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

[The_Martinator]

Watched The Life of Brian first. I thought it was very good for the most part (except Brian's mum, that is).

7/10

Then I went back and watched Monty Python and The Holy Grail again. I remember not liking it as much the first time (don't know what was wrong with me!!!). This stuff is hillarious.

The first part of this vid for example is pure ROFL:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGAYk5VWkTw

9,9/10 (nothing is perfect)

Then I watched The Meaning of life. Meh, I think they crossed the line a few too many times, so it often wasn't funny, it was just weird. Only watched the first half, though.

[geezup]

Lord of the Rings trilogy is crazy I just now watched it for the first time. Extended edition rocks.

[clocker]

The Usual Suspects.

It's good to revisit the classics and I consider this film to deserve classic status both for the densely written script and Kevin Spacey's performance.
Unlike Roger Ebert- who really hated the Matryoshka nature of the story- I think The Usual Suspects plays fair with the audience and rewards their involvement...it's a journey worth taking.

The cast is uniformly excellent (although Benicio Del Toro's approach to his character still baffles me) and the dialogue is crisp and occasionally laugh out loud funny ("One, two, three, four, five, six, seven... Lee Harvey Oswald was a fag.")

A great, noirish thriller.

[The_Martinator]

Yep I loved the Usual suspects too.

Anyway, I watched Heat yesterday.

Have to say that the Canadian fanboi is right, it is a great movie, allthough you're right too clocker when you say some scenes drag on a bit. My fav scene was the one at the port.

7,5/10 from me. Definately worth watching, but not without flaws at all. Better than all (most?) shit from nowadays.

[Rart]

allthough you're right too clocker when you say some scenes drag on a bit.

Agreed. I made the mistake of watching it well into the night and ended up falling asleep...

[c0ld]

inglorious basterds: crap. wtf was all the fuss about? it was like a giant rehash of every tarantino movie to date with nothing original added, combined with a rehash of every shitty jewish resistance/nazi movie, which have also been done to death.

[clocker]

Mister Frost (1990)- Jeff Goldblum, Alan Bates, Kathy Baker.

Supposedly a cult favorite, I'd only recently heard of this film.
It's a odd bird, basically a shit movie with a great casting choice- Goldblum, of course.

The story, completely implausible and riddled with hilarious plot holes, concerns Mister Frost (Goldblum) who, at the very beginning, charmingly admits to being a mass murderer and then goes mute.
Having been shuttled around European mental hospitals for two years (why no prison, who knows?), he arrives at a totally ridiculous high end facility where he deigns to finally speak to Kathy Bates' character, a shrink.

Turns out, Mister Frost is the Devil and if he can get Bates to believe in him it will be a triumph of faith over science...or some such horseshit.

It's really too bad, Goldblum does a great job with a pathetic story and in a better movie could easily rank with Anthony Hopkins as a cinematic evil icon.
He's got the mannerisms and charm to make the Devil a worthy adversary but his choice of Bates as an opponent is baffling...she's a complete lightweight by comparison.

This ain't the movie it should have been and that's a damn shame.

[kooltilldend]

Paranormal Activity - wow this movie redefined boringness...was just awful

3/10

[c0ld]

2012 = worst movie evar! and I'm only 20 minutes in.

[clocker]

Heat- Pacino & DeNiro.
Not as bad as I remembered, not as good as it could have been.
Some beautiful photography and some wretched dialogue.
DeNiro is good, Pacino is ridiculous.
Should have been shorter.

Go- Sarah Polley, Katie Holmes.
A bit of Pulp Fiction, a bit of Roshomon, a bit of The Usual Suspects.
A quite enjoyable pastiche with a surprisingly good ensemble cast (Jane Krackowski, yay!), the story loops around itself, returning three times to one pivotal scene which ties it all together.
A fun and painless watch.