Life of Pi - definitely see in 3D. Story/Plot not entirely convincing (althoough I imagine I would have the same issue with the book) but everything at sea is astonishing storytelling.

Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1936) - very fun old school action adventure. Warning, politically incorrect. 

Is it really good? Several people have suggested it to me, but I tried to read the book a couple years back and had to put it down within the first 50 pages due to complete boredom. Somehow I didn't get into it. 

depends how much you value story/plot because I had some major issues with that aspect which I *think* might stem from the book.

But as an exercise in storytelling, particularly visual storytelling, its pretty amazing for the 2/3 of it set in the sea. And like Hugo, probably not as exciting visually in 2D so watch in 3D if you can. 

that has an emphasis on things like atmosphere, visuals or whatever as long as the plot isn't stupid. But I have to say that overly abstract movies don't always work for me. "Inland Empire" was the only movie I ever walked out of (even though I enjoyed other Lynch movies).

I'm not sure if its comparable, but "The Thin Red Line" has always worked on many levels for me which did not have anything to do with the plot. The plot is fine, but really not that interesting. It's the ideas being presented together coherently with visuals and music that completely support them that make the movie interesting and enjoyable. Can't say that about Malick's later movies though. "The New World" was crap, and "The Tree of Life" was interesting and well made, but left me unmoved. 

is the only movie I have really hated in the last 5 years :)

Plot isnt stupid, but its one of those may or may not work for you plots overall. It didnt really work for me overall.

And I wouldnt really compare it to a Malick movie, although I guess if it is comparable it might be to Tree of Life in the sense that it has a very long well made section that is very interesting (or so I found) but is bookended at each end by sequences that make the plot/story of the whole movie more problematic. But if plot/story isnt paramount to you, then you can still enjoy the movie because of the main section. 

Personally, I really enjoyed Life of Pi. 

It was just an example of a movie where the ideas and the atmosphere are more important than the actual plot. 

sorry that whole post is meant to be about Life of Pi except first sentence (so really comparing Malick to Life of Pi). 

don't be dissing tom cruise, he's awesome 

Some of what I've seen lately:

Started watching The Amazing Spiderman last night. What is this shit? I love everything superhero, but this just feels like a teen drama. And for the love of god can we not do a superhero movie that isn't another retelling of their origin story. The main actor was a complete tool (since when was Peter Parker an arrogant, cocky little shit?) and Emma Stone with her hooker outfits just didn't seem right. Perhaps the dark knight movies have me expecting too much from superhero movies lately. I never really liked Tobey Maguire or Kirsten Dunst either, but they so far did a better job in Sam Raimi's Spiderman.
7.2 on imdb is too high. Although... I haven't seen it all yet.

Afro Samarai. Okay, good animation. Lead character is too unlikable, I actually found myself rooting for the bad guys, especially in the movie. Samuel L Jackson was the Jar Jar Binks of the series.

Devil May Cry anime. Great! I wish they made more. Animation was fantastic, Dante looked great and the voice acting was perfect. Unfortunately there were too many stories contained to one episode, instead of a main story arc which didn't really develop until near the end of the series, but when it did, it was great. Last 2 episodes I loved.

The Avengers Earth's Mightiest Heroes animated series
Great as well. Certainly the animation can't be compared to what comes out of asia, that's just no comparison, but the story was great. The way each episode would kick off a different story for each of the main avengers, which would return to that story later in the season, all to be tied together at the end. S1 was all about Loki. S2 about the Kree invasion. Then Galactus topped off an awesome series finale. Great, I just wish the animation was a little better.

The two Avengers animated movies are another story though... complete rubbish, childish script, terrible animation (budget korean warehouse crap). Not worth watching. 

but all stills of Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy look exactly like the comics. 

more like the NOT amazing spiderman, ha! Yeah it's pretty average. Pretty much the same direction as the tobey maguire films, and not as good. Actually it's better than spiderman 3, but so is putting your balls in a hot waffle iron and closing the lid. 

Not as bad as I expected. Actually enjoyed it. Best Arnie film since True Lies. Which says nothing. 

It was nowhere near as good as 2 but I thought it was on par or slightly better than 1. 

Definitely better than 1. I think the raimi ness of it all especially re jazzy venom got t people. 

Just too much going on. Sandman shouldn't have been it it at all.

The whole spiderman series of films has been sadly naff though. It'd be great to see a darker look at it, like the latest batman films did. 

as much as any of the Nolan Batmans. 

I wouldn't go as far as you Nitin - it doesn't reach that level IMO - but I think #2 is great. Also I don't want every superhero movie to be 'dark' - the campiness of the film is a part of its enjoyment for me, though its a fine balance (venom jazz). 

Spiderman 3 was pants 

Hodejegerne ("Headhunters") (2011)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1614989

Very nice thrilling thriller. Some really violent bits but they did kinda feel in place, some gore that was disgusting but was the same. Highly recommended! If you like a dark thriller, do not even read the imdb snippet but watch this. Has some completely ridiculous technological things though. 

Oh and I would recommend watching the original with subs, at least the German dub had one very bad voice actor. 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxnQi1qAvdM
WTF!?! 

Can everybody please go see that film when it comes out so Del Toro can make At The Mountains Of Madness later