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Has anybody seen Lawless yet? I'm gonna go watch it later tonight!

Good movie, the director does a good job capturing the imagery of the Great Depression and the scenery of Virginia is unreal. The plot story itself is fairly short but the acting in it is very good. Im a Tom Hardy fan and Shia LeBeauf has a perfect character to use his skills to act upon.

I looked it up ASAP after I saw the movie but who is the actual artist? I can't find it on iTunes

I have it on mine as Mark Streitenfeld.

I don't like Liam Neeson myself, so I went into the movie with low expectations. I liked his character. The ability to lose a loved one and have the strength to keep on going was cool to see. I loved the ending along with that piano in the background. I'd give it 7 out of 10

Enjoy

thats wierd I am going with a marine captain , he even stated to me SEALs ara more dangerouse then any of the american spec opps the only 2 to hold a candle to them in the world , Spetznaz and Israeli Comandos

I don't know if its comparable, but the German GSG9 has a pretty badass track record....the ones made public that is.

His girlfriend in that movie was insanely beautiful lol

Really? It looked like she had a unibrow...maybe that was just poor lighting she was in. I mean other than that I would agree, she was easy on the eyes.

I saw Safe House on Friday. Denzel is just an animal. The movie was really good, I quite enjoyed it. Had a "Jason Bourne" feeling to it. Reynolds was actually half decent in the "scared out of his mind, desk jockey CIA agent thrust into a front line job that was way past his pay grade" role.

Good movie. Is Ralph Fiennes from England?

I thought he was from Germany.

Ryan Gosling is one of the best actors of our time. Better than Liam Neeson. Liam seems to always be placed into similar roles. I even heard their making a second Taken. Have you ever seen Gosling act before? He goes from psychologically damaged loner, to getaway driver, to womanizer, to working for a wannabe president, to a husband trying to save a disintegrating relationship with a wife who's kid isn't even his. Let's go now

I still can't call Gosling one of the best actors of our time. He's getting better at chosing roles that let him explore different character avenues but he doesn't have any one magnificent performance in my opinion.

Plus he's Canadian Blt!! Don't you guys stick together?

Generally yes but I can never forgive him for letting go of Rachel McAdams

I didn't say I hated it.. I just thought it was overrated. The only movie with a similar plot that I actually liked was Man on Fire. Those shoot 'em up, good cop bad cop revenge movies never really grabbed my attention. Plus you're talking to the guy that will see any movie that has Adam Sandler, Denzel Washington or Ryan Gosling in it. I'm pretty bias

Dude.....

Taken was severely overrated and cliché in my opinion. I saw it, and was like, "is that it?"

Cliche? I haven't seen a movie yet portray Paris in such a dark light or a mainstream movie dealing with human trafficking. I mean, him hauling [profanity deleted] for 2 hours like Chuck Norris is kind of cliche, but at least in this day in age its not the ridiculous late 80s early 90s films where its disgustingly unbelievable. He was an ex CIA/Black Ops guy. He was basically Jason Bourne without a conscious.

The Haunting, Clash of the Titans and Episode 1 are awful.

Havent seen The Haunting, Clash of the Titans was pretty bad, and was never a big Star Wars guy outside the originals(even the originals are a stretch for me).

But Neeson can pretty much do whatever he wants and I'll never think of him as a bad actor after Schindler's List and Taken.

Anything with Liam Neeson = an automatic watch

Agreed, I was just wondering if anyone had seen it. Wondering if its on the same badass level as Taken was.

Any one going to check out The Grey with Liam Neeson?

Just saw Fight Club for the first time! WOW!

THE FIRST TIME!?!?

For shame, reediddy, for shame. You better be like 14 years old haha.

I actually hate baseball and I liked it. Although, its completely BS that Boston "instilled" the money ball philosophy when they won in 2008 (or whatever year it was). Go look up their payroll that year. What a crock to credit them as doing what the A's did!!

I played baseball at a very high level for awhile and I found MoneyBall to be pretty much a great representation of baseball management and particularly scouting. As dumb as it sounds, ALOT of scouts rely on their "gut feeling" about a player by just watching his mannerism on the field. Scouts go by a thing called "the good face", meaning that when a scout looks at a player he has a face that looks like a professional ball player. Scouts also grade you on how you look in a uniform.

Baseball is a weird sport man, a very weird sport.

Yes, dirty Canadians unite!

Im a prairie boy....ya your jealous all you easterners lol.

saw Source Code last night! I like it, but I figured out things FAR too quickly in the movie. It's no thriller like inception but still worth the trip to the movies IMO.

I enjoyed Source Code as well,

the thought of parallel universes is interesting to me although I wasn't quite sure how the events at the end could impact the events in another parallel universe.

Ebert tore it apart, but I like watching mindless action so i'll see it.

Finally watched The Town, now I don't like Ben Affleck but thats a good movie, better than The Fighter but not quite Mystic River.

Ya I was impressed with Affleck in that movie as well, he seems to have turned himself around as a director and has been involved in more movies that take place around Boston which plays to his strength.

Terry Crews was the only redeeming quality about Idiocracy (like he is with most movies) it's a weirdly disjointed and quirky social satire, but it's hard to get past the horrible production.

Anyone seen Eastern Promises?

Eastern Promises was good, I liked it.

Ryan23945, I can't agree more with you about the hero movies. If I wanna see a good zero to hero movie, I'll watch the Mask with Jim Carrey. And yeah Thor looks bad. I'm looking forward to Captain America since "American" is one of my favorite adjectives to use for things I like a lot.

The Eagle SPOILER ALERT

The movie "The Eagle" was pretty horrid. It was 2nd in warrior movie letdowns(Alexander with Colin Ferrell being the worst) It started out great, but it just slowed down. And there were a few parts I thought the two characters were going to start kissing each other. My girlfriend and I were close to leaving. And the end line lead you to believe they might actually think about a sequel, but I really doubt it. I just think it was a bad exit line to try and make them look hardcore. Don't get me wrong, the acting was great, but I thought it was going to be a lot more like 300.

I think you have to go into The Eagle/Centurion with background information on the movies so you don't get a grandiose vision in your head like its going to be like Gladiator. The Eagle is based on a British novel written in the 1950s and tried to stay somewhat true to the novel. The Eagle was also produced for only 15 million dollars. Neither movie had a budget over 15 to my knowledge. I think Fassbender is a pretty good actor himself and if you switch out Tatum and Fassbender from Centurion to The Eagle I think The Eagle would have had a stronger acting presence. But being somewhat of an amateur Roman military historian the historical accuracy to The Eagle in the first half hour when Tatum is at his outpost was pretty impressive imo. Roman forts were designed exactly like that, ramparts, a huge ditch all the way around, sentry towers in the corners, legionnaires practiced for hours on their swordsmanship on wooden stakes constantly practicing thrusting and slicing. Then you see the Testudo infantry formation and the Orbis when Tatum leads his cohort to get the prisoners. Gladiators opening scene shows a massive battle scene but you really don't get an impression of the hardy discipline the legions fought with, it just ends up with two lines running into each other.

The Eagle isn't a great movie by any means, but for 15 mil I thought it was decent...but maybe thats just the historian in me.

Watched a little known film from 2003 called Saints and Soldiers. Not exciting or action packed and made on a low budget. But if you're a history buff like myself, then I would recommend it.

Saints and Soldiers is a really really good Indy movie I thought. Its very low budget but I think the script is outstanding, it was produced by the Mormon Church so theres a Christian role in the movie itself but nothing particularly Mormon about it. The sounds to the movie are identical to the big budget WW2 flicks I thought, and they got some German Half tracks and US Army Jeeps/trucks and a P-51 Mustang for the final shot which was a good touch.

Its definitely worth seeing IMO, it plays more on the characters than huge battle scenes but theres a pretty extensive skirmish at the end of the movie.

I was definitely impressed with True Grit, having seen both the original and the remake I thought Bridges did a pretty good job, but I though John Wayne did a better job of bringing a subtly nobility to Cogburn, whereas Bridges portrayed him as a gun fighter with an obligation to Maddy Ross. The end scene of the original True Grit was a favourite scene of mine as it cemented the relationship that Cogburn had developed with Maddy, and was kind of choked it wasnt in the remake. However I understand the Cohen's had to put their own twist on it so I wasnt totally upset.

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