I have some issues with some of your choices, but glad to see you are watching and appreciating new films now Yilgun

I thought we agreed earlier that there are no more ´good´ actors in hollywood any more...

Thank you very much...

I saw and liked these movies.

I think I have seen 4 or 5 of these movies...  I use to watch movies all the time, but not lately..

Beowulf would be considered worth watching,i have it for long while ago,but i dont know if it worth the time watching it or not ?!

What about the motion-picture industry and the new movies?

Is there any NEW good movie in your country?

I recently liked Brad Pitt´s movie a lot, "L´étrange histoire de Benjamin Button", I just know its french title.

 Good film but toooooooooooooo longgggggggggggggggggggg

 2 h 45 min but you never feel that it´s unnecessarly long.

 "You" meaning yourself?

 I hear people say it, too, but ofcourse there´re some like you who found it toooo long.

"house of sand and fog" (not new)

I loved it. those cultural differences. the way she chews a sugar lump with her tea - typical to central asian.

I liked it too femme, but it had such a sad ending! 

I recently watched Slumdog Millionaire....Wow...what a good movie!  Highly recommend it.

"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button " i saw it and its very booooriiiinnnnnngggg

I think if they cut out about an hour from the middle....it would have been ok.  It was an interesting story but moved so slow.  I fell asleep for a while, woke up and didn´t loose the story at all......never a good sign. 

 yes, the end is sad.

slumdog millionaire, i will watch when i have a chance.

i read it somewhere recently that indians were offended with the movie title

i also watched Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood). a good film. that old cowboy makes good films.

+1000

 Loved Gran Torino too and I can´t help but admire Clint Eastwood.  Hid acting/directing skills have only gotten better with age!

The most recent film I saw at the cinema was  - ´Body of Lies´ - Russell Crowe/Leonardo di Caprio - and it was excellent.

Probably not that new to most of you but only released here just before Christmas.

 Another excellent movie is The Visitor.  It´s about a college professor who returns to his apartment in New York only to find a pair of illegal aliens living there as part of a real estate scam. 

It´s a wonderful story, subtly acted and very moving.  I was really happy to see the lead actor get an Academy Award nomination. 

It is out on DVD in the US.  I highly recommend it.

 Darn....I should have written a screen play about my dudu and his 10 brothers who moved into my condo as part of an immigration scam! 

 It´s never too late...jump on the bandwagon while you can!!

 I will call it "The Wisitor" 

 You may want to adapt some characters though.  I think having an incredibly hairy actor in one of the lead parts may scare off viewers! 

Yes, I was thinking an actor with a unibrow would be sufficient to capture the "hairy" essence of the main dudu character. 

i thought of another film. wasnt there a spy film also starring dicaprio and damon? it was about informers within the police.

 The Departed. Excellent movie. DiCrapio gets better with age lol.

so true

this is the second post for today stating the same thought (see above: clint eastwood)

I saw that one in the movie theatre, the scene where they were about to execute him gave me nightmares for days (well, nights technically lol). And who knew Crowe could let himself go like this? 

 You must not have seen him in "The Insider"! 

Not yet Should I? I´m not a Crowe fan at all.

 Not unless you want to see how bad he can let himself go

 He is an ACTOR - he was playing a part  (how dare you insult Russell )

I recently watched Sophia Coppola´s Lost in Translation (Scarlett Johanson, Bill Murray) and Good Will Hunting directed by Gus Van Sant (Robin Williams, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck). I just adore Sophia Coppola´s exhaustive and feminine approach towards observing, depicting life and emotions of her characters in this movie. With the Coppolas´ , talnt runs in the family... it is a delightful movie about alienation, meeting in a strange, asiatic world of a young wife of a photographer and an aged actor, both in sort of a life-crisis, which may not get solved by their meeting, but at least relieved.

I think that is about 10 times as many films as I have EVER watched in my life!!!

2012 (John Cusack, Amenda Peet, Danny Glover)

Good movie

21 December, 2012 : Is this the end according to the Mayan Culture and Calendar?

A tragic story from India, Guatemala, USA, London, Paris, Russia to China.

A Chinese rescue ship.And Africa: The only continent in the world: The Cape of good Hope.And a new world date : 27 January, 0001.What do you think?

So you watched about 6 films in your life?

SUCKS! Its like a BAAAAAD mixture between the Bible and Titanic. It´s a film to be seen in cinema because of its effects, but seriously, don´t waste your money. I went there about a week ago and I regretted wasting my time on this. Its 2 hours of exegarated (aaargh) bullshit and bad acting.

Was nice to see Amanda Peet again though, I had totally forgotten about the series Jack & Jill I used to watch. Maybe I forgot because it only aired for about 2 seasons.

Don´t waste your time on District 9 either, I thought it was a disaster..

I loved "Eastern Promises"...I tend to like indie films...Hollywood blockbusters usually repel me (why i don´t know) guess this is how I maintain my "offbeat" way

But...that new movie with Tobey Maguire, Natalie Portman, and Jake Gyllenhaal called "Brothers" looks like it may be kind of good..... I will be seeing that because I like Natalie and Jake....

Not heard of this one.   Presumably Jake Gyllenhaal and Tobey Maguire are playing brothers! Funny that because I´ve always thought they were very similar looking and if I´m not mistaken, Jake was up for the role of Spiderman before Tobey got it.

Just saw Inglorious Bastards.......it was strangely compelling....very Quentin Tarantino....Don´t want to say it was a good movie because it wasn´t....but it was impossible to stop watching!!  It was wonderfly bad!

Actually the only thing I loved about it was Brad Pitt and his cute southern accent

 Maybe that´s why I couldn´t turn it off!!

 bad?!?! I guess it is a matter of taste ´cause I think it´s one of the best movies ever!

No way! Nothing by Tarantino is better than grindhouse vol1 Death Proof!!!

 I like Pulp Fiction but generally Tarantino movies are way too out there (and gory) for my liking

Yes they will be playing brothers actually.... It is a "war" movie. At any rate, Tobey Maguire is the good brother who goes to war and is thought to be dead. Jake is the "good for nothing" brother and romances  Tobey´s wife[Natalie] (thinking his brother was dead) but then Tobey is found....

I love "love triangles"

Btw Eastern Promises had Viggo Mortensen in it. Not a widely known movie  but worth a try

I watched man on fire lately, it was a good movie.

Now watching movie called John Q, i have found a channel broadcasting good movies each night though quality is not so good ...

p.s: i think this is the week of Denzel Washington.

I just saw 2012...great visual effects!

AVATAR

It is a 2009 American science fiction epic film written and directed by  James Cameron and starring Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, Zoe Saldana, Joel Moore.The film set in the year 2154 on Pandora, a lush, tropical planet covered with rain forests in the Alpha Centauri Star System.A new world.A new Life.Genetic engineering.A colonists expansion and winning nature law.An indigenous life.A new love.A new start.

Good message.Good movie... 

Seen both 2012 and Avatar - great special effects in both, if that´s what you want in a film then they are worth seeing.

Saw "The Lovely Bones" this weekend.  Very haunting...literally and figuratively.  For those who read the book, it is still a worthwhile movie.  Peter Jackson did a great job with it.  Casting was top notch. 

 Loved both these movies...I would say Avatar is in my top 5.  Saw it in 3D...

 I saw Saw 6...  i think who made it is ..maniak!

 Aftering see the first Saw...that´s were I stopped.  I love scary movies but oh I couldnt stomach it..

I only saw Saw 6... A friend played it and i saw less then 1 minute. But after some time it started to obsess me . Took me few days to see it all.

I watched a scary movie named "Silent Hill" (after the videogame). It was very very scary, but I just HAD to watch it! If you like scary movies, with a scary story and not just simple a bunch of blood, you´ll love this. Although it has enough monsters and blood in it

 I love Silent Hill!!! Also the video game of it was very very scary...

I haven´t read the book but I just looked the movie up on IMDB and I definitely want to see this - it´s release date in Turkey is the end of next month.

Saturday I watched "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" with Steve Martin and Michael Cain.  I forgot how funny this movie was and even though I saw it years ago, I laughed just as hard as I did the first time.  It is about 2 con men who swindle rich women out of money at a French Riviera resort town.  I think many dudus learn from this movie...but its very very funny!

Last night I watched "The Invention of Lying" with Ricky Gervais.  I laughed so hard I lost my breath! 

Both are very funny movies!

i recently watched Babel. recommend. liked it.

 I love that film to (Dirty Rotten Scoundels) and how could I not love it with our very own Michael Cain in it!  There are some films that will always make you laugh no matter how many times you see them:

The Canon Ball Run, Planes, Trains and Automobiles and Uncle Buck are three of those.

But recently I watched "Ray".  What incredible performance by Jamiee Fox as Ray Charles, an amazing story and very sad too.

I offer Operation Valkyrie. It´s about a coup d´etat in Germany during the 2nd World War. Tom Cruise performs an impressing acting in the leading role.

You can download it with Turkish subtitles from the link below

http://divxm.com/valkyrie-operasyon-2009-r5-line-xvid-coalition-t87874.html

Enjoy the show...

It can be seen here.....Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

it looks like you may be able to see the whole thing....Thank you for the recommendation......it´s fun....watching it now. They are perfect together....Cain the elegant Old World and Steve Martin...the brash, uncouth...ewww

 Me too! It was on tv the other day, and I also liked the messages in the movie. How easy does a misunderstanding grows into something big...

At the moment I´m watching Lawrence of Arabia, and I´m enjoying it actually, even though it´s WAY old.

Beautiful music, fabulous photographs of horses and the desert...but that film, Lawrence of Arabia, is full of lies and deception.  I hate that film. That was one of the major campaigns that caused so many problems that persist today.  It is one of the most anti Turkish propaganda films around. 

Have you ever studied the history of the events portrayed in that film....The Arab Revolt...(against the Ottomans)?  The period is very well documented. Even Lawrence was disgusted by it when he realized how even he had been duped.

Actually it was a British aristocratic proimperialism spinster who did most the work for that program.  She laid the groundwork.  Her name is Gertrude Bell. It was Gertie who supplied the intellegence to Lawrence, told him where the oasis where, who would be friendly.....and even she was disgusted with the outcome.....she died of an overdose of sleeping pills.

i have just watched lovely bones & sherlock holmes, both are quite good, at least you dont get bored ...

Sunshine.

watched it, loved it. impressive. daniel boyle is good.

I think the movie also clearly shows Lawrence´s disgust. I don´t know much about the history of the events, but I think the movie shows how in war it seems everybody is a loser, except for the people in the high places who lie and trick around. At the end of the movie Lawrence just went crazy, and the people closest to him (the Arabic people around him) saw this, tried to slow him down. The people giving him orders (English army generals) seemed to not care that much about his mental state.

Anyway, I didn´t watch the movie out of historical reasons Just a classic movie that is a must see. It did trigger my interest to read more on the real story.

I thought the part that the Turkish played in the movie wasn´t that big, apart for some torture scene. Other then that it was mostly extra´s... the vague enemy. Can´t say I think more positive or negative about the Ottomans/Turks after seeing this movie. Yes there was fighting... well, it was a war. You kill the others before they can kill you.

where did you notice any misunderstanding? what was the message for you in the movie?

Well, the misunderstaning at the mexican-american border for example... the misunderstanding on why the woman was shot... That´s where the title comes from

I think it shows us that we have to make sure that we really listen, and not be quick with our judgements.

what was the misunderstanding at the border? what was wrong there? the officers were doing their routine check, why panic?

what was the misunderstanding of that woman being shot? if i were the police officer in morocco i would also be on alert, theres no joke about terrorism. i believe that is the routine police carries out in such countries. brutal. difficult for other option. their mentality.

I don´t want to spoil the movie for other people, but don´t you think they totally misunderstood the intentions of the nanny? Going after her like she was the criminal? The Mexican guy was drunk, and misunderstood the police´s suspicion for racism. The police misunderstood his drunken behaviour for some kind of criminal smuggling behaviour (because of the kids). After that, they misunderstood the nanny in the desert. She didn´t do anything wrong, just took the kids to a wedding. No weird kidnapping activities going on as the police thought.

And the police went hunting after owner of the gun, hitting people and stuff, while it was a stupid child´s mistake. You can argue if it was justified to do this, but if it was clear from the beginning what really happened, it would have ended much better.

...why do you think the movie was called Babel? I´m not making this up The whole point of the movie is miscommunication and its effects.

ok. got your point. yeah, babling it is for its title.

but i would disagree with you in many many points.

watched this movie with friends. a striking thing was that everyone saw what they wanted to see. one person watched this film and told me, but he told a different story.

on basis of opinions i realized that people see what they want to see.

not babling... Babel...as in the tower of Babel... no?

Ok, quick bible lesson The tower of Babel was build by humans to reach heaven, and this made God angry. At this point, all these people still spoke the same language. Then, God decided that he would let all the people speak different languages. This made building the tower impossible, since people started to misunderstand eachother, fight eachother, and the tower slowly crumbled down.

The story in the bible about Babel is all about misunderstanding and miscommunication. So, the movie Babel is all about...

thank you, i feel enlightened.

i just nicely associated babel with babling. nad thought it was genius. but of course nobody noticed that.

lol, not really Perhaps it had something to do with the Dutch football player, Ryan Babel?

By the way, back on movies, I finally saw Avatar, liked it Watched The Hangover again yesterday, second time, still made me laugh. A must see! And going to see High Fidelty tonight again for the 100th time (okay, not really 100...)

watched avatar too. it reminded me of "dancing with wolves" (kevn costner).

the hangover. havent watched. if you say a must then must. have to google for it.

That´s a film I love - well, I love pretty much any film with John Cusack in really. 

Watched ´Catch 22´ on TV this morning - brilliant film and I hadn´t realised how many now famous actors were in it (of course most TC members are probably far too young to have even HEARD of this movie!!

Mmmm, yeah, I understand what you mean. Interesting comparison between the two movies, never thought about that before.

The Hangover seems a very "drunk-dude/typical guy" movie at first sight, but I watched it with a bunch of girlfriends of mine and we loved it. There isn´t too much dirty underwear humour

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Heath ledger, Johhny Deep, Jude Law, Christopher Plummer)

That´s going on my list of ones to watch out for over here..

 Ho was it? It seems like a very strange movie...

it is about a monk who choses to live forever by making a deal with the devil - Mr. Nick. they make a bet the one who attracts 5 souls on his side is the winner. the prize is Dr. Parnassus`daughter - Valentina. (it is a bit like Faust)

 ...sounds boring

it is not boring at all, canım; in fact is a very colorful reproduction of the human imaginationbesides it is quite original from the other movie topics ( see Avatar, Twilights or other productions full of cliches)

 İ started to like "Saw" 

recently watched a nerve-wracking movie titled "Das experiment".

I HAVE PICTURES! Site for recent good movie also I found:

http://www.squidoo.com/emovies

This movie look promising.

I mistaked this move for this:

Is Aladdin Turkish? I do not know why but I have seen this movie and I like it a lot.

No, not Turkish .

Some people claim Disney movies contains subliminal messages thus not good for children. Check out below vid ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73fCLx-mFLg

 does it mean I am forbidden to watch it???armegon mercy me,I want to have flying carpet,btw..my birthday is coming????

I like Alladin movie too; Jasmine is the most beautiful and smart girl of Disney cartoons, my point of view

by the way..I bought a new edition of 1001 gece masalari and it is a pleasure for me to read them again..a lot of love, lyrics and romance....arabian nights..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2CVLWOoNsY&feature=related

i watched that movie too, long time ago. good one.

 I watched it ..and i was very dissapointed. The name of it sounds nice..the poster is very good..but the movie ? Week.

I have just watched a movie called The Fourth Kind  and going to watch Shutter Island & The Road...

The place Beyond the Pines.

Just watched this movie. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1817273/

Amazing cast and specially amazing acting. Never been a huge Ryan Gosling fan but after this movie I am changing my mind. Eve Mendes, she is not only a pretty girl. She is a top class actress too. And those two young boys..

A movie at its best form.

I watched "The flight". Liked it.

Silver Lining Notebook was good too!