Watched Cabin in the Woods, when it was out in cinema I shrugged it off as another generic teen horror movie but after watching a review of it being described as a 'love letter to the horror genre' I decided to check it out.

I'm glad I did, I havnt bothered watching horror in a long time because I found them pointless with nothing more than a slight jump or two to offer me. If you havent seen this, I would recommend it. Its hard to describe what its about without giving too much away but its entertaining and offers horror movies a little nudge on the shoulder with a cheeky smile.

Just watched Steve Buscemi's Trees Lounge. This was a dark and relentless look into small town alcoholism, with Buscemi playing as a desperate barfly. This movie just feels DIRTY. Any romantic notion one might carry about whimsical alcoholics in the friendly neighborhood pub is smashed again and again. The regulars are largely hateful to one another, and every interaction devolves into petty dispute. The small town drama gets nasty, and Steve's character experiences deep regret and embarrassment over his decisions throughout the plot. Of course, the neighborhood bar offers little more than liquid comfort, with characters who CANNOT relate with, nor console one another. I felt it was a pretty heavy look at the dark underbelly of small town living, and a look at the dark realities of an alcoholic lifestyle.

Also Chloe Sevigny

fantastic mr fox and grave encounters 2
really good                 it was okay

I saw Hobbit and the 3D gave me a huge headache. Boring movie, waste of time and money, etc

I saw Hobbit and the 3D gave me a huge headache. Boring movie, waste of time and money, etc

i dunno, do you think the second one will be any better?

i didnt mind the hobbit that much, although it certainly wasn't awesome and i'm not clamoring for the next one, but my biggest complaint is that it totally ruined the almost whimsical style of that story, it's much more "childlike" fantasy but the movie had a more "gritty" (lol) style similar to The Lord of the Rings. Maybe it's just because i first read the hobbit when I was in 7th grade and I knew nothing about the Tolkien or the lord of the rings, but it always felt distinctly lighter in my opinion.

I haven't read the story in a while but I don't think it was necessary to stretch it to 3 movies, 2 would have been enough and even then I think 1 2 1/2 to 3 hour movie still would have been fine. If there really is more integral content than I'm remembering then fine, but it just feels like an obvious money-grab, and because it's now 3 movies they've gussied up all the action bullshit (I really hate action sequences in these newer movies filmed with higher FPS (because of 3d or something??), they tend to be hard to follow and hurt my eyes trying to discern what's happening when there's a lot of motion onscreen (am i really this old?!)) and all the stuff they've added has been almost totally action sequences.

Like in the book I'm pretty sure Bilbo falls in the cave with Gollum and eventually makes his way out, but we never read about what happens to the dwarves, they just are already outside when Bilbo makes it out (right?), but that entire scene in the movie was just one long action sequence of them running out of Goblin City. I haven't read the book in a while so I couldn't pick out every new scene but that just seems lazy and stupid.

Also Bilbo seemed so much more bashful and innocent and curious about adventures in the book, like he was really out of his element, instead in the movie he's just flustered and probably wants to have an adventure, like he's sort of indifferent.

Like overall they didn't really "ruin" The Hobbit but I don't feel like they're capturing what made it so great as a book, especially when compared with The Lord of the Rings. The contrast between the styles while still being connected was awesome but the Hobbit movie just felt like it was too close to the style of the LOTR movies.

I read the Hobbit last month, have not yet seen the movie. I would say that it does not lend itself to a trilogy. There are a few intermediate events, but nothing on which one could really build a sufficient climax. I'm not sure where this film ends, but even the slaying of the Goblin King is not at all climactic for the book. It plays out chaotic and nonchalant, as they stumble upon the goblin lair and *GANDALG CAST MAGIC* a lot of confusion and someone takes the soul brother's head off. Whatever. I'm finally gonna check it out this weekend. I was deployed on my submarine when it came out, and everyone had already seen it when I got back, so I gotta go all by my lonesome (nobody thinks it's great enough for a 2nd viewing).

What does everyone think about drinking in the theater? I like to bring a rum flask and order a soda with which to mix. When The Dark Knight came out, my friend's GF stuffed her huge purse with beer, and we cracked those open in the back row. I've got none of those cinema-bars in my immediate vicinity. I wish modern movies had at least intermissions to better accomodate these things, especially with assholes like P. Jackson who stretch children's books into 9 hr trilogies. At least I don't smoke any longer, so I'm not tempted to miss 10 min of film for a smoke.