Last Movie You Watched

[Kullervo]

Clueless

Do I dare admit this?  This might be my all-time favourite movie.  Of all the Jane Austen adaptations out there, this one, while far from being the most faithful, comes closest to retaining the author's wit and social observation.

The screenplay is so sharp, everytime I watch it I'm cracked up by some piece of dialogue I hadn't noticed before.  This time it was:

Dionne:  Did you write that yourself?

Cher:  Dude!  It's a totally famous quote.

Dionne:  From where?

Cher:  Cliff's notes.

Seconded. One of my favorite comedies.

[longears]

One of the most beautiful movies I know.  Images that linger decades after. 

[Solitary Wanderer]

Law and Order ~ Season 2

[Daverz]

Despite the Armageddon-like premise [of Sunshine] and a cast of non-entities, this managed to be very engaging up until the end. Just be sure to suspend your incredulity.

Excuse me?  Michelle Yeoh is a non-entity?

What I got out of this directors previous movie, Pi was that he didn't know anything about mathematics or mathematicians and didn't give a damn; whatever peurile ideas he could pull out of his ass about either were more interesting to him.  What I got out of this one was the he didn't know anything about science, the Sun, or space travel and didn't give a damn...

[George]

[Kullervo]

Excuse me?  Michelle Yeoh is a non-entity?

The only decent actress and she had a relatively bit part. Meanwhile, the "stars" are Chris Evans and Cillian Murphy, who were entirely forgettable.

What I got out of this directors previous movie, Pi was that he didn't know anything about mathematics or mathematicians and didn't give a damn; whatever peurile ideas he could pull out of his ass about either were more interesting to him.  What I got out of this one was the he didn't know anything about science, the Sun, or space travel and didn't give a damn...

A quick IMDB search tells me Danny Boyle's last movie was Millions. He didn't direct Pi, that was Darren Aronofsky — but I can understand how you'd confuse the two.

[Daverz]

The only decent actress and she had a relatively bit part. Meanwhile, the "stars" are Chris Evans and Cillian Murphy, who were entirely forgettable.

A quick IMDB search tells me Danny Boyle's last movie was Millions. He didn't direct Pi, that was Darren Aronofsky — but I can understand how you'd confuse the two.

Well, maybe I just don't give a damn!

I don't know how I got that idea, either.  I do know that both movies annoyed me, and somehow I made a connection between them.  Looking at IMDB, I see that Aronofsky made another movie I disliked, The Fountain, awful pretentious twaddle that had the same attitude towards history that Sunshine had toward science.

[Shrunk]

Cache (Michael Haneke)

Depending on your taste, you will either find this one tense and mesmerizing, or static and dull.  I'm in the former camp, but YMMV.  Just don't expect a tidy resolution to the mystery.

A hint:  In the final shot, pay attention to the lower left hand corner of the screen.  A plot development occurs there that's easy to miss.  (Although, far from explaining anything, it only deepens the mystery further.)

[SonicMan46]

Some new 'purchased' DVDs to my collection:

Unconquered (1947) w/ Gary Cooper & Paulette Goddard (I don't know, but this woman is hard to resist for me - she just always looks 'mouth-watering'!) - 

Since You Went Away (1944) w/ Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Shirley Temple, & many others - typical but good 'jear-kerker' made during WWII - The Best Years of Our Lives is a better film for this genre, but both are excellent!

Ratatouille (2007) - animated film that I just loved on the BIG SCREEN - now watching it @ the moment - much better than most films from '07 w/ real humans - sad but true - I've been buying a lot of animated movies recently - 

   

[orbital]

Depending on your taste, you will either find this one tense and mesmerizing, or static and dull.  I'm in the former camp, but YMMV.  Just don't expect a tidy resolution to the mystery.

I'm in the former camp myself. I liked this film a lot, even more than Code:Unknown

[Shrunk]

Ratatouille (2007) - animated film that I just loved on the BIG SCREEN - now watching it @ the moment - much better than most films from '07 w/ real humans - sad but true - I've been buying a lot of animated movies recently - 

No surprise there.  This is a new golden age for animation; you almost can't miss with anything from Pixar, Dreamworks, etc.  

I liked Ratatiouille, too.  It was different from Pixar's previous films.  Less of the edgy humour, more like a good fairy tale.

[Harry]

Workout film today

[Harry]

One of the most beautiful movies I know.  Images that linger decades after. 

I agree, that is indeed a very good film, allthough my copy is a badly remastered one...

[longears]

Ratatouille (2007) - animated film that I just loved on the BIG SCREEN - now watching it @ the moment - much better than most films from '07 w/ real humans - sad but true - I've been buying a lot of animated movies recently -

No surprise there.  This is a new golden age for animation; you almost can't miss with anything from Pixar, Dreamworks, etc.  

Indeed.  Perhaps because these films by their very nature so emphasize imagery and story rather than explosions and self-impressed gits?  And the absence of gratuitous sex and violence automatically attracts a broad audience?

[Saul]

Steel Toes - One of the most shocking films I have ever watched.

Next - Very entertaining

Rescue Dawn - Fantastic

The Promise - One of the most Beautiful films out there.

War - Jet lee film, childish and stupid, a waist of time.

The Last Legion - Horrible and childish.

[George]

Workout film today

At some point you are going to work your other muscles, aren't you? 

[маразм1]

"clerks"!!!

37 d**ks!  lol

[beclemund]

I watched Superbad over the weekend and it was fairly entertaining--not likely one I'll remember past this week, however.

[Hector]

'Girl With a Pearl Earring.'

I'm sorry, but no way can I believe that the girl in Vermeer's portrait is a mere serving girl.

She looks far to aristocratic.

Colin Firth smouldered, as usual, but that is all women expect of him, so I am reliably informed.

The rest was cliche: Vermeer's pregnant wife is jealous, the famous earrings are hers and 'stolen' by his mother-in-law (a scene-stealing performance from Judy Parfitt), the daughter of the house tries to frame her and Vermeer's patron attempts to rape her. Soap!

However, I was convinced by the cinematography and CGI's 17th century Delft.

Also, it is short!

'Sin City' based on Frank Miller's graphic novels with him and Rodriguez and Tarrantino involved one got what one expected: an exceptional and extremely violent 'Film Noir' with lines a bishop would kick out a church window for : "Even when I cut his head off he didn't scream." or "She had perfect breasts, pity she was a dike."

An exceptional cast did their bits before the blue screen so that Miller's distorted vision of the world could be played about them: if it wasn't overcast it was either raining or snowing.

Loved it. More, please!

[val]

AKIRA KUROSAWA:    RASHOMON

A great movie,but not my favorite among Kurosawa's masterpieces.

The actors are great, in special Toshiro Mifune.