What movies have you seen recently?

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very interesting indeed...

"The Iron Lady" last Sunday
"The Hunger Games" on Friday
"We Need to Talk About Kevin" yesterday
And "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" today. It was pretty sad. And I rarely cry in films.

I liked all of the films. Good scores as well. ^^ Jonny Greenwood did a really great job on "We Need To Talk About Kevin". His Ondes Martenot was great as always. Very touching. Thomas Newman pulled a bit of an Alexandre Desplat on "The Iron Lady". It occured to me yesterday that Thomas Newman's last three film scores are all for English films. "Skyfall" is still to come though. ^^

I'd say from all four films, "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" was the most touching. "The Iron Lady" was the most stylish film. "We Need to Talk About Kevin" was the trippiest and most arty of all films. Especially because of the many time shifts. "The Hunger Games" was impressive in its own way. Jennifer Lawrence did a really great job.

netflix streaming: all three seasons of United States of Tara (yeah, i know, not really a movie)
theater: Hunger Games (i prefer Battle Royale way better, but I did like Catniss and her archery)

I just got back from seeing Salmon Fishing in the Yemen.

Spoiler: Fred Jones {Ewan McGregor} has Aspergers Syndrome.

Overall, a good, funny movie, well worth seeing.

I just saw Hunger Games yesterday afternoon. It's pretty good. Effie's hair isn't pink enough and I didn't see enough tats on the people living in the Capitol. I expect something a bit more extreme. It shocked me seeing Woody Harrelson playing Haymitch. I pictured him differently. I pictured Milton Berle for some reason while reading Hunger Games. A sloshy Milton Berle. That's Haymitch.
Katniss should be a bit more elfin, but I see the film makers veered away from the anorexic theme lingering in the book. They didn't want to put an anorexic actress up there promoting anorexia. I can see their point. Then why write so anorexically in the book? Because it's called The Hunger Games, probably.

All in all, a good movie. Worth the $7.50 to see it.

I finished Catching Fire and am on to book three in the trilogy, Mocking Jay. Catching Fire struck me as an alternative version of the first book. Maybe the clock would be too complex for first time tributes, so it is saved for later, for more experienced players? Book three, I hope will be more about the rebellion and District 13. I am only on page ten.

Newest catch phrase? May the odds be ever in your favor!

Albert Nobbs - Excellent, excellent movie. It surpassed my expectations, since the reviews I read for it described it as lackluster. In my opinion I think that the people who thought it was boring were people who don't like period films and aren't interested in the daily lives of people during Victorian times. The acting was beautiful, especially from Glenn Close as the title character, and the plot couldn't have been more touching or, in my opinion, perfect.

This may seem like an odd comparison, but it reminded me a lot of Edward Scissorhands:

- Title character is very quiet, sensitive and socially naive, and is described as "odd" by other characters

- Title character is involved in a love triangle involving an aggressive jerk and a beautiful girl who doesn't reciprocate title character's feelings

- Bittersweet ending guaranteed to make you cry

I'm happy to add Albert Nobbs to my list of favorite movies.

I just got back from seeing Mirror Mirror.

Let me tell you a brief anecdote. A few years ago, I overheard my mom, yes my own mother, after she returned from a party saying the "mirror, mirror" line to a vanity mirror that's on top of her dresser, although she said it in Spanish. She appeared to have been drinking, but she did not. She either may have been pulling a joke on me & my sister or was enjoying herself too much at the party she was at.

This is the "mirror, mirror" line she said in Spanish: Espejo del espejo en la pared; que es las mujeres más hermosas a que conozco?

About the movie, it's well worth seeing, funny as funny can be. There's one scene that will get you laughing, but you have to see the movie for yourself to know what it is, it comes about 2/3 into the movie.

I've been watching a lot of MST3K recently so I've seen A LOT of bad movies. One notable one is Mighty Jack, which has...no plot.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063300/

Seriously it doesn't have a plot. Watched the whole thing, nothing.

Annabel (1962)

Not really a movie, but rather an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, but if The Call of Cthulhu counts as a movie at 48 minutes, so does this. It's an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel This Sweet Sickness, and it's quite good. It can be found on YouTube.

Drive Angry I watch it every time it comes on that movie.

Training Day, 2001. Powerful movie. Amazing performance from Denzel Washington. Can't believe all of the events of that movie happened in one day.

Hunger Games, The