Last movie you watched......

I finally got around to watching "The Blind Side" last night with the family.

My wife really liked it.

I though it was good, but the hat scene when Oher was revealing his choice of Old Miss pissed me off.

 

Four-day weekend included some awful movies:
'Ali' was awful.
'Death Race' was ridiculous.
'The Messengers' was terrible.
'Orphan' was stupid.

How do these movies get made?

 

Little imagination and few original ideas . . . hackery . . . lowest common denominator filmmaking . . . 97% of Hollywood . . . it's craptastic.

Last movie I watched was Hitch's Saboteur, with Priscilla Lane and Bob Cummings . . .
workmanlike Hitch, with a coast-to-coast run for the money with a nifty climax at
an US landmark NOT in the Dakotas. Nifty surprise cameo, too, in the accompanying car during the scene where Lane and Cummings are wrestling over the steering wheel.

 

'Ali's' ham-fisted pretension would have been laughable, but the movie was so long I lost my sense of humor.
'Orphan' was so stupid it made me angry. Luckily, we just got a dog last week, so I was able to vent my anger with a few well placed kicks to the ribs. I can't believe people got paid to make that movie.

 

"Karate Kid", went in with very low expectations, simply thought that with Will Smith's kid, just going to be too sappy and the positive reviews were giving Will's family a break, plus traditionally hate remakes on principle. I was wrong, the kid was really good, so was Jackie Chan, story set in China was a nice change of pace.

"Avatar: The Last Airbender", wow a horrible film. Okay story but M.Night just butchered it. The acting by the main character was terrible. I'm usually not critical of kid actors but he was lame. The action was awful as well; there was so potential there but nothing. Good to see the star from Slumdog get another job though.

 

Finally saw Toy Story 3 last night. I absolutely loved it. The best movie I've seen this year and I think it's my favorite of the three though I need to see it again for rewatchability factor to be sure.

And the short before it started was absolutely phenomenal. I'm fully convinced that the people at Pixar should be put in charge of finding a way to stop the oil spill. They are creative geniuses.

 

I would definitely agree that Toy Story 3 is the best movie I've seen this year and nothing else has even been close.

 

I think that's the only movie I've ever walked out of. You get one of the most charismatic actors in Hollywood to play the most charismatic athlete of 20th century America, and you decide to beat me over the head for two hours about how hard it was to be black and Muslim in that time period?

 

You walked out? Wow... I thought Ali was a bit boring, but not on the level where you walk out. Hell, I even sat through all of "The Love Guru" which may be one of the worst films of all-time.

 

I started to watch "All About Steve" on HBO last night and my God that was a brutal movie. I made it through about 20 minutes before saying goodbye. It's amazing to me that Bullock can do what she did in the Blind Side and then make that dreck in the same year. I hesitate to call it one of the worst movies I've ever seen only because I don't know if 20 minutes is enough to say I've seen it.

 

I'm almost done watching Killers.

It's not good, but it's about a thousand times better than Knight and Day.

 

Just saw the Swedish version (with subtitles) of "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" on Netflix's free streaming. Unbelievable it would be available for free now, its in my local theaters and I was almost going to pay $10 for it. Read the book but still a well done film which tweaked a couple of things but still very faithful to the book. One of those situations where I wish I had not read the book because the story is that good. (Swedish sounds like German and a bit of French mixed in.)