What Did You Watch Today?

[Benji]

Admission was fun, something a tad different to the usual romantic drama spiel. Tina Fey and Paul Rudd have great chemistry.

[stokeriño]

So the vast bulk of Close Encounters of the Third Kind is pretty fucking dull. Basically everything except the very beginning and the very end. I care not for any of these losers and their varying degrees of obsessive crazy.

There's a scene where, in the background, the guy's kid is watching Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century...and I basically spent the next half-hour really-really-really wanting to watch that cartoon instead of the actual movie.

Incidentally, said cartoon is here and it is, of course, wonderful:

http://vimeo.com/64344734

[MalaCloudy Black]

I Am Santa Claus is a really good documentary.

[Benji]

Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas is alright, you know what you're getting with the Disney troop.

[Monkey D. Lars]

So, was Denzel just going through the motions in The Equalizer?

[Benji]

Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas is was meh. Not as good as the okay first one, and it has that awful cheap looking CGI animation that had an inexplicable use in the mid 00s.

[Benji]

Speaking of awful cheap Hollywood stuff that no-one wanted, the 3D abuse in A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas is tacky and awful, as 3D is 99% of the time (less so since I'm watching it in 2D because I don't hate myself that much). I'm about 20 minutes in and I'm already tired of it.

EDIT: Plus side, it gets better as the film goes on (the film itself, not the 3D).

[Benji]

Currently watching Rocky Balboa. It's really good, very sweet film that uses the time between films as a positive thing and not something holding it back or hiding it. Love the actress playing Little Marie too.

[stokeriño]

The final Hobbit movie is solid enough fare. I suspect that they took the criticism of LOTR having 'too many endings' to heart and so instead glossed over most of the fallout in this one. Presumably what we're supposed to take away is "and now that the bad guys are dead, the others all eventually figured out their differences in some way".

[TKz]

Stoke, without spoiling it too much, what are the five armies actually fighting over?!

And do they just wrap up the Smaug story at the start?

[stokeriño]

The armies all have things they want either inside the mountain (either specific pieces of treasure or the great mass of it) or the mountain itself (strategic location).

Smaug is dealt with fairly early, yeah.

[Kaney]

Guardians of the Galaxy was fucking amazing. I can't decide between it and Avengers but holy fuck what a movie. Can't pick between Starlord, Drax or Groot. They were all so good.

[Benjamin]

Smaug is dealt with fairly early, yeah.

I know this isn't really a spoiler, but I'm still going to be annoyed with you

Edited December 15, 2014 by Benkid

[Benji]

Deck The Halls was fun. Not as great as I'd hoped, but any film with Danny DeVito and Kristen Chenowith is okay in my book.

Seemed to get shit on in reviews but it's really not that bad.

[Cymbols]

Hobbit 3 was great.

[Benji]

I'm 50 minutes through the 77 minute Willow Creek and am bored to tears. It has basically been 50 minutes of jack shit.

EDIT: Oh God let it be over. The last ten minutes has literally just been the two leads sitting in a tent trying to figure out noises. I'm not even using hyperbole.

EDIT 2: 77 fucking minutes for a really shitty and predictable jump shock. This may be the worst film I ever saw.

[Monkey D. Lars]

I wish there was more JCVD in Dragon Eyes (2012).

[Mx. Canadian Destroyer]

Just finished Short Term 12, a 2013 indie flick. Absolutely loved it. Hit home for me, mostly because of the line of work the film is about and the way she deals with things. Great movie. I highly recomend it.

[Benjamin]

Holy fuckshit, The Raid 2 was fucking epic.

[Benjamin]

So I'm FINALLY watching Gone Girl.

I'm all alone. In a cinema that could easily fit 250 people. This is fucking awesome.