Talk about the last movie you saw

[KCWM]

I watched Star Trek for the second time with my wife. One of the things that I noticed this time around, a tiny detail, was when the Kelvin was taking off towards the Romulan ship, you could see bits and pieces of it flying off...tiny specks, but it was a nice little touch. My only complaint this time around is the lens flare...noticed because of the nitpickers on this forum. I still enjoyed the little nods, the overabundance of coincidence, and everything about it in general. In my suspension of disbelief, I took everything as destiny bringing all of these people together...that regardless of the changes, they still end up together. A little simple, but it works for me.

I also had the thought that I really wish they'd have made one of the creatures on the ice world the Cloverfield creature...would have been great to see it there and given another connection too JJ Abrams aside from Slusho. Probably just me...but would have been a nice touch.

 

[Philosopher B.]

Zack and Miri MAKE A PORNO

Absolutely fucking hilarious. And touching. One of Smith's best.

The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou

Another hilarious and touching movie. It also had a surprising amount of guns going off. I thought this movie was going to be vaguely lame but it wasn't - it was pretty fun and the cast was amazing. I would have liked to see more Jeff Goldblum. His scenes were great.

I dug the movie's obsession with David Bowie, too. You can never listen to enough Bowie.

The New World

That this didn't get an Oscar for sound design is a freaking crime. The atmosphere of this movie was fucking amazing. And the story - well, I guess most people would probably say it ambled along, but there was something fascinating about the way it progressed; everything just sort of happened. It was beautiful to look at, and a complete eargasm. I ended up really liking it, though Christian Bale was kind of wasted.

The Wreck of the Mary Deare

Saw it because it was lying around. This movie just sort of existed. It would have been alright if it hadn't started out with Charlton Heston as the main character and then thrown him aside half-way through so Gary Cooper could stand around being old at people.

-- Thu May 28, 2009 3:01 am --

Also, now that I have seen Jason Mewes bend over sans trousers, I feel I can take anything any movie can throw at me.

 

[Cajungal]

Well... I *loved* Slumdog Millionaire--especially the nod to Bollywood at the end.

 

[twitchmoss]

just watched dark city. freaking loved it. the design of the film, the music, the lot. so very awesome.

'do you know how to get to shell beach?'

 

[North_Ranger]

Mindhunters

Renny Harlin... Oh Renny, why did you have to fall so hard? Despite what people say, I think Cutthroat Island was more fun than a barrel full of monkeys, but this... *shakes his head* You couldn't have made a more forgettable, 'meh'-worthy 'thriller' if you tried.

 

[bhamv2]

Last House on the Left

Short review: Meh.

Slightly longer review: It's pretty much as formulaic and predictable as a movie can get. Not all that scary, not all that tense, not all that gory and not all that fun. The cast, however, do very well. Not a lot of big names there, but each of them make their roles their own. Pity they didn't have a better movie to showcase their skills with.

Maybe I'll go track down the 1972 version.

 

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Last night, I finally saw Brokeback Mountain. This movie was indeed worthy of most of the praise it received. It told its story extremely beautifully without feeling the need to gild the dialogue of the protagonists with unnecessary flowery language. The camera loves the big sky, and the ending was genuinely sad without being overly sappy. I kept expecting the film to break into some violence, but it really never did. At least not about the main thesis, much to my pleasure. This film definitely edges toward a full five stars, being held back somewhat by the pacing, which is a bit unnecessarily slow at points, dragging the film out to 2.25 hours. The music was a bit dull, too, having an artificial feel, like a classical composer who had never heard any actual Western music tried to slap something together based on a Marlboro ad jingle.

 

[Shegokigo]

Seven Pounds: Utter tripe. Normally I'd blame it on my bias against Will Smith, but that was evened out by my infatuation with Rosario Dawson. Simply put, the movie failed. The main character's entire "reason" for doing what he does just ends up feeling pathetic, as in I didn't feel sorry for him, I thought he was trash. The people chosen (were there even 7?) was never really explained as far as motive, a couple were but even those reasons were weak [spoiler:1pojh06s]Your husband beats you? Here's a beach house you'll never be able to afford paying the taxes on[/spoiler:1pojh06s] and every damn result of his actions were pretty much similar in outcome [spoiler:1pojh06s]"I"ll love you forever and give you a great life, oh wait, no I'm gonna kill myself"[/spoiler:1pojh06s] was just flat out ridiculous. Skip this movie if you want a good drama. It was poorly paced, alot of really wooden acting and a pathetic broken plot.

 

[Charlie Don't Surf]

Seven Pounds: Utter tripe. Normally I'd blame it on my bias against Will Smith, but that was evened out by my infatuation with Rosario Dawson. Simply put, the movie failed. The main character's entire "reason" for doing what he does just ends up feeling pathetic, as in I didn't feel sorry for him, I thought he was trash. The people chosen (were there even 7?) was never really explained as far as motive, a couple were but even those reasons were weak [spoiler:14ebqav1]Your husband beats you? Here's a beach house you'll never be able to afford paying the taxes on[/spoiler:14ebqav1] and every damn result of his actions were pretty much similar in outcome [spoiler:14ebqav1]"I"ll love you forever and give you a great life, oh wait, no I'm gonna kill myself"[/spoiler:14ebqav1] was just flat out ridiculous. Skip this movie if you want a good drama. It was poorly paced, alot of really wooden acting and a pathetic broken plot.

A FUCKING JELLYFISH

 

[Shegokigo]

A smurfing JELLYFISH

Genius no?

 

[bhamv2]

Enemy at the Gates was just on cable.

Pretty much as good as I remember, the last time I saw it. Problem is, they cut the sex scene.

People shooting the hell out of each other, blowing each other up, corpses and body parts everywhere, all fine. A completely non-explicit scene of intimacy, which serves an important purpose in the overall narrative? You're out of here!

Well done there, censor dude. :eyeroll:

 

[Shegokigo]

Enemy at the Gates was just on cable.

Pretty much as good as I remember, the last time I saw it. Problem is, they cut the sex scene.

People shooting the * out of each other, blowing each other up, corpses and body parts everywhere, all fine. A completely non-explicit scene of intimacy, which serves an important purpose in the overall narrative? You're out of here!

Well done there, censor dude. :eyeroll:

You're new to American Censorship aren't you?

On topic, Enemy at the Gates has to be one of my alltime favorite movies, easily top 20. the reasons should be obvious.

 

[CynicismKills]

Last I saw was Revenge of the Fallen, but there's a thread for that.

Before that, I watched Kung Fu Hustle again. God I love this movie. Going to put Shaolin Soccer on my NetFlix and probably watch God of Cookery (finally) today or tomorrow.

 

[bhamv2]

Enemy at the Gates was just on cable.

Pretty much as good as I remember, the last time I saw it. Problem is, they cut the sex scene.

People shooting the * out of each other, blowing each other up, corpses and body parts everywhere, all fine. A completely non-explicit scene of intimacy, which serves an important purpose in the overall narrative? You're out of here!

Well done there, censor dude. :eyeroll:

You're new to American Censorship aren't you?

On topic, Enemy at the Gates has to be one of my alltime favorite movies, easily top 20. the reasons should be obvious.

I'm in Taiwan though. Our censorship here is probably even more strict than the States.

I remember complaining (in this thread? another one? dunno) about censorship in Starship Troopers. The sex scene in that one was cut too, but they also cut a lot of the fighting scenes, making it a remarkably short movie. But in Enemy at the Gates, they cut none of the violence, just the one sex scene, which really wasn't anything explicit at all. I mean, at the end of the movie, when [spoiler:1p3xomk4]Danilov gets headshotted[/spoiler:1p3xomk4], there're several long close-up shots of him just lying there with blood pouring out of his forehead. Completely uncut.

But yeah, great film. One of my all time favorite war movies, if not outright favorite. Rachel Weisz, rowr.

 

Charlie Bartlett: Surprisingly good teen comedy and really well written. Parts of it drag a bit, but it really makes up for it with the last 30 minutes or so. Totally recommend it.

Growing Op: An indy Canadian flick filmed in Moncton, New Brunswick. Only reason I watched this is because my roommate had a minor part in it (if you watch it, he's the emo kid that the main character befriends). It was...okay. Some of the dialogue was great, most of it was pretty awful and the conclusion makes me think the kid learned absolutely NOTHING from the events of the movie.

Up: Once again, Pixar amazes me again. At this point, with their track record, I'll never miss any of their movies. Up was absolutely amaz---

SQUIRREL!

 

[CynicismKills]

Charlie Bartlett: Surprisingly good teen comedy and really well written. Parts of it drag a bit, but it really makes up for it with the last 30 minutes or so. Totally recommend it.

Growing Op: An indy Canadian flick filmed in Moncton, New Brunswick. Only reason I watched this is because my roommate had a minor part in it (if you watch it, he's the emo kid that the main character befriends). It was...okay. Some of the dialogue was great, most of it was pretty awful and the conclusion makes me think the kid learned absolutely NOTHING from the events of the movie.

Up: Once again, Pixar amazes me again. At this point, with their track record, I'll never miss any of their movies. Up was absolutely amaz---

SQUIRREL!

You better not steal my bit there, buddy, or it's the cone of shame for you.

 

[Alex B.]

just watched dark city. freaking loved it. the design of the film, the music, the lot. so very awesome.

'do you know how to get to shell beach?'

Love Dark City. Has anyone seen the director's cut version? I know there's one out there, but I haven't seen it.

Let's see, last couple of movies I saw:

Year One - already made a thread about it, but it was pretty mediocre. I like the cast, but they weren't given much to work with.

Away We Go - this was a pretty solid film about parenting and family with good performances and directing. A few really great scenes, with the rest being just good enough to hold your attention. Not a fantastic movie, but maybe worth a rental if that's your thing.

 

[Charlie Don't Surf]

Love Dark City. Has anyone seen the director's cut version? I know there's one out there, but I haven't seen it.

Away We Go - this was a pretty solid film about parenting and family with good performances and directing. A few really great scenes, with the rest being just good enough to hold your attention. Not a fantastic movie, but maybe worth a rental if that's your thing.

I'm going to see both of these very soon! Excited for both. My roommate just bought the director's cut version.

 

[Krisken]

Love Dark City. Has anyone seen the director's cut version? I know there's one out there, but I haven't seen it.

The directors cut is amazing. What was a really good movie becomes great. It feels like a completely different movie. Scenes that were a little vague gain clarity and some scenes gain depth they didn't have before.

 

[Alex B.]

Damn it! Now I'll have to buy it again.

 

[Cajungal]

Saw REPO! tonight while babysitting... AFTER the kid was asleep. I can safely say it's the only thing that has anything to do with Paris Hilton I've ever been able to enjoy. Fun, weird, dark movie with a good cast and pretty good music. Didn't care for all of it, but it was definitely an interesting watch.

I'd recommend it if you like weird culty stuff. That one guy from Buffy's in it... the guy who made me enjoy the show for a few precious moments. Glasses man. Yes, him!

 

[Bowielee]

Transformers 2

aranoid:

But seriously, Dark City is AWSOME. I should hook up the old VCR and plug in that tape one of these days and rewatch it.

 

[Bubble181]

Resident Evil.

...Yeah, not too much great about that one. Not enough action to be an action movie, not a single scene that even got me to blink so definitely not any subgenre of horror, not enough story to qualify as drama or thriller, and if there were any jokes, I didn't see them. Some nice visuals, but all in all, nah. Milla Jovovich's character reminded me a lot of [spoiler:2tr00j8k]River Tam in Serenity, as contrasted to her character in Firefly[/spoiler:2tr00j8k]. And, as odd as it may be, I'm not actually a great fan of that kind of character.

 

[JCM]

The Hamiltons
Seemed like a snuff flick, in which some teens live by cutting organs and selling them, and then, nice twist that took the bad Twilight aftertaste out of my mouth.


Macbeth
Okay, he has guns? Must not... fall... asleep. Really fell asleep in the first 15 mins.


City of Ember
Great story. Made me order the book.

 

[Krisken]

The Legend of Boggy Creek II. Ok, the MST3k version.

 

[Bowielee]

Macbeth
Okay, he has guns? Must not... fall... asleep. Really fell asleep in the first 15 mins.

Was that the Ethan Hawke version... yeah, that was pretty unbearable. The only reason Romeo and Juliet was successful with it's modern re-imagining was due to the stunning visuals that Baz Luhrman can produce.

 

[CynicismKills]

God of Cookery

Man, this was weird. I liked it, but don't watch it expecting Kung-Fu Hustle or Shaolin Soccer.

 

[Shegokigo]

Saw REPO! tonight while babysitting... AFTER the kid was asleep. I can safely say it's the only thing that has anything to do with Paris Hilton I've ever been able to enjoy. Fun, weird, dark movie with a good cast and pretty good music. Didn't care for all of it, but it was definitely an interesting watch.

I'd recommend it if you like weird culty stuff. That one guy from Buffy's in it... the guy who made me enjoy the show for a few precious moments. Glasses man. Yes, him!

I went out and bought REPO! the day I watched it on rental. I just HAD to own it that minute. Glad it's getting some views.

 

[Cajungal]

^That's probably one I'd buy too. There are a lot of people I'd like to show it to now.

Saw The 39 Steps with my Dad today. I'd recommend it to anyone who likes old b+w mystery-type films. It was interesting, exciting, and very humorous at times.

 

[lafftaff]

Godzilla vs. Gigan.......It's been a slow weekend.

 

[Wasabi Poptart]

Star Trek! Karl Urban and Simon Pegg were excellent as Bones and Scotty. I liked the familiarity of the characters. I didn't care for some of the story though. Overall, it was definitely worth seeing it on the big screen.

 

[Philosopher B.]

Signs - I'm probably going to get pooped at for saying this ( :aaahhh: ), but I liked it. Maybe it was because I watched it with zero expectations since I've heard people gripe about it so much, I dunno. Probably my favorite part was when they were around the table after Mel Gibson yelled at everyone for suggesting he say a prayer, when Gibson is hugging both the kids and they're all crying. Then, just as Joaquin Phoenix is looking all distraught and looks like he's going to turn away, Gibson grabs his sleeve and pulls him into the pile. That just cracked me up; I must have laughed for two minutes.

Of course, the moment you even begin to examine anything relating to the aliens, the plot breaks down horribly, I'll admit that. But I didn't feel the movie was about the aliens as much as a couple of people with faith issues; the aliens were just there to put certain things in motion. I guess that still doesn't excuse it, but even so, I enjoyed the movie, more than The Village, anyhow.

 

[Frank]

Public Enemies.

The film itself, I dunno, I liked it but something about it felt really off (it wasn't the digital cameras it was filmed with, I have no idea why people people have such hard-ons for ragging on them. They give the movie more of a sense of being there in my opinion). Like, it lacked energy or something. Something to make me care more. I dunno. Like I said, can't put my finger on it. Overall it was definitely not a letdown. I enjoyed it.

 

[HCGLNS]

Just saw Star Trek, it was pretty good. I didn't even know Winona Ryder was in the movie until the credits, so it must have been good. I really liked how when the Federation ships fired all weapons it was a blur of phasers instead of one big blaster.

 

[Alucard]

Transformers 2: 1/5 stars
Public Enemies: 4/5 stars
Ice Age: 4/5 stars

If anyone is on the seat about seeing Ice Age 3 its a pretty good where Dreamwork didn't make a botch of it like
they did with the Shrek movies.

Transformers has possibly got to be the worst film of 2009 thus far