Ah the Abyss, love that one too. The extended edition wasn't as good though, the extra stuff going around above water isn't really needed and only takes you out of the isolated underwater feeling.
What happened to the underwater / submarine genre?

I watched a different kind of underwater movie today. The little mermaid. Looks so much better on blu-ray than dvd. Some scenes were almost painful to watch on dvd color wise. The new bonus features are awesome. Footage of how Disney has been using motion capture since Snow white with tons of live action clips of different movies. Actors using simple props in front of a green or blue wall with masking tape to provide a sense of scale. Fun to see all the actors they used performing scenes side by side with the final result, mimicking camera pans by rotating the performing actors by hand on a board with wheels.

The magic behind the magic.

Also included was an original lecture by Howard Ashman, explaining the theory behind the musical structure of the movie. Very interesting.

it's one of my wife's favorite movies, for me it's a solid 8 after finally being able to see it as it was originally intented.

rush

powerful and fun if you like formula 1 you are going to love it.
for now my favorite movie of the year.

8.5/10

12 years a slave

i simply didnt care for the main character.. i did not feel sorry for him in any way but i did for others. this is just another slave torture movie and thats the only thing i can think of worth mentioning.

6/10

american hustle

7/10

CARRIE :D

just another teenage mutant teen movie.

4/10

Rush looks interesting, added to my pre-order list.
Januari is getting expensive already.

I'm gonna start watching black mirror. Anyone else has seen this mini tv serie?

I watched Wolf children today. Very nice movie. It looks great, the modern city and Totoro setting both are beautifully drawn. There is some very well integrated great looking cgi as well. The scene where they are running through the snow in the forest and mountains is my favorite. Music and surround sound effects are excellent. My only nitpick with the animation style is that they often don't draw in the detail in character's faces at medium distance. The blank faces kinda stand out on blu-ray.
The story could maybe not have started quite so far back, I didn't really get into the story until the kids were born. From then on I was hooked. Anyway the art style and setting were enough to carry the first 15 minutes.
8/10, will watch again, soon.

Me too! The conjuring was in the package as well. Now I have to decided whether to get my S-class license tonight (GT6) or watch the movie. Movie probably.

The trailer for Summer wars looked pretty good too. I put it on my watch list to see if the price and delivery time come down. (currently ships in 1 to 2 months)

Yes, that's how I got to Children who chase lost voices, onto Girl who leapt through time, onto Wolf children. I just needed to see a full HD trailer to get on board with Summer wars (Samâ uôzu)

Run by Kurosawa

big epic drama slow paced and one of the most depressing endings. for now my least favorite kurosawa movie.

7/10

I saw the conjuring last night. It was very good. Great attention to detail. I was born in the 70's and we had headphones just like the ones used in the movie, many other things were very familiar too.
Some of the paranormal stuff was a bit silly, but the actors responded great to what was happening and the sound effects did a good job at making it look scary. The suspense was the real star, thanks to great pacing.
The scares didn't work for me as usual, that only seems to work when I smoke pot and I haven't done that in 10 years, kinda why I grew out of horror movies. As a visual time piece, detailing the early days of paranormal investigation it's an 8 for me, yet as a whole 7/10. For how great it all looked it still used the annoying sudden loud noises gimmick far too often for my liking.

You're a vulture! I missed the closing of our Blockbuster. I went to a final closing sale of another store and they were still selling stuff for $10 and up...

The last time I jumped was Jurrasic park 2. Velociraptors breaking into the shed, last time the 'character looks one way, suddenly something jumps out when they look back the other way' trick worked. My wife managed to make me jump twice in 11 years, she hates it I can always get her so easily :) She refused to watch this movie.