Numanoid

^ Brooks' best films are his earlier ones...Real Life, Modern Romance, and Lost in America.

JJE-187

The Times of Harvey Milk, great documentary

thematahara

Caught The Right Stuff on HDnet a couple of weeks ago. Pretty good flick.

gmanca

I caught Permanent Record, an 80's teen suicide movie, yesterday and aside from the melodrama, it was good. Probably the best technical 80's teen flick as there were some great shots and camera movement. Has a young Keanu Reeves who has a pretty good scene with his friend's parents.

davidh777

Two others I caught up with this year: Soylent Green and Love Actually (both for challenges)

I would love to see this story continue but the window is now closed unless you recast the kids

Troy Stiffler

It was also strange to watch the commentary. The director was pretty self-assured that they were about to start on a sequel. It was one of those moments where my eyes widened, my neck muscles tightened, I grit my teeth and inhale through my mouth.

tom523

Blood: The last vampire (Live action version)

davidh777

I forget the history of the movie/franchise but it seems like it was pretty much a given at the time (obviously, considering the ending). I don't know when the commentary was recorded but it could have been earlier in the release cycle than later.

MrSmearkase

/\ Many audio commentaries are recorded shortly before the film is released, often a week or two before. The Golden Compass was likely one of them.

Troy Stiffler

Yea, that's what it was. But, hey, it was Chris Weitz. The movie made money, just not enough to warrant a sequel. And Chris went on and directed one of the Twilight flicks. He's not exactly in trouble for The Golden Compass.

Still a good movie. I might read the books sometime, just because I want to know where it goes. And I'll have the imagery from the movie to help me along.

jrsl76

Che

davidh777

It would have been nice to have a lower-budget version a la Dawn Treader or a TV version. I did read book 1 so I'll probably read the others at some point, though I've heard that the religious angle gets more overt, which can get tricky for a mainstream film.

mwbmis

I'd settle for them releasing the entire first book/movie. The ending of the book is pretty much lopped off (it was filmed, but they decided to stick it at the beginning of movie two the Subtle Knife). I felt the ending as released is pretty jarring in a "is that it" sort of way.

As for the topic of this thread, I watched Miracle on 34th Street (1947) for the first time prior to Christmas. I've owned it for several years, but I'd never sat down to watch it.

Mondo Kane

Koyaanisqatsi

It's become a favorite.

MovingPicsNet

The Town!!!

JJE-187

Gran Torino. I loved it

JohnnyMovie

Action Jackson (1988)... it very good.

paradicelost

Watched "Bonnie and Clyde" for the first time the other night. I really liked it.

PopcornTreeCt

The Fantastic Mr. Fox

The Infidel

After seeing every other Kevin Smith movie over the years, I finally saw Mallrats just last week. I can now say I finally understand the chocolate pretzel joke.

sleepyhead55

12 Monkeys--avoided this one for this longest time for some reason. Got it for cheap over the holidays and watched it the other day. I think I enjoyed this one more than Brazil. Gets a thumbs up from me.

JJE-187

I just watched Oldboy for the first time, I had it for years but never watched it all the way and I was surprised at how amazing this film is

EdTheRipper

I caught Tron for the first time earlier tonight. Not as bad as I was expecting.

darkhawk

The Times of Harvey Milk
Milk
Igor

tellybox

The Graduate; a lot funnier then I thought it was going to be.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; I didn't get the hype.