What is the latest movie you watched and what did you think of it?

Sex Drive
7/10

really good movie :)

College: Unrated

9/10 i love sexual homor movies lol :P

The Lost Samaritan 2008 - 8.5/10

Doubt , same old church bashing but great acting .

I didn't really get the "same old church bashing" vibe from Doubt, more stereotype reinforcement than anything.

21, was pretty good. 6,5/10

Sex Drive
and highschool3

Sex Drive - 7.5/10

Pride And Glory 9/10

Cc2c

The Nine Lives Of Fritz The Cat
6/10

The lasted movie that I watched was Saw V.

Changeling 10/10

The Island ( arabic movie ) 10/10 and IP man 1000000000/10 really great movie

Changelin
8/10

Changeling (9/10) here too; surprised me because I didn't think I was going to like it very much.

Torremolinos 73

Outlander.

The premise for this movie was cooked in a bong...
Whoa dude, what if Predator met the Vikings?
How could it fail?

Well, in almost every way actually.
I have so many nits to pick that a proper enumeration would take longer than the movie itself- never a good sign.
Suffice to say...
In too many scenes the hero, James Caviezel, reminded me more of Zoolander than a mercenary space Viking.

Made me root for the alien most of the time.

Had this been a made-for-TV movie shown on the Sci-fi Channel, I'd cut it some slack but alas, you're expected to shell out cash (or burn up some bandwidth, like I did) and you really deserve so much more.

Skip it and hope that the new Underworld is better.

I just saw Sex Drive. I just couldn't stop laughing.

7/10 ;)

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Originally Posted by clocker

Outlander.

The premise for this movie was cooked in a bong...
Whoa dude, what if Predator met the Vikings?
How could it fail?

Well, in almost every way actually.
I have so many nits to pick that a proper enumeration would take longer than the movie itself- never a good sign.
Suffice to say...
In too many scenes the hero, James Caviezel, reminded me more of Zoolander than a mercenary space Viking.

Made me root for the alien most of the time.

Had this been a made-for-TV movie shown on the Sci-fi Channel, I'd cut it some slack but alas, you're expected to shell out cash (or burn up some bandwidth, like I did) and you really deserve so much more.

Skip it and hope that the new Underworld is better.

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Outlander was really really really bad :frusty:

Taken
7/10 really great movie :)

Just finished watching Slumdog Millionare, was pretty good. 9/10.

Seven Pounds 2008 9/10

slumdog millionaire
8.5/10 damn good

21-Kevin Spacey, Jim Sturgess, Kate Bosworth.

Risky Business for the new millennium.
MIT students, lead by their shady professor (Spacey), become experts at counting cards and take Vegas for mucho dinero.
Naturally, this does not go unnoticed (nothing in Vegas goes unnoticed) and mayhem ensues.

Based on a true story- which I suspect is not as dramatic as the movie- this film actually captures a lot of the atmosphere of a casino and the desperate excitement they engender.
Capable cast, solid script, bouncy music and cinematography make for an enjoyable few hours.

Really, pair 21 with Risky Business...the parallels are significant.

Slum Dog Millionaire

saw Tropic Thunder at home yesterday
and Mall cop on Saturday

Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
Well, I finally get Mila Kunis.
A breakthrough role, she finally transcends the bod and becomes the kind of person I'd actually like to spend some time with.
I think there were some other people in the movie too.

Oh yeah, Russel Brand...he was kind of amusing and Jack McBrayer expands on his role from 30 Rock.

Did I mention Mila Kunis?

Chicago 10, unlike my expectation, i was surprised to see good sides of it.

just finish watching changeling
it's a good ~

The last was Wanted. Awesome!

Annie Hall
5/10

Napoleon Dynamite. Kinda funny, but overrated.

Body of Lies 8/10

slumdog millionaire...was good. didnt drag on unlike seven pounds (snore)

The Thing
7/10

Well, last night turned into Outrage Theater, although I didn't mean for it to.
Admittedly, I should have seen it coming (I knew the general outline of both films) but completely underestimated my vulnerability.

So I paired Changeling with Defiance and fed my inner apoplectic.

Both films involve the brutal suppression of humanity by institutional means- in one case the German army, in the other, the LA police force.

Of the two movies, Defiance is probably the most hopeful but Changeling had the greater effect.

Oddly, right after watching Changeling, the comparison I came up with was to Night Of The Living Dead.
This was not a spurious thought...NOTLD made such an impression on me because it was the first movie I remember (keep in mind I saw this when it first came out) where nobody makes it out alive...everyone gets fucked.
Changeling ends the same way- we're informed that the mother never finds/sees her son again.
No happy, uplifting ending here, folks.

Both films were very watchable although I had the slightly niggling problem with Angelina Jolie that I always have...it's hard to get past the exterior to appreciate the interior. She does a great job of acting but how do you dismiss the thought that she's basically a goddess and in any era would be a movie star, not a single mom working a deadend job?

There is also a line in the movie that you could spot coming from a million miles away (you'll know it when you see it) but it was a pleasure watching Jolie deliver it, so I'll give Eastwood a pass.

Unlike Jolie in Changeling, Daniel Craig actually looked physically appropriate for his role in Defiance- he's not a conventionally handsome man and didn't "outpretty" his company.
This went a long way towards immersing me in the movie and although Defiance is the more formulaic of the two, it's easily the more palatable because of the rosier ending.

They're both good movies, watch either to get a good dose of moral outrage but beware pairing them together, life is depressing enough without immersing yourself in celluloid despair.

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Both films were very watchable although I had the slightly niggling problem with Angelina Jolie that I always have...it's hard to get past the exterior to appreciate the interior. She does a great job of acting but how do you dismiss the thought that she's basically a goddess and in any era would be a movie star, not a single mom working a deadend job?

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I call it the Tony Curtis effect(as in "Yonder lies the castle of my fad-dah.")where a certain aspect of an actor, no matter what else is going on onscreen,is too distracting to overlook.

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Originally Posted by clocker

Oddly, right after watching Changeling, the comparison I came up with was to Night Of The Living Dead.
This was not a spurious thought...NOTLD made such an impression on me because it was the first movie I remember (keep in mind I saw this when it first came out) where nobody makes it out alive...everyone gets fucked.

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Some times a cigar is just a cigar.

I don't really know what that means but it sounds deep so I thought it might apply here.
If not I'm sure it will come in handy somewhere else.

Million Dollar Baby
8/10

Seven Pounds 10/10

Defiance 7/10