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  • My wife and I watched The Howling on Netflix instant the other night. A fun werewolf movie I hadn't seen since the 80s. Joe Dante is one of the more underrated directors in my opinion. Between this movie, the original Pirahna and the two Gremlins movies, he has a wicked sense of humor and a deep love and respect for all the b-movies of the past.

    We also saw Hanna this weekend and had a great time. That Saoirse Ronan is amazing. Loved the Chemical Bros. score too.
    Kids in general these days seem more socially retarded...

    None of them date. They hang out. They text. They sit in the same car or room and don't say a word...they text. Then, they go home and whack off to internet porn.

    I think that's the sad truth about why these kids are retards.

    --Portland Ute

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    • Nanny McPhee Returns. Maggie Gyllenhaal as Batman's love interest, Rachel Dawes? Not hot. Maggie Gyllenhaal as the farmer's disheveled wife and (possibly widowed) mother of 3 unruly kids? Kinda hot.
      Prepare to put mustard on those words, for you will soon be consuming them, along with this slice of humble pie that comes direct from the oven of shame set at gas mark “egg on your face”! -- Moss

      There's three rules that I live by: never get less than twelve hours sleep; never play cards with a guy who's got the same first name as a city; and never go near a lady's got a tattoo of a dagger on her body. Now you stick to that, everything else is cream cheese. --Coach Finstock

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      • Source Code. Liked it. Good but not great.

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        • Soul Surfer. Turned out to be a great movie. Started out slow but it was actually a great film. Highly recommended.
          "It's true that everything happens for a reason. Just remember that sometimes that reason is that you did something really, really, stupid."

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          • I saw Unknown this weekend, and I liked it. As you could predict for this kind of movie, there was a twist, but it wasn't one I was expecting. I usually like Liam Neeson's movies, too, The Phantom Menace notwithstanding.
            Not that, sickos.

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            • Originally posted by FMCoug View Post
              Soul Surfer. Turned out to be a great movie. Started out slow but it was actually a great film. Highly recommended.
              You wife mentioned this on FB and said "I give it two thumbs up."

              I snickered and thought of all the poor taste replies I could give...but didn't.

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              • Saw Source Code and Hanna over the last month.

                Both were pretty fun, slightly above average thriller types. Source Code better than Hanna. Both had interesting premise. Hanna had more potential but fizzled. The thing in Hanna where the director was trying to add the freaky surreal feeling (spooky German street with the graffiti, weird magician's house, weird abandoned spook alley/amusement park place at the end) didn't fit and just seemed to confuse.

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                • Easy A was much better than I thought it would be. I had very low expectations and I laughed pretty hard in places. The dialogue is quite clever.
                  Dyslexics are teople poo...

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                  • After weeks of effort my wife and daughter persuaded me to watch "Gone with the Wind" with them. We saw the first half (2 hours) last night, and will finish tonight. I must admit, it's quite an epic and I can only imagine what it was like to go see such a production in 1938 when it first came out. Also, I am enjoying it, even though it may be the mother of all chick flicks.

                    EDIT: Just finished it. I want those 4 hours back.
                    Last edited by LA Ute; 04-25-2011, 11:04 PM.
                    “There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.”
                    ― W.H. Auden


                    "God made the angels to show His splendour - as He made animals for innocence and plants for their simplicity. But men and women He made to serve Him wittily, in the tangle of their minds."
                    -- Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons


                    "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
                    --Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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                    • "Dear Zachary"

                      A crushing documentary about a psycho chick who murders her unborn baby's father, and the legal/custody battle his parents go through when she flees to Canada.
                      "I don't know the origin of said bitch booming."-Art Vandelay
                      "Hot Lunch posted awhile back on this. He knows more than anyone except for maybe BO."-Seattle Ute

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                      • Originally posted by thesaint258 View Post
                        I saw Unknown this weekend, and I liked it. As you could predict for this kind of movie, there was a twist, but it wasn't one I was expecting. I usually like Liam Neeson's movies, too, The Phantom Menace notwithstanding.
                        So you'd recommend it? I'm thinking of seeing this at the weekend.

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                        • Originally posted by Katy Lied View Post
                          So you'd recommend it? I'm thinking of seeing this at the weekend.
                          Yeah, I would. I saw it in the dollar theater, and I thought it was worth the $1.50. I would have even paid $2.00.
                          Not that, sickos.

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                          • Originally posted by LA Ute View Post
                            After weeks of effort my wife and daughter persuaded me to watch "Gone with the Wind" with them. We saw the first half (2 hours) last night, and will finish tonight. I must admit, it's quite an epic and I can only imagine what it was like to go see such a production in 1938 when it first came out. Also, I am enjoying it, even though it may be the mother of all chick flicks.

                            EDIT: Just finished it. I want those 4 hours back.
                            I think it is not a great movie. But I say with all seriousness that the book is one of the best works of fiction I have ever read.

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                            • Originally posted by LA Ute View Post
                              After weeks of effort my wife and daughter persuaded me to watch "Gone with the Wind" with them. We saw the first half (2 hours) last night, and will finish tonight. I must admit, it's quite an epic and I can only imagine what it was like to go see such a production in 1938 when it first came out. Also, I am enjoying it, even though it may be the mother of all chick flicks.

                              EDIT: Just finished it. I want those 4 hours back.
                              Originally posted by UtahDan View Post
                              I think it is not a great movie. But I say with all seriousness that the book is one of the best works of fiction I have ever read.
                              I think that there is something to be said for a film being improved by seeing it on the big screen as it was intended. I'd never seen GWTW until they screened a print during a classic movie series at Jordan Commons in Salt Lake. The images and the filmmaking in that movie are just incredible and their impact on a giant screen is one of almost overwhelming grandeur. Granted, it's hella long, the heroine is grade-A annoying and the melodrama can be cloying, but I'll still go see it play on the big screen the next time I get a chance. And Rhett is a badass.
                              Kids in general these days seem more socially retarded...

                              None of them date. They hang out. They text. They sit in the same car or room and don't say a word...they text. Then, they go home and whack off to internet porn.

                              I think that's the sad truth about why these kids are retards.

                              --Portland Ute

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                              • Originally posted by UtahDan View Post
                                I think it is not a great movie. But I say with all seriousness that the book is one of the best works of fiction I have ever read.
                                I am probably being too hard on it. The movie was spectacular and I can only imagine how big it hit the eye in 1938. Like Roger Ebert, I need to have an important character I care about in a movie, and Scarlett was just too hard to like -- although I began to see signs that she'd softened and become less self-centered towards the end. I liked Rhett. But the overall experience didn't move me much, other than being fun to watch.
                                “There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.”
                                ― W.H. Auden


                                "God made the angels to show His splendour - as He made animals for innocence and plants for their simplicity. But men and women He made to serve Him wittily, in the tangle of their minds."
                                -- Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons


                                "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
                                --Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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