What movies have you seen recently?

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I just watched Celeste and Jesse Forever. I quite liked it even though its not my usual genre of choice. The timing was really spot on as was the script. It had the flavor of a funny Silver Linings Playbook. Plus, Rashida Jones and Andy Samberg. Definitely worth watching.

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Second sequel to Transformers. The Autobots discover a spacecraft from Cyperton hidden on the dark of the moon and revive Sentinel Prime.

The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal (1993)

Perry Mason TV movie #24 of 30. Pretty good, but nothing amazing. David Warner is the s#!t.

The Seventh Seal

Swedish movie where a knight plays a game of chess against Death during the Black Plague.

Niagara

Taking place at Niagara Falls. Marlyn Monroe plays a wife who plots to have her husband killed. Contains beautiful shots of Niagara Falls.

The Way, Way Back

Hilarious indie comedy/drama about a boy who comes into his own with the help of the wisecracking manager of a water park where the boy becomes employed.

Steve Carell and Sam Rockwell both play against type brilliantly, though all of the cast gave great performances. This movie was worth watching and it is highly recommended.

The Anarchist Cookbook.

Black comedy told from the perspective of anarchist "Puck" Peter Gold, who lived with other like minded dropouts and burn outs in an Eden-like care free splendor - till nihilist Johny Black makes an appearance. Black turns the group from idealistic counter culture to violence, drugs, and alliances with Nazis and militia types bent on terror and murder with the Anarchist Cookbook as their Bible. Very good movie, worth watching.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Fast Five

Fourth sequel to The Fast and the Furious. Dominic Toretto and his crew buy their freedom by stealing a large sum of money from a major drug lord in Rio while Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson pursues them.

Turbo

A kiddie version of The Fast and the Furious movies, except this movie involves a snail {voiced by Ryan Reynolds} who after a freak accident, gains the power of super-speed. Later, he is discovered by the co-owner of a food truck {voiced by Michael Pena} who enters Turbo in the Indy 500, much to the outrage of Turbo's brother Chet {voiced by Paul Giamatti}.

Despite its lack of originality, Turbo was an enjoyable movie, though most of the humor is at the beginning of the movie.

I watched Cary Grant and Irene Dunne's "My Favorite Wife" last night.

The Brain That Wouldn't Die.

Movie that's so bad it's good! Complete with terrible acting and over written dialogue.
A mad surgeon working on transplants has created a monster out of amputated body parts and brought it back to life - and keeps it in a closet.
He's grafted new arm after new arm on another surgeon aiding him - the trouble is, the arms just whither and die.
So when his fiance is decapitated in an accident, he figures he's had so much past success that he can transplant her still living head onto a new body. The only problem is, she wants to be allowed to die, and hates him for keeping her alive just as a head. And one unforeseen side effect is - wait for it, wait for it - she now has telepathic powers, and can communicate with the monster in the closet. She even gets the closet monster to tear the latest arm off of the assisting doctor, killing him.
Meanwhile, the mad surgeon is checking out a number of hot exotic dancers for a body, but settles on a man hating girl he knew from college who poses for art class photos. Enticing her home to fix a scar (that looks no worse than a scratch), he drugs her, and takes her downstairs for the head transplant. There, he tells the decapitated head, "When she wakes up, it'll be with your brain." Huh?????
The movie ends with the head commanding the monster in the closet to break free, which then bites the doctor's throat out and starts a fire. As the lab is engulfed in fire, the monster gets the girl by carrying her to safety. The head says, "I told you to let me die, hahahaha!"

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

I saw The Conjuring on Friday and watched The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) yesterday (Saturday). I wouldn't recommend you see The Conjuring if you are planning on sleeping at night, especially in a dark room.

Ice Age

Animated movie set during the Ice Age where a mammoth, a sloth, and a sabertooth tiger find a lost human infant and return him to his tribe. Followed by three sequels.

Last one I watched was Strawberry Fields (1997).

A British movie following a young frustrated woman who randomly turns up on a strawberry farm in Surrey looking for work. What seems to be a light-hearted summer romance turns out to be the woman trying to escape her mentally unstable sibling - something I could personally relate to very well as my youngest sister last year got Sectioned 3'd (committed to a mental home) for wild schizophrenia. In true British fashion, it was a bit of a downbeat story but it was great at examining characters and motivations (and telling a story in an unconventional way).

Red 2

Not as good of a movie as Red, but the action and the jokes keep the movie from being another crappy sequel.

In Red 2, Frank {Bruce Willis} re-teams with Marvin {John Malkovich}, with his girlfriend Sarah {Mary Louise Parker} tagging along. They later learn that a nuclear device they believed was destroyed in the late 1970s will be used to destroy half of the world. Enlisting the help of a brilliant mathematician {Anthony Hopkins} who has dementia, the four go from London to Paris to Moscow to find the bomb and destroy it.