I just saw The Fly. It was pretty interesting, though I'm still not sure if I liked it or not.

oh yes,pitch black also.just watched it few weeks ago
these too

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Once Upon a Time in America
Videodrome
Fly (1986)
Blade Runner
Alien
Inland Empire
youre right on that one

I'm glad you liked it. I couldn't believe how good it was when I started watching, couldn't do a thing until it was over:)

Superman & Shazam! - The Return of Black Adam.

Jerry O'Connell reprising the role of Captain Marvel he played in Justice League Unlimited along with George Newbern who played Superman. Arnold Vosloo was superb as Black Adam. It's just a shame it's a DC short as I wanted more.

Eh, it's all right. I thought it was a little too "artsy" for its own good, but I did like the fake sitcom scene and the way Robert Downey Jr. and Tommy Lee Jones just unhinge.

I watch it every few years about, and I'm normally not the type to rewatch movies. Excellent stuff.

Well, I can understand that the style could be off-putting for some people. Normally it would be for me too (for instance, I absolutely loathe "2001: A Space Odyssey"), but I think it fits this movie brilliantly, and is executed well.

I really enjoyed it up until it degenerated in to just another escape from prison movie. The first two thirds were excellent, but then it just feel apart for me.

Just rewatched Cruel Intentions. Immensely more satisfying as an adult than teenager. Great film. :)

Just finished "Goodbye, Solo".

It's one of the best films I've seen this year. A small indie film about an unlikely relationship between a Sengalese cab driver and an old redneck at the end of his life. This is one of those rare films that left me haunted, and thoughtful, and demanded a re-watch. (which I'm about to start)

ps, they made this for less than $500K, which even for a small film is amazing. Rent, buy, watch...believe in the power of small movies to do great things.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/goodbye_solo/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5IGC59Q9y8

Dark City. Pretty good. Noir-ish sci-fi weirdness.

Finally saw Inception - Excellent Movie

If you want to get really really depressed for 2+ hours, watch 21 Grams.

Saw Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity yesterday. Fine movie overall and it includes one of the most misogynistic scenes I've ever seen.

Spoilers ahead:

While film noir routinely features a strong woman (the femme fatale type) the filmmakers nearly always make a point out of humiliating her at the end. Mostly, this humiliation is conducted by the movie's male protagonist, who thus gets revenge for being sexually manipulated throughout the story. Basically, he punishes the woman for the sexual desires she caused in him.

In Double Indemnity, this happens when, near the end of the movie, Phyllis Dietrichson meets Walter Neff in her home. Both apparently intend to kill each other. Dietrichson manages to catch Neff off guard and she shoots him. She doesn't aim very well, though, and only wounds his arm. She aims again, but this time doesn't shoot. Instead, she lowers her gun, steps up to Neff, embraces him and more or less admits that she just realized that for the first time in her life she cares about someone. Neff says that he doesn't believe her and shoots her.

Now, most movies of this era (Hays Code and whatnot) seem pretty tame to modern viewers when it comes to on screen violence. However, there is something really brutal about this scene that quite startled me. I think there are two main reasons for this:

1.There is no real reason for Neff to kill Dietrichson. I definitely got the impression that at this point he had already decided to turn himself in to the police.

2.The sexualized nature of the killing. Neff shoots Phyllis while she embraces him. This is basically a sexual act, the shooting Neff's orgasm, satisfying his anger and wish for revenge. After the ejaculation he discards her in her own house like a piece of trash.

The movie really has a nasty edge to it that I so didn't expect. It also worked well as a crime story – film noir is often all about the characters and the mood, with the story being a secondary concern. Double Indemnity works on both levels and I'd definitely recommend it.

Edit: Oh, something else which emphasizes the misogyny of the movie: I don't think Dietrichson's eventual refusal to kill Neff is a sign of possible spiritual redemption. It's purely in the movie to deepen the humiliation dished out to her. In the end, Neff completely dominates her, physically and emotionally.

Neff's decisions to confess to Keyes and to help Zachetti out on the other hand seem to exist to add a more sympathetic element to his character and to leave open the possibility of his redemption.