What is The Last Movie You Watched?

[gummi baer]

"The Kingdom" (again)
Jamie Fox, et al.

[bluesoul]

i caught Jack Ryan Shadow Recruit over the weekend. It was terrible.

They attempted to re-tell the entire story that was told in flashbacks and exposition in the sum of all fears and red october.

next, the action is damn unbelievable and incredibly heavy handed. the flat chested ugly cunt keira knightley stinks up the screen again and finally, kevin costner just makes things worse.

i don't want to give too many details away but realistically, i've enjoyed watching paint dry more than this movie and its deliberate disregard for proper story telling. it gleams over so many details in an attempt to make us believe that plugging a laptop into an AC outlet will allow a douchebag to take over a secure network and clone an algorithm to stop a terrorist bank transaction. anyone with any knowledge of a post 9-11 finance system would see right though this bullshit. moreover, the influx of russian money into the dollar as an investment would not, in the course of the movie, have inflated the dollar as it did, and such an influx of foreign investment in our currency would have triggered other automatic fail safes by the EU and China to hedge against reduced returns. Finally, once the FBI agent that was in the midwest failed to report in, it is possible that another agent would have been dispatched to ascertain the whereabouts of such a high value target. finally, we are supposed to believe that a terrorist cell that planned the final plot forgot such a detail as letting paint dry? such a cell would have secured a van far in advance of the actual due date.

ya know what, movies are supposed to make you escape and enjoy things that are not mundane. computers are mundane. they are not sexy. they are not inescapable and not without the layman's ability to understand. i am so tired of "hackers" or "information terrorists" being used as villains in movies. i get it...someone has a really cool program/virus/algorithm that can destroy something should it launch...its a bad crutch to fall back on because it is abused too many times on film.

don't waste your money on this crap. just watch one of the far more enjoyable movies about jack ryan that were made before information terrorists were in vogue.

ha! this made me laugh (in a good way). good write up, although you know what?

i always had a soft spot for the film 'hackers' because it came out when i was pretty young. it's the ultimate "you better give me a million dollars otherwise all hell will break loose thanks to this super sophisticated virus i just put on da computer mainframe"

to it's defense, it came out in the early 90s before everyone, their grandmother and the kitchen sink were online so it was techno babble mission impossible for majority of the planet.

at the time, i would cruise the internet all night on a 64k dial up modem (slow coach style) exploring the forbidden universe of german kitkat-dungeon scat porn, japanese office puke bukkake, and back orifice remote control administration strokes so hackers was like the friend on the other side of my gateway computer machine running windows 95 saying "hey, you. you forgot something right here"

it was cute. it had angelina jolie and a prodigy soundtrack. so pour out a lil' liquor

[Stavros]

I would very much like to see a documentary called Tim's Vermeer but I can't find it anywhere. I understand it's about an internet billionaire who became obsessed with how Vermeer created such photo realistic works of art and how he spent years meticulously re-constructing everything from the now banned in the US pigments to the rugs in each painting and building some sort of box that allowed Vermeer to make his art. It's produced by magicians Penn & Teller so there is always the risk of it all being a con, but the trailer looks interesting.

I could not find it on iTunes or Netflix but I think it can be accessed on Lovefilm.


Tim's Vermeer (2013) - IMDb

[Stavros]

i'm not normally the biggest Matthew McConaughey fan. and up until Mud and Dallas Buyers Club i wasn't that eager to see him.
But i was so very impressed with his awesome performance in Dallas Buyers Club.
not only just the incredible weight loss (haven't seen something like that since Christian Bale's the Machineist) to fit the Ron Woodroof skeleton thin look,but the acting performance was just amazing.
Ditto for Jared Leto performance as a AIDs stricken transvestite.
Maybe Mac will get serious competition from 12 years a Slave's Chiwetel Ejiofor as rumored, but for my money the best actor Oscar should go to Matthew McConaughey.

I agree with most of this except I don't attach much value to the Oscars as some outstanding films and performers often get ignored. My guess is the best film and direction will go to 12 Years and McConaughey the Acting prize, but also because he is an American and has been around long enough for the Academy to give him his dues. Here are two lists of actors -male and female- who have never even been nominated for an oscar, and it is a surprising list.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/f...nominated.html

http://www.goldderby.com/photos/338/...utherland.html

I have admired Jake Gyllenhaal for some years but he doesn't get much in the way of statues and gongs. Prisoners is a fine thriller that seems to have slipped attention.

[Prospero]

Peter Lorre, Donald Sutherland,Myrna Loy, Edward g Robinson... remarkable.
Marilyn - well an icon and beauty, but seldom much of an actress.

[Blktop4hungangel]

Angel Heart
Manhunter
Year of the Dragon

[Prospero]

Glad to see the MCP as a species is aiive and well ... Rally Cola on Keira Knightly "flat chested ugly cunt stinks up the screen again." Hmmm.....nice

[broncofan]

I saw the Dallas Buyer's Club the other day. My feeling is that the story of the AIDS crisis in the late 80's and early 90's needed to be told. I'm just not sure Woodroof's story was the best source material. The acting was good and it covered a lot of the important political issues of the time period, from the FDA's failure to respond to the emergency, to the rampant homophobia that tainted people's perceptions of the disease.

Here are a couple of things that I was unsure about. First, there's the fact that Woodroof and Leto's character were suffering from the disease but were mercenary enough to run a for profit business selling HIV drugs. This was addressed a little bit when Woodroof becomes more charitable towards the end of the movie, but it leaves a bad taste in your mouth. I thought this aspect of their business was not dealt with honestly enough. I also thought the bond that formed between Woodruff and Leto was difficult to understand...even if the film dealt with this as well as it could have. How exactly did their friendship develop? I suppose one can say that about any friendship, but it seemed a bit strained here.

Finally, I am also not sure I'm comfortable with the film's portrayal of HIV treatment. It is true that taking care of your body and taking vitamins is preferable to taking toxic doses of an anti-viral. These may have seemed like the only two choices at the time, but this view has been taken to new heights by quacks who believe anti-retrovirals are harmful at any dose. The little post-script at the end of the movie seemed to address this phenomenon by discussing the fact that lower doses of AZT are therapeutic. For those who have followed the debate about the right to choose one's own medical treatment, the choices made by Woodroof are ominous in what they foreshadow, even if they were reasonable given the context they took place in.

I realize a story does not have to address head-on all of the political ramifications of its source material. But I thought the strongest thing this movie had going for it was the extraordinary time period the events took place in. The AIDS crisis in the 80's and early 90's literally felt like an apocalypse and neither health care providers nor regulators were ready to deal with it.

[bluesoul]

watched this last night. a terribly fluffy hollywood piece of bubblegum fluff that's one part gladiator and two parts titanic mixed with several shakes of mount vesuvius angrily going ape shit over kiefer sutherland's over-the-top impression of his father doing a british prime minister impression in 3d

johnny depp was also there but he was busy smooching with his babe and digging some film directed by a guy that looks like my gym trainer

[hairyguy]

clerks. a 1994 movie about retail clerks. very cheesy and "b" grade like but hilarious. never knew it existed till i saw it. apparently it has good general ratings everywhere. it was on a flight back to the US from dubai on a russian airline.

and before that, mission impossible ghost protocol. rented it free from the public library here in brooklyn, ny. really a great film but you need a good theater like system (large screen and great sound system) to appreciate it completely