What is The Last Movie You Watched?

[Prospero]

“The Book Thief”. A hugely emotionally manipulative film set Nazi Germany just before and during World War Two. It’s about the survival of a young girl. Wonderful performance by young French-Canadian actress Sophie Nelisse as the main character Lisel Meminger. But this is a very flawed film and the voiceover by Death (Roger Allam)is a ludicrous device. I understand the book by Markus Zusak on which it is based is even worse.

[pantybulge69]

thor-dark world. i thought it was rather so-so ordinary. nothing to write home about.

[Prospero]

"The Butler"... phew, well this confection is a massive distortion of history to find a device to tell the story of the journey from the continuing injustice of black existence in the 1920s to the arrival of the USA's first black president.(a journey of developing civil rights and growing equaiity that is far from over) You have to applaud the core sentiment of this film but it offers a sentimentalized story which takes such huge liberties with the real story - a fictionaized account of a story based on a real life figure, Eugene Allen the black man who was the Butler to US presidents from Eisenhower to Reagan. It is full of cartoons and simplifications and ludicrous moments of historical coincidence. But it does have terrific acting by Forest Whitaker as Allen (re-named Cecil Gaines for the film) and not least by a true symbol of deepening Black success in USA, the most successful and high profile African American woman today (barring i guess Michelle Obama) Oprah Winfrey as the eponymous Butler's wife. The film is enjoyable but its schmalz and distortions disqualify it from being anything other than a well produced and glittering piece of Hollywood entertainment.

[gummi baer]

Cable TV-"The Long Kiss Goodnight"
In a theater- "The Nightmare Before Christmas-3D" (not my idea)

[Stavros]

Gravity (Alfonso Cuaron, 2013)
In 3D.
Takes crisis management to new heights; a technically superb film to watch, Sandra Bullock always worth watching too; but it seems a film about an event or a situation, rather than a story. The Earth always looks good from up above anyway. Lots of real science and fake science mixed in -the space shuttles travel at around 17,500 miles per hour, but not in this film. At one point we are clearly over Egypt travelling East to West yet Kowalski moments later can see the Ganges. Small things like will irritate nerds, but otherwise this is a short but stimulating visit to the cinema. There are also a lot of small jokes/references in the film -Kowalski being but one...

[broncofan]

I liked Gravity a lot despite the fact there wasn't too much story because it re-enacted situations I couldn't have imagined myself. Someone I know asked me what was the difference between this and Castaway, except that this was a survival story based in space rather than an island. Being left floating through space leaves much more to the imagination and so it was enjoyable even if you're not a fan of movies that rely heavily on special effects.

[maxpower]

I'm waiting for Cuarón's next film...

[Stavros]

I like that girl, she has a cute ass. All she needs to do is ask a store assistant and she will be fine. I once worked in Wickes for a a couple of days and there was a French junior manager similar to this girl. I checked Cuaron on IMDb this is some odd kind of spoof but I liked it.

I did enjoy Gravity, it just didn't overwhelm me.

[dderek123]

Trailer Park Boys Xmas Special

http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Tr...h-autocomplete

Good for a few laughs.

[Stavros]

I made the mistake of watching two films on Film4 last night:
The American (Corbijn 2010).
If you are a hired assassin and need to lay low, where do you go? A large city where you can be anonymous, or a small Italian town where you are the only American and within an hour everyone knows who you are? Yep, the small Italian town. And make sure your licence plates are also from another town in case anyone asks Have you seen a car with Pescara licence plates? The usual cliches also apply: attractive but world-weary assassin on his last job, not given to much talking but always well dressed, works well assembling guns, has 'profound' conversations with the town Priest who, of course speaks English -which in most Italian towns is unlikely. At one point he wonders if he is being followed yet sits in the window of a cafe at night...near the end he walks through this town with a gun in his hand in broad daylight. Etc etc.

Unfaithful (Adrian Lyne 2002)
Sort of like Fatal Attraction but the one where the woman does the cheating on her husband. Why is not made clear, other than raw lust I suppose. Big plot hole here is that she takes her French lover a special gift from her husband which he finds in the apartment; they might have gotten away with murder, it isn't clear at the end; her fingerprints must be all over the Soho apartment, the private detective must know the man was murdered as it was in the papers, the employee who was sacked saw them snogging in a cafe, etc etc.

Two films with more holes than Swiss cheese, but less tasty; with or without this year's Beaujolais Nouveau.