What is The Last Movie You Watched?

[Stavros]

The Conjuring (James Wan, 2014)
I don't usually watch 'horror' films but this had good reviews so I bought the dvd for £6 -the film is a succession of cliches -old house where things go bump in the night, demonic spirits of unhappy dead people that can only possess a woman's body; increasingly dramatic scenes culminating in a DIY exorcism that works in spite of the heroic male's terrible Latin. Why ghosts only seem unable to cope with Latin is rarely explained. Because it is a dead language? At two moments one of the crew has to suddenly appear (face and body unseen) from the dark and clap his hands; on another occasion throw a ball into a basement, it really was that bad, like a student film. Another dud for the charity shop.
I like Vera Farmiga though. She has such haunting eyes.

[diddyboponTOP]

The Purge 2,I enjoyed it.

[TS Evelyn Summers]

Titanic, 3 Hours und 47 Minutes....

It was my FIRST time watching it!

My God I have NOT had a HARD cry like that für a while!!!!

[bluesoul]

a sports movie: you know what that means? lots of inspirational yap- chop chop editing during the gameplay that unrealistically nothing like the real thing and a (semi) inspirational soundtrack.

laura dern looks great. movie was boring

[RallyCola]

umm...am i the only one here that watched sharknado 2 last night?

[dakota87]

i can't believe how many versions of la femme nikita luc besson has managed to get away, but it's now basically a case of can he make a film that isn't similar to that one..

well, this one ISN'T it. it's basically la femme nikita all over again, except this time she's using (wait for it.....) 100% of her brain. yes, that's right folks. la femme nikita is the einstein of killing. but she needs guns, just like the other versions of herself (huh?) unfortunately, luc besson isn't the einstein of screenwriting, which presents a flaw in his protagonist- who btw does a better job gallivanting around the scottish highland putting random dudes in black sludge to get eaten up and attempting to understand humanity whilst avoiding her alien chaperone

not this

I enjoyed this movie. If you turn your brain down a little the movie will be fun to watch. Lots of action, swell performances from Johanssen and Morgan Freeman and the guy who plays the villain Mr. Jang.

[Torris]

Just bought a 55 inch smart TV. Had bought a used double disk version of Kubrick's 20001 a few months back.

I literally upgraded my TV to break its cherry on this flick in HD and 7.1

Wow. The colors.... The stars.... We is Stoned Immaculate

[Stavros]

a sports movie: you know what that means? lots of inspirational yap- chop chop editing during the gameplay that unrealistically nothing like the real thing and a (semi) inspirational soundtrack.

laura dern looks great. movie was boring

Have there been any great sports movies? I don't consider Boxing to be a sport, so that rules out Raging Bull, and that is one of Scorsese's finest films; but I can't think of any others that do not fall into the trap you refer to above.

[Prospero]

Hoop Dreams

[Stavros]

Hoop Dreams

Hoop Dreams is a documentary, not a feature/fiction film which is the genre I should have made clear was in my thoughts. Hoop Dreams, riddled with cliches from start to finish, is also poor by comparison with other documentaries even though it ranks 17 in Sight and Sound's 'Greatest Documentaries of all Time', a list which includes classics like Sans Soleil, but not Nick Broomfield's Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003) or The House I live In (Eugene Jarecki 2011).
A good documentary introduces you to something you were previously unaware of, and makes it appear important, or forces you to re-think something on which you thought you had a settled opinion. Broomfield's film on Aileen Wuornos exposes the extraordinary violence this woman had to deal with in her life, which she meted out with just as much disagreeable force; while Jarecki's film exposes the commercial value, but the social destitution of the USA's 'war on drugs'.

The 'Greatest Documentaries' list is here:
http://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-sound-ma.../greatest-docs