Unofficial Tex Murphy

Taken
Very brutal action sequences. Liam Neeson, as always, is awesome. Very believable storyline as well.

Breach
A spy movie that's not focused on people running through corridors shooting two guns at the same time whilst jumping through mid-air. Very dramatic. Greg Cooper cries.

Sleuth
Watch Michael Caine and Jude Law play mind games for an hour and thirty minutes. No one else. There is no other member of the cast. Just those two. Based off of a play. Becomes a bit homosexual in it's third act.

Finally saw Gran Torino last week. Not much to add to what's been said, except that Eastwood is quite simply a monument in that film.

Sleuth was fine for a long while but then it got a little meh. Taken is only out next Friday here I've been excited ever since I heard the voice of Neeson saying "I don't know who you are, but I will find you, and I will kill you".

Revolutionary Road: I got sucked into it, got played like a fool and I'm not sure how I feel about the whole thing. Definitely well played, but not a joyful walk in the park.

The Reader, a few weeks ago: A surprising amount of nudity, not that I care or anything, but I didn't expect the story to focus so much on that part of their lives. Acting is superb, story is good and not too melo.

Defiance: Daniel Craig dressed like Steve McQueen hunting down Nazis in the forest? Sign me the hell in! Liev is great as usual, and it was all-around fun. I know there's controversy around that Polish family and who they really were, but if you take the film as an entertaining WW2 flick it's pretty good.

Still haven seen Button and Frost VS Nixon, on top of my list. There's just too many movies coming out damnit!

Saw the Unborn.

Everyone is giving it terrible review, but I actually liked it. I think it is the 3rd best exorcism move out there. 1st being the Exorcist, and 2nd being the Exorcist 3. Brad Douriff was amazing in that movie and so was George C Scott.

Back to the Unborn. I thought there were some disturbing images in that movie.
The ending was a little lame, but what led up to it was pretty good, and the climax. That was pretty good too.

I know some people are not going to agree with me, but thats ok.

Mirrors... I liked Mirrors a lot... I don't think my wife cared for it too much... I could be wrong, but she just didn't seem to show much emotion after the movie...

I watched Saw V last night... Pretty good movie, takes a few to catch onto the storyline of this one, but once you've grasped the story it's a pretty good movie for the Saw Series...
It's still fairly new, so I won't ruin it, but I will say they've opened the door in case they want to do more Saw movies... Some of you are probably thinking, but the guy died in part 4, so watch part 5 and you'll see what I mean...

They are already making Saw 6.

I think they need to quit after 7 though.

It is starting to get long winded. The others are good, but I think pretty soon the stories are just going to get overly rediclous like Friday the 13th did.

He died in part 3 actually.

And nothing compares to the first saw. That movie's ending was amazing.
It made the movie.

I like the 3rd one too.

Yeah he did die in 3 didn't he... My bad...
Yeah after too long it will just seem repetitive... Like the Friday The 13th movies, they took them way too far... Same goes for Freddy... They always seem to try and milk a dried up cow when it comes to series like that...
I plan on seeing the New Friday The 13th, but I'm not sure if it's going to be any good...

With Halloween they went off the beaten trail... As for the remake they tried to do, that was just too contradicting to the original... First off, the Myers Family wasn't trailer trash the way the new one tried to make them out to be... In the Original, Michael Myers' Parents were out at a very nice place, with the way they were dressed, Evening Gown and him in a Suit... The house was a very nice house, it didn't have trash and stuff everywhere... And the baby wasn't even born until years after Michael was in the hospital...
In my opinion the remake was a disgrace to the Halloween series... If you changed the peoples name and did a few small things differently, it would be a fine horror/thriller movie...
And Halloween 3??? Some one had a Brain-Fart when they named that movie... It should have been called "The Witch's Mask" or something, but it was in no way a Halloween...

Better late than never, saw Benjamin Button. It felt a whole lot like a Disney Movie, which is probably why I loved it about as much as I hated it. While I'm not sure how to feel about it, or if I really feel anything at all, there is absolutely no doubt it will make its way into the recent Christmas classics alongside Forest Gump and Titanic.

Frank wrote:Better late than never, saw Benjamin Button. It felt a whole lot like a Disney Movie, which is probably why I loved it about as much as I hated it. While I'm not sure how to feel about it, or if I really feel anything at all, there is absolutely no doubt it will make its way into the recent Christmas classics alongside Forest Gump and Titanic.

I disagree... to me, while the film was good, it holds absolutely no re-watch value at all. Good story, but so darn long that once you've seen it, you don't want to have to put yourself through that again for a simple idea that can be explained in 2 sentences: "Film about a man who ages backwards. Starts as an old man, lives his life, has romance, dies as a baby." ...there is literally nothing else ion the film that makes that idea any more interesting than it is. And the whole telling of the story from the older woman's perspective? That served no purpose, and seemed typically Hollywood pretentious to me.

-Cub. =o)

I don't think Titanic has much re-watch value either, honestly. It's not so much an instant classic as the fact that I fully expect Button to be showed and re-showed and reach this sort of tv status. It just screams Christmas time classic, or at least it tries to very much. If the Oscars consecrate it, it'll certainly get there.

But like I said, I'm very much feeling-less about it. When I watch movies I expect to forget rather quickly, I like to be entertained by them. This really wasn't the case. It must be an interesting short story, but it makes for a rather empty long film.

National Lampoon's Vacation.

"Roll'em up!"

-Fred

I've liked every National Lampoon's movie that I've seen... Funny Stuff... The Chevy Chase series were really good... Animal House is probably the best I think, classic... John Belushi was simply a great comic...


I saw that "Burn After Reading"... The best part of the movie was when Malkovich punched Pitt square in the nose... I just thought that was Hilarious...

Frank wrote:It must be an interesting short story, but it makes for a rather empty long film.

Yes... I am interested in reading it now to see how the pacing would've been. You're exactly right, to extend it (and to 3 hours as well!) made for for a very thinly scraped story, and it showed. But I don't hate the film... just don't see it is a classic, but I can imagine it reaching that kind of status as you said.

-Cub. =o)

Sleuth
Watch Michael Caine and Jude Law play mind games for an hour and thirty minutes. No one else. There is no other member of the cast. Just those two. Based off of a play. Becomes a bit homosexual in it's third act.

Are you aware that there was a 1972 production of Sleuth starring Sir Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine? The older film is infinitely superior to the 2007 production.

Which is also the film Michael Caine is watching on his rotating television in the 2007 version.

And what's up with a spinning tv anyway?

-Fred

Dr. Paul, one day I'll have to check out that original version.
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On Her Majesty's Secret Service
James Bond participates in various winter sports in order to stop a non-Donald Pleasance Blofeld. That said, at least he had Emma Peel on his side. I can understand why this film is shunned, but Lazenby wasn't a bad bond in my book.

You Only Live Twice
Watch Asian stereotypes light up a spy thriller as one man who fakes his death but finds enemies the next day anyway tracks down a villain whose plot will be resurrected again for Tomorrow Never Dies (replacing the Russians with the Chinese).

Best quote ever:
"Do you have commandos?"
"We have better. Ninjas!"

Moonraker
Roger Moore's Bond flicks always had that strange, goofy humor every once in a while. In this case, it's represented in the character Jaws.

Best quote ever:
"His name is Jaws. He kills people."

The Onion Movie
Skit comedy revolving around a satirical news source. Hilarious, but short.

Doomsday
English pricks attempt to acquire a cure for a deadly virus from a bunch of Scottish pricks that they screwed over a while back. Excessive violence abounds! A pair of tits makes a cameo appearance.