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I watch tv show yesterday name Nak Soo Pan Khao Nieow. It was finish tv show, it is like Superman and spiderman. But thailand make tv show cheap. No look real.
 
Christmas Carol - It's really dark and scary for a kid's movies so I'm surprised Disney was behind this. It's the same guy that made The Polar Express.

Ramona and Beezus - A cute little movie though a little weird in some parts.
 
Someone asked me to go to see the new Harry Potter movie, so since I know nothing of Harry Potter, I've been watching the movies. I'm up to #4, the Gobbledygook of Something, and... Christ, it's like a bad high school series with an overblown CGI budget and horribly wasted actors. Not sure I can survive three more.

The Social Network was good, though. A modern Citizen Kane in plot, if not quite in execution and innovation. Aaron Sorkin's dialogue is as sharp as ever and I might just have to stop referring to Jesse Eisenberg as "that guy who's not Michael Cera". Pity they fumbled the ending, though. :star4:

Also, did you know there's a new movie version of Moby Dick out there? Oh yes. It stars Barry Bostwick (Rocky Horror) as Ahab, the commander of the nuclear submarine Pequod, and Renee O'Connor (Xena) as the hot female marine biologist he shanghais to help him hunt down a 200-metre prehistoric whale. And they stick to the plot. It's absolutely wonderfully bad.
 
Best Worst Movie ~ :star4: I loved this doc about one of the worst movies ever, Troll 2, that has attained cult status.

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The Kids Are All Right. The story had promise but was let down by a shaky script. The filmmakers would raise an issue and never explore it fully. The acting, though, was flawless. Annette Bening was especially great.
 
The last movie I saw was Saw VI, again. My brother and I are obsessed with those movies. Me, more than him, strictly because I'm older. I've followed those movies for the last seven years, I've watched and studied and analyzed. I only own the first three right now, but I plan to get the others. And my brother and I are going to go see the last one in theaters on December first. We have to know how it ends, you see. ;)

But. The last new movie I saw was Shutter Island. I read the book over the summer and then I bought the movie sometime during November. The movie only leaves out a few things from the book, but overall, it was an amazing movie. It was definitely one of the closest adaptations from book-to-movie I've ever seen.

And two days ago, I think, I watched Beauty and The Beast. I freakin' love that movie for reasons that I cannot explain.
 
Winter's Bone comes awfully close to being great - it doesn't quite get there, but it's close enough. There's been a lot of focus on the poorer sides of the US in recent films - Precious, Frozen River etc - and this basically comes off as a movie based on a Gillian Welch song. 17-year-old Ree lives with her family in rural Missouri; but her drug-cooking father is on the run from the police and her mother has disappeared into clinical depression and it's up to her to take care of her two younger siblings. Then the sheriff shows up and tells her that her father put up their house as collaterol for his bail, and if she can't find him (or his corpse) within a week, they'll be homeless. Slowly but surely, it turns into a low-key modern US version of The Proposition, with none of the bloodbath (well, almost none) but a similar haunting soundtrack and impossible moral dilemma; which part of your family do you sacrifice when the full weight of your father's sins are visited upon you, and everyone's too busy trying to survive to be able to help each other out? The director might be a tiny bit too fond of mountain-life stereotypes (does everyone here own a banjo?) but for the most part, it's a wonderfully bleak, heartrending little film. :star4: +

Frozen, on the other hand, has the same wintry theme but very little else. Three supremely annoying college kids are dumb enough to sneak onto a ski lift at night, and now suddenly they're trapped on a bench 10 metres up, night is falling, and it's 20 below. Oh, and the ski resort just closed for five days, too. Not really a bad idea, but poorly executed (if I'd realised the director also made the piss-poor Hatchet, I probably wouldn't have bothered). Basically a remake of Open Water with snow instead of ocean and wolves instead of sharks, except that it depends even more on our protagonists acting like idiots and crying about how they're never going to get home again. Which, in a way, together with the actually rather horrifying premise is rewarding enough to make the movie worth watching with one eye. But only just. :star2:
 
Watched Grown Ups the other day. The first half was quite funny but the last half was flat. I expected more laughs for some reason. 6/10
 
Winnebago Man ~ documentary about a guy who hunts down Jack Rebney, the so called "angriest winnebago salesman in the world" from the famous viral video. :star3:

Don't Look Back (Ne te retourne pas) ~ Sophie Marceau is a woman who's sense of reality begins to unravel when her family and surroundings suddenly become unfamiliar to her and she herself begins changing into....Monica Belucci. Has some subtly creepy moments. did I mention that it has Sophie Marceau and Monica Belucci in it? :star3:
 
The Thin Red Line. Such gorgeous cinematography. Out of all the many big-name stars, Nick Nolte and Sean Penn gave the strongest performances.

Last Tango in Paris. I just don't know about this one. I certainly don't regret watching it, I can say that much.
 
Casino Jack and the United States of Money ~ doc about the rise and fall of the one of the biggest lobbyists in D.C. :star3:

The Shock Doctrine ~ Naomi Klein's critical analysis of Milton Friedman's "free market fundamentalism" and its effect on the world. :star4:
 
Dark City - Just love this film, and hadn't seen it for a few years. Had bought on bluray but not watched it on that format yet. Really enjoyed.
 
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