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  • gwenn
    gwenn Member Posts: 106
    edited August 2007

    I finally saw Hairspray with my daughter today. It was really good! I was not a fan of the old hairspray and thought I'd hate this one but it was funny and cute and I loved the music! We laughed and had a great time.

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  • christineK
    christineK Member Posts: 1,265
    edited August 2007

    Watched Wild Hogs last night, those guys are so funny. I love John Travolta. The whole biker theme made for some funny moments.

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  • jasmine
    jasmine Member Posts: 1,286
    edited May 2008

    I just saw Snakes on a Plane. Yukk!!!!!!

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  • karol61
    karol61 Member Posts: 128
    edited September 2007

    Yes, I agree Pan's Labryinth was wonderful.

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  • jasmine
    jasmine Member Posts: 1,286
    edited May 2008

    Pan's Labryinth was too sad. It made me cry at how cruel some people can be.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited October 2007

    I was the new Jodi Foster flick a few weeks ago. It was pretty good - parts were pretty implausible, but it was still good.

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  • iodine
    iodine Member Posts: 4,289
    edited October 2007

    Saw Wild Hogs, glad I didn't pay movie price for it. 

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  • Towanda2
    Towanda2 Member Posts: 94
    edited October 2007

    Gone, Baby, Gone was excellent.  Great cast, good story, an ending that leaves you thinking, and Casey Affleck is easy on the eyes.Wink

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited October 2007

    OMG! Tyler Perry's "Why Did I Get Married?" was one of the best movies I've seen in a long, long time! Don't wait for the dvd - do a girls' night out and go see it at the cineplex!!

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  • Sierra
    Sierra Member Posts: 1,638
    edited October 2007



    Uh Oh

    I saw Pan's Labyrinth and cant recall

    a thing about it.. :((



    Saw that Crazy Cronenberg film

    with.. Vigoo Mortensen

    very different

    brutal and violent..

    Russian Mafia



    and...



    Snakes on a Plane



    and



    Maria Callas movie at home ..interesting











    :))





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  • myrenewal
    myrenewal Member Posts: 203
    edited October 2007

    We rented We Are Marshall last night - excellent movie - I highly recommend it.  I was surprised I had not heard any buzz about it when it was at the theatres.  Very emotional.

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  • myrenewal
    myrenewal Member Posts: 203
    edited November 2007
    Just reminding everyone about this movie:  www.thesurvivormovie.com .  There may be some newcomers who have not seen it.
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  • cassieruns
    cassieruns Member Posts: 12
    edited November 2007

    I don't post much but saw this and thought I'd like to join in.  I loved "Why Did I Get Married" which I saw a couple of weeks ago.  I enjoyed Wild Hogs also.  I don't rent much and rarely go to the show but now that I can rely on you girls, I might join NetFlix again.

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  • Fllorik
    Fllorik Member Posts: 1,351
    edited November 2007

    American Gangster w/Denzel Washington was fantastic!

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  • saluki
    saluki Member Posts: 2,287
    edited November 2007

    After being mesmerized by Helio in dancing with the stars;   I happened across Shall we dance

    with Richard Gere and Jenifer Lopez on VH1 this week---It was cute and uplifting. 

    Now if you've seen this---you may want to rent a really neat earlier Japanese version --made in 1997 and subtitled Also called Shall We Dance or Shall we Dancu.--------Highly entertaining. 

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  • iodine
    iodine Member Posts: 4,289
    edited November 2007

    Saw the latest Elizabeth I movie and loved it.  The costumes were to die for! 

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited November 2007

    I saw In the Land of Women over the weekend and thought it was okay. Meg Ryan played a mother who (of course!) gets breast cancer (this isn't really a spoiler since it was hinted at from early on) and they did an alright job with her journey and responses to things. Still, if you're sick of bc stories, skip it...I didn't know that was part of the storyline beforehand. Anyway, here's another observation....Meg is super-skinny and had her lips enhanced. She looks pretty scary actually and alot like Calista Flockhart....Ack!

    ~Marin

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  • Rosemary44
    Rosemary44 Member Posts: 2,660
    edited November 2007

    I watched 2 DVD's that I liked very much.  Amazing Grace about the true history of the song.  Quite a history.

    And La Vie en Rose, the life of the singer Edith Piaf.   The actress who played her should be nominated for best actress.  That was something to see.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited November 2007

    I saw "The Mist" this weekend. Not to be a spoiler, but it had one of the worst endings in movie history! People were booing as the credits rolled...



    I also saw "This Christmas" which was good, too...

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  • Rosemary44
    Rosemary44 Member Posts: 2,660
    edited November 2007

    I rented the Magdalene Sisters.  Not for the faint of heart.  I even watched the documentary part where the women spoke of the cruelty they had to endure from those Nuns-- and the priests!  To think those places just closed in 1996.  No one is suing?

    I'm amazed by what some women are capable of doing, and what others are able to endure.   

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  • saluki
    saluki Member Posts: 2,287
    edited November 2007

    Layne---That is good--DeNiro as a gay pirate----that has to be worth seeing----as gay as Cyril

    Richard as Captain Hook?----now that was the definative gay pirate!----although not sure it would have been viewed that way in 1956.   lol 

    Rosemary--Glad you mentioned Magdalene Sisters---I own it -bought it at a massive Overstock.com sale for next to nothing a few years ago.---never viewed it---still in wrapper.

    You have convinced me to open it---Thanks! 

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  • Rosemary44
    Rosemary44 Member Posts: 2,660
    edited December 2007

    Susie,

    After you watch the Sisters, tell me how mad you are over it.  I found out that the gov't has a list of places the ladies could sue, but the Magdalene torture homes aren't on the list.  

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  • saluki
    saluki Member Posts: 2,287
    edited December 2007

    I watched it tonight Rosemary---What a gut wrenching film.  ---and the documentary.  ---How twisted and brutal--30,000 women with no one to speak out.  --And they didn't close the last one till 96----

    Mind-boggling how under the guise of religion people can become so misguided, abusive, and cruel beyond words.

    Was this picture swept under the rug?  Did it go straight to DVD.

    Just wondered if there was an active movement to bury it.  Were they made to open the adoption records at least after all the misery and mental anguish they subjected these women to or has that gone the route of the right to sue?

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  • iodine
    iodine Member Posts: 4,289
    edited December 2007

    I saw the film on HBO, I think it was.  Read more about it today to refresh my memory.

    I read that they changed the women's names "to help them start a new life". But that also made it very difficult for families to find them or for them to search for their adopted children.

    Heart wrenching.

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  • candie1971
    candie1971 Member Posts: 4,820
    edited December 2007

    Hi, I saw "Mr.Magorium's Wonder Imporium" (prob didn't spell that right) last weekend with Dustin Hoffman. Cute,magical movie. Had a great moral to it....you can do whatever you want, if you put your mind to it.

    I am gonna try to get "Stardust" on netflix

    Have a great day!!

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  • Rosemary44
    Rosemary44 Member Posts: 2,660
    edited December 2007

    Susie,

    From what I read about it, the Catholic church banned the movie.  But that came after the documentary.  The documentary was first seen in the U.K. with 3 million people tuning in and a loud outcry was heard from then on.  I just don't understand why the ladies can't sue the Magdalene's for income lost during their incarceration?  They worked in the laundry 12 hours a day, 6 days a week, for free for years.  The story I read about it didn't go in to whether or not the ladies found their children.  It must of been terrible for a mother to know her child was right next door at the orphanage and she couldn't be with the child or even see it. 

    Actually, those child beaters should be in jail.  Nor were the 136 bodies found in the make shift cemetary ever explained.  They were quickly cremated without investigation.  I hope it's going through a court system somewhere.

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  • saluki
    saluki Member Posts: 2,287
    edited December 2007

    You know one of the girls remained a devout Roman Catholic till the day she died---I find it amazing with all those years of abuse that she was able to separate the faith from the perpetrators of that evil.

    One woman in the documentary, after escaping and starting a new life, having more children--carried this as a secret her whole life--longing for her child and telling no-one because of the stigma and guilt associated with being a Magdalene girl.

    No-one in her family found out until the year before her death;  Then her family found her son and they were reunited.  Horrifically sad.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited December 2007

    I saw The Magdalene Sisters about a year ago on cable and it really stuck with me, not only because I was raised in an Irish-Catholic family in an Irish-Catholic neighborhood, but because I attended Cathloic schools from first grade through graduate school (I swear!). All I gotta say is, whew, and I thought I had brutal nuns! All they ever did to us was grab our ponytails and smash our heads on the blackboard...tame stuff compared to that boarding school!

    Also saw La Vie En Rose and loved it! What a powerful singer and passionate woman Edith Piaf was!

    Just rented Lady Chatterly (I'm obviously on a French jag these days!) and watched only a bit before conking out last night. If it wasn't so pensive and beautifully filmed, it could be considered slow-going. It's quite sensual so far and not at all offensive (for those who avoid the bawdier flicks).

    ~Marin

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  • sahalie
    sahalie Member Posts: 2,147
    edited December 2007

    I saw "The Golden Compass" yesterday with a friend.

    It made me want to come home and give big hugs to my big yellow lab.

    It's a dark movie but entertaining. 

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  • iodine
    iodine Member Posts: 4,289
    edited December 2007

    Just watched The Good Woman.  Sweet, well acted little film. 

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