What is The Last Movie You Watched?

[retroboy]

Last movie I watched was Spiderman 2 I was thinking of watching the other woman with Cameron Diaz but Kate Upton seems such a bimbo.

[Odelay]

Goes to show, to each his own. I won't argue for the value of the movie in any absolute terms. I just happen to like Cormac's stark, metaphysical dialogues and existential characters. But I understand (I think) how some would be repelled by sketchiness of the characters in The Counselor and the violence of the piece, which is as predictable as a Greek tragedy.

Movies are an escape for me, and I enjoy being surprised. I get predictability every day when I open my laptop at 6:30 AM and face work for the next 10 hours. Trish, thanks for your take on the film, despite my own difference with it. I have enjoyed a couple of Cormac McCarthy books and adaptations, I guess just not this one.

EDIT: and thanks RL and P for your reviews of Calvary. Definitely one that I'll be on that watch out for.

[Stavros]

An Actor's Revenge (Kon Ichikawa, 1963)
I have been watching Japanese films most of my life but only got around to seeing this well-known film over the weekend, and what a strange film it is too. I wonder if this is the first feature film in which the main character is a man dressed as a woman -in this precise case an Onnegata -the man who plays female roles in Kabuki theatre. I don't know how close this is to being 'transgendered' but the actor not only does not change into male attire off stage, but women fall for 'him' too. The film has the most bizarre mix of music from traditional Kabuki, to modern jazz and some schmaltzy orchestral music suitable for some romantic B film. The sets seems almost entirely stage-bound, but the panoramic shots of the Kabuki stage are wonderful. In sum a disappointing film as the story is not so gripping and the climax under-stated, but it has some eclectic qualities.

[MitziMore]

Odd Thomas! Loved it, though nothing about it was original. Really sad at the end.

[stan.smith]

The Monuments Men. Clooney, Damon, Goodman, Murray, Dujardin and Bonneville. Perfect cast. Need i say more!?!?!

[Stavros]

The Monuments Men. Clooney, Damon, Goodman, Murray, Dujardin and Bonneville. Perfect cast. Need i say more!?!?!

Because it has had such bad reviews, yes.

[Stavros]

In advance of the UK premiere of an American version of Godzilla, the Telegraph has published a fascinating article on the history of the Japanese original which underlines how the experience of nuclear war is embedded in the film, and follows through the changes to society and attitudes with the sequels that followed. It is very long article but worth reading for those interested in this film and goes some way to forcing a re-evaluation of what was clearly not 'just' a 'monster' film when it was made (and then re-cut for the American market...)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/f...s-no-joke.html

[LI SEAN08]

Just saw Neighbors with GF last night. Couldn't stop laughing, funny!!!!

[BlüeKarma]

Ordinary Decent Criminal with Kevin Spacey, brilliant movie that.

[robertlouis]

***WARNING***

Grace of Monaco, the new biopic starring Nicole Kidman, is reviewed in Thursday's Guardian as "a film so awe-inspiringly wooden that it is basically a fire risk."

Here's the rest of his review to enjoy. It's a tour de force.

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014...-nicole-kidman