Last movie you watched......

Just watched Into The Wild for the second time.

Not sure I can watch that again ... really, really good. But the way McCandless just continually breaks the hearts of everyone he comes into contact with it too much to take.

 

I've been meaning to watch that. I almost ordered it on OnDemand, but after reading the book, I'm not sure if I could do that again.

 

Just got through watching Phone Booth for the first time in a couple years. God, what a great and under- appreciated movie. The suspense and drama in the 90 minutes of that flick rival anything I've seen since. Granted, it's not the best movie and everything does basically happen in the same six feet of space, but I dare you to watch it and not be intrigued.

 

Just finished Yes, Man. Hm, intriguing but didn't really dig it. Zooey is great, tho.

 

No. No. No.

One of the most intriguing ideas I can remember in a long time.

One of the WORST executed ideas I've ever seen. Terrible, terrible script. Farrell is absolute fucking dreck.

I was so disappointed with that movie. It could have been so good.

 

What didn't you like about it? I thought that, for the concept, it was solid. Not a whole hell of a lot you can do with one person trapped in a phone booth for an hour and a half.

 

McKidd is much better in an American voice than a Scottish voice. His Scottish voice makes him sound too jolly. His American voice is much more nuanced.

As for the film, silly and a whole rack of lame supporting characters. But not unwatchable.

 

What didn't I like? For one, Farrell's constant whining. I was hoping he'd just get shot and get it over with. Robert Downey Jr. would have rocked in that role.

And the dialog was beyond awful -- terrible chemistry between Holmes and Farrell. They weren't convincing at all. Kiefer Sutherland's voice was perfect for the part, but the script turned him into a joke of a villain -- it was like a B-version of Dennis Hopper's villain in "Speed".

Again, the idea was just brilliant. But the movie itself is terrible. So disappointing.

 

I saw it once and didn't think I got it, so I gave it another shot and still didn't like it. I love Edward Norton and Brad Pitt, but I didn't quite see why so many people liked it. It was one of the movies that everyone around me was saying was so great and I felt like an outcast for not liking it.

Kind of like I feel now.

 

Watched Taken this weekend.

Nice little action flick where a lot of people die. Probably better than 90percent of the movies I see, and I still would have been dissappointed if I shelled nine stones per person on it.

 

See, I liked that Farrell's character was constantly whining. He wasn't a redeemable guy and he was a snake, which put him in that position and also made it fun to root against him. I agree that RDJ would have rocked but, to be fair, I'm pretty sure at that point in his career he was more interested in banging a hotel room full of chicks than reading scripts.

As for Farrell-Holes relationship, I think the whole point was that they didn't really have that much of a connection. He was trying to prove to himself that he could get other chicks, therefore his relationship with his wife wouldn't have been that evolved. The script itself could have used a polish, but I liked what they did with Kiefer. Instead of making it about him, they made it about the guy in the booth.

And that they didn't pussy out with the typical guns ablazing final few minutes redeemed the film in my eyes.

But, all in all I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. I loved the movie. You clearly did not. To each his own I suppose.

 

I kind of like the jilted female who was in the wedding party. She was an angry female. And Kadeem Hardison's character. I was looking up when I heard his voice but I immediately thought - that's the guy from "A Different World." Liked when the grandmother walked up and said "Oh, the fornicator."