I saw Yes Man today. Very funny movie! Highly recomend it!
I’m also looking forword to Paul Blart: Mall Cop. I think that Kevin James is hilarious!
Just saw Spy Kids on Disney Channel with most of the family- really entertaining.
Oh, and I loved Horton Hears a Who!. For some reason, I like JoJo’s character the most.
I really want to see The Unborn! It looks so creepy that it just has to be good. Anybody else looking forword to it?
Just saw Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on ABC. It was pretty good…although the ending was off from the original and they took out an important scene. It was great and Johhny Depp was outstanding…he is a great actor.
I agree. Johnny Depp is a great actor, but I think his portrayal of WIlly Wonka was his weakest.
It was pretty good. Ryan Gosling’s a talented actor.
I recently watched Election, Road to Perdition, Sideways, and Better off Dead. The middle two were for the first time.
I just watched Tropic Thunder and Step Brothers. 
Both were all right … not extremely funny … though I only watched Tropic Thunder for Steve Coogan.
Kung Fu Panda - 9/10. 'Twas spiffing. This is a little bit of a bias against it on these forums, however.
I’ve started watching Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within tonight for the first time in ages. It used to be one of my favourite films when I was younger, though I’m not really sure why (not that I’m saying it’s a bad film, just strange that I liked it to such an extent). The almost-but-not-quite-realistic humans are perhaps a tad creepy, especially when CGI has advanced so much recently, but it’s still a unique story that’s pretty well-told.
Kamome Shokudo - B+
I finally saw The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, and I loved it! It was much more adult and detailed than the first!
I personally hated The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian because it was too much adult-ish. The whole romance thing totally turned me off.
Pro-
Fighting
Details
Character developement
Storyline…they stayed mostly to the book. But for a follower of Narnia it was most disappointing.
Cons-
Romance
Peter/Caspian-Anger towards one another…the book only hints at that…the movie exlpodes on that idea.
It strayed from the book just a little to much for me.
I don’t know about you Al-Bob. I agree with you on all of the pros, but I disagree with you on the romance, and the heat between Peter and Caspian. I thought the romantic interactions between Susan and Caspian seemed really touching. I loved it. And the anger between Peter and Caspian seemed pretty well played, uping the stakes and intensity for the white witch scene.
It did do well for that scene, but when your a Narnia fan such as I am, those little details somewhat ruin the adventure for you. It would be somewhere close to Pixar changing Buzz’s nature in Toy Story 3… I guess I am a little nit-picky but I hate to see them ruin a great book.
The romance was okay…but IMO it nearly ruined the film for me. I would give it a 8.5/10 for the problems it has to my nerves.
I didn’t mind the romance in The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian - though it gets annoying if you think of it and I personally don’t ship it, it’s still nice to see them add a little something to what C.S. Lewis did not. And it’s not a bad add, IMO- I think it would be natural for there to be some sort of chemistry between the two, though in the past people normally shipped Caspian/Lucy, since the two certainly spend more time together.
Yay! I just got WALL-E on DVD and saw Mulan on Disney Channel! (Can you believe it? Disney Channel finally showed something pure classic Disney!) That’s a bonus today for me.
Just heard the news, Disney released an official statement saying that a third Disney-Walden Media Narnia film will not be made due to ‘budgetary and logistical’ reasons. 
I am a huge fan of the books and I loved both the films and I am very sad to see that The Voyage of the Dawn Treader , my absolute favorite in the series, will not be made into a film (cries in corner)…
Anyways, let’s try to be as cheerful as possible despite this sad happening. After all, it is the holiday season! 
And now, my opinion on Slumdog Millionaire:
Its greatness needs no lifelines. The film is well-balanced between the former life of Jamal Malik, a young adult who grew up in the slums of India, and the life he now leads, that of a national inspiration as a ‘slumdog’ who is one question away from winning twenty million rupees on India’s version of ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire?’. But there is a catch. He only went on the show to be seen by the girl he thinks he’s destined for. He never imagined that he would get even this close to the grand prize. Things from his life tell him the answers to almost every question. And there is one other catch. Throughout a good portion of the film, Jamal is being questioned for suspected cheating on the show. But it is his heart, not his wits, that propel him to places he never imagined possible. Danny Boyle’s fine directing talent is totally on display in this, his finest piece. He keeps things vibrant though horrors and violence, and despite Jamal’s haunted past, Mr. Boyle makes an incredibly uplifting narrative out of a story about a slumdog. It is passionate. It is new. It is exciting. It is enthralling. And although this may sound cheesy, it truly is like nothing you’ve ever seen before. It’s a movie that’ll make you feel like a millionaire. A+++. The Best Film of 2008.
Slumdog Millionaire is rated R for some violence, language, and a disturbing image.
I just saw Horton Hears a Who! last night at my neighbors, and I was oddly in love with it. No one else particularly liked it, so I feel like an oddball for claiming I wanted to buy it on DVD. I dunno … it’s just so cute, and funny, and blahh … I can’t help what I like.
The theatrical trailer for Terminator Salvation, the fourth film in the Terminator series, has been released: