Talk about the last movie you saw

[Shegokigo]

And yes, Pitt was acting just like Tyler Durden in Benjamin Button too.

I won't agree on "good job in BaR" but they really were very different.

Didn't see it, but that might make the movie interesting.

From what I hear, it was dull as hell.

It was the good kind of "dull" though, I thought at least.

 

[CynicismKills]

Benjamin Button bored the crap out of me. Everyone in the movie seemed like they had other places they'd rather be, like better movies.

Burn After Reading was great. [spoiler:1r61fnj1]Brad Pitt getting shot in the face took a second to set in, came out of fucking left field.[/spoiler:1r61fnj1] Malkovich and Clooney were great, too.

 

[Steven Soderburgin]

I thought Clooney's performance was incredibly annoying, tbh.

EDIT: Not his character, necessarily, but the performance in particular.

 

[ElJuski]

One of the weaker links in a great cast, I think. Still thoroughly enjoyed his character, though. Also, the manager. What's his name?

 

[Steven Soderburgin]

One of the weaker links in a great cast, I think. Still thoroughly enjoyed his character, though. Also, the manager. What's his name?

The great Dick Jenkins, Oscar nominated last year for his performance in the woefully under-seen film The Visitor

 

[ElJuski]

I haven't minded him in anything I've seen--he's one of those, "HEY ITS THAT GUY!" kinda guys. I should really imdb more.

And...the Visitor? I think I remember this movie coming out, but it's kind of got that generic name...you say its good, do you?

HM

 

[Philosopher B.]

Watched The Darjeeling Limited. I dunno, some bits were good, but after they got off the train, everything seemed to meander a bit too much for my liking. Though I've only ever seen one other Wes Anderson film (The Life Aquatic), I preferred what it got done in terms of story and characters. This movie just left me feeling vaguely unfulfilled.

 

Persepolis took my breath away. Besides standing on its own as a lovely movie, it's probably the best adaptation of a graphic novel I've ever seen. The artistic style and the animation exactly complement the storytelling just as the drawings did in the novel. It's stark and unsentimental and unsubtle, which I mean in a good way, in that it comes by its emotions honestly. I think my judgment of the movie is biased partly by my love of the novel and partly by my love of the art and animation itself. Also, it's impossible to watch it right now without thinking of what's been going on in Iran recently.

 

[Shegokigo]

Would you recommend someone to read the novel first?

 

Would you recommend someone to read the novel first?

Yes, although it is not at all necessary to enjoy the film. But the novel is wonderful and worth reading, and you'll appreciate the movie more (both thematically and visually), I think.

 

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Educating Rita (1983). For the first time, I'm speechless. I really liked this movie, as did the critics, BAFTA, the Golden Globes, and the Academy. Yet, I cannot for the life of me figure out why. The story is a very plain Pygmalion clone. The cinematography is very plain, too. I suppose it was Michael Caine and Julie Walters (best known in the US as Molly Weasley, probably) that made the film. The narrative does speak to the mind-narrowing effect of education, especially in the arts. And it does speak to classism. But it doesn't go out of its way to do either. Maybe that's why it works.

 

[Aisaku]

Watched The Darjeeling Limited. I dunno, some bits were good, but after they got off the train, everything seemed to meander a bit too much for my liking. Though I've only ever seen one other Wes Anderson film (The Life Aquatic), I preferred what it got done in terms of story and characters. This movie just left me feeling vaguely unfulfilled.

Agreed. It wavers around a lot after the train but then again I think that's the idea there they were looking for something big, something important, something illuminating. And at the end they came to realize what they were looking for was already within their reach, only overlooked until now.

Looking forward to watching Life Aquatic.

 

[Bowielee]

I LOVED Educating Rita. I'll have to netflix it. I haven't seen it in over 10 years.

I went and saw HP 6 this weekend. It was awsome, IMO.

I also watched Bruno via ARG...

I'm really glad I didn't pay money to see it.

 

Coraline

Holy crap, that was neat. It's been years since I read the book, so I don't recall what was new (apparently quite a bit?) and what might have changed. I don't believe there were other neighbours, such as the two old women and the Russian...or the talking cat, although there might've been a talking cat in the book, too. As I said, very rusty.

Still, the visuals on it were amazing and the story was a lot of fun. I'll definitely be buying this one, eventually.

 

[Shegokigo]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090065/
Starchaser: The Legend of Orin - Had seen this as a kid and Netflix rented it. Was very curious to see how well it handled over time. Other than some "speedy" plot points I was amazed at how well it held up and was better than ALOT of animated films released over the years.

 

[Mr. Lawface]

I don't believe there were other neighbours, such as the two old women and the Russian...or the talking cat, although there might've been a talking cat in the book, too. As I said, very rusty.

The two old women, the mouse trainer, and the talking cat were all in the book. The boy who rode the bike was not in the book.

 

[Far]

Saw Moon today and loved it. I had a bit different idea as to how I thought the movie would play out at first but I wasn't at all disappointed by how it actually ended up. Sound direction was phenomenal too.

[spoiler:2m64rvlw]I had accidentally read somewhere that Sam goes to the site of the accident and finds something. I figured it would be a clone but I didn't think the one still at the site would be alive. I thought the entire movie would be the newly awakened clone slowly piecing things together with Gerty both helping and hindering him, then finding out that he was a clone at the end. Loved the direction they went with though.[/spoiler:2m64rvlw]

 

Finally saw Princess Mononoke (subtitled). I enjoyed it very much but I think the hype got to me just a bit as it wasn't, you know, the most incredible animated movie ever released in the history of cinema. Always love getting lost in Miyazaki's worlds though.

 

[Steven Soderburgin]

Finally saw Princess Mononoke (subtitled). I enjoyed it very much but I think the hype got to me just a bit as it wasn't, you know, the most incredible animated movie ever released in the history of cinema.

Wow. I can understand hyping this movie up a lot because it is really great, but whoever told you that it was the most incredible animated movie ever made is deluding themselves.

-- Sun Jul 19, 2009 7:38 am --

Saw Moon today and loved it. I had a bit different idea as to how I thought the movie would play out at first but I wasn't at all disappointed by how it actually ended up. Sound direction was phenomenal too.

Yeah, the sound design, art direction, and score were all fantastic. I love the art direction especially because the space Sam occupies really felt lived in. It wasn't clean and shiny, but dirty. That's a tough thing to pull off in a manufactured space. The station felt utilitarian, as it should. It was a real "working class" sort of vision of space and science fiction where it wasn't glamorized at all. I really liked the movie and felt like it could stand up next to the really great science fiction of the seventies which it is definitely recalling.

 

[Shegokigo]

Wow. I can understand hyping this movie up a lot because it is really great, but whoever told you that it was the most incredible animated movie ever made is deluding themselves.

Name 2 animated films more completely and thoroughly better than Mononoke. I'm not saying it's the greatest film ever either, but I do have trouble thinking of better ones off the top of my head.

Latest movie:

I"ve been watching ALOT of stand-up specials on INSTANT watch on Netflix recently, and came across Gilbert Godfried: Dirty Jokes - It literally is him, on stage, telling "Guy walks into a bar" etc kind of jokes for 45 minutes. It was an "interesting" watch if you've never seen him outside of film.

 

[Steven Soderburgin]

Name 2 animated films more completely and thoroughly better than Mononoke. I'm not saying it's the greatest film ever either, but I do have trouble thinking of better ones off the top of my head.

Beauty and The Beast
Spirited Away

Want more than 2?

 

[Shegokigo]

Beauty and The Beast
Spirited Away

Want more than 2?

Your first one just makes me
Second one I'd considered tied.

If you'd like to list more I'm all ears. This is genuine curiousity, as one of the films that comes to mind that I prefer is "Metropolis".

 

[Wahad]

Bandidas.

Pretty fun. Nothing amazing (except Hayek and Cruz ), but a nice movie.

 

[Bowielee]

Beauty and The Beast
Spirited Away

Want more than 2?

Your first one just makes me
Second one I'd considered tied.

If you'd like to list more I'm all ears. This is genuine curiousity, as one of the films that comes to mind that I prefer is "Metropolis".

Laugh all you want, but Beauty and the Beast was nominated for an Academy Award for best picture.

Just double checked. It was the ONLY animated feature to be nominated for Best Picture.

 

[Shegokigo]

Laugh all you want, but Beauty and the Beast was nominated for an Academy Award for best picture.

Just double checked. It was the ONLY animated feature to be nominated for Best Picture.

*shrug* Didn't find it the least bit amazing/entertaining.

 

[Ravenpoe]

Just double checked. It was the ONLY animated feature to be nominated for Best Picture.

That's because after Beauty and the Beast, the academy created the best animated film category, so that no more of those lousy 'cartoons' would be poking their nose in with the 'real' films again.

 

[Steven Soderburgin]

Your first one just makes me
Second one I'd considered tied.

If you'd like to list more I'm all ears. This is genuine curiousity, as one of the films that comes to mind that I prefer is "Metropolis".

Beauty and the Beast was fairly groundbreaking in a few ways, and there isn't a bad scene in the entire thing. It's gorgeous to look at, has great characters, the music is entertaining and drives the story (essential for a musical). It's a beautiful story that has been told over and over again, and this is a great retelling. It's my favorite Disney movie.

As for Spirited Away, I find it far more personal than Princess Mononoke. This is unsurprising considering Mononoke approaches a sprawling epic. But the world in Spirited Away is so rich and deep, and the characters are so great, and it has some breathtakingly beautiful animation. It's just a notch above Mononoke in my book.

I might also put My Neighbor Totoro above Mononoke, depending on my mood.

Some others that I'd put right up there with Mononoke, perhaps but not necessarily above it:
Triplets of Belleville
Finding Nemo
WALL-E
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Fantasia

But yeah, Mononoke is definitely high up on the list of greatest animated films.

That's because after Beauty and the Beast, the academy created the best animated film category, so that no more of those lousy 'cartoons' would be poking their nose in with the 'real' films again

Nah, the real reason they added that category is so that they could honor and draw attention to MORE animated films, and give animated films in general higher honors than they would normally get. Unfortunately for the Academy, since then, Pixar has started making movies that have sort of languished in Best Animated purgatory, sort of undoing what the Academy really wanted to do with that category.

 

[Alucard]

Saw Push seemed like an interesting premise even though I still don't care for Dakota Fanning as an actress.

 

[Thread Necromancer]

Saw Push seemed like an interesting premise even though I still don't care for Dakota Fanning as an actress.

I just watched this one last night myself. I thought it had promise, and wasn't terrible, but overall could have been considerably better. I couldn't give a hoot one way or the other on Dakota Fanning, she's neither impressive nor horrid. As such I actually feel she fit well with the movie, as I said, it was neither impressive nor horrid itself.

Night before last I watched Knowing with Nick Cage. I'm still conflicted on that one and haven't formed an opinion on it. It was totally not what I was expecting, half the time feeling like a horror film and the other... something else. And then it just felt like the last fifteen minutes took a different track all together and I kept looking around to see if I'd missed my train station. Don't get me wrong, I get it and all, it just felt like it broke the flow of the movie in the last 10 minutes.

 

[HCGLNS]

Just watched Fanboys. Moderately amusing, with lots of camp.

 

Wow. I can understand hyping this movie up a lot because it is really great, but whoever told you that it was the most incredible animated movie ever made is deluding themselves.

It wasn't just one person, it's the whole mystique around the movie. I totally agree with you about Spirited Away. It got me more on a gut level than Princess Mononoke, but I can't really decide objectively which one is "better."

Triplets of Belleville totally knocked me for a loop (in a great way), but again, no expectations or even knowledge going in.

Today I finally saw In Bruges. Excellent.

 

[crono1224]

Just recently saw Up and Harry Potter.

I find that I liked Wall-E more than Up, but Up was certainly an amazing movie.

For amazing animated movies Spirited Away deffinately is a very good movie certainly brings you in and captivates. I also loved metropolis too though.

Also shego I just recently ran across that Gilbert Godfried stand up, I thought it was very entertaining, he is better than I thought he would be.

 

[JCM]

Australia. Nice old movie feel, love the aborigine, but damn it has terrible pacing.

Sin City Watched it in BluRay. A visual orgy, shouldve been three short movies, together it seems too much of a love letter from Frank Miller to himself. Funnily, the salesman is my favourite character.

Ice Age 3 Scrat! ZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzz hey its Scrat! Zzzzzzzzzzzzz wake me up when its a scrat scene again.

 

[Krisken]

Sin City ... shouldve been three short movies, together it seems too much of a love letter from Frank Miller to himself.

That's exactly how I felt about it. A movie that works better as 3 short movies but are connected in their own way. When I do finally pick it up, that is how I plan to watch it, one section at a time.

 

[Alucard]

Isn't that how it is with all the Ice Age movies? Scrat is the only best part of the film.