Despicable Me (2010)

Great feel good animation movie about a super villian and some girls. Steve Carell does the main character. Skip Up and watch this. 

Really not a fan of Steve Carell getting all these comedy roles, he just isn't good enough.

Compare Jim Carey's character to Steve Carell's character in Horton Hears a Who.... there's no contest, Jim steals the show and Steve is just annoying.

Get Smart, Date Night, 40 year Old Virgin - all would have been better with someone a little funnier and less annoying. 

 

But he flails his arms around and makes silly faces! Clearly comic genius. 

but Jim Carrey at least has Eternal Sunshine to his name. 

+ steve carrell was hilarious in anchorman. LOUD NOISES!

speaking of funny actors though... leslie nielsen. RIP :/ 

rj Surely you must be joking! 

and don't call me shirley! 

:( Leslie Nielson 

and almost on topic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioKyxGkBRro&feature=player_embedded

has this been around forever and I just found out? Anyways, I love this. 

not sure what to make of it. weird, but not headfuck weird.. just a little bizarre. still watchable though and quite intriguing, i think the soundtrack made it.

also watched identity and the number 23. identity had a cool concept but i'd have preferred it if they didn't dump it on the viewer 2/3 of the way through as a 'twist' - made it feel cheap and ill-explored as a result. the ending was just a bit silly too.

23 wasn't much better either... again interesting, but all the 23 stuff seemed kinda irrelevant once the true story was revealed, at which point it just got a bit boring & tenuous, with a few annoying red herrings.

also, can't wait for this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS4Mrct-_mk 8) 

wached synecdoche new york. or rather, attempted to watch it... i got 45 mins through it and couldn't be arsed finishing it. it's all focused on one guy whose life is going downhill and at no point did i give a shit about him whatsoever. just boring with nothing going for it 

Super tense movie, really depressing though. Seems like every new bomb situation the stakes get higher or the situation more convoluted - a simple bomb defuse into a car with a hidden detonator into a bomb sewn inside a dead child into a remote detonated oil tanker, etc.

The main character has a death wish more or less and seems completely involved in the war in Iraq, while his team mates can't wait to get home and are afraid to die. He 'forgets' his gloves down near a remote detonation site of explosives and drives down to get them before his team detonates, and in hind sight makes it look like he wants his team mates to blow him up. etc, etc

Probably meant to show how the soldiers are getting fucked up by the war all in different ways. Was a good ride, but yeah it left me depressed in the end. 

Inception

might be spoilers below.

very cool, dramatic music playing all the time (worked well to create tension), felt quite rough and unpolished, hard to follow sometimes and blatantly obvious at others. i am currently watching 3rd rock from the sun so arthur was super distracting hey little tommy. ending went too fast. way too many idiotic action sequences that added absolutely nothing to the story (or even ridiculed it). character development/introduction was almost non-existant for some key characters and thus it felt rushed and unrealistic (how could the girl agree to join in without knowing shit about it all).
cheesy pretentious bits like the shore of your subconcious, dear god...
how on earth do you give a movie with such a disturbing view on our reality a rating for "12 year olds"?

overall I like Matrix better. 

Yeah I just watched The Number 23 as well rj. Was pretty decent for a thriller, though I did pick who wrote the book before it was revealed, but yeah the weird number 23 thing suddenly took a backseat by the end and left a fairly big loose end, as it was never explained where this number 23 going after people came from or why it existed. It just did.

Still, the cinematography was really good, Joel Schumacher did a great job there, which I wasn't really expecting after rubbish like the last 2 Batman movies before the Nolan reboot, and Phone Booth.

And the best thing was finally seeing Jim Carrey in a good NON-COMEDY role. He needs to do more of these.

Saw Machete last night... pretty average. The trailer they showed at the start of Grindhouse was better.

Saw Fright Night 2 yesterday as well, some good old 80s vampire horror. Slightly above average , on par with the original. 

Joseph Gordon Levitt is actually a really good actor, someof his indie stuff is really good. Check out The Lookout for a fun ride. 

Will do, thanks! 

I didnt think it was it really "what a war does to soldiers" movie, even though there is plenty of that.

And IMHO that's what sets it apart from many other recent war films. Although it has its flaws, the focus on a character that seems to thrive on, if not love, the adrenalin rush of war was an interesting take. Also helps that its ferociously suspenseful. 

The Lookout was quite good. Thanks! 

I found it a very underrated film. 

Pandorum (2009): Good Sci-Fi horror movie like RickyT23 said. The plot twists towards the end and how it pounds it into you like twisting a knife made the slightly above averagish rest of the plot strike big gold.

More independent Sci-fi films like this and Moon, please.

The Social Network (2010). I got somewhat forcibly dragged to this movie by my girlfriend. Despite great reviews, it really wasn't on my list of movies I *wanted* to see. This movie sucks you in big time. Considering it is almost a slightly glorified documentary, the evil cunning portrayed in the movie leaves you in constant suspense. Yeah, I'm sure a ton of people have seen it, but still ...

Punch Drunk Love (2001). Adam Sandler movie from years back. Uncomfortable at times. The comedy towards the end makes it a winner. Kind of dark for Adam Sandler.

Justice League (2009): Crisis on Two Earths. Awesome. A sick and evil Owlman (alternate dimension Batman) secretly plans to destroy all reality. A "good" Lex Luthor teams up with the Justice League and fights the evil alternate dimension Justice League. Owlman is a sick bastard. Lots of good action. Predictable, but delivers what you expect ... Superman fighting an evil superman, super-criminals previously unchecked getting owned, Batman kicking some ass smugly.

Batman Under The Red Hood (2010): Possibly the first Batman animated movie approaching a near anime level plot quality. The unstoppable villain turns out to be a presumed dead Robin who decides to tackle crime by being a crime lord.

The Substitute (1996). Tom Berenger is a substitute teacher in a gangsta school who is really a mercenary. A lot of fun if you like to watch the consequences of a gangsta high school student thinking he can fuck with the teacher.

These last 3 are instant watch on Netflix.

Truecrimes (2007). A Brazillian dubbed independent film with time travel consequences. Such a drawing plot that even though it was captioned only in English, the plot and the absolute shock WAY overcomes that to deliver something almost as sickeningly tragic the movie "The Fly".

Brubaker (1980). A progressive prison director played by Robert Redford seeks to reform a corrupt Alabama prison system. I knew little to nothing about Robert Redford's body of work, this movie is near Shawshank Redemption quality.

Get Carter (1971). Michael Caine as tough guy criminal taking on organized crime in the UK to find his brother's killer. Brutally awesome and witty.

Rob Roy (1995). Liam Neeson. The whole movie is gut-wretching with a quite unexpected plot twist ending. 

Grown Ups (2010)

Disgusting dipshits realise what bad lives they live, talk about it and in good hollywood fashion become true american slightly less disgusting dipshits. When I started watching I knew it was bad, then I thought it had potential but it just kept being more terrible. Had some nice sexy girls though, that's the only upside. Truly ugly movie in my opinion. Utter hollywood trash. 

Layer Cake (2004)
What's been said above. Can't recommend it. 5/10. Had potential. nitin summed it up nicely two times. ;-D 

Flonking amazing film. Hard to believe Pixar just keeps cranking out these amazing films. TS3 is probably their best one yet. Had me laughing so hard I couldn't breathe at one point, and it wasn't nearly as sad as I thought it would be based on word of mouth. The ending is actually kind of sappy but not really sad at all imo, probably the only logical conclusion to the story. Also, I actually said "What a dork" at the end about Andy. Definitely worth seeing. 

TS3 is looking like my film of the year; loved every bit of it. probably the best 'part 3' to any series i've ever seen, too