What is The Last Movie You Watched?

[Dino Velvet]

Oblivion (Joseph Kosinski, 2013)
The kindest thing I can say is that if this film is consigned to oblivion nobody will notice. As so often with films about earth after a nuclear holocaust, there are still little patches of green where you can get fresh drinking water, grow tomatoes, and get out the vinyl, relax and listen to Procul Harum in 2077 as the sun sets. But all is not what it seems, and only one man can rescue the remains of humanity from the deathly campaign of the TET (no, not the Thetans, the TET). Yes, of course there is a wise old man among the rebellious human survivors, and yes, he does say of Jack Harper 'He's the one'; then upgrade him to Commander. In fact, they like Jack Harper so much there are multiple copies. And yes, the music is made up of four notes repeated endlessly to marching drums, then whooshh....silence....crash! Or snap, crackle and pop. The biggest let down is in not seeing as much of Andrea Riseborough's naked body as I would like, there was nothing else of interest in this garbled nonsense.

Hey Stavros, how you get Rick-Rolled into a Tom Cruise flick? I think A Few Good Men was the last time I paid to see that weird twerp.

[bluesoul]

i'm with dino. were you forced to see this film?

[Jimmy W]

Hey Sukumvit, thanks for reminding me about Alone In the Wilderness. To those who have no idea, I saw it in NY on public television a few years ago and it is perhaps the most remarkable document of an independent spirit I have ever seen. NO bullshit, no fanfare...I need a shovel so I'll make one, I need a house so I'll make one, I need food so I'll make some. The part where he makes a complicated lock for his cabin out of wood to confound the bears is worth the price of admission.

[Stavros]

Hey Stavros, how you get Rick-Rolled into a Tom Cruise flick? I think A Few Good Men was the last time I paid to see that weird twerp.

Hmm Dino, you think Tom Cruise is weird?? Sad but true I actually like most of the MI films as entertainment (no 2 isn't so hot).

[Stavros]

i'm with dino. were you forced to see this film?

I can't win; if I watch Tom Cruise or get down with the penguins in Madagascar the response is disbelief, if I watch Satanango or anything by Bergman or Ozu I am told to chill...I have a wide range of tastes. And as I had not read a review of Oblivion I thought I would give it a try -I don't watch all the sci-fi films that come out but it is one of the genres that interests me, unlike vampies and zombies which I have never understood or enjoyed.

[Prospero]

The biter, bit?

[bassman2546]

Zero Dark Thirty. Please, no more "True Story" movies. Between this and Argo, I've had enough of fabricated true events.

[Dino Velvet]

I can't win; if I watch Tom Cruise or get down with the penguins in Madagascar the response is disbelief, if I watch Satanango or anything by Bergman or Ozu I am told to chill...I have a wide range of tastes. And as I had not read a review of Oblivion I thought I would give it a try -I don't watch all the sci-fi films that come out but it is one of the genres that interests me, unlike vampies and zombies which I have never understood or enjoyed.

Good Lord. Here...

[Prospero]

Two most recent films...

"Mean Streets" - revisiting the wonderful old Martin Scorsese movie with one of the earliest screen apearences by Robert Di Niro. Wears its age well.

And a documentary "The World According To Dick Cheney" which by gently interviewing the former VP and looking at his professional life lays bare just what an appalling and sinister figure he was.

[Stavros]

Mean Streets is one of the best US films of the 1970s, one of the best films ever made, and Scorsese's finest. I knew someone once who said that to him it was like opera.