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

[Swift]

Inglorious Basterds 10/10

Especially the role of Col. Hans Landa

[clocker]

The September Issue.
A documentary about Anna Wintour and the fabled Vogue September issue, the largest magazine release of the year.
Anna Wintour was the model for Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada, and is the undisputed ruler of the fashion world.
Vogue can make or break a designer and this one issue is the flagship offering of the year.
A fascinating look into a frivolous and artificial world.

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American Beauty- Kevin Spacey.

A movie written specifically for Spacey (The Usual Suspects being another example)- I can't think of another current actor who gets so much written with them in mind.

Weirdness in suburbia, Spacey's character is slowly going off the rails but achieves a kind of peace and happiness in the end...even as he dies.
Darkly humorous and well acted by the entire cast.

A very good movie.

The Hurt Locker.
How do you survive in the infinitely hostile land of Iraq and what kind of person are you when you discover it's the only place you want to be?
The films follows a US Army bomb squad with but 38 days left of their tour.
One is obsessed with dying, one is just trying to make it out alive and the third absolutely thrives under the pressure and danger.

A stunning film.

[clocker]

Ronin- Robert De Niro, Jean Reno.

A superior spy/heist/thriller with the best car chase scenes ever.
The civilian population of France gets decimated by gunfire and the automotive carnage rivals that of the Bourne series.
De Niro shines in one of the classic tough guy roles in recent memory (he operates on himself) and Reno plays another incarnation of Leon the Professional.

The sound design- both the cars and the guns- is spectacular.

Another great movie...I'm on a roll.

[carstracker]

Inglorious Basterds

awesome movie !!

[locusprince]

Inglorious Basterds

Rating 10/10

i recommend that movie

[clocker]

Shoot 'Em Up- Clive Owen, Paul Giamatti, Monica Bellucci.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar and sometimes, a movie is just what the title implies.
86 minutes of absurdly over the top gun fantasy sequences...the squib budget on this flick must have been astronomical...although, to be completely fair, one must mention that two people die by carrot.

Roger Ebert said it best: "I may disapprove of a movie for going too far, and yet have a sneaky regard for a movie that goes much, much farther than merely too far."

Don't break out the good stuff for this movie, cheap bourbon is what it demands.
Given a suitable amount you'll think this film is a blast.

I did.

[brightsid]

The last weekend it was a European movies weekend for me. Two of the movies I've watched are really good choices

Man som hatar kvinnor
The first one is a mystery thiller from Sweden based on the first part of Stieg Larsson's Millenium a best selling trilogy.
An aged former head of an industrial dynasty hires a just failed journalist to investigate a 40 years old family mystery.
A fascinating mix of serial killers, secrets and hackers in the cold Swedish atmosphere.

I've read the original book last summer and I was thrilled waiting for this movie. The movie is as exciting as the book,
although it's impossible to cover a +600 pages book in 2.5 hours movie. Anyway it's definetely this year's best mystery movie
and I think if it was an English speaking movie it could be something like Silence of the labs of the decade.
Lisbeth is an original character with a unique balance of good and madness

8/10 And I'm waiting for the second part (already read it)


Das weisse Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte
It's been a while since a film really socked and disturbed me. Haneke's film won the Palme d'Or at Cannes this year
and tells the story of a German village on the eve of the first world war beset by sporadic outbreaks of unexplained violence.

The film is shot in black and white and it's a film that I have to see it again soon just to make sure I haven't missed a thing.
Children suffering both physical and psychological are trying to find something that will take them out of that misery.
Haneke is trying to explain the birth of the Nazi generation but he revealed that he could place the story in many other places like modern Iran for example.
The children who carry out acts of random cruelty will grow up to be the generation that will spawn violence were his words in an interview I've read.

9/10

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2012- stars several thousand CGI specialists.

Movie pissed me off.
OK, I get it...you want to make a movie where the entire world (except Africa, apparently) gets royally fuckatated. I've got no problem with that.
However, after destroying billions of people, don't expect me to give a fuck about the vapid cliched characters that you've decided will "humanize" the disaster for me.
99.9% of the human race didn't survive their first brush with this cataclysm and you want me to believe this mediocre band made it through multiple incidents of geological hell?

SPOILERS AHEAD...
John Cusack and his unbelievably lucky- and completely undeserving- gaggle make it to the ark and then proceed to fuck up the loading ramp, nearly causing the loss of thousands of (supposedly) precious lives, indeed the entire ark is nearly sunk.
When they manage to right their fuckup, everyone cheers.

I would have fucking shot him. Multiple times.
Oliver Pratt, ostensibly the "bad guy", was entirely correct...leave the ramp closed and get the hell out of there.

Then, less than a month after the entire surface of the Earth has moved all over the globe, the arc surfaces to sunny blue skies.
WTF?
The detonation of Yellowstone alone would have filled the atmosphere with enough dust to put us in an ice age for decades, if not centuries...none of the arc survivors would have seen the sun again in their lifetime, and maybe not even in the kids lifetimes. If you're going to destroy the world, don't go all soft on me in the last five minutes and show me fluffy clouds and ponies, have the courage of your convictions. These people have been through hell and it's only going to get worse.
What's going to happen when all the Pantene and Crest run out?

Finally...Africa.
Seems it was largely left untouched...albeit raised several thousand feet.
All of the surviving arks are headed there.
Wonder how the African survivors are going to feel about being overrun by a bunch of non-native outsiders who, judging by their actions during the rest of the movie, are going to be feeling pretty damn superior and self-righteous (remember, the majority of the survivors bought their way onto the ark and weren't chosen for their ethics and civic mindedness) and not about to let a bunch of indigenous savages get in the way of their plan for repopulating the world.

/SPOILERS

Oh well, I had low expectations and they were fully met, so I really have nothing to complain about.
It was a completely crap movie but, much like New Moon, 2012 catered precisely to it's target demographic and I'm sure they loved it.
It'll make a trillion dollars and the only joy I get from that is wondering what Roland Emmerich can do now that he's destroyed the entire planet...maybe take out the Milky Way?

I'd like to see John Cusack and his whiny kids survive that.

[clocker]

It was a completely crap movie but, much like New Moon, 2012 catered precisely to it's target demographic and I'm sure they loved it.
It'll make a trillion dollars...

Hey i saw 2012 last saturday an awesome movie.

Your use of the word "awesome" totally makes my point.