The Last Movie You Watched

[Clueless Morgan]

Oh I got suckered in to watching The Notebook last night. It wasn't a bad movie, but it was just way to much of a chick flick for me to enjoy it. I kept getting distracted by the obvious signs of a chick flick.

1. The man she falls for has a beard. (This is the immediate tell-tale sign of a chick flick.)
2. The woman's mother is a bitch at first, but eventually redeems herself in the eyes of her daughter. (Why is it such a thing for women to hate/love their mother?)
3. None of the men get mad when she cheats. (Seriously? She tells her fiance that not only did she have a tryst with another man but that she had feelings for him as well, and he never once raised his voice.)
4. The man is overly gooey romantic, beyond the realm of actual male romanticism. ("You were so peaceful I didn't want to wake you, so I left flowers on the pillow next to you and then meticulously cut out arrows and laid them out on the ground leading you to a porch with an easel where you can paint while naked.")

All in all though, wasn't a bad movie. I'd give it a B+.

(My underlining above)

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I always got the feeling that when the mother takes whatever Rachel McAdams' character name is to the lumber yard and tells her all about the poor boy she loved as a young girl that she was lying in order to make a point to Rachel's character.

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As for the mother/daughter love/hate thing, I'm willing to bet that there are an equal number of love/hate father/son relationships, as well as mother/son and father/daughter ones. But we womens be bitches so we get more press about.

Also:

[Owlix]

Last one I saw in theaters was Don Jon.

Good, but not enough to see in theaters. Could've waited for redbox or netflix.

[Silver]

Hmmm, what was the last movie I watched?

Oh, yes.

I've watched a few since last posting here, but I'll only post the last one I did watch.

Man of Steel.

Finally got around to watching that hunk of a man.

[Polaris]

Hello Sister, Goodbye Life....solely because it was on Netflix and set to expire. That's my off work, non-drinking, life it seems.

[StuW]

Man of Tai Chi, Keanu Reeves in a Asian martial arts film? I was intrigued. Turned out ok, but nothing special.

[pocaracas]

The Evil Dead II, straight out of 1987 to BluRay... rip.
Can't wait for the sequel!

[Fruity]

After Earth on redbox.


I loved it, and it's not just because Will Smith is in it.

[Edwardo Piet]

Lucky Number Slevin

[FlyingNarwhal]

Lucky Number Slevin

That's one of my favorites.

Also not gonna lie, I got a bit of a man crush on Josh Hartnett. Don't swing that way, but if I had to I would pick him.

[Tonus]

I've been laid up with a nasty cold this past couple of days, and the only thing I can do is lie down and watch TV, so...

Grave Encounters is another in the endless line of "found footage" films that have saturated the market. The early part of the film is a clever --and very nasty-- spoof of "ghost/myth hunter" TV shows. The middle part of the film pretends to further develop the characters, though none of them rises above a common hollywood stereotype. The last third of the film is when the action finally gets going, and after wading through all of that tedium, it's simply not enough. Even the film's "signature scare" (a sudden distortion of the ghostly faces only faintly reminiscent of Munch's The Scream if it were run through a distortion filter) simply has no impact; you've been numbed to near-sleep by this point. By the end, you welcome the fate handed to the characters and only wish the ghosts had done the job much sooner.

The film is only worth it for the first 20-30 minutes when they are viciously lampooning a certain type of show and a specific character on one of those shows. Otherwise, skip to the nap.

Session 9 is, apparently, where David Caruso's career went to die. Which is sad, because this is a pretty good psychological thriller masquerading as a ghost story. The characters are developed just well enough to help the story along. The plot actually manages to do two "Sixth Sense" type reveals in a short time frame without seeming contrived, and that easily makes up for the fact that it drags just a tiny bit too much.

Recommended, for fans of psychological thrillers masquerading as ghost stories.

Paranormal Activity 4 is... at least one film too many. The latest in a franchise that seems to have turbo-charged the "found footage" genre when the first film came out, it simply drives home the point that any sense of originality ended with the first movie. While each successive movie recycled nearly every trick from the first one, the first three told a (mostly) coherent story about a coven of witches and the demon child they're seeking to raise. This film has nothing to add to that story, and it's at this point that you realize two things: one, this is one of the dumber movie demons ever and two, you find yourself rooting for him nonetheless.

Recommended only as a drinking game with friends, or if they ever make an MST3K version of it.