Maybe you missed them at the box-office. Maybe you never even heard of them. Here are some great movie-night options for the geek with a home-theater...
House of Flying Daggers (2004) - This visually stunning martial-arts "wire-fu" movie is part revolution, part love-story. A must for Crouching Tiger fans.
3:10 to Yuma (2007) - Christian Bale & Russell Crowe star in this violent wild-west tale about an insane outlaw the quiet family man who tries to bring him to justice. A must for wild-west fans & for fans of these actors.
Dan in Real Life (2007) - Steve Carell stars in this romantic comedy that you may have missed last year. Meet Dan, a single dad who's a little too devoted to his daughters.
Night at the Museum (2006) - Totally silly pop-corn comedy. Don't take it seriously and you'll love it. Also a good family flick. Ben Stiller becomes a night-watchman at a museum that comes to life. Insanity follows.
And now, movies that you must absolutely NOT rent. They are bad, worse and just plain wasted crap.
Jumper (2008) - The previews for this movie suck SciFi geeks in even after seeing how bad the reviews are. It can't be that bad, right? Wrong! As a SciFi concept, it's awesome. SciFi channel would have done a better job doing it as one of their made-for-tv giant killer snake movies. It's just bad, bad, bad! I nearly walked out of my own living room.
Stealth (2005) - It's got Jamie Foxx, jet fighters & artificial intelligence gone bad. It's like live-action anime. It's gotta be fun, right? Absolutely not. Jessica Biel can not act. Jamie Foxx is wasted. This movie makes Top Gun look like academy awards material. In fact, if you need to see navy jets, go rent that instead.
The Last Legion (2007) - Pre-Arthurian legend material? Sword fighting? Mr Darcy & Ghadi? (Colin Firth & Ben Kingsley) Why it sounds absolutely like the kind of movie the wife and I would love to rent for a lazy summer weekend. Except that it's OMG bad! If you're going to make up the story of Uther Pendragon and use a big budget to do it, at least have the courtesy to make the movie good.
3 comments:
just watched 3:10 last night. it was great. and i suffered through the last legion with my blockbuster.com account. too bad about jumper. it's not even one of those good -bad movies?
I'm going to have to disagree on the Last Legion. I rented it expected dumb fun and was pleasantly surprised that it much better than I was expecting. I enjoyed it, but YMMV.
Jumper sucked...glad I got it as part of my free month with Blockbuster.
BTW, Definitely, Maybe was a nice movie. Sure it isn't a SF movie but it was enjoyable and much better than Jumper could ever hope to be.l
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