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

A · 02-10-2011, 08:26 PM

Re-Watched 5 Centimeters per Second. If beauty is visualized, then that would be 5 Centimeters per Second. A coming of age, melancholic, musical symphony.

**clocker** · 02-11-2011, 01:26 PM

True Grit- Jeff Bridges, Hailee Steinfeld, Matt Damon.

14 year old Mattie Ross hires U.S. Marshall Rooster Cogburn (Bridges) to find and capture the man who killed her father.
Along the way they're joined by a Texas Ranger, LaBouef (Damon), who has also been tracking the bad guy.

This is not your parents John Wayne version of the story (which, for the record, I thought was as excruciating as every other John Wayne movie).
In fact, being a Coen brothers film, it's not much like any other western I've ever seen.
The language is a peculiar mix of formality and slang...almost Shakespearean in cadence and initially weird but ultimately fitting.
In typical Coen brothers fashion, the minor characters are colorful and weird (the travelling dentist with a dead body?) and the soundtrack is beautiful.

I liked it.

(Can anyone tell me if the voice of Mattie's lawyer is J.K. Simmons?
Also, about the credits...
I thought is was strange that Halilee Steinfeld, who is the heart of the story and always on screen, got below title billing while Josh Brolin (who plays the bad guy but is only onscreen for about five minutes) gets top billing with Bridges and Damon.
Seems completely out of whack.)

**IdolEyes787** · 02-11-2011, 01:45 PM

Originally Posted by clocker

(Can anyone tell me if the voice of Mattie's lawyer is J.K. Simmons?

Widely assumed to be especially because of past association with the Coens but no one seems to willing to fess up.

**MagicNakor** · 02-11-2011, 01:49 PM

Blue Valentine (2010)
Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams

This is a tough film to watch but completely engrossing. I understand there was quite some controversy regarding its initial US rating (NC-17) and while it is 14A (PG-13) here, it is certainly an adult film. Not in the sex+violence sense, but in the themes and situations being portrayed. Some "life experience" is needed to appreciate it, if you will. Both Gosling and Williams put in phenomenal performances.

9.5/10

**eridanus** · 02-12-2011, 03:07 AM

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole

I dont like the character and stopped watching at about 40 min.

**compaq007** · 02-13-2011, 01:51 PM

Little Nicky - 7/10
Very entertaining movie

Mirrors - 6/10
Decent horror movie, nothing special.

**bijoy** · 02-14-2011, 07:06 AM

Originally Posted by sangman446

american pie 7

and what do you think after that? still ashamed of being virgin?

**IdolEyes787** · 02-14-2011, 12:57 PM

Survival of the Dead

Oh how the relatively mighty have fallen .From satirizing the foibles of American consumerism to ironically simply cashing a paycheck himself.

Nothing about this unfrightening,artless,senseless,pointless atrocity qualifies it as a movie other than it was made using cameras and it exists on celluloid.
The characters, such as they are, are pencil-thin almost to the point of non-existence and unlikable and unattractive to boot. I only mention the unattractive part because as we all know a little eye candy has rescued more than one God awful horror film but the "actors" here seem to have been cast from an especially unpleasant homeless shelter.
Also for a film dealing with zombies there is remarkably little concentration on them but I guess that's because the true villain here is Mr. Romero and he didn't want any lesser lights stealing his thunder.

The thing that really struck the nail in the coffin for me though was George's pitiful reuse of the last minute "everything is going to work out in the end- oh look maybe not she's been shot in the head" contrivance .
Shocking in 1968 , not so much so in 2011 when it's not already only been done to death but buried and the ground salted as well .

Anyway a outline of the plot for anyone interested in exploring the limits of human tolerance.

A bunch of vaguely unlikable maybe military people seek shelter on a island from a plague of zombies . Along the way some that you have as much connection to as oil does to water die and we learn that the island is in the midst of an unexplainable feud between two old and ugly men over the merits of keeping zombies "alive" so that they will eat horses instead of special effect intestines.
That and there are guns but not a lot since apparently the budget couldn't afford them.
That pretty much sums it all up .

Not to be entirely negative on the plus side there was no Adam Sandler.