What is The Last Movie You Watched?

[robertlouis]

A Prophet was a wonderful surprise!!! I literally fell upon that movie. One of the best threads, imo. I've seen so many new movies as a result. Cheers, all!!!

Have you seen Mesrine, Bobby? Vincent Cassel has never been better.

[Bobby Domino]

Have you seen Mesrine, Bobby? Vincent Cassel has never been better.

You know what's funny, I watch so many movies, one after the other, I had to go back to my library of "viewed films" to confirm. And yes, I have seen it, but I vaguely remember anything, except Cassel's 70's mustache.

There is a movie I'd like to recommend in the same light as Mesrine. It's called, Carlos (2010), a biopic of the Venezuelan global terrorist all the way through the mid-90's.
I believe it's a 3-part movie/episode similar to Mesrine. The actor, Édgar Ramírez, is incredible!! He speaks 5 languages fluently throughout and the filming is outstanding.
I smoked many cigarettes watching that one, lol

However, I'm a big fan of Dobermann (1997), a bank job à la francaise, Natural Born Killer/Pulp Fiction-style of movie, with Cassel and Bellucci. I believe that movie is what got them together. It's really well done.

Also Killing Zoe, with Eric Stoltz & Jean-Hugues Anglade (from Betty Blue) but then I could go forever......

[Helvis2012]

Frankenstein then Nosferatu

[Bobby Domino]

Frankenstein then Nosferatu

nice!!!

[Prospero]

Mesrine was certainly a tour de force for Vincent Cassell, but i loathed that film. it seemed to have no real point apart from being a grim catalogue of one man's deeply unpleasant rampage through the world. Far better was last year's little seen six hour film on Carlos the jackal. It had political human and moral points to make as well as a cracking story.

[Stavros]

I agree with Prospero, the perennial problem with biographical films is they leave stuff out -in the end, Mesrine was a criminal who sought self-glorification and justification he didn't deserve.

Went last night to see Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy -made up of approximately 60 three-minute scenes which prevent any character development, the 'spies' are stereotypes: the suave, laid-back ladies man; the excitable and ambitious shorty; the immigrant who wears bow-ties; and the other one (Ciaran Hinds) who doesn't do anything. There are aso the obligatory queers, and the sex-driven field agent who, guess what, falls for a blonde Russian on the other side. John Hurt plays John Hurt, as he has now become the go-to guy if you need end-of-career wise-but-worn-out; the dress-code is 1950s-60s even though it claims to be 1973; there is a phone-booth with stickers even though these didn't appear until the 1980s, and so on. The shock that there is a mole at the top of the intelligence service lacks credibility even in 1973 given that it had already happened with Burgess and Maclean in the 1940s-50s; much of the film is shot in half-light; the story is thin, the characters thinner, it is a complete waste of time and had it been possible, I would have asked for my money back, but the box office was closed.

[Prospero]

You didn't like it then, Stavros?

[russtafa]

i love iron clad the bloke chops people right down the middle

[liisawinklergirl]

Friends with benefits last weekend!

[Stavros]

Lisa do you see many Filipino films? I wanted to see a film called Lola by Brillante Mendoza, esp after his earlier film Kinatay won an award at Cannes a few years ago...I can't get hold of The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela...None of these films ever make it to the Uk.