Movie for tonight

[LadyShea]

What should we go see or rent?

I was thinking of National Treasure. Has anyone seen it? Is it fun escapism like an Indiana Jones film or just silly like that piece of shit, Van Helsing?

[livius drusus]

I haven't seen it, but I gotta think Van Helsing. Salon hated it (http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2004/11/19/national_treasure/index.html), fwiw. :shrug:

[LadyShea]

I haven't seen it, but I gotta think Van Helsing. Salon hated it (http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2004/11/19/national_treasure/index.html), fwiw. :shrug:


Yeah, I somtimes like movies the critics hate...but pretty much the only people I read positive reviews from were, like, 12 year old boys on Yahoo.

BTW, did I mention that I fucking hated van Helsing...which sucks because i was really looking forward to it even.

[LadyShea]

Hmm, Finding Neverland looks like a winner...whatcha think?

[RedShift]

Van Helsing was really bad, I went to see it for Hugh Jackman who is good but the plot, direction, script etc all suck.

Finding Neverland is supposed to be good, I think Barrie's descendants are pissed off about it though.

[Dingfod]

Finding Neverland sounds like a good choice.

Similarly, the choice of the police out in California today was Finding evidence at Neverland, Michael "I love little boys and my nose isn't small enough yet" Jackson's Neverland Ranch.

[Godless Wonder]

Neither Ebert, nor whoever replaced Siskel liked National Treasure. They were on Jay Leno last night. They liked "finding Neverland." Ebert liked some movie with Julia Roberts and Jude Law that's just opening, I think, it's called "closer," though it was panned on NPR this morning..

imdb.com (http://imdb.com) is a good place to go to find out about movies, (as you probably already know.)

[seebs]

My wife loved Van Helsing, but then, she likes cheesy movies and self-parody.

[Dingfod]

rottentomatoes.com is a good site to see what the critics said about just about every movie ever made.

movies.yahoo.com is a good place to see what both critics and viewers thought of movies.

Both have reviews of movies on video release.

National Treasure didn't fare to well on the rottentomatoes site, rating only a 46 on a 0-100 scale. It fared better on yahoo, getting a B+ from users. But, that beat the hell out of Xmas with the Kranks, which has the lowest rating I've ever seen on tomatoes, a 4. The yahoo user reviews are hilarious on the bad movies. You should read the reviews of Gigli, the Bennifer trainwreck, some of them had me crying I was laughing so hard.

[dave_a]

I just watched Van Helsing tonite and enjoyed it so I won't bother giving you suggestions of other movies I like such as the Dawn of the Dead remake.

[LadyShea]

I just watched Van Helsing tonite and enjoyed it so I won't bother giving you suggestions of other movies I like such as the Dawn of the Dead remake.


I fully intended to enjoy it. I wasn't looking for an Academy Award winner, and I thought it started out well, I just thought they could have done so much more with it.

Speaking of award winners, I have never seen Seabiscuit. It is available on HBO on Demand....worth a watch?

[livius drusus]

So what did you end up watching last night?

Seabiscuit was good enough. I saw it on HBO a little while ago and I dug it. Very cheesy, many thematic cliches, but I enjoyed it just fine.

[LadyShea]

So what did you end up watching last night?

We stayed home. Frankie had a headache, and after reading various reviews, nothing currently playing made us want to run down to the theater. We rarely "go to the movies", I just kind of had a hankering last night but it went away. We watched some dumb old Harrison Ford movie and Pornucopia 4.

Seabiscuit was good enough. I saw it on HBO a little while ago and I dug it. Very cheesy, many thematic cliches, but I enjoyed it just fine.

It looked cheesy which is why I haven't watched it yet. I loved The Black Stallion and I am afraid any horse movie just won't be as good ;)


I was disturbed reading about Finding Neverland. I think I'll start a thread on bio-fiction.