Ternaugh Posted March 24, 2008 Report Share Posted March 24, 2008 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Yesterday, it was "The Muppet Movie", and then "Starship Troopers" a few hours later, after finding out that the PS2 video game, "Kingdom Hearts" triggers extreme motion sickness in me*. Today, it was "Big Trouble In Little China", after playing several hours of "Age of Empires III: the War Chiefs". JoeG *My new monitor is a 24" beastie with TV inputs. So some of the motion sickness is my own fault, since I'm sitting less than 3 feet from it. 1920x1200 is incredible, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted March 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 24, 2008 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Lesse,,, Dark City, Miracle, segments of The Hire, and Silmido Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwiggins Posted March 24, 2008 Report Share Posted March 24, 2008 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? family guy: blue harvest. it followed Star Wars real closely. With a couple (hundred) exceptions:D Princess Leia/ Lois: "Arn't you a little fat to be a stormtrooper?" Luke Skywalker/ Chris: "Fine, rot in here you stuck up B###h!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted March 24, 2008 Report Share Posted March 24, 2008 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Watched an episode of Planet Earth last night. Visually the series of just beautiful. Which one ? I have them all. Saw the last episode of Heroes' date=' season one, today. Could've ended stronger, but on the whole, an excellent series![/quote'] I enjoyed it. Have not seen any of season 2 yet. Saw Kosheen on Later With Jools Holland doing Hide You and Catch and Catatonia on TOTP2 doing Mulder and Scully. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwiggins Posted March 24, 2008 Report Share Posted March 24, 2008 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? The futurama movie: Benders big score. I saw my avatar rolling down an assembly line. Bongo, the one eard rabbit from Matt Groenings comic strip "Life in Hell" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 24, 2008 Report Share Posted March 24, 2008 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? . . . Saw King Arthur -- the one with Clive Owen and Keira Knightly -- a couple of days ago. Or started to -- I could take it for about twenty minutes. Then I had to switch to something else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Confoundo Posted March 24, 2008 Report Share Posted March 24, 2008 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Iron Giant... very nice. I'd love to see a live-action version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edsel Posted March 24, 2008 Report Share Posted March 24, 2008 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Recently picked up the Appleseed Ex Machina DVD. Beautiful CGI job and a good story. Of course if you are an Appleseed purist you may not like the liberties that they take with the character's behavior and such. Over the weekend we watched Amazing Grace. A really good historical story about William Wilberforce and his struggle to abolish slavery in the British Empire. If you are a history buff like I am this is a must see picture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted March 25, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Which one ? I have them all. So do I. I watched Deserts, Jungles, Shallow Oceans, The Deep, Caves... and something else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Iron Giant... very nice. I'd love to see a live-action version. Vin Diesel's finest role. Oh, and I just got done with the pilot episodes for "TaleSpin". Which really makes me want to see "Tales of the Gold Monkey" again. JoeG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapsedgamer Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? I watched all three episodes Tin Man yesterday. Meh. However, Zooey Deschanel is way too cute for words. The woman who played the evil sorceress was very attractive as well, and well endowed. As a result, I especially liked the way she cast the "summon flying monkeys" spell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
copeab Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? I picked up Airplane! and Reservior Dogs yesterday. Haven't gotten to Dogs, but I did watch the "long haul" version of Airplane! which occasionally stopped in places for interviews and deleted scenes. Tthe directors were right -- the deleteced scenes really weren't funny, but the interviews were quite good and informative (especially for a few mistakes that appear in the movie because they were missed until it was too late). One of the greatest comedies ever made. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dholcrist Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Watched the first episode of EXO Squad last night on Hulu. Damn I miss shows like that, I'd forgotten how great and, well, suprisingly adult that cartoon was. Just a 90s version of Robotech, which is a high compliment in my eyes. Though the animation could have been handled a bit better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackSword Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? I have been making my way through Ranma 1/2. Much needed laughs. On Saturday I made it about halfway through Southland Tales. Also watched part of G-3 Live in Tokyo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Josh and I started to watch Hell's Angels, but the soap opera-y start threw us both off. There are boring people we don't care about fighting boring duels, and suddenly, war is declared! That's the first time we've returned a movie without watching it all the way through. Then we watched Sunshine, which Josh found really irritating about two-thirds of the way through. I suppose I can see his point, and it contained a lot of the things that I find frustrating about space movies, but I thought the thing that annoyed him was meant to illustrate a point, and to be somewhat allegorical. But then, I was also convinced that Dave was dead at the end of 2001 until I saw the sequel, so clearly, it's just not my genre. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? The cut-down version of Van Helsing as TBS showed it over the weekend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nolgroth Posted March 26, 2008 Report Share Posted March 26, 2008 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? I just finished a semi-marathon of Jericho from the CBS website. While I didn't get a chance to catch it on the original air dates, I found the show very interesting. Post-apoc without being hopeless and done well enough for me to be captivated by it. Whudda thunk it. I do have some nitpicks, but I have those with almost any TV show. For the most part, I have to say that it is up there with Dexter in terms of must watch TV. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted March 31, 2008 Report Share Posted March 31, 2008 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? The Running Man, with a documentary on the same disc entitled, Lockdown on Main Street. It's about the increase of surveillance on the average person, the loss of due process, and the PATRIOT Act. Oddly, it highlighted points in the movie where the filmmakers didn't go far enough in showing their totalitarian "Cadre". While it's only possible to travel with permission (and a travel card), Ben Richards is able to book passage for him and and Amber Mendez using only her ID, and is able to confuse the security agent at the security checkpoint into allowing them to pass without checking both of their travel cards. Another interesting observation was a change in my personal attitude about surveillance. There's a shot of a small plaza, with a wall as background. It's shown multiple times, but it was only after seeing it about 3 or 4 times did I notice the large security camera in an external housing mounted to the wall in the exact center of the frame. Unfortunately, 20 years after the movie's release, cameras are so common, that we've basically been trained to ignore them. JoeG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sociotard Posted March 31, 2008 Report Share Posted March 31, 2008 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? I liked sunshine. I recently watched an episode of "the Big bang theory", which is a sitcom. I don't normally like sitcoms, and this one had a lot of the features that bug me about that medium, but the jokes were nerd jokes, and that made it kinda funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clonus Posted March 31, 2008 Report Share Posted March 31, 2008 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? I went to see 10,000 BC in the theatre last night. Having a protective magician to paper over the implausibility of the hero's successes was a nice touch. So I guess now that they've met the Egyptian Atlantean, the others would be the South American, and the Chinese? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted March 31, 2008 Report Share Posted March 31, 2008 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? I saw August Rush, and was warned it was more in vein of a chick flick. That aside, it's a heart warming little movie and if you can suspend disbelief enough to accept that 'August' is Mozart cubed, you can enjoy this film. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted March 31, 2008 Report Share Posted March 31, 2008 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Picked up the complete space ghost and dino boy from B&N today. Have to look out for bird man. Saw the complete prisoner set but thought 100 dollars too much for it. Might change my mind later. CES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted March 31, 2008 Report Share Posted March 31, 2008 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Josh and I have been watching the newest Robin Hood series. We're five episodes in, and it's obvious the point is to draw a political parallel between 1192 and 2008. The evil Sheriff even mentions a "war on terror." Interesting concept, though. We also watched Once, which is a modernized take on the musical concept. No kicky dance numbers. Also rather dull, though. The music was pretty decent, but the editing and film quality made me think all of this was just being documented by some unseen friend, for posterity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmadanNaBriona Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? I just finished a semi-marathon of Jericho from the CBS website. While I didn't get a chance to catch it on the original air dates, I found the show very interesting. Post-apoc without being hopeless and done well enough for me to be captivated by it. Whudda thunk it. I do have some nitpicks, but I have those with almost any TV show. For the most part, I have to say that it is up there with Dexter in terms of must watch TV. Yeah, I found myself really liking Jericho, too. Good show. One of the better post apoc dramas I've seen. Well thought out. Other than the odd Jericho marathon, I've recently (finally) seen the movie version of Les Mis with Liam Neeson as Val Jean (Epic and highly recommended, very well acted), and watched The Wind That Shakes the Barley on the 92nd anniversary of the Easter Uprising. Brutal Movie. Very, very well done. Want to understand WHY a "terrorist" fights the way he does? This is the life and times of an IRA member from 1920 to his untimely death. Like Goodfellas, it follows realistic pacing rather than dramatic, so just like real life there is a lot of unexpected peaks and valleys. No dramatic build to a climax here. damn good movie. Bought it without watching it, and don't regret the purchase. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OddHat Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 Re: What Have You Watched Recently? DOA Watched this on the suggestion of Bill Keyes. Some deeply stupid moments, plot so over-used it might end up as a convention game, and very entertaining when approached in the right frame of mind. Gorgeous girls, skimpy outfits, fair fight choreography, nice sets, and did I mention the girls? Worth renting for a night of B martial arts films, or watching while exercising. The making of documentary was as much or more fun than the movie. Always interesting to be reminded just how much work and training goes into taking actors and actresses and turning them into convincing fighters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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