What have you watched recently?

I finally got around to watching Knocked Up last night. Thought it was a great comedy flick.

I watched Resident Evil: Extinction last night. This movie was ok, enjoyable. Not as good as the other movies in the franchise, but still fun, with some great action and effects. This movie seemed more like a setup to a possible, and likely, 4th movie. By itself, it was much weaker than the others, but like I said, seemed like they did this one with the sole purpose of leading into the next installment; if that makes sense?!? I love Milla Jovovich, who is always great, and newcomer (to me anyways) Spencer Locke was pretty cute, I mean good too. This movie definitely had things going for it, but in the end I was disappointed - but like I said, I still enjoyed the movie. The very end sequence was pretty sweet. :)


BTW - Glad to hear you enjoyed There Will Be Blood GG. Daniel Day is a badass.

I watched The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. I thought it was a great flick. Very recommended.

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I watched The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. I thought it was a great flick. Very recommended.

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Get the fook out! I watched that last night!! Very good film indeed!! I gave it *** out of ****! :thumbsup:

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I saw There Will Be Blood last night. I thought it was an excellent movie, and I can see why it got so many Oscar nominations. Daniel Day-Lewis was excellent as an oil tycoon whose morality deteriorates the wealthier he gets. It's a similar situation that sort of reminded me of "The Aviator", but unlike "The Aviator", "There Will Be Blood" actually kept my attention. Daniel Day-Lewis gives a really great performance here, probably the best I've seen of his (I had only seen him in "Gangs Of New York" and "The Last of the Mohicans" before this). The most saddening aspect of his life is the deterioration of his relationship with his young son, whom he constantly abandons. The brother from "Little Miss Sunshine" is also in this as a preacher/faith healer who constantly asks for money from Day-Lewis's character, only to be abused in return. There is a really great scene at the end where Day-Lewis explains oil drainage to Eli (the preacher) and personifies it as drinking a milkshake. He says, "If you have a milkshake, and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw, and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake, I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!" It sounds incredibly cheesy on paper, but Daniel Day-Lewis makes it work. He's just that good. And frankly, if he hadn't been in the movie, I'm sure it wouldn't have been nearly as good. I'd still say Johnny Depp deserves an Oscar for "Sweeney Todd", but if he loses to Daniel Day-Lewis I won't lose any sleep over it. As for Best Picture, as much as I enjoyed "No Country For Old Men", I'd have to give the slight edge to "There Will Be Blood" because of Daniel Day-Lewis's performance. I think you all should check this out.

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Agreed with 95% of what 2Gs said, TWBB was awesome ! Only thing I disagree with is that I thought No Country was a better movie overall, I just liked it more than Blood, but Day-Lewis is certainly Oscar worthy in this role. Amazing.

Last weekend I saw Juno and Rambo 4, loved them both.

Super Bowl XLII and a New York Football Giants Win!!!!!

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Agreed with 95% of what 2Gs said, TWBB was awesome ! Only thing I disagree with is that I thought No Country was a better movie overall, I just liked it more than Blood, but Day-Lewis is certainly Oscar worthy in this role. Amazing.

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I drink your milkshake, Cae. I drink it up. *SLLLLLLUUUUURRRRPPPP*

Oer thelast couple of days I have watched EDTV, The Truman Show and White Men Cant Jump

Finished up two movies today.

Renaissance - Visually awesome, but a bit complicated. I started it the other night and was pretty tired, so that may have added to the plot confusion for me. Or maybe it was because it's a French movie (at least it was in English!)

Black Snake Moan is one I've wanted to see for a while now and I loved it. Sam Jackson once again proves how great he is as an actor. Christina Ricci was also great. She and Sam have great chemistry together and the best parts of the movie are the ones with just the two of them. I had no idea Justin Timberlake was in it and to my shock...he was surprisingly good as well.

BSM has been on my list for a while, too. I got the soundtrack and was surprised at how passable Samuel L was as a blues singer. He's not going to win any Handey Awards anytime soon, but he's not half bad.