What Movies Have You Seen Recently?

[wil]

Freedom Writers...Blood Diamond...

wonderful.

[17th Angel]

Just got 'Children of Men.' Will be watching tonight....

Watched serverance last night, interesting... The rascal of the group that has some odd experiences.... lol gave me fond memories I forgot of myself in Amsterdam... So had a good laugh at that film.... Even though it is supposed to be a horror... *shruggs*

[17th Angel]

Finally watched 'Children of Men'. Certainly has it's moments and is a very good film, alas the ending, in my mind leaves me with a few questions that have not gone answered.....

There is this one moment in the film, (won't give details because may ruin it for anyone wanting to see this film....) But there is a very, very heated battle, pretty realistic... It makes me have a few memories... But it is pure chaos.... innocents dying and soldiers dying, then, just in this moment of rage, everything... stops. There is this awesome sound of silence.... (silence makes a nice sound believe me.) And there for five minutes or so, this peace, and that messed with my head lol.... I was engaged in the gun fight and then this peace.... Kind of knocked me off guard and played on my emmotions. I liked that experience from the film..... ANYWAY! Overall the films sweet.... 8.5 - 10.

[17th Angel]

OK, on my way to work, I purchased three DVD's

'LittleMan.'
'The WickerMan directors cut.'
'Fun with Dick & Jane.'

Going to probally watch them tonight, looking forward to seeing how this new wickerman goes down compared to the 1970's cult classic version... It seems alot more "another world" In the first version obviously you see nothing but the pagans themselves but in this version there seems to be demons/spirits and a woman who can turn into a swarm of killer bees..... lol... Anyway thats my DVD updates...

[flowperson]

If you groove on films about souless people doing souless things see The Good Shepherd. If not, save your money and time.

flow....

[17th Angel]

Ok now I have over 600 DVD's... Keep this in mind... 600.... Out of all of these DVD's I only have one film that I would say was a load of rubbish...

I sat down like I said last night, and watched the remake of the Wickerman... This was the biggest waste of 90 odd mins of my life, ever.

I'm having trouble moderating my language to describe how bad the film was in acceptable language... heh, bare with me....

The way I would describe the overall 'thing' it is was as I feared it would be, very Amercian-ised and all hollywood. The theme music? Where did that go? The orginial copy had pagan tunes and such and gave it a real nice feel I loved those songs, in this they have been replaced by some lame hollywood almighty themes. The acting was worse than a porn stars acting... really terrible.... And there were a few big names in this.... ONE big name in this film... I would say, it was like you showed the real wickerman film to some american producer once... THEN, told him to remake the film, going by his memory. There were patches... loose ends, things not described or explained.... There was no realtionships between characters the only three characters you got to know were mel gibson as some california cop in the area of washington on "police business" lol... his ex lover and the Sister Summersisle??? What the hell happened to LORD Summersisle.... Anyway even these three characters you have a SMALL amount of information.... There is no real connection between them either, when they interact it is like I am freaking back in my school drama classes...... Ugh.... Did I mention how rubbish the second rate acting was? Yes? Well, I felt it deserved to be mentioned again... But hey some may find 90 mins of Nicholas Cage rolling down hills jumping in pools riding peddal bikes up and down hills, running away from honey bees and some how keeping his suite magically clean and dry fun go for it... Otherwise, please, I beg of you don't -PAY- to see this if you have to waste you time then I would suggest downloading it.... OR better yet!!! Anyone want to buy my copy

MY RATING

0.5 - 10

[wil]

Originally Posted by 17th Angel

Ok now I have over 600 DVD's...

600 DVDs??

Wow. Now I wouldn't find the time to watch a movie a week..can't imagine having a decades worth in the vault. The only movies I've ever got were given to me, maybe I have 10 (dvd, beta, vhs), I haven't watched them all, I haven't watched one of them twice. I've got some movies my kids watched a number of times...

I see a movie at the theaters, or from a rental, or on broadcast TV (no cable) for the first time...and then I may watch it a second time when it is replayed...

Movies that I've seen three times would be less than 2 dozen, movies more than three times would be less than 5...

600 DVDs I can't fathom it... If I had my own private theater I think I'd have a collection like that...but I just upgraded from 14"-19"....

Now 17th I'm figuring you probably dl or dupe a lot of those surely you haven't purchased them all but if you have this is a great example for compounding interest and the like... calculate how much you've spent (or would have spent) so far...how much you spend a month and put it into virtual savings for 40 years...how well could you retire??

[17th Angel]

Retire is not an issue for me lol... I just can't quit work because of my %"£%£" %wife.... lol.

but ok this could be interesting to see I guess

I have over 600 I know for sure... My neice counted them the other weekend lol... it was somewhere in the mid 600's...


I would say around 50 are downloaded copies.... ¬.¬ If you're a cop however I would say none are.

I have collected them over the past year and a half... I know that because before that I sold all my DVD's.... But yeah for the past year and a half I have been collecting them I guess.... I just -have- to spend my money... :P I would say on average I buy around one a day lol... But I kind of have my own theatre... ;/ Kick butt sound system and a HD 50" screen... I class that as a theatre... Also I do not watch my cabel... Have it but just rarely watch it.... So I use that to justify the amount of DVD's I have....

But honestly... We could say..

Take away my two cars and motorbike, the fuel costs all the cigarettes and other plants I smoke, all the DVD's I own.... The pets I have and the costs to feed them and so and so forth and be like I would save X amount of pounds... But what would I have in exchange? More money, and nothing to keep me busy.... ;/ So I think indeed things can cost alot of money when all added up but I wouldn't want to be without my things. Or How much money do you spend a month of feeding yourself and family?? Wow if we add that up.. in a year you would save X... best stop eating lol... but it's something you -need- and are not yourself without it... that is me with my stuff.

On average they cost £14.00 each so x 550 shall we say is £7,700.00.

[wil]

Oh there is definitely a balance....and if movies are a passion it is valuable...

but most of us don't think about retirement till about 50...uh my age...and then wish we'd listen to others earlier....

Hold it this is the lounge...my bad.

I could start to list a bunch of movies I knew were on the telly but didn't watch...

[17th Angel]

I am sure if you wanted I could get you those movies...

I am not sure If I would say movies are a passion, lol I just find it is a way to speed up/distract the boredom of my life.

Yeah retirement here is something like 65.... Indeed I am a lucky one.. Just even If I bring up the topic of me not working any longer my wife gets "started" and I try to explain if she felt it not fair she too could quit work and we could travel and do whatever, but she won't have that... *sighs*

[wil]

Originally Posted by 17th Angel

On average they cost £14.00 each so x 550 shall we say is £7,700.00.

So forget the cigs and the rest...just these your initial investment plus future spending @ 6% would be a million pounds in about 42 years....

[17th Angel]

I doubt my rate of buying will stay steady.... most of my collection are quite old... They don't make them like they used to, There is only around 3 - 4 if that that are recent releases each month that I am ever interested in... Hmm *thinks* This month, Jan I have bought four new films... So it steadily goes down I think. A million in 42 years? I would then be in my seventies.... lol I am not sure but I think when I am that old material way of living will have faded some.

[17th Angel]

OK, watched a few last night....

Littleman...

This is a comedy about some guy who... (sorry don't know the "politically correct" term.) is a midget. Called baby face, he and a partner (the kid from the Cosby show lol.) Steal this massive diamond and then get chased down by cops... Baby face stashes the diamond in this ladies handbag... And you get a bit of info on the lady and her husband, and they are trying real hard for a baby and this wish comes true... The same day baby face has a shave gets dressed up like a baby and is dumped on their doorstep.. His mission? To get that diamond back... Not HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA LOL'Z!$£11!!!/// Funny, just it has it's moments. 6 - 10

Fun with Dick & Jane...

Another comedy!! This one was a good un! Jim Carrey plays this executive that has just got promoted! Nice house! Car! and so on! Then they find out the company he works for has been "fiddling" funds... They go into liquidation and Jim and his wife (Jane) end up with nothing... They go through alsorts of ways to get money... Sneaking Mexicans over the border, Working in walmart, being used as test subjects for beauty products.. Then they move on to -trying- to hold up gas stations... comming away with nothing but an unpaid bill for a slush puppy. They begin to get better at robbing and start hitting big targets... To begin with just a simple water pistol. Then finally come up with a real sneaky plan to rob Dick's former boss who is still rich as ever and sitting pretty..... I don't wish to ruin the gag lines but there is really funny moments in this one... 8 - 10


Angel Heart....

Kind of a twisting Voodoo thriller... I saw it coming, but I tend to know the plot and end before the film is 5mins old... Still a good film... A mysterious man caled Louis Cypher.... Hires this washed up private detective Harry Angel, to locate a person that has been hospitalised for the past 12 years... He had apparently come back from a war and wasn't able to speak, walk or talk... He takes the job, on arriving at the hospital they confirm he is there, but he isn't able to be visited... With digging around Angel finds that the man had walked out of the hospital years ago and the hospital was paid off to pretend the man was still held there. So the film is simply Harry Angel tracking this man down, at every corner he turns someone close or has any answers to this missing person gets killed in a voodoo ritual manner.. Will he find his man? 7 - 10

[Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine]

Paris Is Burning, a documentary about the "ball" circuit in New York City, focusing on the Paris Is Burning "Ball" participants (filmed mostly in 1987, the last few minutes in 1989.) Let's just say it was for my Wednesday evening class. *shrug*

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine

[17th Angel]

The Dark..

Awesome film watched it last night... Alot of welsh/celtic religious stuff in this one... A man creates his own typoe of religion, he is called the Shepherd.... He also has a young daughter named Ebrill, who sadly dies. (aww.) anyway... He "sacrafices" his followers into the ocean for the return of his daughter..... around 60 years before. Now in the present time a man (sean bean) his wife and daughter move out to these cliffs of Wales... Lots of thrilling dark moments, maybe if you are weak in courage perhaps a few hide behind the sofa moments.... Their daughter drowns and they slowly unravel the truth behind this Welsh village and as the "tag line says" One of the living for one of the dead.... Her mother won't let it go and attempts to bring her girl back... Anyway tons of stuff I've missed... kind of foggy today.. I still feel like I've only just woken up... The last 30 mins or so of the film make this one... Real head job.... You have to keep alot of attention onto things or you yourself can become lost from the plot lol.... So anyway what I can remeber of it I think it's aboot 7 - 10 *nods*