What is The Last Movie You Watched?

[Prospero]

Does make it sound interesting RL....

[robertlouis]

Does make it sound interesting RL....

And speaking as a Glaswegian of long experience I'm quite surprised that the crew didn't take a beating or two!

[Ben]

Super. It's a very dark comedy...

[Ben]

From the Super soundtrack...

[robertlouis]

The Grand Budapest Hotel. In addition to the comments already posted, I'll simply add that it's a ravishing feast for the eyes and I enjoyed it more than any of Wes Anderson's movies since Rushmore. And who knew that Ralph Fiennes could do comedy? I certainly laughed more than I have at many supposedly hilarious comedy films. A thoroughly satisfying early Sunday evening treat.

[gottuwett]

'Non-Stop' with Liam Neeson. not necessarily a bad film, but as an action film fan, the pickins are usually pretty slim this time of year.

btw this is my first post on the board. glad to be here!

[AshlynCreamher]

Not a movie - TV Series Dexter

Is Debra Morgan a tranny?

[Prospero]

Under The Skin . A few days ago I said I wasn't interested in this film. I'm glad I changed my mind. This is a very impressive eerie and disquieting piece of film making, hugely atmospheric but opaque of explanation or clear meaning. If you are expecting a standard horror or sci fi film forget it. Jonathan Glazer instead offers a darkly poetic meditation on alienation. Set in and around Glasgow in Scotland, the wonderful Scarlett Johansson is brilliant as an alien life form which has taken human guise and drives around in a transit van, using her erotic power to lure men to their deaths. So far, so ordinary. But her performance is remarkable in capturing a strange inhuman vacancy. The facial expressions that are just not quite normal and even her gait. And through her eyes our human world begins to look alien and unsettling. A touch of Craig Raine's Martian view. As the film progresses it is humanity as much as the visiting stranger which seems odd.

SPOILER ALERT. For me one of the most chilling sequences is a drama on a stormy beach as a couple drown. A young man who tried to help escapes exhausted and the alien, oblivious to the emotional content of the scene finishes him off with a rock. Meanwhile a baby is left to die, crying on the storm lashed beach. Johansson does not even register its presence. READ ON Film reviewers have evoked Nic Roeg or David Lynch in describing this film. There are echoes of both The Man Who Fell To earth and Lynch's Eraserhead (the use of strange almost industrial rumblings and gurglings in the score) but without Lynch's occasional lapses into weirdness for its own sake. This is a much more controlled and very dark tone poem of a film... Likely to haunt you with the subtle power of a dream. Much is left unexplained. Who is the strange biker. What prompts Johansson unusual behaviour to one of her victims (a man reminiscent of The a Elephant Man as portrayed in David Lynch's eponymous film) It is only at the end that it briefly falters, but by then it has woven its disturbing spell. Strongly recommended.

[robertlouis]

A spoiler warning might have been useful.

[Prospero]

A spoiler warning might have been useful.

Oh I've not given anything away you'd not find out about reading any of the press reviews RL