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Rubber.

A sentient tire blows up people's heads, watches NASCAR, and chases a woman.

I am not making this up.

We turned it on when we read the description and we kept watching it with puzzled expressions. It's... almost indescribable.
 

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Rubber.

A sentient tire blows up people's heads, watches NASCAR, and chases a woman.

I am not making this up.

We turned it on when we read the description and we kept watching it with puzzled expressions. It's... almost indescribable.
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I found this movie very French.

Really. It has that, I dunno, je ne sais quoi, so existential...and yet...moving.

The tire steals the show. Will watch the sequal, Burn Rubber, Baby.

:D
 

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Watched Deep in the Valley about two men that get sucked into a porno world. Think a cross between Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure and Pleasantville; more the former than the later. I was surprised to find that I didn't hate it.
 

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I had a free ticket to use up and I'd already seen everything else, so I went to see Jack Reacher, hoping for explosions and shootouts. Unfortunately the part that lingers with me the most is our hero's opinion that (I'm paraphrasing) all women are bitches and whores. Stay classy there!
 

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The Words. Subtly mind bending and mostly amazing. The things said about aspiring writers rang very true to me.
 

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I'm drowsy right now because I stayed up all night watching Infra-Man.
 

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I was in the mood for mind numbing comedy last night, so I attempted to watch American Reunion. While the first few were crass, they were funny at least.
This one? When you're watching teens do stupid shit, it's funny, because you remember them being so when you were young. When they are supposedly adults, it just gets pathetic, and you quickly have to turn off the TV just to save what little sanity you like.
That was 45 minutes I'll never get back. (No, I couldn't finish it.)
 

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I saw a few things whilst I was sitting in the proverbial AW corner for a week:

-The House at the End of the Street - Okay, even the amazing Jennifer Lawrence couldn't raise the level of this somewhat typical horror/thriller.

-John Dies at the End - My new favorite movie (and I just started reading the book) - If you love dark comedy horror, I give this my highest recommendation. Damn clever and witty.

-Premium Rush - Just terrific. Fun film about a bike messenger with a corrupt cop after his delivery.
 

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-Premium Rush - Just terrific. Fun film about a bike messenger with a corrupt cop after his delivery.

I just watched this the other night, too, and I was... satisfied? I guess?

I watched it because I love Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and I was somewhat disappointed that such a great actor was given no room to actually act. You could've swapped in Random Actor in there without affecting the movie at all. Which wasn't really the movie's fault, I guess, so much as a problem with my expectations.

Anyway, it was a lot of fun and stylish (mostly) without being too flamboyant about it. But I was hoping for the JGL of Looper and Inception and Brick and I didn't get him. I'd still recommend it, with the above caveats.
 

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Vanishing on 7th Street-Genuinely creepy and unsettling, it's been a while since I've seen a horror movie that creeped me out. However the ending left me unsatisfied. (No spoilers beyond that)

Dredd-Enh...not sure what the general consensus of the movie is, I enjoyed it but all the actors were phoning it in.
 

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Watched The Iron Lady last night. Hmm. Meryl Streep was very good as Margaret Thatcher, but I really don't get what the director was trying to do with this movie. Most of it centered around an elderly Thatcher shuffling around her apartment having hallucinations of her late husband. The plot kept jumping back and forth in time and seemed very disjointed. I wouldn't recommend it.
 

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Skyfall. Definitely one of the better Bond movies.

Thinking about seeing Life of Pi but reading the book for now. Looking forward to World War Z even though I've avoided most modern zombie movies.
 

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Green Lantern satisfied the geeky, DC-fanboy in me...but the script wasn't very good. The extended version of the film made things a little better, but it still came off a paint-by-the-numbers affair and the direction was so wrong in some places--and in the initial "We're going to fly" scene, it worked perfectly.

For sheer creepiness, I watched the original Cat People with Simone Simone yesterday. Low-budget, high-effect, and the intercutting (the walking scene and the bus) was nigh on perfect.

Also watched Looper. The performances were good and while I like time travel and the inherent paradoxes in them, this movie just did not do it for me. Wasn't a total waste of time, but it didn't turn me on.

Curse of the Demon, OTOH, the classic 1957 film with Dana Andrews, kicks the shit out of most modern-day horror flicks, simply because of the creepy atmosphere Tourneur managed to create. Really, really good.

No lizards. (Sorry, Diana).:)
 

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Cube - SF horror, interesting idea, decent cast, genuinely creepy. Older film, probably the inspiration for The Cabin in the Woods but much better.The horror aspect is more down to claustrophobia than the gore, but the real strength of the film is in the characters and dialogue
 

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Butter. The premise is butter sculpting. Not kidding. Friggin' hilarious. I'm not a huge fan of Jennifer Garner, but she plays a great role. Actually the whole cast was great and it had a solid script.
I've kinda been on an indie kick lately :)
 

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Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason.

I can't believe I hadn't seen either of the Bridget Jones movies before this weekend. They're such good fun.
 

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Silver Linings Playbook. I thought parts of it were just great, funny, poignant, unique. And then I thought there were times when it wasn't, predictable, trite, same-old-same-old.

Some of the supporting performances stood out. Notably John Ortiz and Shea Whigham.

Not great, but better than good. I'd recommend it.