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Comments on #3:The son getting engulfed was one of my favorite parts of the movie. Seeing him ok at the end was one of my least favorites.

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Layer Cake :thumbup: :thumbup: Machinist :thumbdown: :thumbdown: Charley and the Chhocolate Factory :thumbup:Sin City :thumbup: Sometime in April :thumbup:Life Aquatic :thumbup: Dry humor, but Bill Murray is funny

 
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Finally got around to City of God, big :thumbup: Was on an 80's bender this weekend:Memphis Belle - :thumbup: Sixteen Candles - still good!Back to the Future 2 - hasn't aged as well as I thought it would, but still decent. I love laughing at flying cars and fusion in 2015Can't Buy Me Love - very 80's! still cute, still funny if only for the laugh out loud 80's-ness of it.

 
Me and You and Everyone We KnowGood flick....but the best part is two teen girls (they say they are 18) each give one of their classmates a BJ. Then they ask him to tell them which one was the best. There is no nudity, but the scene is very erotic and hot.That scene alone is worth renting.

 
Just watched Fantastic Four last night.I was thoroughly entertained. There were minor moments of farfetched coincidence simply to move the story along, but overall, it was much better than I expected.Why did it not do well?

 
In the past few weeks I have seen:Near Dark :thumbup: The Vampire Western doesn't get enough props. Gremlins :thumbdown: Horrible. It was very dated and cheesy. Phoebe Cates was dressed like a Victorian nun. Where was the red bikini???? WHERE WAS IT?????American Splendor :thumbup: :thumbup: I know more than a few guys like this. It was well done and for being a bit of a jerk.... you liked the main character.Trekkies II :thumbup: :thumbup: FREAKS!!!! Oceans 12 :thumbdown: Horrible. That whole Tess as Julia Roberts was annoying.Summer of Sam :thumbup: For some reason I liked it and I usually hate Spike Lee. I think I am going to explore that Urban Western genre that sprung up in the 70's where the inner city was as destitute and untamed as the Wild West. Stuff like Assault on Precinct 13, Class of 1984, Fort Apache the Bronx, Death Wish comes to mind. Anyone have any recomendations in that genre?Team America :thumbup: :thumbup: Loved the way how it stung both sides of our political spectrum. S.W.A.T. ehhhhh. I liked it for what is was. It was a cheesy action film. I would have liked more of an assault by the various gangs who wanted the money though.Gattaca :thumbup: I liked it and thought it quite sad. Carnivale Season 1 :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: I think this might be the best thing I am watching right now. It is a shame that HBO didn't keep it going.

 
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Just watched Fantastic Four last night.

I was thoroughly entertained. There were minor moments of farfetched coincidence simply to move the story along, but overall, it was much better than I expected.

Why did it not do well?
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It did good BO, enough to get a sequel done.
 
Me and You and Everyone We Know

Good flick....but the best part is two teen girls (they say they are 18) each give one of their classmates a BJ. Then they ask him to tell them which one was the best. There is no nudity, but the scene is very erotic and hot.

That scene alone is worth renting.
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This was one of the strangest movies ive seen. I liked it though.
 
In the past few weeks I have seen:

Carnivale Season 1 :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: I think this might be the best thing I am watching right now. It is a shame that HBO didn't keep it going.
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Wait until you get to season 2. At about episode 3 or 4 it just gets nuts in a very very good way. The ending will make you even more upset that its not continuing.
 
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was pretty good.Worth the rental.I really liked the squirrel sequence. How did they do that? Very realistic.

 
Watched "Bubba Ho Tep" last night. It was about what I expected. Bruce Campbell is cool and it had its moments, but the movie is forgettable.

 
Got caught up in this movie called "Plain Dirty" with Dominique Swain.It wasn't horrible, and she's just so cute even as a beat up old redneck.

 
Finished our Christmas shopping today and rented Polar Express to cap off the evening. Good stuff. :thumbup:

 
I just rented "Hide and Seek" I had very low expectations and was surprised that I liked it, kinda creepy and the alternate endings are good to watch.

 
We just rented Primer last night. Definitely a movie for the :nerd: crowd. (shinny and pickles will love it)

There are some loose ends and you will be thinking about the film for hours after watching it.

 
I just rented "Hide and Seek" I had very low expectations and was surprised that I liked it, kinda creepy and the alternate endings are good to watch.
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I didn't think that one was too bad either. I guess after all the horrible reviews from friends it was a pleasant surprise.
 
I know I'm pretty late on this, but I just watched Life is Beautiful.

If you've not seen it, I highly, highly recommend it.

 
Summer of Sam :thumbup: For some reason I liked it and I usually hate Spike Lee. I think I am going to explore that Urban Western genre that sprung up in the 70's where the inner city was as destitute and untamed as the Wild West. Stuff like Assault on Precinct 13, Class of 1984, Fort Apache the Bronx, Death Wish comes to mind. Anyone have any recomendations in that genre?
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Warriors!!!!! :thumbup:
 
Just watched the War of the Worlds remake.I was not impressed and there were several gaping plot holes that pretty much ruined it for me.

 
Mr. & Mrs. Smith.Entertaining. Ending is too over the top, but still okay.Strangely, the more I watched it, the LESS attractive Angelina Jolie appeared to me. Especially her profile. Maybe Brad Pitt turned me a little gay. :shrug:

 
Finished our Christmas shopping today and rented Polar Express to cap off the evening. Good stuff. :thumbup:
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Just watched this yesterday..It was ok. My two year-old loved it, but he's fascinated with trains right now.

 
We just rented Primer last night. Definitely a movie for the :nerd: crowd. (shinny and pickles will love it)

There are some loose ends and you will be thinking about the film for hours after watching it.
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I rented this movie once and the first 15 minutes were so excruciatingly boring that I couldn't continue watching it.Worth another try?

 
Sky High.

This is, in all seriousness, a great family film. While most kids movies these days (see: Shark Boy & Lava Girl) being insultingly stupid, this one was clever, clean, and extremely entertaining. There is loads of good humor (my kind anyway) and fun action sequences.

And Kelly Preston is still hot. Even though she sleeps with Travolta.

And how bad can a movie really be when it has Bruce Campbell in it?

Will Stronghold: Hey, how was your summer?

Zach: It was tough. T-U-P-H.

 
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3 this weekend:Me and You and Everyone We Know - Pretty decent overall. I did like the scene referenced above. I wouldn't highly recommend it, but if you've got nothing else to watch, you'll be entertained.Primer - Wow. Very interesting and difficult to follow, but well worth watching. There's a thread on it somewhere on here. Read it after the watching the movie.Scotland, PA - Pretty funny, quirky movie. If you're in the mood for a slightly off comedy, it's good to watch. OH - also, if you are a Christopher Walken fan (and who isn't?), it's worth it.All of these movies were pretty quirky, but overall, pretty good.

 
I watched one last night...whew! Boys and girls, I present to you all Havoc!

Anne Hathaway and Bijou Phillips get naked a lot. Since I was unable to concentrate on the movie after watching the nude scenes, I'll let Richard Roeper's review speak for me. Very good movie - not a date movie, but a great movie all the same.



Ten years later, a movie that was worth waiting for

December 8, 2005

BY RICHARD ROEPER SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST

In 1995, New Line Cinema spent $150,000 for "The Powers That Be," an original script about wealthy, white teenagers in Los Angeles who talk, dress and act like gang-bangers and think they're pretty tough -- until they encounter the real thing.

The purchase made big news, not so much for the intriguing storyline but because the screenplay had been written by Jessica Kaplan, a 17-year-old student at Crossroads High School in Santa Monica, Calif.

(This was years before 13-year-old Nikki Reed co-wrote and co-starred in the acclaimed independent film "thirteen." Apparently we're only a few years away from a 6-year-old selling a screenplay based on his addiction to juice boxes.)

I remember reading about the sale of the script and thinking that "The Powers That Be" sounded like a provocative look at white kids who embrace the music, the fashion and even the speech patterns of black gangsta rappers, never realizing how ridiculous they look and sound as they appropriate a culture that has nothing to do with their actual lives. Whether it's Brentwood or the North Shore, 1995 or 2005, pampered Caucasians pretending to be ghetto-hard is a social reality worth examining in film form. (And no, "Malibu's Most Wanted" doesn't count.)

I liked the idea of a movie that showed these kids getting in way over their heads. "The Powers That Be" sounded like a movie worth waiting for.

And waiting.

Creating 'Havoc'

Like 95 percent of screenplays that are picked up, "The Powers That Be" was soon mired in development limbo.

According to the trades and updates provided by Internet Movie Database and Yahoo Movies, actors such as Ethan Hawke and Christian Slater were under consideration for the male lead -- a white kid named "Havoc" who runs a "gang" in a wealthy Los Angeles neighborhood. At one point a screenwriter named Stephen Gaghan was brought in to rewrite the story. (Gaghan would go on to win the Academy Award for his adaptation of "Traffic." He is the writer and director of the political thriller "Syriana," maybe the best movie I've seen so far this year.)

As the years passed, ingenues such as Kate Bosworth and Mandy Moore were mentioned as possibles to play Allison, Havoc's girlfriend. There was much Internet talk about the sex scenes in the script, including a raunchy group encounter involving Allison and her best friend and some Latino gang members.

After seven years, New Line put the project in turnaround, meaning they were giving up on actually filming it. The screenplay was picked up by MDP Worldwide and was retitled "Havoc."

In June 2003, a small plane crashed into an apartment building in Los Angeles. Among the five victims was a 24-year-old woman who had been in the plane, piloted by her uncle

The woman was Jessica Kaplan, the former high school student who had written "The Powers That Be."

Coming soon -- to home video

Production on "Havoc" finally began in the fall of 2003, with the role of Allison going to Anne Hathaway of "Princess Diaries" fame. This announcement set the Internet on fire, with much talk among fanboys about Hathaway's multiple nude scenes.

With the titillation meter at 10, with Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple in the director's chair, with a supporting cast that included such young stars as Bijou Phillips and Shiri Appleby, "Havoc" still sounded like one of the more provocative films in the pipeline -- but after the film was finished, it sat on the shelf for nearly two years.

Now, finally, "Havoc" is being released. Straight to home video.

I screened an advance copy of the unrated version of the movie -- which is now available in stores and via the Internet -- and I can't fathom why "Havoc" didn't merit a theatrical release. Kopple has delivered a gritty and troubling film that brings to life the original premise of Kaplan's screenplay. Hathaway is a million miles from her "Princess Diaries" persona as Allison, a whip-smart, perpetually bored teenager with absentee parents. She talks "street," she uses sex as a weapon -- and when her wannabe tough-guy boyfriend crumples after a harrowing encounter with a hard-core gang-banger, she plunges deep into the gang-banger's world. For the attention-starved Allison, it's just another edgy lark -- until she and her best friend find themselves in a hotel room with a half-dozen gang-bangers, seriously considering whether they should go through with an initiation that requires group sex.

What happens next is difficult to watch. What transpires beyond that hotel room rings true -- sadly true. "Havoc" isn't a perfect film, but in a year in which the likes of "The Dukes of Hazzard" and "The Pacifier" get nationwide releases and play on thousands of screens, it deserved to find an audience. That's where the DVD comes in.
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I saw American Beauty. Great flick. I was left wanting more in the end though. Project Lester Burnham life if the Nazi dad doesn't kill him. Maybe Carolyn does it when she comes home?

 
Spanglish - awful :thumbdown: Anchorman - overall pretty bad, with a few laughs here and there40 yr. old Virgin - Hilarious :thumbup:

 
I saw American Beauty. Great flick. I was left wanting more in the end though. Project Lester Burnham life if the Nazi dad doesn't kill him. Maybe Carolyn does it when she comes home?
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First time to see it? I deem it one of the best films of the '90s.
 
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