What movies have you seen over the holidays?
 

I haven't been to any movies since the summer, but this weekend I saw The Ringer (okay), and Memoirs of a Geisha (pretty decent- beautiful, and stayed true to the book for the most part)

King Kong

The bug scene was positively revolting. I could have did without watching giant roaches and worm/slug things crawling all over people and eating them. Yuk

Other than that, thumbs up.

Dick and Jane: for the most part, funny...but it didn't really live up to the Jim Carrey movies I usually enjoy watching

Memoirs of a Geisha: IMO, the book was better and it tried to stick to it as much as possible...but I expected better. Perhaps I was just irritated at the fact that they filmed the movie in California and used CHINESE actresses for the lead roles. :mad:

The Ringer: At first I felt bad at laughing so much, but after a while I realized that I wasn't laughing at the fact that they were special...the jokes were kind of funny. Glad to know the Special Olympics gave it their approval.

Rumor Has It: SO MUCH HYPE. Didn't live up to the hype. I thought I was going to be laughing throughout the movie...but oh well. Jennifer Aniston was great, as usual, though. Shirley MacLaine saved the movie.

I felt the same way. The middle seemed to drag to me too. but I thought Shirley MacLaine and Kathy Bates (for the 2.5 seconds she was in it) were amazing.

Munich

Movie I hated of the decade.

-Rudey

The Producers.

Uma was absolutely gorgeous. Will Ferrel was great. Having Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick being on the Broadway Production means that their performances were great as well.

King Kong (work group)
War of the Worlds (DVD w/dad)
Munich (w/mom and dad)
HP - G of F

Cheaper by the Dozen, Two. My daughters dragged me to it on Christmas day.

Hillary Duff has had so much plastic surgery that she looks like a middle aged chain smoker who spends too much time in a tanning bed.

Tom Welling is, well, yummilicious. And, yes, I'm fully aware that I'm waaaay too old to say that ;)

The Ringer- I was slightly disappointed with it, as my boss said it was hilarious, and I expected it to be much more. I thought the jokes were slightly on the lame side. Johnny Knoxville did a good job in it, though.

Syriana- Very good. Kinda hard to keep all the subplots together, but I thorughly enjoyed it. Except the scene where George Clooney gets his fingernails pulled out.

I'm hoping to go see Munich before I go back to school on Saturday. I also want to see the Producers.

LMAO! Its not the plastic surgery....she was just jealous of all the attention that Lindsay Lohan got for being so skinny that she got jealous. So she decided to lose all her weight to get some attention...but it didn't end up working. I don't remember ANYONE ever talking about her weight...lol stupid b**ch.

But I agree...she does look like a middle aged chain smoking woman!! LMAO. But I still think she looks 100x better than her rather manly sister.


The only movie that i've seen in the theater was Chronicles of Narnia. I soo wanna see Memoirs of a Geisha ever since I realized that I read the book!! lol

But I have rented these movies:
40 year old Virgin (awesome movie)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (oldie but a goodie)
The Brothers Grimm (it was alright)
Serenity (AWFUL!!)

I've seen a lot actually.

King Kong
Chronicles of Narnia
The Family Stone
Memoirs of a Geisha
Pride and Prejudice
The Producers

I only saw The Producers, and we almost walked out in the first 15-20 minutes. But from then on, it was laugh out loud funny!

That is definitely a pet peeve of mine: then movie producers use someone who is of one ethnicity to play a character who is of another ethnicity.

I notice that a lot with Italian people playing Hispanics, and vice-versa. It's like the producers are saying, "dark hair, check. Brown eyes, check. Olive skin, check. All those Mediterranean types look the same, anyway." :rolleyes:

Oh, I agree!!! Did you see the poor thing on this month's Maxim cover? Not to be too nasty, because my nose wasn't all that great before my li'l visit to the plastic surgeon, but that is some honker she has there.

Stop hating.

-Rudey

I saw Rumor Has It and The Family Stone.

The Family Stone was awesome -- more bittersweet than I expected (I was thinking it would be a bit more lighthearted), but still very, very good.

Rumor Has It wasn't one of my favorites. Jennifer Aniston and Shirley MacLaine were great, but it seemed like something was just missing in the storyline. I wish we'd seen more of Shirley than we did. She didn't have as many scenes as I'd anticipated.

And, this wasn't in the theaters, but I finally saw Wedding Crashers a couple of nights ago. Funny!!!

Haven't seen anything in the theaters lately but managed to see four movies on the flights to and from London.

-Wedding Crashers
-40-year-old Virgin
-In Her Shoes
-Wallace & Gromit

After seeing the stage production of The Producers while we were there, I'm interested in seeing the movie.

Oh, I dunno -- I think Vivian Leigh did okay as Scarlett.

I liked "Memoirs of a Geisha." I had the opportunity to attend one of the premiers of the movie & enjoyed hearing the comments of the author & director.

I LOVED Vivian Leigh in GWTW. The first time I saw it I thought she was absolutely the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen. A neighbor of mine, a native Georgian, swears up and down that her accent isn't right, though! :)

I was really thinking more along the lines of Jennifer Lopez playing an Italian-American in "The Wedding Planner" or, my personal favorite, Egyptian Yul Brenner as the King of Siam in The King and I!

I didn't know Yul Brenner was Egyptian! Hmmm...you learn something new everyday.

Chow Yun Fat is Chinese isn't he? Cause he played the King of Siam in Anna and the King (the remake of the King and I). And, they had Jody Foster playing Anna.

You know, that's one of those things I thought I knew but never verified! A quick google search has informed me that he's actually Russian. So, I have egg on my face. Well, kind of; he's definitely not from Thailand! :)

When my mother was a child, her family kept saying that, if she had been older, she would have been the perfect Scarlett. Her hair was blue-black at the time, she has green eyes, and generally looks like you imagine Scarlett (if you were lucky enough to read the book prior to seeing the movie).

I'm just real glad she doesn't have Scarlett's "Mr. Hyde" personality!!