Last Movie You Watched

[Todd]

Major disappointment in every facet:

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Completely agree.  Watched it last night, and I can't think of one positive thing to write.  The plot is pitiful.  Javier Bardem is a terrible bad guy.  Some of the CGI is awful, including the big Bardem reveal when he's all cooped up like Hannibal Lector.  The action scenes are dull.  Sam Mendes' direction is second rate - he should never do another action film.  And why did he opt for hand held cameras during some interior scenes?  Worst Bond film since Moonraker, with none of that movie's sense of fun.  Maybe the worst one yet made.

[Karl Henning]

Hook, last night. Hoffman, Hoskins and Williams (oh, and Maggie Smith) are big positives, the inevitable pools of Spielbergian sentimentality are moderate negatives. Julia Roberts has neither my blessing nor my curse.

Oh, and the script includes one of Spielberg's top 5 bee-fart-sniffingest dud jokes, as Williams whips out a checkbook in response to Hook's challenge, "Draw your weapon!"

Always a bit tickled by Phil Collins's cameo.

[DavidRoss]

Completely agree.  Watched it last night, and I can't think of one positive thing to write.  The plot is pitiful.  Javier Bardem is a terrible bad guy.  Some of the CGI is awful, including the big Bardem reveal when he's all cooped up like Hannibal Lector.  The action scenes are dull.  Sam Mendes' direction is second rate - he should never do another action film.  And why did he opt for hand held cameras during some interior scenes?  Worst Bond film since Moonraker, with none of that movie's sense of fun.  Maybe the worst one yet made.

Yep. I didn't expect to yawn so much.

Saw this one last night. Didn't expect much, since it was a Moonie er Scientology er Cruise vanity production, but it was even duller and less believable than I expected:

[Sammy]

Winner of four Academy Awards, including best picture, director, supporting actor, and best editing, Clint Eastwood's 1992 masterpiece stands as one of the greatest and most thematically compelling Westerns ever made. "The movie summarized everything I feel about the Western," said Eastwood at the time of the film's release. "The moral is the concern with gunplay." To illustrate that theme, Eastwood stars as a retired, once-ruthless killer-turned-gentle-widower and hog farmer. He accepts one last bounty-hunter mission--to find the men who brutalized a prostitute--to help support his two motherless children. Joined by his former partner (Morgan Freeman) and a cocky greenhorn (Jaimz Woolvett), he takes on a corrupt sheriff (Oscar winner Gene Hackman) in a showdown that makes the viewer feel the full impact of violence and its corruption of the soul. Dedicated to Eastwood's mentors Sergio Leone and Don Siegel and featuring a colorful role for Richard Harris, it's arguably Eastwood's crowning directorial achievement.--Jeff Shannon

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I agree with the above except for the notion that Hackman was a "corrupt' sheriff. 

[Bogey]

Yep. I didn't expect to yawn so much.

Saw this one last night. Didn't expect much, since it was a Moonie er Scientology er Cruise vanity production, but it was even duller and less believable than I expected:

And yet better than anything Roger Moore gave us.   I did like the main title theme song.

Here is a live version I prefer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOfwHP7oW-8

[Karl Henning]

Anyone who has seen the additional features to Howl's Moving Castle . . . anything "must-see" on the second DVD?

TIA

[DavidRoss]

Now that was a great movie, in its day. More than a little dated now, but still offers a lens on the past that helps explain the riots in '92.

Giving this a try tonight:

[SonicMan46]

Enjoy the Unforgiven (own on Blu-ray) and also disliked Skyfall - so in agreement!

Jack Reacher (2012) w/ Tom Cruise who still looks pretty good - streamed from my cable server last night - mystery, suspense, a LOT of shooting & killing, and CAR CHASES!  For me 'over the board' w/ action - 3.7/5* on Amazon; 61% (6.2/10) on Rotten Tomatoes; and 7/10 on IMDB.  Robert Duvall shows up @ the end which adds an extra 1/2* for me - probably would thus do 3+* if reviewing on Amazon.  Possibly worth a watch if you like Cruise, a lot of shooting/fighting/killing, and prolonged car chasing - 

[TheGSMoeller]

Only visiting GMG and without looking elsewhere, one might think that Skyfall is the worst Bond film or even one of the worst films in recent history. 

[Sammy]

Only visiting GMG and without looking elsewhere, one might think that Skyfall is the worst Bond film or even one of the worst films in recent history. 

I thought it was quite good although it did take a little nosedive with so much time at the country home toward the conclusion.

[CaughtintheGaze]

Only visiting GMG and without looking elsewhere, one might think that Skyfall is the worst Bond film or even one of the worst films in recent history. 

It's definitely the worst of the contemporary Bonds (Craig and Bronson).

Two films to cleanse the pallete last night:

A film I've only come to now truly appreciate:
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One of the great reveals in cinematic history:
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[Octave]

[.....]the contemporary Bonds (Craig and Bronson).

If only!

[CaughtintheGaze]

If only!

Whoops. I didn't even now that wasn't how you spelled Pierce's last name. As an aside though, Death Wish is better than every Bonds movie I've seen.

[Karl Henning]

Apples and oranges, of course. If one doesn't like what the Bond movies do, by all means watch something else.

As a fairer comparison, it was fun to see some of the Bond conventions adopted to good effect in True Lies.

[Karl Henning]

And: there are reasons why Bronson was not offered the role : )

[DavidRoss]

A film I've only come to now truly appreciate:

One of the most beautiful movies ever made. Is the blu-ray transfer good? (DVD was disappointing.)

[TheGSMoeller]

Barry Lyndon contains two of the best uses of classical music with Schubert's Trio and Handel's Sarabande.

[Beorn]

Barry Lyndon contains two of the best uses of classical music with Schubert's Trio and Handel's Sarabande.

I own it on DVD in my Kubrick box set but still haven't watched it.

[TheGSMoeller]

I own it on DVD in my Kubrick box set but still haven't watched it.

You should be watching it. Right now. 

[Cato]

One of the most disturbing movies about classical music ever made!









YES!  My sons were in the mood for one of their favorite movies from my childhood!