What movies have you seen recently?

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We rented Chronicle for tonight. Imagine Carrie White as a teenage boy, but whose powers are gained while along with two other friends, and with an alcoholic father. And throw in everything being chronicled by video tape - hence the name. All in all, it was a better movie than I had thought it would be.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

The Italian Job
Despicable Me

Batman Begins

I just saw Silent House. It was pretty good. Elizabeth Olsen is a pretty good actress surprisingly considering who her sisters are.

Dead Man

Black and White Johnny Depp movie. Not the best movie I ever saw but it had good visuals and it was well researched on Native American culture.

So, continuing my journey into Indonesian cinema, I have turned to Youtube which has some old Indonesian flicks uploaded.

Today, I saw an action movie called 'Panther' (1995). Oh boy what a movie that was. I mean, it's not much to look at; it has some nice parts, some cool fight scenes and gun battles. But it's also quite over the top, in terms of the violence employed. It's not really that heavy on gore, but the sheer cruelty of the bad guys in this movie is unfathomable. There is a second-in-command to the boss bad guy, who's favourite mode of killing is using a gun that shoots arrows (not a crossbow, but a GUN), and at one point she kills off a target by biting his throat while having sex with him. Yeah.

The opening scene is totally extreme, with a family (mostly women and children) being completely gunned down and otherwise massacred by the mobsters, and the impossible happens toward the end, when a minor character who has just died gets a funeral, and that very funeral is attacked by the gangsters, resulting in the deaths of the character's family and friends attending the funeral. It's like WTF, when I saw that scene happening, it was... Jeeeeesus. I mean, you actually see the bad guys, some twelve or so of them, slowly walk up to the funeral, armed and dangerous, and you just KNOW what's coming, yet you tell yourself out loud: "No. They're not going to do this. They're not going to cross this line." And then that's exactly what they do.

As an action flick, I thought it was reasonably entertaining; the direction of the fight scenes was adequate, though not without its flaws. The plot, on the other hand, was confusing. Characters were introduced quickly without being given much background, and transitions from scene to scene made for a difficult-to-follow narrative.

I enjoyed it quite a bit though. The main actor was like an Indonesian Steven Seagal.

I've just come home from the cinema after seeing "Kath & Kimderella." its very funny.

Dog Day Afternoon

Al Pacino stars in this true story about a first time crook robbing a bank to pay for his lover's operation.

A very good movies which explains how poverty has continued to exist despite the many resources that are available to end it..

As Good as It Gets

Romantic Comedy starring Jack Nicholson as Melvin Udall who has obsessive-compulsive disorder.

The Watch

A movie about with the actor Ben Stiller, exactly what I expected, and I liked it

Back on Sunday, I saw The Cold Light of Day, which was not as bad as
I thought it would be, very awesome action movie.

It's about a guy who has to save his family after they get kidnapped while vacationing in Spain.

By your description I thought you were talking about Taken 2, I guess Hollywood does produce/release similar movies in pairs

I do intend on seeing Taken 2 once it opens on Oct. 5th, as I also intend on seeing
Finding Nemo 3D once it opens this Friday.

But yes, I do wonder if Hollywood does produce/release similar movies in pairs.
In this case, Bruce Willis would have been the lead actor in The Cold Light of Day,
not Henry Cavill, who plays the son who has to save his family.

Rocky

The first of the Rocky movies. Rocky goes 15 rounds with Apollo Creed.

Edges of the Lord

found on fleamarket for $2. better than it first seemed. it's about Polish civilians during WWII. Mostly about a jewish boy trying to hide.