What movies have you seen recently?

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"Larry Crowne", with Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts. Not bad, though mostly predictable, but nonetheless featured some cute, funny and romantic moments..not to mention a soundtrack of ELO songs that took me back.
I'm not sure if you could say there's chemistry between Hanks and Roberts, however you can do far worse than this movie.

Cowboys and Aliens

I thought it was very good, one of the better action movies this year.

- Fight Club
- Unknown
- Insidious
- Mother's Day
- The 51'st State
- Pulp Fiction (parts)

I just saw Captain America.

This is just as good as Thor,
but this does have a bit of a sad ending.

The extra scene after the closing credits
does bring the sadness factor down.

I was also surprised by how much humor
the writers put into the movie.

A sequel is already in the works.

I plan on seeing Crazy Stupid Love
or The Change-Up on Saturday.

Transformers Dark of the Moon

We just watched Super on DVD last night.
Like Defendor, the lead character very likely has some sort of high functioning autism, and is inspired to fight crime by means of comic books.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

The Petrified Forest with Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart. Bogart's breakthrough role, playing the first of many bad guys for Warner Bros. The story has been ripped off so many times that it seems stale now: Criminals hold frightened locals hostage in a lonely roadside cafe, and everyone does a lot of soul-searching and confession before the inevitable violent climax. But it's still an entertaining film.

The Life of David Gale


Dumb dumb dumb. The movie showed the capital punishment system does work and David basically committed suicide so technically it showed it's not really a punishment since some people use it for suicide. So this was all dumb. The movie really proved nothing except that the character basically committed suicide because his life was s**t.


*Spoilers*
David and his two buddies plotted something to show the state how the system doesn't work and how innocent can be convicted of a crime they didn't commit and be put to death. So basically the woman decides to kill herself on camera and they film it and after she is dead, David puts his finger prints on the plastic bag so he can get arrested for it and convicted and get put on death row and die. The other man goes free because he didn't sacrifice his life. They had like three separate video tapes of the whole thing. Only one of them was showed in the media about the woman killing herself. Then at the end of the movie after the whole thing, the journalist gets the final video tape so she would know the truth and David is in it and he touches the bag and turns off the camera. So he was involved in it and the movie showed nothing. He basically committed suicide because he was alienated from his son and his wife divorced him and he didn't have his teaching job anymore because one of his students falsely accused him of raping her and then dropped the charges but it cost him his job. So yeah I can see why he would sacrifice his life to try and abolish capital punishment. Only thing I can see about it is it;'s not really a punishment because some people use it for suicide because they don't want to live or there is no point in living they feel. If someone is locked away in prison and they don't want to live their life behind bars, well capital punishment is a way out of it. Just commit a murder. How is that a punishment?

My wife and I watched Dillon Dog: Dead Of Night late last night, early this morning. It was a fun comedy horror movie with Brendon Routh in the title role, as well as that guy who plays the werewolf in the American version of Being Human, Tae Diggs, and wrestler Kurt Angle.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

netflix stream: skyline

i must say...for all the bad reviews i heard about how this movie sux... i think those people are missing the cooler picture here.
there was a definite twist at the end...that most movies about aliens takin over (war of the worlds example) have not yet done, but this movie has. i definitely recommend it!

Saving Private Ryan
Mozart and the Whale

above the law
marked for death
hard to kill
out for justice
fire down below
under siege
under siege 2: dark territory
showdown in little tokyo

Hobo with a Shotgun. It was fun in a I-hate-myself-for-enjoying-this-crap kind of way.

We watched Zodiac the other day on cable. I thought it a good detective flick, though I have a friend who thought it was as boring as Whale s**t. Too bad the chief suspect, Arthur Lee Allen, who absolutely should have been as guilty in real life as he was portrayed in the movie, was posthumously cleared of being the killer.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Someone posted a clip from The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest in another thread, and I had to see it. Fortunately Netflix has the Millenium series on streaming with subtitles. I really enjoyed them all.

my sister's keeper

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