What was the last movie you saw?

Just watched Spiderman 3, and well, apart from Harry I didn't really like it, too much going on, tioo many bad guys/possibly good guys. I want one big bad to be afraid of..good special effects but there seemed a lot, and I can't be the only person who can not follow those sequences without getting a headache trying to work out whos where etc.. Oh and I get it-forgiveness is important. I did like the black suit though..:D
 
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Sword of the Beast - Hideo Gosha

I have never seen any other movie by this director but this glimpse convinces me that at least as far as action-packed Samurai films go he is another film-maker near the class of Kurosawa and Kihachi Okamoto (Samurai Assassin, Sword of Doom).
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Oh cool. I've got a movie by him called Violent Streets on my stack of movies to be watched.
 
Just watched Notes On A Scandal. Rather interesting movie. Everyone has a urge to do something not fully thought about. It so happens her desperation for sex lead her to being with a fifteen year old. (That her i mentioned she is a teacher, the fifteen year old is her pupil).
 
Last night I watched M. Very good film, kind of makes you uneasy while watching it. Peter Lorre is so young in it too, I almost didn't recognize him.
 
I just watched "300."

Wow, is all I can say: Gritty, bloody, violent...And a lot of hot ab shots.

Yeah, I liked it! :D
 
Just seen Mother Night based on the Kurt Vonnegut book. No idea how it compares to the book as its one I havent read. A bit dark and depressing but worth a watch, Nick Nolte was very good as Howard Campbell Jr.
 
Saw Magicians at the cinema tonight. I think I saw Hoopy in the audience, so that was all good :D


Good fun film - Mitchell and Webb are funny guys, when they're not working as demon-spawn for Apple. The ending was a bit predictable though.
 
Last movie I saw was Bridge to Terabithia. Not exactly what I expected it to be, but certainly not bad.
 
saw like half of . . str. . strangl....strangers with candy haha it was pritty damn funny

colbert is great in this one a little fruity but he always is
 
Watched Children of Men earlier today...

*Spoilers*


Which I thought was pretty good, though I liked the premise/idea more than the actual story. Great cinematography and style, nice choice in actors and I liked that they left it fairly vague about how the fertility rate had dropped to zero. But if your going to do that and leave the end goal dark and mysterious, you need to add something otherwise there's the risk of it just being characters going from A to B which is what CoM felt a bit like to me.

There were a couple of things, particularly once they got inside the refugee camp that broke the 'suspension of disbelief' for me. Was that a really easy birth for a first time? Also the scene as they're leaving the building and the soldiers stand aside stunned as the baby passes but when the shooting begins again they all totally ignore the group leaving, if you had been shocked enough by the sight of the first baby born in 18 years surely some of them would have tried to help or at least shield the baby as they left?

One really big plus for me was that despite all that was going on, I don't think Clive Owen ever picked up a gun which made a very nice change from the standard everyday-man turned rambo heros.

Overall (IMO) a good movie, well above the usual sci-fi fare but maybe a bit short of what it could have been.

Edit: Just had to add that CoM also contains the best car chase scene that I have seen in a long time :)
 
Agree about car chase where Julian Moore's character dies were great.


I also liked the movie alittle less after they got in the camp. Before that there were a good SF feel to it.

As usuall Clive Owen is always good when he plays english and not american where he have to fake thorriblely.
 
Watched Pan's Labyrinth last night. A Spanish film weaves 1944's reality in Spain with a fairy tale, sad and ridiculous. Now recommended.
 
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Saw Paris, Texas by Wim Wenders. Man, what a DRAG. I'd been told by a person whose opinion I reasonably respect that this film moves slowly but the payoff is really worth it. Well, she was half-ways right...the film moves at an glacial pace (although these days, that seems to be occurring much faster, eh?), but the so-called payoff...the emotional showdown between the 2 characters which is supposed to reveal the reason why their lives have become utterly frayed...comes off at the end of an unreasonably long build-up as contrived and seriously not worthy of the time given up to the movie till that point. At 90 min this might have been a very good, even great movie; at 2 1/2 hours there's an awful lot of empty reels. The only consolation I have is an immensely good in most parts lead performance by Harry Dean Stanton (apart from his climactic monologue, conveyed almost entirely in glances and shrugs) and some nice visuals of the Southern US. Ry Cooder's non-committal acoustic noodlings only added to my ennui.

Wim Wenders has a brilliant eye for visuals and can make great movies (Wings of Desire is an all-time favorite with me) but, despite all the acclaim and hoopla it has, this one is not IMO one of his best offerings.
 
Ace, I saw Shaun of the Dead again not to long ago, forgotten how much I loved that film, I recall the first time I went to see it, I had had a crappy day at work and it really perked me up. "I dsont think I can shoot my flatmate, my ? and my mum all on the same day"
I am off to see Romolus my father tomorrow night, shall advise, it is supposed to be good.
 
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