Last movie you watched......

You guys mean The Kingdom Of God, right? With Orlando Bloom?
The Kingdom is the Jamie Foxx movie about Saudi Arabia.

 

The one with Norton and Bloom.

More coffee, I seek.

 

Those 19-year-old sensibilities, I suppose.

 

I don't own The Verdict, but I did see it somewhere recently. The scene for me is one where Newman realizes the original settlement deal is off the table now that the expert doctor won't testify and he wants to pull every last inch of guts out of himself. Talk about a performance. Some movie. A hard watch for anybody who was around alcoholism or was one themselves, because, unlike most movies today, the subject is not explicitly "alcoholism," it's just one of the prominent characters in the film.

McCabe and Mrs. Miller is outstanding. Ever seen The Claim? A fair update on the same theme.

 

Rented Transsiberian and X-Files (I want to Believe) this weekend.

Enjoyed Transsiberian; nice twists, though somewhat predictable. Suspenseful.

X-Files could have been worse. Like seeing Mulder and Scully again.

 

It was the best reviewed movie of the year, included in the top 5 of 2008 by almost every critic, and has a chance to become the first animated film since 1992 to get a Best Picture nomination.

Clearly, some people besides my 20-year-old self enjoyed the hour in space.

 

Those on the page before were talking about the Kingdom with Jamie Foxx. A movie with some good acting talent that fell flat.

 

Good film, but at some point those in Hollywood will get it through their skulls that nobody in this country wants to see a war film right now, especially one about Iraq.

Stop-Loss was a tremendous movie. Nobody saw it.
Body of Lies was a very, very good movie. Nobody saw it.

 

Kingdom of Heaven. *snore*

 

You know what, though? At some point, if you've got a good story you've got to say f**k it. People may not watch it in theaters, but if you make it on the cheap and put together a decent enough marketing campaign, it'll recoup it's money and probably turn a profit once DVD rental figures are in.

The Kingdom was a damn good movie. I saw it in theaters, but only because a friend of mine had sneak preview passes and I didn't know what we were going to see until the film started. If it had been played up better in terms of trailers and ads, I (and many others) would have been glad to plop down $10 to see it.

As it was, I didn't expect I'd like the film because I'm not big into the whole "war circa 2k" movement. I was pleasantly surprised.

As for Kingdom of Heaven, yeah, that movie blew ass.

 

Wow, Hancock is terrible. You'd think with Will Smith, Theron, and Bateman, this would be halfway decent. One of the worst screenplays of 2008.

 

Step Brothers was sooooo bad.



I wonder if anyone working on that movie understood the size of the train wreck they were creating?