What was the last movie you saw?

[j d worthington]

Just finished watching Ben Hur, good film even for it's age.

Quick query: the 1959 or the 1925 version? Both are well worth watching....

 

[Ice fyre]

The Charlton Heston one mate, funny story bout that. Have I mention'd it's one of my wife's aunts favourite films?
My Gran in law (her Mum) was walking down Princes Street in Edinburgh many years ago now only to be smiled at by a handsome young man she couldnt place. Lots of folk were frowning and trying to place him too. It was only later that she recognised him. Yup it was Indeed Charlton Heston, my Aunt in law didnt believe her till she saw it on the news that he had indeed been in Edinburgh. My aunt im law was not impressed as she didnt get his autograph!!

 

[Firefly]

Just had the unfortunate business of watching Spiderman 3, it was dismal.

 

[GOLLUM]

Thanks for the warning then....

Watched Adrian Monk - Season 4. Sadly ideas are starting to flag after such a brilliant start to this series (Seasons 1 & 2).

 

[Joel007]

I just watched Big Nothing with Simon Pegg and David Schwimmer (sp?)

I quite enjoyed it, enough plot twists to keep me interested, and a good pairing of the rather crazy and random Simon working well with David's knowledgeable but timid and clumsy character.
Entertaining violent comedy

 

[Jayaprakash Satyamurthy]

The 1950s House Of Wax with Vincent Price. Some of the scenes, created to exploit the 3D fad, seem a bit hokey without the gimmick, but the movie was enjoyable enough. It had some rather well put-together scenes, and some rather melodramatic ones. A bit of a mixed bag, but overall satisfactory if far from scary to my jaded modern sensibilities. Vincent Price is supremely creepy of course.

 

[Pyan]

Just had the unfortunate business of watching Spiderman 3, it was dismal.

I'd been looking forward to this, but have to agree with you, Firefly. I did like the Sandman f/x, but oh dear, the rest of it!

 

[HoopyFrood]

The emo dancing, the emo dancing, argh!

Venom was cool, they should've used him more.

 

[Pyan]

I'm looking forward to Fantastic Four - Rise of the Silver Surfer, too - I hope I haven't jinxed that one as well!

 

[HoopyFrood]

Yes, that looks cool. The Silver Surfer looks great!

Magicians is released this Friday, WOOP! I'll be going along on Friday to see if I can spot myself in the audience at the end, tee hee (I think I'll be able to because I've already seen myself in the trailer ).

 

[HardScienceFan]

a thingy called The Day after Tomorrow
I remember a lot of Ice,and a vague performance by Gyllenhaal and Quaid

 

[Pyan]

Johnny English.
If they could lose 9/10ths of the "comedy", and re-cast most of the parts, it would make a half-decent spy movie.

 

[gully_foyle]

The Black Dahlia. Still trying to figure out the plot. Can anyone tell me who the guy in the glasses was meant to be?

 

[HoopyFrood]

Woo HOO I watched one of my favourite films last night. I'm going to show my ever-hidden gory side here, so prepare yourself, I know I don't do this often

It's the film Warrior King. One man's journey to get his elephants back, because they've been kidnapped (elephant-knapped, I should say). Not the greatest plot, but man, the film is awesome. The end scene has the guy (played by Tony Jaa) breaking the arms and legs of about seventy bad guys. Ah, the crunching of bones! And he doesn't break an arm in the same way twice. He's very inventive when it comes to arm and leg breaking The film has everything...car chases, a fight in a burning building, a boat chase, an exploding helicopter, a chase on a segway, for the love of Cthulhu, arm breaking and some brilliant fighting scenes and, of course, elephants!

 

[ravenus]

13 Tzameti - George Babluani

Apart from the dumbass pseudo-poignant ending I thought this was a pretty good gritty French thriller. It's about an everyday workman who picks up a letter meant for someone else with the promise of making some big money and goes in his place, only to discover that he has walked into a setup where he has to play a game of survival with bets being placed on the contestants. Because it's in French AND in Black & White, you see words like "existential" used to describe the movie. Bull****. Just ignore the hype and you find a decent enough though never-particularly-ambitious movie (I liked it a good deal more than Hostel, for example).

Of course one of the weaknesses of the film for certain people would be that the conclusion of the survival tournament is foregone...you know who's going to come out alive. But all the same I really liked the claustrophobic gritty grounded atmosphere that envelops the protagonist while he's going through the macabre tournament. It perfectly exudes the sensation of a guy feeling completely f****d over and reminded me of my schooldays when we used to go for scout camping sessions: The toilets would be vomit-inducing filthy (and always out of water) and I'd never dare to enter them; during the 3 day schedule of awful food and vigorous morning exercises and hiking I'd keep frantically praying that my bowel movements wouldn't give way before I reached the comfort of my clean toilet at home.

So what was I saying? Oh yeah, this movie is a pretty good thrill ride so long as you're not expecting something extraordinary.

 

[daisybee]

I watched a film called Special the other night, with Micheal Rapaport.
It was about a normal bloke who loves comics who takes part in a drug trial and weird stuff happens. I don't want to spoil it because the plot is pretty simple, but I thought it was really good. I like unpolished films with heart and Micheal Rapaport was really believable. It was sad and thought provoking.

 

[Urien]

Blood diamond. Leo was excellent; now he's older he is convincing in the hard man roles who'd a thunk it.

 

[Gothic_Angelica]

The Crow Wicked Prayer, I borrowed it on dvd

 

[BookStop]

I finally saw The Illusionist, and while the mood of the movie was nice, the simplicity of the plot made it really dull. Man, I hate it when movie folk assume the audience is dim.

 

[Sathai]

Yesterday I watched Volver. Thought it was quite good.