What was the last movie you saw?

[littlemissattitude]

Originally Posted by Talysia

Recently watched Quatermass and the Pit, 1967 Hammer version.

That would be the one that was released here in the States as Five Million Years to Earth. One of my favorite films, all-time. First saw it on a double bill with Planet of the Apes, way back when.

[j. d. worthington]

Originally Posted by Talysia

Recently watched Quatermass and the Pit, 1967 Hammer version. I'll be watching the original soon to compare notes.

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....

[HardScienceFan]

Ice Age 2

Brilliant

[Foxbat]

The Lives Of Others. Its Oscar was well deserved

[Tansy]

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

[The_Warrior]

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.

[Tansy]

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

[ravenus]

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.

[The Ace]

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.

[The_Warrior]

[ravenus]

Over the course of time, I'm almost done seeing the Firefly series and this is hands down one of the most entertaining things I've seen in recent times. Good writing (if sometimes a tad excessive), generally like-able characters, no emocore ******** and lovely old-skool action-adventure. George Lucas should watch this and relearn how to make a fun space-fiction movie...or better still he should fund these guys to do another season or whatever.

[UltraCulture]

Watched The Last Mimzy last night, if it ever got released at the flicks I missed it, it was a fantastic film.

[TorrnT]

Watched Mr Brooks, Throughly enjoyed the movie, Some have made comment on Demi moore's performance being poor and other minor details.
I can live with minor details if there is a well conceived plot. And I personally found Mr Brooks to be a very fine movie with a great performance from Kevin Costner and supporting actors.

"No Country for old men" which I watched also, disappointed me. One critic said "it was the King with no clothes" and i have to agree, ok so there is a Point being made, and i get it, but i am too well burrowed into my traditional film format (or what constitutes as traditional format) to fully appreciate this film as a whole.
This film will remain controversial and for that alone the Coen brothers can pat them selves on the back, But I wont be paying to watch another of their movies, if its like NCFOM.

[AE35Unit]

Last night we watched Heartbreak Kid, with Ben Stiller(and his dad Jerry, a really funny old guy!)
It started as an okish film, but soon got to be quite funny and the language and sex content was quite surprising(it tells you at the start that the film has been edited for content!)

Stiller is on great form but you get to hate his character(well I did, the way he treated women, not good!)

[Connavar]

Originally Posted by ravenus

Over the course of time, I'm almost done seeing the Firefly series and this is hands down one of the most entertaining things I've seen in recent times. Good writing (if sometimes a tad excessive), generally like-able characters, no emocore ******** and lovely old-skool action-adventure. George Lucas should watch this and relearn how to make a fun space-fiction movie...or better still he should fund these guys to do another season or whatever.

Join the club and wait till you see the last ep and get annoyed for it getting canceled.

Heh i saw the "new" star wars movies in cable a week ago and i really thought " what happened to Lucas...., he should have went to Whedon for help on how to write action-adventure in space"