What movies have you seen recently?

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When Worlds Collide - 1951 science fiction film. Think a 50s version of Armageddon only without all the daftness. Well, with some daftness, but 50s daftness. Won an award for special effects. Good.

Pom Poko - Ghibli raccoon/tanuki awesomeness. Big balls.

Take Shelter - Recent drama thing. I think I liked it, but I wouldn't rave about it. Some nice effects with birds. And I liked the atmosphere.

Nashville

Musical Drama taking place in Nashville about country music and gospel music.

"Letter Never Sent". Beautiful film making and some of the best cinematography I have seen in service of an utterly stupid film. Too much soviet propaganda and not enough real human behavior. The writers didn't research how people would solve problems in those particular circumstances.

"Brave". Man, I hate American films! It pushes all the right buttons to make you cry at just the right moments and feel just the right emotions and in the end there isn't anything real about it. It needed something of "The Cold Equations" about it, but it never really delivered.

Batman: Mask of the Phantasm. To hell with Nolan's trilogy: this is the best Batman film ever made. First time I watched it and I am impressed.

Boys Don't Cry and Notes On A Scandal. Both very good.

The Secret of NIMH
Watership Down
The Plague Dogs
Lincoln
Life of Pie

The first three were at home obviously. I kind of went on a "dark-animated-movies" marathon when I was sick a few weeks ago.

Saw Lincoln and Life of Pie in theaters about two weeks ago. Thought they were both great.

The Girl That Played With Fire

Closer - Complicated film about complicated people with commitment and sexual issues. Their lives looked tiring.

Star Trek - again. I love Spock in this film, although it doesn't feel very Trekky.

I just got back from seeing Flight, the new Denzel Washington movie directed by Robert Zemeckis.

This is a movie about the obvious. Don't drink alcohol and fly planes.

Despite a crappy script and being an overtly long movie; another terrific performance by Denzel Washington along with excellent direction by Robert Zemeckis. The plane crash sequence is scary, but not the scariest ones ever, like some critics mentioned in reviews of Flight.

Superman

The Life Of Pi. Everyone should see it. It's nearly perfect, I think

Where the Wild Things Are

Fantasy drama about a young boy with an active imagination who runs away to an island where creatures crown him as their ruler.

Not bad, but it ended abruptly. I recognized the voice of James Gandolfini, the man who does Tony Soprano.

Killing Them Softly

So I just watched the last Twilight movie, Breaking Dawn and *SPOILERS* (although no everyone cares much about spoilers of that movie but better be safe than sorry) not bad . I was horrified when they killed Carlisle and Leah and Jasper and Seth in that battle in the end although I was surprised at how the movie creators were so daring to do that, how Edward and Bella would ultimately win, but at what cost, at what cost! And then it was all an Alice vision, oh man how disappointing, everybody in the theather groaned and laughed and cursed at that part, and I should actually have seen that coming, but I'm also reading ASOIAF right now, where the dead stay dead, so I guess that made me think the Twilight movie would be able to pull off something similar . But in the end it was clever, it gave people the chance to see the epic fight that they missed in the book, while keeping the happy ending because, after all, it's not Game of Thrones. Sometimes I can be such a sucker for happy endings

Léon: The Professional

Natalie Portman's very first role. A good movie about a teen girl, with the help of a professional assassin, seeks revenge against corrupt cops who killed her family

Dirty Work.