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

[alcoholik]

Annie Hall
5/10

[KultNavn]

Napoleon Dynamite. Kinda funny, but overrated.

[London]

Body of Lies 8/10

[scrambler]

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

[alcoholik]

The Thing
7/10

[clocker]

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.

[IdolEyes787]

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?

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.

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.

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.

[alcoholik]

Million Dollar Baby
8/10

[nuked13]

Seven Pounds 10/10

[trancefanatyk]

Defiance 7/10