Last Movie You Watched

[Spineur]

Last night....

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I watch Amelie about once a year and still find it one of the quirkiest and most entertaining of films that I know.

Too much of postcard France for me.  Yann Tersen music is the best part.

There is a place in France which is postcard France which I actually love.  Its the Abbaye de Collonges near Lyon, one of Paul Bocuse (a very famous french chef) restaurants.  The decorum is amazing.  In particular there is a mechanical organ where Paul Bocuse himself  appears as one of the character

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The Abbaye de Collonges isnt Bocuse gastronomical resraurant any more so you can eat there for 60€ or so.  You get get there by boat.  For a foreigner its an amazing trip.into France and its traditions.

[aligreto]

Too much of postcard France for me. 

That aspect has never struck me about Amelie. I do not, as a foreigner, think that at all and I have visited France many times. I think that the whimsical way that France is treated in the film, although not being disrespectful, is certainly tongue in cheek. Just my take on it.

[Ken B]

Gone Baby, Gone

Gets generally good reviews but I am not a fan. The story is contrived and script is weak. A lot of the scenes look staged, with forced acting. I think that's at least partly the script at fault but also the director. The accents come and go. Sometimes they return at the end of a speech! The minor characters were Central Casting On Stilts.

It's not dreadful, I am not wailing over my two lost hours, but thumbs down. 5/10

[kishnevi]

Gone Baby, Gone

Gets generally good reviews but I am not a fan. The story is contrived and script is weak. A lot of the scenes look staged, with forced acting. I think that's at least partly the script at fault but also the director. The accents come and go. Sometimes they return at the end of a speech! The minor characters were Central Casting On Stilts.

It's not dreadful, I am not wailing over my two lost hours, but thumbs down. 5/10

My Boston accent comes and goes--and I was born there!

[SimonNZ]

Unexpectedly excellent. I'm a big Aaron Sorkin fan, but didn't see how this was his kind of story or what he could bring to what I assumed would be a standard biopic - glad to be proven wrong. The structuring exclusively around three product launches was particularly clever and effective, and though it means taking some liberties with when actual conversations actually took place, it meant avoiding all the tired biopic cliches.

[James]

Gone Baby, Gone

Gets generally good reviews but I am not a fan. The story is contrived and script is weak. A lot of the scenes look staged, with forced acting. I think that's at least partly the script at fault but also the director. The accents come and go. Sometimes they return at the end of a speech! The minor characters were Central Casting On Stilts.

It's not dreadful, I am not wailing over my two lost hours, but thumbs down. 5/10

Is this the Fincher film? If so .. I was gravely disappointed with it too. I was expecting better things as I love Fincher's Seven and Zodiac, good results there. Gone was just flat, contrived and predictable. Uninvolving.

[SimonNZ]

Is this the Fincher film? If so .. I was gravely disappointed with it too. I was expecting better things as I love Fincher's Seven and Zodiac, good results there. Gone was just flat, contrived and predictable. Uninvolving.

You're thinking of Gone Girl.

[GioCar]

Unexpectedly excellent. I'm a big Aaron Sorkin fan, but didn't see how this was his kind of story or what he could bring to what I assumed would be a standard biopic - glad to be proven wrong. The structuring exclusively around three product launches was particularly clever and effective, and though it means taking some liberties with when actual conversations actually took place, it meant avoiding all the tired biopic cliches.

Seconded. and Fassbender is a very credible SJ, much better than Ashton Kutcher.
I am a fan of Danny Boyle's films.

[SimonNZ]

Seconded. and Fassbender is a very credible SJ, much better than Ashton Kutcher.
I am a fan of Danny Boyle's films.

I like that they didn't cast according to superficial similarity in appearance or even try much in production to make the actors look like their originals, but rather trusted the actors to convey their characters convincingly through the delivery of the script. One of Kate Winslet's strongest performances, also, I thought.

Haven't seen the Kutchner and probably wont, but may move the Alex Gibney documentary up in the queue.

[James]

You're thinking of Gone Girl.

Yea .. that's the one. Thx.

[James]

Unexpectedly excellent. I'm a big Aaron Sorkin fan, but didn't see how this was his kind of story or what he could bring to what I assumed would be a standard biopic - glad to be proven wrong. The structuring exclusively around three product launches was particularly clever and effective, and though it means taking some liberties with when actual conversations actually took place, it meant avoiding all the tired biopic cliches.

Danny Boyle has did some pretty entertaining movies (i.e. 127 Hours, Trainspotting, most of 28 Days Later) .. but strangely, I have zero interest in his Jobs movie.

[aligreto]

Gone Baby, Gone

Gets generally good reviews but I am not a fan. The story is contrived and script is weak. A lot of the scenes look staged, with forced acting. I think that's at least partly the script at fault but also the director. The accents come and go. Sometimes they return at the end of a speech! The minor characters were Central Casting On Stilts.

It's not dreadful, I am not wailing over my two lost hours, but thumbs down. 5/10

+1 here who did not like it.

[Karl Henning]

Last night:  Family Plot and Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.

Early in the evening, I started Night of the Living Dead, but stopped it to save for another day.  It's not really my thing, and I am watching it mostly so that I have watched it    That said, I don't mean to suggest that it is bad (I actually find it a fairly impressive accomplishment for such a shoestring production), only that I suppose I need to be in the right humor.

[Mister Sharpe]

Gone Baby, Gone

Gets generally good reviews but I am not a fan. The story is contrived and script is weak. A lot of the scenes look staged, with forced acting. I think that's at least partly the script at fault but also the director. The accents come and go. Sometimes they return at the end of a speech! The minor characters were Central Casting On Stilts.

It's not dreadful, I am not wailing over my two lost hours, but thumbs down. 5/10

+1.  5/10, eh?  You liked it way more than I did!

[Mister Sharpe]

Wallace & Gromit in the Wrong Trousers.

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I hadn't been much afeared of penguins, before seeing this film.  Glad they don't live here, the cartoon variety anyway; "Feathers" is one perturbing penguin.

[Karl Henning]

Wallace & Gromit in the Wrong Trousers.

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I hadn't been much afeared of penguins, before seeing this film.  Glad they don't live here, the cartoon variety anyway; "Feathers" is one perturbing penguin.

Great fun;  my sister put me onto these.

[Ken B]

Wallace & Gromit in the Wrong Trousers.

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I hadn't been much afeared of penguins, before seeing this film.  Glad they don't live here, the cartoon variety anyway; "Feathers" is one perturbing penguin.

Odd. Just the other day Dave was posting about Pidgeons.

Might need to rematch The Birds soon.

[Mister Sharpe]

...Early in the evening, I started Night of the Living Dead, but stopped it to save for another day.  It's not really my thing, and I am watching it mostly so that I have watched it    That said, I don't mean to suggest that it is bad (I actually find it a fairly impressive accomplishment for such a shoestring production), only that I suppose I need to be in the right humor.

Does this help?  Feet Loaf, yum:

[Mister Sharpe]

Odd. Just the other day Dave was posting about Pidgeons.

Might need to rematch The Birds soon.

"The Birds is coming."  I remember my parents debating the grammar of that when I was a teen...

[Karl Henning]

Does this help?  Feet Loaf, yum:

Well, it's helping to push me to vegetarianism, we might say . . . .