What was the last movie you saw?

[4Greg]

Charlie Wilson's War....not sci-fi...but a pretty good film. Last Sci-fi/Fantasy was "Golden Compass" and before that "Beowulf" in 3-D Imax....fun...though, not completely satifying.

 

[Mithridelle]

The Princess Diaries

Yay - Mith watched a chick-flick for once!!!

 

[Culhwch]

Ocean's Thirteen, much better than the just plain bad Twelve, and The Descent, which was very creepy...

 

[Pyan]

I had the same trouble with Mr. Magorium.

Jim

My local cinema is only showing that as a day-time children's film, last showing at four pm, Jim....is it worth giving up a Saturday afternoon for?

 

[clovis-man]

My local cinema is only showing that as a day-time children's film, last showing at four pm, Jim....is it worth giving up a Saturday afternoon for?

Magorium's Emporium was enjoyable, but I honestly could have just as easily waited for the DVD. Some of the humor was obviously directed at adults (I'm thinking of the hospital scenes) and Dustin Hoffman played his part very well. But the rest of the film was replete with so much CGI that it became a blur after a while.

Jim

 

[littlemissattitude]

The Princess Diaries

I watched that again last night as well.

Before that, Latter Days. Good movie, but you don't want to watch it if you are uncomfortable with homosexual characters and situations.

And the other night, Mary Queen of Scots. The first time I'd seen it all the way through.

 

[Foxbat]

Watched Dario Argento's Cat O'Nine Tails. More of a murder mystery rather than the expected Gothic fare from the maestro of mayhem. Enjoyable nonetheless

 

[ravenus]

Oh I think Gothic was more a deviation for Argento, his expected fare being the slasher flick.

 

[Connavar]

Die Hard 4.0


Decent action,decent funny moments with Justin Long. Decent villain.

The only bad thing was there was not one cool action scene ala Die Hard movies that makes the series one of the best action series i have seen.

Also not one funny wise crack by MacLane, even the last YYKMF was a lame one...

Only Willis and the funny Justin Long saved the movie from being bad IMO.

 

[AE35Unit]

Well actually I've just watched A Scanner Darkly,what a strange film! Is it me or was Dick obsessed with drugs? I quite liked it but I'm not sure of its cartoon like format,would it have been better filmed conventionally? Also it was a neat twist having Keanu Reeves's character working for a company that is secretly using him to investigate the company he worked for! Another thing about films based on Dick stories,they're instantly accepted by dick fans,yet when a film gets made of an asimov or clarke story the critics come out!

 

[Connavar]

Well actually I've just watched A Scanner Darkly,what a strange film! Is it me or was Dick obsessed with drugs? I quite liked it but I'm not sure of its cartoon like format,would it have been better filmed conventionally? Also it was a neat twist having Keanu Reeves's character working for a company that is secretly using him to investigate the company he worked for! Another thing about films based on Dick stories,they're instantly accepted by dick fans,yet when a film gets made of an asimov or clarke story the critics come out!

Well you cant judge Dick themes by a hollywood movie really no matter how close it is to his story.


He had many themes. Drugs seem to be more frequent in his later stories.


The director says PKD has inspired him. Its usually better when the director is someone that admire the writer's work. He will follow it and understand it better to make a good movie.

Asmov doesnt seem to have that luck.

 

[AE35Unit]

When was the story or book written? I find Dick an intriguing man,i remember a documentary on him possibly in 92,was very interesting and yet he's not what i class as my kind of SF writer. His is social fiction more than science fiction to me who was brought up on space travel stories,but I still like to read his works.

 

[Stenevor]

When was the story or book written? I find Dick an intriguing man,i remember a documentary on him possibly in 92,was very interesting and yet he's not what i class as my kind of SF writer. His is social fiction more than science fiction to me who was brought up on space travel stories,but I still like to read his works.

It was inspired by his life around 1970 after one of his marriages broke down. Dont know when the words were written but it came out in 1977. If youre interested in a good biography try Emmanuel Carrere - I Am Alive And You Are Dead: A Journey Inside The Mind Of Phillip K Dick. I'm not a big biography reader but enjoyed this one. Gives details of the inspirations behind lots of his work(useful for explaining exactly what was going on in some of his more confusing books) as well as his private life(he seemed to have a thing for young women who he could dominate and hardly ever took LSD). I remember the documentry too, it was either on The South Bank Show or Arena, cant remember which.

 

[AE35Unit]

Aye it was Arena,watched it upstairs on me portable!
I quite like biographies actually,have read a few including Asimov(In memory still yet green etc) and Clarke's. Would like to read Aldiss's,Bury my Heart in WHSmith I think its called. Have also enjoyed Norman Wisdom's,Frankie Howerd's and Spike Milligan's

 

[Stenevor]

Actually after a quick look at my shelves, Ive realised I have read lots of biographies, just not many lately. Most of them concerning drug addled musicians.

 

[nj1]

Just to get in the Xmas mood, I sat down and laughed my way through National lapoons Christmas Vacation. Hilarious, Funniest Xmas movie ever!

 

[Mithridelle]

Black Sheep.

I will never look at a sheep the same way again...

 

[BloodAndSouls]

I should probably watch Black Sheep. Being a Kiwi and all, I'll probably be the first to get it if the sheep ever do go crazy. It'd be good to know what to do!

I think the last movie I watched was Cleopatra (the old one with Liz Taylor). I love all 320 minutes of it!

 

[Quokka]

Futurama: Bender's Big Score.

Has the advantage of being the return of a series that probably was cut too short and so there's a nice balance of jokes/characters that are familiar without being worn out. If your not a fan of Futurama you may well enjoy it but if you are a fan it's pretty much brilliant

 

[littlemissattitude]

Melvin and Howard (1980)

This is the fictionalized story of Melvin Dummar, who claimed after Howard Hughes' death to have picked up an old man claiming to be Hughes in the desert once and given him a ride. In gratitude, supposedly, Hughes wrote Dummar into his will, which came to be known as the "Mormon Will" because it came to light at the Mormon church's headquarters in Utah. The will was ruled to be a fake, but Melvin Dummar has become sort of a living legend because of the whole deal.

The story is of special interest to me because when the whole thing was going in in real life and I was still a good, church-going girl, Melvin Dummar's cousin was my Sunday school teacher. Poor man...had the same last name as Melvin and looked like him (so much that he couldn't deny being related), and was thoroughly mortified at what his cousin had gotten involved in. He walked around for a good long time with a perpetual look of embarrassment on his face.