Tonight i watched A Streetcar Named Desire with Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh, amazing film and acting. Marlon brando at his best..

8/10

I just saw the movie djanko unchanged the copy they give out for academy award consideration. It was ok but I just did not think it was that good to get an academy award. My wife liked it surprisely she does not like movies with a lot of violence in it.

Imo there's only 2 awards it can win Walts for SA(which i doubt) or QT for original screenplay.

Watched the Liam Neeson film THE GREY the other night. Started quite well but became boring very quickly. I was rooting for the wolves by the end...which incidentally, couldn't come quick enough

You didn't like it Yogi? When it came out some BBers commented and it got good reviews. I haven't seen it yet, but was warned to watch thru the ending credits. I'm waiting for it to come on HBO.


TIS

I felt the same way.

It has been on netflex for a while now.

I want to see Silver Linings Playbook again... A brilliant piece of work.

Up to epoxied 5 house of cards.

Absolutely. I hated it, and I'm a bit Liam Neeson fan.

I like him to especially taken 1. But taken 2 was not good. I known Albanians pretty well. In two when they put the hoods over his wife and his heads. They would have killed them right on the spot.

My favorite roles of his are as the deaf defendant in "Suspect" and the title roles in "Rob Roy" and, of course, "Schindler's List".

Schindlers list was a once in a lifetime roll for both Nesson and Ralph FIennes

I felt the same way.



part 1 was great, part 2 was bad.

Last night i watched "The Bridge On The River Kwai". Excellent film and cast

8/10

Watched it on turner classic movie Chanel right. That is the best channel on cable

Saw that in business school for a negotiation class, i agree with your score.

If this question is aimed me, then no i watched in on DVD..

Chanel has it's own channel?? Is it No. 5??? Ha ha, Number 5? Get it? Chanel No. 5??

Ha ha ha! Very cute. Yea if Chanel had a channel I'm guessing it would be #5.

last night we watched the Mark Wahlberg show CONTRABAND. Loved it, great film.

Yogi,

It's been on HBO and I started watching it twice. It was on late each time and I fell asleep. I'm gonna try to finish it on "On Demand." It was good from the portion I saw.


TIS

Children of Men. In my opinion, one of the best directed movies of all time. If anyone here appreciattes Directing, Camera Work, Writing, angle of movies... I recommend this, great movie.

I really enjoyed super 8 too

I just watched I, Robot the other day. The last scene is Sonny standing on top of a hill looking down on thousands of robots who stop and look up at him. That would seem to lay the basis for a sequel.

Also, I wonder why there was never a sequel to Close Encounters. I'd entitle it The Return.

[quote=olivant]I just watched I, Robot the other day. The last scene is Sonny standing on top of a hill looking down on thousands of robots who stop and look up at him. That would seem to lay the basis for a sequel.

As long as they bring Bridget Moynahan back it's all good!

Bridget Moynahan is scrumptious

Shucks.....

Just caught Elite Squad 1&2, it's about the slums in Rio and the efforts by the law to clean them up. Overall it was pretty good it's in spainish but i don't mind the subtitles. If you got Netflix i would recommend it for sure.

Watched Fun with Dick and Jane, laughed too damn much.

Caught OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN, which opened this past weekend. The first of two "DIE HARD in the White House" movies we're getting this year, believe it or not.

As a DIE HARD rip-off, it has some merit with some laughs, some thrills, director Antoine Fuqua's most watchable movie since TRAINING DAY. I respect that like DIE HARD, he takes the time to set-up the pieces to be put into play once the hammer drops, i.e. the bad guys take over. (Something the original DIE HARD was brilliant at.)

Unlike last year's RED DAWN remake, the North Koreans here are the semi-believable enough adversariess needed to make a paperback thriller fantasy like this work. But ultimately not memorable enough for me to wholly recommend this OK, disposable entertainment. I give it 3 stars out of 5.

(Why? I got tired of this movie reusing way too many scenes from DIE HARD. Its one thing to borrow this very dependable story formula, its another to echo that film beat by beat. Hero and adversary exchange threats and one-liners over walkie-talkies, the hero dodges a rooftop helicopter-involved explosion, the useless authorities launch a futile raid that the hero advises against, etc. Too much photocopying, not enough originality from OHF's end.

They could've taken inspiration from the best of the DIE HARD knock-offs in UNDER SIEGE. Instead of one villain, that gives us two. Instead of a lone savior, he's saddled with a sidekick also stuck in the wrong place, wrong time like the hero. And so forth.)

EDIT - Sadly if DIE HARD was produced today, John McClaine would have a scene where he tortures a bad guy to death. I miss American movie heroes that prevailed because of wits and kicking ass. Why did we have movie villains like Darth Vader torture? Because we considered it barbaric, practiced only by despots and thugs.

Its one thing if say The Punisher or TAKEN doing this, because those characters are bastards, ruthless to accomplish their own little personal vendettas. But OHF, its your traditional supposed righteous American hero (even though Gerard Butler is Scottish, but nevermind) against the evil foreign terrorists, who torture which suddenly becomes bad. The hero does it, its good.

But times change. Weird to say that in this regard, the 1980s were more civilized than movies produced today.