What is The Last Movie You Watched?

[HbgDon]

Friday the 13th (2009)

[Stavros]

Four lions - for the second time.

Brilliantly funny.

Neither brilliant nor funny, but crass, insulting, badly written and a waste of time; I can't believe you rate this dross.

[Ben]

[BellaBellucci]

I just saw Date Night. I love Tina Fey but I was a bit disappointed.

OK. I was really disappointed. It was no Mean Girls, which just happens to be my favorite movie, so yeah. Meh.

~BB~

[Prospero]

Neither brilliant nor funny, but crass, insulting, badly written and a waste of time; I can't believe you rate this dross.

Well the humour that amuses us is probably one of the most subjective qualities. I know people who think the three stooges are hugely funny. I think them banal.

As for this film - I found it funny because I have met many of the radicals who are satirised in this film and found some of them - in ways - as ludicrous as they are portrayed here. Did you see the film or just the trailer, Stavros?

[Stavros]

I saw the whole of the film, and got rid of it as soon as I could. I am not opposed to satire, although I am struggling to think of a satirical film about war that I actually like; I have also met Islamic militants, none of whom were worth a chuckle or a laugh, one of them, currently at home in Libya -if he is still alive- was disturbing and a malign influence on others. I understand the role of satire, I just think this particular film fell flat from start to finish. In fact I don't think there has been a compelling film on this subject, but I might be wrong; there was a film about Palestinians a few years ago but I can't remember the name of it.

[LibertyHarkness]

Troll Hunter and Cowboys vs Aliens ..

Troll hunter was great fun .. cowboys was shite

[RallyCola]

just saw Contraband last night with marky mark and kate beckinsale.

wifey knew we were seeing it because kate beckinsale was in it...but she still liked it.

overall, its just a heist movie with a series of almost impossible situations (not as bad as the oceans series or the italian job). the movie is 100% predictable and everyone that "turns" is expected and you see the end coming about 20min in...but that doesn't mean it isn't enjoyable.

[Stavros]

The Iron Lady, directed by Phyllida Lloyd.
David Lloyd-George, Clement Attlee and Margaret Thatcher were the three most influential Prime Ministers of the 20th century, but if you are not familiar with the history of 1970-1990 this film will not tell you why Thatcher was as huge as she was. Like all biographical films, the dilemma is what to put in and what to leave out, the film fails because the film is so dominated by MT that its hard to understand the politics of the time, or the people involved -Geoffrey Howe is there, Nigel Lawson is not, the humiliation of Howe in Cabinet is in fact the weakest scene in the film; few people today remember John Nott who took over from Lord Carrington when Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands, Heseltine has a few moments, but nobody else. MT at one point quotes her father on the importance of ideas over feelings, but there is no explanation for MT's conversion to monetarism or free market economics under the influence of the 'Mad Monk' Keith Joseph (who is there in person but doesn't have a speaking role). And, ultimately, the film is all about feelings anyway, in fact the film should have been called The Sad Lady. As a film about politics it is a complete failure; as a film about the years I lived through and in which I was politically active, it is a shabby exercise in hero worship unable, and unwilling to offer any evaluation of such a difficult period in this country's history.

But, and it is a colossal BUT, Meryl Streep is mesmerising, the make-up is perfect, the gestures she makes with her eyes, even her shoulders are uncanny- Streep is majestic, powerful, an artist of our times who, in her prime, was of course more alluring than the real MT. Its worth seeing just to be overwhelmed by this gifted woman, to marvel at the range of expression that she can produce.

[Prospero]

I agree with you 100 per cent regarding The iron Lady. In both parts of your judgement. Streep astonishing. The film otherwise a failure.