What was the last movie you saw?

[HandOfHeaven]

I saw Bruno a few weeks ago, and it was alright. Disturbingly funny. Even moreso than Borat. Kind of glad I convinced my girl not to go to I Love You, Beth Cooper. I'm a sucker for Hayden Panettiere, but I heard that movie was just a shitpile, and you don't even get to see her naked!
What about you guys?

[D3V]

I'm not exactly what the last movie I went to see was. I think it was The Hangover or Up. I have horrible recollection of timelines (left side of my brain doesn't work as well as the right). But I would definitely recommend either of them very much so. I've also seen the new Night at the Museum (in Imax) and it was wonderful. If you liked the first one you will probably like this one as well.

I want to go watch Ice Age in 3D and IMAX, as well as Taking Pelham 123.

[!King_Amazon!]

I think Watchmen in IMAX was the last movie I went to see. Haven't been to see a movie since I've been single, it's too depressing.

[Thanatos]

The Hangover

My cheeks literally hurt after the movie from laughing so hard.

[Skurai]

Harry Potter and the Way too Many Pages.

[Lenny]

I think Watchmen in IMAX was the last movie I went to see. Haven't been to see a movie since I've been single, it's too depressing.


QFT.

Apart from the single bit.

As in the last film I saw was Watchmen at the IMAX - we got four people in for a tenner. Bargain! :D Tickets are usually £8.something each, but all four of us had student cards, and it was Orange Wednesday (2 for 1 if you text Orange).

[HandOfHeaven]

I love those student deals. It's Monday nights where I go to college, and you can get $3 off with your student ID. Pretty much pay matinee price of $5 for a night time showing. Still not too bad.

[D3V]

Yeah here at our local AMC there's a $2 discount I think with student/military ID, not too bad of a deal. Actually I think all movies from Mon-Thurs are $5 and Fri/Sat/Sun are $10 all showings now, blah.

[Lenny]

I think ours are 10%, rather than money off.

It's not a huge amount, but when you can use your student card more or less everywhere you go on a day out, you do end up saving quite a bit of cash.

[Jessifer]

Harry Potter. :)

I love Draco and Luna.

[Grav]

The Taking of Pelham 123. I got roped into it somehow.

[D3V]

Went this last Thursday night to go watch Bruno. It might be the gayest movies I have ever seen in my entire life, literally. But at the same time it was geniunely hilarious and the uncomfortable-ness in this movie is through the roof. I would definitely recommend anyone that likes Borat to go check this movie out as well.

[Thanatos]

The Taking of Pelham 123. I got roped into it somehow.

Bad movie.

[Lenny]

If HoH doesn't mind, I'm changing this to "What was the last movie you saw?" - it will hopefully get more activity that way.

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This weekend I've watched:

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
2010: The Year We Make Contact
Tideland

And I'm currently in the middle of Sleepy Hollow.

Three Terry Gilliams, two with Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci, which neatly ties my weekend viewings of Terry Gilliam films to the Tim Burton film. The Sci-Fi classic was simply that. :)

Interesting how Tim Burton films always have big name actors in them...

And it was interesting to see that Gilliam can do so many different styles of film.

[Thanatos]

What did you think of Fear and Loathing?

Last movie I watched: Miracle at St. Anna - great WWII movie, I definitely recommend it to everyone.

[Lenny]

Strange. Very, very strange. There was no discernible plot, but the effects were good, and the drug taking was truly outrageous - the first scene in the car was hilarious. And I found the scenes in the flooded hotel room very surreal.

I'd be interested to know how true to life the effects of the drugs were.

EDIT: Sleep Hollow is an... interesting film. Some of the acting is very shaky, but Christopher Walken makes up for it with has badass Headless Horseman.

[JRwakebord]

District 9. And I fucking loved it.

[Jessifer]

Interesting how Tim Burton films always have big name actors in them...


Tim Burton is a god in his own little niche.

Last movie I saw...Half Blood Prince.

[Lenny]

Any good? Everyone I know says it's rather bad the first time they see it (which isn't surprising - the book wasn't much), but that it gets better on second viewing.

JR - District 9. Tell me about ittt!

[Jessifer]

I enjoyed the movie a lot. Certain scenes were very well done (The cave at the end), and I love Luna and Draco.

I want to see 9, though. Like, a lot.

[Mdselctr]

Werner Herzog's documentary, Encounters At The End Of The World.
Recommended to any adept and non-adept at post-war European doc-
umentary works.

[JRwakebord]

Any good? Everyone I know says it's rather bad the first time they see it (which isn't surprising - the book wasn't much), but that it gets better on second viewing.

JR - District 9. Tell me about ittt!

The story is great, the CGI is phenomenal, it's a movie where you genuinely can't predict the ending after only 30 minutes, and it is just a blast to watch. Very highly recommended.

[HandOfHeaven]

Inglorious Basterds. It was very well done, and Brad Pitt is hilarious in the movie. Although I must warn those with a weak stomach. There is a lot of gore and twisted imagery in the movie. It honestly makes Pulp Fiction look like a Disney movie.

Go see it!

[Thanatos]

The story is great, the CGI is phenomenal, it's a movie where you genuinely can't predict the ending after only 30 minutes, and it is just a blast to watch. Very highly recommended.

Agreed. District 9 has a very unique storyline. It isn't your ol' "Aliens vs. Humans" movie. I definitely recommend this to anyone and everyone. You will not be dissapointed.

[Lenny]

I think I'm swayed, then!

Talking about Sci-Fi and all that, has anyone seen Moon? I hear it's got good reviews, but I'd like to hear opinions from ordinary folks - SF reviewers are wont to go over the top when reviewing a SF film, and I might have been unlucky and heard of reviews from SF nuts.

[Lenny]

I started watching Gamer earlier, but the quality was shite (and shaky - some fool forgot to take their tripod to the cinema) so I gave up. From what I did see it looks like a decent film, and the story was interesting.

Anyway, I'm about to watch Monsters vs. Aliens.

EDIT: Ah, FFS - it's out of sync with the audio by about a second. And lol - Stephen Colbert is playing the President.

[HandOfHeaven]

I Love You, Man.

[Tyrannicide]

Saw 9 last night and it wasn't to bad.

Short, but good.

[Lenny]

Saw District 9 today and I agree with all above that it's a very good film. The ending is... well, it's not exactly happy, but it's a typical ending to a blockbuster - big fight, people die, the party that wants to do something gets it done, the bad guy pops up after the action and gets killed. It's not "happy" because the film isn't happy. The CGI was very good - I'd love something like the navigation technology the aliens have.

After seeing it I thought to myself, "This film is a fantastic standalone film - there's not going to be anything else". I've thought it about films such as Hancock and Cloverfield, too, and it saddens me that the industry is in a phase where it feels the need to constantly produce franchise films. What I'd like to see more of is films like D9, Hancock and CF - films that are single films created from completely new material (not an adaptation of a book, or a comic, or a remake of an old film). Sure, they're all good in their own ways, but they just can't compare to something fresh.

[Jessifer]

I'm gonna go see 9 next week.

[Lenny]

Tonight I watched The Spiderwick Chronicles. For a film that feels like it would be more at home in rural England, rather than American New England, it wasn't at all bad. It was obviously aimed at a much younger audience, but for all that it was also quite... well, not scary to the older ones like me, but I can imagine it would have the little uns shitting bricks.

A decent score from James Horner but, for all his brilliance, he's a dick for re-using One Last Wish from the Casper film. You just don't get the same emotion in Spiderwick when you hear it as you do in Casper (the beautiful piano tune at 3', and when they're dancing at the end (4' 16") and Casper says "Can I keep you?"):

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And there's the small fact that Freddie Highmore just ain't Christina Ricci. :rolleyes:

[Thanatos]

After seeing it I thought to myself, "This film is a fantastic standalone film - there's not going to be anything else". I've thought it about films such as Hancock and Cloverfield, too, and it saddens me that the industry is in a phase where it feels the need to constantly produce franchise films. What I'd like to see more of is films like D9, Hancock and CF - films that are single films created from completely new material (not an adaptation of a book, or a comic, or a remake of an old film). Sure, they're all good in their own ways, but they just can't compare to something fresh.


...... You really don't think there's going to be a sequel to this movie? They left it wide open for a District 10.

[Lenny]

They did, but I doubt they'll do a second, simply because it's one of those ideas that will only work once.

Possibilities for District 10: alien uprising, Christopher returns with more of his race and kills everything/takes everyone away, Wickus is returned to human form.

* An alien uprising would turn it into a generic gunfight.
* Prawns killing everyone would turn it into a generic gunfight.
* Prawns going home... wow... five minutes of special effects and then... ?
* Wickus being returned to human form is, at best, a sub-plot.

Yes, they've left it open, but in a way that makes you want to know the answers, rather than in a way that would make a new film worth it. At least, that's what I think.

A lot of the best standalone films show you a snapshot of the whole - you don't see the absolute beginnings of the events that lead up to the snapshot, and you don't see anything after the snapshot. Rather, you watch the snapshot (which is always the two or three days in which something happens after not happening for an arbitrary number of years) and are left with questions both about why it happened, and what happens next. I'd personally be very disappointed if District 10 was made.

[Lenny]

I watched X-Men Origins: Wolverine tonight. It was decent, and quite standard X-Men fare. There are some things in the film (which are canon) that I didn't know about Wolverine, and seeing Gambit made me happy.

There were times throughout it when it was spoiled completely by the special effects. I don't know if I did watch the final release, but I know that it wasn't the pre-effects release (I was quite looking forward to seeing the directions for effects) - a huge majority of the effects were obviously computer generated (as opposed to computer generated but looking real), which spoilt parts of it. Wolverine's claws in some shots, for example, were obviously graphics, and were almost cartoony in their rendering.

[Silverjinx18]

The last movie I saw was 9...it was okay. The animation and idea of it was interesting though. The last movie I saw that I loved was District 9. The underlying context of the movie was amazing and witty.

[HandOfHeaven]

Blow. Love Johnny Depp.

[Thanatos]

Blow. Love Johnny Depp.


I read that as "I would blow Johnny Depp"

I thought you were KA for a moment.

[D3V]

bwahahahaaa

[Lenny]

9 is the film about strange sackdolls, yes?

What did you think of it, Jess?

[S2 AM]

Every time I see someone say 9, I think they are talking about district 9, I forgot there was a whole other movie called 9. Anyways if you haven't seen district 9 and aren't convinced it's good enough to see, here's another thumbs up, I finally got some time last weekend to see it.

[HandOfHeaven]

The Informant. Sucked

Whiteout. Didn't suck as much. Kate Beckinsale is dead sexy.

[Lenny]

I quite like the look of The Informant (it's the new Matt Damon film, yes?).

But I can't say I like the look of Whiteout. :p What is it about, exactly? I can't really get owt from the trailers.

[Lenny]

Watched The Talented Mr. Ripley last night - kinda creepy, but a very good film. I'm tempted to hunt down the book.

[HandOfHeaven]

Cloudy with a chance of meatballs.

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Oh, I'd let you know what Whiteout is about but then it kind of gives away the storyline, and would make it a shittier movie.

[-Spector-]

Surrogate, I thought it was pretty badass. I don't feel like expaining it, just go watch it.

[HandOfHeaven]

Trainspotting. It's about heroin addicts in England. Quite interesting.

[-Spector-]

Observe and report. It's like Paul Blart: Mall cop, taken to the extreme. It's over dramatic and a shitty story line. There were some scenes that made me laugh though.

[franco]

Thor exceeded my expectations.

[magearden]

Trying to catch up on some of the ol classic horror films that I missed out on, infact I just finished watching the first four "puppet master" movies, of course not all at once but over the course of the week ;) but I admit they were all equally entertaining. I especially liked the third installment "toulan's revenge" I think Charles Band really had something here. Great movies.

[Skurai]

The Matrix Trilogy with my friends. Re-watching it with my girlfriend.

[!King_Amazon!]

The last movie I saw was Life in a Day and it was pretty awesome.

[Skurai]

What's it about?

[Sovereign]

The Stargate SG1 movie where they defeat the last of the Ori.

[!King_Amazon!]

What's it about?
Life in a Day is a crowdsourced documentary film comprising an arranged series of video clips selected from 80,000 clips submitted to the YouTube video sharing website, the clips showing respective occurrences from around the world on a single day, July 24, 2010.

The film is 94 minutes 57 seconds long and includes scenes selected from 4,500 hours of footage in 80,000 submissions from 192 nations. The completed film debuted at the Sundance Film Festival on January 27, 2011 and the premiere was streamed live on YouTube. On October 31, 2011, YouTube announced that Life in a Day would be available for viewing on its website free of charge, and on DVD.

It's free on Youtube and on Netflix. Very good movie I would recommend to anyone.

[Skurai]

I'll check it out, then. 80,000 clips in just an hour seems so... unreal to me.

[Grav]

The Muppets. It was okay. Not very good, but not cringe-worthy either.

[Skurai]

The new one? I've never see the other Muppet movies, but I'm borderline on seeing this one.

[HandOfHeaven]

Inception, for about the twentieth time. Good movie to watch on Christmas Eve.

[Sovereign]

Captain America .. I think.

[HandOfHeaven]

Easy A

I enjoy the John Hughes aspect of the movie; this one did justice.

[KagomJack]

"Beavis and Butt-Head Do America"

[Skurai]

"Beavis and Butt-Head Do America"

I own (and fucking love) that movie.

[HandOfHeaven]

Grown Ups

[Lenny]

Went to see the Hollywood version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo last night. I saw the original Swedish version a year or so back, and I think I prefer this new one - it's better paced and better filmed (though there are a number of scenes which might as well be shot-for-shot remakes of scenes in the Swedish version) and the fact that it's in English, so has no need for the painfully badly-written subtitles, helps. I don't think it's quite as graphic as the Swedish version, though.

Whether you've read the books or not, or if you've seen the Swedish film, I'd recommend this to anyone.

[Sovereign]

Lenny, have you seen Let the Rright one in or let me in. I found it a perfect blend of fucked up and awesome.

[Lenny]

That's the one that was released in English as Let Me In? If so, I have a copy on a hard drive back at Uni, but I've yet to get around to watching it.

[Sovereign]

Two different movies. Let the right one in is the Swedish version . Let me in is the US version starting Dakota fanning

[HandOfHeaven]

The Departed

One of my favorites.

[Lenny]

Chloe Moretz, actually. ;) Point taken, though - I'll have a lookee for the original.

[Skurai]

Karas (movie version).
It was pretty weird, but cool.

[jamer123]

step brothers here ... funny movie

[Sovereign]

Chloe Moretz, actually. ;) Point taken, though - I'll have a lookee for the original.

Ah fuck they all look the same.

[KagomJack]

I watched a pretty cool psychological horror movie called "Pontypool".

[Sovereign]

The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya

Disappointing waste of time.

[Wallow]

Indiana Jones And the Raiders of the Lost Arc

[Lenny]

Ah, the well known mid-90s educational video in which Indy "Indices" Jones, the famed Mathematician/Explorer, must venture into the depths of the jungle to discover the secrets of geometry in the hope it will help him against the Nazis! One of my favourites. :)

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I watched Contagion a few days ago. It wasn't particularly spectacular, but I think the way it depicted the spread of a nasty virus, right from the very first person, was good, and Jude Law's use of social media to which a wide audience as a snake oil merchant was done well.

[HandOfHeaven]

American Gangster

A masterpiece.