Last movie you watched

[CowSavior]

The last movie I saw was Tron.
And I had several orgasms during the film.

 

[Cavallier]

Last few movies I saw:

The new Tron: The original was vaguely interesting and attempting to do something new. This new movie was a steaming pile of bleh. I love me some good sci-fi fantasy but this one was uninspiring. The soundtrack was bleh, the dialogue was bleh, the main character was bleh, the side characters were all bleh, hell even the special effects were bleh. I suppose it doesn't help that I went to the theater to see a different movie and then was forced to watch this one instead. I took a break about 20 minutes in so I could talk to the popcorn boy about how much selling popcorn sucks just so I could escape the utter blehness of this movie for a few minutes. I idea of the Isomorphs was interesting but it's been done before and wasn't fully explored in this movie. It was a fun blockbusterish movie but nothing to write home about.

True Grit: I generally enjoy Cohen Bro. movies. Suitably violent and Mr. Bridges made for a good hokey Rooster. Though it's important to understand that the original Rooster in the book and the movie were also a bit hokey. The actress portraying Madie (Mady?) was very good. The language was interesting as everybody else has mentioned. I enjoyed it. It was certainly a better waste of a couple of hours than that horrible Tron movie.

The Fighter: Good. Surprisingly good actually. Christian Bale showed some acting chops and I'm impressed he was willing to play such a complete loser of a person.

 

[zackp24]

Badlands:

YouTube - 1973 Badlands - Trailer

Brilliant film by Terrence Malick, beautiful cinematography and one of the best and most complete uses of an unreliable narrator that I've seen in film.

 

[zxc]

Recently watched Black Swan (2010) and Buried (2010). Liked both. Black Swan was nice and weird, eerie. Buried was an experience for sure, an awesome film it is.

 

[kinetickyle]

The last movie I saw in theaters or at all?

In theaters: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt. 1
On Netflix: Tenure

 

[Cavallier]

Valhalla Rising - It was good. Don't be fooled by the trailer. The dialogue is nil in this movie. In fact I'm certain that there is only about 20 minutes of dialogue spread out during the course of the entire movie. It's meditative, dark, grizzly, and I think some guy is raped but I'm not entirely certain.

I recommend it to those that like art house films and are not put off by violence, gore, or hideous disfigurements.

Here's the trailer:

Spoiler

Lol. He certainly isn't one of the Judeo-Christian "God's own soldier".

YouTube - Valhalla Rising trailer

 

[Anchorite]

Amélie. I love that movie. It's been out since 2001 and I think I first saw it in 2008 or so. It's 100% in French but after a while you get so wrapped up in the character and the story you don't even care or even notice that your reading subtitles for 2 and a half hours.

 

[tashi]

True Grit. Not the original, but the one that is now in theaters. I actually really enjoyed it, although I'm some what regretting not reading the book first, because I will want to read it eventually and prefer to read books before I watch the movie renditions.

 

[Words]

American History X



...excellent film is excellent.

 

[milesck]

I haven't been to the movie theater since Inception, but I am an avid user of Netflix

Streaming: Humbolt County- After his father (Peter Bogdanovich) fails him, med student Peter Hadley (Jeremy Strong) spends a night drowning his sorrows and awakens in a tiny community on Northern California's Lost Coast, where his hosts, Jack (Brad Dourif) and Rosie (Frances Conroy), live off the grid and grow marijuana. Peter's totally out of his element in this town of counterculture horticulturists, which could prove to be the reality check he needs.

DVD: Rushmore - Wunderkind Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman), a sophomore at upscale Rushmore Academy and the president of myriad school clubs, sees his world turn topsy-turvy when he's smitten with widowed first-grade teacher Rosemary Cross (Olivia Williams). To win her heart, Max enlists the aid of self-made steel magnate and school benefactor Herman J. Blume (Bill Murray), only to end up vying with the millionaire industrialist for Rosemary's affections.

 

[ProxyAmenRa]

I recommend 'The King's Speech'. It was a pretty damn good movie.

 

[BigApplePi]

Master and Commander with Russell Crowe. This is the wettest film I've ever seen. My DVD player got water-logged. Realistic shipboard experience of 1805.

 

[snafupants]

I haven't been to the movie theater since Inception, but I am an avid user of Netflix

Streaming: Humbolt County- After his father (Peter Bogdanovich) fails him, med student Peter Hadley (Jeremy Strong) spends a night drowning his sorrows and awakens in a tiny community on Northern California's Lost Coast, where his hosts, Jack (Brad Dourif) and Rosie (Frances Conroy), live off the grid and grow marijuana. Peter's totally out of his element in this town of counterculture horticulturists, which could prove to be the reality check he needs.

DVD: Rushmore - Wunderkind Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman), a sophomore at upscale Rushmore Academy and the president of myriad school clubs, sees his world turn topsy-turvy when he's smitten with widowed first-grade teacher Rosemary Cross (Olivia Williams). To win her heart, Max enlists the aid of self-made steel magnate and school benefactor Herman J. Blume (Bill Murray), only to end up vying with the millionaire industrialist for Rosemary's affections.

Yeah, but what did you think of the movies?

 

[Thaklaar]

Network - This had been sitting in my Netflix queue for a couple of years before we watched it a couple of weeks ago. Phenomenal film. An almost chillingly prophetic satire.

 

[snafupants]

A Serious Man

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Teeth

A Very Long Engagement

Orphanage

 

[Kokoro]

A Serious Man

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Teeth

A Very Long Engagement

Orphanage

Any comments?

 

[BigApplePi]

No Man's Land. Great film. War movie for INTPs. Serbian and Bosnian Everyman's and how they deal with each other.

 

[BigApplePi]

Good. Not a pleasant film. About a German professor who finds himself forced to participate in National Socialism and what happens when he does so.

 

[Polaris]

Sanctum. Action-filled, gory, clichéd, predictable and poor dialogue to top it off.

 

[Cavallier]

Deathwatch: A handful of British soldiers during WWI stumble upon a German trench with a ghostish sort of monster in it. Very muddy, very gory, and very horrible. Actually, it was fun and I was surprised by how many well known actors were in it.

 

[BigApplePi]

"M". That's all to the title. Saw it for the first time and if you haven't seen it, it's a wonderful film. Shows German culture in 1931 before the Nazi came on the scene. It's about the passions of the pedophile, believe it or not. Both the perpetrator and the social reactions to the criminal. If you have never seen Peter Lorre, you are in for a treat.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022100/

 

[Dr. Manhattan]

Encounters as the End of the World

Filmmaker Werner Herzog takes you on a wild and woolly journey to the South Pole in this Oscar contender -- from the National Science Foundation's headquarters on Ross Island to some of Antarctica's most remote and dangerous terrain. With a keen eye for the wonders and sometimes hilarious peculiarities of this icy land's animal and human inhabitants, Herzog offers an astounding look at the world's most inhospitable landscape.

It was an awesome movie--def recommend.

 

[snafupants]

Last week I saw An Education with Peter Sarsgaard and Carey Mulligan. Peter Sarsgaard was good in this one, sort of a niche actor who has done some decent movies (e.g., Kinsey) as well as some real stinkers. Someone already mentioned pedophiles, and this movie is sort of about that, and Carey Mulligan sort of plays a minor, but not really. There are clues from the beginning of their relationship (ew, I said that word) that things are too perfect, and you wait for the catch, but it's still a fun ride. Crucially, Carey plays someone smart and resilient enough so you don't pity her, which is why the movie works. Basically, if the movie were about some charmer getting his rocks off with an innocent high schooler the movie would have floundered and been awkward.

 

[BigApplePi]

Attack. Great WWII psych film about doing versus not-doing.
http://homecinema.thedigitalfix.co.uk/content.php?contentid=5367

I read another review that said Jack Palance would have won an Academy Award in 1956 for best acting by a dead man if they gave such awards. I agree, but burst out laughing when I read that. I won't easily forget his performance.

 

[Zmaster]

I saw The Rite with Anthony Hopkins and thought it was very well done.

 

[snafupants]

Attack. Great WWII psych film about doing versus not-doing.
http://homecinema.thedigitalfix.co.uk/content.php?contentid=5367

I read another review that said Jack Palance would have won an Academy Award in 1956 for best acting by a dead man if they gave such awards. I agree, but burst out laughing when I read that. I won't easily forget his performance.

Ironically, I think that was the year a dead man (James Dean) won an Academy Award. Whoops, looked that up and he was only posthumously nominated for best actor. Damn facts.

 

[snafupants]

Some folks on the forum like Woody Allen, I love Woody Allen, and so the movie Whatever Works might be their schtick. Also it stars Larry David. Basically, the movie has the same probabilistic view of reality as Match Point but, instead, completely denigrates love and is overall more cynical. If you like Woody and don't love this movie, I would be shocked: unless you hate Larry David. An awesome movie, actually written thirty odd years before its release. See it!

Spoiler

http://www.mountainx.com/movies/review/whatever_works

 

[Cavallier]

White Ribbon

It was interesting. I can't seem to come up with words to describe it yet other than "disturbing". I'll have to process it for a little longer I guess.

 

[BigApplePi]

White Ribbon

It was interesting. I can't seem to come up with words to describe it yet other than "disturbing". I'll have to process it for a little longer I guess.

Hey Cavallier. I think I posted I saw that but don't recall. My memory of it is that they were vague on the logic of the plot but tried to steer it nonetheless. If that was deliberate, not sure. Probably deliberate. The great thing about the movie was the setting. It captured an era and presented it so you felt it.

Does that sound close?

 

[Yet]

Black Swan

't was creepy ... must be a good film, but I somehow did not enjoy it.

Inception

very entertaining

 

[Cavallier]

^Black Swan made me feeling shaky and jumpy. It was brutal and melodramatic but then so is the world of ballet. This film was not reticent about showing the day to day difficulties of being a ballet performer. Natalie Portman was good but I think Mila Kunis should be praised for her role as the foil to Natalie Portman's character. Mila's character drove the character plot and served to highlight the strung out emotions of Natalie's character. Did anybody else want to stab Vincent Cassel's character in the face?

I think you may be right Apple. White Ribbon sort of went beyond "liking" or "disliking" for me and was simply just fascinating in a neither positive or negative way. So much emotional disconnection. The setting and the acting was phenomenal. There was no emotionally manipulative music to distract the audience. The long silences were soul sucking. (I think intentionally so.) I could not look away during the silent moments that, had they not been so carefully balanced, might have made the film boring. There was no attempt to provide a solution to the mysteries. There seemed to be a cold hard fascist sort of gloom hanging over everything which was interesting given the setting. One generally imagines a small country village in Northern Germany before WWI to be idyllic and filled with sweet cheeked farmers daughters holding steins of beer. Utter nonsense of course but that is the typical association. Instead you get a brutal and harshly regimented society were violent Biblical retribution for infractions are carried out regularly. A forshadowing of historical events to come I suppose. The only characters I was able to identify with was the intellectual school teacher. Then again that makes sense since he was the narrator.

 

[snafupants]

Fish Tank was the one I saw last night. It won some awards (e.g., Cannes) and I had heard good things, so I popped it in. After watching it I felt the same way as I did after Requiem for a Dream, and to a lesser extent The Rules of Attraction. The feeling was distinct from Requiem though, whereas that was just plain emotionally draining, this made me process the main character's future direction, which seemed bleak, and think beyond the scope of the movie. She, the main character, had this huge depth of inner feeling but it was expressed through rage, misplaced sexuality and affection, and boredom, which ultimately amounted to more pain. So, the movie sort of has you think about what came before what it is showing you (where is her father?, what sort of correctional program is she in?, etc.) and where is she going, what comes after what we see. Because the character was so pitiable, this was painful to do. Like Requiem, I am not anxious to watch it again (or maybe I am), but I will probably do it anyway.

 

[Jesse]

I liked Black Swan but didn't feel that much emotion during the film. The end shocked me not because I didn't see where it was going (I have seen the Wrestler) but just the melodramatic sadness got to me. What I love most about the film is discussing it. People have interesting differences about what happened and how they feel about the characters.

 

[Chasm]

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. Not as surreal as many other movies written by Kaufman (surreal in a good sense), but an entertaining watch nonetheless.

 

[Cogwulf]

I decided to watch predator, after I saw the predator musical

YouTube - Predator: The Musical (The Final Schwarzenegger Musical)

Not the best film ever, but great just for the wild firing of machine guns into trees

 

[Dr. Freeman]

Serenity.
Enough said.

 

[powerpenguin]

Serenity.
Enough said.

Odd... I came here to say this (I just finished my first Firefly "binge"), but found you had beat me to it by only half of an hour.

 

[Dr. Freeman]

Why was Firefly canceled anyway? Production costs?

 

[powerpenguin]

I heard a variety of things. Along with the production cost, apparently Fox didn't like what Whedon was doing with the characters and the show and the ratings weren't as high as they would like, among other things.

 

[Dr. Freeman]

One of the saddest things ever.

 

[Cavallier]

Insomnia with Al Pacino, Robin Williams, and Hilary Swank.

It was a little heavy handed but still a good morality thriller. Two L.A. detectives go to Alaska to solve a murder mystery and end up dealing with the morality of doing what you think is right personally and doing what is right according to law. I liked the way director/screen writer tied in the common mythos of Alaska with the plot and moral dilemma. "Two kinds of people live in Alaska. Those that were born here and those that are trying to get away from something." I chose to see the constant summer sun as a metaphor. Good movie.

 

[Jesse]

Firefly was dead on arrival what with the mixing of episodes and not showing the original pilot. I love that show.

 

[LoveofINTP]

Inception/The day the earth stood still.
I think there is no need to write the summary of Inception here since a lot of people know about the movie.
I only downloaded and half-watched 'The day the earth stood still' because I read somewhere that there was an INTP character in it.

 

[Dr. Freeman]

Inception was a great movie. (Just to be redundant)

 

[jzono1]

Enter The Void

It made me feel sick and empty.

It's an experience, and one of the rare movies which remind me why I like this medium; I don't think I could stand watching it again when sober though.

 

[BigApplePi]

Metropolis. 1927. I'm not a fan of silent films but I picked up a copy at the library and didn't even know what it was. Believe it or not 1/4 of this film is missing, lost. They put it back together as best they could. It has unbelievable imagery. The reviews are right when they say you can't forget them. It's the 1st science fiction film and I recognize a lot in it that went to films I saw long ago, as Frankenstein and Dr. Strangelove. The way they treated the workers. I'd never seen anything like that. Marvelous. Ever seen "Dark City"? That too.

Holy macro! Anyone ever seen this? Metropolis.
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100602/REVIEWS08/100609989/1023

 

[A22]

Kubrick's Barry Lyndon. I've red some posts about it in this forums and decided to watch it.
I've found it boring, but it's nice to see a movie that's nothing like the ones made now a days.

 

[Zmaster]

The Adjustment Bureau with Matt Damon is even better then The Matrix and Avatar

 

[EyeSeeCold]

The Adjustment Bureau with Matt Damon is even better then The Matrix and Avatar

How dare you blaspheme The Matrix?

 

[Jesse]

Zmaster nobody think's Avatar was that good. And The Adjustment Bureau will be forgotten in two weeks.

Re-watched The Departed. Freakin Awesome.