What was the last movie you saw?

Just finished watching the 1937 acadmey award winnnig film The Life Of Emile Zola. I realy liked this film, esepcially the court case surrounding the scandal of Captain Dreyfuss, who was wrongly accused of treason with the army staff keeping silent even after they had confirmed amongst themselves that he was innocent. Fortunately it took the courage and conviction of writer Zola amongst others to fight the good fight that saw Dreyfuss reinsated after spending time on Devil's Island. Dissapointing but not unsurprising that it took the french army until 1995 to formally acknolwedge his innocence!

Sadly Zola died soon after from CO poisoining. Foul play was suspected and apparently a builder on his deathbed did admit years later to sealing off the chimney in Zola's house under political instructions in order to silence him via CO buildup.
 
From Beyond - A pretty good adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft from the 80s and now available on DVD.
 
The Golden Compass. I'll be voicing my opinions on it as soon as my final exam is done.
 
Watched Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure again last night, to initiate a friend who hadn't seen it before.
Not technically a film, but I also watched the Mighty Boosh Live yesterday.
 
The Simpsons Movie, not much of a movie but still a few good laughs and The Proposition Australia's contribution to the western.
 
The Last Legion. Didn't enjoy it at all perhaps cos i read the book and found that a lot of the story isn't in the film, also Ambrosinus' awful Welsh accent really annoyed me,
If you've read the book DON'T watch this film. Infact don't bother at all.
 
The original Bedazzled with Pete and Dud.

So so so so good, whereas the remake was terrible (apart from the Columbian drug dealer scene).

Highlights: The seven deadly sins. (Rachel Welch as Lust and Barry Humphries as Envy) and Dudley More dressed as a nun on a trampoline, oh and George Spigott's (aka the horned one) pointless acts of evil.
 
Dario Argento's Profondo Rosso. I love the Italian horror meister's use of the Goblins for the soundtrack:)
 
Beowulf and to be honest was a little disapointed and I kept expecting Shrek to walk out on screen.

In some ways its seems that the better CGI gets the more it stands out that it isn't real, your mind seems to know that your looking at a picture not a person.
 
Also watched This is England the other night and it was good but with a similar storyline I think Romper Stomper did it better.
 
Finally got around to watching Alien versus Predator for the first time and, frankly, I don't know why I bothered. This film is very poor and has the usual regurgitated ending with the queen. Yawn.
 
Quokka said:
In some ways its seems that the better CGI gets the more it stands out that it isn't real, your mind seems to know that your looking at a picture not a person.
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I had the same trouble with Mr. Magorium.

Jim
 
Talysia said:
Lol, I remember watching that one when I was younger, Serin.:)

(Congrats on getting 100 posts, by the way:))
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Thanks Tal, there was a time when I thought I never would. Hope it doesn't take me so long this time to reach the second one.:)
 
Errm, last SF film I watched was ashamedly Transformers!
I was determined not to, but part of me had to, for a laugh, and laugh I did.
I never watched the TV series, was too old for it when it was on, used to watch Blockbusters instead ;)
 
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