What Movie Did You Just Watch

[Avaitor]

Recently I've seen 2 horror movies, one that made No-Personality's list, the other that hasn't as of yet.

The latter was Creepshow, an anthology of EC Comics adaptations. Since I'm yet to read any of the fabled horror comics they made due to licensing issues and insane price ranges for the originals (Gemstone briefly had rights to reprint their work, but only got to make a couple of volumes before losing said rights, barely scratching the surface), this was a good introduction to some of these tales. Most of the stories were campy, but fun to watch nonetheless. I especially enjoyed seeing a pre-Cheers Ted Danson be buried alive by a post-Airplane! Leslie Nielsen.

The other was Hellraiser, which was pretty brutal. It's somewhat typical of an 80's horror flick, but that's not a bad thing. I'd say more, but hell, NP does a much better job than I ever could.

[Dr. Insomniac]

Watched The Man Who Laughs yesterday, along with Vampyr right now.

[Pharass]

Watched Marathon Man recently and thought it was a well-made and interesting thriller. I knew about the "is it safe?" scene going into the movie, but damn if it still wasn't tough watching it.

[Lord Dalek]

Argo really lived up to the hype.

[Rosalinas Spare Wand]

Had to watch High Noon for my American West history class. Sheriff Kane is a man's man.

[Dr. Insomniac]

Well, without offering spoilers, a scene in Skyfall made me really sad.

[Lord Dalek]

L.A. Confidential... which is a movie I really need to do transplant here for.

[Avaitor]

The original novel is next on my to-read list.

[Lord Dalek]

I bet you five bucks its a better Mickey Cohen movie then the one that's coming out in January.

[Avaitor]

I just found out that Kelly from Cheers was Gwyneth Paltrow's body double in Contagion.

That's pretty weird.

[Commode]

Watched Lincoln with the family.  Really good movie.

[Pharass]

The original novel is next on my to-read list.

Good man. Is it your first Ellroy, Avaitor?

From what I can remember, the plot in L.A. Confidential is quite byzantine and involves various subplots that were dropped from the movie. Understandably so, since the movie would've been even longer if they were in it. It's been awhile since I read it, but I think thinly veiled version of Walt Disney figured into the whole thing somehow.

It's also the third book in a quartet. I don't think it's necessary to have read the previous two novels before reading L.A. but if you're interested they're titled: The Black Dahlia and The Big Nowhere respectively.

As for me, I saw Collateral a few days ago. Good movie, solid performances from all actors. I was especially impressed by Tom Cruise, the guy should play stone-cold sociopaths more often.

[Avaitor]

The original novel is next on my to-read list.

Good man. Is it your first Ellroy, Avaitor?

Yes, it is. I'm about 50 pages in thus far and I'm enjoying it, but I am reminded that I haven't seen the film in a longggg time. I'll rectify that when I finish reading the novel.

[Daxdiv]

Watched Lincoln with the family.  Really good movie.

I did this as well and I agree. Considering that my dad is one big history buff, we saw it on those grounds since the showing of Flight was sold out. His comment and opinion as we walked out matched mine, which is that the film focused more on the backdoor politics of the 13th Amendment. That's what it felt like for me.

[Spark Of Spirit]

I watched the first fifteen minutes of Burton's Alice and it was utterly awful. I hope no one is going to chime in and tell me it gets better because the beginning was too awful for me to consider watching it over again.