New DVDs

Today arrived:

Kill Billl (2003)

A Tarantino movie where four years after taking a bullet in the head at her own wedding, the bride (Thurman) emerges from a coma and decides it's time for payback ... with a vengeance! Having been gunned down by her former boss (David Carradine) and his deadly squad of international assassins, it's a kill-or-be-killed fight she didn't start but is determined to finish! (i♥movies)

IMDb: 8.2

i♥movies: 7.9

Kill Bill vol.2 (2004)

Having already crossed two names from her Death List, The Bride is back with a vengeance and taking aim at Budd and Elle Driver, the only survivors from the squad of assassins who betrayed her four years earlier. It's all leading up to the ultimate confrontation with Bill, The Bride's former master and the man who ordered her execution. (i♥movies)

IMDb: 8.0

i♥movies: 7.8

Gremlins (1984)

A boy inadvertantly breaks 3 important rules concerning his new pet and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town. (IMDb)

IMDb: 7.0

i♥movies: 6.5

Sherlock Holmes (2009)

Detective Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson engage in a battle of wits and brawn with a nemesis whose plot is a threat to all of England. (IMDb)

IMDb: 7.5

i♥movies: 7.1

Inglorious Basterds (2009)

*Already mentioned here.

And also Desperate Housewives complete 4th season!

DVD sale :)

The Pianist (2002)

A Roman Polanski's movie about a polish jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II. (IMDb)

IMDb: 8.5

i♥movies: 8.1

Speed Racer (2008)

In the world of violent, high-speed racing, brothers Rex and Speed Racer become rivals as powerful racer Mondragan manipulates their careers in order to kill them both during the world championships, but the brothers learn its all just an act of vengeance against Pops Racer, who caused the death of Mondragan's father in a race long ago. (i♥movies)

IMDb: 6.3

i♥movies: 6.4

Scott Pilgrim vs The World

Yesterday we watched Scott Pilgrim vs The World. It was great! It is based on a series of comics by a canadian author, which I have already talked about here.

Scott Pilgrim is 23 years old, living in the big city with his gay roommate, just trying to get by in this crazy world. He's in a band. He's lazy. He likes video games. Scott Pilgrim likes the new girl in town, Ramona Flowers, but to win her heart, he has to defeat her seven evil ex-boyfriends. Seven! Evil! Ex! Boyfriends! Lucas has muscles! Todd plays bass with his psychic powers! The Twins are twins! Matthew Patel is an Indian guy! AND MORE! (official site description)

So, what can I say about the movie itself? It's funny, it's really well adapted, and the cartoon-game effects are awesome! I really loved it, I think everybody should check it out eventhough some may not like the style...

IMDb: 8.0

i♥movies: 8.5

Take a look at the trailer to see if you get interested:

Weekly summary

It is getting confusing to write weekly summaries every week, since the TV-series are no longer having their episodes released every week and I'm doing a lot of other stuff at the moment and not being able to see that many movies or advancing in the series I was at the beginning, so I'm dropping "Weekly Summary" at least for now... ;)

Weekly summary #5

27.Oct.2010 - 03.Nov.2010

The Big Bang Theory (The Irish Pub Formulation) Sheldon is so creepy :P

Supernatural (You Can't Handle the Truth) Cas! *_* And is Sam human or not after all? >.<

Dexter (Everything is Illumenated) Dexter-Lumen gang! \o/
Glee (The Glee Rocky Show) Halloween special episode! Funny!! WTF was that scene with Emma and Will? OMG! LOL

The new series also had their second episode released:

The Event (Loyalty) where the hell is this going? *getting more and more curious*

Mike & Molly (Mike's Apartment) I like the way things are going...

And I'm going on with Rome (still in the beginning of season 1) Desperate Housewives (somewhere in season 3), Grey's Anatomy (in the middle of season 6) and United States of Tara (ended season 1 and started season 2) even though I'm still pretty far back...

I got back to watching Simpsons (still at the end of season 7, though).

As for movies, I watched Elite Squad 2 ("Tropa de Elite 2" in portuguese): exclusive post!

Tropa de Elite 2 (Elite Squad 2)

Yesterday I could finally watch Tropa de Elite 2 (Elite Squad 2), a brazilian movie that just came out.

One comment: very good. That's it, I'm done, there's nothing else to say...

I mentioned Elite Squad (the first) in this older post. Now Elite Squad 2 shows more about the corruption that allows organized crime to go on. It is again very sad to watch all that, but again it's like a huge wake-up call to people to see that everything is not as easy as they think it is... It is worth watching really, but just keep in mind that it is still a movie, and it is not like we have war on the streets every day and definitely not in every part of Brazil... But it is really a great movie!

IMDb: 9.2

Trailer (in Portuguese with english homemade subtitles):

New DVDs

Yes, DVD sale again!!!

Sin City (2005)

A film that explores the dark and miserable town Basin City and tells the story of three different people, all caught up in the violent corruption of the city. (IMDb)

IMDb: 8.3

i♥movies: 7.4

Beethoven (1992)

Feeling that something is lacking in their lives, the family of suburbanite Charles Grodin adopts a stray St. Bernard puppy. The cute lite beast grows up to be the less-than-cute Beethoven, a sloppy, slobbery, oversized and extremely destructive animal. Beethoven also brings with him a lot of hidden baggage in the form of evil veterinarian Dean Jones, who'll stop at nothing to steal Beethoven. (i♥movies)

IMDb: 5.2

i♥movies: 5.1

*trailer not available

Casper (1995)

Furious that her late father only willed her his gloomy-looking mansion rather than his millions, Carrigan Crittenden hires an afterlife therapist, Dr. James Harvey to check out the place, Harvey shows up with his daughter, Kat, as they must spend some time in the mansion, while there, Kat discovers mean ghosts are around her, except one friendly ghost, Casper, who bonds with her. (i♥movies)

IMDb: 5.7

i♥movies: 5.8

*trailer not available

Meet the Robinsons (2007) "A Familia do Futuro" in Portuguese

Lewis is a brilliant inventor who meets mysterious stranger named Wilbur Robinson, whisking Lewis away in a time machine and together they team up to track down Bowler Hat Guy in a showdown that ends with an unexpected twist of fate. (IMDb)

IMDb: 6.9

i♥movies: 6.4