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

[courtesyiw]

kung fu panda 2.....i'm not a kid....

[Snee]

The second installment in the Hangover saga.

Even farther over the top, and to my eternal shame I enjoyed it, like the first. Neither is a good movie, really, though.

Basically the concept is the same as the first, with the main cast, as well as that weird asian man coming back for another go. Now they're in Bangkok, though. So enter a couple of culture-related mishaps, and ladyboys to the first movie, and constant nods towards events in the first movie, and, you know, that's it.

[Evil Gemini]

200mph.

I am not a suicidal person, but fuck me it got me close. I could of died a happy man if it wasn't for this movie.

[Snee]

I can't seem to remember much about the movie other than Estevez being in it and the glowing something in the trunk of a car that when I first watched Pulp Fiction made me think that Tarantino had largely lifted the idea in that movie of the briefcase directly from this .
Anyway seems a classic example of how some movies used to wear their subversiveness proudly. Sadly now subversive being more or less confined to comics and movies currently taken over by music video directors more than happy to be little more than corporate shills.

I do remember The Hidden though as being pretty satisfying for what it was.

If you've got any more in the same vein, feel free to list them.

(Obviously, I've seen the Thing, but that'd count.)

[IdolEyes787]

I take it you are talking about the truly scary 1982 one directed by John Carpenter starring Kurt Russell and not the '52? one with James Arness. I actually had a book on horror films that described Arness in that one as "a giant carrot".

I also highly recommend the short story on which it is based "Who Goes There?"

Btw them seem to be releasing a prequel http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0905372/ unimaginatively still title The Thing this winter.

Anyway obviously Invasion of the Body Snatchers is the granddaddy of all aliens possess humans movies. Both the '50's one and the '70's one are pretty good.
Then there is another one not as good but closer to idea if not execution of The Hidden called The Puppet Masters.
Also there is a cult one (also by John Carpenter) be surprised if you haven't seen it starring wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper - They Live . Some people really seem to like this movie but to me although it has it's moments it's a little "cheap" looking for my taste and also I think Piper is a big distraction.

And although not anything to do with aliens there is an intense little horror movie by David Cronenberg called Shivers not to be confused with Slither which coincidentally is also about parasites taking over people stars Nathan Fillion and though also a bit gory is told with a great deal more humour.

That's all I can think of off the top of my head.There is another one involving an alien disguised as a dead husband? that breaks into a plant which is pretty good but other than that the name and the plot escapes me.

[hassanen9]

Ermm watched the longest yard and i now pronounce you chuck and larrie, so funny!

[Quasar]

The Reader (2008)

It wasn't that bad. I almost turned it off due to the beginning being mostly scenes of a woman having sex with an underage boy. I thought, "Oh man, if that's all this movie is, it's gonna suck". But I plodded through for a bit longer and began to realize the movie is a decent story, although I have no desire to watch it again.

[IdolEyes787]

Cemetery Junction (2010)

It's 1973 in Cemetery Junction, a Reading suburb. Three working class lads, best friends, are coming of age. Freddie wants to rise above his station, taking a job selling life insurance, wearing a suit and tie. Snork works at the railway station and wants a girlfriend some day. Bruce talks of leaving but seems on track to work at a factory, drink and fight, and become like his dad, in front of the telly with beer on hand; and he's trying the patience of the police officer who gets him out of jams. Freddie's job leads the lads toward a few small changes. He runs across a childhood friend, Julie, his boss's daughter who's engaged to the firm's top seller. Can the lads break out?

Set in 1973 a comedy-drama( long on the drama short on the comedy) from Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, of TV's The Office and Extras. Centers on three young working-class men from Reading, England, who spend their time joking, drinking, fighting , chasing girls and learning about life.

I had never actually heard about this movie and only happened upon it by chance while browsing the TV dial.It's not a great film in the way film greatness is usually measured but nonetheless I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Between the froth and familiarity and a surprisingly vile,racist turn by Gervais there are some truly wonderful scenes, a shockingly good cast including multiple Oscar nominees Ralph Fiennes and Emily Watson and easily one of period perfect best soundtracks I've ever heard ( Bowie :All the Young Dudes.Led Zeppelin: The Rain Song and others all perfectly integrated to the story).
The little known young leads are also well cast getting me to both share in their misfortune and revel in their admittedly small triumphs.
I would be shocked if neither lead Christian Cooke or Felicity Cooke went onto bigger and better things.

Anyway like I said probably not everyone's cup of tea but for me lot to like and not much not to .A film for anyone who ever dreamed of something better.

I rate it a dab of rue tinged nostalgia and bunch of warm smiles.

[brightsid]

Chico and Rita


I'm not really a fan of animation but I made an exception for this one. It's a movie dedicated to Bebo Valdes a great pianist and his relation with Rita Montaner a famous singer. It's a romantic old-fashioned love story following the couple from Havana to Paris, New York, LA and back. A colorful journey under the sounds of Bird, Tito Puente, Thelonius Monk, Dizzie Gillespie and many more

If you like this kind of music or old-fashioned love stories a must seen movie

[Hologram]

Limitless. Pretty good movie I must say.