What is The Last Movie You Watched?

[retroboy]

Captain America was awesome definitely worth the hype.

[retroboy]

I was thinking of watching the Other Woman

[Ben]

Last night I watched Compliance. It's interesting. And disturbing.

[4star4]

"The Book Theif"

[Stavros]

Last night I watched Compliance. It's interesting. And disturbing.

What is disturbing is that a real life event be filmed with such a lack of quality and care, it turned out to be as manipulative as the real event, a truly horrible film, I wouldn't even give it 1/10 for effort.

[robertlouis]

Calvary, an Irish film made with a mix of Irish and UK funding, written and directed by John Michael McDonagh, who made the excellently dark and funny The Guard. Both films star Brendan Gleeson, and in Calvary, he plays a good priest - in every sense - in a rural parish in present day Ireland, with its ruined economy and broken lives, so don't go expecting some Quiet Man whimsy. This is raw, dark and occasionally violent. The set up is that a parishioner tells him in confession that within a week he is going to kill him (the priest). So yes, it's a thriller, but it is also so much more.

Gleeson is the centre of the film, and I don't think I've ever seen him give a better performance. It's a hard watch at times, but also both gripping and absorbing.

I can't recommend it too highly.

[Instrumental]

"The Edge" with Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin. One of my favorite films.

[gummi baer]

Django Unchained

[Stavros]

Hereafter (Clint Eastwood, 2010)
I don't recall any reviews of this terrible film when it was released, and I am not surprised. Eastwood has made some first class films, this is not one of them. The idea that there is something after death is hardly original, nor is it original to have three people from three different countries coming together in a unifying climax, but none of it rings true, not least because it takes more than a year to publish a book yet within what seems a few months the French woman has both written and published a book. Matt Damon as a forked-lift truck driver doesn't really work, he isn't that good as a psychic either. The English boy cannot act, looks at the camera at least twice, but the dialogue overall is weak. Not one of Eastwood's memorable films. Maybe he should retire.

[Stavros]

The Raid: Redemption (Gareth Evans, 2011)
This is one of those martial arts films in which no matter how many people are coming at the hero, he commands the centre ground and inflicts the most terrible injuries on them which they cannot inflict on him. It is well choreographed, but the 'story' of corruption in the police is by now exhausted whether it is New York, London, Manila or Jakarta. It is vaguely interesting to have the entire film set within four walls, but other than that this is strictly for the teenage martial arts nuts.