Hey Shia. How you doing . Um, I mean the poster looks great. There are tons of great films coming out this year & the three main ones that I'm super excited about are the new Indiana Jones film, the new Bond film (November 7th grrr) & Leatherhead. George Clooney & John K in one film together? Me thinks I'm gonna faint from sexiness overload. If I was the female lead, I'd take home both George's & John's character. I remember being taught that it's nice to share .

I finally got to finish LA Confidential & it was fabulous. I mean, it wasn't as good as Chinatown IMO but it was still a pretty amazing film. I'll admit that I was confused at times but luckily everything came together at the end. This film also featured one of the greatest casts ever. How can anyone go wrong with Russell Crowe, Danny DeVito, Kevin Spacey & many others. Speaking of the cast, Russell Crowe was simply dreamy . He definitely suits short hair. But the whole good cop vs bad cop was played out pretty well without focusing mainly on the cliches. And seeing Guy Pierce's character (Edmund Exley) transform as the film progressed was interesting to see. Thankfully it wasn't as violent as I expected as there was one scene that made me gag. But I won't give it away because I don't want to spoil anything. It's one of the best films I watched in some time.

Another film I got around to watching was Clue & it was frigging hilarious. The cast worked well together to make it the perfect blend of comedy & suspense, although the film leaned more on the comedy side. There were some twists but since it all came together at the end, one doesn't have to pay close attention. It was interesting witnessing the board game being brought to life, or is the other way around. Just for the sake of it, I'll post some of my favourite lines from the film:

Wadsworth: Mrs. White, you've been paying our friend, the blackmailer, ever since your husband died under, shall we say, mysterious circumstances?
Miss Scarlet: Ah!
[laughs]
Mrs. White: Why is that funny?
Miss Scarlet: I see! That's why he was lying on his back, in his coffin!
Mrs. White: I didn't kill him.
Colonel Mustard: Then why are you paying the blackmailer?
Mrs. White: I don't want a scandal, do I? We had a very humiliating confrontation. He was deranged, he was...
[points to head]
Mrs. White: ... a lunatic! He actually didn't seem to like me very much; he had threatened to kill me in public.
Miss Scarlet: Why would he want to kill you in public?
Wadsworth: I think she meant he threatened, in public, to kill her.
[rolls eyes]
Miss Scarlet: Oh.
Miss Scarlet: Was that his final word on the matter?
Mrs. White: Being killed is pretty final, wouldn't you say?
Wadsworth: And yet, he was the one that died, not you, Mrs. White, not you!
Miss Scarlet: What did he do for a living?
Mrs. White: He was a scientist, nuclear physics.
Miss Scarlet: What was he like?
Mrs. White: He was always a rather stupidly optimistic man. I mean, I'm afraid it came as a great shock to him when he died, but he was found dead at home. His head had been cut off, and so had his... you KNOW.
[Colonel Mustard, Professor Plum, and Mr. Green cross legs]
Mrs. White: I had been out all evening, at the movies.
Miss Scarlet: Do you miss him?
Mrs. White: Well, it's a matter of life after death. Now that he's dead, I have a life.
Wadsworth: But he was your second husband. Your first husband also disappeared.
Mrs. White: Well, that was his job. He was an illusionist.
Wadsworth: But he never reappeared!
Mrs. White: [admittedly] He wasn't a very good illusionist.

Wadsworth: Ours is not to reason why, ours is but to do or die
Professor Plum: Die?
Wadsworth: Merely quoting, sir, from Alfred Lord Tennyson.
Colonel Mustard: I prefer Kipling, myself. "The female of the species is more deadly than the male."
[to Miss Scarlet]
Colonel Mustard: Do you like Kipling, Miss Scarlet?
[he offers her a tray]
Miss Scarlet: [takes food off the tray] Sure, I'll eat anything.

Miss Scarlet: Maybe there is such a thing as life after death.
Mrs. White: Life after death is as improbable as sex after marriage!

Wadsworth: You were jealous that your husband was schtupping Yvette, that's why you killed him too.
Mrs. White: Yes.
[walks down stairs]
Mrs. White: Yes, I did it, I killed Yvette. I hated her, so much... That... it... it... flam - flames. Flames, on the side of my face, heaving... breath - , heaving breaths. Heaving breath...

Wadsworth: You recognized Yvette, didn't you? Don't deny it!
Mrs. White: What do you mean, "Don't deny it"? I'm not denying anything!
Wadsworth: Another denial!
Mrs. White: Thhbbtt!

Wadsworth: Let's move the cook's body into the study.
Colonel Mustard: Why?
Wadsworth: I'm the butler, I like to keep the kitchen tidy.

Mrs. White: How did you get in?
Mr. Green: The door was locked!
Mrs. White: That’s a great trick!

Colonel Mustard: How many husbands have you had?
Mrs. White: Mine or other women's?
Colonel Mustard: Yours.
Mrs. White: Five.
Colonel Mustard: Five?
Mrs. White: Yes, just the five. Husbands should be like Kleenex: soft strong and disposable.
Colonel Mustard: You lure men to their deaths like a spider with flies.
Mrs. White: Flies are where men are most vulnerable.
Colonel Mustard: Right!

Mrs. Peacock: Everything all right?
Colonel Mustard: Yup, two corpses, everything's fine.

[Wadsworth has just greeted Mr. Green at the door]
Wadsworth: [to the dogs] SIT.
[Mr. Green quickly and nervously sits down on a bench]
Wadsworth: No, not you, sir.

Mrs. Peacock: What does you husband do?
Mrs. White: Nothing.
Mrs. Peacock: Nothing?
Mrs. White: Well, he just lies around on his back all day.
Miss Scarlet: Sounds like hard work to me.

[a scream is heard in the locked billiard room]
Professor Plum: It must be the murderer.
Mr. Green: Why would *he* scream?

Easily one of the best & funniest films ever . A must watch for all the fans of the board game Clue .

*eta* The flames on the side of the face line was completely improvised. It's posted here on youtube & note her falling up the stairs . I dunno if it's intentional but it's still pretty d@mn funny.

To watch Across the Universe or not to watch Across the Universe...

I just got Dan in Real Life and I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry from my blockbuster queue...It's gonna be a good weekend

Oh man! LA Confidential is my favorite movie. Kevin Spacey & Guy Pearce are phenomenal in it. I love how the separate story-lines come together in the end for the "surprise" ending (when we find out who the real villain is). The novel by James Ellroy is really good, too, but it's a lot longer and WAY more twisted and complicated than the film. It also goes a lot more in depth in to the White/Exley feud and why they hate each other so much.

Excellent movie!


Another great movie I've seen more times than I can count. I think I know every line.

Wadswroth: ...Well, to make a long story short...
Col. Mustard: Too late

I saw No Country For Old Men. Ehhhhhh. It was good, the pace was just so flat. I kinda expected that, I just wish there was something there to make me like it more.

And who might that be? And what's wrong with seeing something you wanna see????


Funny you should mention that, because Cynthia Nixon was in a remake of The Women, on stage and filmed for PBS. It was pretty good, but you just can't beat Rosalind Russell and the mighty Joan Crawford.

So I watched The Blair Witch Project last night...I may never go into the woods at night ever again. I know that it was a fictional story, but regardless, that scared me enough. Some scenes very legitimately creepy and others were kinda just a little eerie. The piled rocks-not so much. The Voodoo sticks-definitely creepy. Josh having a breakdown was scary and he didn't really recover. All the scenes that were just black and you could only hear sound were scarier than the rest of the movie. That ending was insane. Mike was being so surprisingly brave-I was proud of him. All the running around in the creepy hand printed house and yelling and Heather's piercing scream really had my heart racing. I really just want to know what happens at the end! It all happened so fast and I don't fully understand the end. Anyone have any idea what happened?

I am Legend
Atonement
Enchanted

comes out today.

Guess what I'm buying after I go to the gym?

I want to see Dan in Real Life! Woo!


Ugh, that movie creeps me out. I saw it in theaters. Never a good idea. At the end Heather runs to the basement. She sees Mike standing in the corner (like apparently what the old guy and the witch used to do the children, make them stand in the corner while they killed the other children) and she yells at him but he doesn't move, then she's struck and the camera falls over. The end.
I really hate that movie.


So has anyone seen Penelope? Is it good?

Check this out.

I adore Shia LaBeouf, think Cate Blanchett is fabulous, really like John Hurt, and always wanted Karen Allen to be in another one.

But Harrison Ford could be in a foot cream commercial, and I'd watch it. Intently. I can't wait!

This should probably go in the Confessions thread, but we rented Wayne's World for the kids last week. They thought it was hilarious. Some parts did not hold up well, others I had forgotten about were still funny. But mostly they just loved Garth.

That is what I thought happened. But I wasn't sure because I thought maybe Mike had been hung or something-I couldn't tell. That's a good way to tie in the ending though. It ended suddenly for sure, but I guess that leaves the most suspense. So, think it was in fact the witch or maybe Josh. I read some theories. He did go kinda nuts... But, I wonder why he was taken, why him? I can see where that movie upset you...




My dad told me about this. They really did a good job marketing everything. Made it really believable, which is incredibly scary...

Bailey I thought the same thing of No country for old men. I enjoyed Josh Brolins character more than bardems.

I have some movies to watch later. I got that Flawless movie. Can't wait to see that.

I am the only person who just hated blair witch project with a passion?

I watched No Country for Old men last weekend. It kept my interest throughout, but I have major bone to pick with writer. Those who saw it probably no what I'm talking about.

OKay someone left me a copy of meet the spartans. I put it on last night. I wacthed 40 mins fell asleep and finished the rest around 12:20am when I woke up.
It's okay. It's funny but not all laugh out loud. Better than date movie though or epic movie. And the guy who played the main spartan...I've been crushing on him for like 3 yrs now. Just another british hottie I stumbled on.

Oh yeah how many times were they going reuse that nicole arden or parker (I always forget which one she is) She played like every womans character.

okay I read a friends movie review and spoiler blog and then sought out the details of this upcoming movie...bale/depp movie

Now, this is something I gotta see. Bale and depp in the same movie.

I finished watching the 1936 film Love on the Run. It's a romantic comedy starring Clarke Gable & Joan Crawford. While I enjoyed the film a lot, it reminded me of It Happened One Night, which is two years older & another Clark film. Regardless, it was a cute film & I found that Clark & Joan had a lot of chemistry together. Franchot Tone was a riot too, especially at the end where he was acting all bonkers . The original reason why I decided to watch it is because it was set in Paris but I liked the whole film because of that & other reasons. Still, It Happened One Night is clearly the better film. It didn't get four stars & sweep all the major catergories in the Oscars for nothing. Love on the Run only got two stars but hey, so did Double Wedding & I loved that film too.

Clarke Gable is better suited as the male lead in romantic comedies than dramas IMO .

^^ Love On the Run looks good. Is it on DVD or was it on TCM? And where did Double Wedding get 2 stars!? That movie deserves more stars than that!

I got 2 movies from netflix today (don't know if I'll watch them tonight or not): No Man of Her Own (1932) with Carole Lombard and Clark Gable and Now, Voyager (1942) with Bette Davis (I'm in a Bette Davis phase right now )

I felt awful but I saw Day of dead this afternoon. What a horrible piece of remake trash. Mena survi is just rotten and I'm sorry but someone who is like 6'6 is a bad choice to be a character. All I kept thinking was in the orginal nightmare on elm street freddy running down the alley and you can tell it was a midget. It was so bad.

I watched it on TCM. Earlier I looked on some online sites, trying to find it (HMV, Future Shop etc) but alas no luck. I guess it's not as well known as the other Joan & Clark films. Hopefully it'll be released in the future.

When I was watching it on TCM I checked the info about the film & saw that it received only two stars, which is a travesty . Maybe I'm biased because it's one of my favourite Powell/Loy films but still, three stars would've been nice haha. Than again, I've seen a lot of good films that have received cr@ppy ratings so I no longer let the amount of stars received dictate my selection.

Ooh Now, Voyager is such a great film. Bette Davis was phenomal. I remember watching it when I was going through my Bette phase too . But even though it's a drama, I think you'll love it .

I stayed up late and watched Flawless. The brillant Michael Caine and Demi Moore. She works in london in a Diamond business and Caine is a night janitor who passes a secret to moore who is about to loose her job and together they pull off a diamond heist. With a twist at the end.
I hated this movie! Not disliked or it was boring but hated it!. I could never figure out what time period they were in. Everyone wore 40's style clothes but they had cell phones. The ending will just make you more confused as what time period it was. Moore is a american, english educated at oxford college but has the worst american cross over british accent. More grating than Madonna's. Caine is the only reason to watch this movie. His acting is effortless. I want my hour and half back of my life. Stay away from Flawless

Ok so I watched both. (I had to watch Now, Voyager in 2 parts because I was so tired the night I started watching it) It was another great Bette Davis movie- her performance in it was wonderful. And I got a little teary eyed at the end. No Man of Her Own was good but nothing very memorable. It was great to see Carole Lombard and Clark Gable together in a movie though- I wish they had made more together. The library scene is great- ending with Carole Lombard saying "See you in church"

This is interesting:

10 Most Historically Inaccurate Movies

If I ever make a movie, and it is a historical one, I'd like to think I'd check my facts and plan accordingly.


Movies for this weekend: Gone Baby Gone and Atonement.

I rented Once, The Darjeeling Limited, and Sleuth! Looks like I'm gonna need some popcorn here...
Dan In Real Life was out-but I think I am going to buy it anyway.
Into the Wild was out too...

I saw this article, too. I wish movie makers would check their facts! As a history teacher, I fight the ever constant battle of movies vs. real history everyday. I don't mind if they mess with historical fact, (it is a movie after all, not a documentary) but it bugs me when viewers take it for reality.

I saw Definitely, Maybe last night. It was so cute. Granted, it's not a ground breaking romantic comedy, but it was fun and easy to watch. It was a little slow in some sections, but there was enough bouts of humor to keep me interested. Ryan Reynolds stole the show, IMHO. He was absolutely adorable! He's got a slick sense of humor and can really deliver an under-your-breath one liner.

I really wanted to rent Atonement tonight- but the video store didn't have any left (I should have expected this) I may try to get it again tomorrow. I did rent Dan in Real Life though- I've been wanting to see it for awhile

I loved Dan in Real Life. I'm taking it over to my grandparent's house tonight. It's a nice slice of life movie, with a lot of subtle humor. Steve Carell was fabulous, as always.

I saw Vantage Point the other day

Yeah- I just finished watching it. I LOVED it. Definitely going on my "to buy" list. Wasn't expecting it to be as good as it was. And the soundtrack for the movie is fantastic too

I'm watching sweeny todd. I am hating this movie. I love depp. I think he's brillant and should be getting more aclaim for his work but this, it's so wrong. I think tim Burton maybe going flat, cause this is no where near as exciting as his other stuff. And I understand it's based on the play, and I've heard tons about the play, but this is a yawn fest to me.

I'm sorry if I've upset anyone who loves the movie.

I liked Sweeney Todd, but it was nothing to be "WOW" over. It entertained me. I loved the "By the Sea" bit- that was great.

I just watched Atonement. I loved it. My friend was like "There is tragic, and then there is Atonement," Haha, and he was right! I knew bits and pieces of the storyline going in, but I could never have guessed how it all went down. And it really wasn't as sad as it could have been, because Briony gave them their happy ending.

^^ Some parts are nice, but over all I'm not thrilled by it. I guess I was expecting too much from Sweeney Todd. I gotta stop doing that.

Just saw Enchanted at the cheap theaters. I know....way late on this.
I loved it. It was adorable. Nice to watch a movie with my teenage daughter and not flinch.

lizzy, you have such a way with words!!! You need to find your calling - like as a movie reviewer.

Jay is watching The Sandlot. I'd forgotten what a cute, funny movie it is. He loves it.

Liz, here is a TV movie you will enjoy.

Wedd that sounds amazingly bad I love it. Today I am going to put on Rambo. It suits my mood right now.

I watched Enchanted yesterday. It is adorable! Cheesy, yes. But very cute.

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bubble, I had the soundtrack for Dan in Real Life in my hands the other night. I almost bought it and now I'm kicking myself for leaving it behind. I may have to pick it up tonight. It's awesome.

Aww, definitely get the Dan In Real Life soundtrack. That is one unregretable purchase.

So I finally saw Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix tonight. Even though they cut a lot that was in the book I feel like it was the best movie yet. (They could have made the movie 3 hours long though and I wouldn't have cared ) I keep forgetting that Half Blood Prince comes out this year in November- since it was 2 years between the last two movies

I finally watched Gone Baby Gone tonight. I'm 2 for 2 this weekend. It was really good. Upsetting, on several levels, but excellent. The acting was wonderful, and kudos to Ben Affleck on his directorial skills. The ending was very much catch-22, talk about a hard choice, and I would never want to be put in that situation to have to choose that outcome. I recommend.

Did anyone see 21?

The new Rambo movie was awesome I know it's old now, but it was awesome!

It's not out yet, but I just might have to see it because I love Jim Sturgess.

By the way, has anyone seen 'The Other Boleyn Girl'? And if so, what did you think? I enjoyed it, but I still think the book is better. Plus Scarlet Johansen had pretty much the same expression throughout the whole movie.

I have some really great b movies with bela lugosie (sp) before he died to watch later

As opposed to Plan 9 from Outer Space, from after he died.

Today is Joan Crawford's birthday. TCM had a special about her and now they are showing Mildred Pierce, which she won an Academy Award for. I'm recording it, maybe I'll watch it tomorrow.

Who's excited for Leatherheads?

I AM!

I love love LOVE that Leatherheads ad occasionally comes across on this page...

I AM SO READY!

Leatherheads should be fun to see.

I wish my life was like Princess Diaries... Ha ha.