Valiant_Lucy,
I saw Morning Glory for the first time Sunday morning. I was also pleasantly surprised, not a Best Picture or anything (but not everything has to be). I thoroughly enjoyed the movie and also recommend it to anyone who just wants some good fun with a movie.

Shadowlander,
Thanks for the heads-up on Gigli, that's good to know.

I absolutely LOVE You Can't Take it With You. What an amazing cast of characters! They are all so REAL and you just know that they have their own stories that extend beyond the movie, though you don't see those bits.

I love how the mom has a kitten on the pages of her novel for a paperweight, and how normal it is for explosions to come out of the basement. It's also hilarious to see Essie dancing and her dance instructor has these hilarious lines, like, "Life is running around inside of me like a squirrel!"

See this movie if you haven't yet. It's so great.

I watched Wall-E last night for the first time on the advice of some friends. I was pleasantly surprised. Normally, I can't stand animated movies, The Incredibles and Meet the Robinsons being two of the very few exceptions (and even those, I've watched once apiece), but this one was pretty good. I probably won't ever watch it again but it was very very cute. It was a bit tree-huggerish and "Save the Earth" in places but other than that, I liked it.

I think my favorite scene is the one with Wall-E exchanging his tracks. It's so cute! And I love the little cleaning robot and the fight he gets in with Wall-E trying to clean him. So cute!

I just watched Maverick a few weeks ago, SnowAngel, and very much agree! Very funny movie and great casting (I love the cameo by Danny Glover, especially when he and Mel Gibson (both stars of the Lethal Weapon movies) almost recognize each other, with Glover riding off and giving his standard Lethal Weapon catchphrase )

*deals SnowAngel some cards for some 5 Card Draw*

I don't know what Lethal Weapon is, but we did find that part to be humorous.

I saw your post from a couple weeks and told my brother about it (since he had seen part of Maverick on AMC and he had been wanting to see the whole movie). He said to get it from the library the next time someone went, so we did. Thanks for posting about it.

SnowAngel

I am about to watch bettle juice. anyone seen it?

I'd think it'd be very difficult/surprising to find someone who hasn't seen this yet- unless they were very young.

Well I'm 18, but haven't seen it, though I've heard of it. I fear it doesn't interest me much. JP, Hidalgo and CoN is more my style

*About Beetle Juice*
Maybe, I say "very young" but I am also speaking as a 26yr old, (not that it's old)- but I guess it's more of a generational thing I guess.

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (IMDb Top 250- #12)

Though not my favorite in the series, I love it! Better than TTT. Such a fitting conclusion to the series, Peter Jackson did one amazing job in adapting this final book- much like with the first two. It always moves me when Aragorn bows to the hobbits, with everyone following his example. Great movie as you all know.

This keeps its rating of 9/10 from me

Winner of 11/11 Academy Awards:
Best Picture
Best Director
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Visual Effects
Best Editing
Best Original Score
Best Original Song: Into the West
Best Art Direction
Best Costume Design
Best Makeup
Best Sound Mixing

I saw Tangled again - and laughed the whole time!! that movie never ceases to make me laugh! my favorite part is when Flynn and Rapunzel first meet
Flynn: *creepy/goofy grin* "Hi."
Rapunzel: *hits him with the frying pan*

Up (IMDb Top 250- #98)

I have given my view before that this movie was only nominated for Best Picture, for two reasons: (1) 10 vs 5 slots. (2) WALL E having missed this nomination the previous year when only 5 movies were nominated. I still sort of feel that way, even if Up was one of the best reviewed movies of its year. However, I am starting to think that less and less. With each viewing I begin to appreciate this movie, though I still don't care much for the dogs flying planes.

Still,
The opening sequence is one of the best I've seen in an animated movie, and even for any movie. Absolutely beautiful and heartbreaking. Gotta love that!!

This goes up to a rating of 9/10 from me

Winner of 2 Academy Awards, and another 3 Nominations:
Best Original Score (Win)
Best Animated Feature (Win)
Best Picture
Best Original Screenplay
Best Sound Editing

The dogs flying planes is a fun moment but this is one case where Pixar tries to juggle too many contrasting emotions and it doesn't work so well. It's a good movie but not great. The first 15 or so minutes are excellent but the rest is just fun.

I saw 'Gran Torino' the other day for my ethnic studies class... I think this is the first (and only) film we saw that I thought was good... Despite the MASSIVE amounts of language and racist comments, it's surprisingly funny at some parts (if you watch it with the subtitles on there's some parts where it's just a scene of Clint Eastwood and the screen just says "GROWLS" ). I really liked how Sue is the strong person of the house and was the one always defending her brother (which makes what happens really sad) and the concepts it grapples with/presents. The ending surprised me.

Gran Torino was a great movie. I thought the language was rather strong and the racist comments weren't pleasant but let's be realistic - that's partly the nature of the movie and it's themes. First movie I've seen with Clint Eastwood and enjoyed (I don't like Westerns).

I am so over the erin brockovich movie. english classes ruin movies.

anyway i watched bettle juice and i very much enjoyed it, you can so tell a tim burton movie. who plays the main girl? because i know the actress but forgot the name?

Winona Ryder? She's the main young teen girl. Geena Davis plays the dead wife. Catherine O'Hara plays Winona's mother.

Gran Torino was a great movie, loved it. Just when you think Eastwood has thrown in the towel he comes out with another good movie. Lots of profanity and of course a few racist comments as others have said, but that's the point of the movie.

Continuing with my "Worst Movies of All Time" quest, last night I watched North (1994), winner of several Razzie awards, an admittedly unfunny movie (unfairly billed as a "comedy") of which film critic Roger Ebert said, and I quote:

"I hated this movie. Hated, hated, hated, hated, hated this movie. Hated it. Hated every simpering stupid vacant audience-insulting moment of it. Hated the sensibility that thought anyone would like it. Hated the implied insult to the audience by its belief that anyone would be entertained by it."

Yikes! I had to watch this one!

North stars Elijah Wood (yes, Frodo), half of the cast of Seinfeld as his bickering parents, and a bunch of other people who probably should have known better, but mostly Bruce Willis. At any rate North (a young Frodo) has a panic attack while his parents are arguing about their respective jobs and so he decides that they must not love him, or at least don't show him the appropriate amount of attention, so he emancipates himself and goes on a market as a sort of "free agent" for hire...or for adoption, in this case. He travels the world to exotic locations where various parental figures want to try their hand at adopting him, sort of like tryouts for a sports team. But no matter where North goes he can't seem to make a good match. Also Bruce Willis is kind of like North's guardian angel and is all over the movie giving sagely advice. Sorta. Meanwhile because of North's drastic actions another kid from North's school starts an anti-parent movement of some sort and so kids all of the country get pandered to as parents are afraid their kids will all run off and do what North did, and so this kid becomes some kind of all powerful mogul/kingpin/juvenile Mafia leader of some sort. The film nicely resolves itself in less time than it takes for me to write this sentence. Seriously, after having to sit through it I was happy to see it end, but it just...ends. It's so abrupt I honestly thought there'd be more in the end credits (there wasn't).

I see what Rob Reiner was trying to do when he made North, but I don't know if it was bad casting or a bad adaptation of the book (or a bad book, for that matter), but the whole thing really just doesn't work. I don't feel as harshly about it as Roger Ebert does but I will admit the movie does kind of reek at times (the Hawaii portion of the movie makes me cringe when I think about it) and its reputation might be deserved. There's a lot of star power in the film with cameos by Dan Akroyd, Kathy Bates, Abe Vigoda, Graham Greene (Joseph, the hilarious scheming Indian from Maverick, a much better movie if you ask me), Reba McEntyre, John Ritter, and a bunch of other folks. I find the premise of the film itself to be insulting (and bordering on revolting in its own way) and I seem to be not the only one. Despite all of this I was rather sad to find it wasn't in the bottom 100 of the imdb. Even so....

Not quite as bad as Ebert makes it out to be, but it's definitely a stinkburger. I have seen worse films though, so my quest for the worst movie of all time will continue... 1 1/2 stars of of 5.

Winona Ryder? She's the main young teen girl. Geena Davis plays the dead wife. Catherine O'Hara plays Winona's mother.

yes i found out she is in black swan.