Rented a good movie lately?

[peapod1980]

I dying to see something really good. Any suggestions?

Well, Mr. Pod and I have been working our way through the "Jackass" boxed set, and it makes me laugh so hard.

 

[DTinTexas]

I just bought a copy of "March of the Penguins." I seldom see a movie in the theater and then buy a copy. This was the exception. Excellent film!

Two that I have rented lately are "Ray" and "Beyond the Sea." Those have been out for a bit, but I enjoyed both of them.

DTinTX

 

[kathydwells]

I just watched Hildago the other night. I really liked it.

 

[peapod1980]

I just bought a copy of "March of the Penguins." I seldom see a movie in the theater and then buy a copy. This was the exception. Excellent film!DTinTX

The kids just watched that today! I put it in one of their stockings.

 

[whiteyfunn]

Oh, good. Hubby just brought that home.

We saw War of the Worlds last night -- at one point it got so gross and depressing I had to walk out of the room. Just not in the mood. I did come back for the end though and while it was fascinating it was rather abrupt. I didn't like the pace of the movie and thought the sheer volume of action scenes was overwhelming. It would have been nice to see some of the concepts fleshed out a little more. I felt bad for little Dakota Fanning and wondered if making it scarred her for life. She already acts like she's 30.

The 40 y.o. Virgin was very funny. I'm not usually into ribald humor but there were many laughs in that one.

Jfunn and I watched 40 Year Old Virgin today. Hilarious.

 

[audie]

Shaun of the Dead is a must see. British humor, a funny take from the zombie horror flick Dawn of the Dead.

Requiem for a Dream is a few years old, good, but kind of disturbing, about drug culture.

Two different ends of the spectrum, but both good.

i heartily agree on shaun of the dead - i have probably watched it 100 times, 3 of which were yesterday evening - i love the satellite dish with east and west feeds !

 

[peapod1980]

Jfunn and I watched 40 Year Old Virgin today. Hilarious.

Ah, a little detox time? ;-)

 

[audie]

I just watched Hildago the other night. I really liked it.

viggo is soooooo hot ! can't wait to see a history of violence that he was in this fall.

 

[audie]

tangent alert - what are the funniest movies you have seen? my favorites are dodgeball, bubba-ho-tep, shaun of the dead, porky's, monty python and the holy grail, a christmas story, 50 first dates...... i know there are scads more, just can't think of them. i order so many movied from dvd empire, they sent me a $15 gift certificate for christmas, and when i gave the ups guy his christmas present, he said "what's this, a movie"?

 

[Kurt]

Requiem for a Dream is a few years old, good, but kind of disturbing, about drug culture.

Kind of disturbing??? - Whoah, you are interesting.

I have a soft spot for depressing drug movies and Requiem is one of the most intense movies I've ever seen.

Employing shock techniques and sound design in a relentless sensory assault, Requiem for a Dream is about nothing less than the systematic destruction of hope. Based on the novel by Hubert Selby Jr., and adapted by Selby and director Darren Aronofsky, this is undoubtedly one of the most effective films ever made about the experience of drug addiction (both euphoric and nightmarish), and few would deny that Aronofsky, in following his breakthrough film Pi, has pushed the medium to a disturbing extreme, thrusting conventional narrative into a panic zone of traumatized psyches and bodies pushed to the furthest boundaries of chemical tolerance. It's too easy to call this a cautionary tale; it's a guided tour through hell, with Aronofsky as our bold and ruthless host.
The film focuses on a quartet of doomed souls, but it's Ellen Burstyn--in a raw and bravely triumphant performance--who most desperately embodies the downward spiral of drug abuse. As lonely widow Sara Goldfarb, she invests all of her dreams in an absurd self-help TV game show, jolting her bloodstream with diet pills and coffee while her son Harry (Jared Leto) shoots heroin with his best friend Tyrone (Marlon Wayans) and slumming girlfriend Marion (Jennifer Connelly). They're careening toward madness at varying speeds, and Aronofsky tracks this gloomy process by endlessly repeating the imagery of their deadly routines. Tormented by her dietary regime, Sara even imagines a carnivorous refrigerator in one of the film's most memorable scenes. And yet... does any of this have a point? Is Aronofsky telling us anything that any sane person doesn't already know? Requiem for a Dream is a noteworthy film, but watching it twice would qualify as masochistic behavior.