What was the last movie you saw?

Last night I watched Queen Margot. Quite bloody, but good.
 
Die Hard 4.0
Having already seen Pirates, Shrek, Ocean's, Fantastic and Spiderman, (it should have been an awesome summer) this is the first to REALLY rock the boat and make we want to see it again. Ocean's 13 wasn't bad, though a tad long. This was the others put together. Almost unremitting action, snappy, smart and funny dialogue, seemed to be plenty of nods to previous movies, a plot that holds together (so long as you don't think about it too much), and did I mention the unending action sequences?

(And still looking forward to Bourne and Potter)
 
Culhwch said:
Just watched Lady Jane, a 1986 film starring a very young Helena Bonham Carter and Cary Elwes, concerning the title character's nine-day reign as queen. Though apparently largely historically inaccurate, quite a good film.
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I liked that one, Culhwch. I'm a sucker for historical dramas, even when they turn out to be not especially historical in content. It's Hollywood (even when it isn't a US production), and so I don't expect too much in that respect. I've written about that here before, I think.

Have you ever seen Anne of the Thousand Days? Richard Burton as Henry VIII and Genvieve Bujold as Anne Boleyn. It's very good.

My most recent is a rewatch of The Mummy (the recent version). It seems that when I come upon that one playing on cable I have to watch it. Good fun.
 
littlemissattitude said:
I liked that one, Culhwch. I'm a sucker for historical dramas, even when they turn out to be not especially historical in content. It's Hollywood (even when it isn't a US production), and so I don't expect too much in that respect. I've written about that here before, I think.

Have you ever seen Anne of the Thousand Days? Richard Burton as Henry VIII and Genvieve Bujold as Anne Boleyn. It's very good.
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Don't get me wrong, LMA, I don't mind when historical accuracy gets thrown out the window in the name of a good movie. I'd watch docos or read a book if I really wanted to know what happened. I don't see why some people get so put out over a little Hollywoodisation. It's entertainment, people!

And no, not seen that one, but will keep an eye out for it. Thanks for the tip!
 
Pirates ... World's End. It was such a muddle of a movie. An insane number of threads running along and getting knotted and tangled. Myths being pulled every which way, none of which made much sense and to top it all the kraken dies in a totally illogical, unnecessary fashion. :(
 
littlemissattitude said:
My most recent is a rewatch of The Mummy (the recent version). It seems that when I come upon that one playing on cable I have to watch it. Good fun.
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I know what you mean. I do the same thing with that and about 2 dozen other movies. Buying the DVD doesn't help either, I still have to watch them on TV when they show up.
 
Lethal Weapon 2. One of the films I have to watch whever its on.

Am a casual fan of the series, but this ones by far the best. Mel Gibsons mullet, Joe Pesci, Patsy Kensit, and last but not least - Joss Ackland, complete with dodgy South African accent.

(I say dodgy, I wouldn't know a real one if I heard one).
 
Desperado. I just love that movie. Antiono Banderas, spanish guitar, and guns fights a plenty, what more could you ask for?
 
After finally getting the chance to play some of the dvds that we've got on special offer, but have languished in a cupboard until we've had time to watch them, I saw Zathura earlier. Not a bad film, but I won't be watching it again.
 
The other day I watched Shirely Valentine. I thought it was a funny and heart-warming movie. :)
 
The Last Mimzy - A ghastly travesty of a classic Lewis Padgett (Henry Kuttner and CL Moore) short story. The most un-charismatic child stars ever and a treatment that makes Spielberg's ghastly War Of The Worlds shine in comparison.

Perfume: A decent version of the rather creepy novel. It does tend to somewhat humanise Jean-Baptiste Grenouille a little more than I'm comfortable with, but it's not a Rice-ian glorification of a monster, and the movie is visually very rich with some god performances.

Anna Karenina: Black and white melodrama. Greta Garbo. The feast in the beginning is awe-inspiring, but I couldn't help sympathising most with Karenin, apart from his illy insistence on not getting a divorce.
 
last movie I watched was ASHrek the Thrid and I thought compared to the first 2 it was a real big let down, although Im watching the 5th harry potter movie tomorrow, I cant wait.
 
I'm watching that at the weekend :) Although I think it's gonna sad me out a little, just like the book did :(
 
Saw Flag of our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima, back to back yesterday....

Superb!!!

Scenes from both are still lingering in my mind this evening. Of the two I think letters is the better film. It was, for a war film, gently paced, detailed and made the characters very "human". Flags, through very good I found a little disjointed in its story telling, and sadly the soldiers blurred into one, they all became merely fresh faced young men totally lost and over powered by what they had been thrown into. Maybe that was the intention, But it set you a pace back from the characters and what they were going through, by not having a strong main character you could identify with. This Letters had in the form of the young soldier, lost and frightened, the same as his America counterparts, yet the performance was stronger and more layered.
 
I believe it was HP and the PoA. It was on tv last night so I just sat and watched it.
 
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