What is The Last Movie You Watched?

[Dino Velvet]

It's a pretty new film. Only jus released in the UK. Might not be out in the US yet.

In the age of immediate gratification that never crossed my mind for some reason. My Tivo is so advanced on the TV I believe I can see the future.

[Jericho]

Ninja Assassin.
Seen worse!

[fred41]

"After Porn Ends"..documentary from 2010.
Interesting just to see what happened to some of the folks you recognize from porn as they got older (such as Seka).
That's pretty much it.

[fred41]

Batman: The Dark Knight Rises -well, I got about two-thirds into it but then fell asleep so strictly speaking I haven't watched it. I will get through the rest of it today but I have to keep turning on the subtitles because I can't understand what Bane is saying, and then it doesn't matter anyway. The film has no story as far as I can make out except a nasty man wants to do nasty things. It might have looked ok in an Imax cinema, but on my flat screen its just, well, flat...

pretty much the last three Batman movies were filmed very dark ...often making it difficult to discern the action sequences (lots of mumbling too)....on my old set I could barely make anything out. On my new set The Dark Knight Rises had plenty of "pop" though...I think it depends on how well you're TV does contrast.

[Jericho]

The Escapist.
An absorbing little film with a sneaky plot twist at the end.

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[Stavros]

Before Christmas I saw two films worth mentioning, and one that has been a flop since its release...

The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan 1997)
The finest film from this erratic Canadian director, superior to all his other films, so I guess he had one great film to make -compared to the others which veer from the awful (Family Viewing, The Adjustor) to the mistaken (Ararat).


The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970)
As with Egoyan, this is Bertolucci's finest film, and stands up well as I saw it in the 1970s not long after its release and in the 1980s but not for a while before last week; in her time Dominique Sanda (who now lives in Argentina) was an awessome beauty (it hasn't lasted), but the films has layers of meaning (which can be unraveled through the dvd commentary) and is only marred, as are all Italian films, by the pointless hiring of non-Italian actors whose voices are dubbed. A visual great.


Revolution (Hugh Hudson, 1985)
The director's cut makes no difference to this indifferent film about the American Revolution seen from 'below'. Although it succeeds in depicting the chaotic reality of revolutionary war, Al Pacino's character is lacking in credibility -he is a fur trader who claims he has no understanding of 'liberty', and in spite of the fact that he has been trading in the interior with first nations and bringing his goods to markets on the East Coast has no idea what the revolution is about. When he encounters first the Iroquois and then the Huron, with whom he forms a bond, there is no instant recognition or rapport even though he must have had relations with them in the past -the Huron he meets is anyway half-French. The accents may be realistic, the landscapes, filmed in and near King's Lynn in Norfolk, and Devon, are supposed to double for the state of New York. The extra on the dvd featuring a conversation between Pacino and Hudson is self-congratulatory for no other reason than -I assume- that Hudson has time on his hands- the film may have matterd to them but it just isnt good enough. The appearance of Ricky from Eastenders as the first version son of Pacino in his first film suggests this actor's career went sharply downhill thereafter. The film just isn't interesting, it says nothing substantial about 1776 and all that, and suffers from a poorly conceived script and the usual wooden acting from Donald Sutherland who nevertheless did at least make one good film (Don't Look Now) in spite of his weird cranky voice, not nearly as bad in this film as his Irish accent in The Eagle Has Landed.

[riccadevia]

Watched this movie last night, pretty good. Well wriitten, a twist, and moves along at a good pace.

The opening scene...

[Ben]

Wanting to watch this -- at some point.... Looks interesting.

BRONSON - Theatrical Trailer

[Dino Velvet]

Wanting to watch this -- at some point.... Looks interesting.

BRONSON - Theatrical Trailer

Get the DVD. It's real good.

[Ben]

Get the DVD. It's real good.

Okay.... Looks quite interesting.