater though.

I can't believe Ving Rhames and Mena Suvari were once in Pulp Fiction and American Beauty. How far they've fallen.

I've come to terms with Dawn 2004, but I don't know if I'll get over this one.

Maybe the remake of The Crazies (Which is sort of what 28 Days Later is anyway) will fix things. I think Romero is supposed to have a hand in the re-writing of that script.

I should probably do some research on that.

Really? I loved the re-make of Dawn. While it is definitely not the original, I thought it was very well done...and helped to at least bring the zombie-genre back into the limelight.

And if nothing else, it helped spawn a lot of excellent zombie video games

Some of my favorite skits from that show: The snail riding the turtle (WHEEEEE!!), the nun taking off her bicycle seat, and the "Ode to the Nutshot".

got a copy of wild hogs and something called 88 mins and epic movie. they are borrowed, I didn't pay to rent any of them.

Diapers you should check out..UHM. I believe gareth is a fan of that site as well. I hope it was you gareth that told me that.

I love the first ten minutes. But the whole track-star zombie thing just is not realistic. Why would anybody be able to run faster after they're dead? Running zombies defeat the whole purpose of the genre. Zombies should only be dangerous in large numbers. A well organized team who can actually work together should have a relatively easy time surviving. The tragedy is that people just can't get along.

Oh, and that whole Mekhi Pfeifer subplot with the baby... And those cartoon character security guards... And the annoying yuppie with the yacht... And that big moaning lady in the wheelbarrow... Ugh.

It did show up at the right time, and it probably helped G.R. get Land of the Dead off the ground, so I have to give them credit for that.

How long had that one zombie been hanging on that water pipe in the parking garage? Days? Would it have the arm strength to do that? And what exactly was it planning on doing, just waiting for someone to walk along so it could fall on them? Since when do zombies spring traps like that?

It really is among the best of the new crop though. Resident Evil and House of the Dead were just awful. 28 Days and Weeks Later were awesome, but those aren't technically zombies.

^^^ nice to see that you just want the purest form of zombies, blood lusting killing machines that can't be stopped.

why are they making a terminator 4??

Well, thanks for ruining the whole movie for me. There goes my weekend.

GRRR!!! Why do people think they can improve on a George Romero film?

Diapers - Are you a fan of Italian horror? I love Argento flicks.

Since many of the movies I like have been mentioned I will add a couple more I didn't see:

The Wedding Singer
Kingpin

I rented Music and Lyrics. I'm not usually a big fan of romantic comedies, but this one looked cute enough, and it was. It had some funny moments and it was sweet without being overly-saccharine. A good piece of fluff. I also rented Little Children and hopefully I'll have time to watch it tomorrow.

Lately I've been really into The Big Lebowski, one of my all-time favorites. It's such a brilliant movie, and I have so many favorite quotes from it. One of the few "clean" ones:

"You brought a f-ing Pomeranian bowling?"
"What do you mean brought it bowling? I didn't rent it shoes. I'm not buying it an f-ing beer. He's not going to take your f-ing turn, Dude."

Yeah, okay maybe not so clean. But still so funny.

I could watch Big Lewbowski every week. I LOVE that movie. I just heard the Gipsy Kings 'Hotel California' yesterday on my mp3 player.

creed have you seen the card player? It's a argento flick. it's alright.

Watched Much Ado About Nothing tonight. I hadn't seen it in awhile. It's still good

Yeah, I saw it. To be honest, when I heard Nick Cannon was casted, I knew it would be a stinker. Still, it's hard to prepare yourself for the big bucket of bad that trailer is.

Anyone interested in zombie films should skip all the flicks made in the past 7 years ('cept Land or Shaun) and rent either Dawn or Day of the Dead. Us Romero fans are split on which Dead film is the best (to be fair, Dawn would probably be on top) but you can't go wrong with either film. My personal fave is Day, for three reasons: Joe Pilato, Howard Sherman, and Richard Liberty. Some people have a problem with how over-the-top Pilato's performance is, but I think that's the point. Rhodes freakin' lost it, and no one can portray that quite like Pilato. Seriously, I don't think there's a scene in that movie featuring Rhodes that doesn't end with him pulling out his gun and shouting a bunch of crazed gibberish. Howard Sherman's Bub paired with Liberty's Dr. "Frankenstein" are the perfect anti-heroes to Rhodes. When Bub gets ahold of a gun and seeks his revenge at the end* it's hard not to cheer for him, even if he is a flesh-eating ghoul.

..."CHOKE ON 'EM!!"

It was me. That place is my other home. I post as "Officefan", gotta represent.

That is a good site for horror news. The webmaster is great at sifting through the rumors and only posts movies that are almost certainly going to get made. Eli Roth even thought enough of the site to give the webmaster a sneak peek at Cabin Fever. However, when he gave the film a mediocre review, the Rothster stopped talking to him.

I posed that question to someone at UHM. He said that since they're dead, the don't have to worry about muscle fatigue. Pshht nothing but a mouth full of greek salad. Even if he was right about that, how do you explain the zombies having the reflexes of a cat? I love slow zombies for the reasons D listed, as well as the false sense of security they give. You can easily outrun a small pack or Romero zombies, but you let your guard down, and you'll be surrounded in a matter of seconds. Then it's lights out.

I could get over the flaws of the remake. Romero described it as a video game, and since Resident Evil blew chunks, at least there's a movie that reproduces the awesomeness of the zombie games. It doesn't try to be what the original was, and I respect that. Compared to the Texas Chainsaw remake, it's friggin' Gone with the Wind.

And the zombie baby was just retarded. C'mon Gunn, you can do better than that. The a-hole yuppie was my favorite character.

I loves me some Argento. Have you seen Trauma?

Another great Italian director is Lucio Fulci. He made Zombi 2 (the unofficial sequel to Dawn) as well as City of the Living Dead and The Beyond. His films don't make a whole lot of sense, but man are they beautiful. And a zombie fighting a shark? Pure genius.

*Anyone see that SNL Digital Short "Dear Sister"? It'd probably help that clip make sense.

Oh, and I thought I'd warn that clip features a guy being ripped in half. Enjoy!

most recent movie at the theater.... Big Fuzz. Hilarious! Had to then see Shaun of the Dead again.
Rented The Big Lebowski last week and watched it for the umpteenth time. That movie makes me laugh no matter what kind of day I have had.

Has anyone ever seen Dangerous Beauty? Set in the times of Venetian Courtesans. Small film, I'm guessing it came out about 10 years ago or so.

If you like period love stories with some tasteful eroticism, check it out.

i tried to watch Epic Movie and it was so God awful I turned it off.

Oh gareth, you and I need to have a horror movie party. The one thing I hate about horror now of days is that it's more about the suspense part of the horror and not the actual horror itself and the killer/or villan. I myself am a true slasher fan and I don't need the suspense to scare so much as the actual violence in the movie.