What was the last movie you saw?

300 - Wasn't a huge fan, for everything I liked about the movie there was something that bugged me.
 
An oldie, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof. Meh. it was wayyy too melodramatic, I didn't like any of the characters and Elizabeth Taylor's Southern accent in this movie is the single most annoying thing this side of Chris Martin's smug drone.
 
knivesout said:
An oldie, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof. Meh. it was wayyy too melodramatic, I didn't like any of the characters and Elizabeth Taylor's Southern accent in this movie is the single most annoying thing this side of Chris Martin's smug drone.
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You know, this reminds me of an interview I saw with Tennessee Williams about 30 years ago. I can't recall whether it was Cat or not (though I think it was), but he had gone to a production of one of his plays, and was sitting there watching it, and periodically chuckling to himself at the humor he saw in the play itself. Finally, a woman sitting in front of him whipped around and said something to the effect of: "Do you mind? We're here to enjoy the play. I don't know what you're laughing about, this is a very serious play." To which Williams, grinning, replied: "I know, madam. I wrote the damned thing."
 
Heh. Well, I've compared the play and the movie and there are certain elements in the play which are diluted or omitted in the movie, which would have improved it greatly. Still, not my thing. With a few musical routines and a more submisive role for Maggie The Cat it could have been a standard Bollywood family drama from the 80s.
 
I love you to Death - Very funny and some great casting, particularly Joan Plowright as the mother in law and William Hurt as the stoner Harlan, was a touch sad seeing River Phoenix though.
 
Class, a move about a teenager who, unwittingly, has an affair with his best friend's mother and the consequences. Features a very young John Cusack in a supporting role. Cusack had a very big nose as a boy. Most people's noses get bigger as they grow old, but Cusack's nose appears to have reached its full potential quite early on and stayed the way it was, waiting for the rest of his face to catch up.
 
MASTERS OF HORROR: THE BLACK CAT – Stuart Gordon

Stuart Gordon's second outing after Dreams in the Witch-House for the Masters of Horror series is an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's story The Black Cat. I approached this with mixed feelings because this is one of my least favored Poe stories, horribly contrived and dull.

Gordon makes things more interesting by having Poe himself as the lead character, a penurious writer with an alcohol problem, a consumptive wife and the titular feline. Poe fancies himself a poet but struggles to sell his pieces to editors who only want more of his 'fantastic tales', which he finds himself unable to conjure. The increasing illness of his young beloved drives him mad with desperation to the bottle, and that in turn to the acts of brutality that are described in the original story. Without giving away further spoilers, the episode thereon follows the events of the story with a concluding twist that can be predicted a mile off.

Without the concept of Poe himself being the lead character this would have been a decidedly mediocre experience but this aspect adds a significantly more interesting touch and the lead performance by horror star Jeffrey Combs (Re-Animator series, From Beyond) is, even in its broad-sidedness (I could not have imagined Poe pulling off the wager stunt with the pub owner), quite brilliant and sufficiently separated from his erstwhile roles to deserve a solid recommendation to horror fans everywhere.
 
I to went to see 300, in all honesty I didn't enjoy it. Ok so there were plenty of buffed males to look at but really how much fighting can one person watch without boredom setting in.
Alternatively I was given "The Audrey Hepburn Collection" So I have been enjoying the innocence of Roman Holiday, Sabrina and breakfast at Tiffanys. Where men were lucky to undo their tie, let alone take off a shirt. Its suprisingly enjoyable to watch Black & white movies again. Although the music scores can be a little overwhelming. I enjoyed Humphrey Bogart in Sabbrina though. All of his movies were made well before I was born but he is pretty cool. Maybe we need to return to this style of movie!
 
Wedding Crashers. It was alright, but I couldn't hear it properly and I still understood it. Why don't they make sophisticated plots anymore...speaking of which...

I read a short review of 300, the first sentence said "The simplistic plot..." OMG! THEY DIDNT MAKE IT UP IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED THERE IS NO PLOT FOOL! I mean sure, it isn't entirely true, but come on. That person has no clue what they're talking about.
 
Just caught "Fracture" and "Pathfinder". The former was well crafted, well executed and very enjoyable; the latter was dull, derivative, and shoddy (though the odd moment lifted it from awful).
 
I saw Disturbia last night. I went into it with the understanding that it was Rear Window redone for the teen audience. I liked it. My poor husbnad was expecting Hitchcockian suspense and camera angles, so his thoughts were that it didn't suck.

We went to see the Number 23, but it had been replaced... :(
 
Finally saw The Prestige on DVD. Fantastic. I want to watch it again to see all the things I realised I had missed at the end. Though I can lay claim to idly picking the final twist quite early in the movie... even if I didn't think that it'd happen.
 
I'm cheating slightly, but I will be watching The Great Gatsby in an hour's time (at least I think it's that film...I just turn up and watch whatever film is put on!) for my English course.
 
I've just been to the cinema to watch Blades of Glory.

Firstly, I'd like to mention that I wanted to go to see 300, damnit!! But my friends all had other plans (don't worry, I'll make them go and see it soon!)

Anyway, it was quite amusing. Certainly laughed out loud a few times, but then I generally do (even during horror films and the like :D).
 
Just Watched Blade Runner tonight with my 16 year old son.When we saw Children of Men it was compared to Blade Runner, and he had never seen it, so I brought it home from the library. He liked Children of Men better though.
 
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