What is The Last Movie You Watched?

[Jimmy W]

"On The Road" My screener copy got stolen so I was wondering if anyone had seen it? I loved 'Motorcycle Diaries' and while it is a book that is inherently impossible to recreate visually, I had high hopes. Anyone?

[Schimmel]

On the Bowery. Great old black n white about the Bowery district in NYC, full of unemployed hobos and what not. I'll upload it for anyone who wants it. Also, Cosmopolis (Don DeLillo) is one of my favorite books, but wow the movie is a piece of shit.

Peter Watkins' La Commune (Paris 1871), a docudrama telling the story of the rise and fall of the Paris Commune of 1871.

Grabbing it right now.

[maxpower]

Silver Lining Playbook: You can officially count on any movie with Robert DeNiro to be a piece of shit from now on.

Really? No good? That's too bad. I like David O. Russel's other movies. Flirting with Disaster is one of my favorite comedies.

[fivekatz]

It is an oldie but I am watching Thirteen Days. Aside from the level of importance Kenny O'Donnell (Kevin Costner's character ) plays in the storyline, it holds amazingly close to actual events of those 13 days in 1962 when the world was at edge of nuclear winter.

Stunning to think that just 50 years ago lines of communication were so slow that the USSR had to broadcast their intent to remove the missiles because the normal channels of tele-type could prove to slow and the US may have already begun an invasion of Cuba.

A good movie overall and historically pretty accurate, probably because of the audio taping devices in White House at the time. It does make one think anytime a politician says "listen to generals" that one should skeptical of that politician.

[Prospero]

"Headhunters"... a dreary adaptation of a book by Jo Nesbo I haven't read (so that could be dreary also). A crime caper - until the violence kicks in. Norwegian with subtitles, but not a patch on the quality TV crime dramas coming out of Denmark and Sweden (The Killing, The Bridge, Wallander.)

[Prospero]

"Ice Age 3" - fun. Silly. Trivial.

[robertlouis]

Django Unchained. Enjoyed it without thinking too much, all the usual Tarantino tropes, and Christoph Waltz has to be the most charismatic presence on screen for some time.

[Prospero]

Hmmm... I haven't see Django yet. Watched the first 20 minutes and put it aside for future viewing. I have, in the past, (Kill Bill, Inglorious Basterds ?) etc hated Tarantino's trivial gameplaying and "amusing" brutality.

[robertlouis]

As everything Tarantino does is a form of cinematic hommage, Django is pretty much an extended spaghetti western - that's certainly where most of the music comes from. Take it at the level of simple entertainment and it's fine.

As for all the debates stateside about whether it's about hating whites, bullshit. Slavery was a complete abomination, and to hear tpartiers attempt to defend it is nothing short of obscene. It shows antebellum southern society for the filth that it was. Payback for Gone With the Wind and Birth of a Nation.

[Prospero]

I can buy those views Robertlouis... its the amused ultra violence. Maybe I'm too sensitive!