S/O - Seen any good movies lately (rental/streaming/on demand)

[Ceepa]

The book threads always give me great ideas for reading but lately I feel like watching some movies.

I'm not into horror/gore but I'm open to a variety of genres.

New or old doesn't matter, just something that didn't bore you and wasn't too dopey.

What have you seen that I can add to the "to watch" list?

[BabyBearsMom]

DH and I watched The Debt a few weeks ago and really enjoyed it.

[Ceepa]

DH and I watched The Debt a few weeks ago and really enjoyed it.

DH and I just watched it. Good one!

[SnuggleBuggles]

I really liked "Crazy, Stupid Love"

[DrSally]

I'd like to see the Debt. Saw Crazy, Stupid Love and liked it. Watched "walk the line" last night, always love to see the duets.

[rin]

We saw Incendies a few nights ago. Amazing, absolutely amazing, but not in any way something you should watch if you want a feel-good, laughy movie. It's sort of a true tragedy, but wow. Still thinking about it.

I really enjoyed the Swedish Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series!

We also saw Moneyball recently, and despite my not knowing anything about baseball, I thought it was fun.

[elbenn]

I thought Margin Call was really good. Midnight in Paris was also very good.

[crayonblue]

We saw Incendies a few nights ago. Amazing, absolutely amazing, but not in any way something you should watch if you want a feel-good, laughy movie. It's sort of a true tragedy, but wow. Still thinking about it.

I really enjoyed the Swedish Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series!

We also saw Moneyball recently, and despite my not knowing anything about baseball, I thought it was fun.

Incendies was very, very intense. I liked it.

We watched Moneyball this weekend. Loved it! I've been watching major league baseball for years and years but I feel very differently about it now.

Of course, The Help. We watched Courageous recently. A Christian movie, not the best acting but a great message.

[pinkmomagain]

The Help
50/50
Both were very good.

[elephantmeg]

DH and I watched never been kissed on netflix streaming Sat

[mom2one]

Its all about action in my house. We rented Real Steel last night and we all loved it. I just started taking kickboxing classes, so I enjoyed all the fighting scenes.

Susan

[anonomom]

We almost never watch movies, but streamed True Grit from netflix this weekend and loved it. Far, far better than i had expected it to be.

[MelissaTC]

DH and I watched "Bridesmaids" from the Redbox. Eh. We are not Kristen Wiig fans. It's official.

[hwin708]

Attack the Block. UK film, but on many US reviewers top 10 lists for the year. It's basically an indie-budget popcorn flick, but unlike most popcorn flicks these days - genuinely good, start to finish.

[MMMommy]

DH and I watched "Bridesmaids" from the Redbox. Eh. We are not Kristen Wiig fans. It's official.

:yeahthat: I was disappointed after seeing Bridesmaids in the theater. I know most people thought it was just so funny. I thought it had some good moments, but I didn't love it.

[Mommy_Mea]

Attack the Block. UK film, but on many US reviewers top 10 lists for the year. It's basically an indie-budget popcorn flick, but unlike most popcorn flicks these days - genuinely good, start to finish.

That was a good movie!

[fivi2]

Attack the Block. UK film, but on many US reviewers top 10 lists for the year. It's basically an indie-budget popcorn flick, but unlike most popcorn flicks these days - genuinely good, start to finish.

:yeahthat: we saw that and enjoyed it.


Also liked 50/50.

I did not like Contagion - bored me to tears.

ETA: also recently watched:

Beginners - liked. Slow but good.
Friends with Benefits - surprisingly watchable. (we don't do many romantic comedies, but both thought this was better than expected)
Hangover 2 - wretched
Don't be afraid of the dark - not very good. (horror - just read the OP that you don't like -sorry!)
30 minutes or less - okay, but some slow parts.
Tucker and Dale vs. Evil - funny if you like that sort of thing (horror/comedy. Lots of gore. Sorry didn't read the OP re not liking horror)
Midnight in Paris - kind of boring
Fright Night - never should have been remade. Not sure it counts as horror, but just avoid it anyway.

[DietCokeLover]

We just watched Sarah's Key and Winnie the Pooh. How is that for variety?

[elbenn]

If anyone's interested, Margin Call is on Amazon instant video for $1 today.

[theriviera]

I saw crazy stupid love last week on the plane. I loved it. Seeing Ryan Gosling's abs didn't hurt;)

[american_mama]

"Outsourced" is on Netflix streaming and it's a light, fun romantic comedy/culture clash movie.

[Jo..]

We saw REAL STEEL and the boys (DS and DH) liked it. It is about robot boxing, LOL!

[Ceepa]

Good suggestions. Just put some on the queue!

[Dream]

I really liked "Crazy, Stupid Love"

:yeahthat: and Friends with Benefits. We love comedy romance type movies.

Next inline is Fireproof and The help.

[Mopey]

We just watched a really interesting documentary called "Transcendant Man" about Raymond Kurzweil.

[mackmama]

We've been streaming some tv shows - fun to have a bunch of episodes to watch. We like Parenthood, Arrested Development.

[BillK]

Super 8 was pretty good.

Currently watching the Breaking Bad series.

[Ceepa]

Currently watching the Breaking Bad series.

It gets more riveting as it goes. DH got me watching and by the end I was sucked in.

[Ceepa]

:yeahthat: and Friends with Benefits. We love comedy romance type movies.

Next inline is Fireproof and The help.

We did see Fireproof and I want to see Courageous (Lana mentioned it earlier). Haven't seen or read The Help but want to do both.

The list of "to watch" is growing....

[momof2girls]

Just saw A Single Man with Colin Firth. Great movie but you have to be up for a heavy drama.