Yeah, that was pretty awesome, but Evil Dead II trumps it for me.

same thing my history teacher said. Gotta find it online. =)

What about Army of Darkness? Chainsaw hand FTW!!

Army of Darkness is infinitely quotable and was very entertaining, but I preferred Evil Dead II. It mixed horror with slapstick with perfect quantities of both, while Army of Darkness was all slapstick.

They're all very different and I love them all.

Ben Hur is awesome. Watch it again and again and again. You will all love it.

I saw An Education this past Saturday, and thought it was quite good. It made me a little uncomfortable at parts, and I thought the ending was way too sudden, but it was executed with great proficiency.

I saw that recently too!
I'd definitely recommend it.
At first, I thought it was going to hide most of the violence, but after about the mid-point, there are some quite graphic scenes. The hospital scene about 3/4 of the way through was quite a shock, I wasn't sure what was going to happen.
Also, the man she's with at the beginning, I kind of got the impression that he'd grown up looking after her, and perhaps she hadn't aged? I wonder how the relationship with the boy will end...
On another note, I hear they are making a US version. God knows how that will work, I expect they'll pull their punches quite a bit, and generally miss the feel. I'm not against US versions of good films in general, but there have been a few turkeys in the past few years.

I recently rented Frost/Nixon and Outlander.
Frost/Nixon was just amazingly well done. All I could think was that I was watching an MMA match, or a football match, complete with feints, ruses, counterattacks, etc. Frank Langella gave a *stunning* performance as Nixon, despite not looking a BIT like him, and not even really ACTING like Nixon. It was an eerie thing, watching someone just completely envelope a role to the point that it didn't matter that their casting was nonsensical.
Outlander was a low-budget live action Beowulf with VERY loose sci-fi elements. Not a bad mindless popcorn movie, and part of it was shot in my province, so that's neat, but nothing special.
Frost/Nixon gets 5/5 easily for me, probably the most powerful film I have watched since Last King of Scotland, Outlander gets a sympathetic 2.5/5. Nothing offensive, but nothing special. Jim Cavizel and John Hurt REALLY tried, and Ron Pearlman was ok, but the film itself being a dreary mix of Beowulf and Pathfinder dragged down the otherewise solid performances.

don't forget the love for the genre oozing from the screen. AoD had that less imo.
just saw for the n-th time E tu vivrai nel terrore (the beyond). If you like gore/horror at all you should watch it. The crucification scene still makes me cringe

Not read the entire post, but I'll vouch for 'Moon'.
Really enjoyed it.
Although best film for me in 2009 is still 'Let the right one in'.

They'll probably turn it into a God-damned Twilight knock-off and miss the point. I can see the pitch now...
"VAMPIRE LOVE STORY? BIG MONEY!"
Also, the way they shot the scene with the pool is amazing.

I just saw The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou. It is Wes Anderson's weakest movie, because it sort of spreads itself too thin. It tries to be an action, comedy, and romantic film all at once, and it doesn't seem to do any of the three very well. There are some great laughs and some touching moments, but the majority of it feels as forced as Owen Wilson's southern accent.

Just to say that recently, I have... not seen 2012...

I am trying my best to ignore that movie. As a general rule, popular things suck.