What was the last movie you saw?

Yeah, that's mostly why I want to see it, for Viggo. :)

Well, its next on my movie list, but we have to watch The Assasination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford first, its been sitting here for awhile now. :)
 
The Wind in the Willows (1996, Steve Coogan, Eric Idle, Terry Jones)

Great fun, but the plot suffers from the usual film-makers know better than the original author syndrome.
 
AE35Unit said:
No forget Red Dragon, go find the original version,Manhunter from 1986,before Silence of the Lambs. Brian Cox plays Hannibal and its a far far better version than the newer one. Gorier but better. The bad guy in red dragon just doesn't look menacing enough,but in Manhunter he is nenacing!
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Problem is, in the novel Red Dragon he wasn't supposed to be menacing. To all appearances, he was a nebbish. And, in reality, Francis Dolarhyde was a nebbish... it was his alter-ego, the Red Dragon, that was the brutal monster that destroyed both Dolarhyde and his victims. That's one of the most disturbing aspects of Harris' novel -- he opens by showing you the horrific murder of the family, and gradually takes you into Dolarhyde the person, someone who, when he finds a chance at redemption, really is a man fighting for his soul, but doomed to lose. So you end up feeling torn, wanting this man who is emerging to succeed and life a fulfilled life with someone he cares about, but then you're condoning the monstrous acts he did before. At the same time, you, too, feel the horror of someone fighting to actually build a sane personality, who is constantly overshadowed by this almost separate entity known as the Red Dragon. In that, the newer version was much, much closer than Manhunter, and paid more attention to the aspects of the tale that get the audience to question their own perceptions along the way...
 
j. d. worthington said:
Problem is, in the novel Red Dragon he wasn't supposed to be menacing. To all appearances, he was a nebbish. And, in reality, Francis Dolarhyde was a nebbish... it was his alter-ego, the Red Dragon, that was the brutal monster...
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Well I read Red Dragon)the only Thomas Harris book I have read) and I found him quite menacing!
 
Just watched Beowulf,fantastic CGI! Great movie over all too!
Can't help thinking it would have been a lot cheaper just use real actors! And did they have to use Angelina Jolie! Mind you it suited her playing the baddie!
 
believe it or not i've only just got around to watching the extended version of Return of the King. crikey, it dragged a bit.

good fun, all the same.
 
RE: the Manhunter/Red Dragon controversy...I have to say that of the two, I am partial to Manhunter and didn't like Red Dragon nearly as much. Of course, that might have to do with the presence of William Peterson in Manhunter as well as the climax of the film being set to Iron Butterfly's In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, which is a favorite of mine.

I don't know, Edward Norton just didn't do it for me in Red Dragon, and while I generally like Philip Seymour Hoffman's performances (all the way from Twister to Almost Famous to Capote), I didn't like him in Red Dragon at all. I'm still convinced that they did the remake just so they'd have a version with Anthony Hopkins doing his Hannibal thing.

But that's just me. :)
 
AE35Unit said:
Just watched Beowulf,fantastic CGI! Great movie over all too!
Can't help thinking it would have been a lot cheaper just use real actors! And did they have to use Angelina Jolie! Mind you it suited her playing the baddie!
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I haven't even seen this movie, but from previews alone, I highly doubt it's going to follow the story at all. That's the problem with mythology movies-the filmmakers take WAY too much into their own hands. I absolutely refuse to watch any film based off ancient mythology, because I know they'll only screw the story up. :p
 
Talysia said:
Recently watched Quatermass and the Pit, 1967 Hammer version. I'll be watching the original soon to compare notes.
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There are strong similarities, but a lot of differences as well. One of the things I prefer about the original is that it had more room to breathe, and so you ended up with some very atmospheric, eerie things going on there... something they just didn't have time to develop properly in the 90 minutes or so of the Hammer version. Both are well worth seeing, but I have to admit to a preference for the original broadcast version, and even to a preference for AndréMorell as Quatermass, even though Andrew Kier did put in an excellent performance....
 
Last 2 movies I watched were Stardust which I loved and Atonement which I wouldn't call enjoyable but was compelling and a tad sad
 
I saw....well this is hard fo me, becuase I'm doing this one thing to my own self, that I would turn on the same exact movie, every time I go to sleep, for a whole week. Don't ask y why-It's just that I think I don't get annoyed too much, so this does the trick. Last week it was Disney's The Black Cauldron. This week it was Small Soldiers. I try to pick movies that I haven't seen for a long time, so that I can keep them in my mind fo ever 0_0.

So yeah.
 
omg shoot em up - pile of poo and not at all what i expected

Control - like it and the music but can see why people didn't, twas a tad depressing

No Country for old Men - bf loved it and I really wanted to but it just bored me, incidentally the first time I've agreed on a film with my mother, I must be gettting old :)

Troy - was ok but prefer Orlando :) Eric and Brad are ok though ;)
 
I used to sometimes wonder if Ingmar Bergman had ever made bad movies in his life and yesterday I found out...Music In Darkness. It's one of his early movies and apart from a couple of nice images it's a pile of empty melodramatic poo.

I also saw most of Manhunter (fell asleep a third short of the end, but more because I was tired). I know both are based on the same book, but Red Dragon, apart from the intro sequence and additional material for Anthony Hopkins to ham his way through, seems to even follow the script for Manhunter verbatim. But I liked this one better in general. Will Graham is depicted in a more burned out fashion and not the "I look discomfited because I just crapped my pants" style that Ed Norton had in RD. And the combination of visuals and (synth-based) music is plain better here.
 
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I much preferred Gene Wilder's eccentric but kind portrayal of Willy Wonka, to Johnny Depp's cynical one.

Although both mucked about with the book, Wilder's was superior, the twee Hollywood ending of the later one was just boring, and Roald Dahl himself considered such exploration of Wonka's background unnecessary.
 
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