What movies have you seen recently?

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Great film. I remember reading the original French comic when it was published, and the movie is pretty faithful to it's source.

Saw yesterday Sabotage with Arnold Schwarzenegger, an ok film, emphasizes little to much on the gore but still a very good film. I saw it because the day before I saw Fury from the same director.

I not know it was based on a comic book.

Little Darlings

Porky's

Better Than Chocolate

Deliver Us From Evil.

Eric Bana stars as an emotionally troubled NYPD cop in this okay horror film who discovers that there is a demonic threat in New York. The film's imagery is actually quite a bit better than the story, and so tries to depend on visuals to carry it. The biggest problem I have with this movie is that it's yet another one of many horror flicks that are allegedly based on true events. Yeah, right.

Toy Story.

Spoilers ahead:

That scene in the middle where Buzz discovers that his entire life is a lie is rough, the music in that scene is especially good too, and that final line before it ends, after his attempt to fly out the window and learning that he can't actually fly.

"cleary I will go sailing no more" while he lies there on the floor, with his arm missing.

That is rough.

Stripes

Lars and the Real Girl

The Phantom of the Opera (1925 Lon Chaney version)

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad

Disney animated adaptions of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and The Wind in the Willows.

In Fear.

Psychological horror film about a young couple on their way to an Irish festival, only to find that their trip to a local hotel has been misdirected into a maze of forest roads, where they are stalked by a maniac. Soon, they accidentally hit a man on the road side, who they give a ride to for fear that he has been hurt. He tells them that he also is being shunted by madmen. But soon, they come to suspect he is not what he claims to be. Pretty good, slow building suspense.

The Pink Panther (1963)

I love the Ethan Hawke version!

Me too; probably my favorite. Never really gets the respect it deserves.

I hated Shakespeare for the longest time because my English teachers had no idea how to teach it and made us watch the worst movie versions. It wasn't until just a few years ago that I saw the Ethan Hawke Hamlet on TV and then not much later the Jon Finch Macbeth, both of which made me start to appreciate the work. Now I've got a whole shelf on a bookcase full of the plays, and DVDs and Blu-rays of various film versions.

Some people have a parent or a good teacher to thank for making them appreciate Shakespeare. I have Ethan Hawke. Go figure.

Soon I'll be re-watching Branagh's Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing, DiCaprio's Romeo & Juliet, Kurosawa's Throne of Blood and The Bad Sleep Well (loosely adapted from Macbeth and Hamlet), and I'm going to pick up Finch's Macbeth on Blu-ray when Barnes & Noble's November Criterion 50% Off sale kicks in...

Feelin' kinda bardy.