What was the last movie you saw?

[woodsman]

Sorry Culhwch I'm not sure. Hot Fuzz is amazingly good IMHO.

Rewatched the Hunt For Red OCtober last night.

 

[HoopyFrood]

Well, due to the way the last week has gone, I felt like watching something presenting some serious emotional carnage combined with an apocalyptic theme.... So a rewatch of Romero's Day of the Dead... it's really surprising how well that film holds up... it seems to become better (to me, anyway) with repeated viewings)....

Something very shocking...I've just realised I haven't seen this film! I am appalled, appalled!

Anyways, just watched Blades of Glory. Ah, a funny film. Chazz and Jimmy are so lame, it's hilarious.

 

[j d worthington]

Something very shocking...I've just realised I haven't seen this film! I am appalled, appalled!

Hoops! I don't believe it! Oh, you've just shattered my world, child! Bad Hoopy! Bad Newt!

If you've not seen it, and you like Romero's films, you definitely should see this...

 

[HoopyFrood]

I know, I know *Hangs head in shame* Needless to say I shall rectify this egregious error as soon as possible!

 

[Hilarious Joke]

Saw two movies back to back on Sunday at the cinema.

Knocked Up and Die Hard 4.0. Both really excellent (I'd never seen a Die Hard before).

 

[Sephiroth]

Then you need to watch Die Hard. It's a classic action movie.

 

[Hilarious Joke]

I should. I also thought Die Hard 4.0 was better than The Bourne Identity which I recently saw for the first time.

 

[Sephiroth]

I've heard the Bourne films are good, but haven't watched them yet.

 

[HoopyFrood]

I watched Evil Dead, the uncut version earlier. Gods, I love the old horror films, and the reason is mostly the effort involved. No CGI for these guys, it's all make up, puppetry and stop motion. I love it, even if others sneer at how fake it looks. Like the final bit of Evil Dead, with the prolonged section where the demons are burning and melting. The effort in that part alone! It must have taken so long to film.

Hopefully I'll be watching Evil Dead 2 sometime soon! Love that film even more than Evil Dead!

 

[ravenus]

What you like is a matter of preference (...) but even CGI takes a great deal of effort and patience to do right. Yes, I like physical FX better too

 

[HoopyFrood]

Yes, I'm not saving that CGI is merely click click and away we go, I've seen the amount of detail that goes into things like the animated movies like Monsters INC, where they pretty much design each individual hair on Sully. But I definitely prefer the old ways of creating special effects. And it looks much more real to me as well, probably because it uses something tangible and real, even if sometimes it is just heavily applied make up or clay monsters jerking along in a stop motion technique (but at the same time, when done right, can be absolutely amazing), rather than something that I can see has been produced through a computer. CGI certainly has it moments too, I'm not completely against it; I just don't like gratuitous use of it. I love Silent Hill but I didn't like how all the monsters and beasties were CGI. They didn't feel 'real' and thus weren't overly scary.

 

[Anthony G Williams]

I've just seen the latest Harry Potter film in Imax format, with the last 20 minutes in 3D. Wow....

 

[Serin]

An old b/w film called Dead Of Night. Made by Ealing, it wasn't a comedy though. A group of people who all have spooky tales to tell meet up in a house and share their stories.

 

[j d worthington]

An old b/w film called Dead Of Night. Made by Ealing, it wasn't a comedy though. A group of people who all have spooky tales to tell meet up in a house and share their stories.

Very nifty film. Michael Redgrave's, I'd say, still qualifies as the best of the bunch...

 

[ravenus]

Ravenus' detailed review for...The Wild Blue Yonder

 

[HoopyFrood]

I went to the cinema earlier and watched Run, Fatboy, Run. Quite predictable, but funny nonetheless. Especially the really lame fight and, my favourite bit, the blister scene: "You do it then!" "I can't, I'm scared!"

 

[Serin]

Very nifty film. Michael Redgrave's, I'd say, still qualifies as the best of the bunch...

I know who Googie Withers, Sally Anne Howes, and Mervyn Johns were, but I couldn't figure out Michael Redgrave was in - the one with the mirror and the different room, or the one with the ventriloquist's dummy. Both were very good, in fact the whole film was very good, but that dummy was creepy with a capital C!

 

[Robert M. Blevins]

'Robinson Crusoe on Mars - The Restoration' by Criterion Video. They were nice enough to send us an advance copy for review.

Unbelivable...stunning job by the geniuses at Criterion. I posted up on another thread about it.

 

[Mirela]

V for Vendetta◘◘◘ again!
the idea is great

p.s. the money making industry never stops...

 

[HoopyFrood]

Just watched Independence Day. Damn, I love that film. Definitely one of my favourites.