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Momma Mia was okay, but like ya'll, I love the music.

My girls and I are planning a ladies night with wine and Momma Mia sing along. :)

I saw it on the stage and it was great. They say the movie is good. Lucky you. Have fun and this should be easy what with the wine and all.......

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Will there be a pillow fight later in the evening?

:) Yes, in our skimpies - Just like the movies! ...go figure.

I saw it on the stage and it was great. They say the movie is good. Lucky you. Have fun and this should be easy what with the wine and all.......

Wine makes any movie good.

Well, almost.

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Wine makes any movie good.

Well, almost.

Either that or it will make it that much easier to fall asleep.

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I saw it on the stage and it was great. They say the movie is good. Lucky you. Have fun and this should be easy what with the wine and all.......

I saw it on stage too and it was amazing. The special effects and lighting were spectacular. It was like being at a concert.:)

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OK - DH is a major movie fiend; he is a walking-talking encyclopaedia of movies. I have been 'converted', and have gone from watching MAYBE 1 movie a year into at least 5 a week...In the last month (and I was away for 15 days of it):

Gone Baby gone - ok

Slumdog - good, but not up to the hype

Milk - great

7 Pounds - mediocre

Burn after reading - terrible

Pursuit of Happyness - better than expected despite Will Smith

Changeling - disturbing but good

Gran Torino - good

Taken - gratuitous violence; mediocre

Eagle Eye - stupid

Madagascar II (my niece's choice) - cute

Doomsday - I'd poke my eyes out with rusty nails before watching it ever again

In Bruges - fabulous

Frost Nixon - great

Defiance - good-but disturbing

Quantum of solace - bad, even for a James Bond movie with the eye-candy

Boy A - fabulous

Rachel getting married - mediocre

We also have a movie collection of about 500 classic movies that we watch and rewatch and rewatch - but I'm assuming you are meaning to discuss more recent movies.....

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Oh, yeah, Gone Baby Gone... It was kinda slow and really sad because I know chicks like that.

But, I thought the mom was really good!!! I was shocked when I realized that's the lady from The Office.

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Last nights movie: Shooter (1997?) - glad I didn't pay money to see it; got my baskets of laundry folded, and ironing done while 'watching' it. On a scale of 1(horrid) to 5 (magnificent) it would be a 2

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Tapshoes thanks for the reviews. I really need to find movies the BF and I can watch together. It's hard. I agree with you about slumdog.

I would be interested in some of the classics you mentioned.

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I personally wouldn't mind any kind of movie reviews... I really like movies and if I can get any suggestions of good ones that would be nice.

There are so many I haven't seen, new or old. I say fire away.

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Tapshoes thanks for the reviews. I really need to find movies the BF and I can watch together.

Go with "Roadhouse". Best. Movie. Ever.

I really like movies and if I can get any suggestions of good ones that would be nice.

Go with "Roadhouse". Best. Movie. Ever.

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I love Roadhouse! :unsure: I've been practicing my "yank out throat with angry fist" but I just can't get the hang of it....

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Go with "Roadhouse". Best. Movie. Ever.

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Oh dear heavens...Plain, you and I would NEVER agree on a movie, I'm sure. Roadhouse was TERRIBLE, horrible, stupid, icky, rotten...not my cuppa tea!

If I were to recommend 5 recent movies: In Bruges; Frost/Nixon; Boy A; Milk; and The Changeling (the Angelina Jolie, not the original horror flick).

Classics - WAY too many. 10 most recently re-watched(those movies that have been seen again and again) (excluding seasonal and genre-specific categories): Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf; Judgement at Nuremburg; Dead man walking; The Philadelphia Story; All the King's Men; To Kill a Mockingbird; Failsafe; Apollo 13; The Manchurian Candidate (original, not remake); in the heat of the night.

Note: I am not saying that these are my top 10, but of the 500+ DVD's DH and I have, these are the movies most recently re-watched.

While I was away, DH downloaded another 40 or 50 movies for us to watch, and he finds more all the time. I may never catch up!

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Go with "Roadhouse". Best. Movie. Ever.

quote]

Oh dear heavens...Plain, you and I would NEVER agree on a movie, I'm sure. Roadhouse was TERRIBLE, horrible, stupid, icky, rotten...not my cuppa tea!

If I were to recommend 5 recent movies: In Bruges; Frost/Nixon; Boy A; Milk; and The Changeling (the Angelina Jolie, not the original horror flick).

Classics - WAY too many. 10 most recently re-watched(those movies that have been seen again and again) (excluding seasonal and genre-specific categories): Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf; Judgement at Nuremburg; Dead man walking; The Philadelphia Story; All the King's Men; To Kill a Mockingbird; Failsafe; Apollo 13; The Manchurian Candidate (original, not remake); in the heat of the night.

Note: I am not saying that these are my top 10, but of the 500+ DVD's DH and I have, these are the movies most recently re-watched.

While I was away, DH downloaded another 40 or 50 movies for us to watch, and he finds more all the time. I may never catch up!

500...Wow... Ive seen a few you mentioned and they were all good. I think I might have to take a peek at the others.

Plain: I'll give yours the benefit. I'm all over the place when it comes to movies.

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Hey now... I just want to say - I totally love my DVR. I found... guess what?... RoadHouse! It's showing tonight. It's on the record function. I'll check in after I see it. :unsure:

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[quote name=tapshoes;1164846 Note: I am not saying that these are my top 10' date=' but of the 500+ DVD's DH and I have, these are the movies most recently re-watched.

While I was away, DH downloaded another 40 or 50 movies for us to watch, and he finds more all the time. I may never catch up![/quote]

dh & i love old movies. we have a RKO 281 (hbo movie of the making of citizen kane), followed by citizen kane watching party at least twice a yr. some others: giant, rosemarys baby, shawshank redemption, midnight cowboy, torch song trilogy, the china syndrome....and one of my favorites - glen gary glen ross. i can watch that over, over.

i hope the thread keeps going - DH gets home tomorrow after a long wk out of town, and i know he'll want to camp out in our media rm for a a day or 3:) thanks for the feedback on the newer films!

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