What was the last movie you saw at the theaters?

Yes those people but that is just my opinion, I did like Sacha Barron before this movie

Ok I concede Pamela is yuk

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Same here Nebbit. He is great as Ali G. But as Borat he is not worth calling entertaining ...not even at the least. And even considering it as one of the best pictures in any category would be outlandish.

The Holiday - 3.5/5 stars.

The Jack Black/Kate Winslet story-line didn't do this movie justice. The movie would have probably been better/cuter without Black and the old man in his place.

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Casino Royale was absolutely unbelievable. I saw it twice in theatres and will probably go again.

we saw dreamgirls this morning...jennifer hudson is a standout in her role as effie white...the audience clapped when she finished and i tell you i'm not going....all in all well acted and the songs were great...

we also saw night at the museum...it was fun seeing dick van dyke and mickey rooney again after all these years...mickey rooney had all of the best lines...

i saw night at the museum it was better than i expected it to be.

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Maybe with the old man, but i see him more as a father figure for Kate's character, and she's so cute witg Jack's character!

idd 3.5/5 (7/10)

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The new Bond movie that has atleast two endings, the first of which they should have used. Besides the mutiple endings and the way that makes me want to fart nasty funk and sit around until it's gone the movie was pretty good. It's got a bomb-bomb foot chase at the beginning and he doesn't talk as much, which is good. Also, it's got a torture scene that makes me question that old lesbian myth that goes, "Giving bitrth is the worst pain anyone can go through. Women have a higher pain tolerance." Blah blah blah.

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the holiday.


it was ok, not brilliant. i dont think i like jack black very much..

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the last movie I saw was Ultraviolet and it rocked.

Black Christmas (2006) - A total piece of *****. From the very first frame till the very end. I would have rather dived into a swimming pool filled with double edged razor blades. The 1974 original (below)with Olivia Hussey and Margot Kidder was, and still is, a classic.

Night At The Museum.

I thought it was alright. Had some funny moments.

Night at the Museum

I've been pretty busy for the past month and a half or so. Not so busy I couldn't see a bunch of movies of course, but too busy to write up reviews for them. Now the list is too long, so I'm just going to give a rating and brief impression. Going back to late November...

• Rescue Dawn (Werner Herzog)
  Not a bad movie, but given that it's Herzog and based on one of his own earlier excellent documentaries it is definitely a bit of disappointment. Christian Bale is good as usual, though it's Jeremy Davies who gets scary-thin for his role. Worth seeing, but simply not in the same class as Little Dieter Needs to Fly. I'll eventually do a full write-up for the Herzog thread.
  GRADE: B-
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• Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny (Liam Lynch)
  I've loved JB & KG since their show aired on HBO in the late '90s, and if you're a fan this is definitely fun. The first twenty minutes or so I thought were brilliant with a perfect take on the Rock Opera and the casting of Meat Loaf as the young Black's father a stroke of genius. The body of the film is less inspired but still fun. My only complaint as a fan is that it builds to a finale that they've used before in both the TV series and one of their music videos. That was a bit disappointing, but overall I laughed and the new songs were kick-ass!
  GRADE: B-
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• Tideland (Terry Gilliam)
  The first out-and-out dud from Gilliam in my book. I read the novel a couple years ago and knew it was going to be extremely tricky to adapt. I appreciate and applaud the ballsy attempt, but it just doesn't come together. The thing about the novel is it's so much from the little girl's perspective that while surreal it isn't ever ugly, despite the fact that there's a rotting corpse and such. Unfortunately the movie didn't find enough of a way to filter the ugliness through her fantasy. I'll eventually do a full write-up of this one for the Gilliam thread.
  GRADE: C-
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• The Painted Veil (John Curran)
  Pretty straightforward old-fashioned melodrama, adapted from the W. Somerset Maugham novel (previously brought to the screen in the 1930s as a vehicle for Garbo). Naomi Watts plays an English society woman who marries just to get out of her parent's home. Her husband, played by Edward Norton, is a rather emotionally cold and socially awkward doctor. He takes a post in China where she starts an extra-marital affair. After finding out he essentially blackmails her and punishes both her and himself by accepting a position in a remote mountain village in the middle of a deadly cholera epidemic. The two main actors are both excellent and the locations and photography beautiful, but there's nothing terribly surprising about the outcome or the journey. Still a decent movie and worth seeing for the beauty on the big screen, just not a great one.
  GRADE: B-
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• Night at the Museum (Shawn Levy)
  Went in with very low expectations and found myself giggling and smiling all the way through. Stiller and the effects are good, but it's the smaller cameos from the likes of Ricky Gervais, Owen Wilson, Steve Coogan, Robin Williams, Dick Van Dyke and Mickey Rooney that make it so much fun. Very entertaining mainstream family fun.
  GRADE: B
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• Volver (Pedro Almodóvar)
  I love Almodóvar, and this is another great one. Penelope Cruz is fantastic at the center of this tale about secrets, regrets, ghosts and forgiveness. The "twist" involving her mother isn't terribly difficult to figure out, but this isn't a mystery. It's another one of Pedro's patented delightfully weird comic melodramas that touch on subjects most filmmakers wouldn't go near with a ten-foot pole, and if they did they'd make full of cliché. He has some of the most twisted stuff in his movies, but it's never used to make you squirm, and you find yourself not just empathizing but celebrating with his characters.
  GRADE: A-
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• Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón)
  Great movie, and easily the best Science Fiction film of the new century. It's at times exhilarating with some tense action but always thoughtful and smart and even poetic. It's kind of a mix of The Handmaid's Tale and 12 Monkeys, but really it's its own thing. Clive Owen is marvelous as is the rest of the cast top to bottom, especially Peter Mullan, Danny Huston in his one scene, and absolutely every second Michael Caine in on screen - giving us a glimpse of what John Lennon might have looked like had he lived to be sixty-five. Can't wait to see it again. It even made me dig out my old King Crimson album on vinyl and give it a spin.
  GRADE: A
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• The Good Shepherd (Robert DeNiro)
  Liked this one a lot: The Falcon & the Snowman by way of The Godfather. Damon is good and there's an amazing ensemble, some of whom only have a scene or two (John Turturro and Joe Pecsi are the standouts). Bobby DeNiro's direction and Eric Roth's script are confident that the audience won't be pining for Bond-like action but will be ready for a look at the birth and growing pains of the CIA as a working entity and a philosophy, as experienced through the prism of one quiet, detached man. He's a fictional character, though based at least loosely on counter-intelligence chief James Angleton, and takes us from learning the business from the Brits during WWII to the post-war creation of the Agency up to the Bay of Pigs fiasco.
  GRADE: A-
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• Notes on a Scandal (Richard Eyre)
  Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett and Bill Nighy are all in top form, but this look at obsession and secrets doesn't have enough of an interesting narrative to matter much when all is said and done. As a character piece the tone is just satirical enough not to let them ever truly come alive as people, yet at the same time it's rarely satirical enough to play up the dark comedy. What's left is great actors and performances in a so-so movie.
  GRADE: C+

I still have a bunch of movies to see before I finalize my 2006 list, including Letters from Iwo Jima, The Good German, Venus, Perfume and Pan’s Labyrinth, but I’m sure Children of Men and Volver will be near the top.

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Children of Men



I think I ought to write a proper review sometime soon, but for now, I'll just say that it's a very intense, very powerful film. I felt a lot more could have been done with the premise, but my slight disappointment at its relatively narrow scope is more or less offset by its technical aspects and performances, which are near-perfect.

I cannot WAIT to see Children of Men...I may just have to scoot over there after work and see it today...

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Children of Men (Cuaron, 2006)

Intense, chilling, and stark... Gets my vote for the best film of 2006...