What movies have you seen recently that you thought were really good? This doesn't necessarily include your favorite movies or even movies you'd want to watch over and over again (like BTTF ;)).

For instance, last night I saw The Cooler. I believe it was made a few years ago, but just recently came out on DVD. It's about a guy with such bad luck that he works at a casino in Las Vegas to "cool" tables where gamblers are winning a lot. That is, until he falls in love and his luck starts changing. Sounds simple, but it's actually pretty complex, and it's hard to say much more without spoiling it. Has anyone else seen it? Stars William H. Macy and Alec Baldwin.

I know this isn't very new, but I just recently picked up a used ($.99) copy of an old Emilio Esteves & Charlie Sheen action/comedy movie called Men At Work (not to be confused with the band).

In short, two practical joking garbagemen come across a politician's body one day, and end up getting involved with the plot to find the killers, all the while getting chased by them, and the cops.

It's better (and funnier) than I'm making it sound. Strangely enough, there's one line that's very familiar with me. Around 10 years ago, I was taping something, when I channel surfed during the commercials. I have around 4 seconds of this movie already taped, with this dialogue:

Girl: "That's my car."
Guy: "Looks pretty undrivable."

I can't say what scene that comes from or anything, but I was shocked, yet glad to put a full movie to that line. :D :lol:

I was watching "My Cousin Vinnie" the other day. Great movie!

And "Ghost" was on, which is probably the only movie that is considered a "chick flick" that I can stand - and more than stand; I downright like it!

Has anybody seen Just Visiting? It's another time travel movie, where two Frenchmen from the 12th century get accidentally transported to Chicago in the year 2000. (I won't say how it happens).

Anyway, once there, one of the guys meets the descendant of his bride. He and his servant stay at her & her scheming fiance's house in the city - slowly getting used to life 800 years in the future! Meanwhile, the wizard who accidentally sent them there gets transported to the future himself to try and find them.

I won't say too much more, so as not to ruin it, but let's just say if you like Bill & Ted-esque time travel comedies (just the opposite scenario here) with a little bit of romance and action, you'll love this. :)

WARNING: You might laugh too hard (like I did) watching the early scenes of the pair as they get used to 2000. When they look at a toilet, they think it's a magic fountain, and that cars are red dragons. Later, they turn on the TV at his descendant, Julia's house, and say with a heavy French accent, "It's a bunch of leetle people trapped iin-side zee box!" and attack it with a sword. :lol:

Don't ask me why, but I just find that kind of thing to be fall down funny. :o Then again, if I got dumped in 2800, I doubt if I'd know what anything was, heh. :blink:

O yeah that movie. You know that movie was released in French before it was in English. I saw the French version w/english subtitles and i still laughed a lot.

I've seen Men At Work..

Lately,I watched A Clockwork Orange.

It's now my favorite movie ever. BTTF is 2nd.
Stanley Kubrick was a genius...he directed A Clockwork Orange.

Alex, a teenage hooligan in a near-future Britain, gets jailed by the police. There he volunteers as guinea pig for a new aversion therapy proposed by the government to make room in prisons for political prisoners. "Cured" of his hooliganism and released, he is rejected by his friends and relatives. Eventually nearly dying, he becomes a major embarrassment for the government, who arrange to cure him of his cure. A pivotal moment is when he and his gang break into an author's home: the book he is writing (called "A Clockwork Orange") is a plea against the use of aversion therapy, on the grounds that it turns people into Clockwork Oranges (Ourang is Malay for "Man"): they are not being good from choice (sentiments later echoed by the prison chaplain). The film reflects this: many bad scenes in a Clockwork Orange are accompanied by jolly music; if we are to experience them as we should, we have to do it consciously, by realising they are bad, and not because the director tells us so through the use of music and images.

Speaking of Stanley Kubrick, I recentl saw AI: Artifical Intelligence in the first time since it came out and it is a great underrated sci-fi film. It came out in 2001 and was directed by Steven Spielberg, but Stanley Kubrick had been working on it since the 1970s.

^I wanna see that movie. It sounds cool. What is the plot, in summary??? :blink:

^Its about an eleven year old boy robot who acts, loves and looks human, but he is a robot. He then goes on an adventure to become a "real boy". Its kinda like and updated take on Pinnochio, but not totally.

Yeah I've said A.I.
It's really good.
Haley Joel Osment is a great actor for his age range...

Speaking of Haley Joel Osment (I think that's how you spell it... :blink:), I saw Pay it Forward not too long ago on TV. I liked it a lot. Not one of those movies I'd want to watch over and over again, but it was interesting.

Yeah, also with Haley Joel Osment is Secondhand Lions, he was just plain funny in that one. That was actually a decent movie.

HJO is a pretty good actor in my opinion.

I just saw the movie Willard. Starring Crispin Glover. I thought that it was a very "interesting" movie. It was a Dark movie, with tons of rats. But some were CGI. I thought that Crispin acted very well. The movie was about a man and how everything turns all bad around him. Befrieinding a white rat named Socratees. Then when his mother dies all hell breaks loose on him. He loses his job from his dead fathers compan. And........nevermind, I wont spoil it. I liked it but others might be a little squimish. Go rent or watch it on TV. Not that great to be worth buying. Unless you just want every DVD.

HJO needs to stop growing. It's ruining his career!

I just saw The Last Samurai last night--very good. I was moved to tears! :(

i saw You Got Served(has the DVD) and it was a good movie!

i also saw Shrek 2,a GREAT MOVIE!

^Yeah Shrek 2 was pretty good.

Puss in Boots was hilarious. :D

^ Heh, I recently saw Shrek 2. It was pretty good, but I think the original was slightly better. :happydoc:

Anyway, I just saw Fahrenheit 9/11, and I think it was a powerfully moving film. Everyone should see it, whether or not you like George W. Bush. A word of advice, though--go into the theater with an open mind, especially if you're against the film from the start.

On a lighter note, I also saw the third Harry Potter film. I thought it was really good--the best of the three so far. There were only a few parts I didn't like, but most of it was great.

I saw Harry Potter 3, as I've read the book months ago. Also saw Garfield. I'll have to watch my other 30 or so movies again.

I saw Harry Potter 3. The Time Turner is really instresting. For people who haven't seen it I don't want to give it away. I'm seeing Shrek 2 in a few days. Hope I Enjoy it

Hey, is Farienheit 9/11 about Nine Eleven? I was hoping they'd make a movie off that. I want to see it. :happydoc:

I'm for George Bush and I think he's a great president. But I won't get us into a debate. ^_^

^This is what it said on IMDB.com:
A documentary that will trace why the U.S. has become a target for hatred and terrorism. It will also depict alleged dealings between two generations of the Bush and bin Laden clans that led to George W. Bush and Osama bin Laden becoming mortal enemies.

I heard on MTV News they took some Bush supporters to see it and tey said they made it look like he was stupid and it was totally against him. (But those were Bush supporters anyways).


I recently saw "Harry Potter 3" and like Dove said it was the best out of the 3. The Time Turner was my favorite part even though it had a different theory than BTTF and no DeLorean it was still cool.

I also recently rented "Daddy Day Care" and I had an OK time watching that. It wasn't really laugh out loud funny I did smirk here and there and maybe one or two laughs. But however I did like the Marvin character played by Steve Zahn he was cool.

And for those Daddy Day Care fans if you did not know they are making a sequel to DDC by making Daddy Day Camp.

A month or two ago (haven't posted in here yet) I saw "13 Going on 30". Which was an ok movie also. I enjoyed some parts being the 80's fan I am, with Thriller and some other parts too. I never laughed in that one or even smiled. I remember once I was ready to pull my hair out, but I call that one from a teenage boy point of view. :D

Um, no, HBK, Fahrenheit 9/11 is definitely not a movie about the events of 9/11. It's definitely in the movie, but it's more about what George W. Bush has been doing as a president and a bunch of (bad) stuff that he's connected to...

Obviously, going in to see the movie, I knew it was going to be flat-out against Bush. But I just want to say that everything Michael Moore said, everything he showed, did not seem like propaganda. It seemed very truthful, as if he were telling us things that we, as a country, really need to know, especially with the coming election.

I saw Harry Potter and the Prisioner of Askaban soon after it came out. I just forgot to say it here.

Ah, I see. Actually right after I posted I checked it out at IMDB and realized my mistake. ;)

There was a documentary directly about the events of 9/11 and but that was on the history channel a year or two ago.

i saw day after tomorrow awhile ago but forgot to post it on here. It was by far the best dissaster film ive ever seen!

Yeah, but I thought it would be interesting to make a film off of it.

You could have fictional characters based around a real plot. They could be on the airplane or something, and then you could have characters in the building. And it would be about everyone waiting and watching. :o
Some people might not like it though because it woud be too sad.
It would probably be the most heartbreaking film since The Passion.

Or maybe I'm just dreaming in my own little world... :blink:

Or just because it would be too sick...

I think that if anyone wanted to make a movie like that about 9/11, they should wait at least 20 or 30 years. I mean, just look at Tora! Tora! Tora! and Pearl Harbor--they were released in 1970 and 2001, respectively, while the attack on Pearl Harbor took place well before each of those years, in 1941.

If they made a movie on it soon, it would make the movie industry seem so heartless--trying to capitalize on a tragedy so soon after it happened.

^Exactly. But still it would be interesting to see what a movie on this would be like.

I just saw Spider-Man 2 last night. Boy I enjoyed it. If you love the original, you have to see this one. There are many funny jokes/scenes with Spider Man. I don't want to say any because the "going into" the scene would ruin it. And there might even be a surprise ending to the part for you. (Unless you are like me and go on to IMDB.com and find out who the villian for Part 3 is). I don't want to say anything about the story because I don't want to ruin it for anybody. Let me just tell you there was a lot of surprises/funny moments/action. It was great.

Even afterwards at McDonald's I remember acting like Spider-Man and even had the spider sense with the noises like he does in the movie. I also tried spinning webs through my hands and imaging the web plot their on my wrist.

Maybe I do that with all the movies (act like a character right after I saw it). But I was really involved with Spider-Man 2 that it just took control of me.

Go out and see it...you will be glad you did.

I rented and saw School of Rock last night. School of Rock is about a wannabe rock star in need of cash poses as a substitute teacher at a prep school, and tries to turn his class into a rock band. And overall it was a good movie. There were many quick jokes you need to listen carefully for like in the begining Jack's character says, "Sell my guitars? Would you tell Piccasso to sell his guitars?" (Even though Piasco is an artist). The kids almost stole the show from Jack. They were the best Freddie the drummer, Mr.Cool the keyboard player and that high pitching talking costume designer boy was the best out of them all. Espically that boy.

It was a very good comedy if you need something to watch sometime. There were many funny lines for people who have never seen the movie.

"You have to use your head and your mind...and your brain."
-Dewey Finn (Jack Black)

I saw Shrek 2 and Spiderman 2 recently. Great Movies

I am thinking of seeing that film. It is just I have read a really had review of it in a UK paper. I was wondering, out of 5 (1 being bad, 5 being great) what would you give it?


Has anyone here seen "Around the World in 80 days"? The one starring Jackie Chan and Steve Coogan.

^I want to see that. It looks very interesting, and funny.

Anyone heard of Napoleon Dynamite? It's some MTV film... anyway, I hadn't even heard of it until this morning when my friend suggested seeing it, and I have to say, if you have a weird sense of humor, this movie is hilarious! :lol:

I heard about it awhile ago and I love seeing the "Previews" or "Lessons" from Napleon. Like how to get girls. B)

I am hoping to see this, the previews look funny. But right now it is in select cities and my city was not selected. Maybe I can find it in some other city to go and see.

yea i think its one of those movies that you can see when it comes out on vid... i havn't seen it but it looks kinda funny...

I just saw Timeline, which was pretty good. There were other kids talking during the thing so I didn't catch the beginning so I couldn't understand too much... but still I thought it was cool.

But it didn't compare to Back to the Future.

I just saw Spider-Man 2 tonight, and I really enjoyed it. There were a few flaws in it, but that didn't reduce my enjoyment. :) For instance, I was okay with the length of the movie (could've been longer for all I care, lol), but I can see why people would complain about it being too long--it dwelled so long on certain ideas. I don't know why the script writer/director thought they needed to drive some points home so much.

Other than that, the story, action, jokes, and surprises were great. My friend even pointed out a BTTF-sounding line, though neither of us can remember the complete line: some woman in the very beginning shouted, "Hey, Spider-Man stole that guy's _____!" Unfortunately, the word "wallet" does not fill the blank. ;)

One last thing: Doc Ock kinda grossed me out at certain parts, just the way he is, I guess...