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blackcauldron85 wrote:

ajmrowland wrote:Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

Statement/question: I haven't seen the first one, and I have no interest in these films, BUT there is a YouTube video of Jonas Brothers and the director of this film, and they play cherubs. At first I thought it was a joke (I mean, the video was a funny video), but my friend said that they actually play the cherubs. (Sorry if I ruined the movie for you, if you didn't know that they play the cherubs...maybe they really don't, but my friend says it's really them...have to run, so no time to check IMDB!). Were the cherubs only on screen for a minute or 2? They're not big characters, are they? I told my friend that I'll just watch her copy of the DVD when it comes out, because I still have no interest in seeing the film except for their small part.

Thanks!

JBs voice a trio of singing cupids that are identical to them. I couldn't recognize them at first. They aren't big characters, just recurring ones in the second. They're not in the first.

Australia Don't expect much of a plot. It's more of a character story. That said, it was a really good film. I liked how it portrayed the aboriginal people, and Hugh Jackman was excellent, as always.

ajmrowland wrote: JBs voice a trio of singing cupids that are identical to them. I couldn't recognize them at first. They aren't big characters, just recurring ones in the second. They're not in the first.

Australia Don't expect much of a plot. It's more of a character story. That said, it was a really good film. I liked how it portrayed the aboriginal people, and Hugh Jackman was excellent, as always.

Cool- thank you! Yeah, I'll just wait until a friend buys the DVD to see them as singing cherubs...

And Australia is so wonderful!

Religulous

Bill Maher's hilarious sarcastic documentary on religion. My only complaint is that paid too little attention to judaism and that he took ultra right-wing Dutch politician Geert Wilders seriously, just because he's anti-islam. But other than that, I enjoyed it very much.

Tarzan and Oliver and Company

Two wonderful movies! It's so hard for me to choose favorites and top 10 lists and whatnot of DACs, but both of these are up there for me. And they have some of my absolute favorite Disney music in them.

Night At The Museum 2: I recently saw the 1st film 2 days ago and I thought it was good film....then I saw the 2nd film and aboustly enjoyed watchin the figures come to life was my highlight of the films.

Tom/Jerry S1-S3: These classic Laurel/Hary of animation have a superb timin in comedy, sure alil rough here/there in certain episodes but I still like 'em. especialy when Tom gets it what he asked for and sometimes Tom/Jerry end up helpin each other out when needed.

Goliath wrote:Religulous

Ugh! My sister and I have been dying to see that movie. The trailer looked pretty funny.

A double feature!

Night at the Museum:BotS

Terminator Salvation I haven't seen the first three, but I'll have to now. With all the non-stop action, and the fact that the war still goes on, it was better than I though it would be. Pretty exciting.

The last movie I've watched (and that was about a week ago on dvd in a hotel):


Down with love with Rene Zellweger. One of the weirdest movies I've ever seen. A story that takes place in the sixties and seems to try to look very much like a movie made in the sixties. (like the Doris Day classics). I won't try to explain the plot for I can hardly understand it myself, but let's say that a certain Barbara Novak writes a bestseller entitled "Down with love" in which she proclaims women don't need love and marriage, just sex, but the ultimate goal the author wants to achieve with it is precisely love & marriage (for herself).

I watched some of my A Bugs Life blu-ray a few nights ago. I thought the picture looked pretty good.

Rewatched Batman Begins (2005) and The Dark Knight (2008) to finish up my Batman movie watching. Of the 7 films I've seen, I can safely say that Batman Begins is my favorite. That does not mean I think The Dark Knight is a bad movie because I did not hail it as "the second coming of Christ", it's just I prefer Begins to it for it's in depth focus on Batman himself, which this is the only Batman movie to really do that and do it well.

Frost/Nixon

I don't really know much about President Nixon. Everything I do "know" is informed by film, rather than fact. So I'm aware what is presented may be considerably biased - especially given the generally liberal leanings of most creative people.

I've just watched Frost/Nixon (sort of twice, but more on that later) and it's an incredible film. I have no hesitation in awarding this 5/5.

What I particularly like is how the film actually makes you feel lots of empathy for Nixon. I think Oliver Stone may have been attempting the same sort of response with his "W"; if so, he failed. Frost/Nixon simply makes you think about Nixon and his actions without overt emotional or sentimental scenes. In fact, I'm sure if you analyse the words, the film is probably more or less neutral - but its the excellent acting that makes the characters get under your skin and leave you thinking about the film after you've viewed it.

I'm particularly pleased to see Rebecca Hall in the film - she's somebody I've been following since I first saw her in Joe's Palace on the BBC and I absolutely adored in Starter for Ten.

About the Blu-ray

At first the Blu-ray seems average. The back of the box promises "over an hour of bonus content" including a 13 minute Blu-ray exclusive featurette. But they are clearly only talking about the featurettes - the disc also includes a Picture-In-Picture feature which runs throughout the film with no interruption making its own 2 hour feature documentary.

It's not so much about the making of the film (although we see various footage of the film being shot) but we get discussions about how the real-life characters see the film, how the actors found their characters - both on film and in real life, and discussion on the origins and writing of the film. It's very good and works wonderfully. Most P-In-P content is sadly poorly chosen and poorly edited. Not so in this case.

Counting the featurettes, commentary and P-In-P content, the Blu-ray has 5.5 hours of bonus content. Its a shame the packaging sells the disc short.

I watched New in Town yesteray, it was okay. The movie is predictable.

UPit was very good. Good enough that the entire auditorium wouldn't shut up. Laughs, I'm okay with, but everyone was talking about every single moment in the film. The film itself didnt meet my expectations, but was very good nonethteless.

And I rewatched Hotel For Dogs much better than the average canine flick.

A night or two ago, I watched Meet the Robinsons. Always a fun movie. And I saw Up yesterday, which was wonderful.

Australia - It was good, but it's very much like the Energizer Bunny, it just keeps going and going and going.... It was sort of like sitting through Dark Knight, you think it's over and then it just kept on going.

Length aside, I enjoyed it and thought it was good but I won't exactly be watching it over and over. The kid in the movie did a really good job of acting, why can't Disney hire more kids like him, you know the talented kind?

A Bug's Life - Every time I finish viewing this one the first word to cross my mind is underrated. I'm baffled as to how people can rank this among Pixar's "worst"!

Disney-Fan wrote:I'm baffled as to how people can rank this among Pixar's "worst"!

Seriously. That spot is reserved for Cars.

Up

I read some reviews saying that it was practically perfect, but I didn't find it to be. It wasn't spectacular (like A Bug's Life or Wall-E) but it wasn't terrible (like Cars). I think it would rank somewhere in the middle of the pack; it might grow on me once I get it on Blu-ray (which I'm planning to get; along with ABL) but I don't hold too much expectations of it growing on me. 8/10

Instead of going to bed early, I decided to watch The Little Mermaid. I made a good choice. I adore this movie...I always have, and I always will. The animation isn't always perfect, what with Ariel being off-model sometimes and Eric's mouth not moving when he says something near the end, but I've seen the film so many times, and I just love the story and the characters. And, don't get me wrong- the animation is quite lovely. A++++++

When I was at FYE yesterday I picked up Liar Liar since I had been wanting to see it and it was on sale for $5.99, so I watched it today. It was alright, maybe I need to give it a second chance or maybe it's one of those movies you have to see with friends. It had its moments, but it wasn't my favorite Jim Carrey movie.