Spoilers What Movie Are You Watching?

[Huntn]

yesterday afternoon/last evening had a mini marathon while prepping for my impending colonoscopy this morning(tmi, sorry) viewed quick change(no pun intended), the man who would be king.

great films, love them still...

and got the all clear on my test!

he told me to eat more roughage.

Did they put you out with propofol? Great stuff, seriously!

 

[Eileen89]

I've started watching "4 Minute Mile" on Netflix. It's not very good, though.

 

[c8rlo]

Pixels, i miss the old classic coin ops...

 

[pachyderm]

Did they put you out with propofol? Great stuff, seriously!

lol.
they did. they put the IV in and said it may burn a bit but you won't notice for long. i said it is burning. then i was out like a light. true story. they said i would be groggy all day. i wasn't. went in at 6:30 a.m.(actual procedure at 7:30, was in the exam room by 7:40) and was out of recovery by 9:40. slept the whole time. came home and slept till noon. been up ever since.

 

[Tsuchiya]

Got around to seeing Mad Max: Fury Road the other day.

Super weird, but hugely entertaining.

 

[Huntn]

lol.
they did. they put the IV in and said it may burn a bit but you won't notice for long. i said it is burning. then i was out like a light. true story. they said i would be groggy all day. i wasn't. went in at 6:30 a.m.(actual procedure at 7:30, was in the exam room by 7:40) and was out of recovery by 9:40. slept the whole time. came home and slept till noon. been up ever since.

Even though Michael Jackson killed himself with it, propofol is great stuff. I never noticed any burning, not that I am disputing what you felt. I've had it for two colonoscopies and have woke up feeling slightly uphoric, which is much better than feeling like I'd puke. And since I fasted the day before, ready to go eat breakfast at Cracker Barrel. The nurse told me that before propofol, the previous anesthesia (whatever that was) would wipe patients out for the remainder of the day. It had been 20 years since I had been put under and back then, I remember waking up feeling nauseous. Not with propofol. Anyway back to the movies!

 

[Benjamin Frost]

Temple of Doom.

Love the humour.

 

[kupkakez]

I went to go see Steve Jobs last night. I really liked it.

 

[filmbufs]

We watched Cinderella (2015) last week and I was disappointed. Not that I had high expectations of a live-action version of the Disney classic but I am a huge fan of Kenneth Branagh who directed the movie. I'll have to cleanse my pallet by watching Henry V (1989) once again.

 

[Huntn]

We watched Cinderella (2015) last week and I was disappointed. Not that I had high expectations of a live-action version of the Disney classic but I am a huge fan of Kenneth Branagh who directed the movie. I'll have to cleanse my pallet by watching Henry V (1989) once again.

I realize I'm comparing live action to animation, but the live action seemed a bit dull. As an alternative, I'd recommend Enchanted (2007), which I found to be very entertaining and humorous.

A princess, who is prepared to be wed, is sent away to New York by an evil queen, where she falls in love with a lawyer.

 

[filmbufs]

I realize I'm comparing live action to animation, but the live action seemed a bit dull. As an alternative, I'd recommend Enchanted (2007), which I found to be very entertaining and humorous.

A princess, who is prepared to be wed, is sent away to New York by an evil queen, where she falls in love with a lawyer.

Enchanted was very clever and entertaining! Amy Adams is wonderfully talented and the filmmakers had fun creating this film. Much like the fun the filmmakers had with the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie.

 

[millerj123]

Just finished Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Stellar cast, engaging story, which pretty much hit all the right notes. Not everyone ends up happy, but closer to what they want. I was surprised to see Professor McGonagall as such a bitch, but that's probably why she's "Dame". She probably had the most actual development, but the rest of the characters got to at least grow.

 

[kazmac]

Agreed about Enchanted (2007). They had a lot of fun as they made fun of Disney conventions.

Broken Oath (1977) again. I may have been a little bit hard on Angela Mao but one does not watch her acting; she's a great fighter period. So why do I keep coming back: Chan Wai Man's nefarious Zhao Cai. I dig this baddie more each time I watch. This is the fifth period Kung Fu villain CWM played that I've lost my fan girl marbles over. And I used to be such a nice gal.

Escape from New York (1981) Remains my all time favorite movie, had to do a victory watch after hearing John Carpenter won a plagiarism law suit against Luc Besson and Besson's fellow screenwriters for the crappy EFNY rip off 'Lockout'. I haven't been fond of Carpenter's cash ins on his legacy (including the awful Escape From New York comic from Boom! studios), but this is one case where he was 100% right in filing the suit. I can only wonder what this will mean for other scripts that fail to acknowledge the source material.

 

[Savor]

Yesterday, on my girlfriend's birthday we watched...

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

Bad Santa (2003)

Alexander And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2014)

Rush Hour 3 (2007)

We liked them all although Rush Hour 3 is my LEAST favorite of that bunch although it has its moments like the "The Closer I Get To You" duet and seeing Chris Tucker smile watching Short Round in Temple of Doom. I don't love the series, but I prefer Rush Hour 2 the most and thank goodness it can be downloaded on YIFY now as that's the only one missing in my collection. Even that family Disney flick, Alexander And The Terrible.., we enjoyed it enough since it was my gf's bday and it was the kid's bday in the movie. Cheesy and stuff we normally would see on The Disney Channel but harmless and only 80 minutes to breeze right by it.

My favorite is still Bad Santa from that group. It seems very low budget as most of the locations was around a house that looks like my parents' old home and Torrance Mall. I was surprised the Asian lady was Lauren Tom from The Joy Luck Club and Futurama. She doesn't speak that way in real life. But I just laugh everytime I see adults curse like sailors around little kids and giving them terrible advice as seen from Bad Teacher. And with jolly Christmas music in the background to add irony!

I love this Bad Santa line...

"I beat the $-!t out of some kids today. But it was for a purpose. It made me feel good about myself. It was like I did something constructive with my life or something. I don't know. Like I accomplished something.

"You need many years of therapy. Many, many, many, f#<kin' years of therapy."


This WEEK -

"It's your mom, dude."

Will loop Back To The Future Trilogy for who knows how many times now. Some Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure to complement it.

On Wednesday, BTTF Day, will also watch The Last Witch Hunter maybe in the early afternoon. It shows here a few days before its US release. I won't expect much because I am not much into witch and vampire hunting movies. I thought Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013) was terrible. Hopefully, having no expectations it can surprise me.

My Android TubeMate app is ready for that Star Wars 7 trailer tomorrow which I probably will loop at least a dozen times in a day. C'mon, it's the Wars! Outer space samurais with telekinesis. So I probably will loop all six Star Wars films this week too. But I will start it from IV-VI and then I-III because Revenge of the Sith is my personal favorite SW and the only one where Lucas won't tinker with. I want to end it with my fav.

I will watch Fanboys (2009) in-between Episode VI and I though.

Another 2 hrs and 20 minutes being wasted watching Attack of the Clones where I only like 5 minutes of it but I probably will watch Triumph the Insult Comic Dog insult those nerds before it and the Family Guy parodies.

"The force is what gives the Jedi Knight his power. It surrounds us , it penetrates us. Mmm."

It is great to be a Back To The Future and Star Wars fan this week.

 

[S.B.G]

Over the weekend I watched all six Star Wars films in order from episode 1 through 6. I don't think I've ever done a Star Wars marathon like that before. I've done that for The Lord of The Rings, Special Edition, Extended Cut before. When I do that, I need to block off 12 hours to run through all of that!

 

[twietee]

lol, I've watched Episode IV and V - good times! I decided to ignore the prequels though. Watched them 1-2 times, that's more than enough.

I hope Disney hurries up a bit and re-releases the original movies with a proper HD treatment.

 

[AlliFlowers]

Some classic Michael J. Fox for me. Always loved Frighteners, and the first two BTTF.

 

[Huntn]

Itty bitty.

Over the weekend I watched all six Star Wars films in order from episode 1 through 6. I don't think I've ever done a Star Wars marathon like that before. I've done that for The Lord of The Rings, Special Edition, Extended Cut before. When I do that, I need to block off 12 hours to run through all of that!

More power to ya! I would watch the 3 LOTR movies over 3 consecutive nights and probably fast forward though some of the slow parts.

lol, I've watched Episode IV and V - good times! I decided to ignore the prequels though. Watched them 1-2 times, that's more than enough.

I hope Disney hurries up a bit and re-releases the original movies with a proper HD treatment.

The significant division between The Real Star Wars and the itty bitty prequels is amazingly glaring. The former is passionate heroic adventure, while the latter fills in the blanks in a most technological overbearing and unsatisyfing manner. Ok, so yeah, I know what generally happened, but I don't buy it. They must have relied on some poorly written historical archives to base Episodes I-III on.

The real anticipation will be if the sequels are REAL or more itty bitty...

 

[S.B.G]

They must have relied on some poorly written historical archives to base Episodes I-III on.

Wasn't the reason Lucas made episodes IV-VI first was because he didn't feel confident enough with the technology of the time to do the first 3? Did he already have the scripts written for everything back in the '70's? That's what I seem to remember from an interview he did a long time ago anyway.

 

[Huntn]

Wasn't the reason Lucas made episodes IV-VI first was because he didn't feel confident enough with the technology of the time to do the first 3? Did he already have the scripts written for everything back in the '70's? That's what I seem to remember from an interview he did a long time ago anyway.

I did include a in my comment. In hindsight regardless of the reasons, it seems that Episode IV was the sweet spot to launch the series. If it had started with Episode I, who knows, back in the 70's he might have made a much more compelling movie (compared to the prequel episode 1), but I don't know if that would have carried the series.

 

[S.B.G]

I did include a in my comment. In hindsight regardless of the reasons, it seems that Episode III was the sweet spot to launch the series. If it had started with Episode I, who knows, back in the 70's he might have made a much more compelling movie (compared to the prequel episode 1), but I don't know if that would have carried the series.

True. It is curious to wonder if the series would have been as epic as it is had he started with episode 1.

I know a lot of people aren't too happy about how 1-3 were done, but for my entertainment value, I enjoyed them all.

 

[Huntn]

True. It is curious to wonder if the series would have been as epic as it is had he started with episode 1.

I know a lot of people aren't too happy about how 1-3 were done, but for my entertainment value, I enjoyed them all.

I corrected my post to say Episode IV.

 

[S.B.G]

I corrected my post to say Episode IV.

I still knew what you meant.

 

[pachyderm]

Some classic Michael J. Fox for me. Always loved Frighteners, and the first BTTF.

fixed it for you....

 

[Huntn]

Jurassic World (2015)- Second viewing, same basic story as all Jurassic movies, Man creates dinosaur, dinosaur eats man, but still pretty darn good. Chris Pratt, and Bryce Dallas Howard, both get thumbs up! After watching this, I can go interact with both wild and tamed dinos in ARK Survival Evolved! I recently was eaten by a TRex when I was taming it and fell off the rock he could not climb.

Jurrasic Park (1993)- It's ready to go on Isla Nublar, but after several deaths never opens.
Lost World: Jurrasic Park (1997)- Sequal takes place on Isla Sorna, Dino researchers vs the money grubbing corporatists , trying to establish Jurrasic Park San Diego.
Jurrasic Park 3 (2001)- Dino expert tricked into giving an airborne tour of Isla Sorna, except they land. In my opinion, better than number 2.
Jurrasic World (2015)- An established successful park on Isla Nublar, where the genetic scientists build a new and improved hybrid, killing machine to bump up attendance.
Sequel ETA: 2018. Come on guys, time to think of a new angle.

Spoiler

Ok, the park closes after quite a few deaths. They really wanted to turn Rapters into weapons of war? What's next? Aftermath, an attempt to rebuild and reopen, some unforeseen consequences?