Movies you saw for the first time December

just watched Antitrust (2001) on Cinemax. VERY good (and VERY under-rated by the critics) fast paced mystery thriller about a "super geek", played by Ryan Phillippe, who takes a job with a "Microsoft" type tech company run by a "Bill Gates" type CEO, played by Tim Robbins, who will stop at nothing, including murder, to stop his competetion from small programmers. has a LOT of "plot twists" and suspense.

I rate it    of three. it's on Cinemax channels about every night thru December 7th. IF you don't get Max, it's worth getting from Netflix I thought it was that good.

also watched The Three Musketeers (2011). on Showtime. it's a pretty fast paced telling of the Alexandre Dumas classic with plenty of "swashbuckling sword play" and a "SciFi" angle to it with the da Vinci "war machine" airships. Gabriella Wilde is VERY tasty as D'Artagnan's love interest Constance in her first major movie role I thought it was more entertaining than earlier versions I have seen like the 1993 Disney production with Charlie Sheen and Kiefer Sutherland. I would say out of three IF you like "classic" action movies.

it's on the Showtime channels thru December 7th.

MIB3 - Josh? Brolin sounded exactly like Tommy Lee Jones's Agent K. I give it a

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoyV49FfjOU

Collateral: Great movie w/ Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx.  Cruise plays a hitman and Foxx is a taxi driver that carts Cruise to each assignment.  The movie is being played on HBO this month.  I strongly recommend.

I give it 8 out of 10.

watched it a couple times. both Cruise and Foxx get a lot of crap from critics BUT they are BOTH excellent in this movie. LOTS of action and some pretty good "suspence". only complaint I had was I thought the ending was somewhat "lame"

just happened to watch L.A. Confidential (1997) on Cinemax last night. VERY well acted "crime novel" mystery-thriller with Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe (in one of his first Hollywood films), Guy Pearce, James Cromwell, Danny DeVito and Kim Basinger (who won the Best Actress in a Supporting Role Oscar in the year in the year where Titanic almost completely dominated)

it's on Cinemax again Sunday Dec 9th, Monday Dec 10th and Wednesday Dec 12th. definate    and worth watching-recording IF you haven't seen it.

Ransom (1996) crime thriller with Mel Gibson, Rene Russo, and Gary Sinise. the first third somewhat "drags" as they set up the plot BUT the action and suspense picks up after that. Sinise a very good villian as the leader of the kidnap gang. has an excellent "plot twist" near the end and excellent action in the finale. I would say  IF you "page thru" the first half hour. probably fwould have made a good 90 minute movie instead of it's 2 hours.

 A Man Apart (2003) Vin Diesel action thriller "revenge" movie with "oodles of ordnance". it's your standard mindless "drug wars" non-stop "shoot 'em up" action movie. definately NOT boring BUT also with a "plot" that requires NO brain power what so ever.  IF you want something that will NOT tax the mind. it DOES have some VERY tasty "Chicas" in the early dance hall scenes.

Supernova (2000) 90 minute non-stop SciFi action-thriller with James Spader and Angela Bassett. similar plot to the 1997 Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill Event Horizon with elements of Prometheus (2012). critics threw rocks BUT I thought it had excellent suspense and action.Twilight Saga star Peter Facinelli is excellent as the psyco villian. thought that Vanessa Marshall as the voice of the wise-cracking ship computer "Sweetie" was good comic relief. hopefully it will re-run soon on the MGM-HD movie channel    

CQ (2001) French produced tripe and a complete waste of DVR space. just happened to follow Supernova so I recorded it. BIG mistake. definately one of the WORST movies I have seen the last year. just plain STUPID. I'm suprised that Gerard Depardieu didn't BUY the movie and BURN it    

I don't understand how people find Will Ferrell funny.  He's such a douche

Agreed never found him funny but very annoying  

I thought Ferrell was pretty funny as George W Bush on SNL and in The Other Guys (2010) with Mark Wahlberg, Eva Mendes and Michael Keaton is one of the better comedies I have seen the last couple years BUT I will agree that most of his other stuff I have seen is annoying and NOT that funny.

Supernova is on MGM-HD again Wednesday Dec 19th @ 7 pm pacific. Antitrust is on the Cinemax channels again almost daily thru the end of January. The Departed with Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon and Jack Nicholson is on Fox Movie channel Sunday Dec 16th @ 9 pm and Monday Dec 17th @ 2 pm pacific.

I thought Ferrell was pretty funny as George W Bush on SNL and in The Other Guys (2010) with Mark Wahlberg, Eva Mendes and Michael Keaton is one of the better comedies I have seen the last couple years BUT I will agree that most of his other stuff I have seen is annoying and NOT that funny.

Supernova is on MGM-HD again Wednesday Dec 19th @ 7 pm pacific. Antitrust is on the Cinemax channels again almost daily thru the end of January. The Departed with Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon and Jack Nicholson is on Fox Movie channel Sunday Dec 16th @ 9 pm and Monday Dec 17th @ 2 pm pacific.

War Horse (2011) from the trailers I figured it would be "Steven Spielberg Schmaltz" which it was to a certain extent BUT I found it well acted and the WWI scenes were kind of an All Quiet on the Western Front with horses. it is definately NOT a childerns movie. although it's rated PG-13, I think that some of the battle scenes and the cruelty to the horses depicted would give pre-teens nightmares.

overall I would give it a   of three BUT Spielberg probably could have cut it to under 2 hours

it's on the Showtime premium movie channels daily Monday Dec 17th thru Sunday Dec 23rd ex for Tuesday Dec 18th and Wednesday Dec 19th

just saw a critic's write up of War Horse where he described it as "Anna Sewell's horse novel Black Beauty with Bullets". I would say that's pretty accurate

Messier-11, does your  emoticon of The Hobbit indicate you really liked it or that it's typical over done Lord of the Rings tripe?

Thanks, Mess

The Help (2011) Best Picture Oscar nominee adapted from the 2009 Kathryn Stockett novel of the same name about the life of black maids in 1960's Jackson, Mississippi. Mrs wanted to see it and from trailers I thought it was just a "chick flick" BUT turned out to be a very compelling story with outstanding acting by Emma Stone, Viola Davis (Best Actress Oscar nominee), Octavia Spencer (Best Supporting Actress Oscar winner), Bryce Dallas Howard, Jessica Chastain (Best Supporting Actress Oscar nominee) and Sissy Spacek. VERY funny in spots esp how some of the maids "get back" at their snooty "upper class twit" women employers.

I would say    of three. it's on the Showtime channels again Sunday Dec 23rd and Monday Dec 24th

two "oldie but goody" movies on premium movie channels Christmas week...

John Grisham's The Rainmaker  (1997) excellent lawyer-courtroom drama directed by Francis Ford Coppola with Matt Damon in one of his early staring rolls. cast includes Danny DeVito, Danny Glover, Jon Voight and Mickey Rourke. VERY well acted story. IF you want to know where the REAL "death panels" are in American healthcare, this is the movie.

plays on the HBO Z channel Tuesday Dec 25th @ 6:30 am and 11:50 am pacific time

Kill the Irishman (2011) crime drama about the 1970's mob war between Irish-American mob boss Danny Greene and the Cleveland Mafia. another VERY well acted story with Ray Stevenson as Danny Greene (he really LOOKED like Greene), Vincent D'Onofrio, Christopher Walken, Val Kilmer, Tony Lo Bianco, Paul Sorvino and Steve Schirripa. pretty much non-stop action

plays on the Showtime channels Monday dec 24th @ 3:50 am and Wednesday Dec 26th @ 9:10 am and 5:10 pm pacific time

I would rank both as    of three. definately worth recording IF you have never seen them.

I know the first TR was a classic, but how does the new one match up to the original?  I don't know anyone who saw the new one and I don't want to waste 2 hrs if it happens to blow