Heh…my wife and I rented “Meet the Spartans” over the weekend. 
To her credit, she actually managed to sit through the whole thing. I was impressed!
Last week I saw Get Smart. I really like it, although I still think the show is better.
Yesterday I went to the movies to watch Prince Caspian, since at least at my local multiplex today is its last day due to WALL-E (which I’ll be seeing on Saturday!). Eddie Izzard is brilliant as Reep but the whole thing made me want to watch the old BBC miniseries instead, since it’s more true to the book. Not that I like the book that much; it’s fifth out of seven if I rank them.*
Then, at home, I watched Shaun of the Dead, because I realized I hadn’t watched it for more than a month. I’ll watch Hot Fuzz tonight for the same reason.
I’ll be watching Transformers in thirty minutes to an hour (depending on how much longer the Internet proves fantastically distracting, as opposed to its baseline mildly distracting), but that’s for work. I run the soundboard for my city’s movies in the park, so I have to check the DVD for scratches, make notes of the scenes that are best for getting someone else to cover the sound board while I run to the bathroom, and figure out the best way to mute the swear words in some scene. Apparently there’s one in which a guy swears a bunch all at once, and we can’t have that. I haven’t seen it yet, so I don’t know. But the mute plan is sort of pointless now that we’ve decided to show the movies with subtitles on, for hearing impaired movie-goers.
I’ve got Oh Brother Where At Thou? and Blithe Spirit waiting on my DVR, so hopefully I’ll get to those soon as well.
*Voyage of the Dawn Treader; The Horse and His Boy; The Magician’s Nephew; The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe are all on the “reread often” in about that order; on the “BBC version, or book if you’re desperate for the story” is Prince Caspian, and The Silver Chair. A million miles below all that is The Last Battle- I just cannot put up with the way it starts, or the way it ends, and the bits in the middle aren’t that great either. /hijack
Just saw “Confessions of a Superhero,” which is a documentary about 4 people who dress as superheroes to make a living on Hollywood Blvd. It’s beautifully shot and a really fascinating look at the underbelly of Hollywood ambition.
I also saw Doug Benson’s “Super High Me” which was a lot deeper look at pot legalization issues than I was expecting. It’s also hilarious and has a ton of great cameos.
Watched Harry Potter nos. 1 and 2 last weekend. Caught some of no. 5 the other night, but fell asleep watching it.
Watched the first half of Michael Clayton last night.
I watch cable TV series and miniseries via BB or Netflix, so I am not counting those, though they do take up the majority of my viewing time.
Movies: Barton Fink–had seen it years ago; it still holds up pretty well;
Quest for Fire–ditto, and it beats the crap out of the execrable 10K BC, which I also just saw but fortunately for me it was a free rental.
Hey, psycat90, let me suggest Ravenous. If you haven’t seen it, you must watch it! Although I suppose it doesn’t “technically” qualify as a splatter movie.
As for me, I am taking in as many movies as I can this summer. So far:
theater: Kung Fu Panda - Just a rocking good little movie.
Sex and the City- Everytime I go out for sushi, I see Samantha. LOL
_______________Courtesy of Netflix
I am on an anime kick, so here goes:
Princess Mononoke- just enjoyed the characterizations.
Howl’s Moving Castle- so original.
Sicko- suggested by my SO. I was dismayed and a little bitter after viewing it. My mother wants to move to Canada. 
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story- Ok, I just love John C. Reilly Who doesn’t?
The Golden Compass- a little hard to follow at first, but very well done.
I Am Legend- I enjoyed it. Yes, I agree with a previous post, the ending was rushed. Then I watched the animated features. Some of them were better than the film.
Getting ready to watch The Bucket List and based on someone’s recommendation here, I will watch 30 Days of Night. I am such a sucker for vampire flicks!
I got the 2 disk 2001 set, and watched all the features. The features were great, the commentary by Lockwood and Dullea (in different places and badly edited together) was sometimes interesting when talking about the bits of the movie They were in, but pretty pitiful. The transfer is much better than the first DVD I got. The best part of the set is the recording Jeremy Bernstein made of his interview with Kubrick, the edited version of which ran in the New Yorker. Hearing Kubrick talk for an hour at least was fantastic. Which inspired me to get …
Kubrick’s Lolita. Odd, but I understand why Kubrick got Sellers to play multiple roles in Dr. Strangelove.
Then, moving from the sublime to the ridiculous, the MS3TK version of Eegah. Some very perverse sexual innuendo.
Now at home, as part of my project of watching all the crappy sf movies I avoided, Riverworld. Previous crappy movies include Lost in Space and I, Robot, which is one of the worst movies I have ever seen - and I like Will Smith.
Hey, this place looks familiar! Heh heh…
Lessee, just got done watching “Gattaca” again, just gets better every time.
Watched “Ratatouille” last night, Brad Bird excellent as always–laughed my butt off.
Before that was “In Bruges” which was really good, I love hitman movies and this one just takes all the conventions and tosses 'em all into a cocked hat. Racist dwarf and all, just a very enjoyable movie. Quite a lot of spattery bits as well. Ralph Fiennes can be really scary, who knew?
Hmmm… oh yeah, “Cemetery Man” with Rupert Everett was just plain weird, like the worst Fellini hommage possible but very scenic withal. Number of times we muttered “fucking Italians” was approximately equal to the number of times the line “Who ARE those guys?” appears in “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.”
“Margot at the Wedding” was technically good, I guess, but I just wanted to drown every character in it. Buncha whiners…
“Moliere” was funny and good costuming, “The Amateurs” had a stellar cast and more euphemisms for sex acts than I ever imagined would occur in a mainstream film. I wish “The Darjeeling Limited” had crashed into a ravine within the first ten minutes because then I would have really enjoyed it. “Juno” was cute and anyone who hasn’t seen “Five Corners” needs to correct this omission post haste.
I could go on but I won’t… Netflix gets a workout around here!
Just watched Timescape (AKA Grand Tour) last night. Adapted from Catherine L. Moore’s SF Hall of Fame novella “Vintage Season”. Pretty good, but not great (and much overlooked) low-tech SF movie written and directed by James Twohy.