Spilled Popcorn and Sticky Floors: The Movie Discussion Thread

[Mangler]

as far as sequels...

Booty Call II much better than original Booty Call.

Proof

[Dan Michler]

I saw that 11:14 movie too and I thought it was pretty good.

Other movies I've seen recently that were suprisingly good:

Lucky Number Slevin
Eight Below

[Tom McManus]

My three favorite comedies:

1. Young Frankenstein.  My buddies were pissed when I pushed them to go see a black and white movie.  Could be worse....

2. The Producers.  Funny all the way through. May be too dated for some guys here.

3. Animal House.  Need to watch the dvd.  Not the watered down versions that always show up on the tv.

Five others in no particular order:

Elf
There's Something About Mary.  (Anything with Brett Favre has got to be good) Again the dvd not the tv version.
Ground Hog Day
Anchorman
The Philadelphia Story

[Tom McManus]

I saw that 11:14 movie too and I thought it was pretty good.

Other movies I've seen recently that were suprisingly good:

Lucky Number Slevin
Eight Below

I with you on Lucky Number Slevin, one of the best I have seen in a while. I'll have to check out 11:14 and Eight Below. If you like Lucky Number Slevin, try Assault on Precinct 13 and  Training Day.

[Dan Michler]

I have seen both of those previously.  they were pretty good.

how u gonna leave dumb and dumber off your little list there Tom?  unreal!

another pretty recent movie i saw was The Greatest Game Ever Played.  its a golf movie and i really like it alot. better than tin cup or bagger vance for sure   its on video so go check it out tommy.

[CEValkyrie]

I found this to be pretty interesting. I was surprised I made it thru when it was over.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7866929448192753501&q=loose+change&hl=en

[airspuds]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4377032998245988095&hl=en

better version

[Dan Michler]

i thought it was pretty interesting too, but if you watch it i think you should keep in mind that the people who made the video obviously had an agenda, and they set out to present this information in a persuasive way that would lead them to the conclusions that they may have already come to before they even looked at any facts.  i'm not saying that i do believe what they are saying or don't believe it, cuz the truth probably lies somewhere in the middle.

[Mukey]

Watched an older movie (1994) last night called "Swimming with Sharks"

It's about an assistant to a big Hollywood producer, who is a complete self-centered ass.
Kevin Spacey as the boss & Frank Whaley (guy who kept saying "what?" to Sam Jackson in Pulp Fiction) as the assistant.

Kevin Spacey shines & the dialogue is well written. Good commentary on how any workplace will change you. I'll be picking up a copy of this once Christmas is over.

[Mukey]

Watched Adam Sandler's "Punch Drunk Love" last night. (ahhh, Netflix)

Definetly not a typical love story, it had enough violence to keep me satisfied. 

One of Sandler's best acting jobs. Worth seeing.

[tacimala]

I watched that movie a few years ago and liked it too. It's definitely a bizarre story, but has some good humor in it as well.

[SIUFrolf]

"That's That!"  one of my favorite parts in the movie

[Tom McManus]

Watched the unrated version of Beerfest today.  Not as funny as Supertroopers, but still a good time.  You can't go wrong making with goofy German accents, beer bongs, and breasts.

[Tom McManus]

Also watched two movies with my wife, Little Miss Sunshine and Invincible.  Little Miss Sunshine is great.  A great road trip movie with great characters.  It is well written and well acted. 

Invincible is a very good movie about a local Philadelphia guy who made the Philadelphia Eagles in the seventies, based on a real life character.  The football action was great, I think it is amoung the best I have seen in a feature film.  The back stories were good, (Dad, friends, relationships with women...).  The movie that it is similar to is Rudy.  I think that I may have enjoyed this one more than Rudy. But this one is fresh in my mind.

[Tom McManus]

Two more:

A Scanner Darkly: Based on a Phillip K. Dick novel ( He also wrote Total Recall, Blade Runner and Minority Report).  Deals with drug addiction.  I didn't like the film too much until the very end when it all came together.  Uses the style that shows up in many commercials today, filmed in live action and then adds animation.  Kind of interesting, Robert Downey Jr. was very good in this film.

Jet Li's Fearless:  Not as much action as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon or Iron Monkey but still very good.

[Jon Brakel]

I watched "Flirting" today while Becky and Maddisen were with my folks (at my non-disc golfing brother's house) for Christmas Eve. I've been having a lot of asthma problems with the warm weather and could not tolerate my Brother's cat.

Anyway, it is one of Thandie Newton's and Nicole Kidman's first movies. It is a quiet story about a girl's and boy's (across the lake from each other, of course) prep schools in 1965. It's a decent, if predictable, movie. I'm always a sucker for coming of age movies. I recommend it to the romantic movie watchers out there that like quiet movies.

[Mukey]

My friend convinced me to watch "Talladega Nights" the other day, even though I'm NOT a Will Ferrell fan.

It actually was better than his usual low-brow humor, and was much more intelligent than the commercials for it made out. I laughed a few times until I almost cried, so I'd definetly recommend it.

[Mukey]

I saw "Green Street Hooligans" yesterday with Elijah Wood.

Decent enough movie, but with Wood as a badass, kinda hard to accept. (Frodo!!)
If you have no problem seeing him as anything other than a Hobbit then you might enjoy this one.

Was kinda like a poor-man's English Fight Club.

[Chainmeister]

I saw "Green Street Hooligans" yesterday with Elijah Wood.

Decent enough movie, but with Wood as a badass, kinda hard to accept. (Frodo!!)
If you have no problem seeing him as anything other than a Hobbit then you might enjoy this one.

Was kinda like a poor-man's English Fight Club.

I'll have to check this one out.  If you want to watch a  fighting movie with english accents that will scare the absoulte @#%&*$ out of you rent A Clockwork Orange.  Its been years since I saw this movie and it still scares me.

Speaking of english accents, I saw Chidren of Men the other day. It really has only two ideas- a post apocolyptic nativity, and living in a world that seems like it will end when the last currently living person dies.  I ussually have  a problem with movies where there's not much more to say after you get the joke, but this one stayed with me.  Its vision of a near future @2027 is very clearly realized and very scary.  Something has caused every woman in the world to be infertile.  There have been no children for 18 years.  Everybody figures it will all end soon since there is nobody to carry on.  People cried when the youngest person in the world, aged 18, died. England is the one place in the world that sort of keeps chugging along.  It becomes very isolationist- drastic efforts to bar immigration- to keep from having the entire world coming to the island. Society looks almost normal out of one eye and very much like a police state out of the other.  Ok- a lot of recent movies create this kind of world.  Added to this is the look you can see in everybody's eye showing how they realize that once they die, there is one less person before its all over. 

A pregnant woman is found and a rebel group wants to use her to push their cause.  Efforts to save her and the baby to come lead to a mundane thriller with obvious religious metaphors set against very cool pictures of the near future. The director, Cuaron, did the 4th and best Harry Potter movie.  He is good with dark imagery. Michael Caine steals the picture as an aging pot dealer who lives in a secluded utipia with his seriously ill wife.

Oveall-- A bargain renter or a great movie to find on cable  in six months.  Not worth first run money.

[Mukey]

If you want to watch a  fighting movie with english accents that will scare the absoulte @#%&*$ out of you rent A Clockwork Orange.  Its been years since I saw this movie and it still scares me.

I've seen it Dave & you're right, its great. A bit of the 'ole ultra-violence anyone? I love the milk-bar!




Saw Blood Diamond yesterday. Great movie that will make you flinch sometimes, kinda like Hotel Rwanda. DiCaprio does an excellent job & Jennifer Connelly never looked better. Worth first-run money.