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I'm on spring break back home, and all I do at night is rent movies out of boredom. These are what I have rented so far:

Boondock Saints 2 - 4/5. I loved the first one, and this one wasn't quite as good but if you liked the first, you will like this too. A bit more of a twist with this one

2012 - 1.5/5. Not very good at all. Great effects, but that only goes so far. Cheesy lines, and it was pretty cliche when the main character makes it out of the disaster in the nick of time like 5 times throughout the movie.

Zombieland - 3.5/5. I was never really into zombie movies, but this is pretty good. Just flat out hilarious. The other zombie movies tried to be "scary", but this one takes a new and better approach.

Law Abiding Citizen - 4.5/5. Awesome movie. Gerard Butler is great, again. This movie really messes with your mind and you don't even know who the antagonist is for a good portion of the movie.

TAKE I HOPE THEY SERVE BEER IN HELL OUT OF YOUR QUEUE.

That movie was awful. No, beyond awful. There was so much potential that was completely wasted.

See I imagined it would be along the lines of The Hangover. I watched some trailers and it looked ok. So its not even a laugher at all?

The poop scene lasts too long I think.

Wait for the army man scenc.

Law Abiding Citizen was freakin terrible.

First, Jamie Foxx was in it. I didn't know that and when he popped up in one of the first scenes walking from the courthouse, I was about ready to just shut it off.

This movie was so unrealistic it made me want to puke. Jamie Foxx freely got to walk into Butler's cell like 100 times, they allowed a man who had just done some bad things (not trying to give out spoilers) to walk right out of prison just to meet with the DA so the DA could punch him in the face, the rest of the actors were f'ing horrible......man it was just bad.

And the whole "twist" about it, c'mon, how would that NOT have been figured out?

See I don't care about Jamie Foxx, because I was just focusing on how Butler was doing his thing. I don't know how easy it was to figure out exactly how he was doing it. I knew how it would probably end. But I just liked the movie. But Rodey, I question what you found good in that movie? The Men Who Stare At Goats had nothing going for it.

EDIT - Cigar, there is no plot to the movie. IT is really dumb and they have a bunch of big name actors, they talk about Jeidi's which is actually quite dumb seeing how Ewan McGregeor or however you spell his name (Obi Won Kinobi or however you spell that) is one of the main characters. Honestly, no plot, no excitement, a real sleeper. I think I only laughed once and that was in the first like 2 minutes, then maybe one more time but it felt forced.

cool, longball.

one question, for my own purposes, how are you on clooney? for instance, i dig all the ocean's 11 trilogy (i like the original sinatra version as well), i like the style and find the humor in them, so i'm wondering if this movie is one of those clooney-style movies that some people like the joke and some people don't, cause i'd probably be one to like the joke...or does it just blow?

Didn't you not like Burn After Reading though? Not bashing you or anything, but I just want to know because then I will listen to the opposite of what you say.

You know the ads on this site popping up and deleting what I type are really getting annoying.

Wow, good memory on that movie. At least there was a plot about nothing to follow in that movie. this movie was stupid and it was titled incorrectly. It should have been titled The Man Who Stared At A Goat, and even that is a push. It could have been titled after whatever the name of their army movement was.

As for Burn After Reading, it was dumb, but had at least some funny parts with Brad Pitt, and some weird parts with Clooney and his machine, and Malkovich was ok. I wouldn't watch it again. I would have given it a 2.75, but not quite a 3. I did not think it was a great movie. If we are comparing those two movies, I would gladly watch Burn After Reading a third time before watching this movie again.

Honestly, someone tell me why this Goats movie is good. Because it is so dumb?

Burn After Reading: 5/5-Two Thumbs Way Up

"Burn After Reading" was awesome and one of my favorite casts of all time. Malkovich is a god. The Coen Brothers can do no wrong, hell I loved "A Serious Man". Honestly, from what I have gathered from talking to people, if you don't like that movie then you take your movie-going experience far too seriously. So what if everything was just a big waste of time in the grand scheme of things, 95% of our lives are that way anyway.

The Men Who Stare At Goats was a really good, satire comedy in my opinion. It's not a movie that provides non-stop laughs, but the fact that it's actually based on real happenings is what makes all the happenings in the movie incredibly funny. The cast of Clooney, Bridges, Spacey and McGregor is amazing and they all do an excellent job. If you like "Coen-esque" movies, you'll like this one. It has mixed reviews all over, but I loved it.

I always thought of myself as a pretty good judge of movies. Perhaps those just aren't my cup of tea I guess. I love any war/cia/fbi kinda movie and some of my favorite comedy movies of all time are Black Sheep, Tommy Boy, Wedding Crashers and movies like that. I guess I just don't see where all the excitement was in the movie. But that's ok. We all have different tastes in movies. But really, I don't see where the humor was in it. None of the characters jumped out as funny. Bridges was always on LSD and it seems it was more of a hippie movie than anything.

I guess when it comes to movies with war themes I prefer stuff like Enemy at the Gates, Bridge Over the River Kwai or real army movies. Also a HUGE fan of The Departed and Shooter, 10 thumbs up to those.

And no its not another Burn After Reading thread. I can be rational about it. I just really didn't care for the movie.