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

[hdonkey]

wall street (the old one) it was really good!

[rastafara]

watching second human centipede, so bad its good

[IdolEyes787]

watching second human centipede, so bad its good

The real irony here is that I would burn at the Cross anyone that is sick enough to enjoy that shit.

[mholic]

Johnny English Reborn is one hell of a hillarious movie. One of the funniest for me now

[clocker]

Johnny English Reborn is one hell of a hillarious movie. One of the funniest for me now

Where do you buy your drugs?
I want some.

[Artemis]

Johnny English Reborn is one hell of a hillarious movie. One of the funniest for me now

Where do you buy your drugs?
I want some.

*About the alien invasion...
If your goal is to siphon off our oceans, why the hell are you attacking our coastlines and engaging land forces?
Plop your weird alien asses down in the middle of the ocean- conveniently free of pesky natives- and start sucking away...it shouldn't take long (after all, it's mentioned on a background TV that the ocean levels are already falling measurably- a mere few hours after the invasion has begun. With whizbang alien tech like that, completely draining the planet should take maybe three weeks, tops) and your ground troops are spared losses storming assets you have no strategic interest in.

An interesting and point, and yet another example of Hollywood wanting us to suspend all brain function rather than just disbelief. The most magnificent example of this though must be Signs, where in aliens travel across the void of space to come to earth to take it over, yet although capable of galactic travel are incapable of getting through a wooden door ? Seriously ?
When you go off to invade someone, you usually take handy things for the invasion like weapons, and explosives and weapons (at least battle LA had weapons even if only slightly superior to our own ?).

[clocker]

Atlas Shrugged: Part 1
As if there will ever be a Part 2.
This dreary adolescent political wet dream was only brightened by the appearance of Quark (Start Trek: Deep Space Nine)- Yeah! He's really in it!- whose Ferengi wiles and charm briefly
made the rest of the actors appear awake.
If Sarah Palin was too complex, Atlas Shrugged has leveled down to assist...this is propaganda for flatliners.

Who is John Galt?
Don't fucking care.

[mjmacky]

Atlas Shrugged: Part 1

Do you sacrifice yourself on purpose, some mission of martyrdom for the glimmer of hope that you've shielded others from the blast?

[clocker]

As attractive as martyrdom may be, the reason I watched was more prosaic...I couldn't talk shit about the movie till I'd seen it.
Besides, it's a very exclusive club, apparently nobody watched Atlas Shrugged as it flickered through a narrow release on it's way to the DVD bargain bin.

Atlas Shrugged was the first part of last night's Cognitive Dissonance Theatre, I followed up by watching Margin Call.
Margin Call features a much better cast (Stanley Tucci, Kevin Spacey and Jeremy Irons, et al.) who portray a trading house (Goldman, Lehman?) on the verge of failure.
It's remarkably free of techno-finance speak and tries to focus on the human side of the disaster although everyone in the film is a despicable cad.

Atlas Shrugged is ideology disguised as entertainment,Margin Call shows what happened when the ideology is made real.
In Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand asserts that The Producers-, i.e., The Rich- are held back by an intrusive government and the weight of the undeserving masses.
Margin Call is the logical progression of Rand's philosophy.

Of the two, Margin Call is the better film but that's saying very little.
It's pretty bloodless and calm given the calamity it describes.
Can't say I gained any new insights about the financial collapse, we've seen all this info before.
A ridiculously good cast makes it watchable but not memorable.

Atlas Shrugged is a peabrained (or should that be "Teabrained"?) philosophical wank fest that tries to pass itself off as a movie, its closest relative would be Battlefield Earth...which pretty much says it all.
It does have Quark though.

[mjmacky]

As attractive as martyrdom may be, the reason I watched was more prosaic...I couldn't talk shit about the movie till I'd seen it.

I get that, but I found that I could bullshit about most terrible films (not having seen them) and pretty much stay on mark (though I would have had to known about the movie beforehand). It feels like the predictable direction of most bad ideas lends me that only advantage. Basically, I lie about seeing bad films and subsequently denounce them as bad films after having a near impeccable record of predicting how subjectively great/shitty I'll deem the movie. I don't watch many movies these days...