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Ok, NationStaters give me your best/favorite movie that is currently in the theaters (US). If you don't mind?

I haven't seen it yet, but I hear King Kong is awesome from a few people. Just be prepared, it's 3 hours long, I think.

Narnia is excellent, and I also hear that Rent and King Kong are good.

Brokeback Mountain, although it woulda been a lil' bit better if someone ate pudding.

I heard Siryana was pretty good.

King Kong rocks! Last weekend I saw it twice, once on saturday and once on sunday. I wouldn't bring anyone under 10, though, there are some surprisingly scary parts (natives)

Is that it! I think you dudes and dudettes spend too much time on NS general.

Is that it! I think you dudes and dudettes spend too much time on NS general.
So says the man asking for Opinions on movies IN NS GENERAL.

Narnia was ok. but some of the relationship issues just wasn't done properly.

King Kong rocks! Last weekend I saw it twice, once on saturday and once on sunday. I wouldn't bring anyone under 10, though, there are some surprisingly scary parts (natives)
I got photos with me and most of the stars (the only one I didn't get was Jack Black, as he wasnt there) at the Wellington Premiere of King Kong. My gf got all their signatures and then sold it for $60. Naomi Watts is so hot in real life.
I'm probably going to see it on the 28th/29th.

Ok, NationStaters give me your best/favorite movie that is currently in the theaters (US). If you don't mind?

Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe
Rent
Good Night and Good Luck (though this may not still be out depending on where you are)
The Producers (its in limited release right now, but wide release as of tomorrow)
Memoirs of a Geisha

Those are the movies I've seen recently that were good. I wasn't impressed with King Kong, Munich, or Syriana.

Ok, NationStaters give me your best/favorite movie that is currently in the theaters (US). If you don't mind?

Films that are currently showing in theatres now:

King Kong
Fun With Dick and Jane
Domino
Jarhead
The New World

I go in for chick movies, so I am wanting to see The Family Stone, and Rumor has it.

I have a husband though, so I will end up seeing King Kong.

I can't really recomend any of them though, since we only go to the "real movies" about twice a year, once in July and once on Christmas day. ;)

The only movie that I have seen in the theatres recently has been "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire". I think they did a good job with it. Definitely alot darker and more sinister than its predecessors.

The only one that really hasn't been mentioned is Pride and Prejudice, which was surprisingly well done for how short it was.

id recommend syriana. if you liked the style of the movie "traffic" youll be Ok with this. it leaves you with a glimmer of an undestanding of why the mideast is so fucked up and why it IS all about oil even when it isnt about oil. they dont cover all the players but enough of them so that you can see how complicated it is

ive also seen narnia and king kong

narnia is a childrens movie. the plot isnt complicated or deep, no more than the book was. the execution is excellent. the actors are great. the cgi is impressive. my sister found it too slow but i loved it.

king kong is a great remake of the original. it is just a big ape movie but if you like that kind of thing you wont find a better one anywhere. good performances, great cgi, the love story is kinda lame but the action scenes make up for it. you may well fall in love with naomi watts she is so beautful in this movie. the depiction of newyork city in the depression is magical.

I'd recommend Fun with Dick and Jane, but Jim Carrey wasn't as funny as I had hoped he'd be.

The only movie that I have seen in the theatres recently has been "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire". I think they did a good job with it. Definitely alot darker and more sinister than its predecessors.hated how they portrayed Hermione tho.

Don't know if it's out in the US yet, but Jarhead is fucking amazing. Saw it on preview (for free! Woo!) a few weeks ago over here (UK), and I'm going to see it again when it comes out properly (Jan 13th). You should too.
Ooo-ra.

i thought that the fourth harry potter movie was really good, but if your like, a HUGE fan of the books and will be mortally offended if the movie differs at all from it, then probably dont see it. but other than that, i think it was the best harry potter movie of all of them.

Garr. I don't like Harry potter. At all.

BTW, Munich is excellent.

King Kong was actually significantly better than I originally expected; it was fairly impressive, really. Great action, great CGI, a good depiction of the Depression, some rather trite romance, a few examples of startlingly good characterization... (Jack Black played his character wonderfully - he was the most interesting in the movie)

Brokeback Mountain is supposed to be absolutely wonderful, though obviously only if you're very open-minded.

Narnia was LotR Jr., and was a good, well-rounded movie with good acting, good effects, and some reasonably good action that can appeal to people other than children.

HPaGoF was very good, in my opinion the best yet. Ignore the whiners; I have obsessively read the books, and still liked it. The simple fact is that what makes a good book does not necessarily make a good movie, and the first directive of a director is (or should be) to make a good movie; sticking to the book like instant cement comes second.

My only real complaints would be the choppiness of scene transitions early in the movie, the fact that they added some extra stuff that wasn't necessary, at the cost of removing good scenes that they could've kept if the first task wasn't about a century long, and the lack of explanation for some things. It's rather pointless to include an event if you don't explain it to people who haven't read the book.

Otherwise, it was great. Darker, more dramatic, more interesting, but with more humor in other parts, too. Voldemort's acting was stupendous.

Cinderella Man.

'Nuff said. [Although--since its out on DVD it's probably only in discount theaters, if it's still in any at all. Apologies; I responded to this before I bothered to read the "still in theaters" qualifier]

That can't possibly still be in theaters, can it?

The only movie that I have seen in the theatres recently has been "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire". I think they did a good job with it. Definitely alot darker and more sinister than its predecessors.

I liked this film too, as did my two sons.

Today we saw King Kong- its good. I may have developed a fear of heights during the scence on the Empire State Building.
Jack Black stinks in it though. poor,overacting. I think they just needed a guy with wild eyes.

Cinderella Man.

'Nuff said. [Although--since its out on DVD it's probably only in discount theaters, if it's still in any at all. Apologies; I responded to this before I bothered to read the "still in theaters" qualifier]

That's ok, I was given the DVD for Christmas. I think we will see King Kong on Sunday.

Jack Black stinks in it though. poor,overacting. I think they just needed a guy with wild eyes.

I completely disagree. He was perfect - manic, obsessed, selfish yet selfless before his strange cause, at least somewhat sociopathic, but with the charming, snake-oil-salesman, I'm-not-crazy manner that people like him so often really have. Rolling eyes and traditional 'madness' would have completely ruined the characterization - he's not a wild man who talks to himself and tries to eat Sprite cans, he's a much more subtle, interesting, and convincing insane character.

I completely disagree. He was perfect - manic, obsessed, selfish yet selfless before his strange cause, at least somewhat sociopathic, but with the charming, snake-oil-salesman, I'm-not-crazy manner that people like him so often really have. Rolling eyes and traditional 'madness' would have completely ruined the characterization - he's not a wild man who talks to himself and tries to eat Sprite cans, he's a much more subtle, interesting, and convincing insane character.

You have a point-I'll admit I'm starting with a bias against him. I feel he always plays the same glaring character and just dont care for him.

I thought Adrien Brodie was pretty good in it.

I'll give you that his characters always tend to have the same elan, but that's actors for you. Look at Jim Carrey - the guy couldn't play a role differently to save his life, but he's been successful, and I'd say Jack Black's acting is much more character-versatile than Carrey's. If he can manage manic sociopath and apathetic rocker equally well, even if the underlying style is the same, that's still doing better than Carrey's very one-trick pony of being extremely goofy/whacky and appealing to children.

Brokeback Mountain is the best story and the best acting out there right now, hands down, but you better be okay with seeing homosexuality up close and personal.

I'd recommend Fun with Dick and Jane, but Jim Carrey wasn't as funny as I had hoped he'd be.
Unless it's your dick, and Jane is hot, wassup? :D

D'oh! Wrong quote.

HPaGoF was very good, in my opinion the best yet. Ignore the whiners; I have obsessively read the books, and still liked it. The simple fact is that what makes a good book does not necessarily make a good movie, and the first directive of a director is (or should be) to make a good movie; sticking to the book like instant cement comes second.

My only real complaints would be the choppiness of scene transitions early in the movie, the fact that they added some extra stuff that wasn't necessary, at the cost of removing good scenes that they could've kept if the first task wasn't about a century long, and the lack of explanation for some things. It's rather pointless to include an event if you don't explain it to people who haven't read the book.

Otherwise, it was great. Darker, more dramatic, more interesting, but with more humor in other parts, too. Voldemort's acting was stupendous.

I also think this was the best of the Potter films. Not as "true" to the book as the first one, of course, but the book is three times as long, what are you going to do? My only complaints... They did delete some characters I like and didn't go into important things like how BC Jr got out of Azkeban. If you had't read the book you might not know what to fill into the holes. I was a bit dissapointed in the scene where the students from the other schools arrived- not as spectatular as it was made out in the book. And the music wasn't all that great. It was good at times, but on the whole, I would say below par.
I know people have a problem with Emma Watson playing Hermione, since she is supposed to be a pretty unattractive girl with terrible hair, but come on. She's a great actor, and makes the character steal the show IMHO. I mean, come on, your bitching because the actress is TOO HOT?

I was the exact opposite - I thought the entries by other schools were too spectacular. Seriously, since when are the other schools academies of theatrical gymnastics? Durmstrang was worse than Beaubatons. I'll admit that the entrances were cool, but they made no sense whatsoever.

I was the exact opposite - I thought the entries by other schools were too spectacular. Seriously, since when are the other schools academies of theatrical gymnastics? Durmstrang was worse than Beaubatons. I'll admit that the entrances were cool, but they made no sense whatsoever.

I wasn't refering to that, which was a bit overdramatic. I meant the arrival. The ship coming out of the lake was supposed to be grand and awe inspiring, and it looked like a bathtub toy popped up. And the carriage was supposed to be drawn by these great beasts (they touched on the dialog about them drinking single-malt whiskey, but that's it) but it looked like a pack of ponies.

edit: Oh, and the Beaubatons entry into the great hall was weird. They didn't go into Fleur being part-Veela (which she wasn't hot enough to be anyways), so they made all the girls some sort of pretentious I-think-I'm-the-hottest-thing-in-the-world bitches?

I will admit Hermione is definitely hotter than I would have imagined her. But, I have to say my attractions have me looking more at Malfoy(Tom Felton) and Harry(Daniel Radcliffe), rather than Hermione.

Emma Watson does a GREAT job with the character, and I imagine she does equally well in Goblet of Fire. I STILL haven't seen it yet, and I hate myself because of it.

Maybe I'll take myself to see it as a Christmas present to me. Although I would have to deal with being the weird heavy-set guy going to see a kid's movie alone, but I think having people think I am a pedophile is worth Harry Potter.

The last movie I saw in theatres was Just Like Heaven...but that was in like...September.

Best Movies out: Walk the Line, Narnia

Top 5 movies to see:

Crash
The Princess Bride
Cool Hand Luke
The Truman Show
Pulp Fiction

Obviously, those are the top ten that come to mind on my list

Best Movies out: Walk the Line, Narnia

Top 5 movies to see:

Crash
The Princess Bride
Cool Hand Luke
The Truman Show
Pulp Fiction

Obviously, those are the top ten that come to mind on my list

The Princess Bride was hilarious.

Crash was awesome(although, I think putting Sandra Bullock on the cover was giving her too much credit-not that I don't love Sandra, it's just she didn't play a major role in the movie)

The Truman Show was good too.

Can't say I've seen Pulp Fiction(heard it's awesome) and Cool Hand Luke(never heard of it).

Crash would definitely be in my Top Ten Movie of All Time List, along with

The Devil's Rejects
Scream-just because I cracked up...the killer gets hit in the face with stuff like 10 time in the first 20 minutes.

Chronicles of Narnia.

Rent, Brokeback Mountain, and Jarhead are all amazing movies.
One movie that everyone should see because it is just that good, is Serenity, which while it isn't in theaters anymore, just came out on dvd.

mm...last one I saw was Saw II...haha.

CGI family Toy Story 2

Batman Begins