Last movie you watched

[Awaken]

adding to my list:

Triangle- I would recommend this one out of all the ones I listed. Probably the last "horror" movie I have watched that I actually liked.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1187064/


The Signal
Let the Right One in: Not the American version, the original

 

[Awaken]

Edit: Just realized there is a separate thread for horror movies. So, I will stop derailing the thread and actually post the last movie I watched.


I have seen this movie before, but recently decided to watch it again. It is interesting the power that the human eye has.


http://www.nfb.ca/film/madame_tutli_putli_en/

 

[lucky12]

500 days of summer.

Reminded me of my last relationship..

It was an awesome movie though. Good acting.

 

[Zionoxis]

I recently watched Batman Begins due to my seeing Dark Knight before I saw the first one. I want to be a ninja...

 

[lucky12]

The grey.

Please see it in a good theater. One of my all time favorites.

 

[Cavallier]

Into The Abyss - It's a Herzog documentary about death row inmates in Texas. I expected a rumination on the morality of who gets to choose when a person dies and for what reason. While that was definately there I was actually more interested in the culture of violence and substance abuse that these people live in. I found one part hilarious and got dirty looks for laughing in the theater. It was just so obsurd. There was a woman whose brother was killed. Her mother died of a disease. Her father (who was to be the minister in her wedding in 6 months) died when his truck was hit by a train. Her younger brother and the family dog were also in the truck when it was hit and everyone died. It was the dog that did me in. I just couldn't sit there silently any more. What a strange strange place to live in. Yet, it's not so strange I guess. There are many places where everyone lives on the edge of violence and lawlessness. Innocents are killed by the shrapnel of other people's live blowing apart. These are places where someone gets stabbed in the chest with a philips head screw driver and then don't go to the hospital because they don't want to be late for work. This is considered a sign of responsabilty. This turned out to be a good documentary though not for the same reasons it set out to be.

Jane Eyre - I watched it for Michael Fassbender. I've been on a Fassbender kick lately. I've decided he's a damn fine actor. This film did not really stretch him much but it was visually interesting. I think the director expected the audience to know the plot of Jane Eyre and did not bother to really tell the story with any sense of continuity. I am saddened that the scene in the book where Rochester dresses up as an old gypsy woman in order to prank his high society party friends wasn't in the film. I would have killed to see Fassbender perform that.

Hunger - Like I said, Fassbender kick. This movie made me realize I don't know a damn thing about the IRA struggles in Ireland. I paused the movie every few minutes to google or wiki various bits of history. It was a good movie and Fassbender is believably frail near the end. He apparently lost some 50 lbs in order to look starved. Most of the movie is silent. I appreciate the way the movie doesn't really demonize one side of the struggle. I got the sense that the struggle was a machine of bloody violence that no single person had any real power to stop. It was very bleak. I enjoyed the circular argument Fassbender's character has with his priest. Ultimately they seem to be arguing for life but go about it in different ways. Very very good movie. Very very depressing.

Haywire - It's a fun little double crossed espionage flick. I generally enjoy Soderbergh films. This one did not disappoint. Now, the plot is generic espionage material but Haywire is a good example of such. I also appreciate that the main female charcter is played by the worlds 3rd ranked female mixed martial artist. She makes the fight scenes seem more realistic. She shows a lot of interesting Jiu Jitzu. Also, I love me some Ewan McGregor as a slimeball.

 

[Awaken]

@Cavallier

Did the voice-over in Haywire seem out of place or was it unnoticeable?

 

[Jennywocky]

Chronicle.

I took my teenage INTP son to it. We both enjoyed it, although he commented that it was darker than he expected... still, he said that didn't make it bad.

Haywire - It's a fun little double crossed espionage flick. I generally enjoy Soderbergh films. This one did not disappoint. Now, the plot is generic espionage material but Haywire is a good example of such. I also appreciate that the main female charcter is played by the worlds 3rd ranked female mixed martial artist. She makes the fight seens seem more realistic. She shows a lot of interesting Jiu Jitzu. Also, I love me some Ewan McGregor as a slimball.

He was not just slim, but slime too.

It was kinda fun to see all those leading-man types playing skeeves of some level or another.

I think Soderbergh is an acquired taste for many, if ever. His films are interesting to me in the same way Coen Brothers films are interesting, but kind of emotionally flat -- he did Contagion too, correct? And the remake of Solaris? (among a bunch of things)

I do enjoy the fact he works cross-genre, I tend to respect him and Danny Boyle and Ridley Scott and others who aren't stuck in one type of film.

 

[Cavallier]

^ACK! Fixed.

He also did Erin Brockovich which was a surprise for me. I agree though. His films are often a little flat but like that in a movie. I think they come off more as cool than lacking emtion though. Perhaps it's the same thing. *shrug* I like them for it.

@Awaken : I did not notice the voice over. Yet, I did come away from it thinking her voice was too perfect. It wasn't distracting though. Besides, I was too busy being captivated by her crushing people with her thighs.

 

[kantor1003]

Dogville, and I've got to say that it is now one of my all time favorite movies.

 

[Jennywocky]

He also did Erin Brockovich which was a surprise for me.

I didn't realize that he did that one. (I haven't seen it either.)

I agree though. His films are often a little flat but like that in a movie. I think they come off more as cool than lacking emtion though. Perhaps it's the same thing. *shrug* I like them for it.

It was weird... Another "cool" director is Michael Mann, especially "Heat." I love that movie, but it definitely just a straight-forward "let the story speak for itself" picture.

Dogville, and I got to say that it is now one of my all time favorite movies.

I need to watch that again. I remember my first viewing, years ago, it was very intense.

 

[kantor1003]

I need to watch that again. I remember my first viewing, years ago, it was very intense.

Yes, it was a strange experience. There were several instances were I almost cried, but it wasn't in the usual sense. I don't know if I can explain it, however.

 

[soupymess]

Man on Wire

Really great. The scene where Philippe's being bounced on a practice-wire while 'An Eye For Optical Theory' plays made my body feel all stupid.

 

[MizKodomo]

Train Spotting
I've been meaning to watch it for a while, glad I finally did

 

[Cavallier]

Restrepo - This is a documentary put together by conflict photojournalist Tim Hetherington (who died recently) and Sabastian Junger. This was not what I expected. It wasn't biased. It wasn't narrated or given any real framework at all. It was just some cobbled together videos of a group of soldiers in the middle of the worst part of Afghanistan. It was very good. The soldiers were real people and the footage showed that.

Fish Tank - Everybody has seen, read, or experienced the story of an angry young man coming of age. Well, this is the story of an angry young woman. I was impressed with the young female lead's ability. She captured the frustrated and bored desperation of a 15 year old British girl stuck in a hell hole. Fassbender was wonderful. His was a hard part to play without coming across as a jackass. On some level he manages to make your like him despite in the end being a selfish and ultimately destructive son of a bitch. All the actors did a good job. If you lived any place less than middle class you know these people. This was a good movie.

Drive - I heard this movie described as a Neon Noir and I completely agree. It was dark, brooding, bloody, and so much fun. There were exquisite slow silent emotionally pregnant moments that served as a counter point to the noisy loud stomp someone's skull in moments. This is the first film of Ryan Gosling's that I actually liked. It could be because he kept his mouth shut for most of it. In fact it's what his character doesn't say that makes this movie so wonderful. It's the usual "ultimate act for the unobtainable girl" sort of movie but between Gosling's performance and the director's ability to cut out every extraneous flashy moment that Hollywood usually puts in this movie was really great. I recommend it.

 

[snafupants]

Restrepo - This is a documentary put together by conflict photojournalist Tim Hetherington (who died recently) and Sabastian Junger. This was not what I expected. It wasn't biased. It wasn't narrated or given any real framework at all. It was just some cobbled together videos of a group of soldiers in the middle of the worst part of Afghanistan. It was very good. The soldiers were real people and the footage showed that.

Fish Tank - Everybody has seen, read, or experienced the story of an angry young man coming of age. Well, this is the story of an angry young woman. I was impressed with the young female lead's ability. She captured the frustrated and bored desperation of a 15 year old British girl stuck in a hell hole. Fassbender was wonderful. His was a hard part to play without coming across as a jackass. On some level he manages to make your like him despite in the end being a selfish and ultimately destructive son of a bitch. All the actors did a good job. If you lived any place less than middle class you know these people. This was a good movie.

Drive - I heard this movie described as a Neon Noir and I completely agree. It was dark, brooding, bloody, and so much fun. There were exquisite slow silent emotionally pregnant moments that served as a counter point to the noisy loud stomp someone's skull in moments. This is the first film of Ryan Gosling's that I actually liked. It could be because he kept his mouth shut for most of it. In fact it's what his character doesn't say that makes this movie so wonderful. It's the usual "ultimate act for the unobtainable girl" sort of movie but between Gosling's performance and the director's ability to cut out every extraneous flashy moment that Hollywood usually puts in this movie was really great. I recommend it.

Restrepo struck me as overcooked and ham-handed. I had an argument with a stranger on a train about that movie: her son was serving proudly in the military. I guess I give the movie credit for spotlighting something important. Fish Tank was wonderful though; I felt so bad for her in the strip club. These situations arise when a girl's mentality lags behind her appearance. The idea was similar to An Education, although the plot and style were somehow completely different.

 

[A22]

Psycho.

Didn't like the shower scene nor the ending, but it's a very nice movie. That suspense music gives me goosebumps lol

 

[Puffy]

@A22 Why didn't you like the shower scene or the ending? Just curious.

I love the shower scene for its place in the movie. You're accustomed to the character and her troubles, which have taken up the majority of the screen before it, so you expect her to be the star, then 30 minutes in half of the main cast is taken away by her killing. I found it really unsettling, which is pretty cool for a horror film.

The killing itself as this interruption in the film closely parallels the nature of murder as an interruption on someones life, imo. Seeing her bathe in the shower then suddenly get attacked by staccato knife strikes made me think of a bird in a bird bath before you see a cat pounce at it, or another bird of prey swoop on it. (That he stuffs birds/ taxodermy/ kind of points to this as well.)

The ending only irritated me in that I found the psychologist's explanation a bit forced. It's like he had to explain everything when it didn't seem necessary, we can provide our own rationale for what happened - it's present within the film itself - that kind of commentary doesn't really add anything to it. I really like that last image of Perkins with his Mother's face over his though, I thought that was pretty neat.

 

[Puffy]

I have to do a presentation on Alain Resnais's film Night and Fog later in the week so I watched one of his other films Hiroshima Mon Amour yesterday.

It opens with a documentary of the Hiroshima atrocity as told by a French lady who is visiting the city (10 years on) and is going through the traces of its remains in news-reels, hospitals and things, but she is continually interrupted by her partner who insists she never saw anything. It's kind of deconstructing the documentary genre and questioning whether the illusion of reality you get on the screen, or its traces, will bring you back to the event.

The rest of the film tells Hiroshima through the parallel story of this lady's break-down and reconstruction. I think the film borders on being a bit pretentious, but it's a fun one to mull over. It pioneered the use of editing in flash images to represent flashes of memory, apparantly, and was influential on French New Wave (though I haven't seen that many to be honest.) I've concluded, so far, that I quite like Alain Resnais though. Really thought provoking, especially on memory as a subject.

 

[A22]

@A22 Why didn't you like the shower scene or the ending? Just curious.

I love the shower scene for its place in the movie. You're accustomed to the character and her troubles, which have taken up the majority of the screen before it, so you expect her to be the star, then 30 minutes in half of the main cast is taken away by her killing. I found it really unsettling, which is pretty cool for a horror film.

The killing itself as this interruption in the film closely parallels the nature of murder as an interruption on someones life, imo. Seeing her bathe in the shower then suddenly get attacked by staccato knife strikes made me think of a bird in a bird bath before you see a cat pounce at it, or another bird of prey swoop on it. (That he stuffs birds/ taxodermy/ kind of points to this as well.)

huh, I didn't stop to think about that. That's very clever indeed. What I didn't like was the scene itself, I mean, you can see the stabbing is fake, it doesn't seem real you know. Maybe my standards are too high, since I haven't watch old (70,60,80s) movies lately

The ending only irritated me in that I found the psychologist's explanation a bit forced. It's like he had to explain everything when it didn't seem necessary, we can provide our own rationale for what happened - it's present within the film itself - that kind of commentary doesn't really add anything to it. I really like that last image of Perkins with his Mother's face over his though, I thought that was pretty neat.

That's exactly why I didn't like the ending - the psychologist explaining what was pretty obvious, as if we weren't able to understand by ourselves.

 

[Code_Name_Ozz]

Ray

 

[Cavallier]

The Cabin in the Woods was fantastic! Joss. Whedon...honey. Baby Cakes. You've done it again. It had everything including Cthulhu. Will you finally let me have your children?

I laughed so hard so many times. As always when this happens everyone in the theater was silent except myself. I felt the urge to ask, "What? What? It's funny! Why aren't you laughing?".

 

[eagor]

the lion in winter, if you think your family is dysfunctional i suggest you watch this movie.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

War of the Gargantuas

Just your average B-movie horror film...

 

[Sanctum]

I finally Watched Chronicle, which has now become my favorite movie

 

[NoID10ts]

I watched "We Need to Talk About Kevin" last night and that Kevin kid was a little creep. It was a pretty good movie. Disturbing, thought provoking. Especially with regards to the nature vs nurture debate. I just can't get over what a litle shit that Kevin kid was.

Looks for that kid hitting thread

 

[lungs]

suicide circle, a few days ago.

at first i laughed at it and thought it was just campy but i ended up getting sucked into the atmosphere of it.

 

[Yogi]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL3ZIc5IL2w

 

[MizKodomo]

Grave of the Fireflies... Gets me every time, no joke...

 

[lungs]

just finished watching the machinist.

the slow pace was a little painful for me but i had to keep watching to see it unravel (it was kind of anti-climatic though). half the time all i could think was, "how the hell did christian bale get so skinny?"

 

[A22]

Re-watched Blade Runner, the version with <spoiler alert>

Spoiler

the scene in which Deckard dreams with an unicorn, which implies he's an replicant

best movie ever made, specially this version

just finished watching the machinist.

the slow pace was a little painful for me but i had to keep watching to see it unravel (it was kind of anti-climatic though). half the time all i could think was, "how the hell did christian bale get so skinny?"

I think it was a heck of a movie <spoiler alert>

Spoiler

didn't see that "twist" in the end coming

 

[chatvite]

Troll Hunter with a fellow INTP, an INTJ and an ESTP. There was much rejoicing.

 

[MichiganJFrog]

Saw Moonrise Kingdom on Sunday. Kind of mannered, but I liked it anyway. It was like J.D. Salinger meets the Coen brothers. Not sure how to type the two MCs, other than "disaffected," though I'd tend toward introvert for the male MC, at least.

 

[lungs]

twelve monkeys. one of the best movies i've seen in a little while.

 

[thelithiumcat]

Zero Effect. It's on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1XNw9n6Hu8 Article I got the idea from said the main character is a suspected INTP. Whether he is or not, he seems to be very interesting. He's a bit like Sherlock Holmes. He's a detective and he finds answers easily in an unusual way. I can see how he might be an INTP, though. He is markedly different from Sherlock Holmes in his demeanour.

 

[BigApplePi]

At your suggestion, "Zero Effect." Glad I did. Enjoyed this movie. I wonder if one needs to be an INTP to appreciate it? The girl ... ISFJ?

 

[snafupants]

Saw Moonrise Kingdom on Sunday. Kind of mannered, but I liked it anyway. It was like J.D. Salinger meets the Coen brothers. Not sure how to type the two MCs, other than "disaffected," though I'd tend toward introvert for the male MC, at least.

Have you seen a Wes Anderson movie before? Darjeeling Limited? Life Aquatic? Rushmore? The Royal Tenenbaums? The aesthetic is pretty constant, until Fantastic Mr. Fox at least.

 

[Ninjamanda]

Grave of the Fireflies... Gets me every time, no joke...

Me too, the first time I watched it, I couldn't stop crying.

Unfortunately the last movie I watched was The Hangover 2.

 

[snafupants]

Moneyball. I read about two reviews before and two reviews after watching the film. The reviews which impugned the movie for being schizophrenic and undecided, or which negative encapsulated the movie as part character study, part family comedy, part baseball/statistics flick (how is that bad?), didn't make much sense to me. The movie was a character study of Billy Beane, spruced up with comedic elements (Jonah Hill), and Beane's integrity and doggedness. That's beautiful in itself; every movie, moreover, needs dramatic and comedic elements; life is tragicomic. Reviewers like Ken Hanke basically missed the emotional, and therefore aesthetic, thrust of the movie.

 

[MichiganJFrog]

Have you seen a Wes Anderson movie before? Darjeeling Limited? Life Aquatic? Rushmore? The Royal Tenenbaums?

I've seen the last two several times each, actually. I thought what saved those films from imploding under the weight of their solipsistic and esoteric atmosphere were, respectively, Olivia Williams and Gene Hackman. To me, the characters they portrayed said "Let's just cut the crap. Here's what all this dysfunctional, ironic bullshit is really about." In Moonrise Kingdom, no such fully realized character intruded into Anderson's otherwise carefully constructed dream world. For me, the emotional hook in that film were the library books the female lead was constantly reading.

I referenced the Coen brothers for two reasons:

1. The level of violence in Moonrise Kingdom seemed higher than usual for Anderson. It went beyond mere cartoonishness.
   
2. I realize that characters in movies are there to make a narrow, targeted statement more than they are to reflect any complex reality as I might recognize it. They are a comment on reality, rather than reality itself. Even by that standard, though, most of Anderson's characters (with the exceptions noted above), like those of the Coen brothers, seem to display an especially narrow and almost robotic range of emotions. They never really let you in. I suppose that's the point.

 

[Grove]

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Not even kidding. My roommate and I went, and I'm pretty sure we were the only two there under 60. It was good...yay Judi Dench!

 

[BigApplePi]

This movie is waay over my head.

The Fisher King - Terry Gilliam - Jeff Bridges - Robin Williams - full movie (vost) 1991

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tasy1xZwZBk&feature=related

 

[A22]

Heat and Falling Down

Heat made me dream about loneliness
Falling Down made me want to buy a gun

 

[Wasp]

Saw Shame a while back. Felt like I was punched in the face.

 

[NoID10ts]

Saw Gaspar Noe's "Enter the Void" the other day and that was a head trip of a movie. A first person perspective death story based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead. More of a trippy experience than anything else. It's not for mixed company, though. It's unrated, but if it had a rating it would be NC-17, at minimum.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKRxDP--e-Y

 

[Agent Intellect]

Watched "Melancholia" a few days ago. The second half of the movie was great. I had a dream about it that night that gave me a decent idea for a story.

 

[Peeps999]

I recently watched Primer for the second time. If you want a movie that will rape your brain in every way possible, watch it.

 

[MizKodomo]

Blue Velvet... Meh. Not my favorite Lynch film

 

[Cavallier]

Prometheus - I enjoyed it for the big Hollywood flick that it was. I loved David of course. He was ambiguous which makes him more interesting to me. There were a few scenes that felt shoe horned into place in order to provide the sort of big budget thrills people expect.

 

[Polaris]

Ted, the movie. Did I miss something?

Dear Forum members.

My INFP friend and myself had some poor choices of movies last night as the school holidays are on. The choices were narrowed down to Snow White and the Huntsman, Prometheus, and Ted after much procrastinating (two hours over dinner, but we were determined to see a movie as she is a single mum and doesn't get out much).

Anyway, after much agonising and leaning strongly towards Prometheus (would have been my obvious choice if alone), but deciding against it in the end as we were ready for a laugh, and not the seemingly repetitive and obvious plot of Ridley Scott's latest (although I am a huge fan of his Alien movies). Nevermind.

We sat down in a nearly full theater; anticipation could be felt.

And for the next couple of hours (or what felt like a couple of hours), we both sat there like two horrified prudes; squirming in our seats and exchanging the occasional baffled glance as the audience roared around us.

Ok, so I have never seen Family Guy, neither has my friend.

Perhaps one has to be a fan of his TV work to appreciate this kind of humour, I understand that.

But I generally found it irritatingly predictable, cliched and poorly written. The only thing that kept us sitting through were the performances of Mark Wahlberg and the female lead (sorry, forgot her name). Credit to them, and to Mr. Flash Gordon himself.

It struck me after some time that the director's intention was perhaps a more clever way at pointing fingers at someone, but at whom? The people laughing in the audience? The people not laughing (me)? The people being ridiculed in the jokes? Obviously not. I find the comedy of Sasha Baron Cohen to be funny and quite clever, but this one has completely got me mystified.

Someone, please enlighten me?