What is The Last Movie You Watched?

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Originally Posted by runningdownthatdream

Attempted to watch Red Tails tonight. Could only stomach the first 20 minutes before I left the theatre in disgust with the shit dialogue, predictable plot, and awful acting. Truly rubbish masquerading as historical drama and what's worse attempting to play the race card to lure viewers in. Stay away!

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I could tell by the previews that this wasn't going to be a good movie and that this story shouldn't be told in a corney "hollywood action movie with bad dialog" way. But to say "play the race card to lure the viewers in"?? Huh? Admittedly I haven't seen this movie and have no interest in it but you gotta explain that one.

Again I'm not suggesting this movie does a good job of this but are you suggesting that any movie that highlights the black experience in a war is playing the race card? I think you guys are starting to kinda overuse that completely racially incensitive term just a little bit now but I'd love to hear you explain it. I didn't see the film so educate me.

i saw the red tails trailer and knew i wouldn't want to pay $13 for that crap.

check out The Tuskegee Airmen (TV 1995) - IMDb@@AMEPARAM@@http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTY0NDUxNTExMF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNjk5MDU1MQ@@._ V1._SX97_SY140_.jpg@@AMEPARAM@@BMTY0NDUxNTExMF5BMl 5BanBnXkFtZTcwNjk5MDU1MQ@@@@AMEPARAM@@SX97@@AMEPAR AM@@SY140 for a better tuskegee flick

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Originally Posted by dafame

I could tell by the previews that this wasn't going to be a good movie and that this story shouldn't be told in a corney "hollywood action movie with bad dialog" way. But to say "play the race card to lure the viewers in"?? Huh? Admittedly I haven't seen this movie and have no interest in it but you gotta explain that one.

Again I'm not suggesting this movie does a good job of this but are you suggesting that any movie that highlights the black experience in a war is playing the race card? I think you guys are starting to kinda overuse that completely racially incensitive term just a little bit now but I'd love to hear you explain it. I didn't see the film so educate me.

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I'm suggesting that deliberately marketing any film as a 'black' film is disingenuous and will in fact do more to harm the success of the film and help. And who or what are you referring to as 'you guys'?

"Shame" - about sex addiction (I think) but a bleak, boring and wholly depressing piece of film making. And not in the least bit arousing despite its title.

watched the Wrestler .. i enjoyed it ...was very well wrote and filmed .. a touch long perhaps for the story but very good indeed

Yeah - The Wrestler was an excellent film.

this is by far one of my favourite movies .... and nicolas cage is epic in this film ... this is my favourite scene in the movie :) winner music score, winner visuals ..

play this extremely loud :)

Kick Ass - Hit Girl FPS scene - YouTube

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Originally Posted by LibertyHarkness

this is by far one of my favourite movies .... and nicolas cage is epic in this film ... this is my favourite scene in the movie :) winner music score, winner visuals ..

play this extremely loud :)

Kick Ass - Hit Girl FPS scene - YouTube

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my neighbor it trying to make me watch this movie. everytime i go over there, he wants me to watch it. i din't know why he has a hard on for it.

maybe i will check it out.

i watched robocop last night. damn that was a great movie (for the time it was made) the effects are shit but its just a good action movie!!!

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Originally Posted by LibertyHarkness

this is by far one of my favourite movies .... and nicolas cage is epic in this film ... this is my favourite scene in the movie :) winner music score, winner visuals ..

play this extremely loud :)

Kick Ass - Hit Girl FPS scene - YouTube

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You should check out a movie called Super, starring Rainn Wilson, if it's available in the UK. Similar to Kick Ass in that it's about a regular guy who gets fed up and becomes a superhero. It's funny, dark, twisted, and surprisingly violent. Great movie.

Kick-Ass is instantly forgettable, a silly film about things that could never happen in real life but ok, its a cartoon-strip fantasy, but let's be honest, Nicolas Cage owes his career to his uncle, his inability to even to pretend to act is embarrassing. Anyone smothered in paraffin/gasoline in a confined space where guns are being fired and hot bullets flying around like confetti at a wedding would have been toast long before the ditzy jailbait with a pink wig turned up to rescue dad while firing her own shots from guns with recoil that would throw most 10-year olds against the wall.

The film is RUBBISH, Herge's Adventures of Tin-Tin should be preferred.

just watched basic instinct 2 on netflix because i had time to kill. wow that movie sucked! at least sharon stone was easy on the eyes in SOME scenes...others she looked her age which shriveled my penis!

A Lonely Place with Bogart and Gloria Grahame - excellent story, dialogue, performances, and good cinematography. Enjoyed it very much.

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Originally Posted by RallyCola

just watched basic instinct 2 on netflix because i had time to kill. wow that movie sucked! at least sharon stone was easy on the eyes in SOME scenes...others she looked her age which shriveled my penis!

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Talking of Sharon Stone, just watched "The Quick And The Dead" again.
Film sucks balls, but Christ, she was looking good in that!

Saw "Bad Teacher" on Starz....I got some laughs out of it...I was pretty stoned...I also have a nasty cold.

Cameron Diaz is really cute in it.
Cute Smile.
Yeah.

Hostel Part III

Don't Look Now -Nicolas Roeg's 'exercise in film grammar'. Much as I like this film with its drab winter Venice unlike the Venice one usually sees in the cinema, it is a pity Nic and his team have not re-edited the film to get rid of that 70s muzak which pollutes it, it reminds of the music that used to accompany the soft-porn films Italy produced in abiundance in the 70s and is wholly inappropriate to this film. Julie Christie in her prime was remarkably good looking, and I am no fan of Donald Sutherland, but the film as a whole still chills and looks wonderful.

Some of you may lament the sudden death of Theo Angelopoulos, one of the great European directors. In the 1970s and 1980s I saw The Travelling Players on a regular basis, and think it is one of the finest films of the age, I understand why people can't bear it, or his other work, but to me this kind of demanding film with exceptionally long takes, a format that one finds in the work of Tarkovsky and Bela Tarr, when it works is deeply satisfying, Angelopoulos also had an acute eye, his films were always beautifully shot.

There is an interview -possibly one of his last, from last November- with TA in the latest Sight & Sound and can be read here:
http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/feature/49816

Unknown, in which Liam Neeson forgets who he is, loses everything except an old coat, and is set in Berlin, where the heroine is a blonde 20-something taxi driver from Bosnia -aren't they all?

The clue is in the title -why would anyone follow my dismal example and waste two hours of their life? The answer is unknown.

Carpenter's The Thing and the prequel

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guardians of ga'hoole. (sigh).

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Originally Posted by Dino Velvet

Carpenter's The Thing and the prequel

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The original John Carpenter version is awesome, and the prequel was actually surprisingly pretty good too. The last movie I saw was Warhorse. It wasn't bad, the scenes in the trenches were the best parts.

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Originally Posted by theone1982

The original John Carpenter version is awesome, and the prequel was actually surprisingly pretty good too.

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The prequel is alright. I was fine buying the Blu-ray but some might want to wait to see it on HBO. I buy any decent Horror.

Just got Horror Express on Blu-ray and might watch that tonight. I highly recommend this one for the great characters.

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Originally Posted by Dino Velvet

The prequel is alright. I was fine buying the Blu-ray but some might want to wait to see it on HBO. I buy any decent Horror.

Just got Horror Express on Blu-ray and might watch that tonight. I highly recommend this one for the great characters.

http://www.dreadcentral.com/img/news...uhorrorexb.jpg

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Sweet! Is that a Hammer Horror film?

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Originally Posted by theone1982

Sweet! Is that a Hammer Horror film?

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It's not. Spanish production. Very Hammer-ish though. Dude who plays the Rasputin-type character almost steals the film. Such a nut. Telly Savalas plays an over-the-top Cossack too. Lee and Cushing are, of course, great together.

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Originally Posted by Dino Velvet

It's not. Spanish production. Very Hammer-ish though. Dude who plays the Rasputin-type character almost steals the film. Such a nut. Telly Savalas plays an over-the-top Cossack too. Lee and Cushing are, of course, great together.

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Cool, can't beat Lee and Cushing in the same films!

Charlize Theron in "Young Adult." She was terrific.

Drive, with Ryan Gosling. When I read it was about a stunt driver in Hollywood who drives getaway cars in crimes in his spare time, I was expecting something like Walter Hill's classic 1970s noir The Driver, with another Ryan, as in O'Neal. I sat through Drive and at some point instead of getting interesting it descended into incoherence and violence. I think the Ryan Gosling character lives in Echo Park, but in most parts of LA where he went there were no people, no witnesses to call the police, or scream when someone gets stabbed or shot. By the end of the film he seems to be walking around with a noticeably bloodstained jacket that nobody notices, while cool detached songs play on the soundtrack; and there isn't even that much driving. Apart from some seriously stiff nipples (female) in the dressing room of a tity bar, I can't think of any reason to see this film, and for those two minutes I could go elsewhere.

i have just seen THE GREY what shit ending

Finally saw Hangover 2 - go Yasmine Lee!!!! Nice!!! Otherwise the movie was EXACTLY the same as the first one.

I went and saw the re-release of Phantom Menace, Duel of Fates sounded amazing in that theater

Tyrannosaur -a grim slice of social realism filmed on a run-down estate on the fringes of Leeds in Yorkshire. The truth is that as a film about people without love at the start who find it at the end is predictable, but the writing is so good, and the acting so powerful that it works, and ultimately is a moving film.

Tyrannosaur Official Trailer - YouTube

I agree with Stavros about Drive. I'd had it recommended but found it a brutal and unpleasant and rather pointless bit of film making.
Not been able to face Tyrannosaur after reading that it opens with an explicit sequence of the main character kicking his pet dog to death.

You never actually see any contact between foot and dog, nor later in the film when there is an even more shocking incident with another dog, and it is in some scenes a violent film, but always more realistic than in Drive. Worth seeing nevertheless.

Okay.. well with trepidation I will see it.

Kill Bill Vol. 1 Watch it every time its on. D

The Grey, I was disappoointed with it... wanted to safehouse but it was sold out last week..

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Just because it says Winner Palme d'Or Cannes Film Festival 2010 on the dvd box doesn't make this film any better or worse, and I suppose it might have the most loving ghosts in cinema, but while beautiful to look at, this for me is a film with no substance. This director seems to have a different approach to film-making, which doesn't go in for narrative and that's ok, its thematic and I understand what he is trying to do, I just don't think it goes deep enough. The water buffalo stole the show, that's how I saw it. And I don't think he was a relative.

Farewell. A nice little thriller in Russian, French and English!

The DVD cover is misleading, though - Willem Dafoe plays a small role in the film...

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Originally Posted by Prospero

I agree with Stavros about Drive.

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+1. Definitely overrated. I also didn't like the way that Brian Eno music (An Ending from Apollo) was used three times throughout the film? I know it's a lovely piece, but c'mon guys!

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Originally Posted by omni69

The Grey, I was disappoointed with it... wanted to safehouse but it was sold out last week..

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what a have ....i want my money back

The Conversation, re-released on DVD. I am not a great admirer of Coppola, Godfather I and II are great films, but with too many flaws to be anything other than great. I can't think of any other Coppola films worth watching other than this film, which is as serious as Coppola gets. In spite of the advances surveillance technology has made since the 1970s, the film hasn't dated, and the editing gives it an enduring sense of tension and danger. It is also about a control freak who loses control of his own life, an understated but nevertheless powerful performance from Gene Hackman.