What movies have you seen recently?

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i saw my name is khan its too good.

I had my idea of who she was when I read your post but needed a little clarification so I went to IMDB and check her up and found a nice movie called Rogue that she plays in.
Looks OK adventure, horror, thriller about a man eating croc.
It's gotten good reviews from IMDB and the posters there, gonna check it tonight.

(I'm also getting the film about that Asperger man, Adam it's called. Hope it's interesting.)

The screaming in the restaurant scene is marvelous.

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A lot of people around her know her from Mozart and the Whale, she played Isabella. I got used to seeing her in rolls like with Pitch Black, Man on Fire (*awesome movie), Silent Hill, I think what threw me is that she typically has a certain expressive set with a lot of her characters, I knew she could do variety but even with something like Henry Poole I still saw her pretty much using 'her' mannerisms or so I thought - Surrogates was altogether different, and she doesn't get a lot of focus until later in the movie.

Sherlock Homes - sick movie, liked it a lot though the martial arts seemed a bit too over-the-top for the time and place (maybe people knew something similar to Kali or Systema back then? Cool to watch but seemed to kind of just float out there on its own).

There was a Victorian martial art called bartitsu, but it was referred to as baritsu in the Holmes canon (it was what Holmes said he used to defeat Moriarty). It was a mix of bare-knuckle boxing, judo and jujutsu from Japan, savate from France, and cane/stick fighting from Sweden. It was considered the first mixed martial art. A British military officer who had been stationed in Japan for a few years came up with the idea of combining the best elements of the different martial arts at the time, so he brought together instructors from each of the different disciplines to London where he established an athletic club where gentleman could study these arts. The system pretty much died out by 1920, but there are schools/instructors/groups that are trying to revive the art and keep it alive.

I was going to say though - with the limb and joint destruction, forearms to the neck, trapping, it looked a lot like Kali or Arnis. If they really had something that practical back then its amazing and kind of sad that when you mention martial arts the first thing that pops into people's minds is TKD or Karate as a second.

Yes, it is sad. There is so much more to martial arts than TKD or Karate. There's actually a movement of martial arts scholars that are trying to resurrect and keep alive various martial arts from Medieval and Renaissance Europe. There's a documentary called "Reclaiming the Blade" about that.

FYI, according to the featurette on the DVD, Robert Downey, Jr., had been studying Wing Chun for 5 years when the movie was filmed.

I just watched The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Not sure yet what I think of it.

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How To Train Your Dragon

Saw Avatar about two weeks ago...so now everyone in America has officially seen it...

Last night I watched Charlie's Angels and I'm watching Charlie's Angels Full Throttle right now.

The Hurt Locker

Mommy's Day - 3/5
North by Northwest - 5/5

Um, no...

The last movie I saw was The Hunted with Tommy Lee Jones and Benicio Del Toro. I'd seen it before. Great fight scenes.