What is The Last Movie You Watched?

[tskitana]

I was wondering how similar they were too. Don't know much about Hunger Games but I've seen Battle Royale a bunch of times. Kitano always rules.

i love battle royale !wtf s hunger games anyways?!
Can you believe this is the movie that Chiaki Kuriyama was discovered by quentin to play Gogo. ?
I actually have it in my collection.

On another note. My lastest movie was "Wrath of the titanss". Way better than the first one i think!
happy easter wekeend everyone!

[RallyCola]

a review of the last 3 movies i saw.

1. 21 Jump Street.....surprisingly funny and a good time. it plays out almost exactly like it should but watching johnny depp get shot in the throat was fun.

2. american reunion...wow...that sucked. the issue here is that it relied so heavily on referencing old gags and fulfilling character stereotypes

3. lockout...stay away. it is an awful movie. the effects were poor and story was not interesting.

[Wolver]

[Jimmy W]

I wanted to love this movie but it was essentially another crappy biopic along the lines of Ray and Walk The Line but without the music. Michelle Williams transcended the movie and was wonderful but the kid who was her romantic interest was a dullard whose mouth somehow made him look like a burn victim. Nothing about it was believable or engaging and ultimately I couldnt care less.

[Jackal]

Hunger Games---very entertaining and capturing of the book's spirit.

[Prospero]

"The Pirates. In an adventure with scientists." (released in the US as "The Pirates:Band of Misfits - the new animation from Aardman. Very disappointing. Misses the target widely and lacks any of the charm of their Wallace and Gromit films.

Interesting article here speculating on why the name changed for the US (so the Christian right in the south would not be out off by a film referencing scientists?)

http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/1302...the_world.html

[Stavros]

Nader and Simin: A Separation.

A delicately observed film about the breakdown of a marriage which leads to unforeseen conseqeunces -a superbly written and acted film which uses the limitations imposed on film-making in Iran to good effect: there is a subtle use of glass/windows/spectacles/mirrors in the film; the insight into everyday aspects of life in Iran will be familiar to anyone who knows the Middle East, completely odd to others -such as a court-room in which people come and go, the 'judge' deals with more than one case at a time, etc. The daughter, played by the director's own daughter, crowns the climax with a moment of sudden emotional intensity that is quite overwhelming: family problems, it seems, are the same all over the world. Highly recommended.

[Stavros]

Jeanne La Pucelle I: Les Batailles
Jeanne La Pucelle II: Les Prisons

I have mixed feelings for Jacques Rivette -Celine et Julie vont en Bateau is one of my favourite films, L'Amour Fou a film I would gladly never ever see again; La Belle Noiseuse is an over-extended homage to the body of Emanuelle Beart and nothing much else, with the over-rated Michel Piccoli and the inexcusably dire Jane Birkin.

Jeanne d'Arc is one of the most fascinating figures in history, but instead of one 3 hour film Rivette insists on two in which cover Jeanne's growth within the ragged French forces trying to prevent an English takeover of France; the second part deals with the victory at and coronation of Charles VII at Rheims, but not the trials that took place when Jeanne was abducted by the English a year or so after that. The restrained style is reminiscent of Bresson -whose own film is for me the finest account of the trials but is disliked by many. Sandrine Bonnaire as Jeanne as superb, much of the support acting is too, and the battle scenes are at least original in not being a copy of the regulation battle scenes that can be found in every Hollywood film from The Lives of a Bengal Lancer to Jackson utterly putrid Lord of the Rings tripe.

But the film has no soul, a major failing in two films dedicated to a teenage girl whose soul was an inspiration that historians still cannot adequately explain.

[Ben]

The Candidate. It's interesting. And says a lot about the political system, its structure.

[Jericho]

Zombieland...Again