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I'm going to give FlashForward a try tonight. I figure I'll at least stick with it 'til Dominic Monaghan turns up. I watched Lost from the get-go in large part due to him being on it, so maybe lightning will strike twice.

I enjoyed Flash Foward.

I saw W. by Oliver Stone. Eh. Some things I liked some I didn't.

Pretty much paralleled by every civilization known to man, including the one that proceeded Europe's visit to this big continent.

I saw this one on the shelves at the library but I'd have to be in a certain mood to pick it up. Even though the topic interests me, I'd always find an excuse to get a more "fun" movie. Typically, after seeing it I chastized myself for waiting so long.


My latest:

Dr. Horrible's Sing-along Blog.

Dial-up isn't condusive to seeing this as it was released on the internet so I was particularly happy to see it in DVD form.

As fun as advertised. Some catchy toons that won't leave the head so that can be a problem. .

Flash Forward is okay, that's the one about everyone passing out and seeing the future?
I prefer Bones, though.

Smallville is still pretty merky,but I love the Tower stainedglass windows.
Beautiful visuals there, sigh.

The Diva show with the dead girl in the lawyer girl's body is okay but I missed the 1st one so I don't know what happened to the lawyer girl's soul ~ why the body's alive but the soul's gone, so I don't really watch it regularly.

LOVE Fringe and enjoyed the first House but have missed the others (keep forgeting Monday TV.)

Now, I'm just waiting for the first new Stargate and Sanctuary.

'House' was good this week!
I'm glad to see him not so angry and hurtful.
He was actually funny playing charades during the conference and wonderful when he helped the neighbor!

Catch 'The Forgotten' if you can, on Tuesday nights at 10. It has a great cast with Christian Slater and fantastic stories.
Wow!

House remains good.

Glee is a delightful surprise, I was fearing a "hipper, edgier" Fame, but instead found it to be intelligent, funny, surreal, dark, and convoluted. Besides, I'm nuts for Jane Lynch.

Flashforward : I'm liking this series - the way it's building the mystery, the personal stuff interweaved with the worldwide emergency/conspiracy stuff, etc. They clearly have an idea in mind for what's behind all this. I imagine the series will reboot to a degree once we catch up to the flashforward, (another flashforward?) so I'll stick with it for now.

Community : I wasn't expecting much, but this show is really funny! It's a lot smarter than it seems from the commercials and the oddball cast meshes well. And despite Joel McHale's smarminess, it also has heart.

"The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency"

As always, I'm a year or two behind those with cable. This is one of those shows that manages to be both funny and touching at the same time, with hilarious end credits to boot.

Eastwick, ok my wife made me watched it...damn I like it. Have to suck up the macho stuff and admit it. Yes it's Charmed meets Desperate Housewives (2 shows I hate) but technically Eastwick is older than both(the books). I always heard the books were really good. And I'm a sucker for small towns in New England especially Rhode Island.

Still enjoying Flash Foward. Loving Fringe! My Smallville viewing always had lots of fast foward. Not a fan of the emotional drama soft music playing parts. It's been less of that lately which is good.

Haven't caught up with Amazing Race(my fave reality show) or Survivor(eh). I have been watching Top Chef: Las Vegas. (love top chef...i just can't afford to be a foodie anymore in this economy).

Darn, I'm watching LOTS of things. Clash of the Gods(History channel), The Community(2nd episode was to die for!), The Office, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Medium, Psych, Heroes, Three Sheets, and Sanctuary just taped this week! whew!

No wonder I don't post as much anymore. Don't worry I still have a life. I do exercise regularly.

I heard LIE TO ME is great but don't have the time. I'm also watching Wolverine and the X-Men(pretty good) and a DVD class on mythology.

Movies? I just watched Witness for the Prosecution(directed by Billy Wilder) and The Prophecy(the angel thing with Walken). I'm sure I forgot something. The bad economy has me staying home more.

'House' was great this week and so was 'The Forgotten'.
Good stories and good acting.

I'd like to see 'Where the Wild Things Go' (or something like that, my memory is killing me.)

Harry Potter pentology.

My third time trying to get through it but this time I was determined.

Goblet was my favorite, I really enjoyed this one. The first three, I pat myself on the back for completing them but other than the Weasleys, Hagrid and Snape, didn't much care for story or character. The fifth one just struck me as bad; a disjointed telling of cliches.

Big Bang Theory is the only thing I watch regularly.

Catching some NCIS/NCIS:LA on demand. Like both shows...just not motivated enough to catch them when they air.

Waiting for Lost, and that new show with Andre Braugher, Scott Bakula and Ray Ramano.

I saw Shadows & Fog by Woody Allen. The setting is similar to a late 1800s Victorian London...yet everyone is American.

It has a Jack the Ripper type murderer. The rest of the film is Woody Allen running around in you guessed it...Shadows and Fog.

I didn't care for it. Everyone in it is famous but I was pretty disappointed.

My scary movies for Halloween experiment is going bad. I watched The Prophecy (Christopher Walken) I remember loving it when it first came out. Scariest part is Viggo Mortensen as the devil. But I didn't love it the 2nd time around. So much potential and they fail to deliver.

I decided to give the Prophecy 2 a chance...it was really bad. I will not give Prophecy 3 a chance.

I am going to watch Unknown tonight (James Caviezel, Greg Kinnear, Bridget Moynahan, Joe Pantoliano and Barry Pepper). Not a "scary" movie but suspenseful I believe.

btw, I DON'T do scary movies! Yes all 6'1" 270lbs of me can't take them. I basically get in a fight/flight response for 2 hours and don't enjoy it. (I did watch Vacancy recently and enjoyed it thought)

Just saw the Korean film Sympathy For Lady Vengeance (Park Chan-wook) at a buddy's place last week.

Recommended for you mystery/thriller fans who love striking visuals (along with a little violence and sex). A woman gets out of jail after doing time for murdering a kid. You get a series of interlocking flashbacks and other characters' parallel narratives as she sets in motion an elaborate plan (harking back somewhat to films like Lang's 'M'). Some of the turns and twists are preposterous as hell, but so what? It's normal enough in this kind of story.

Sounds pretty good cleome. Adding it to my Netflix list! thanks.

Last week I was unsurprisingly on a horror kick (see "Zombie Flicks" thread for the rest) and rented a film I'd read a lot of buzz about Drag Me to Hell. It's Sam Raimi's return to the horror genre and offers what you'd expect from him: a mix of humor and thrills. It's a lot of fun and offers Raimi's B-movie sensibility in droves. Everything is played straight but the humorous intent is pretty obvious.

Basically, an old, creepy gypsy woman puts a curse on a loan officer who turns her down for an extended grace period on her mortgage. But before the curse is put on, the two have a hilarious no-holds-barred knock-down/drag-out in the parking garage! That and follo-up scenes between the two are the lure of the movie, IMO.

I could kick myself for not spotting the switcheroo that set up the ending, though. It was set up beautifully!

So if you're in the mood for a little light B-movie fare with some genuine thrills amid the comedy, I'd highly recommend Drag Me to Hell!

Let me know if you like it, Jorge. I always enjoy reading the reviews here. (There are two other parts to the "Vengeance Trilogy," but I haven't seen them yet. The stories have a common theme, but they aren't connected in any other way.)

Saw Whip It the other day. It's kind of like Rocky with an aspiring roller derby queen in the lead role. The performances were good, even if the plot didn't offer any big surprises. I did like the relationship between Bliss aka "Babe Ruthless" and her ex-beauty queen Mom. Also the fact that they didn't demonize the "older" (a whopping 31-year-old!) champion who resented that the heroine was a natural at something that she herself had spent years mastering.

My wife is out of town and a buddy of mine and I went on a movie watching spree.

Superman/Batman: Public Enemies. I liked it. I like them adapting a really good storyline and hope they continue to do so. Batman should've been knocked out a few times though. Didn't love the art.

Green Lantern: First Flight. Didn't care for the changes in the story but overall I did like the story. I've always been a Corps fan so I loved that they got serious screen time. Also didn't love the art.

When it comes to animation I'm a snob. After seeing some of those Japanese studious create something beautiful I'm a bit picky. I just think it appears to be low quality.

G.I. Joe. Horrible. Acting was terrible except for Sienna Miller ofcourse. The guy playing Duke talks like he's from the hood in every film he's in. I didn't care for the story. Did like the bad guys but I always have when it comes to Cobra.

Probably going to check Wolverine in the next few days.

I'm hoping to see 'Avatar' when it comes out.
The trailer is fantastic.

Trailers tell too much of the story, I think.
At least, in recent years.

But the special effects look incredible and the movie has Sigourney Weaver, which is almost always a draw for me.

candle, i agree or they show all the action scenes or comedy scenes in the preview. Hate seeing a movie and all the best parts were in the preview.

I saw Wolverine. It was better than I thought (or heard). I did go in with low expectations. Some scenes were bad but for the most part I liked it. Schriber was an awesome Sabretooth.

I bought the complete series of FARSCAPE and have started from the beginning, instead of skipping around and watching the dozen or so episodes I never caught.

I've listened to a couple of commentaries, too.

Do those of you who pick up DVDs with audio commentaries listen to them? They're either really fascinating or great insomnia cures.

Maybe there ought to be a thread for DVDs people've bought but haven't watched yet. I've got a good stack of those!

Commentaries are really hit or miss. The ones I've heard on the new Battlestar Galactica series were good.

Just saw Men of a Certain Age on TNT.
It's Monday's @ 10 pm.

I can't say enough good about the show!
Ray Romano and Scott Bakula and one of my favorite black actors, who's name I can never remember, darn it!

If you haven't seen it, do.
Funny, realistic, wonderful friendships.