Just finished watching "Deathwatch" a low-budget British war/horror movie. Overall it wasn't too bad. Not the greatest, naturally, but watchable. (And for a low budget horror movie, I didn't laugh all that often, which is usually a good sign.)

The Plot: World War One, the Western Front, the British Y company survives a battle and end up in a forward German trench. There, they capture a German soldier, but soon realize that the Germans aren't their enemy here - rather, something unnatural and evil lurks in the mud.

I spent three days and I could only get 50 minutes into this movie. Anyone remember it?
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It's about a kid who gets beaten up and left for dead, but his non corporeal is hanging around in limbo until he dies. So he tries to get people to find his body before he dies 'for real.'

The problem I had with this movie is that two-thirds of the way through I really didn't care if Nick lived or died. I had no emotional connection to this character. And this may be because he had no emotional connection to the other characters.

When I first heard about Apocalypto it was advertised as a movie about the end of the Mayan civilization. Because of crop failures the Mayan king (and his priests, I'll assume) believe their gods wanted sacrifices, so jungle villages are ransacked and destroyed to capture men for human sacrifice to appease thier gods. And while it's true that the last five minutes of the movie have the Spanish fleet arriving, the movie as a whole wasn't about that.

It was a love story.

I've been trying to think of something nice to say about the Ghost Rider movie that I wasted 2 hours of my life watching. And I came up with this: Sam Elliott, the cowboy Caretaker, was great.

The rest of the movie was terrible. No, it was horrible. Wait a second... it was atrocious. And I have to put all the blame on the director/writer Mark Steven Johnson.

There are some movies that you look at the poster or the DVD cover and you know what you're in for. Then there are movies like A Very Long Engagement. At first, it looks like it's going to be your standard Romance/Chick Flick. But it's not. It's a drama, set in 1917-20 France during and after the first World War.

We're engaged. Luckily we wont have to wait until the end of the war. Now I can go straight home after [my] execution.