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Post by katmandu on Dec 12, 2005 6:21:16 GMT -5
King Kong started there yet MG, begins here the 15th I think, may go friday if I get the chance, looks excellent from what I've seen in the trailers.
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Post by marysgurl on Dec 12, 2005 6:25:30 GMT -5
Friday for us as well. This is definitely one that needs to be seen on the big screen, methinks!
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Post by katmandu on Dec 12, 2005 6:36:00 GMT -5
For sure, nothing like the theatre experience I believe. Debating over whether to see The Chronicles of Narnia as well, should be quite good.
A few good films over summer here that I'll probably see, Capote, starring Phillip Seymore Hoffman, a couple with George Clooney, and one by Terence Malik, can't recall the name right now, looks like a busy period coming up.
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Post by katmandu on Dec 22, 2005 7:21:42 GMT -5
Off to see the big ape tomorrow [ hopefully ] should be prettty good, at a running time of almost three hours it would want to be. Anybody else seen it yet?
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Post by marysgurl on Dec 24, 2005 4:37:18 GMT -5
Not yet....but hopefully this weekend. Three hours in one spot... It better be really good or I'll never make it.
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Post by katmandu on Dec 25, 2005 6:24:46 GMT -5
Don't think you'll be disappointed, it's quite good, although thought it could lose about half an hour, a few scenes seemed unneccesary. A nice beginning, leading up to them finding the island, and then it's pretty much non stop action, with some excellent, and at times very amusing, scenes between Kong and out heroin.
Personally felt that Naomi Watts stole the movie, which is not a bad effort when pitted against a twenty five foot Gorilla, but she gives a beautifully balanced performance.
Doesn't reach great heights, but worth a look, if for no other reason then Watts performance, and to see the best, and most realistic, Kong of the three versions.
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Post by marysgurl on Dec 26, 2005 0:40:14 GMT -5
Ok...that was enough to push me to the side of not going out to the theatre today....maybe next week... We did, however, make it to the video rental store & secured and watched the '76 version of the big guy...Mary had never seen it & I really did want her to before seeing the new one.....she gave it "two twin towers up" We also rented two Christmas stories..."Scrooged" with Bill Murray (love it) & "Santa Who?" with Leslie Neilson (Mary loves him). This was a new one for me also....thumbs-up all around. We saw Mickey yesterday...another one I had missed ....another to add to my holiday list of favs...
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Post by katmandu on Dec 26, 2005 7:13:36 GMT -5
Hey Mg, don't go by my ramblings, I'm sure you'll enjoy it, a few parts that dragged a little out of three hours is not bad, overall worth seeing. watched bits and pieces of "Bad Santa" with Billy Bob Thornton last night, definitely not your usual Christmas fare, with language so thick you could cut it with a knife, but danged funny none the less.
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Post by marysgurl on Dec 31, 2005 20:55:55 GMT -5
Watched a couple of good ones last night.... The Longest Yard remake with Adam Sandler & Chris Rock...fabulous remake....funny, nostalgic, never a dull moment. Also, The Open Window with Johnny Depp....another good one....suspense & intrigue--but what else from a movie based on a Stephen King write? Does Johnny ever have a "good-hair" day?
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Post by marysgurl on Jan 17, 2006 1:08:20 GMT -5
Couple of decent ones this weekend...
Four Brothers--Mark Wahlberg--I always like his movies. Four deliquents are adopted by a pillar of the wicked Detroit neighborhoods. She is set up & killed & the four come back home to avenge her murder.
Red Eye--a Wes Craven film. Good suspense when a hotel employee (Sarah McAdams, I think) must foil a terroist attempt on the President (or some high-profiler) from an airplane.
Not very good descriptions, I'm afraid, but they did offer some distraction for a couple of hours this weekend.
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Post by marysgurl on Feb 7, 2006 5:55:05 GMT -5
Holy Batmania!!
Finally saw Batman Begins this weekend. As an avid Batman fan from way back in the day of "too-revealing" leotards, I absolutely love this movie...& Christian Bale is a perfect caped crusader. What a gorgeous, sexy man he is, too! I think this is one to add to my library.
Did anyone here watch the series with Adam & Burt?
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Post by marysgurl on Feb 7, 2006 6:02:53 GMT -5
And speaking of those "leotards"....you know skinny Frank Gorshin should've never been allowed to shimmy into that tight little green suit....lol
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Post by Joxcee on Feb 7, 2006 21:38:24 GMT -5
Me! Me!
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Post by katmandu on Feb 8, 2006 1:09:10 GMT -5
Yep, same here, don't think it was on my "not to be missed" list of shows if I remember correctly, but used to watch it fairly often just the same.
This latest episode has a darker edge to it from what I've seen and heard about it MG? And how did Bale stack up against the previous caped crusaders, pretty danged well I'm guessing from your description.
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Post by gams on Feb 9, 2006 19:13:34 GMT -5
Don't normally stick my head in here, but recently watched a handful of movies that I really like and haven't seen discussed at all.
Constintine: a demon hunter, (Keeanu Reeves), with a sarcastic wit, and a bad-ass woman arch-angel Gabriel - what could be more fun.
Be Cool: the sequel to Get Shorty. Chili Palmer tackles the music business with the same coolness he did with the movie business. Love Travolta; the man gets better and better with age. Funny, funny cast with oh so cool dialogue.
Smile: One of those "feel-good" movies; weeping happy tears all over myself at the end. Sometimes bad dialogue and an aging Linda Hamilton trying to be the "hip" mom don't mess up the over-all good feel to this movie.
Crash: Oh man...intense, intense, intense. Predictable only in the sense that expect the worst to happen. It does. But no, wait - it doesn't. Then it does. Weeping here, sobbing there, now smiling. Ack! An emotional roller-coaster ride.
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Post by marysgurl on Feb 10, 2006 7:41:11 GMT -5
Constantine--pretty good for Mr. Reeves. I think he's adorable, but I see no Oscars in his future. I do like Gabriel's part a lot.
Be Cool--I loved John when it wasn't cool to love John. (see: Welcome Back, Kotter & Saturday Night Fever) & Uma! (ooh-la-la) We both loved this one, especially the sexy dancing between John & Uma (Black-eyed Peas doing the music).
Haven't seen Smile or Crash. I like Linda Hamilton; but I try to stay away from all that emotional, tear-jerking stuff (being the badass that I am & all...lol).
Watched "Deep Blue" one morning this week on my way to sleepyland. Our movie place has free gallery rentals (not a new release anymore) on the weekends so I grabbed this one just because Kurt Russell was in it. It was good, but dark. He's a bad cop in LA at the time of the Rodney King ruling. His wife leaves him & his young partner gets killed...but he does the right thing in the end by taking down the corrupt police commissioner. It was not my favorite Kurt, but it was still a good movie.
Btw, thanks for sharing, Gammers.
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Post by marysgurl on Mar 13, 2006 1:27:42 GMT -5
By the Gods, what a movie we watched tonight!! The Notebook--one of those sentimental drama/love stories...starring Gena Rowlands, Ryan Gosling, & this wonderful new actress, Rachael McAdams. She has been in about a dozen flics & we have loved her in the four or five that we have seen...Wedding Chasers (loved her, hated the movie), Red Eye (loved her, loved the movie), Hot Chicks (great family flic-especially with gurls), Mean Girls...etc...
Anyway, The Notebook is one emotional rollarcoaster. We laughed, cried, & at the end we held on real tight to each other & cried all through the credits. Some kick-butt, bad-a$$, warrior-chicks we are, huh? Lol.
Definitely see the movie.
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Post by marysgurl on Mar 13, 2006 1:35:48 GMT -5
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Post by Quettalee on Apr 14, 2006 9:36:28 GMT -5
Finally! Katman! I found the movie I was asking you about when we were talking about Wm. Hopper (Paul Drake on Perry Mason). The title is 20 Million Miles to Earth and the lizard-like creature is from Venus & he is terrorizing Rome. 1957. I have to go now...and yes, "Paul Drake" was in it!! I knew I knew. Now you know I knew!! Check it out.
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Post by katmandu on Apr 15, 2006 8:16:55 GMT -5
Ah'ha, "20 Million Miles to Earth", yep, remember that one, or at least the title, been ages since I saw it, and don't really remember a thing about it, except that I think I enjoyed it at the time.
Think it was on tele here just recently, but I missed it, have to keep an eye open for when it pops up again.
Your perseverance finally paid off, good for you, and surely you already knew that I knew that you knew. ;D
P.S, what did you think of it?
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