Anyone rent any good movies lately?

I saw Serenity yesterday. Part Matrix, Part night of the living dead, part Videodrome. It had a shot at being OK, but they cheesed the ending. Overall-Underwhelming.:yawn:
 
Just watched BLACK HAWK DOWN the other night and THE ALAMO today.

Those two movies always get to me, I mean getting a rise out of you but at the same time getting choked up as well. Makes you feel there are things worth struggling/fighting for inspite of everything.
 
Got Serenity for Christmas. Excellent. I won't reveal any of the ending but there are several great hand to hand fight scenes. The humor that pervaded the series is back and still hilarious.

(part flies off ship during re-entry)
"Was that the primary buffer panel?"
"It did resemble..."
 
Had an old movie from the videostore called "The Field" with Richard Harris. The movie was his comeback role in 1991, and co-stared Sean Bean and Tom Berringer. Harris played an aging Irish farmer who becomes obsessed with this field he rents from a tenent and the tentent is selling it off. Turns very violent and dramatic when he is out bid by an American-Tom Berringer.

Very powerful film in a dark way.

Also "Stone Cold" with Tom Selleck as a small town New England police chief with a wierd serial killing on his hands, while he has some ghosts in his past.
 
I dont know if it's out yet on video, but I just watched "A History of Violence" and it was excellent.
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Rented three movies for New Year's Eve. Here's how I scored them:

The Boogyman ** (two stars, at best, out of five)
Interesting beginning. Ending 20 minutes were entirely dependant on special effects. OK acting. The worst aspect, like most modern mass-produced "horror" films, the director relies on gimmics to scare the audience- playing loud noises that don't correspond to anything on the screen, jerk the camera around, super-fast cuts, etc.

The Crash **** (four stars out of five)
Great acting. Interesting characters. Interesting plots.

The Interpreter **** (four stars out of five)
Good acting, especially Penn. Truely suspenseful. The last five minutes felt tacked-on though, a shallow feel-good scene between the two main characters.

-Bob
 
We rented "Mr & Mrs. Smith", "Madagascar, "Fantastic 4", and "Stealth". We have watched all , but "Stealth". They were all good movies! I hope "Stealth" is good too. It looks like it will be a good one, but you never know. I LOVE a good action flick!
 
TheKnifeCollector said:
They were all good movies! I hope "Stealth" is good too. It looks like it will be a good one, but you never know.!
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Stealth ended up with some pretty awful ratings. Let us know what you think about it. Thanks
 
Bob W said:
The Interpreter **** (four stars out of five)
Good acting, especially Penn. Truely suspenseful. The last five minutes felt tacked-on though, a shallow feel-good scene between the two main characters.

-Bob
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I would have given that film a 1 or 2 out of 5.
I reviewed it a while back.
 
Maybe I was in a generous mood that night? It certainly wasn't a "Full throttle Thriller", if that's what you were expecting.

Here's the review from Roger Ebert and whats-his-face:
http://tvplex.go.com/buenavista/ebertandroeper/050418.html
You can click on the speaker symbol to hear their review. I don't agree with either of them consistently, but when they both dog or both praise a movie, that's a good indicator for me.

"Stealth" looked terrible in the television commercials. Let us know if it's not.

-Bob
 
Rented Ong Bak last night.

Whoooooeeeee! Tony Jaa sets the bar higher than Jackie Chan ever did. Some of the stunts were downright incredible. It was kinda nice and kinda bad that for every cool thing he did, the movie had an instant-replay from a different angle.

The story was... so-so. I've seen worse. The dubbing was horrible. The non-fight scenes kinda dragged, but the action sequences were incredible. My son told me that he tried to do some of the jump/spin/turning kicks, but they were hard! I told him that since he's only eight, he may need to grow a bit first.
 
I tried Dark Water, mostly on the basis of a couple of decent reviews. Pretty dissapointing, IMO. A fairly typical current "ghost" story, with elements that seemed to be borrowed from both older (The Other) and current films.

Vengeful spirit sort of thing. Good atmospherics, good acting, but kinda trite.
 
Possible spoilers

I saw the War of the Worlds remake by Spielberg. I liked most of the special effects, I liked the war machines, I liked the aliens, I liked the purple algae.

I hated the way the aliens died, Dakota Fanning screamed too much, Tom Cruise was horrible in it, I just wanted to smack his son upside the head and send him to the aliens. When the first walker came out of the ground, and everyone started running. Then they stopped. Some people get vaporized. Then they start running. Then they stop. More people get vaporized. Then they start running etc.

My biggest gripe was that the movie ended too abruptly. And the reunion? Terrible. Just sappy.
 
silenthunterstudios said:
I hated the way the aliens died.
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Just curious - in what way? The concept was the same - The bacteria. Or did you not like how it was presented in this version?

My biggest gripe was how the aliens arrived. Riding the lightning? :rolleyes: Should have used the meteor approach. Would have added suspense, IMHO.
 
The ending shot of the alien falling out of the walker, and the voice over from Morgan Freeman, I just felt cheated. Thinking about it now, I guess that there was no other way for Spielberg to tell how the aliens were defeated, but I would have liked to have seen something other than the common cold. I just didn't like how the movie abruptly ended.
 
four brothers; not the greatest movie, but engaging, and worth the rental.
 
TheKnifeCollector said:
Well, I saw "Stealth". It was good. Not what I expected, but good.
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Thanks for the update. What did you not expect about this movie. Go ahead, spoil it for me, please. Thanks.
 
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