I watched Real Steel. I'd say it's a good movie - if you're 11 years old.

on the music tip i did like the opening song in the movie - "All My Days" by Alexi Murdoch.

was on a high when I went in and was even higher when I came out!
I can give it no higher recommendation

Really wanted to see Moonrise Kingdom last weekend, but it hasn't opened here yet - will have to wait another week and a half

I am really looking forward to it also, but it might not play here at all.

The Dictator was a steaming pile.

Wait, Moonrise Kingdom IS a Wes Anderson movie?! I thought it was a parody of his style of movies.

Saw Men In Black 3 with the mrs. earlier this week. It was really good.

Saw Men In Black 3 with the family last week. A totally enjoyable summer flick and my favorite of the series.

Wife and I watched this. I really enjoyed Steve McQueen's Hunger, so I decided to give this a view. My wife really didn't like it, and I was just meh on it. I don't know exactly what I expected out of it. I guess a strong character-driven film. The problem wasn't Fassbinder, but the lack of anything but paper thin supporting characters. Little facts of the past were alluded to and mentioned momentarily, but then vanished. Suffice to say, I thought a lot of opportunities were missed. The 3rd act was also pretty weak imo. This hasn't turned me off McQueen's future films, though. There is an inherent beauty in both his films despite the subject matter. His next film 12 Years A Slave, is in pre-production and once again has Fassbinder, as well as Brad Pitt. Looking forward to it.

I can't see the image, but I assume you're talking about Shame...I can't say I enjoyed it or Hunger, but I think Steve Mqueen is going to make a film/films that I will love eventually...dude a super talented film maker, and I'm really looking forward to that next one.

i'm in the same boat.

maybe i'm still humming from this but that was amazing.
Favourite movie of the year so far hands down and wiggling the tackle,
it's just so immersive and head spinningly crackers and with stunning
sets and all the crazy Alien concepts it throws up, it was a total blast.
The packed audience filed out in silence! (I think that was a good thing...)
9/10

Seems like Prometheus is made for the big screen. I'll fork over the dough to see it.

I really dig Cronenberg films, and will see them no questions asked. When I saw he was once again teaming with Viggo, and adding the new "hot commodity" Michael Fassbinder into the fold--in a film about Jung & Freud, well I about peed my pants. It seemed too perfect on paper. And, then to think that this is his follow-up to Eastern Promises and A History of Violence--it seemed like a home run.

Well, it probably was more a blooper single into the outfield. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't horrible but it wasn't fantastic by any means. First and foremost, and I have to get this off my chest, Kiera Knightley probably makes the most grotesque faces in this of anyone I've seen outside a horror film. I mean honestly, you have to feel bad that she didn't win an Oscar because now making those horrendous faces was all for naught.

The problem, in my opinion, was there really wasn't any tension built. Perhaps it was because I was semi-familiar with the story, but mostly it was because the film seemed to just chug along serving no purpose really. We get to certain points in which tension should be evident, but there really isn't any. *spoiler*Even when Kiera Knightley's character is seemingly blackmailing Jung, or when Jung and Freud disagree--there is nary a knot being tied in your stomach.

I'm just not sure where Cronenberg thought there was a great film in this. For a filmmaker so intriguing, resourceful and adventurous, this film makes next to no sense. And, I'm not even bashing it because it doesn't fit into a "Cronenberg" mold, because to be honest, I think he's past making stuff like Videodrome and Dead Ringers. No, its disappointing because he's proven himself an adept filmmaker. Maybe that's why I'm probably being harsher on it than if jo blo did it.

Fucking 10 million years since the last good movie you've seen and you still can't post an image.

I’ve been to Ireland, but never seen this side of it. Two clans of cousins beat the piss out of each other in a series of bare-knuckle bouts over a 10 year period. Crazy bastards, the lot of ‘em. It's on Instant watch...Good Doc, worth watching.

post/av

i watched John Carter. it was pretty good.

saw no trailer or read any guff on this so went in curious,
and although to say it was actually enjoyable is probably the
wrong word to describe it, I still found it to be a satisfying sarf lahndan
drama with a cast of great actors I'd never seen before and a smart
John Cooper Clark cameo thrown in with some pretty good tunes on the soundtrack.
It hits the spot for the 3 big C's - crack, you caaant! and chaos
8.6/10

My wife and I saw Moonrise Kingdom over the weekend and both really loved it. It made us want to go back and revisit every Wes Anderson movie, mainly because we both agreed that this might actually be his best one.

As overbearing as his style can be, and as awkward as it can make some of the actors seem - especially the girl in this - the heart of this movie was so rich and genuine that I found myself caring about the characters more than I have in probably any of his movies. It's at least on the same level as Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums. And in the end, all the stylistic choices (the miniatures, the obsessively composed shots, the soundtrack) seem perfect. I wouldn't want it to look or feel any other way.

I saw Moonrise Kingdom on Saturday night with my family. It was a great film. I'm a big fan of Wes Anderson films, and thought it was considerably better than The Darjeeling Limited and on par with The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. I had planned on making a trip to Omaha to see it this weekend, since it didn't look like Lincoln was going to get it, but some how we became the first city in Nebraska to get the film.

Just saw a review of "Magic Mike" which says it's set in Ybor City, which makes it rather shocking that the film wasn't scored by Craig Finn.

So, seeing it or not?

I'm going to be there on Saturday. I hope it's even half as good as The Girlfriend Experience, & three-fifths as funny as The Informant! (My favourite recent Soderbergh films. Never saw Che, & Contagion was like Moneyball, for me, good but a little too slow.)

nah

maybe once it's on cable or something

I saw TED. FEMGAR wasn't keen on seeing Savages.

This movie could have been fucking AWESOME, instead it was merely "kinda funny."

I think they suffered from explaining how TED become animated, and trying to fit a real story into something that, let's face it, is fantastical on it's face - if you concede that the bear is real why the fuck would you care how it came to be? It also seemed that they were milking that opening scene for minutes, as in the original script was probably an hour and fifteen minutes, but they used the opening scene and several EXTREMELY slow moving, lingering shots to make it a feature length film.

So in the end this movie played sort of like Caddyshack to me -- it's funny, but it's just so much better when TED is on the screen -- just as my favorite scenes in Caddyshack all involve Rodney Dangerfield. That plus being written by the creator of Family Guy, you know you'll get some pop-culture/gross out humor, with a few genuinely funny moments.

I'd give this a B- as a movie, not because it wasn't funny, but because with a few tweaks we'd be talking about this movie in 20 years.