So anyone seen some good movie recently?

[Yeahduff]

Russell Crowe is like 30 years too old for that role.

[MixedMyth]

Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog. Okay, not really a movie, but I just bought it off iTunes. Heard there's a sequel in the works, very excited.

There is! Did you see the Emmy skit they did to announce it? It was adorable.

[Risky]

I heard that that was surprisingly good. I have trouble imagining Russel Crowe as Robin....but I guess it worked.

Me, I really want to see Iron Man 2. But not as much as I want to see Prince of Persia!

Iron Man 2 was good! Lots of great action, lots of Iron Man getting his butt kicked, all good stuff. The teaser after the credits was pretty weak though.

[VeryCuddlyCornpone]

I had my hopes way, way down for Shrek 4, since I heard the third movie was such a bust. But we just went and saw it and it was quite enjoyable. I shall need time to digest it properly but it was worth seeing. Nothing hugely substantial but I got an approvable number of laughs out of it.

[Phact0rri]

Jonas Armstrong is the only Robin Hood I'm interested in seeing.

[lencemark]

I also love the movie Love Actually. I cry every time I see that part with Emma Thompson. Makes you realize all the different varietys of love, good and bad.

I very much enjoy the movie Waking Ned Divine, which hardly anyone I know has ever seen. It's a terrific little Irish movie about a small town trying to win the lottery. It's one of my all time favorites!

[McDuffies]

I know that, that's the one in which that irish guy from Cold Feet constantly smells like pigs.

[MixedMyth]

I don't know why Prince of Persia is getting such bad reviews, I quite enjoyed it. Granted I LOVED the game, but still. The Prince could have stood to be a little more snarky, but otherwise it was a fine action flick.

[Phact0rri]

watched the second 20th century boys film, just in time for part three to be released state side I love how lovingly it seems to be adapted. Like it keeps that unique Urasawa voice in the film translation.

[KWill]

My study program is holding a film festival and showed "Tsotsi", the story about a South African thug. It's an interesting portrayal of the less glamorous parts of Johannesburg and what happens when said parts collide with the better off parts.

[Yeahduff]

Fascinating movie, that one. I enjoy how it resists making the dude anything other than what he is, which is not a very good dude.

[Yeahduff]

Yeah, Hurt Locker was a pretty good movie, guys.

[Black Sparrow]

I just saw Kickass.

It totally was.

[Risky]

I just saw Kickass.

It totally was.

Worth the 3 bucks to see it at the pub-theater?

[McDuffies]

Here's an interesting book.
http://books.google.com/books?id=yoXc02 ... &q&f=false
It's interesting because it's a rare example of "movies you've never heard of" book where I actually haven't heard of most of the list.
Here's the list:

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai in the 8th Dimension - Kinda strange... It's apparently a cult film tho I can't see anything particularly remarkable about it.... It's not even a bad film.
Annigoni: Portrait of an Artist
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
The Bad and the Beautiful
Bedazzled - I hope he thinks Cook/Moore version... cause the new one's awful
The Believer
Better Off Dead - It's a spectacularly disjointed movie. I mean I like it very much. It tries so hard to be intentionally awful and confused and unfunny and you gotta love it for that.
Beyond the Mat
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls - A classic.
Big Bad Love
Biggie & Tupac
The Brave One
Brotherhood of the Wolf - A very stylish and beautiful film; it has one of the best sex scenes ever. But I guess one's opinion depends of how willing he's to accept that they threw a crapload of disparate elements on canvas... it's a mess of genres that don't really belong together. Kind of what happens when French try to copy Americans.
Bubba Ho-Tep - Ah, everyone knows this film.
Cane Toads: An Unnatural History
Carnival of Souls
Chelsea Girls - Warhol? His films are strange. They're kind of an example of what it'd look like if film esthetics went into a completely different direction at the very beginning. I remember reading Tarkovsky's praise of Warhol's film where he was recording someone sleeping for hours.
Cherish
Cocksucker Blues
CQ - I think I watched this, Roman Copola if I'm not mistaking. A classic film made by director of musical videos, which means very elegant and beautiful, but not much content and structure to speak of.
Cyberman
Darby O'Gill and the Little People - Oh wait, this is a Disney film, right? I loved this when I was a kid.
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys - Seen it. Interesting, nothing spectacular.
Delicatessen - Jean Jeunet's debut. I see it as a kind of precursor to "City of lost children", similar atmosphere and bizzareness, but very simple story. People love it cause it's more unapologetically brutal than "City..."
Dementia 13 - This is I think first Copola's movie, which he made by re-splicing and re-dubbing footage from Roger Corman's archives. It's quite an achievement, a testament to resourcefullness.
The Devil's Backbone
The Dish
Dr. Syn: Alias the Scarecrow
Dogtown and Z-Boys
Eating Raoul - I remember seeing this once. Nice, tidy little black comedy which excells on brutal ideas.
Eegah! The Name Written in Blood
Emma's Shadow
The Experiment - Oh man I got this DVD. On back burner for years.
A Face in the Crowd
The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T
Foreign Correspondent
Frailty
Fubar
Fun
Funny Games
Gangster Number One
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai - A great movie, great Forest Whithacker performance. It's Jarmush making a gangster movie, and he's actually excellent at directing shoot-outs (although if I remember there was only one).
Ginger Snaps
The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle - Yeah, this is also a classic. Too bad Julian Temple didn't continue making great films.
Happy Texas
The Harder They Come
Hedwig & the Angry Inch - I hear voices from many sides telling me that I should watch this film. I think I haven't because I watches Shortbuss and wasn't very impressed.
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
High School Confidential - This one's on back burner too.
I Ann a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Incubus
Island of Lost Souls
Jason & the Argonauts
The Kid Stays in the Picture
Killer Klowns from Outer Space - This is crap really. I'm not even sure what they tried to make. It's a comedy that's not funny and a horror that's not scary. I think they basically had one joke and tried to stretch it over hour and a half.
Kind Hearts and Coronets - Ah, Ealing studios. Everything they made was good.
The Krays
Lady in the Lake - At first I thought this was that spectacularly crappy Shamalan movie, but it appears it's actually some old noir.
The Luzhin Defence
M - This is a classic masterpiece that everyone should see.
Mad Monster Party - Oh, I love this. It's completely adorable.
Maelstrom
The Man Who Fell to Earth - Classic Roeg's experimental movie. He's not for everyone's taste, but at least noone's having sex with comatose woman in this movie.
Meet the Feebles - I regret ever watching this, really. If I could erase one memory, it would be of watching this film.
Mile Zero
The Minus Man
Monsoon Wedding - Wait, this is unknown? Well then that explains why Slumdog Superhero is considered a cultural milestone. In fact Mira Nair has been bringing Indian culture to wide audience for decades. Seriously, this is great and eye-opening.
Night Tide
Omega Man, The - Uh, nothing special. I was really bothered by all the changes made to the book, 'cause they're kinda stupid.
Peeping Tom - Oh yeah, this is great. At the time it was considered so controversial that it ended Michael Powel's career. I think that unlike most of thrillers from that period, it's very unsettling even today.
The Phantom of the Paradise
Pitch Black
The Pope of Greenwich Village
Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy - Ron Jeremy is funny.
The Princess and the Warrior - Yeah, Tom Tykwer is great and all his films so far have been great. This one was a follow-up to "Run Lola Run" and it confirmed that he was no one-hit-wonder.
Rat Pfink A Boo Boo
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians - I remember hearing somewhere about this.
Scarface: The Shame of the Nation - This isn't so unknown. If anything people know it as film that was eventually remade into De Palma's "Scarface". It's a sort of milestone in film violence.
The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao - I remember seeing this a long time ago. It's like those old 50ies sf films, only kinda weird.
Simone - Good idea but mostly unremarkable.
Stage Door
The Straight Story - Ah ha, David Lynch movie for those who don't like David Lynch. It's great, really.
Sugar Town
Suspiria
13 Conversations about One Thing
Tadpole
Targets
The Terror of Tiny Town
They Might Be Giants
To Be or Not To Be
The Toxic Avenger - This is also well known. Troma and stuff. Wasn't great, wasn't the worst either.
Treed Murray
Trees Lounge
Twist, The
Two Family House
The Virgin Suicides - It's not a great film, but I generally liked it, although it's very very sad and I felt bad afterwards. Lost in Translation is better.
waydowntown
White Zombie
Wild in the Streets
Zardoz - Isn't this, like, a popular movie with half-naked Sean Connery's image being a sorta internet meme?

[Yeahduff]

Some good ones on that list, some crap. 13 Conversations About One Thing and Devil's Backbone are some favorites. Dead on about Virgin Suicides, and yeah, I think you'd at least find Hedwig interesting, if not great.

[McDuffies]

This one sounds interesting enough, if you're into that kind of thing. If only reading the plot makes you laugh, I guess it's worth seeing.
Strangely enough, if it was a japanese movie, I wouldn't even raise an eyebrow.

I found another interesting list:

The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made
They Saved Hitler's Brain
Black Belt Jones
Greetings!
The Great Alligator
Creature from the Haunted Sea
The Swinging Cheerleaders
The Trial of Billy Jack
Killers from Space
Hillbillys in a Haunted House
TNT Jackson
Robot Monster
The Incredible Melting Man
Mesa of Lost Women
Troll
Teenage Zombies
The Fat Spy
Voodoo Woman
Ishtar
Glen or Glenda
The Creeping Terror
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
Howard the Duck
Frankenstein Conquers the World
Firebird 2015 A.D
The Crawling Hand
Bloodsucking Freaks
J. D.'s Revenge
Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster
The Killer Shrews
Dracula vs. Frankenstein
Bride of the Monster
Plan Nine from Outer Space
Smokey and the Bandit Part 3
Xanadu
Leonard Part 6
The Wild Women of Wongo
Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla
The Ape
The Thing with Two Heads
Eegah!
The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies
Galaxy of Terror
The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy
Snow White (a 1955 version from Germany, later released in America)
Spider Baby
Trog
The Three Stooges in Orbit
The Crippled Masters
The Sorceress
Great White
Plan Nine from Outer Space

It overlaps with previous in one film. Only.

I saw only five movies from this list. I suppose MST3K fans saw plenty.

Edit: Wow, wait, Greeting!'s in there? No way, I like that, De Palma was such an oddball at the beginning of his career.

[Phact0rri]

shortbus is a very different sort of project than Hedwig was. I'd not judge John Cameron Mitchell on it. It was more of an improv thing. Course I enjoyed Short Bus pretty well.

[VeryCuddlyCornpone]

Regarding the first list by McDuffies: I've seen Atanarjuat! We watched it during an anthropology course I took. It was pretty interesting, except there was this weeping, screeching woman who grew into a fabulous nuisance in a very short time period.

[KWill]

This one sounds interesting enough, if you're into that kind of thing. If only reading the plot makes you laugh, I guess it's worth seeing.
Strangely enough, if it was a japanese movie, I wouldn't even raise an eyebrow.

I found another interesting list:

The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made
...
Plan Nine from Outer Space
...
Plan Nine from Outer Space

It overlaps with previous in one film. Only.

I saw only five movies from this list. I suppose MST3K fans saw plenty.

Damn. Plane Nine must be pretty bad to net two spots on the list. Also one of the only movies on there that I've seen. The other being parts of Howard the Duck.