G3 Live in Tokyo - A concert, done by three modern guitar legends; John Petrucci, Steve Vai and Joe Satriani. Took this with me from work. And I knew they were good guitar players. But this was really "Wow". An absolutely stunning 90 minute Live DVD with non-stop guitar madness. Each player does an individual set of 20 minutes, which is very good. But after that we've got 30 minute jam were our three heroes play together, Satch says "I feel like doing some Hendrix, let's play Foxey Lady", so they give a 9 minute version of Foxey Lady, with Satch doing the vocals, absolutely amazing. After that a ZZ Top song, it was called "La Grace" (I forgot the right title of the song), and for the end they treated the audience on an amazing version of Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water". During the jam session you could really see that Vai and Satch had done more together, they were really stealing the show, while Petrucci kind of stood there and played. Satch had a great combination of playing and show, Vai was good but more show than playing (quality wise) and Petrucci's show wasn't really good but he gave more attention to his playing, so he was great as well. 1. Satch, 2. Petrucci, 3. Vai for me.

monty python and the holy grail its funny as hell rofl the black knight he looses his arms + 1 leg and hes still fighting :lol: also the killer bunny also the bridge of death what is your favourite colour

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - this movie is different, you can definently tell it is a tim burton movie. im not going to say this is better or worse than willy wonka and the chocolate factory, because they are too different to compare like that. i will say i like this one better of the two, but thats because i like tim burtons style. the older one is a make you feel good, make you remeniece of older days type of movie to me. this one is a little more dark, and definently a little weirder. they both serve there purpose very well, and are both about the same "good" wise. just this one apeals more to me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Am̮̩̉̉lie - didnt know what kind of movie this was, only heard of it on these forums. its a romance movie, that is very odd. it was filmed very well, and the storyline was great. definently worth a watch even if you dont like romance movies, it keeps you enertained the whole time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Junior Bonner - i got this great 4 disc steve mcqueen box set with the great escape, magnificent seven, and then they threw in thomas crown affair and junior bonner to make it a 4 movie set (i wish they would have thrown in papillion, his best by far). i actually havent seen magnificent seven or thomas crown affair, but i heard ms was good and ive never heard of tca. anyways, junior bonner sucked. as i said before a few times, westerns arent my cup of tea. its labeled as a western, but its something a little worse. its about bull riding. i shouldnt really give a review on it because i didnt really pay all that much attention to it, but i couldnt devote two hours of my time to this. if bull riding is your thing, try it out. if not, probably can be skipped.

I watched It's a Wonderful Life last night, it was on several channels. I thought it was excellent, worthy of it's classic status. It was great because of the writing, but the movie was made excellent by James Stewarts acting. It was unreal how he could play from age like, 18-42 or something, and made it work well, and did an excellent job. I though it was great, an excellent Christmas movie.

I watched It's a Wonderful Life last night, it was on several channels. I thought it was excellent, worthy of it's classic status. It was great because of the writing, but the movie was made excellent by James Stewarts acting. It was unreal how he could play from age like, 18-42 or something, and made it work well, and did an excellent job. I though it was great, an excellent Christmas movie.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

aye, it is a great christmas movie. but when your family puts it on 2 months before christmas, and for some reason you watch it, it just doesnt feel the same. thats why i didnt watch it this year. but anyways, jimmy stewart has a ton of good movies. harvey is by far my favorite of his, shop around the corner was good, the rope was good because it was a hitchcok movie, and he did good in after the thin man also (thin man are very funny movies).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

anyways, one quick question, i supose here is as good as place as any to ask. what happened to Movie of the week? i see daan bumped it a little less than 2 weeks ago, but it died. for some reason, i never saw it and thus never replied. just thought about it yesterday though. im still up for it, does anyone else want too? i dont want to bump it if theres no reason too.

Stewart played in a few of Hitchcock's most famous movies; The man who knew too much, Vertigo and Rear Window.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anyway, I will start making the OP this friday, Indie. Need to work thuesday, wednesday and thursday.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Might as well post what I've seen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tom and Thomas - Yea, well. Nice for christmas and so. But that's about it. Not really special. Bean is okay. 6/10.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jingle All the Way - No christmas without Ah-nold and Sinbad. Vey nice, and of course childhood sentiment. 4.6 my wagon, it's Turbotime! 7/10

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Nightmare Before Christmas - Hmm, this is such a great movie. And made with so much love. Supurb, but that's old news. 8.5/10

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vincent - A great short story that came along with the extras on The Nightmare Before Christmas. Just like Frankenweenie

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

An IMDB review on Vincent:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This better than a star on Hollywood Boulevard' ÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬ÃâæTim Burton's homage to one of the greatest horror actors that ever lived is an adorably animated little poem. You can really sense Burton's respect! Vincent tells us about a 7-year-old boy with a passion for the charismatic horror actor. Rather than to go out and play with friends, he hides in his room and relives the Vincent Price films like `House of Wax' and `The Raven'ÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ãâæ The animation style returned over 10 years later in Burton's masterpiece ÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ãâ¹ÃâThe Nightmare before Christmas'. It's dark and rather ghoulishÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ãâæbut irresistibly charming! Price himself does the narrating and you can tell doing so clearly honored him. Vincent is a must for all Burton or Price fans and recommend to anyone else who knows how to appreciate imaginative cinema. `Vincent' comes as an extra-feature on the Special DVD-edition of Nightmare before Christmas. Check it outÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ãâæ it only takes 6 minutes of your time and you get a lovely and fresh surprise in return.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think I'll just agree with that.

Saw tons of Christmas films can't remember the names.

 

 

 

But it's all about the same things...Santa get lost,Need new one,it's a thief or someone that hates Christmas etc etc.

Magnificent Seven - it was ok, but nothing special. i guess it was a remake of "seven swords", which is supposed to be really, really good. they redid it into a western, and im more or less bummed out by westerns now. nothing new, nothing different, but if you like westerns a lot, might as well watch it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hotel Rwanda - this movie got very good reviews, and is pretty high on imdb's list. i didnt really like it, the movies that are supposed to "move" you tend to just bore me. since that was the main point of this movie, i was more or less bored the whole time. dont know how long it was, but it seemed to be way to long.

a serie (sp?) of unfortunate events (christmas present) and blues brothers 2005

I just saw two movies yesterday at the movie theater. The first one was Fun with Di(cb)ck & Jane. It had one or two funny parts if it was lucky. It was on the borderline of good/bad, but more on the good side, just by a little. Then I saw Wolf Creek after that. That movie was pretty good.

Harry Potter and the goblet of fire , i'm gonna watch the new king kong 1 this week tought

attempted to watch The Ring (1927) and the The Lodger (1927) from my 10 movie alfred hitchcock collection, but i didnt get past 10 minutes into either of them. they are silent films, just music playing the whole time. couldnt keep my attention on them. these will have to wait for a time im so bored i cant think of anything else to do, which may be never. anyways, i didnt give up on alfred yet, i watched:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Secret Agent - interesting, and kept me into it fairly well, and who the agent he was looking for was a nice twist to the movie. i just read the user comment on the imdb page, and apperantly i did miss a part, because i dont remember it. maybe it didnt keep me as into it as i thought :lol: .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Taxi Driver - watched it on my quest to watch at least the top 100 on the imdb top 250 movies. its at number 39, and its there for a reason. the whole first part of the movie is good, then jodie foster starts getting a part and it sucks. i hate her, and i hate her even more when she is young. it wasnt actually bad, its just i hate jodie foster a lot. robert de niro acts excellently in this movie, i might even say better than any other movie of his ive seen. the end where he does what he does is cool, but after the climax where everything works out great is kind of stupid. and harvey keitel is really innapropriate for the part he played, but maybe i just think that because of the other movies ive seen him in. it wouldnt be 39th on my list, but it might squeeze into the top 100.

King Kong 9/10

Yesterday i watched Gremlins ^_^ and a mini series called First Born

Taxi - The original version. Second time, it was okay, but nothing too good. Maybe I wasn't in the mood or something.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Taxi 2 - It was okay, better than the first one IMO. It was a bit more cheesy, but also a lot more fun.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Taxi 3 - Got a bit bored after the first two taxi movies, but I was determined to watch this was one. I didn't really like it. It went a bit too far at some points. It sure had one great moment though; the the scene where Petra is having a baby is hillarious.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trainspotting - I liked this one better than I liked it the first time. It's a pretty good drug movie. Nice characters and good acting. A lot of humor, and fortunuatly less drama, from time to time very surrealistic, add a great score to that and you've got a movie. 7.8/10

Wedding Crashers - a long movie for being a comedy, around 2 hours long. up until about 30 minutes left its laugh out loud funny, then it takes a turn for about 15 minutes. a little bit longer of a "problamatic" area of the movie than normal with comedies. then all of the sudden will farrell comes in, and it was great. ended fairly well, if it did drag on a bit. definently a good comedy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Crash - a movie thats supposed to change how you think about life. normally these bore me, and this one was just a slight exception. it was filmed magnificently. the story was awesome how everything connected to each other. the acting was all pretty good. not much that you can find wrong with this movie, if you feel the way the movie wants you to feel during certain occurances. but, i did not feel sorry for some of the people at all. for example, when the non-arab (store was destroyed because someone thought they were arab, but they werent. cant remember what they were) store was destroyed, and the insurance said they werent going to pay for it because of negligence, it made it seem like that was the problem with all this; that the insurance wouldnt pay for it. the problem was, somebody came in and destroyed the store. it was their fault, and they should be punished for it. the people never even called the police or tried to figure out who it was. they totally ignored it. just things like that made me not think this movie was all that great.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - just watched this one a few days ago, but i watched it with my family. they always get ready to laugh when they no something funny is coming up, then at least two of them have to explain to the other two who werent paying attention what happened. annoys the hell out of me, and thats why its the only movie i watched with my family in the past months. anyways, liked the movie just as much this time as last time, noticed the music a little more. great soundtrack, definently going to get it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Lady Vanishes - probable one of my favorite hitchcock movies, if not my favorite. it has everything, drama, romance, action, humor, suspense. not to mention its a hitchcock, so the lead lady is going to be nice looking (even if she was around today, she looked really hot). the story is great, an old lady on a train helps a young lady who hit her head on something. the young lady falls asleep, when she wakes up the old lady is gone. nobody on the train remembers seeing the old lady either. thats the basic story, without giving anything away. hitchcock does one of his finest with this story, definently a must see for any hitchcock fan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Thomas Crown Affair - either im blind, or i forgot to post this one earlier. watched this a few days ago. it was ok, a nice change from steve mcqueens westerns. finished off his box set, so now theres only 3 hitchcock movies that i havent seen from my dvd collection, seen everything else. and two of those were the silent ones i talked about earlier, so i may never watch them. anyways, this movie was pretty good, rich man plans a heist from a bank for the thrill of it, a hot private investigator investigates it. she jumps from knowing nothing to figuring out it who it was stupidly fast, but thats not the main point of the movie so its ok i guess. after she finds out its mcqueen, she sleeps with him to get him to tell. and thats more or less the movie, in a nutshell.

I watched yesterday:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Great Raid: This was a pretty good movie. Not like, amazing or anything. It had a pretty decent story, and the character's were sufficient. The first 3/4 of the movie is the planning, and character building, and while it tends to drag on, the last 1/4 is awesome. For about 20-30 mins, there is an AMAZING action sequence, where they are actually taking part in the raid. It was amazingly filmed action, really really fun to watch, at times hilarious, massive explosions, a lot of combat, bullets flying, grenades, mortar, people on fire. It was all you could ask for. While the rest of the movie was average/good, it wasn't too memorable. But the action sequence was AMAZING.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Second:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Grizzly Man: Well, I will say this is the worst movie I've seen this year. One of the worst movie's I've ever seen, in fact. It was just terrible. For one, the main character (who died - there I said it...don't watch this movie) was really annoying an such. There was hardly any footage of the actual bears he got. It was mostly about him and his friends. It seems all the people involved had their own uniteresting back-story, and they seemed to be reading off of a script. It was really corny a lot of the time, and a waste of time in fact. And when the main chareacter was on camera he was mostly talking about how he hates society, or how he used to drink or...blah blah blah. I did however like it when these two bears duked it out, and one took a huge dump mid-battle. It was the high-point of the movie. This was the worst documentary I've ever seen and had no business being a full length feature. Every documentary you see on Discovery or History or anything will be better than this movie. This didn't even deserve a mid-day, one-hour documentary on animal planet.

 

 

 

DON'T WATCH THIS, it's just bad.

Million Dollar Baby

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Analyze That

Oh, I was actually looking forward to "Grizzly Man". But ah well, you also thought Scorsese was better than Kubrick, so it's probably not that bad. :P

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gladiator (extended version) - Pretty good movie, with a pretty good Crowe and a pretty good Crowe. Don't have much to say about it, other than that the music is horrible at some crucial points in the movie. 7.8/10

Johny English :lol:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Btw Gladiator is on tv tonight or tomorrow I can't remember it exactly though :P

Last night I watched American Beauty for the first time. I was quite impressed, and at the same time weirded out ... a rather strange film. But I certainly liked it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The other night I also saw Clerks. I didn't like it at first because it was monochrome, but for a film shot on a budget of less than $30, 000, it's damn good. Dozens of usable one-liners, non-stop hilarity throughout the entire thing. 'twas great.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I also found out that the sequel is currently in post-production. Kick-[wagon].

The other night I also saw Clerks. I didn't like it at first because it was monochrome, but for a film shot on a budget of less than $30, 000, it's damn good. Dozens of usable one-liners, non-stop hilarity throughout the entire thing. 'twas great.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I also found out that the sequel is currently in post-production. Kick-wagon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

you have seen the other kevin smith movies, havent you?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

first one he made was clerks, then mallrats, chasing amy, dogma, jay and silent bob strike back, and jersey girl. jersey girl is the only one that doesnt have jay and silent bob in it, kevin smith (silent bob) was trying to get away from that, so that it didnt seem like his movies were riding on the backs of them (if you watch chasing amy, you know he can make a great hilarious movie with them only in it for a minute). didnt quite work out as he expected, lets just hope passion of the clerks is good.

Well not really just watched it, but I just wanted to let british people know that Goodfellas is on tonight - 10.40pm, C5.

 

 

 

If you've not seen it then it's definetly worth seeing.

 

 

 

It's a gangster type film and is the story of a boy who grows up wanting to be a gangster.

 

 

 

This film is near the top of my top 10 films of all time.

I Heart Huckabees...WOW....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the plot is....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and its....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

odd...wierd...my favorite actors all jumbled in a movie..that quite frankly makes no sense...its like Donnie Darko in that it has meaning beyond the movie however it is more stereotypical of hollywood...more touchy feely brighter humor....just shows you psychatrists are a joke!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

-Howie

I Heart Huckabees...WOW....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the plot is....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and its....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

odd...wierd...my favorite actors all jumbled in a movie..that quite frankly makes no sense...its like Donnie Darko in that it has meaning beyond the movie however it is more stereotypical of hollywood...more touchy feely brighter humor....just shows you psychatrists are a joke!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

-Howie

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

not to mention naomi watts, one of the if not the hottest celebrity there is :D . its definently my number 1 comedy, which puts it in the top 15 of my favorite movies.