Last Movie You Watched

[Scarpia]

I don't need to know anything about it.  I would watch Kate Beckinsale read the phone book.

Well, if you would watch Kate Beckinsale frolic with no clothes on, you've got a winner.   0:)

[DavidRoss]

Well, if you would watch Kate Beckinsale frolic with no clothes on, you've got a winner.   0:)

Be still my beating heat. 

So the film title should be taken literally?  Ahem...I'm just going to go find an ATM.

[Drasko]

So the film title should be taken literally? 

Yes.

It's a rather convoluted murder mystery based on the book by Arturo Perez-Reverte, one of the numerous Eco epigones. But what makes it unmissable is through the roof camp quality of array of characters populating the story. First and foremost we have Kate, in one of her first starring roles, at tender age of 20, with boyish haircut, perfect breasts and hairy armpits (it's a spanish co-production) playing art restorer commissioned by her gallery owner friend to restore old flemish painting, owned by aristocratic but broke local family (castle and all), which is supposed to go to auction. Painting is of a chess game, it has hidden layers revealing a murder mystery involving characters depicted, and then gets transposed to present day and people start dropping dead all over the place, etc but I'm digressing. Kate's friend the gallery owner is a lady in her best years, slightly hysterical, whom we first meet while been given head by this he-bimbo when blushing Kate somewhat recklessly burst into her office without knocking. But Kate's very best friend and former guardian (she is an orphan or something) is overly protective old queen played to the hilt by fantastic british actor John Wood. Kate's first love interest is her ex-professor and art expert played by ubiquitous Art Malik but he doesn't last long, second love interest is this long blond haired aryan looking gypsy street vagrant chess genius (no, I'm not making this up). And then there is the selling family: the patriarch, old Don something-or-other, dying of emphysema, another very good british actor doing his best Vincent Price impersonation, and his niece, brunette with movie villain black widowy look, only she is not a widow, she has a bimbo husband, yes the same one from few paragraphs above. And that closes the little circle in which mystery unfolds. The film is shot entirely in Barcelona where everyone seems to live in a Gaudi house, though this aspect could have been used to a much greater effect if the director was any better, who is workmanlike at his best.
Absolutely unmissable!       

[karlhenning]

Never watched the show myself, but the sequence in question can be found on youtube.  Painful to watch, and the writer of the episode claims to be proud of it to this day.   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDthMGtZKa4

Sure!  But for that, he would remain completely unknown to the world.  Entirely natural that he should be glad of his good luck;  and not all that surprising that he thinks of it instead as pride in his work.

[George]

Dad, I'm Jesus Christ!!!   

A classic.

[Drasko]

[MN Dave]

Two Buffys, one Friday the 13th-The Series and one from this new box of yum:

[George]

Great fun!

[DavidW]

That was what I should have seen George.  Instead I saw Paranormal Activity 2 and it was BORING!

[George]

That was what I should have seen George.  Instead I saw Paranormal Activity 2 and it was BORING!

Red certainly wasn't boring. It's the type of movie where if you're expectations are low, you have a blast and really enjoy it.

[Benji]

That was what I should have seen George.  Instead I saw Paranormal Activity 2 and it was BORING!

Oh good. Now I don't have to see it. Phew... 

[DavidW]

Oh good. Now I don't have to see it. Phew... 

Yeah the scares were so ineffective and goofy that the audience was actually laughing!  Part of the problem is that the same formula and same scares in the original are used here but to lesser effect.  Also while the producers think that they're slowly building up suspense, instead they are just boring us.  I think this is really just an attempt to cash in again at the surprise hit the first was.

[Benji]

Yeah the scares were so ineffective and goofy that the audience was actually laughing!  Part of the problem is that the same formula and same scares in the original are used here but to lesser effect.  Also while the producers think that they're slowly building up suspense, instead they are just boring us.  I think this is really just an attempt to cash in again at the surprise hit the first was.

Yeah it's pretty typical. Stay tuned for one instalment per Halloween season for the next 10 years until the inevitable happens:

SAW vs Paranormal Activity! 90 minutes of some sociopathic cancer-victim trying to set up his death-puzzles for the damned wicked sinners whilst being constantly harassed by a bored poltergeist. In 3D!

[MN Dave]

I want to see RED but I always wait for the DVD.

[DavidRoss]

I want to see RED but I always wait for the DVD.

My wife wants to see Afterlife, but even though Eastwood's batting average is good, I prefer waiting for the DVD, too. 

[DavidW]

Yeah it's pretty typical. Stay tuned for one instalment per Halloween season for the next 10 years until the inevitable happens:

SAW vs Paranormal Activity! 90 minutes of some sociopathic cancer-victim trying to set up his death-puzzles for the damned wicked sinners whilst being constantly harassed by a bored poltergeist. In 3D!

Funny enough they had the trailer for the 3d Saw and I thought was I really wouldn't want torture devices flung at me, and that won't make the movie any better!

[DavidW]

My wife wants to see Afterlife, but even though Eastwood's batting average is good, I prefer waiting for the DVD, too.

I only go to the theater these days if I'm bored.  Else wait for dvd and be able to watch it in a recliner without being surrounded by a-holes messing with their cell phones.

[George]

FWIW, I watched Red on DVD. A friend had an advance review copy.

I haven't been to the movies since the Dark Knight.

[SonicMan46]

Centennial: The Complete Series - the TV production from 1978 - Netflix rental - I don't believe that I've ever seen this production - gone through 4 episodes so far and still quite good - some revisionist ideas date certain aspects but still enjoyable w/ a parade of 'young' looking stars from the past! 

[DavidRoss]

Centennial: The Complete Series - the TV production from 1978 - Netflix rental - I don't believe that I've ever seen this production - gone through 4 episodes so far and still quite good - some revisionist ideas date certain aspects but still enjoyable w/ a parade of 'young' looking stars from the past! 

This was great in its day.  The production seems dated, but the story's still good!