Most of you guys must know it by now, I love watching movies. Whenever I can steal a couple of hours, I watch a movie.
Now I could've just kept Jugs' thread going, but that was basically movies of 2005 and I'd like this to be movies in general. So we can keep discussing movies we'll keep watching & movies we've watched in the past.
I'll probably end up keeping it alive given I'll keep watching movies & I'll try to write atleast a little something about the movie.
Now in Jugs' thread, this was the list of movies I'd seen of 2005:
Superb Movies:
- Batman Begins
- King Kong
Great Movies:
- Harry Potter
- Crash
- The Interpreter
- Munich
Good Movies:
- The Chronicles of Narnia
- Mr. & Mrs. Smith
- Lord of War
- Constantine
- Hostage
- Four Brothers
- The Transporter 2
Time Pass Movies:
- 11:14
- Coach Carter
- White Noise
- Assault on Precinct 13
- Hitch
- The Pacifier
- Guess Who
- Sahara
- Kingdom of Heaven
- Unleashed (a.k.a. Danny The Dog)
- The Skeleton Key
- 40 Year Old Virgin
- Flightplan
- Jarhead
Bad/Desperate to watch something Movies:
- Napoleon Dynamite
- Sin City
- Fantastic Four
- Hide & Seek
- The Ring Two
- xXx: State of the Union
- Mindhunters
- Monster in Law
- War of the Worlds
- The Island
- The Loooong Weekend
- Two For The Money
Awful (Horrible) Movies:
- Revolver
- Elektra
- Boogeyman
- Son of the Mask
- Cursed
- The Amityville Horror
- House of Wax
- Stealth
- A Sound of Thunder
- Dirty Love
- Fat Albert (What a waste of money.)
Unseen (wanting to watch) Movies:
- Cinderella Man
- The Dukes of Hazzard
- Red Eye
- The Brothers Grimm
- A History of Violence
- The Legend of Zorro
- Saw II (Given I haven't watched Saw I yet.)
- Casanova
- The New World
I have Serenity on a CD, I just haven't gotten around to watching it.
Looking Forward To Movies (2006):
- Hostel
- Dirty
- Glory Road
- Underworld: Evolution
- Big Momma's House 2
- Ice Age 2
- Basic Instinct 2
- Scary Movie 4
- Mission Impossible: III
- The Da Vinci Code (May 19th, 19 years old!)
- X-Men: III
- Cars
- Superman Returns
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
- Miami Vice
- World Trade Center
- Rush Hour 3
- The Visiting
- Saw III (After I've seen Saw I & II)
I've placed Munich & Jarhead in categories.
Guess I'll start off with those two.
Jarhead:
Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx & Peter Sarsgaard.
I was expecting another war movie when I started watching this movie. I never did like Gyllenhaal so I didn't really expect great acting from him, I do feel I owe it to him to say this much, he impressed me.
I think a big factor that drives me to not like him was the ever so depressing movie Donnie Darko. I liked him in The Day After Tomorrow only because I'd forgotten he was in Donnie Darko. Another thing that annoys me is his hair do. Elvis is dead, leave him be bastard.
Anyways, on to the movie. Basically it's one guys story about his time in the Marines. He made it as a sniper & it's his journey during the war between the US & Iraq. (Not this one, the previous one.)
Foxx plays Gyllenhaal's staff sergeant & Sarsgaard plays one of the other marines. The story builds up the expectations of seeing Gyllenhaal in combat, sadly that never happens. The whole movie through you wait for a combat scene or something that resembles it...but sadly that never comes.
While it's sad, it's also another side of these kind of movies. Most of the movies really make the guys out to be Rambo style kickass dudes...this one showed that this dude is the main character but he didn't get to do much during the war. Before he could, the war was over for him.
Sarsgaard did pretty well, I liked his acting, he's been in quite a few movies in 2005, Skeleton Key (where he didn't get much scope but was useful none the less), Flightplan (where he played the negative role quite well) and now Jarhead where he played the part of a marine with a criminal record quite well aswell.
Foxx was natural, he didn't do any attention-whoring and was pleasantly funny. Quite a change after all the dramatics he's done as of late. (Ray & Collateral come to mind.)
Munich.
Later, that movie was mentally tiring.
Probably by tomorrow - Into The Blue. (Alba
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