What is The Last Movie You Watched?

[robertlouis]

Inside Llewyn Davis, the latest from the Coen brothers. Poignant seeing it on the day after Pete Seeger's passing was announced.

Beautiful to look at, slyly humorous, a beguiling narrative and a remarkable performance from Oscar Isaacs as the eponymous Lleywn. One of the Coens' best imho.

[Stavros]

Winter's Bone (Debra Granik 2010)
Harsh, cruel and bleak. Set in the Ozark's this is a film about that 'other America' which exists on the margins of what most people imagine the USA to be, where people themselves live on the margins of or beyond the law, where the absence or useless law enforcement enables an uneducated populace to police itself with its own values and rules. No point Obama and the democrats reaching out to the 'Middle Class', there isn't even a class to speak of here. George Steiner once opened a lecture with the sentence 'Absolute tragedy is very rare' and went on to point out the humour in Hamlet, King Lear -and that even in Othello there is a clown, even if he gets edited out of most productions. Because people find absolute tragedy unbearable, as it is in this film. Even when they use local folk music it is mostly sad; there is no sense of people having fun in adversity; of playing music to dance to. For this reason, and the comments in the imdb that in spite of a real drug problem among the poor the Ozarks are not a dead end full of uneducated, inbreeding weirdos, I find this a major weakness in the film; the last upbeat scene in the film actually feels out of joint with what came before, the mere idea of a man being honest seems strange. Jennifer Lawrence is outstanding, but it seems she can do no wrong anyway. Hard to believe Sheryl Lee, who used to be the alluring Laura Palmer in Twin Peaks appears in this film as a wasted ghost of a woman. But she is in her late 40s, and I assume she doesn't always look like that...

[south ov da border]

Robocop

[pantybulge69]

CASINO .....whaadda classic.

[Dino Velvet]

CASINO .....whaadda classic.

About the only film I can tolerate Sharon Stone in. James Woods was almost as sleazy in Casino as he was in The Onion Field. See The Onion Field if you haven't. Joseph Wambaugh and the LAPD.

[runningdownthatdream]

Winter's Bone (Debra Granik 2010)
Harsh, cruel and bleak. Set in the Ozark's this is a film about that 'other America' which exists on the margins of what most people imagine the USA to be, where people themselves live on the margins of or beyond the law, where the absence or useless law enforcement enables an uneducated populace to police itself with its own values and rules. No point Obama and the democrats reaching out to the 'Middle Class', there isn't even a class to speak of here. George Steiner once opened a lecture with the sentence 'Absolute tragedy is very rare' and went on to point out the humour in Hamlet, King Lear -and that even in Othello there is a clown, even if he gets edited out of most productions. Because people find absolute tragedy unbearable, as it is in this film. Even when they use local folk music it is mostly sad; there is no sense of people having fun in adversity; of playing music to dance to. For this reason, and the comments in the imdb that in spite of a real drug problem among the poor the Ozarks are not a dead end full of uneducated, inbreeding weirdos, I find this a major weakness in the film; the last upbeat scene in the film actually feels out of joint with what came before, the mere idea of a man being honest seems strange. Jennifer Lawrence is outstanding, but it seems she can do no wrong anyway. Hard to believe Sheryl Lee, who used to be the alluring Laura Palmer in Twin Peaks appears in this film as a wasted ghost of a woman. But she is in her late 40s, and I assume she doesn't always look like that...

Good review - you nailed the movie. So did it move you in the right way or not? Personally, I like these types of movies. The Road was one of those and left quite an impression on me.

Watch Out of the Furnace which Prospero mentioned a few days ago. It's outstanding - bleak but with some of those humanistic touches that were lacking in Winter's Bone.

[Curiousguy04]

Rocky II

[Stavros]

Good review - you nailed the movie. So did it move you in the right way or not? Personally, I like these types of movies. The Road was one of those and left quite an impression on me.

Watch Out of the Furnace which Prospero mentioned a few days ago. It's outstanding - bleak but with some of those humanistic touches that were lacking in Winter's Bone.

Out of the Furnace was favourably reviewed on the BBC Radio 4 programme Front Row. I think it was released here a few days ago. I was not moved by Winter's Bone as much as MUD because it is so relentlessly cold. Both films have upbeat endings which I don't find credible, more so in MUD than Winter's Bone, but MUD is a softer film because it is seen through the eyes of two teenage boys.

[robertlouis]

Out of the Furnace was favourably reviewed on the BBC Radio 4 programme Front Row. I think it was released here a few days ago. I was not moved by Winter's Bone as much as MUD because it is so relentlessly cold. Both films have upbeat endings which I don't find credible, more so in MUD than Winter's Bone, but MUD is a softer film because it is seen through the eyes of two teenage boys.

I haven't seen Mud but have seen Winter's Bone which I thought was pretty good in every department. But "upbeat ending"? Rather more of a calm resolution to a consistently bleak narrative imho.

[Stavros]

I was being generous, I think your choice of words is superior.