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Across the Universe!

(Actually I was too lazy to dig up my old Summer Movie thread).

But this movie was actually very good.....a simple premise that seems SO obvious (a musical with Beatles music!) that actually was hammered out of the park. I loved the way they used some of the songs.....now I'll think of the songs in a whole different way (some more melacholy than I normally would consider).....all in all a good movie. Snuggle worthy!

Oh! I have really, really been wanting to see this Bond!

I will definitely check it out.

Bond...James Bond wrote:Across the Universe!

I haven't seen this yet. I didn't like Julie Taymor's adaptation of Titus, but the trailer for this film looks interesting. And that Rachel Hurd-Wood is amazingly hot. She made that terrible movie Perfume bearable.

Of the recent movies I've seen in the theatre, I highly recommend The Kingdom and Eastern Promises. Viggo Mortensen's role in Eastern Promises is Oscar worthy.

Anyone else seen this lately.....I'm thinking of going to see it again (quite a stretch for a poor soul like me) I thought it was so good.

Shady Acres also highly recommends (yeah I'm bored...screw it):

Comedies:
Blues Brothers
Blazing Saddles
Monty Python: Life of Brian
Monty Python: Holy Grail
Dumb and Dumber
MASH
Dr. Strangelove
Airplane!

Horror:
The Birds
The Shining
Psycho
Halloween
Jaws
Exorcist
The Sixth Sense (but only the first time through sadly)

Historical type Dramas:
Shindler's List
The Pianist
Gladiator
Braveheart
Saving Private Ryan

Epics:
Lawrence of Arabia
Ben Hur
Spartacus
10 Commandments (yeah I know...but Chuck Heston rules those plates!)

Musicals:
West Side Story
Wizard of Oz
The Sound of Music
Singin in the Rain
Grease

Fantasy:
Star Wars (all 6....but skip to the action scenes in the first two)
Lord of the Rings (all 3....fast forward through most of the second part to get to Helms Deep)

Don't Know (other good ones I guess):
On the Waterfront
American Beauty
The Deer Hunter
Godfather (I and II)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (probably comedy)
Shawshank Redemption

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7qxqvjTbu0

If you don't want to go anywhere or rent anything, may I highly suggest Zeitgeist:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 5331&hl=en

Especially part 1, on astrotheology. Very interesting stuff.

Bond...James Bond wrote:Shady Acres also highly recommends (yeah I'm bored...screw it):

Comedies:
Blues Brothers
Blazing Saddles
Monty Python: Life of Brian
Monty Python: Holy Grail
Dumb and Dumber
MASH
Dr. Strangelove
Airplane!

Horror:
The Birds
The Shining
Psycho
Halloween
Jaws
Exorcist
The Sixth Sense (but only the first time through sadly)

Historical type Dramas:
Shindler's List
The Pianist
Gladiator
Braveheart
Saving Private Ryan

Epics:
Lawrence of Arabia
Ben Hur
Spartacus
10 Commandments (yeah I know...but Chuck Heston rules those plates!)

Musicals:
West Side Story
Wizard of Oz
The Sound of Music
Singin in the Rain
Grease

Fantasy:
Star Wars (all 6....but skip to the action scenes in the first two)
Lord of the Rings (all 3....fast forward through most of the second part to get to Helms Deep)

Don't Know (other good ones I guess):
On the Waterfront
American Beauty
The Deer Hunter
Godfather (I and II)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (probably comedy)
Shawshank Redemption

I love you, Bond! I absolutely concur on your choices!

;)

To Sci Fi or Fantasy, I would also add all 3 Matrix movies.

Here's some from Runtu:

Comedies:
The Producers (the 1968 version, not the new one)
The Big Lebowski
Raising Arizona
Some Like It Hot
It Happened One Night
Hairspray (the 80s version)
Harvey

Horror:
Alien
Spoorloos (The Vanishing)

Historical type Dramas:
Gallipoli
Breaker Morant
Das Boot
Last King of Scotland
Hotel Rwanda
Band of Brothers
The Killing Fields
The Official Story
Before Night Falls
City of God

Epics:
Gandhi
Lonesome Dove

Musicals:
Top Hat
The Gay Divorcee
My Fair Lady (if you can overlook Audrey Hepburn's miscasting)
Cabaret
An American in Paris

Fantasy:
Pan's Labyrinth
Wings of Desire
Stranger than Fiction

Don't Know (other good ones I guess):

Raging Bull
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
All About Eve
Sunset Blvd
Nine Queens

Runtu wrote:Here's some from Runtu:

Comedies:
The Producers (the 1968 version, not the new one)
The Big Lebowski
Raising Arizona
Some Like It Hot
It Happened One Night
Hairspray (the 80s version)
Harvey

Horror:
Alien
Spoorloos (The Vanishing)

Historical type Dramas:
Gallipoli
Breaker Morant
Das Boot
Last King of Scotland
Hotel Rwanda
Band of Brothers
The Killing Fields
The Official Story
Before Night Falls
City of God

Epics:
Gandhi
Lonesome Dove

Musicals:
Top Hat
The Gay Divorcee
My Fair Lady (if you can overlook Audrey Hepburn's miscasting)
Cabaret
An American in Paris

Fantasy:
Pan's Labyrinth
Wings of Desire
Stranger than Fiction

Don't Know (other good ones I guess):

Raging Bull
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
All About Eve
Sunset Blvd
Nine Queens

I bolded ones from Runtu's list I totally love.

I'm a huge Lonesome Dove fan....and hate that Call is in every damn book while they went and killed off Gus....God I hate Call. And I totally hated that Pea Eye married Lorena....talk about suspending reality so that they could keep her in the story....jeez. And I'm also totally pissed off that they killed off every awesome character (Deets, Newt, Jake, Gus) or cut the characters out of the story (Dish, Jasper, Lippy) and left all the boring characters who do nothing but crybaby across the prairie (Pea Eye, Call, Lorena) in the whole time. McMurtry really dropped the ball with Streets of Laredo.