What is The Last Movie You Watched?

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Mad Max: Fury Road
This is a 2 hour movie and roughly 1hr and 40mins of it is pure pulse pounding action, excellent cinematography, awesome set pieces
and no story to speak of what-so-ever but the characters have enough personality to make the action scenes tense.
There really isn't much to say about this movie honestly, so i'll sum it up with 2 words SAND TORNADO

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This was the last movie I saw the other day as well.. And maybe because RT was giving it a 98% even after a week and commercials were billing it as the most amazing thing ever, my hopes were too inflated. The sets were of course goregous, but in the end couldn't make up for the zero plot offered. Even the slightest attempt to explain what, why, or how things got to where we as the viewer are dumped in would have helped immensely! Instead it's basically a two hour car chase that ends only because it has to. Maybe I hurt myself never having seen the '79 original, but my guess is 92% of those who bought tickets haven't either. While still an alright summer popcorn actioner, I left the theater thinking it was more "Meh Max."

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This was the last movie I saw the other day as well.. And maybe because RT was giving it a 98% even after a week and commercials were billing it as the most amazing thing ever, my hopes were too inflated. The sets were of course goregous, but in the end couldn't make up for the zero plot offered. Even the slightest attempt to explain what, why, or how things got to where we as the viewer are dumped in would have helped immensely! Instead it's basically a two hour car chase that ends only because it has to. Maybe I hurt myself never having seen the '79 original, but my guess is 92% of those who bought tickets haven't either. While still an alright summer popcorn actioner, I left the theater thinking it was more "Meh Max."

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I can't disagree with you there, even though I was entertained by it I can see how the complete lack of story could turn someone off to the movie as a whole. I'll admit the style and tone of this movie had me expecting something with a little more substance but like I said I enjoyed the action and the characters enough that I didn't feel really disappointed.
and for the record you really don't need to watch the original mad max movies. they're awful in my opinion

I'd still like to watch Mad Max: Fury Road, along with the Avengers sequel. The last movie I did watch was Locke (also with Tom Hardy).

The Boy in Striped Pajamas (Mark Herman, 200-eight)
I watched this film the other night when it was broadcast on tv.
I don't know how people feel about 'Holocaust' movies- feature films not documentaries -this film is sensitively filmed and acted, with an obviously shocking conclusion, but I am never comfortable with this genre of film, and wonder about some of its assumptions. I doubt the small Jewish boy Shmuel would have survived within 24 hours of his arrival at the camp or have been able to spend time at the fence chatting to the German boy. Even when such films are based on true stories, such as Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg, 1993) I think there is something wrong about putting a death camp on film, perhaps there are some things that humans do to each other that cannot be turned into fiction, or which lose something when they are. I can appreciate another true story, Roman Polanski's The Pianist (2002) but not Roberto Benigni's Life is Beautiful (1997) possibly because the former does not take place in a camp.

Stavros, have you ever heard of a film that Jerry Lewis attempted to direct in 1972 about a clown in a Nazi concentration camp? It was entitled The Day the Clown Cried, and it was about a clown whose job it was to entertain the prisoner children before they were killed. It was Jerry's dream project and he was starring as the clown. Production had begun and some of the picture had been filmed, but it was never finished, because, obviously, it was just wrong in so many ways. You can find some of the footage on youtube.

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Stavros, have you ever heard of a film that Jerry Lewis attempted to direct in 1972 about a clown in a Nazi concentration camp? It was entitled The Day the Clown Cried, and it was about a clown whose job it was to entertain the prisoner children before they were killed. It was Jerry's dream project and he was starring as the clown. Production had begun and some of the picture had been filmed, but it was never finished, because, obviously, it was just wrong in so many ways. You can find some of the footage on youtube.

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Thanks for this as I had not heard of it -and it sounds awful but not so far from Life is Beautiful?

Savages (Oliver Stone, 2012)
This aired on tv last night -I am not an admirer of Stone, but even by his low standards this film is dire -hard to know what is worse, the dialogue or the acting.

Ex Machina:
Well worth the ticket. Often, in ancient Greek drama, a god was lowered onto the stage by a crane hidden behind the set. This device was called the “Deus ex machina.” The appearance of the god served to solved a problem confronting the characters and advance the plot. In the film, Ex Machina, the problem solver is named Caleb. He’s not much of a god (except perhaps by the default of belonging to the race of beings who created artificially intelligent androids). The Ex Machina is the lottery which brings Caleb to our attention in the first place. The problem Caleb is assigned to solve is named Ava. Caleb is to decide whether or not Ava passes the Turing Test.

Beyond this point there be spoilers:
This viewer is not sure Ava really passes. She certainly is a skillful manipulator. She analyzes micro expressions and discerns the motivations and weaknesses of others. She “knows” when you’re lying or telling the truth by mere calculation of your body language and the modulations in your voice. Real people do these things by empathy not calculation. Unless we’re severely autistic we attempt to feel what others must be feeling. We generally don’t simply reason and deduce what they must be feeling. Even psychopaths imagine they feel what their victims feel, but learn to either suppress or enjoy these proxy emotions. There is ultimately no evidence (imo) that this is the way Ava operates. As far as I can tell she used Caleb, but never felt anything for him. From what I know of her now, Ava neither passes nor fails the Turing test. I need more evidence. She may well be a highly functional, autistic, robot killer loose in the world.

As of last night, the last film I watched in a theater was "San Andreas." I watched it at the Regal Theatre at L.A. Live with the 4DX effects. It was almost like going on a ride in Disneyland or Universal Studios.

Pain and Gain

Not in a theatre but 'Interstellar'....

Battlefield Earth
So very, very bad...but I still love it...

The Railway Man..... worth the time to have a look at set in the second world war at the fall of Saigon and follows on with the Thai Burma railway, Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman and a number of other actors well constructed story.

Ex Machina - I thought Ex Machina was a pile of pretentious shit that desperately wanted to 'look' like a Kubrick film but ended up taking over two hours to deliver ten minutes of dialogue about nothing. If you've seen Blade Runner where Harrison Ford interviews Sean Young then you've seen Ex Machina although they did more in five minutes with Blade Runner. The mysterious computer genius whose name isn't worth remembering does nothing but drink beer and look at closed circuit cams. For those who have seen the film and can't figure out who he reminded you of when you all went to the diner afterwards? Joe Pantoliano is who you couldn't think of. More like a Joe Pantoliano impersonator. Nothing happens for %90 of the film and then when something happens at the end it's difficult to care. As a movie I give it a 5 but because it takes itself too seriously I give it a 3.

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Ex Machina - I thought Ex Machina was a pile of pretentious shit that desperately wanted to 'look' like a Kubrick film but ended up taking over two hours to deliver ten minutes of dialogue about nothing. If you've seen Blade Runner where Harrison Ford interviews Sean Young then you've seen Ex Machina although they did more in five minutes with Blade Runner. The mysterious computer genius whose name isn't worth remembering does nothing but drink beer and look at closed circuit cams. For those who have seen the film and can't figure out who he reminded you of when you all went to the diner afterwards? Joe Pantoliano is who you couldn't think of. More like a Joe Pantoliano impersonator. Nothing happens for %90 of the film and then when something happens at the end it's difficult to care. As a movie I give it a 5 but because it takes itself too seriously I give it a 3.

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I saw this yesterday but I must disagree with you when you say "As a movie I give it a 5 but because it takes itself too seriously I give it a 3" -this film is so truly bad I don't think it is even worth a 1. That doesn't make it the worst film ever made, but that is only because there are so many contenders for this dubious accolade. I could go into details, but this film is just not worth the effort it would take.

The Equalizer
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Kingsman:The Secret Service.
Great film, loved it!

Rust & Bone

American Sniper (Clint Eastwood, 2014)
Eastwood's ability to make films that are free of padding and hysteria has enabled him to make a film about a sniper for the SEALS who served in Iraq that is, until the last part of the film free of any sense of national sentiment. The film is based on the real life story of Chris Kyle, but fails to show any real character development, as the man in the film is emotionally cold at the beginning and at the end of the film, and one gets the impression he stopped doing tours of Iraq more from tiredness than anything deeper. The premise of the film, from 9/11 you get regime change in Iraq in 2003 doesn't make sense as 9/11 was followed by the relentless bombing of Afghanistan and Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. The fact that it doesn't matter all that much is due to the lack of any real plot or story, and I personally found myself indifferent to the whole thing, so it goes to the swap shop along with quite a lot of other dvd's I have wasted money on recently. Probably best for Eastwood to retire as he has nothing left to say.

95 min |Comedy, Drama, Romance|6 February 2015 (US)
Boy Meets Girl

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Boy Meets Girl is a funny, tender, sex positive romantic comedy that explores what it means to be a real man or woman, and how important it is to live a courageous life not letting fear stand in the way of going after your dreams.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNdW9TzxGrk

Blackhat (Michael Mann, 2015)
In an erratic career which has at least seen some tightly woven, beautifully lit films, Michael Mann has plumbed the depths with this desperately bad film. So bad it isn't even worth listing all the things wrong with, I just don't have the time.

Finding Nemo

The perfect movie for Father's Day...

The Zero Theorem (Terry Gilliam, 2013)
I don't recall reading about this film when it was released although it has all the dazzling sets one finds in most of Gilliam's films. This one has video games, computers, screens, liquids, wild parties, data crunching, alienated characters who have lost touch with their own soul, an abandoned church, a chaotic ad-strewn urban life, hip-hop, pizzas and weird pizza-delivery people/girl, cybersex, surveillance cameras, canny rodents, lots of clutter and weird machines -in fact a lot of the things one finds in Thomas Pynchon. Unfortunately when someone makes a film which argues barely half-way through, that even with the promise of eternal love, everything amounts to nothing, it does rather make watching the film a pointless experience. And sad to say Gilliam's phantasmagoric eye cannot rescue this tosh from the charity shop, which is where it is going next.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2333804/

Still Alice (2014)
A low-key worthy film about Alzheimer's Disease which goes out of its way to be sensitive and non-controversial at the expense of depth of character and plot, or the cruelty one finds in Michael Haneke's Amour. Americans, I think, are sometimes terrified of being dangerous or cruel and this film plays it safe, with its gentle lighting, and drippy and repetitive music. The married couple, both academics have a well-financed home in New York, the house by the sea, and the woman forgetting her words is at the beginning a Professor of Linguistics. It is all so cute there is even a Black man in the film, and he isn't a cop, a crook or a cabbie, which must be an achievement of some sort. One wonders how early onset Alzheimer's affects families where the parents work three jobs, have multiple relatives to feed, live in a rough neigbourhood...and so on. It is not a bad film, but it is safe and predictable.

The Theory of Everything
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Final Girl, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2124787/
Most people said it was mediocre but maybe because I have a fixation on revenge-fantasy fiction I enjoyed it immensely.

in the last 24 hrs, i have seen Pixels and Vacation.

Pixels: 100% predictable but still has a laugh here or there, especially with q*bert. I really had low expectations for this movie and it met them. 3 out of 10. Honestly, it is more believable to me that an alien race sent pac man and donkey kong down to earth to take over the planet than kevin james being president but whatever, it is just another movie from happy madison where sandler follows the same misunderstood man-child formula he has in every other movie ever.

Vacation: Holy fuck Chevy Chase looks like shit. Other than that, it gets an A for effort in trying to pay homage to the original and has some genuinely funny moments. compared to the original Vacation, clearly all the camp is gone and modern low-brow humor replaces it so there is no point to comparing it in terms of humor...each fits the time in which it was released. The best comparison might be to We're The Millers, a modern family road trip movie with raunchy humor. It is not as funny as that in this man's opinion. 6 out of 10.

I will probably see the new mission impossible movie some time this weekend and if the last one is a guide, it should be a passable action movie. I'm going in expecting a 5 out of 10 so middle of the road expectations.

Million Dollar Arm
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Hot Pursuit, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2967224/
Kind of a female buddy version of Midnight Run but not really. Not too bad for what it is.

Now You See Me
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The Grand Budapest Hotel
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St. Vincent
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Mission:Impossible-Rogue Nation (Christopher McQuarrie, 2015)

An outstanding action adventure film with a vaguely implausible plot, fantastic gadgets and people able to withstand more physical punishment than is probably possible, but brilliantly done. Makes Bond look like Friends. Recommended. Sorry the youtube link has annoying ad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmC6rZyByzk

just a side note on MI:Rogue Nation. Why are guys going ape shit over rebecca ferguson? she is cute but not outstanding. i don't get it.
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A true masterpiece in his category. Technically perfect, animation-ish kind of photography (very colored, many wide angle scenes, slow edits), awesome cast.

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The Grand Budapest Hotel
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A true masterpiece in his category. Technically perfect, animation-ish kind of photography (very colored, many wide angle scenes, slow edits), awesome cast.

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i would have to agree...it is a great film. it is my 2nd (maybe 3rd) favorite Wes Anderson movie behind #1: The Life Aquatic and possibly #2: Rushmore. I have to re-watch Rushmore and Budapest to see which one is really better.

For me, other than the utterly forgettable Fantastic Mr. Fox, Anderson's only mis-step as a writer/director/producer has been The Darjeeling Limited (I don't count the Squid and the Whale as one of his films here since he only produced it).

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just a side note on MI:Rogue Nation. Why are guys going ape shit over rebecca ferguson? she is cute but not outstanding. i don't get it.

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I can't say my declining hormonal impulses quickened when I saw her, she is too thin, although she did wear a sexy dress to the opera -I think the point in the MI films is that where the Bond girls are there for decoration, in MI they take part in the action, which may also be why MI2 is the weakest of the sequence so far.

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Originally Posted by RallyCola

i would have to agree...it is a great film. it is my 2nd (maybe 3rd) favorite Wes Anderson movie behind #1: The Life Aquatic and possibly #2: Rushmore. I have to re-watch Rushmore and Budapest to see which one is really better.

For me, other than the utterly forgettable Fantastic Mr. Fox, Anderson's only mis-step as a writer/director/producer has been The Darjeeling Limited (I don't count the Squid and the Whale as one of his films here since he only produced it).

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The problem with Anderson's films is that he seems more interested in their look than their content -Budapest Hotel is great to look at, but who cares what happens to the characters? Moonrise Kingdom could have been a better film but the young 'actor' was so poor he ruined the film, and the girl he persuades to run away with him is too cute, when she ought to have been a geeky type like him.

Just saw a Korean flick called "Gangnam Blues." Typical Korean gangster flick, trying to be 80's John Woo at times, and then a little too much like every other conflicted Korean drama that's come down the pipe since Joint Security Area came out in 2000. Still, good way to kill a couple hours. Would recommend "The Thieves" for anyone looking at Korean cinema though, a lot lighter, good action, nice laughs, and some hotties for scenery.

Ted 2 it was hilarious.