Current Movies - Thumbs UP or Thumbs DOWN

[drumstick diva]

sorry I've been awol - computor was down again and probably just on temporarily. I need a new modem but, can't get out till Sunday to replace it. It just came on now so of course the first place I checked is BYC. It went out last Sunday afternoon.

I was thinking even older movie comments are desirable as so many people prefer to rent them. I'm going to see Warm Bodies for a second time (can you tell I loved it?).

I see the same actor is in Jack the Giant Slayer (Jack and the beanstalk story) along with Ewan McGregor and Stanley Tucci(from Hunger Games)

Big thank you for others contributing to this thread.

 

[Yay Chicks!]

I did see Silver Linings Playbook last weekend. I liked the first part of it best, I think.

I'm finding that the older I get, the more motion sickness I have going to theaters. 3D movies are OUT, of course, but even the regular ones are leaving me struggling to make it through the whole thing. Such a bummer.

Anyone seen Salmon Fishing on the Yemen? Just got it from Netflix but haven't watched it yet.

 

[UrbanChickenSF]

^ Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is wonderful. I saw it on a plane. Had to skip it in theaters.

I also watch a ton of films. Zero Dark Thirty and Django Unchained were my favorite movies from last year. This year the best film I have seen so far is Argo.

Some great documentaries from last year that I enjoyed are Jiro Dreams of Sushi, How to Survive a Plague, Indie Game: The Movie, Invisible War, Searching for Sugarman.

 

[drumstick diva]

Urban chickens - love your avatar. I miss alot of good movies because our AMC seems to cater more to the young crowd.

 

[UrbanChickenSF]

Thanks for the compliment!

I feel your pain! When I was growing up in Alabama I lived in an area with absolutely NO indie, foreign or art-house cinema. Coincidentally, one opened up the fall I left for film school and has been going strong ever since. Ha! It wasn't until I moved to Florida that I had access to better films, but even then they were limited. There was one indie theater in town and it ran three films at a time for two weeks at a time. It was VERY popular and was always packed! Luckily, I had special passes though school.

Now I live in an area where indie, foreign and art-house cinemas are more common than your everyday popcorn theater. It's fantastic, but was a long time coming!

 

[Ferrret]

Last movie I saw in theaters was the Hobbit, and I enjoyed it but the 3D was pointless. I don't mind that they are making 3 films, since they are adding in parts of the extended Middle Earth history, collected from other books, to make a more rounded story when it's finished. From what I've heard, the end of the Hobbit film will allow for all 6 films to be shown near seamlessly back to back if someone were to do an all day marathon of them.

The only other 'current' film I have seen was ParaNorman (PG), which was funny and touching near the end. The stop motion animation was fantastic, and it's a shame it didn't get as much attention for all the hard work the animators put into it.

Everything else I have watched has been on Netflix and isn't really current.

 

[drumstick diva]

I remember a somewhat older movie but can't recall the title - something like "The unusual world of Timothy, something." A childless couple wants a kid very badly, and ends up with one that comes from the garden. It was very touching and tearful, and teaches alot about excepting differences in others.

 

[UrbanChickenSF]

I remember a somewhat older movie but can't recall the title - something like "The unusual world of Timothy, something." A childless couple wants a kid very badly, and ends up with one that comes from the garden. It was very touching and tearful, and teaches alot about excepting differences in others.

The Odd Life of Timothy Green. I saw it on a plane. Wasn't my cup of tea but I was surprised by the emotional hook at the end.

 

[speckledhen]

Two thumbs DOWN for Silver Linings Playbook. Omg, if this is what folks find entertaining these days, we are on the fastest downhill slide ever. I found it disturbing and disgusting all the way through. I guess I just don't get entertainment anymore. Movies are not really something I enjoy, generally, anyway, not at this time in my life, I suppose. I'd rather live my functional life than watch someone else live their fictional, dysfunctional one. That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

I did see The Last Stand and as action movies go, it wasn't bad. I don't like tearjerker, emotional Hallmark channel type movies so I won't see the Timothy Green one. That's just me.

 

[Jennsbirds]

Last movie I saw in theaters was the Hobbit, and I enjoyed it but the 3D was pointless. I don't mind that they are making 3 films, since they are adding in parts of the extended Middle Earth history, collected from other books, to make a more rounded story when it's finished. From what I've heard, the end of the Hobbit film will allow for all 6 films to be shown near seamlessly back to back if someone were to do an all day marathon of them.

The only other 'current' film I have seen was ParaNorman (PG), which was funny and touching near the end. The stop motion animation was fantastic, and it's a shame it didn't get as much attention for all the hard work the animators put into it.

Everything else I have watched has been on Netflix and isn't really current.

I'm pretty much on the same boat. The only recent movies I've seen are The Hobbit (thumbs up; never liked the plotholes that weren't filled in until now. Also great cinematic storytelling and effects), and Wreck-it Ralph (VERY fun, thumbs up, though I suspect adults will get far more enjoyment than kids, as it's got about thirty years of video game history in it--I'm honestly wondering if there were jokes or something that people didn't get and wanted to know about).