Movie?

[icarus]

I'm thinking of going to see a movie, just to get out of the house for a while.

Any recs? We last saw The Golden Compass (silly, but we enjoyed it), and that remake of the Omega Man (which we loathed).

Comments

[jade-1459.livejournal.com]

Sweeny Todd was a good movie if you like musicals. (I say that because most of the movie is song and song advances the plot).

And I just went to see National Tressure last night with a friend. It was predictable when compared to the first movie, but it was helarious through out. And interesting too.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Mmm, my dad saw Sweeney Todd and didn't like it (too bloody). National Treasure... I saw the first one on DVD, and there were too many plot holes. That ship wouldn't have survived a week in that ice. Ice crushes wood like a toothpick. You should've seen what happened to our dock when I was kid.

[jade-1459.livejournal.com]

Lol, yeah the plot holes in the first movie were pretty terrible. And there are a number of them in the second one as well. But I don't even know what's out in theaters at the moment, I typically just get a random phone call from a friend with instructions on where and when to meet her for which ever movie she wants to go see.

Though if you decide to rent a movie instead, I'd recommend Eastern Promises. It has plot (with very few holes to poke at), action, drama, sprinklings of romance, and involves some fairly accurte history (but only mildly).

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Eastern Promises? That sounds cool.

[littlemousling]

Late reply, but yeah, UNBELIEVABLY bloody. I like zombie movies and good horror flicks, but ST made me sick to my stomach. The level of violence was frankly dehumanizing.

Too bad, really, because the acting and singing were excellent. I think it's the first role in which I've ever liked Helena Bonham Carter's one stock character (creepy woman with crazy hair).

[malnpudl.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen Juno yet, but I'm hearing fantastic things about it from everyone who's seen it.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Juno. *marks it down* Cool.

[elfgirl.livejournal.com]

I'll second that recommendation.

[skipmcgee.livejournal.com]

Another vote for Juno, definitely. Although if you live in an area like mine than the hoards of 12yr olds that seem to think the movie is the 2nd coming of Superbad may get annoying :-/

[stentoriansista.livejournal.com]

Thirded. I loved it with a passion.

I also enjoyed Sweeney Todd very muchly, but if you're not into singing or blood, it's not for you.

[likethemodel.livejournal.com]

Fourthed! I really liked Juno.

[cheshyre]

And another.

Good flick, funny, and incredibly quotable. As my husband blogged:

No main characters are stupid, there are no "idiot plots", the plot doesn't have misunderstandings or stupidity. The whole family genuinely loves and supports each other. All the main characters are basically decent people.

I'd use the word "heartwarming", except that I HATE heartwarming movies. It's not treacly or sappy or stupid -- it just works.

Alternately, if you're in the mood for that kind of thing, we also saw Enchanted recently, which is formulaic but actually entertianing -- better than it had to be.

[photosinensis.livejournal.com]

Having seen most of the buzzed movies (except Sweeney Todd, though with Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter, it's hard to go wrong), I can say that you'd do best to skip on Atonement, which not only me with its fappery, but totally barfed the ending.

Juno, on the other hand, was made of awesome and win. My mom didn't like it, but that's mostly because it made her uncomfortable.

[libitina]

The only movie out now that I've seen was Sweeney Todd. There was a lot of blood, but it was pretty clearly fake to my eyes. In fact the syrupy pour of blood in the title credits was done with just enough self-awareness that it was enough to start me giggling at the movie right there.

If that is not for you, the only other two movies out that I'd consider seeing are Juno (I have one friend who saw it and loved it, but I would rather see in my own home than around people in a theater where there might be active feedback with the screen in a way that pissed me off) and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (which I know of not one single person who has seen, but it sounds like it could be wonderful - came to my attention through an op ed piece about the writers strike since the person was saying that people had already very clearly demonstrated to studio executives that writers were superfluous by flocking in droves to Borat and dumbass sequels instead of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)

[lherelenfeline.livejournal.com]

If its playing any place near you , try to catch the Darjeeling Limited. Very nuanced movie, with an excellent cast and brilliant cinematography.

[bruinsfan.livejournal.com]

I'll be the lone voice in the wilderness recommending P.S. I Love You. The last couple of minutes are so pat and Hollywood cutesy that I wanted to throttle the filmmakers, but most of the movie was a pretty interesting and sympathetic look at how grief can take a long time to process and can ultimately be transformative. And it has many, many scenes of Gerard Butler being charming and singing and doing his best Alan Rickman in Truly, Madly, Deeply impression.

[dancing-moon.livejournal.com]

If Persepolis is showing around you, I think you should see it. Really great. Gorgeously animated movie, with a nice simple style, based on Marjane Satrapis self-biographical story about growing up during the Iranian revoultion and culture clashes with Europe.

I've watched all the big "Disney of the year" movies, so I quite enjoyed Enchanted. which is a (gentle, since it's their own) parody of the true love and fairy-tales as depicted by Disney. Unfortunately they didn't dare be creative with the ending, but it's not bad fluff if you've seen many of their movies.

Movie?

[maxinemayer.livejournal.com]

You could rent or if you have cable, watch "The Good Shepherd" - I really liked that! Also, "Music and Lyrics" which is a standard romantic comedy but pretty entertaining. Love, max