The Last Movie You Saw On DVD or VHS or TV.

World war Z.

SO?

The Woody Guthrie biopic, "Bound for Glory," starred David Carradine, who didn't sound like Woody but could play guitar and sing. It was so refreshing to not see those coy cutaway shots to hide the fact that the star was not a musician. It made the film much more enjoyable.

I watched the "Ethan Hawke Hamlet" with my class. I liked it better the second time around. Julia Styles, Kyle MacLachlan and Sam Shepherd were all amazing. MacLachlan and Liev Schreiber handled the Shakespearean diction well, although Schreiber is experienced with Shakespeare. The movie was inventive and fresh while remaining faithful to the original.

Coming on the heels of Edgar's comments on biopics, along the same lines, while not all parents and children look alike, Sam Shepherd, Ethan Hawke and Kyle MacLachlan have similar facial structures and the same dark coloring to be believable as members of the same family.

SO! what did you think of it lillyandrew? I thought the SFX were adequate but the story...........Hmmmmmmmmmmm.Since when do zombies run?

Since George Romero's remake of Dawn Of The Dead, and Charlie Brooker's Dead Set.

I saw Despicable Me 2, I actually quite liked it.

Modern directors are altering movie history.In my book Zombies stumble,Vampires crumble into dust when subject to sunlight (not even high factor sun screen,helmets and gloves convince me),and The Wolfman will always die when shot by a silver bullet.

Re-watched,for the up-teenth time,Air Force One.Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman star in Wolfgang Peterson's thriller about a steadfast President who will not negotiate with terrorists....

Air Force One lands on the runway at Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., July 24, 2013. The mission of Air Force One is to provide air transport for the president of the United States. The presidential air transport fleet consists of two specially-configured Boeing 747s with tail numbers 28000 and 29000. When the president is aboard either aircraft, or any Air Force aircraft, the radio call sign is "Air Force One."

Not just modern ones, the creatures in Night Of The Living Dead are very different from the girl in White Zombie.

I saw Lucky Number Slevin last night, that was very good.

I LOVED this movie. A real creepy suspense - fest. Brad Pitt done good.

Thanks snood. It got a very good review in the New Yorker and I'm eager to see it.

From the DVD shelf I put Taegukgi (The Brotherhood Of War) into the player,selecting subtitles,as I don't speak Korean.Two brothers are forcibly conscripted into the army but both have conflicting views about the war they are told to fight for.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0386064/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_1

I saw that one! The one brother becomes a hero, and wins medals and recognition that the brother hates.

Watched Only God Forgives last night. I'm still trying to decide whether I liked it or not.... which I suppose is a good sign.... it's got me thinking.
I'd say, on this one you're either going to immediately ask for you hour & a half back or like me a day later, you're still going to be wondering what the ****.
I think I loved it.... go figure.
Ryan Gosling was Ryan Gosling, (is there anything he isn't in these days?).
Kristin Scott Thomas was brilliant as was Vithaya Pansringarm.
Be warned, brutal violence.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhRKlwr1-KM

Just watched The Impossible with Ewen McGregor and Naomi Watts. About a British (the real family was Spanish - I read the studio decided depicting white folks would make it a more marketable movie) family who gets swept up by the 2004 Tsunami on the East coast of Asia that killed 200,000. Pretty intense stuff. It is VERY realistic showing the suffering they go through. Fair warning - kind of a tear jerker, too.

My new best friend,Mr Postman,delivered Top Gun on 3D Blu-ray this morning .All day I've had Grumman F-14's,McDonnell Douglas A-4's and Migs (which are really Northrop F-5's) wizzing around,thanks to the DTS-HD 6.1 soundtrack.
Also good to see the deck activity on the aircraft carriers USS Enterprise (which was recently decommissioned and is now being stripped),and USS Carl Vinson.
BTW,I've learned that what I refer to as 3D "sticky out bits" are called pop-outs.
Sound is great,picture has lots of depth.This 3D conversion from 2D put a BIG smile on my face.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG2GjuZxvF0

Universal TV was kind enough to show In The Electric Mist, a small quirky Tommy Lee Jones flick that was never released in the US.

The story takes place in a small swampy town in Louisiana where sheriff Jones is investigating some homicides that might be the work of a serial killer.(Oh , not again?)

The ensemble acting by
John Goodman
Peter Sarsgaard
Kelly Macdonald
Mary Steenburgen and
Levon Helm (drummer for the rock group The Band) is uniformly excellent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Electric_Mist

Last two nights we watched:

Hansel and Gretel (2013)
and
Warm Bodies.

Hansel and Gretel was good. I enjoyed it.
Warm Bodies - meh.

If you enjoyed Hansel and Gretel you might well like Jack the Giant Slayer.
I enjoyed both films.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etA8Zhv3MM8

I saw a great, obscure movie recently which never really came out in theaters, A Dark Truth. It's available on Netflix, which surprised me, given its message.



The movie is a cross between Syriana and Salvador. Instead of a corrupt oil company ruining democracy in a middle-eastern state you have a corrupt water company ruining democracy in Ecuador.

Besides the message there are a couple reasons to love this film:

First, Andy Garcia does a wonderful job as retired CIA operative turned talk-radio host, with a persona that seems loosely based on Joe the Plummer.

And second, Eva Longoria stops trying to pass as an American blonde and transforms into the luscious brown South America gun-toting guerilla girl she was born to be.