What is The Last Movie You Watched?

[RallyCola]

i saw both mission impossible 4 and sherlock holmes 2 this weekend.

i didn't care to see either movie....i just had to see the IMAX promo and new trailer for the dark knight rises.

[RallyCola]

cheers if the main reason you saw this was for yasmin lee. it was for me. because though a funny movie, it was pretty much identical to the first. the important part was a mainstream movie showing a hot tgirl.

[Prospero]

"Moneyball" - a career defining performance by Brad Pitt. As a Brit I know virtually nothing about baseball so some of the fine detail of this film was completely incomprehensible to me. But it was nevertheless compelling and brilliantly played and paced.

[RallyCola]

"Moneyball" - a career defining performance by Matt Damon. As a Brit I know virtually nothing about baseball so some of the fine detail of this film was completely incomprehensible to me. But it was nevertheless compelling and brilliantly played and paced.

i am sorry to say that if you saw moneyball and that's your impression, it must have been a terrible movie because matt damon wasn't in it. it starred brad pitt.

the problem is that i've read billy beane's book and as a baseball fan, reject the idea of sabermetrics as the main way to run a team, so i couldn't bring myself to pay $13 for this movie.

[Prospero]

Whoops!!!! I meant Brad Pitt. Thanks Rally. It was early when i posted that lol

[RallyCola]

no problem.

fyi...though not a film for everyone...i went to a screening of extremely loud and incredibly close last night.

it isn't a great movie because ultimately, the kid really is just on a meaningless treasure hunt but is good wholesome entertainment if you don't like movies with guns, boobs and comedy. i'd recommend it for any older forum browsers for a discount afternoon matinee. The price of a movie ticket in nyc is $13 now...I wouldn't pay that to see it.

[Prospero]

I have a preview DVD of it. So might watch it tonight. Isn't setting it around 9/11 a bit offensive/ It's based on a book by Jonathan Safran Foer isn't it.

[lisaparadise]

soul surfer it was based on a true story and i balled my eyes out.

[RallyCola]

I have a preview DVD of it. So might watch it tonight. Isn't setting it around 9/11 a bit offensive/ It's based on a book by Jonathan Safran Foer isn't it.

well, it is based on a book that got mixed reviews...but more for his lack of character depth and thin plot than the subject matter.

as a new yorker, born and bred, who had 2 cousins and a close friend get out of the towers on 9/11, i'm not offended. this movie/book basically tells the story of a kid that lost his father on 9/11 and then deals with it. its been 10 years...its ok to make a movie like this now. it is afterall, just a family movie.

that said, i also am in the boat of people that are a bit tired of all the crap surrounding the towers...yes, people died but at some point, we have to be able to admit that it is just part of our history and we are free to use it in film/books as backdrops for stories.

[Stavros]

High Sierra last night, as I am working through a box of Bogart films. What I like about this is the way in which Roy Earle is released from one prison at the start, and effectively ends up in another at the end; and his inability to control either of his two immediate environments -the respectable family from Ohio trying to make it in California, and the crooks he does the job with. The dog, however, was a major weakness; it serve a purpose in the story, but is an overlay and for that reason unnecessary.