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

The Book of Eli

Maybe if a mod could just remove the "what was the last movie you watched "part and leave the rest?:frusty:

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Originally Posted by IdolEyes787

Maybe if a mod could just remove the "what was the last movie you watched "part and leave the rest?:frusty:

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I enjoyed the last movie I saw. It had plenty of action, well-thought script, brilliant acting, truly great! 10/10

We watched A-Team last knight. http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:C...he-A-Team1.jpg
Very great Action sequences, we laughed all the times. This one is definitely worth checking out 7.5/10 stars

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Originally Posted by megabyteme

I enjoyed the last movie I saw. It had plenty of action, well-thought script, brilliant acting, truly great! 10/10

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I sure another Travolta's great performance :D

Knight and Day - 2010

watched this cuz i was bored. i don't hate either tom cruise or cameron diaz. really wish cameron would go back to her 1994 the mask look. that's the only time she's ever looked good. as for tom being in this it seems kinda redundant or expected. if ur in the mood for a mission impossiblesque type film (sorta) this will kinda tide u over. there's a little action and random gun spray and that's about it. sleeping potions, batteries and sunglasses. 4/10

White Wall 4.8/10 waste of time ...

The Karate Kid - 2010

first off let me say i wasn't expecting to like this film at all. second thing i'd like to say is it wasn't all that bad. while i don't think jaden was a good choice i do think he did well in the role. i mean, this is supposed to be a remake of the original, right? going from the 23 year old italian to the 12 year old african kid just didn't work well with me. i thought jackie did a good job. there's little to no comedy involved here and that's ok. it's mostly pure drama and pulled off well.

the movie sorta follows in the footsteps of the original minus the setting. this time instead of staying in the states he moves overseas, and one other very important aspect that was changed completely. i can see how the sequel will start off just like the originals sequel for those awaiting more smith family tree.

for those wanting a remake that doesn't completely destroy it's original taste (too much) this is an ok watch. worth a 2nd watch? not for a couple years i suppose. corn rolls, angry asians and snake charmers. 6.5/10

Prince of Persia. Thought it was 2 hours of my life that just drained away.
Pure rubbish as the acting was so bad I kept cringing.
Looking forward to the A Team.

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The Karate Kid - 2010

first off let me say i wasn't expecting to like this film at all. second thing i'd like to say is it wasn't all that bad. while i don't think jaden was a good choice i do think he did well in the role. i mean, this is supposed to be a remake of the original, right? going from the 23 year old italian to the 12 year old african kid just didn't work well with me. i thought jackie did a good job. there's little to no comedy involved here and that's ok. it's mostly pure drama and pulled off well.

the movie sorta follows in the footsteps of the original minus the setting. this time instead of staying in the states he moves overseas, and one other very important aspect that was changed completely. i can see how the sequel will start off just like the originals sequel for those awaiting more smith family tree.

for those wanting a remake that doesn't completely destroy it's original taste (too much) this is an ok watch. worth a 2nd watch? not for a couple years i suppose. corn rolls, angry asians and snake charmers. 6.5/10

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Pretty much totally agree with everything you said.
Except to placate father Will's nepotism and maybe better appeal to the kid market it made absolutely no sense to have a 12 year in that role as it sort of defeats the whole purpose of the "boy becomes a man" thing.

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Originally Posted by brisker

Prince of Persia. Thought it was 2 hours of my life that just drained away.
Pure rubbish as the acting was so bad I kept cringing.
Looking forward to the A Team.

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What I found unbelievable ( besides the "need' to have JG attempt an English accent ) was how shitty the ending was.
I mean I don't know if you remember the original Sands of Time game on which the movie is more or less based but the ending to it was utterly brilliant .Ten years later I still remember and look back fondly at it .Doubt very much ten years from now that I will be saying the same thing about the movie.:dabs:

Our Man in Havana

Obviously this was Le Carre's inspiration for the Tailor of Panama a great novel but unfortunately not a great movie. The "original" is an underrated movie with sir Alec Guiness as a vacuum cleaner salesman who is recruited to spy for Britain. The movie is filmed in Havana just after Castro and the city is an excellent background for the "spy" story. Graham Greene's collaborations with Reed is a unique mix of comedy,drama and suspence.A very well scripted, directed, photographed, and performed movie imho.

Avatar
Didn't like it at all. Storyline was so predictable and corny just like the majority of Hollywood these days!

Green.Zone 7/10
Good movie and the storyline was decent

avatar
nice dating movie

green zone...

nice relax action movie

I've been on something of a foreign movie kick lately, mainly because current American releases don't appeal.

Here are a couple of the best.

Cell 211- Spain, 2009.
Simply one of the best films I've seen in a while.

A freshly minted prison guard is stranded in a rioting cell block and pretends to be a new prisoner to survive.

The cool thing about this movie is that the characters are smart and it's assumed the audience is too, so the story unfolds without unnecessary exposition or explanation.
Shit happens, people react and more shit happens- there's no helpful pseudo-character to recap and bring the audience up to speed.

Excellent subtitles.

The Millennium Trilogy- based on the bestselling books by Stieg Larsson (Sweden).

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest, are the story of Lisbeth Salander, a young Swedish girl who's horrific childhood has molded her into a very unique character.

Beautifully played by Noomi Rapace, Salander is tough, resourceful and determined.
She's also isolated, scared and lonely, hardly able to handle a normal social interaction.

The movies are not as political as the books (which is understandable), mainly focusing on Salander, relegating the book's co-protagonist, a left-wing reporter/editor, to a decidedly secondary role.

Production values are more BBC- level television than American cinema and the subtitles are truly awful (and weirdly sporadic) but Salander's character (and Rapace's actressin') overcome both deficiencies.

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is being remade in Hollywood ( just like Let The Right One In, another Scandinavian blockbuster).
I'm sure both productions will look better- and being in English, I'll understand them easier- but I'll wager that neither will be as good as the originals.

Grown Ups - 2010

worst movie ever? i generally don't mind adam sandler's films, but this was just horrible. i think i might have smiled twice, but i don't remember the moment. i've also heard that a lot of ppl are mad @ the fact that kevin james took chris farley's spot. tbh, i like KJ (i loved king of queens) and never really liked CF. there's zero reason to watch this film. 1/10

Twilight: Eclipse - 2010

i have no idea why i watched this. i guess i'm waiting for it to get good? does it get good? this was actually worse than grown ups. is that even possible? yes. all this movie is about is 2 cocks verbally fighting over 1 vagina. that's the whole movie. lol, how the hell does this make $68 million opening day on a wednesday? if ur in to 2 younger idiots fighting over a non-attractive chic this movie is for u. 0/10

I watched the latest movie is Ip man 2. Chinese Kung Fu ... ...

Final Exam.
i don't appreciate the end.

Reversal Of Fortune (1990)- Glenn Close, Ron Silver, Jeremy Irons.
Based on the book by Alan Dershowitz, the movie explores the appeal of Claus von Bulow (Irons), convicted of the attempted murder of his wife, Sunny (Glenn Close).
Silver plays Dershowitz, who was von Bulow's attorney for the appeal.

The von Bulow case was a sensation in the Eighties, featuring socialites (Sunny was a Rhode Island heiress) and a spectacularly creepy defendent (in the movie Dershowitz tells von Bulow "You're a very strange man" , von Bulow replies "You have no idea").

Irons won the Oscar for Best Actor, deservedly so.

Universally considered to be guilty, Irons brings von Bulow to life as an icy, calculating asshole who nevertheless evokes viewer sympathy even as you distrust and maybe even hate him.
Now that's acting.

Two interesting factoids...
Dershowitz went on to later be a part of OJ Simpson's defense team.

A medical study of coma patients depicted in film (von Bulow was only convicted of "attempted" murder because Sunny lingered in a coma and didn't die until 2008) ranked Reversal of Fortune as one of only two medically accurate portrayals.

Cool movie.

The Last Seduction (1994)- Linda Fiorentino, Peter Berg, Jeff Daniels.

Fiorentino plays Bridget/Wendy, a totally sociopathic femme fatale, Daniels her husband and Berg the small town man she manipulates.

The Last Seduction is a noir film that ignores most of the conventional tropes but amps up the "bad girl" character to Hannibal Lector levels (no, she's not a cannibal).
She's evil with a great set of gams and a unwavering approach to getting what she wants.

It's obvious from the beginning that Wendy is a schemer, the joy of the movie is that she's more ruthless and cunning as the plot unwinds.

Fiorentino is amazing, her work was Oscar caliber but she was ineligible because the film was shown on HBO before it's theatrical release.

The Last Seduction is great fun and well worth hunting down.
Or, you could just go see The Last Airbender and revel in the CGI.

Which you choose pretty much defines your sensibilities.

Just saw Flash of Geniushttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt1054588/. It is the "true" story of the man who invented intermittent wiper blades. Ford stole his idea. The inventor fights back at a time when "the little guy" didn't do that.

It is a decent drama. I prefer strong courtroom battles to be more fierce/impassioned in the courtroom, but it's just ok.

It is watchable, but keep your expectations of excitement low. 6/10


Also recently watched Micmacs http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1149361/. It's French. They love Jerry Lewis. :idunno: However, if you have ever admired the rare talent it takes to pull off a Peter Sellers Pink Panther performance, give this one a "shot". <-- It's a pun regarding the main character. The story is decent, the characters are likable, and it expresses some political ideas at the same time. 7.5/10

Shrek 4 in 3D was pretty gud

Killers it`s a very good movie you must watch it .

Twilight: Eclipse- starring several (presumably) warm bodies.

OK, forget the wretched source material (Christopher Nolan did and look what he wrought), forget the wretched acting (it's hard), forget the target audience...Eclipse is a fuckin poorly made movie.
Crap editing, reliance on soundtrack emo songs to convey what the actors cannot, original Star Trek grade special effects, this film barely qualifies for the Lifetime Channel much less a theater.

The producers show their disdain for the Twihards by not even trying, knowing full well that it won't matter, the franchise is money in the bank no matter what they put up on the screen.
Geez, if you're going to pick $10 from the pockets of your fans with a stupid story (and no one disputes that the Twilight Saga is supremely stupid), a little effort would be appreciated.

In fifteen years or so, women of a certain age will revisit these movies and feel nothing but rage.

I began to feel it 20 minutes into my first viewing.

Clash of the Titans - Great movie! Has a great story and the special effects are amazing!

Clash of the Titans

Better than i expected it to be as it received poopy reviews. Good action.

Clash of the Titans truly terribly film.It's like if you set out to make a parody and then at the last minute decided that if you promoted it as a "3D ACTIONER!!!!" you would sell more tickets .
Expect to see it on whatever incarnation of Mystery Science Theatre there is in the future.

White Out : Starts out reasonably strongly , has some passable characters and decent moments of suspense but makes progressively less sense as it go along until by the end you basically just go wtf?

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Originally Posted by soks

Clash of the Titans - Great movie! Has a great story and the special effects are amazing!

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Clash of the Titans

Better than i expected it to be as it received poopy reviews. Good action.

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Could either of you two enlighten me please...
After watching the movie, what exactly would be the attraction of being one of the gods?
All I saw was stupid costumes (really, Zeus wears medieval armor?) and standing around on little round platforms...looked boring to tell the truth.

Prince of Persia. Nice production, the last nice movie I looked and liked, that's already a long moment before...

Haven't posted here in a while and I have watched a few movies.

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
This stuff is epic in the original sense of the word. No CGI in 1962, remember, which means every person you see in the movie was really there when filmed. Great movie even without that, with a few very good dialogues and that gives you some subjects to think about. I thought Peter O'Toole went a bit over the top a few times, but it was great to see Ben Kenobi as an Arab (lol).

Alien (1979)
Being a sci fi fan, I ve never seen any of the Alien films, ever (I know, shame on me, right?). I always thought it's more of a horror movie (which I don't like). Boy was I wrong. A lot was done with very little is all I'm gonna say (for today's standards, anyway)

The Godfather, Part II (1974)

Again one of the must see movies that I haven't seen yet (did see the first one a long time ago). Not a lot wrong with this movie, except that maybe it seems to be slow (but not dragging on), so I don't recommend watching it if you're tired (you'll end up missing important parts, prolly). I especially liked De Niro. IMO he was better than Pacino and the rest of the cast. Towards the end he seemed to have gotten the Brando face down too, lol. I like how the movie doesn't give you everything on a silver platter, so that you must think a little about it to understand it all.

Jackie Brown http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119396/
Another great movie by the master himself, Quentin Tarantino! Not really a new movie, but I had missed it.

The last movie i watched was 1962 version of chushingaru -i think it was directed by Inagaki and the great Toshiro Mifune makes an appearence a couple of times.The movie is nearly 4hours long but worth every second .I have the 1941 version by Mizoguchi ,Ken Ichikawa's 1990's version ,a tv version also from somtimeearly 90's and the 1958 version from Watanabe but the 62 version is my fav -i would recomend thismovie to any1 intojapanese movies 10-10....

No 1938 version.:(

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Originally Posted by clocker

After watching the movie, what exactly would be the attraction of being one of the gods?
All I saw was stupid costumes (really, Zeus wears medieval armor?) and standing around on little round platforms...looked boring to tell the truth.

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I would prefer to wear shiny armor and stand on a round platform than watch the movie again. I trust the gods did not have to view the show. +1 for the gods.

Clash of the titans pretty good movie:D

The Losers- Zoe Zaldana. And some other people.

Alright, I know it's based on a "graphic novel" (code for comic book, to make adults feel less foolish) and it's to be taken with testosterone drenched popcorn.
I realize that suspension of disbelief is a given, I'm willing to acquiesce.

But Jeebus on a pogo stick, must I continually be beaten over the head with the stupid stick?

I'm bruised and battered and didn't enjoy it at all.

The plot holes and totally improbable sequence of events didn't bother me (much), as I already said, I was compliant as I sat down but goddammit, just once- BLOODY FUCKING ONCE!- I'd like to see the redshirts- reputed to be scarily trained ex-Special Forces guys- be able to hit a bloody barn door with their exotic automatic weapons.
Fer crissakes, they might as well have been issued Duncan yo-yos instead of guns...these bozos couldn't shoot themselves, much less come close to the good guys.

Lately, in any of these cookie cutter "action movies", the more bad guys and the more firepower they wield, the less likely that anyone will actually get wounded, never mind killed (Taken is another sterling example of this meme).
Fuck, I could do better and I've never even held a weapon.

Do bad guys recruit at some elite school for the blind?

It's a stupid movie.

And testosterone drenched popcorn tastes like ass.

I watched 'Superbad' for the 10th time lol. I can NEVER get tired of that film.

Inception

mind blowing

I watched the book of eli and i like it but...is eli blind ?