What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

jamespowers · Jul 1, 2012

V.C. Brunswick said:
Given the current trend for remakes, how long will it be before some cinematic genius decides that a remake of Ishtar is in order?

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Worf · Jul 1, 2012

"MacArthur" with Gregory Peck. Sigh hadn't seen it in years and forgot how boring this thing really was. They tried to do "Patton" all over again and it didn't work. Peck looked the part but poor scripting never gave him anything to work with.

Worf

Formeruser012523 · Jul 1, 2012

jamespowers said:
Like Ishtar and The Abyss.

Ugh. The Abyss. Think I held my breath through that one. Not sure if I wanted the characters to drown or if wanted to.

Last movie: (500) Days of Summer

Ugh.

Antje · Jul 1, 2012

Hairspray and Gone with the Wind again!

Touchofevil · Jul 1, 2012

Saving Silverman

Edward · Jul 1, 2012

I liked 500 Days of Summer right up until they sold it out with a crappy-happy ending. I hate easy happy endings.

Last films I saw... the second Downey Sherlock Holmes (better than the first), then The Perfect Stranger:

[video=youtube;fTwsecrmLoA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTwsecrmLoA[/video]

Do see it if you get the chance, especially if you enjoyed The Guard.

Also saw Avengers Assemble. I'd expected it to be entertainingly rubbish, but it was actually great fun. An uncoventional portrayal of Banner, but the best on screen to date.

Chasseur · Jul 1, 2012

I was traveling so I saw a bunch on the plane:

Flowers of War: Chinese film on the Rape of Nanking, meh mixed. Some good portrayals of the hell the people went through, the Qin Huai River brothel girls were well done (Ni Ni in particular was lovely to watch), etc. But way too much bad stylized Hong Kong cinema violence with too much super-slow mo, one dimension characters, and the overall plot/ending was rather troubling to say the least... oh Zhang Yimou why can't you make movies like you used to?

Paper Birds: somewhat interesting Spanish film about a troupe of vaudville entertainers right after the Civil War.

Iron Man 2: not bad, not great, better than I feared. Hmm I can watch Scarlett for long periods of time

Ghost Rider Spirit of Vengence: oh this was bad on many levels, should have been a direct to DVD mockbuster...

Admiral Yamamoto: well done, beautiful film to watch, some of the plotting/story telling is a bit ham fisted getting the historical information into the film in high school docudrama fashion, and there is some revisionism in there, but well worth watching.

Feraud · Jul 2, 2012

Watched the first 15 minutes of the 21 Jumpstreet remake. What a god awful excuse for a comedy.

Wolfen · Jul 2, 2012

jamespowers said:
Waterworld?! Oooh, that WAS bad. lol lol

I loved Waterworld! Great post apocolyptic movie. And his boat is amazing.

jamespowers · Jul 2, 2012

Wolfen said:
I loved Waterworld! Great post apocolyptic movie. And his boat is amazing.

That is a pretty small fan club there.

m_luvsartdeco · Jul 2, 2012

Radio Days

Formeruser012523 · Jul 2, 2012

Edward said:
I liked 500 Days of Summer right up until they sold it out with a crappy-happy ending. I hate easy happy endings.

So, you prefer everyone dies at the end of the movies? lol

With this movie, I think I would have been happy had he just, finally, gotten over her. Kept wishing he would dump her the whole time, but then there wouldn't have been much of a film there.

Dixie_Amazon · Jul 2, 2012

The Fifth Element

Worf · Jul 2, 2012

"Seeking a Friend For the End of the World" - I generally used to like Apocaplypse movies starting with "When Worlds Collide" back in the 50's. But then we got soooo many "giant meteor smears earth" or earth stops spinning or gloabal warming caused by whale farts movies that I actually began rooting for the world to end if only to stop the steady stream crappy assed films. I was done with "the ear is doomed our stalwart heroe's bravely sacrifice their lives to save us from whatever disaster is befalling us this week. With this dour vision in mind I went to see Stever Carrell's latest offering and all I can say is wow.

I was stunned by the brilliant scripting, great acting, believablly ubsurd situations, you name it. Yeah, the middle of the film drags a bit and some folks do forgive and forget decades of animosity kinda quickly BUT all in all it was an entertaining film. The best/hardest part about it:

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There is NO HOLLYWOOD ENDING. You get to the point you're really pulling for these people and all the "just plain folks" and little kids to somehow be spared this holocaust and they aren't. In the very beginning of the film you hear that daring shuttle mission to blow up the asteroid (named Matilda?) failed spectacularly and that there is going to be no reprieve. You blow that off not believing it or even caring until the end, when you WANT folks to live. I admit I felt moved and misty eyed in the final scenes. Well worth seeing.

Worf

Wally_Hood · Jul 3, 2012

jamespowers said:
Waterworld?! Oooh, that WAS bad. lol lol

The Missus and I actually walked out on this one and asked for our money back. We got a pair of tickets for another visit.

jamespowers · Jul 3, 2012

Wally_Hood said:
The Missus and I actually walked out on this one and asked for our money back. We got a pair of tickets for another visit.

My aunt and uncle did the same thing to Kiss of the Spiderwoman. That story was hilarious! :rofl:

AmateisGal · Jul 3, 2012

Independence Day for the millionth time. But my daughter had never watched it before, so, I watched it again. lol

Edward · Jul 3, 2012

Wolfen said:
I loved Waterworld! Great post apocolyptic movie. And his boat is amazing.

I do consider it to be one that has been rather hard done by. I went to see it in the cinema. I's not strikingly original - basically it's Mad Max-on-sea - but it was perfectly pleasant for an evening's entertainment fluff. Much better than 90% of the dross Hollywood churns out. I imagine it would have been received much better had it not had such an astronomical budget, and had it not become fashionable around that point to critically maul anything with Kevin Costner in it.

Mae said:
So, you prefer everyone dies at the end of the movies? lol

They don't have to die - I watch films to escape too. Just so long as their end point is sufficiently unhappy to be convincing. Or if it has a "happy" ending, there's a damn good reason for it, not because it's some unconvincing, "feel-good" tripe.

With this movie, I think I would have been happy had he just, finally, gotten over her. Kept wishing he would dump her the whole time, but then there wouldn't have been much of a film there.

I found it very convincing. I just hated how they had to do the bloody Hollywood thing of shoe-horning in the suggestion at the end that he could have a hapily ever after with some other girl. Patronising and tedious - as bad as what they did to Ducky i Pretty in Pink.

Worf said:
"Seeking a Friend For the End of the World" - I generally used to like Apocaplypse movies starting with "When Worlds Collide" back in the 50's. But then we got soooo many "giant meteor smears earth" or earth stops spinning or gloabal warming caused by whale farts movies that I actually began rooting for the world to end if only to stop the steady stream crappy assed films. I was done with "the ear is doomed our stalwart heroe's bravely sacrifice their lives to save us from whatever disaster is befalling us this week. With this dour vision in mind I went to see Stever Carrell's latest offering and all I can say is wow.

I was stunned by the brilliant scripting, great acting, believablly ubsurd situations, you name it. Yeah, the middle of the film drags a bit and some folks do forgive and forget decades of animosity kinda quickly BUT all in all it was an entertaining film. The best/hardest part about it:

SPOILER ALERT

Sounds good! I might give that a go. There was a low budget film I saw a few years ago with an outcome much like that, but not a comedy. Canadian, I think?

AmateisGal said:
Independence Day for the millionth time. But my daughter had never watched it before, so, I watched it again. lol

Saw that in the cinema. Very, very disappointing. Problem was I took it as face value, as the advertising promised. Second time round I approached is as a deliberately-rubbish B-movie and it was very entertaining. Sadly, I don't think the people making it realised it was cliche-laden satire... Could still have been better without Will Smith. He really grates on me in 99.9% of what I've seen him do, though to be fair I liked him in I, Legend.

AntonAAK · Jul 3, 2012

Bullets over Broadway. Again. I never tire of it.

'Don't speak'...

Phantomfixer · Jul 3, 2012

Same Time Next Year. If life were that easy and people so free...but a good story

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