What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[jamespowers]

Despicable Me 2 with my granddaughter.
After we danced to her new collection of 78 RPM records from the 20's-30's. Best gift of all. Dang she's cute. And I'm beat

Old man! :rofl:

 

[ButteMT61]

Old man! :rofl:

Totes magotes. :rofl:

 

[Gregg Axley]

Oh geez! I would have loved to have been there. I would even have stood in the long line. I still want to hear him say a few lines from the movie.
I even like his Old Spice commercials.

We would have been, if the show had taken place while we were in TX.
But just our luck, it took place the weekend before we went.

 

[jamespowers]

Totes magotes. :rofl:

http://youtu.be/xRibRj770J8

 

[HoosierDaddy]

Switched to the news. Sick of the OldMan and Rick.

 

[jamespowers]

We would have been, if the show had taken place while we were in TX.
But just our luck, it took place the weekend before we went.

You missed The Chin.

 

[jamespowers]

Switched to the news. Sick of the OldMan and Rick.

Hey! Leave Butte out o this.

 

[HoosierDaddy]

Ooops wrong thread....

 

[jamespowers]

Ooops wrong thread....

Yeah, that too :rofl:

 

[Gregg Axley]

Hey! Leave Butte out o this.

Ouch!

 

[Zombie_61]

Totes magotes. :rofl:

The funniest thing about those commercials is the way Jones and McDowell aren't even trying to hide the fact that they're reading their lines off of cue cards. I can just imagine them between takes asking, "What the hell is 'Totes magotes'???" lol

 

[ButteMT61]

The funniest thing about those commercials is the way Jones and McDowell aren't even trying to hide the fact that they're reading their lines off of cue cards. I can just imagine them between takes asking, "What the hell is 'Totes magotes'???" lol

lol
I do it to drive my kids and grandkids nuts. It's way fun. Cray cray fun!

 

[Wally_Hood]

Saving Mr. Banks, with the in-laws and one of the kids. Very well done; lots of discussion on the drive home.

 

[Worf]

"The Cabin in the Woods" - A-Minus - FINALLY, thank you god in heaven above!!! Finally a movie that's different. Finally a movie that kept me awake and intrigued from start to finish. Finally a movie that, although I guessed the premise, kept me with it and riveted until the end. Bright, funny, well scripted and acted from start to finish. Take one part "Scooby Doo", one part "The Truman Show" and 2 parts Twilight Zone and you're a movie I can't recommend any higher!

Great Stuff!!!

Worf

 

[Worf]

Saving Mr. Banks, with the in-laws and one of the kids. Very well done; lots of discussion on the drive home.

Knowing some of the "darker side" of Mr. Disney... how does one reconcile that with this?

Worf

 

[AtomicEraTom]

You know it!

You didn't cause a power outage in your town did you----with all those Christmas lights?

 

[Doctor Strange]

Agreed on The Cabin in the Woods - I don't care for most modern horror flicks at all, but this one was really clever and different. The credit mostly goes to Joss Whedon's script.

Which darker side are you talking about, Worf? Disney's being on the wrong side of labor troubles of the 40s? His rapacious business practices in getting Disneyland and Disneyworld built? His alleged - and mostly disproved - anti-Semitism? Surely not the old Song of the South mess?

I've read nearly everything ever written about Disney, and I've come to the conclusion that he had a lot less dark side than is often believed. Sure, he was manipulative and wasn't always right (particularly when viewed through modern PC attitudes), and he could be wrong-headed and depressed... But he was a real visionary (having typically taken risks with new technologies - sound, color, stereo, television - well before most of Hollywood), and he understood what his audience wanted really well. Though he was no great artist himself, he surrounded himself with tremendous talent, and he directed it to great effect. And though he wasn't educated, his innate story sense - particularly the ability to see a film storyboarded (the now-universally-used storyboard being his invention) and punch up its pacing, gags, and emotion - was legendary.

Anyway, I don't like to see Walt Disney disrespected: this is the guy who - in the just 12 years from "Steamboat Willie" to Fantasia - shepherded the art and business of animation through amazing growth! And this was before he invented the modern theme park and became a pillar of television.

(FYI, the best book on Disney is Michael Barrier's The Animated Man. Neil Gabler's much longer, vastly overpraised biography is crowded with detail... but it completely fails in capturing any real sense of the man.)

 

[ButteMT61]

Saving Mr. Banks, with the in-laws and one of the kids. Very well done; lots of discussion on the drive home.

Agreed. Happy to see Hanks put out two good movies this year. Wife loved them both and he really is a fantastic actor.

 

[ButteMT61]

Hey! Leave Butte out o this.

Why you wise guy...no nuggets for you! Just coal nuggets in your stocking.

 

[DavidJones]

Watched the Finnish movie, "Rare Exports" on Net flix. Now that movie had a different twist to a Christmas story.