What was the last movie you saw?

[Dave]

Originally Posted by HoopyFrood

Just been to see Hot Fuzz. Absolutely. Freaking. Brilliant. Guns and blood and needless violence, my kind of film! And so many of my favourite actors! Simon Pegg, Martin Freeman, Bill Nighy, Steve Coogan, Bill Bailey! Ah, what a fantastic film...

Actually, I was a little disappointed in it. It wasn't as funny as I had expected. 'Shaun of the Dead' is much funnier. I haven't seen enough of those American Cop films it homages either, so I didn't get the references. Timothy Dalton only ever seems to play villains now. He does make a much better villain than a good guy though.

I found it interesting for other reasons: I noticed it quite heavily used the town of Wells in Somerset for the location filming, and I also know one of the uncredited young actors who get stopped for under-aged drinking near the beginning.

[The Ace]

Hot Fuzz ? loved it, especially when Dalton used the G-word and got the model steeple through his tongue, let's have more poetic justice of this calibre on film and TV.

[Myth]

Watched Corpse Bride [love that movie] and Sleepers last night.

[Sibeling]

Edison

It was a drama about corruption in police. At first it was not so bad, but the end was absolutely unrealistic - two guys fighting against lots of highly trained policemen, and winning..

[ravenus]

Saw Monster House, a CG animated flick about kids battling a neighborhood house which is haunted.

Pixar quality animation aside, the film has more in common with 80's popcorn horror flicks like Nightmare on Elm Street and Fright Night, than Pixar's movies; you know, the ones where the cops are lazy assholes, babysitters try to make out with their punk rocker boyfriends and nobody, including their parents, (or rather, especially their parents) believes the teens when they try to tell them about the MONSTER.

This being a PG rated movie (still bold for an animated flick), there's no overt gore/nudity and the closest you get to morbidity is an already buried corpse (there's a joke in there somewhere ), but the movie still has some gripping moments, the major plot twist is more affecting than the million odd "let's think of some crap to sell these toys" storylines normally used for the Dreamworks cartoon flicks, and the climax where the haunted house, taking inspiration from Stephen King's Christine, decides to take matters in its own hands is surprisingly intense given the normal audience demographic of these films...I suspect a fair number of kids who saw this film had some bad dreams later.

[Sibeling]

Shaun of the Dead

I loved it! I haven't seen any real, classic zombie films, so if there was any direct parody, I didn't get it, but it was funny anyway

[Stenevor]

This is England.

"Set in 1983. Shaun is 12 and a bit of a loner, growing up with his mum in a grim coastal town, his dad killed fighting in the Falklands War. On his way home from school where he's been tormented all day for wearing flares, he runs into a group of skinheads, who against expectations turn out to be friendly and take him under their wing. Soon Shaun discovers parties, girls and snappy dressing, and finds some role models in Woody, Milky and the rest of the gang. But when an older, overtly racist skinhead returns home from prison, the easy camaraderie of the group is broken, and Shaun is drawn into much more uncomfortable territory."

Its no way perfect though well worth watching but it left me feeling a little melancholy. Brought back memories good and bad of being young and growing up in the early eighties. Stand out performance by Stephen Graham as Combo the older skinhead, a truly nasty piece of work. The type of person you remember from your youth who had trouble written all over him and you avoided at all costs even if it meant the end of friendships.

[undoto]

300

it was great

[Lenny]

Don't know it if can be counted as a film, but, yeah... on Saturday I watched a Morecambe and Wise DVD.

Boy, that was good laugh. Very funny, and the humour was very clever. It's just a shame that they didn't actually write it themselves.

It's also another fine example of what inspired the Pythons.

Ah, British Humour. Is there any better?

[j. d. worthington]

Vol. I of the H. P. Lovecraft Collection, with Bryan Moore's Cool Air (with interviews, etc.), and four short films, plus an interview with Joshi.

All interesting, but Cool Air is an exceptional piece of work, and Jack Donner's performance as Dr. Muñoz is superb! It takes a slightly different slant from the story itself, giving you more insight into Muñoz and therefore providing a very nuanced portrait of an intelligent, sensitive man trapped in a particularly horrendous situation. The horror is definitely there, but is mixed with pathos and a lot of emotional complexity as well....

"The Hapless Antiquarian" is a Lovecraftian take on Edward Gorey's Gashlycrumb Tinies... very tongue in cheek, and quite delightful.

[Sibeling]

Ultraviolet

I didn't really like it, some things just did not seem logical. Like, if you clone a vampire, why do you get a human? And where do all the weapons come from? And how long does it take a vampire to die - as far as I understood, Violet has been dying for 12 years, does not seem exactly a fatal disease. But maybe for those who read the comic all these things are clear.

[j. d. worthington]

Originally Posted by Sibeling

Ultraviolet

I didn't really like it, some things just did not seem logical. Like, if you clone a vampire, why do you get a human? And where do all the weapons come from? And how long does it take a vampire to die - as far as I understood, Violet has been dying for 12 years, does not seem exactly a fatal disease. But maybe for those who read the comic all these things are clear.

The more I hear about this one, the more I'm glad I didn't see it. I liked the television production of the same name, but nothing I've heard of this one makes me think it would be worth the bother....

[Sibeling]

Yes, it is not too interesting - one does not expect plot in such films, and it didn't have any, and even the CGI could have been more impressive.

But for some guys I know Milla Jovovich was a good reason to watch the film

[Allegra]

Watched The Unbearable Lightness of Being and disappointed. I don't think they got the point of the novel. Milan Kundera used to be one of my favourite writers and he wrote some even better books such as Immortality after Being. I think his books deserve a director like Roman Polansky. The soundtrack is about right - they got Janácek to write it.

[Coolhand]

Originally Posted by Sibeling

Ultraviolet

I didn't really like it, some things just did not seem logical. Like, if you clone a vampire, why do you get a human? And where do all the weapons come from? And how long does it take a vampire to die - as far as I understood, Violet has been dying for 12 years, does not seem exactly a fatal disease. But maybe for those who read the comic all these things are clear.

Yeah, the film is a bit of a mess. Apparently the directory got screwed over big time by the studio, who cut over 30 minuits of plot out of the movie (making it incomprihensable) and toned down the violence of all the action scenes (making them impossible to follow). Still got some nice action moments in it though. Rent it, don't buy it.

Same thing happened to Aeon Flux apparently. Studio cut large sections of plot out because they wanted a no-brain action movie and the original film was a bit more cerebrial than that. A lot of the problems audiences had with Aeon Flux were down to the studio cut, from what I hear.