Originally Posted By Labuda Hysteria: The Def Leppard Story DVR'd the other day breakfast The story of Def Leppard from formation up to the release of their 3rd album. Totally looks like the lead singer had a hand in it, as he comes off as a total hero, but, anyhow, it was a nice little way to spend a couple hours on a lazy morning.
Originally Posted By Big Thunder By habit and laziness, I choose the new releases that come out on DVD every week from Netflix. Sometimes I dont even watch them, but the girls do. Friday night my wife and I actually had time when our schedules didn't conflict and we sat down and watched a couple movies together, which were... Four Brothers DVD [I'm sure I snacked on something, just dont memer what it was?] I liked this movie this a lot more than I thought I would. It's a great guy movie with plenty of action, violence, & profanity. The story was less predictable than I'd expected too. Dark Water DVD I didn't care much for the movie. Kinda dumb story if ya ask me. Jennifer Connelly doesn't do anything for me anymore either.
Originally Posted By beamerdog War of the Worlds rented Cheese and crackers Not nearly as scary as in the theatre. Also not as good the second time around. But at least I could watch it not looking thru my fingers.
Originally Posted By trailsend Big Thunder ! My husband and I just watched Four Brothers DVD This is my husband's kind of movie; sometimes these are just plain awful even to him, but he took a chance on this one. I knew I could nap during the movie if I didn't like it. However, it was better than we expected. Plenty of violence and rough language, but it had a plot and turned out much better than we expected.
Originally Posted By Lisann22 Daannzzz, you and I are in complete agreement about Brokeback Mountain. It was very complex. Heath Ledger was outstanding. You nailed the sex scene, my mom and I totally got it. It was very powerful. Remember the scene when they come off the mountain and Ennis is in the alley? That just about broke my heart. He just didn't know what to do with himself. I can't write down everything I felt about this movie but it was excellent. You have to go into seeing this remembering the time period it was set in and what people's views were back then.
Originally Posted By melekalikimaka Thanks for the review, Daannzzz. I'm going to try to see Brokeback Mtn. sometime this week.
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 Yesterday two flicks keeping up with New Year's Eve tradition. Mom gets to pick a movie, then dad, sister and me get to pick one. Our two choices were Family Stone and King Kong. Family Stone Bottled Water and some popcorn. Very surprising film I thought this was a going to be a comedy similar to Meet the Parents. And while the film had some big laughs in it, I really didn't expect it to have the dramatic moments that it did. I thought it was a very good movie. King Kong(2nd viewing) Still the same bottled water. I saw the film a few weeks(forget to post) and I really loved the film. But I didn't get caught up in the emotions of the story. This time a completely different story. I had tears streaming down my cheeks. I look over at my sister she's sobbing, my dad same thing. Then I look at mom, this usually isn't her type of film, I look over mom has tears in her eyes. Afterward we were discussing why the movie affected us. And we all agreed Kong even though he was a computer generated effect, seemed real, especially if you looked at his eyes. But I love this film even more a second time.
Originally Posted By Daannzzz Have any of you been to the Brokeback Mountain website. They have a forum where poeple are telling their own "Brokeback" stories. It is enlightening and cute and emotional and sad.
Originally Posted By Daannzzz Yes. Lisann22, I agree with you too. All I have to do is hear that music.
Originally Posted By Inspector 57 In response to the questions about "Brokeback Mountain" that were asked of Lisa, not me: This is not essentially a movie about cowboys or gay people. It is a movie about people and about love and human nature and relationships and... I never felt I was watching a "western," even given the film's settings. And it didn't feel like a "gay" movie, even though the film was about the loving relationship between two men who were cowboys. You'll understand if/when you see it. Ursula, yes, the sound absolutely sucked in parts. Heath adapted a clipped, closed-mouth method of speaking, and he wasn't miked/mixed well enough to compensate for that in many places. There were non-Heath lines that were lost as well.
Originally Posted By Inspector 57 "Brokeback Mountain" Mega 20-something Plex Nothing OMG. What a very sad story. Good for Ang Lee. It was understated, and all the more powerful because of it. Somebody posted elsewhere on LP that they'd been warned of explicit gay sex scenes. Uh... not so much. There is kissing. And there are dark/edited/pretty much left-to-the-imagination scenes. The man/woman scenes are more explicit. I recommend this film.
Originally Posted By Labuda Narnia $2.75 1st matinee of the day at theatre in town where I work Coke Pretty good - the young man playing Peter will be quite handsome as an adult, I think! Anyhow, I was impressed - they did a DARN good job with all the computer-generated creatures - none of them looked fake to me the way creatures like that usually do! It'll be interesting to see if Disney & Walden decide to make all the books into films...
Originally Posted By goodgirl Wag the Dog Comcast On Demand Nothing My Netflix DVDs didn't arrive and I didn't want to pay for an OnDemand movie so I chose this one since it was free. It's quirky fun. I enjoyed it as much this time around as I did when I saw it years ago. Dustin Hoffman's character cracks me up: "This is nothing!"
Originally Posted By gaydsnywitch >>Afterward we were discussing why the movie affected us. And we all agreed Kong even though he was a computer generated effect, seemed real, especially if you looked at his eyes.<< I haven't seen the movie but I have read some articles about the making of the movie. Apparently, the same process was used to make Kong as was used to make Gollum in the LOTR movies. The same actor was used in the computer suit. One article said that they spent a few months studying gorillas in zoos and in the wild so they could get the movements and expressions correct. In an article in our local paper, the zoo director was interviewed. He said that they did it correctly and didn't make up any expressions that you wouldn't see in real gorillas. Although he did say that a gorilla would be more likely to hide in the subways than climb the Empire State building. My most recent movie watched was Batman Begins. I watched it at a friend's house. We had soda, Doritos and Zingers.
Originally Posted By amazedncal2 >>>Same thing happened to Bea Arthur.<<< I swear this made me almost spit out my coffee. I was about to post about agreeing with Ursula and Lisann but then K2 chimes in. OMG! For me, it was the perfume ads that finally sent me over the edge. Now back on track: Cinderella Man DH got the DVD for Christmas because we never got around to seeing it in the theater Popcorn and homemade hot chocolate Liked the story part of the movie quite a bit. Couldn't watch the fight scenes though. It brought back memories that I had long forgotten of my dad watching boxing on TV when I was a kid. I just don't get boxing. DH liked telling us about Max Baer and his son "Jethro"
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy Sarah Jessica Parker, ugh...she should be relegated to the Jimmy Stewart and Tom Hanks back-section of movie rental places...
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 I will say despite my dislike of Sara Jessica Parker, she did a good job in the Family Stone. My film today was Sin City special edition dvd. I watched the track with the audience participation in it. It was kind of cool but I'm not sure I'd watch it again. The audience portion that is.
