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

[brightsid]

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.

[brento]

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

[mmopt]

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

[mosh]

avatar
nice dating movie

[yobplay]

green zone...

nice relax action movie

[clocker]

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.

[mr. nails]

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

[eddywong]

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

[diaoooo]

Final Exam.
i don't appreciate the end.

[clocker]

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.