What was the last movie you saw?

[ravenus]

Saw the 1939 film Adventures of Sherlock Holmes with Basil Rathbone in the titular role. Rathbone himself is pretty okay (with an admirably unrecognizable disguise at one point in the film) but nowhere as effective as Jeremy Brett in the latter day Granada series and the film is too tame to garner much excitement.

 

[AE35Unit]

Thats class Raven. My brother is BIG collector of Arthur Conan Doyle,he has all the Jeremy Brett episodes and lots more besides,including the professor challenges stuff,which i love.

 

[Stenevor]

Watched 40 Year Old Virgin on New Years Eve. Not my usual type of film but made me laugh which was all I wanted.

 

[AE35Unit]

Good one Sten,and that guy is seriously funny. You should try Evan Almighty,he's good in that(can't remember his name)

 

[Stenevor]

Its Steve Carell. He was good in Little Miss Sunshine and I have heard that he is good in the american version of The Office but I have yet to see it.

 

[AE35Unit]

Steve Carell,thats his name! Well i hope the US version of the office is better than ours. Can not stand it,so un funny!

 

[Hilarious Joke]

What? I adore the British 'The Office'! One of my favourite shows ever.

 

[Stenevor]

What? I adore the British 'The Office'! One of my favourite shows ever.

I liked it too but it does seem to be a 50/50 thing, either you love it or hate it.

 

[Pyan]

Can't stand it..makes me cringe.

Just got back from Enchanted.
Light, enjoyable, and stuffed full of Disney in-jokes.

 

[AE35Unit]

The office,or as i like to call it,the Orifice is pants,so uncool. Its like marmite,but i'd rather eat marmite. If i ran an office and he worked there he'd be finding another job,thats how bad it is!

Just watched Knocked Up,which i thought would be pants but turned out pretty good,and that Steve Carelk guy has a cameo in it. Also OR,you look a little like the guy named marty in it,but only at the start!

 

[Omphalos]

Just watched Things to Come, by H.G. Wells on Turner Classic Movies last night. It was really dated (made in 1936), but was pretty good over all. The settings were amazing, and they must have had over a thousand extras. It was not a Hollywood production. I had no idea that British production houses ever made anything that big.

 

[AE35Unit]

Oh we have TCM,wish i'd known that was on Omphalos,love that film. Must get the book.

 

[Nesacat]

Alien vs Predator 2. It was a media preview. I wish the Alien or Predator would just come right now and massacre the people who made this one. Predalien indeed. Sheesh.

 

[Humaren]

I just received Pirates of the Carribean: At worlds End for Christmas (Didn't get to see it in theater). Of all the trilogies I've seen, POTC holds up as one of the best. The Matrix for example; Ground breaking first movie, and a what the .... last movie. POTC sets sail and hold true on corse to the end.

 

[Lady of Winterfell]

I also enjoyed the Pirates movies.

I just watched The Bourne Ultimatum, and thought it was excellent!!! I thoroughly enjoyed the first two, and wasn't let down by this movie. Tried to read the books, but couldn't get into them, but I love love love the movies.

 

[gully_foyle]

Just watched The Lodger which I taped off the tel the other night. They were running an ancient Hitchcock marathon. I didn't realise this one was silent. I haven't seen many silent movies, and probably Metropolis was the only one of note, but this one was fantastic. It has all the Hitchcock hallmarks and shows what a master of suspense he was. Next I get to watch the 39 steps, which I've seen. Unfortunately the tape ran out before I could record The Lady Vanishes, though I've seen that one too. You have to love Hitchcock.

 

[AE35Unit]

Hi Gully. Not heard of The Lodger,but one of The finest Hitchcock movies has to be Rear Window,the original with James Stewart and Grace Kelly,brilliant film! You still using tapes! So last century,get yourself a DVD writer mate-we got one for less than £200,also has a huge hard drive,which we use a lot.(haven't actually used the DVD writer bit yet)

 

[Ice fyre]

I saw I am Legend at the weekend and thought it was a rather good film got a bit sentimental at the end but overal not a bad film.

 

[Overread]

Saw The Nothern Lights last night......
good film, but not that impressive - rather bitty scene cutting - I felt that each scene was an info dump more than part of a story -- and my two biggest questions:

1) highly trained army of death + big open snowy plains + good lighting - and they miss a charging bear in armour? and they miss and army charging them as well??

2) why oh why does the institution blow up like a villens base in a bad spy movie?

likes:
1) pan has a childs voice - somthing I never thought of in the books - mostly because of his lines

2) pan and hester got too few lines - they needed more lines

 

[Anthony G Williams]

Just seen Contact, the 1997 film of Carl Sagan's SF book.

A serious and mature, but also very dramatic, exploration of the issues around alien contact, and easily the best film of its type I've ever seen. IMO the film deserved on Oscar, and so did Jodie Foster who was brilliant in the lead role of the obsessed astronomer.