What was the last movie you saw?

District B13 - Pierre Morel

B13 is another of the French movies that's not about deep layered philosophical narrative, but about providing cheap & instant thrills.

In the story B13 stands for the name of one of Paris' seediest districts where apparently all the deadbeats and losers congregate. Local boy Leito crosses the drug boss and ends up in prison while his sister is captured by the boss. Damien, a hardass cop, is given the mission of defusing a neutron bomb that lands up with the drug boss. So Leito and Damien must pair up to make their way leaping and kicking through the gangsta-packed by-lanes of B13 and reach their respective aims.

As you will have guessed this is not a movie that you will relish for its devious plotting, so it gets annoying when midways you're made to sit through a good chunk where Leito and Damien argue about freedom and equal rights with dialog that makes all the dubbed Asian movies look like they were written by Shakespeare at his savviest. However all is not lost, for the action scenes (which employ a mix of Thai boxing and the free style running as seen in the opening moments of Casino Royale), when they happen, kick ass good and hard. A couple suffer from too-many-jump-cuts-itis but there are still several exciting moments here.
 
The Club (1980) based on the play by David Williamson. As far as I know its the only movie made about Australian Rules Football and its actually very good.

The movie bases the story in the real life club of Collingwood (in the play the club is never named). Some good performances particularly from Graham Kennedy as Ted Parker, who has loved Football and Collingwood FC all his life but never had the talent to play the game and so becomes involved in the administraion side of things as a way of being part of his club.

There's a bit more Hollywood in the movie than play with the plot line taking the team from the bottom of the ladder to the grand final. But over all a good portrayal of the difficulties and conflicts as football moved from an amatuer sport to a proffessional business with some nice comedic moments mixed in.
 
I watched Magicians on Friday. It stars Robert Webb and David Mitchell from Peep Show and That Mitchell and Webb Look. It was quite a good film, a few laugh-out-loud moments.

Managed to spot myself in the audience at the end a couple of times, yay.
 
I saw The Last King of Scotland which was a damn good movie, with a genuinely scary performance by Forest Whitaker as Idi Amin. I also liked that the protagonist, a young medico who becomes Amin's personal physician and advisor is not portrayed as an outright hero but someone who makes mistakes and must pay for them.

Also saw The Man Who Would Be King, a cracking film adaptation by John Huston of a Rudyard Kipling story. It's about 2 former British soldiers in 19th century India hatching an audacious plan to become kings of a remote central Asian country called Kafiristan, and one of them ends up being taken for a God, until...Excellently paced, filled with cheeky quote-worthy dialog and hosting career-best performances from both Michael Caine and Sean Connery, this one's a thorough old-skool entertainer.
 
Watched The Golden Child last night. Still cracks me up.

Give me the knife....Pleeeaase..:)
 
Watched a short film called The Signalman. It's a ghost story based on a Dickens short story and worth a look.

Also watched The Last King Of Scotland....a damn fine movie with a wonderful piece of dialogue: If we had monkeys in Scotland, we'd probably deep fry them.

The scariest thing about that statement is that it is probably true. :D
 
Versus a very silly Japanese Horror film that manages to be a cross between Hard Boiled and Brain Dead

Before that Spidey 3 which was dissapointingly average
 
Yesterday I watched Notes on a Scandal. I thought it was pretty good.
 
I have watched some pretty crappy movies lately so I won't mention them. The last good one I saw was Beowulf and Grendel...what's not to like about Gerard Butler?
 
Haven't been in here in a while... I am v. bad.

Maybe that's why I had to sit through a bad movie that even Hugh Laurie falling down couldn't fix - ugh.

I may have to go watch House, just to get over it. But I watched, recently, "Girl From Rio" and "The Fountain" (since it released last week).
 
Me again? No one watched any films lately, then? :D

I watched Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End on Thursday. I'm not a great fan of the films but they're entertaining at least. Jack Sparrow is brilliant but he didn't seem to do much in this final film. The love/hate thing between Will and Elizabeth was just annoying and their getting-married-while-fighting-in-a-life-threatening-storm was needlessly dramatic. Also, the plot seemed to move all over the place...too much was shoved into one film and people kept doing things and changing sides and their reasons weren't really explained!

But meh, I got to dress as a pirate to watch it, so it wasn't all bad. :D
 
Just watched Predator. So bad it's good.

I'm gonna bleed you, real quiet like, and leave you here.... That guy is so freaky looking. Talk about crazy eyes.
 
I've just finished watching Severance - it's like The Office, crossed with Shaun of the Dead, crossed with Deliverance. Brilliant film, and one I've been wanting to see since it came out.
 
Two and a half hours later, and I've just finished watching Hot Fuzz - another film I've been wanting to see since it came out. Absolutely brilliant!
 
Oh, I freaking love that film! I saw it twice at the cinema and I'm eagerly awaiting the release of the DVD.

Delightfully gory. Wonderfully funny. Fantastic film! :D
 
Watched Pirates 3 at the cinema yesterday afternoon, and my new dvd, Stranger than Fiction last night.

Both pretty damn good :)
 
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