What is The Last Movie You Watched?

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Originally Posted by LibertyHarkness

about to watch Brazil while webcamming :)

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Good taste Libby. One of the best films of the 80s and Terry Gilliam's most complete film to date.

I'd say it was the ONLY good film Gilliam ever made. I always found his bits of the Monty Python show dull too.

The problem I have with Green Zone is that I read the book on which it was -admittedly loosely- based, and it is far superior to the film. I know the film is a drama with a heavy dose of fiction, but in both Green Zone and The Hurt Locker you have scenes with an American soldier wandering around Baghdad at night on his own -how stupid is that? Also in Green Zone you have the cliche of the idealistic, energetic youth who becomes progressively disillusioned as the weapons of mass destruction fail to appear, and the jaded, cynical CIA agent with one foot in the departure lounge, the cruel heartless bureaucrats, and so on -we are back to all those 'moral' films about Vietnam which rarely featured Vietnamese and were mostly about Amercian angst -so far we haven't had a film on Iraq from an Arab perspective, and Green Zone is just another slice of Hollywood-Goes-to-War. The reality was far worse than anything captured in these films.

Green zone was crap. I switched off after about 45 mins.

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Originally Posted by Stavros

and Green Zone is just another slice of Hollywood-Goes-to-War. The reality was far worse than anything captured in these films.

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Fully agree Stavros but it is Hollywood box office stuff and to my knowledge was never meant to be sold as a factual story / drama.

I just think that it symobises what the average joe in the street thinks about the war in that the whole WMD thing was just a bloody excuse and the real reason was to control the oil. Thats all im saying.

Anyway siting in my armchair with an ice cold bud and the speakers on high volume I found it simplisticly entertaining.

Just watched, "The Prince Of Persia". Interesting magical tale.

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Originally Posted by Edwoodwoodwood

Fully agree Stavros but it is Hollywood box office stuff and to my knowledge was never meant to be sold as a factual story / drama.

I just think that it symobises what the average joe in the street thinks about the war in that the whole WMD thing was just a bloody excuse and the real reason was to control the oil. Thats all im saying.

Anyway siting in my armchair with an ice cold bud and the speakers on high volume I found it simplisticly entertaining.

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You've gone down in my estimation, Ed. We need to re-educate your palate, old man. :wiggle:

The King's Speech. Watched bits and pieces of it beforehand, but finally got to watch it all.

Priest.
Not great but not as bad as the reviews.

Partir (Leaving) new French film with Kristin Scott Thomas. The film itself isn't as compelling as I've Loved You So Long, but the lady herself is mesmerising as always.