Seen some good movies lately??

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Anne

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We get Netflix, so have a couple movies a month. Tonight it was "Angel Eyes", with Jennifer Lopez. I thought it was pretty good; probably a 'chick flick', but hubby kind of liked it...he watches Hallmark sometimes, so I figured he could sit through it, too. :D Kind of a tear-jerker, but it kept our attention, since you wanted to see what was going on with the main characters.

Gotta admit that Jim Caviezel wasn't hard to look at, either......;)

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Do kiddy movies count?
Both Monsters University and Despicable Me 2 are good animated films for the (grand) kids, that I enjoyed with them.:clap:
 
Went with hubby to see World War Z at the theater recently, pretty good for a zombie movie, and Brad Pitt was easy on the eyes too. :)
 

"Oh, God!" was on the toob the other day. Corny seventies movie. But George Burns was George Burns and the flick has a wonderful message. Also, sorta just watched in memorial of John Denver who put his plane into Monterey Bay 16 years ago.
 
Watched Terminator 2 for around the 17th time a few weeks ago. Still love that movie, sci-fi, great SFX, violence,really loud booming gunshots, mayhem, explosions, iconic lines... what more could we ask?

When Arnie asks how many cop cars are out there, the answer "All of them I think" still cracks me up. ... but then I do have strange tastes in movies.
No, control yourselves, not in 'strange' movies, just strange tastes for an aging, but still very demure and reasonably well mannered 'lady'.:cool:
Chick flicks leave me cold. If I want to watch romanticized fantasy I'll stick with Disney.
 
Watched 'Ladies in Lavender' stars Judi Dench and Maggie Smith, set in Cornwall in 1936. A great story, no foul language, no sex, what a treat it was.
 
Just watched Iron Man 3 - had to, with the explosions and stuff, and Gwyneth Paltrow. :love_heart: I also like Robert Downey Jr.'s wise-guy persona, especially when he was in the Sherlock Holmes movies.

Started watching American Samurai, an '80's martial arts flick, at the behest of my student but gave up as it was just TOO corny. :rolleyes: Same plot as 20 other MA films, but done poorly.

Tried one more time to watch Inception AND to figure it out. Got half-way through and decided my time was better spent on other things, like spanking the cat and giving names to the houseflies. George and Gracie say "hi".
 
We have Netflix, and Apple TV, so we can watch movies as often as we want, but I am just not a great TV person, happier with my nose in the computer, I guess.
We did watch one of my favorite movies again though, The Hunt for Red October. I have seen it several times over the years, but never fail to enjoy it, and Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin are two of my favorite actors.
I am looking forward to seeing the Steve Jobs movie when it comes out , though, and also Morgan Freeman in Now You See Me.
I just am not interested in either zombie movies, or war movies. I like the ones with twisty-turns, and you have to watch them 2-3 times just to grasp the whole plot.
 
I like the ones with twisty-turns, and you have to watch them 2-3 times just to grasp the whole plot.
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I know what you mean HFLady, I never appreciated Pulp Fiction until the 3rd time I watched it.

Doubt I'll ever 'get' the plot of LOTR though, don't care, it's (they) are just there for the eye candy to me. Plus I'm tragically addicted to anything Art Nouveau so the sets just knock me out. Who cares what they're saying? :cool:
 
Checking out movies on netflix today, I ran across this one:

Bikini Girls on Ice2009NR81 minutesWhen their bus breaks down in the middle of nowhere, a bunch of bikini-clad college coeds make their way to a boarded-up gas station, where an axe-wielding madman corners them and starts hacking his way from one beauty to the next.
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Seriously??? Who watches this stuff???? I love a good horror movie, but this sex, blood and gore cr@p is ridiculous.. Give me Hitchcock or Stephan King any day.
 
Fern said:
Watched 'Ladies in Lavender' stars Judi Dench and Maggie Smith, set in Cornwall in 1936. A great story, no foul language, no sex, what a treat it was.
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I really like Judy Dench, great actress. In fact,I prefer most of the English movies over Hollywood ones. I'll check Netflix to see if it's there.

This evening we watched "The Ice Harvest" with John Cusak and Billy Bob Thornton. It was very entertaining and had a great "demon drink" scene in it, really had me laughing. It was kind of a low key comedy thriller, bad guy vs bad guy..good bad guy wins.
 
Saw "Brothers" tonight...very good, but heartwrenching. Ugh - don't know why I watch war movies; guess I want to understand, but ones like this make me wonder what we really are sending our young people to these other countries for; seems to me, they don't want us there. :(
 
So far, the Gatsby movie is not available here, although iTunes did show it as coming in August. They have the older Great Gastby movie on Netflix, and I watched it, but didn't think it was that good of a movie.
I do like Leonardo di Caprio though, so when this version finally gets to Netflix, I really want to see it. I have only seen good reviews for the movie, not the bad ones, and the trailers looked awesome. The movie sets were fabulous.
Another movie that I am looking forward to seeing is called "Oblivion". I watched the trailer and it looks like it is an excellent movie, with a good plot. So far, it is available to buy on iTunes, but not to rent, so I have to wait.
 

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