Last Movie You Watched

[George]

Amen!  Confessions of a Dangerous Mind was supposedly a George Clooney butchering of Charlie Kaufman's script: either way, Sam Rockwel was fun to watch!

He was great in everything I have seen him in - 7 Psychopaths, Choke, Safe Men and Box of Moonlight.

[Karl Henning]

Watched Paycheck again today.  I'm not exactly sure why I enjoy going back to this one from time to time, but I do.  Cannot just be because Uma Thurman says Red Sox at one point . . . .

[DavidW]

Sam Rockwell is awesome in Moon.

[Karl Henning]

Sam Rockwell is awesome in Moon.

That's been recommended to me

[TheGSMoeller]

If you want the full sledgehammer-to-the-stomach effect of Audition, stop reading this review now. Just watch it and take the consequences. At first glance, Takashi Miike's jack in the box of a movie works like a romantic comedy: amiable widower Shigeharu Aoyama (Ryo Ishibashi) decides it's time to find a new wife, and a friend suggests holding a fake audition to find the right girl. It soon becomes clear that there is something wrong with Aoyama's choice. This is no ordinary Fatal Attraction-style thriller, however; Audition slowly and carefully builds into a wrenching exploration of both deep male fears and the stereotype of the cute, submissive Japanese woman. Audition is by no means an easy movie to watch--even hardcore horror fans may have trouble--but it will stay with you for a long, long time. --Ali Davis

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One of my favorites, a film you'll truly never forget, even if for all the wrong reasons.

[snyprrr]

If you want the full sledgehammer-to-the-stomach effect of Audition, stop reading this review now. Just watch it and take the consequences. At first glance, Takashi Miike's jack in the box of a movie works like a romantic comedy: amiable widower Shigeharu Aoyama (Ryo Ishibashi) decides it's time to find a new wife, and a friend suggests holding a fake audition to find the right girl. It soon becomes clear that there is something wrong with Aoyama's choice. This is no ordinary Fatal Attraction-style thriller, however; Audition slowly and carefully builds into a wrenching exploration of both deep male fears and the stereotype of the cute, submissive Japanese woman. Audition is by no means an easy movie to watch--even hardcore horror fans may have trouble--but it will stay with you for a long, long time. --Ali Davis

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Should I screen it for the nieces and nephews when they come over with the... giggle... giggle...

[Karl Henning]

Last night, "Two's a Crowd" from The Avengers, season 4.  With typical improbabilities, but with a neatly Shakespearean parallelism (a nefarious Colonel no one has ever seen, and a body double for Mr Steed).

[Karl Henning]

And the only time I have ever heard of Crème de Violette.

[modUltralaser]

Just amazing camera work, brilliant coloring, pulse-pounding music, brutality that fit within the storyline, a near nihilistic plot. Gosling's fists, stare, and smirk round out an already amazing film.

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Coburn is in this. Utter and complete tripe, unclever dialouge with awkward acting to boot, and for a film that stars Hepburn, surprisingly no style.

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I've not been this bored in a while. Gina has zero charisma. The camera work was spotty and the casting was way off track.

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[kishnevi]

Coburn is in this. Utter and complete tripe, unclever dialouge with awkward acting to boot, and for a film that stars Hepburn, surprisingly no style.

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I beg to differ.  It's true that Coburn sometimes seems to have wandered in from a different movie,  but it's perhaps the best Hitchcock film not made by Hitchcock.  And in fact, better than some of Hitchcock's own efforts.

[modUltralaser]

I beg to differ.  It's true that Coburn sometimes seems to have wandered in from a different movie,  but it's perhaps the best Hitchcock film not made by Hitchcock.  And in fact, better than some of Hitchcock's own efforts.

We'll beg to differ.

[Karl Henning]

Thanks, Jeffrey. Glad I didn't need to be the first to bespeak Charade

[lisa needs braces]

Charade was an entertaining and funny movie.

[lisa needs braces]

I beg to differ.  It's true that Coburn sometimes seems to have wandered in from a different movie,  but it's perhaps the best Hitchcock film not made by Hitchcock.  And in fact, better than some of Hitchcock's own efforts.

Well put. It doesn't have Hitchcock's visuals, but it has the sort of story Hitchcock always seemed to be drawn to, and it has one of the greatest actors he put in a leading role. :-)

[modUltralaser]

Some truly amazing visuals. Could have been a great movie but wasn't. Held onto too many conventions with a really interesting seed about memory. Outside of the main two only Elijah Wood seemed to be trying. The rest of the cast was terrible.

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Utterly detested this flick. Didn't even have the normally dependable camera work of Trier. 

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[Wakefield]

One of my favorites, a film you'll truly never forget, even if for all the wrong reasons.

Do you mean for moral reasons? Because from a cinematic point of view it's just perfect.

[DavidW]

I beg to differ.  It's true that Coburn sometimes seems to have wandered in from a different movie,  but it's perhaps the best Hitchcock film not made by Hitchcock.  And in fact, better than some of Hitchcock's own efforts.

+3

[Karl Henning]

Anyway, it seems that I almost prefer movies in which Coburn is to some degree a fish out of water . . . Charade, Hudson Hawk . . . .


Thread Duty:


Last night, "Lady in Waiting" from the first season of Columbo, and perhaps the first 20 minutes of Pennies from Heaven.

[modUltralaser]

Anyway, it seems that I almost prefer movies in which Coburn is to some degree a fish out of water . . . Charade, Hudson Hawk . . .

Sister Act 2... I flat our love the cat.

[snyprrr]

Anyway, it seems that I almost prefer movies in which Coburn is to some degree a fish out of water . . . Charade, Hudson Hawk . . . .


Thread Duty:


Last night, "Lady in Waiting" from the first season of Columbo, and perhaps the first 20 minutes of Pennies from Heaven.

Last night, "Two's a Crowd" from The Avengers, season 4.  With typical improbabilities, but with a neatly Shakespearean parallelism (a nefarious Colonel no one has ever seen, and a body double for Mr Steed).

Ah, we finally gotcha there!! Thaaaaaaaak you!!!!!! I kinda like the big one,... maybe you're giving me bad ideas, haha!!!