What was the last movie you saw?

[Connavar]

I saw Passion of christ yesterday too, not the hole movie but the last half.


It isnt a movie, its a barbaric cash in. No wonder the pope and co liked it.....

 

[daisybee]

I hate 'down' endings.Open endings,yes,but depressing ones...
('the passion of Christ' was on yesterday,didn't watch it though)

Yeah, I like a bit of ambiguity too, so I mostly rewrite the ending in my head to my liking!
Passion of the Christ - it took me ages to watch and when I did, well I got so upset my boyfriend had to turn it off (I much prefer Jesus Christ Superstar. I love that film. )

 

[Mollygurl]

Saw Pan's Labarynth last week. It wasn't what I thought it would be but I still really enjoyed it.

Dyyyying to see 300...

 

[Happy Joe]

Saw "Attack of the Gryphon"; a not terrible movie with television level acting, plot, etc. The downside was the CGI (looked like an electronic imitation of Ray Harryhausen's stop motion work).
Also viewed the restored/remastered 1938 "Adventures of Robin Hood"; it is still a great picture.
Enjoy!

 

[littlemissattitude]

I watched most of the original Planet of the Apes again last night; they were showing it on the History Channel, of all places.

 

[HardScienceFan]

Yeah, I like a bit of ambiguity too, so I mostly rewrite the ending in my head to my liking!
Passion of the Christ - it took me ages to watch and when I did, well I got so upset my boyfriend had to turn it off (I much prefer Jesus Christ Superstar. I love that film. )

I used to have a religion studies teacher that played the soundtrack to death on an old taperecorder.
*hums*
"I DON"T KNOW HOW LOVE HIM",oh yeah and
"HAIR"(growing,flowing)
AAHHH the seventies
*dons paisley shirt,flaring jeans*
Starsky and Hutch Rule
HSF
only slightly off his rocker due to your post

 

[Rosemary]

Not Science Fiction or Fantasy but about that wonderful Naturalist, Gerald Durrell.

'My Family and Other Animals' captured some of the highlights of Gerald's life on Corfu quite well. I thought his mother coped quite well considering all of the varied hobbies of her four offspring!

Guns, acne, scorpions and an aspiring writer combined with many visitors and the native people of the island was a lovely movie - a change from some of the more horrific or violent films one sees on the TV these days. Although scorpions let out of a matchbox at dinner time might be classed as horrific!

I read all of his books many times and enjoyed everyone of them. I guess there is no way that a movie could be made to capture every wonderful aspect of Gerald's life.

 

[bruno-1012]

Rosemary - got to ask what you thought of Rosie is my Relative?

 

[HardScienceFan]

Not Science Fiction or Fantasy but about that wonderful Naturalist, Gerald Durrell.

'My Family and Other Animals' captured some of the highlights of Gerald's life on Corfu quite well. I thought his mother coped quite well considering all of the varied hobbies of her four offspring!

I read all of his books many times and enjoyed everyone of them. I guess there is no way that a movie could be made to capture every wonderful aspect of Gerald's life.

What???NO SF.
Understand Durrell's good,though

 

[HoopyFrood]

Alas, only the last 40 minutes of it: Toy Story 2!

 

[Rosemary]

Rosemary - got to ask what you thought of Rosie is my Relative?

I enjoyed it as much as his other books...elephants help to make a good story I think Bruno!

 

[HardScienceFan]

Le Pacte des Loupes
for review,see Flickphilosopher
Dang,I liked it
Heady stuff,Typically French,mercurial,spellbinding,great action
Must see ,if U ask me

 

[Talysia]

Just saw Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-rabbit, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I love Aardman Animation's attention to detail!

 

[HardScienceFan]

Just saw Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-rabbit, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I love Aardman Animation's attention to detail!

And the voices!!!!!!!!HBC,if I am not mistaken?
LOVED THAT ONE!

 

[Lenny]

Just finished watching a quaint film set in Russia from around the end of the 1900s to probably the middle of the 1930s:

Doctor Zhivago.

A bit slow, but a good film nonetheless. And it's good background for understanding the Russian revolutions and what life was like with the Red Army and the White Army prancing around.

 

[ravenus]

CASTLE FREAK - Stuart Gordon

A pretty darn decent and gory offering from the director of Re-animator, From Beyond and Dagon.

Shot as a low-budget creature feature in Italy, CF has the other iconic hero of horror, Jeffrey Coombs, as a family man who is in deep trouble with his family, having been responsible for an accident that led to the death of a son and the blindness of his daughter. He thinks he has a chance to wipe the slate clean when he brings the family to Italy,having recently inherited a castle. But things as they will in such movies, go horribly awry and there is a mysterious creature in the cellars of this moldering castle that has gotten free after years of harsh imprisonment and has developed a flesh chomping fetish.

While never in the same ballpark of creativity as Gordon's other Lovecraft adaptations (This one is supposed to be based on The Outsider, but it takes the merest fragment of that story) , CF is pacy and punchy enough to provide good entertainment. Jeffrey Coombs excels as the harried husband whom bad luck trails like a faithful dog. Jonathan Fuller as the castle freak is truly repulsive, thanks to make-up and gore effects that will doubtless please gore-hounds. The most talked about is a fairly grisly sequence where a prostitute's nipple gets chewed off while she's alive...but it's all in good fun if you don't want to see such stuff why would you see this movie?

 

[The Wanderer]

Just finished watching a quaint film set in Russia from around the end of the 1900s to probably the middle of the 1930s:

Doctor Zhivago.

A bit slow, but a good film nonetheless. And it's good background for understanding the Russian revolutions and what life was like with the Red Army and the White Army prancing around.

Slow??? it falls shirt though of Lean's previous film ' Lawrence of Arabia', but then again most other films of it's kind do

The White Army didn't do too much prancing around, in fact most of them weren't doing very much at all after the battles

 

[Lenny]

I thought it was slow.

Though we did stop about 40 minutes in to watch the latest Dr. Who episode, so...

Some of the scenery in the film was amazing! I'll give it that much.

 

[The Wanderer]

I thought it was slow.

Though we did stop about 40 minutes in to watch the latest Dr. Who episode, so...

Some of the scenery in the film was amazing! I'll give it that much.

Yeap, and the ending is False really, with the Rainbow and the wave goodbye and everything, it suggests cheesily that everything will be alright

 

[Dave]

Starsky and Hutch - pretty much as bad as I expected - the characters were so different from the originals that I don't know why they used the same names - and it doesn't really capture the 1970's well - not in the same way Life on Mars does.

The Shawshank Redemption - it's a good film, no doubt about that, but I don't subscribe to the view that it is the greatest film ever made - I just can't understand how anyone can think it is THAT good. And I don't think it's possible for him to dig that tunnel with a rock hammer.