What was the last movie you saw?

When my friend visited me over the weekend, we watched The Grudge. I love it purely for it's silliness value (scary woman with loads of hair rolling down the stairs, woo!) but my friend didn't seem so amused...she jumped about five times and kept cowering behind my pillow. Some people, eh? Useless :p:D
 
HoopyFrood said:
When my friend visited me over the weekend, we watched The Grudge. I love it purely for it's silliness value (scary woman with loads of hair rolling down the stairs, woo!) but my friend didn't seem so amused...she jumped about five times and kept cowering behind my pillow. Some people, eh? Useless :p:D
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Hoopy... have you seen the Japanese original, Ju-On? I'd say it's much more effective, because of being so understated...
 
Hang on...let me think...Hmm, I'm not quite sure. All these darked-haired women, they all start merging into one! I know I've definitely seen The Ring 1 and 2 in the original...

I'll have to dig it out from somewhere and watch it...then I'll know if I've watched it or not :D
 
Let's just say she came across as much more menacing (to me) in the original... more like an elemental force, completely unstoppable, completely without compassion or even, necessarily, intellect.... sort of the hate version of the spirit in "How Love Came to Professor Guildea"....
 
I also recommend Big Fish.

The last film I saw was Mr Bean's Holiday. My son really wanted to see this and I drew the short straw. It has awful reviews, and I can tell you they are all correct. One reviewer said "Why was this film made?" which I can't answer.

I admit to smiling a few times, the forged security pass I found funny. I thought that the video-tape alternative ending to the film was clever, as was the final walk to the beach. It was really a series of sketches like those, bolted together. Some worked, some failed, some have been done before on the TV show. The Oyster and Langustine restaurant scene is very similar to the Steak Tartare episode.
 
I saw 300 yesterday.

It was an amazing movie despite the hollywood crap with the over the top stuff that made the battle look like a joke sometimes. You know what "beasts" i mean ;)


300 and Casino Royale are the only great hollywood movies i have seen in almost two years. The only ones you think damn thats something new from hollywood and that you count the days for the dvd to come out.
 
Black Snake Moan........

My hubby liked it, but then again, men are pervs.;)

Definetly NOT NOT NOT a movie for kids under 17. Not.

The first five minutes after the monologue intro had me about as red faced as this guy :mad: and doing this at the same time :D and this :eek: while covering my eyes and peeking through my fingers. Pretty much the way I watch all adult movies.
 
I do not get much time to watch movies since my work hours are awkward, but the last movie I saw was Harry Potter and the Philosophers stone :eek: But I did also see before that 12 Angry Men with Henry Fonder which is such a intelligent and thought provoking movie.
 
Sunshine

A Sci-Fi movie from Danny Boyle (28 days later/Trainspotting). Our sun is dying and 8 astronauts are on a mission to deliver a payload to re-ignite the sun and save mankind.

A strange mixture of "The Core" meets the moody "Event Horizon" and a dash of "2001" WTF all mixes together to make this movie.


Most of the time it works fine. It's tense, claustrophobic and visually stunning.

What ruins the film for me was the last 20 minutes where the film descends into a pretentious mess of WTF is going on.

For a low budget film (About $40m) the visuals are amazing and without any real major star in the movie (Chis Evans steals the show from Cillian Murphy for me) they had to.

Shame about the ending.
 
Casino Royale; good not great, a much better film than the original.
Recon 2020 The Cabrini Massacre; truly stinko (Bad would be giving it a complement).
Enjoy!
 
Dave said:
I also recommend Big Fish.

The last film I saw was Mr Bean's Holiday. My son really wanted to see this and I drew the short straw. It has awful reviews, and I can tell you they are all correct. One reviewer said "Why was this film made?" which I can't answer.

I admit to smiling a few times, the forged security pass I found funny. I thought that the video-tape alternative ending to the film was clever, as was the final walk to the beach. It was really a series of sketches like those, bolted together.
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Think I know what U mean.Rowan's wachamacallit Spy Spoof *Johnny English*
was as bad as they come.
 
The tv show was pure genius though. His silent comedy there kills me.

I laugh so much that i got tears in my eyes when i watch the reruns.
 
I saw 300 in the Imax earlier, and this evening I watched Pierrepoint - an English film about Albert Pierrepoint, England's most, shall we say, 'famous' hangman (Ruth Ellis, carried out the executions on those convicted at the Nuremberg trials).
 
Yes and No.

With some films, special 3D effects (those red and green outlines) are put onto a selection of scenes so that they look 3D with the special glasses that are handed round, but with the films that aren't the Imax basically acts as a dirty great screen. I have to say, you could see everything in minute detail - the blood effects, the sweat rolling down Leonidas' brow, the, erm, choice clothing (or lack of it) worn (or not) by the Spartans.
 
I saw Children of Men yesterday (only a penny to watch):) and thought it was brilliant. I kept waiting to be uplifted though- and never quite got there. I really want to read the book it was based on now.:D
 
daisybee said:
I saw Children of Men yesterday (only a penny to watch):) and thought it was brilliant. I kept waiting to be uplifted though- and never quite got there. I really want to read the book it was based on now.:D
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I hate 'down' endings.Open endings,yes,but depressing ones...
('the passion of Christ' was on yesterday,didn't watch it though)
 
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