What is The Last Movie You Watched?

[Prospero]

You been looking at my private profile again Jericho?

[Jericho]

You been looking at my private profile again Jericho?

Brrrrrrrrrr, i should coco!
Never mind trying to distract me, get and watch it!

[Stavros]

Daniel Day-Lewis is actually an excellent actor. I see you disagree. So be it. Two Oscars for best actor already under his belt. Which of his films have you seen?

And he was NOT in Skyfall. I didn't say I approved of "queers" as being evil. There are many many things wrong with the Bond films - objectification of women, worship of macho values, celebration of violence etc etc etc. But accept these and suspend judgements about it over these and you have what it has always been - "escapist" cartoon-like entertainment.

What does an Oscar have to do with anything? You of all people should not be associating ability with that lump of metal. And of course I have see DDL in films, not the least the dire There Will Be Blood a badly written film of such relentless hoakum I don't know why it was made, in which DDL manages to maintain the same agonised expression on his face from first to last. To me he is one of that select group of 'actors': Denzel Washington, Ryan Gosling, Nicolas Cage and Ralph Fiennes -of whom to call them wooden is an insult to trees.

You may be right about Skyfall and I will even go and see it, but you can't pretend that there is no meaning in the choice of villain in popular movies, and that these change with the times (Russians, Arabs, Muslims, the Chinese, and so on) and you don't need to be a Professor of Film Theory to work it out.

[Jericho]

What does an Oscar have to do with anything? You of all people should not be associating ability with that lump of metal.

I know this isn't addressed to me but, I love you...You cantankerous old bastard!

[Dino Velvet]

What does an Oscar have to do with anything? You of all people should not be associating ability with that lump of metal.

Splendid, old chap!

[Stavros]

First of all I would like to thank my producer, my agent and my wife without whom this project would never have seen the light of day....

In the meantime this is an interesting list

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/...ost_films.html

[Prospero]

Again your judgement is yours. Oscars are awarded, as are Baftas, for many things and many reasons. But they are voted on by the industry. By the peers of the actors, directors, producers and others who work in the industry. For many reasons. I disagree profoundly with your opinion - which is all it is. Your are probably THE most intelligent person posting on this site, (your discussion of Popper and Wittgenstein in another thread demonstrates that amply) but you also seem to believe your intelligence makes your opinion infallible. it is not. Your wisdom and intelligence is directly in balance with your pompous self importance.

[Stavros]

Again your judgement is yours. Oscars are awarded, as are Baftas, for many things and many reasons. But they are voted on by the industry. By the peers of the actors, directors, producers and others who work in the industry. For many reasons. I disagree profoundly with your opinion - which is all it is. Your are probably THE most intelligent person posting on this site, (your discussion of Popper and Wittgenstein in another thread demonstrates that amply) but you also seem to believe your intelligence makes your opinion infallible. it is not. Your wisdom and intelligence is directly in balance with your pompous self importance.

I obviously cannot agree -I consider myself of average intelligence, and you know perfectly well that there are posters on HA whose knowledge of, say, science is superior to mine; and you mistake strong opinions for pompous self-importance. The problem with art is that you cannot prove that Daniel Day-Lewis is more worthy of a gong than Peter Sarsgard; you can defend the Oscars as an industry-based awards system, but was Driving Miss Daisy really the best film of 1989 and Jessica Tandy the best actress? According to you the art is not the point, it is recognition for Jessica Tandy not dying at the age of 50. I am much more flexible and pragmatic in my opinions than you might think, I just don't do charity very well, and in any case, all my opinions are there to be challenged, if anyone is up to it. There are no sacred cows, not in art anyway. And for what it's worth, I have changed my views over the years and see them constantly evolving.

[Dino Velvet]

I obviously cannot agree -I consider myself of average intelligence, and you know perfectly well that there are posters on HA whose knowledge of, say, science is superior to mine; and you mistake strong opinions for pompous self-importance. The problem with art is that you cannot prove that Daniel Day-Lewis is more worthy of a gong than Peter Sarsgard; you can defend the Oscars as an industry-based awards system, but was Driving Miss Daisy really the best film of 1989 and Jessica Tandy the best actress? According to you the art is not the point, it is recognition for Jessica Tandy not dying at the age of 50. I am much more flexible and pragmatic in my opinions than you might think, I just don't do charity very well, and in any case, all my opinions are there to be challenged, if anyone is up to it. There are no sacred cows, not in art anyway. And for what it's worth, I have changed my views over the years and see them constantly evolving.

Here! Here! I also defend your open-mindedness on film.

[Prospero]

Stavros. Regarding your level of intelligence then you and I must agree to disagree. LOL

It must, then, be your tone. It comes across as abrasive certainty - rather than the expression of an opinion. I would never claim mine to be other than opinion - but bolstered my belief that Day-Lewis is a fine actor with reference to a wider acclaim accorded him. I fully accept you think he is not. I accept i might be wrong. Do you?