What movies have you seen recently?

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Kind of cheating here, but I just saw the PBS documentary, Independent Lens: Autism In Love. It was really great.

Die Hard

R.I.P. Alan Rickman

With the death of Alan Rickman, I know that I'm going to be watching Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street tonight.

I'll try my best to summarize the batshit crazy movie I just watched: Lionel Barrymore escapes from prison and wants to get revenge on the three crooked businessmen who set him up. He gets help from a convict friend and his wife who have used mad science to reduce people and animals to the size of dolls. Dressing in drag (looking and sounding a whole lot like Mrs. Doubtfire) to avoid police detection, he uses the little doll-people as weapons in his revenge plot. And somewhere in there is a maudlin soap opera involving Barrymore's daughter who hates him and doesn't know the old lady is her father.

9

Now, I'm not usually one for the dystopian thing, but 9 is a pretty good film, if a little short and rushed twards the end. It is one of those films that puts a ton of effort into the visuals (which were cool, btw) and world building, but leaves the story with something more to be desired. 7/10

Homeward Bound.

The Red Shoes

I liked 9 too and have similar opinions to yours. While I did enjoy the movie, particularly the messages about teamwork and self-sacrifice, the animation, and the character designs, I felt like the pacing and character development was kind of lacking. The runtime I have mixed feeling about. On the one hand, I liked how it was shorter when compared to most movies that have "bloated out" runtimes, but on the other hand, I feel like it could've been a little bit longer to smooth out the problems I mentioned earlier. In the end, I find it to be decent enough.

Do you mean the original one where the animals didn't talk or did you mean The Incredible Journey where they did?

The Mist.

Based on the Stephen King novella, a group of people are trapped in a grocery store after a hole is ripped into another dimension, letting in nightmarish Lovecraftian monsters. First rate horror film that had me on the edge of my seat.

I've wanted to check that movie out for a while now despite the fact that someone ruined the ending for me.

I think it's still worth watching.

Punch-Drunk Love

I'm not a huge fan of Adam Sandler, but WOW, this movie took me by surprise in which Sandler plays an Aspie-ish character who falls in love for the first time with a co-worker of one of his sisters. His sisters love to make fun of him because he has anger issues.

{Example: "We called you gay boy and you got so mad!" }

It is a great movie that you can tell Sandler plays against type and worth watching.

The Revenant, again

Just as good the second time, also picked up on a few details I missed the first time.

I like this movie a lot and will watch it every time it's on tv. Carol from TWD is in it. She played the mom that wanted to leave the grocery store to get her children. LOL ironic huh?