The "What are you watching?" Thread

Just finished 'the Tournement', what can I say.. it has B movie written all over it with a well known rich people bet on others fighting for life and death ala JCVD plots and quite some old skool action but I kinda liked it somehow.

 

Dude, The Godfather is easily one of the greatest films of ALL TIME.

 

DUH!

That's why you have to watch part III... It's MANDATORYYYY


I'm watching COSMOS by Carl Sagan... A friend brought me de DVD's yestedray...

It's like a trip down memory lane... I used to watch the VCRs when I was little. I love it!

CARL I LOVE YOU! :love:

 

But the reason I haven't seen part 3 is because I already know it's not gonna be as good as part 1 or 2 for that matter.

 

about to pop "SICKO" by Michael Moore in...

 

Trust your future wife on this; watch it, you won't regret it.

 

Just finished Watching "Instant Karma" the fourth House MD Season 6 episode

 

Just got done watching Pixar's "Up". So good! Why is Pixar the only studio consistently producing quality films with top notch story telling?

 

Scooby-Doo cartoon movies and the live action trilogy. Original Ben 10 and Alien Force. Both of the Tinkerbell movies and more Dora the sodding Explorer than my brain can handle. I have to admit though, Ben 10 is actually pretty good and Tinkerbell's ginger fairy chum is quite foxy. Yes, I do need help...

Now the kids are in bed I'm sat watching a few random episodes of Futurama. I've also been watching the first season of Battlestar Galactica but I'm really not getting into it. It's certainly not as good as the original; Starbuck is a lass in the new series! WTF!

 

Yesterday night I've watched "Religulous" which I consider one of the most provoking movies of the past few years. I really wonder why it didn't get much more attention, it criticizes every of the main religion in a pretty rough manner and lets them look stupid. Or in other words: Underlines their true nature.
I may add that the cutting of the interviews did its part to convey the message of this movie, it's pretty clear that the director uses small pauses in speaking to create an image of a person. Nevertheless, most of the things the interviewer tries to talk about are, in fact, absolutely ridiculous (like Creationism).

The final chapter in the movie was a bit strange though, the undertone of the movie suddenly changed from funny and satiric to serious and dogmatic. An assumption of mine would be that it spooves religious warnings of the end of the world by using just the same dialectic and images. Still, I strongly recommend watching it, especially to people living in the US. Here in Europe Christianity is not as dominant as over there (like having a Holy Land theme park or presidents who talk like "God bless our country"), so many of us have sort of a bigger distance to such fundamentalism and conservatism.

And as arrogant as the interviewer seems in most parts of the movie - I think he's so fucking right.

 

At this very moment I'm watching the computer screen. :lol:

 

I'm watching "Predator", Schwarzenegger made some really good movies during the 80s and 90s. I have to watch the "Running man" again.

 

I don't know why, but I put on Futurama last night to fall asleep to and the first episode I watched was "Jurassic Bark". I then proceeded to cry myself to sleep.

 

Did you read the book? The RUNNING MAN book is real good...

I haven't seen the movie yet, but I bet it doesn't end at all like the book

 

Running Man tends to be a little too emotional, for me it's just amazing Arnie trash like Last Action Hero or Total Recall. Nothing "real good" such as Predator or Terminator 1.

But I have it on DVD and watch it from time to time. I have to admit that there's a little Arnie fan in me, although his English so reminds me of people talking during English lessons here in Germany lol.

 

I AM GOVERNATOR!

 

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (GB/USA 2008)



I had read the book six months ago and wasn't very pleased by it. The author often underlines with a proud voice that he wrote it in only 2 days. Well, lol, you certainly notice that! It's lacks so much attention to historical facts, the carelessness of the author simply renders the whole story impossible. It just didn't happen, and couldn't have happened. Not there, not then.

Short summary of the content. A family moves away from Berlin in approx. 1942, the designated end of the journey: Auschwitz. The father of the main character, 8-year old Bruno, just became Lagerkommandant (Camp Commander) of the well-known concentration camp. Bruno soon discovers a route to the camp (there's a path in the woods behind the house, INCIDENTALLY) and begins a friendship with one of the kids in the camp (there were no 8yr old's in A., but anyway). They talk, play ect. In the end the commander's son decides to join his jewish friend by digging his way under the fence (wtf) into the camp and the rest I don't want to tell.

If you ask me the author is a fucking dick-head. He made up a lot of things that are in contrast with actual events and conditions of the camp. The movie removes some of the horrificly inaccurate descriptions (book: the 8yr olds lifted up the fence with their hands so he could get in... yeah, right!) yet I still believe one should just take the whole story as it is: A very basic parable to show off the bigotry and weird morality of the Nazi genocide and their leader. Ignore any historical facts you know about Auschwitz for these 1,5 hours and you might see some good in it.

From this point of view, it was OKAY. Far from good though, the emotional score just adds another minus point as well as the cliché impersonating actors.

film: 6/10
book: 2/10

 

BLCK DYNAMITEaeaeaeae!!!!

 

Watching Saw 5, Figured I'd catch up as Saw 6 is already out.

-Doom

 

Many are hoping for a Fallout movie.

I don't need to. I just saw "A Boy and his Dog", where he even calls the mutt Dogmeat.

Alas, it's probably too theatrical and well made for most audiences today.

Special effects and "non-stop-action" have made films less meaningful and if you agree with this statement, then go ahead and watch it!