Last movie you watched

[A22]

The GodFather Part I
going to watch Part II tomorrow

Part I & II are at IMDB top but not Part III
Is it as good as Part I/II?

 

[xbox]

Yeah Inception was a brain teaser.

Watched Hannibal

 

[Cavallier]

^I love Silence of the Lambs. I watched Hannibal Rising a few years back and liked the aesthetic of that film though it was different from the others in that series.

Hanna: I watched it for the action packed kick ass fun of it. It delivered in that arena. I read a review which sums up my opinion well: "Despite having an overdone plot it was filmed well." The shots/scenes were filmed in an interesting manner. I love the scene where a vicious and well manicured Cate Blanchette walks out of the decaying remains of a giant wolf's head sculpture. It was fun in a kick ass girl coming of age sort of way. You don't have to think to enjoy this movie but it doesn't really insult your intelligence either.

 

[BigApplePi]

Not the last movie I watched, but was the last one I thought about:

"The Natural" about a person in a difficult situation overcoming. I give the link in this link: Three Wishes.

 

[Ploss]

I saw Ink yesterday. It as well done for a low budget independent film. I enjoyed it thoroughly.

Spoiler

YouTube- Ink Official Trailer 1 (HD)

Before that I watched the 1974 release of Murder On the Orient Express. The accents were horrible. However, it's a classic and I loved Ingrid Bergman in it.

I really enjoyed this movie as well.

 

[Darby]

Watched Good Will Hunting for the first time the other day, I personally loved it, although I was worried it would be another "Therapy saved my life" movies, it was actually really good.

Spoiler

I also had the biggest intellectual crush on him when he murdered that guy in history at the bar and told him he was paying $40,000 a year for an education he could get at the local library.

I also watched Dragonball Evolution not too long after that....TERRIBLE! 'nuff said.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

Was watching Full Metal Jacket again, but then I was disrupted. Will finish watching it tonight.

"Ho Chi Mihn is a sunova bitch"...

 

[mono]

Ed Wood (Tim Burton, 1996), hilário... Martin Landau estava demais como Bela Lugosi.

 

[xbox]

finding nemo

 

[Puffy]

I watched some other movies meanwhile, mainly two Edgar Allen Poe flicks from 1914 and a Poe biopic from 2006; all of which were alright, I guess, but nothing noteworthy.

I'm here because of another movie. When I stumbled through Cinemageddon these days, I mistyped while using the search function and thus accidentally found a movie with the rather odd name Survive Style 5+ [sic!]. As experienced cineastes may have already guessed from the title, it's Japanese. Well, I have consumed enough Japanese products in my life to become very careful with them. However, the description was intriguing enough to let me download it anyway. I'm glad that I can trust my intuition so much because, as it turned out, Survive Style 5+ is one of the best movies I have ever seen in my life, definitely Top-10 worthy. You see, the reason why I write so much about me acquiring and watching and so little about the actual content of the movie is because Survive Style 5+ is really more of an experience. It's impossible to explain or describe it to someone who has not seen it. I cannot even describe any memorable scene because the whole movie consists of about two hours of memorable scenes. Well, I guess you could say that it is basically a black comedy with surreal elements, embedded into an episodic narrative, but that doesn't really do it justice. I'd probably call it an ode to absurdism or something. I could even show you a trailer or screencaps but it wouldn't really mean anything, nothing I can tell you could prepare you for Survive Style 5+.
You simply have to watch it for yourself.

Here is the original plot summary from Cinemageddon if you're interested:

Spoiler

Some things can't be explained, and SURVIVE STYLE 5+ is one of them. A candy-colored comedy from Japan, it stars British footballer, Vinnie Jones, and ICHI THE KILLER star, Tadanobu Asano, in a movie that assumes the shortest distance between two points is via the fifth dimension.

A salaryman wins tickets to the latest stage sensation: hypnosis show VIVA FRIENDS! In the middle of the act an assassin shows up and sticks a pin through the hypnotist's skull just when the salaryman has been turned into a bird. A gang of housebreakers roams the suburbs, dealing with their budding lust for one another. A man kills and buries his wife, only to have her claw her way out of her grave and go after him with missile arms and fire breath, over and over again. An advertising executive goes off the deep end and begins bringing her clients some of the funniest and most vulgar commercials ever seen on TV.

Somehow director Gen Sekiguchi pulls all these strands together into a movie that is thrillingly original. Jettisoning traditional movie tricks this flick aims for something more, and it gets there. The ending will leave your brain and your heart feeling freshly scrubbed, and you will be absolutely unable to explain any of it to anyone else. So bring everyone you know so they, too, can experience the one-of-a-kind adventure that is SURVIVE STYLE 5+. A movie where love means never having to kill your wife more than five or six times.

Oh, and the soundtrack is pretty cool too.

I've heard it has been compared to Pulp Fiction? I'm interested; I'll watch it this evening and come back here with my thoughts.

 

[digital angel]

The King's Speech is the last movie I saw. Before that, I saw Inception.

 

[xbox]

I've been into Pirate movies ever since I was little.. I can't wait for the Pirates 4 movie. Going to watch all 3 movies right before I watch that one.

 

[darude11]

Meet the Dave (or something like that)
It has just ended, then I have sitten behind PC and looked at threads, and have seen this one

 

[Melllvar]

Meet the Dave (or something like that)

I believe you're referring to Meet Dave, which is really a kids movie but still pretty funny (I've seen it). The best part (IMO) was Eddie Murphy's acting in the beginning when he/they first arrive on Earth and he's learning to walk and function properly.

 

[snafupants]

Reanimator - gory and beautiful, if somewhat cheesy

I'm not There - reaffirmed my hatred for Chistian Bale

Sin Nombre - who doesn't like gang violence?

Dog Day Afternoon - Al Pacino is the man, and gay

The Onion Field - rewatched, still good. You've got James Woods

Apparently Mel Gibson stayed sober long enough to come out with a new movie, dubiously entitled The Beaver. He literally has his hand in a beaver the whole time - a hand puppet - to help him talk to his wife, played by Jodie Foster. Does anyone understand why this movie was made? Kindly note I have not seen this movie...yet. I'm looking for an excuse.

 

[Stigmata]

Thor - Despite being the movie adaptation that I was the least interested in seeing, I must say it exceeded my expectations, granted they were pretty low.

 

[Puffy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxfw_crhZmU

"When Nietschze Wept" - yes Nietschze is a main character.. and Sigmund Freud (for some reason.) I thought it was an interesting take on his philosophy and life purpose anyway. It might be available to watch on Youtube, but I watched it around a friends.

 

[Frett]

The Rocker

A so so movie but struck a chord from the band days back in the day.

 

[snafupants]

The Rocker

A so so movie but struck a chord from the band days back in the day.

Bad movie, decent pun.

 

[systembust]

I've been watching a number of Frederick Wiseman documentaries lately. The last one I watched (though not for the 1st time) was "High School," which I would recommend as a primer to his work. These are exactly the types of movies that need to be made more often. Wiseman just lets the camera observe actual human behavior as it occurs within a number of institutional settings. No narration, no musical tracks thrown over the footage. Might sound dry, but I actually find it quite engaging. Sort of a precursor to reality tv. You guys should check his work out if you're unfamiliar... I bet many INTPs would find it appealing.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

This morning:
SLC: Punk
Escape From New York

Both are respective favorites from certain time periods.

SLC: Punk is pretty good for being under 1.30hrs. And there's some kind of identification going on.

 

[Puffy]

I've heard it has been compared to Pulp Fiction? I'm interested; I'll watch it this evening and come back here with my thoughts.

Who the hell compared that to Pulp Fiction? I can't remember. Mind blown. I'm sorry it's like what Anthile says: you can't describe Survive Style 5+ There's a poor quality version on google video, but I want to find a better quality version to watch again some time.

 

[BigApplePi]

Shutter Island. Film noir. I'm too dumb to know what to say except I buy the whole story. I wonder if I'll see it again? Let me know if I do. If you do let me know, I won't know whether to believe you or not.

 

[Minuend]

Memoirs of a Geisha: okay until about halfway, then the change made me fall out of the story.

Gattaca: about average

Tangled- better than I thought, watching live action makes me grow tired with dull and repetitive personalities, so this movie was uplifting having both decent characters and underlying motivations.

 

[BigApplePi]

Memoirs of a Geisha: okay until about halfway, then the change made me fall out of the story.

Gattaca: about average

Tangled- better than I thought, watching live action makes me grow tired with dull and repetitive personalities, so this movie was uplifting having both decent characters and underlying motivations.

Gattaca - one of my all time favorite movies.

Later Edit: I have to repeat that. "One of my all time favorite movies" and I've only seen it once. I remember it all. My plan is to see it again and savor it. This is a subjective reaction. I refuse to review it or say anything unless you see it.

 

[Cavallier]

Apparently Mel Gibson stayed sober long enough to come out with a new movie, dubiously entitled The Beaver. He literally has his hand in a beaver the whole time - a hand puppet - to help him talk to his wife, played by Jodie Foster. Does anyone understand why this movie was made? Kindly note I have not seen this movie...yet. I'm looking for an excuse.

I read a review in my local independent paper that might help you decide:

Though it sounds like a nickname Mel Gibson might give one of his girlfriends, The Beaver is director Jodie Foster’s attempt to grant her friend and star some redemption, or at least exorcism. Gibson plays Walter Black, a suicidally depressed toy executive who takes to speaking through a bucktoothed hand puppet with a Ray Winstone accent, but the movie is bleaker than the outrageous premise suggests: This isn’t a whimsical healing journey, but another form of breakdown. “Oh, c’mon, it’s a radio show,” complains Terry Gross when Walter visits her Fresh Air studio. “People can’t even see the puppet. So why talk through the puppet?” That question might well be posed to Gibson, who is begging forgiveness through a character far less despicable than himself. There is, in his blue eyes, a hint of the madman despairing and shamed by his own madness—but he’s always had a good face, and this may be a drunk’s practiced sympathy ploy. (The Beaver includes—of course it does—a scene of self-torture and mutilation.) But here I am playing armchair psychologist when there’s a whole movie ready to do just that. Or half a movie: The other, much better half features Anton Yelchin and Jennifer Lawrence as high-school sweethearts with their own, more intelligible grief to surface from. The younger actors are the more affecting, not just because they are wisely restrained, but also because they don’t have all that external baggage to carry.

 

[xbox]

HP 7 Part 1

 

[EyeSeeCold]

The Matrix.

 

[Puffy]

Fight Club. Enough has been said about it but I think I'm going to have to add it to my top films list. But I suppose that is besides the point "you are not your favorite films. You are the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world"

 

[BigApplePi]

"The Stoning of Soraya M."

After a true event. About man's inhumanity to women.

 

[BigApplePi]

"Nothing But the Truth"

About prohibiting freedom of speech in the face of governmental power (USA). A woman has to go to jail until she talks.

 

[BigApplePi]

"Damage"

For the heck of it I published my 2nd movie review on IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104237/usercomments-80

 

[digital angel]

The Soloist and Bourne Identity(again).

I found the Soloist interesting and scary. The main character seems so talented. I wonder what the film didn't show of his life.

 

[digital angel]

"The Stoning of Soraya M."

After a true event. About man's inhumanity to women.

Been wanting to see it.

 

[BigApplePi]

Been wanting to see it.

If you do da, I'm open to comments and commenting on it.

 

[Minuend]

Artificial Intelligence - meh

 

[BigApplePi]

Some of you have seen "The Mechanic." I finally got to it and saw it yesterday. Aside from all the other reviews, what impressed me was the character. I couldn't shake off the feeling I knew such a person ... a type from high school. He spoke so clearly about how he saw reality I believed his sincerity, if not his accuracy.

What am I talking about? Is this Se? Was he an ISTP? If this was Se, I don't have it or don't use it so I admire this ability.

 

[Cavallier]

^That one's in my queue. Someday I will get around to it.

For now I want to review Vahalla Rising which I saw about a year ago and can finally verbalize an opinion on. There really isn't a thread that's good for reviewing movies around here so I'm putting my review here.

It's almost entirely silent. There are long minutes where a camera circles a face that doesn't speak or looks up at the hero, One Eye, who is unchangeable. It makes you feel small and childlike after a while staring up at a beaten stony face surrounded by grey sky. There are a few moments where, for lack of a better word, music is used but mostly it's just a sudden onslaught of grinding ear splitting sound meant to underscore the horror of certain events or the unnatural aspect of a scene. This film also focuses on the very bloody and brutal. Mud, shit, blood, and single minded determination to survive despite a complete void of morality or philosophy. (Which could be an interesting existential discussion all on it's own.)

There are several ways you can interpret this film. Personally I think it is exploring the division between being a capable but brutalized beast-like survival oriented individual human and being a capable but brutalized beast with a Dunbar's Number (Monkeysphere). Nobility and morality don't come into the discussion here. In fact the few individuals who display western christian morality fair worse then those who don't. Mostly they are sadly pathetically lost. They are quite literally lost in this film. When they get someplace that wasn't their original destination in the first place they attempt to take dominion over it but fail at that as well. (This takes place entirely in Northern Europe and possibly North America during the Crusades so I won't bring non-western non-christian morality into this review.)

This film ultimately makes the viewer think about the division between identifying yourself as an independent individual and identifying yourself only as a part of a group. I don't want to give away spoilers but there is a point during which a faceless mass of people (who I think represent the group collective version of survival) that serve as a counterpoint to One Eye who is nothing if not the ultimate stand-apart loner.

It was hard to watch Valhalla Rising and I think a lot of people will find it boring. Hell, I thought large swaths of it was snore-worthy. However, I still think it's worth a watch if for nothing else than you get to see one ultimate rough badass beat the shit out of people and have psychic visions of the future.

 

[A22]

Mr. Brooks - didn't like it.

The movie goes too fast. There should be more scenes showing Mr. Brooks illogical reasoning and methods. After all it's a psycho movie, I guess it's supposed to show the lifestyle, history and "adventures" so to speak of the psycho or the detectives who chase him. But most of the movie is pretty lame action scenes. Not killings with Mr. Brooks envolved, but mostly car chases and firefighting by Det. Atwood. In the kidnap scene for instance, laws of physics don't apply. Oh and call me crazy but I didn't like the acting by Demi Moore.

Quoting a review from IMDB user osyenka

This movie is bad. The acting... eh, passable. I guess. It's hard to tell given the ghastly characters the actors were given to animate. The main character is the only one who can be called 3 dimensional, and that's only because his id hangs out in the backseat filling us in. Cheaters.

The main character is the only one with half a brain. The writer lets you know repeatedly that he's exceptionally brilliant. The usual cat-and-mouse that is the fun part of a murder mystery is completely absent. The detective has no amazing insights. She has a hunch. Yes, that's the brilliant sleuthing with which the writer has decided will entertain us. The only thing we know about the detective is that she's going through an idiotic divorce, where we're supposed to feel sorry for her for having to give up 1/60th of her networth. That's it. Oh. And there's a vapid "revelation" at the end about her life's motivations.

Death is never realistic. None of the victims are made to be remotely sympathetic or even human except in the sense of being human-shaped. They're just plot points. The only exceptions are a couple of people we've met just long enough to establish them as Scummy Enough To Kill.

Worst of all, he has no idea of the horror that is murder. Clearly to this writer it's an abstract idea that moves the plot along and provides some gore with which to wash it down. If you're going to do gore, go over the top and make it cartoonish, a la Sin City or any Tarantino. Then we can enjoy it. Mr. Brooks, however fails as a cartoon, and fails as a horror film. That just leaves us with thriller, and this amount of context-less blood is out of place. Chandler described Hammet as "having taken murder out of the drawing room and dumped it in the alley where it belonged". If this movie is any indication, significant backsliding has taken place.

 

[Starfishtea]

Feast, but I didn't get to see all of it. It was hilarious.

 

[Tungsten]

I'm not sure. From Hell, I guess.

 

[Meer]

I just saw Pi for the first time, after a blunt.

 

[A22]

I just saw Pi for the first time, after a blunt.

1998 Pi? I was planning to watch it. Did you like it?

 

[Ennis]

Låt den rätte komma in

Let The Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist. My current obsession, most probably bound to languish given time. Smitten with it. At the risk of spoiling anything, I blatantly refuse to delve much into the synopsis. Watch it blind, know nothing. Adolescent love story mingled with horror, it is a Swedish film but an English translation is readily accessible. Also a novel, I happened upon the film before the novel; both are splendid, though plots differ, to an extent.

 

[thelithiumcat]

The Green Lantern. Soon afterwards I decided the power of my purple ring is logic.

I've seen Inception and since my dad bought the [still unwatched] DVD it's been staring at me.

 

[Puffy]

Stalker - A great spiritual allegory

Sans Soleil - it's a kind of film essay on memory. I thought it captured the fluidity of thought perfectly.

One flew over the cuckoo's nest - I appreciated all the metaphors behind it as it gave me a lot to mull over; Jack Nicholson is just an awesome actor as well.

I watch a lot of films at the moment it would seem..

 

[Joz_helloworld]

I've been into Pirate movies ever since I was little.. I can't wait for the Pirates 4 movie. Going to watch all 3 movies right before I watch that one.

Oh dear. I am old.

I watched The Children of Men. This was outrageously good. I recommend to everyone most highly.

I watched Monster. I really, really enjoyed it. It is not for everyone, a lot of people complain it is slow. I love that though, suspense, enough happens to keep me interested, beautiful cinematography, layered story...
(Not the one about serial killers, the one about... monsters...)


Rambo was on the tele last night. Yeah, I like the first one a lot. The others are good enough I suppose but they lose the whole 'outsider' sub-plot. I'm not above watching a man fall from a cliff and survive.

 

[Cheeseumpuffs]

500 Days of Summer.

Great movie. Very well written and witty humor. And even though it ends how it starts it still feels like it got somewhere.

 

[BigApplePi]

The Hustler (black & white). Saw this film decades ago and waited to see it again. It is the most terrifying movie I've ever seen. (More so that "Alien" by far and it has nothing to do with sci fi.) I wonder why?

 

[A22]

Stalker - A great spiritual allegory

The Russian movie? I've tried to watch it three times. Felt asleep before the movie ended all three times.