lizardgirl: It really makes me happy to see someone willingly go to a horror movie- and enjoy it. It really is a dying genre in my opinion.
Vertigo: A
Se7en: A-
Coming Soon: Suspiria, Battle Royale, Inception
Chuckles: Se7en is one of my all time favorite movies. Chilling performance by [spoil]Kevin Spacey[/spoil]. 
I hope you enjoy Inception, and you’ll have to tell me how Battle Royale is, I’m desperate to see it.
I finally got around to watching Les Misérables (1935). I really liked it, even though they left out a major chunk of the ending. Both Javert and Valjean were great, and Cosette was surprisingly good too. Now I just have to see the stage production. 
Evil_Genius: Don’t get me started on Les Mis! I have the soundtrack, seen the musical countless times, I have the book, I have the 1935 movie, and the newer Liam Neeson version. I know the words to every song in the musical! I am a Les Mis freak!
Just watched Cats Don’t Dance or the first time ever. Fell in love with it. It was just so fun and charming. 
Cats Don’t Dance was one of my favourite childhood movies, Leirin! I didn’t catch the movie references or the ‘hidden theme’ of workplace discrimination and all that, but I did love the characters and the music! My favourite number was ‘Our Time Has Come’, and it has one of the best opening sequences for an animated film in the 90s (the other worthy ones I can think of are The Lion King and Tarzan).
I’m so glad that you liked Cats Don’t Dance, Leirin! It is a great movie, the best part of it is the Hollywood caricatures, and the score (which was provided by the amazing Randy Newman, of course)!
Chuckles - I guess it is, though I’ve never really thought about it before…Horror is one of my favourite genres (I’m forever inviting my friends round to my house just so I can scare them witless) and there are so many great classics out there. Like, for example, I recently watched The Exorcist and I absolutely adored it. What a film! Extreme, scary, pretty convincing - but the best thing about it (and something that a lot of horror films seem to lack nowadays) were the relateable characters. You get to know them before their lives are turned upside down, so when it’s all going wrong you actually feel for them.
Unlike in another recent movie I’ve watched, Piranha 3D. Not only did I not care for the main characters, I was WILLING them to be eaten by piranhas! It’s a silly film, rude and yet somewhat jumpy, and it’s a lot of fun if you don’t mind hordes of naked women and boobies everywhere. Plus the ending was genuinely unexpected, and very, very funny. Eight out of ten!
Agreed, last year’s John Carpenter’s Halloween midnight party is one of my most cherised childhood memories. I watched it with about four of my other freinds, and it was hilarious just watching their faces during it. I want to see Piranha 3D really bad. It looks hilarious, plus it has two of my favorite actors in cameo roles. Christopher Lloyd and Richard Dreyfuss. I think it comes out in Italy in November, and it should be V-14 (PG-13).
I forgot Richard Dreyfuss had a cameo in that movie! 
He’s one of my favorite actors!
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - A
Really well done movie, will have to rewatch it to make better sense of it, though. Is it supposed to be implied that [spoil]their relationship loops forever[/spoil]?
Bryko - I should check that out. It’s not often Jim goes beyond his comedic roles, so I’m interested to see what other acting chops he’s got.
Speaking of horror movies, I believe I found the scariest movie of the year. You guys have to see this.
A-ha-ha, Escalation does look terrifying.
I’m half way through the Italian horror classic Suspiria. So far, I love it. For me it is the scariest opening scene of any movie. The score is one of my favorites, and I think I’m going to buy the soundtrack if it’s on iTunes. Has anybody else seen this movie?
Glad you share my sentiments, Chuckles. That trailer was spine-chilling, wasn’t it? 
I think it’ll be the best yet from that director.
Haven’t seen Suspiria cos’ I don’t watch enough foreign horror movies. Is there a YouTube link to any of the tracks from the soundtrack?
I wanna watch the Thai ghost film Shutter. There was a French thriller called Le Salaire de la Peur (The Wages of Fear) that was the precedent for Speed. I swear, that film had my palms sweaty throughout the entire length! It is, quite literally, explosive entertainment.
Sure thing, the link is down below. I finished the movie. My conclusion is that it was much better than I expected, and very shocking. The only bad thing is that some of the acting is bad, and it definitely is stonger in artistic value than actual plot, sort of like most Tim Burton films. The best way to describe it is if Walt Disney made a horror film. Its use of Technicolor makes everything bright and bold when it needs to be, which makes everything else even creepier. What the director does is that he picks one particular color (red, yellow, or blue) and uses that to tint the entire scene based on the emotion he’s trying to convey. He also often shows a huge area for the scene, and focuses on one particular object such as a light, eyes, or a human. Then the music kicks in and builds up until the shock scare is revealed. This is one of my favorite horror movies, and although it’s not my number 1 (that’s The Shining), it is definitely the scariest movie I’ve ever seen. Even more than The Exorcist.
[url]- YouTube
I also think you can watch the whole movie on YouTube, but it’s not the movie for everyone. It’s very disturbing and the entire movie is basically people getting brutally killed in beautiful ways.
Suspiria looks really cool just from the poster!
I think my family and I are going to watch Watership Down on a day where my dad doesn’t have work.
Here are the last two movies I saw.
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time: Meh, mer. Mugh. Meh. This movie just wasn’t my thing. The only part I really liked was the hot men in it. Ha, but seriously. For me, the smexy dues were the best part. I give it a C.
Death at a Funeral: This movie, I liked. It was pretty funny. I especially liked Keith David’s performance. Maybe my favorite non animated film that came out this year. I give it a B.
Bobby: A+: I loved this movie. Very informative.
Princess Mononoke: A-: only minus for confusion and mild boredom, but it was very good.
Monsters vs. Aliens: D-: Very boring, dumb, and Ginormica looks way too much like Mirage. The first half hour was like a poorly written romantic dramedy.
Virginia: I so agree with you about Monsters vs. Aliens. The only good part about it was that Stephen Colbert was in it. Besides that, I didn’t like a moment of it.
That’s funny, because I thought of you when I saw him in the credits. 
That’s awesome, Virginia!