What was the last movie you saw?

[sloweye]

The search for spock. Never a bad thing to say about this one.

[Mouse]

I am Legend. On tv now. Watching it with the dog... Toooo sad! Although the dog's now barking his head off at Will Smith.

[sloweye]

Originally Posted by Mouse

I am Legend. On tv now. Watching it with the dog... Toooo sad! Although the dog's now barking his head off at Will Smith.

Makes me glad for south park re-runs on Viva Aweful film.

[No One]

Originally Posted by sloweye

Makes me glad for south park re-runs on Viva Aweful film.

Wholeheartedly with SE on that (on both I am Legend and South Park).

[Forve]

Just finished watching King of Comedy one of Deniro/Scorsese's classics, though not as outspoken. Great performance by Deniro (I think he said that this was his favorite role, funny that it has nothing in common with his usual taught guy-gangster characters) as usually. Quite sad that the first think that comes to my mind nowadays when hearing his name is meet the *******.

[Moonbat]

Shouldn't that be meet the fockers?
How did you get such a rude word, i thought the system blanked them, oh well.
I watched King of Comedy not long ago and I thought it was ok, but not that good. I have to admit I'm not a fan of De Niro, I was, until I read a biography of him and then I realised that he has only played a few characters in his entire career, so I went off him.
Watched Margot at the Wedding last night, by the guy that did Noah and the Whale, and again a pretty disappointing film. It had its moments of really good dialogue and some very skillfully crafted tender moments, but ultimately it suffered from a poor ending and nothing much happening. I think I knew it would be a bit like that, but I thought with such a strong cast (kidman, jason-leigh, black, turturro) maybe it had something good to offer, but it was pretty slow and boring, and didn't really tell its stroy very well, it sort of left too much open. Maybe that's the style that he has and that people like, but I was annoyed, especially at the end when nothing happened except she ran for the bus (leaving behind her handbag!). Also there wasn't a wedding! so Margot wasn't actually at the wedding. Stupid film!

A Serious Man, was a bit of disappointment as well, I am a big Coen brothers fan and that film was a bit simple and slow for my liking. I liked the rabbis (what is the plural of rabbi? Rabbius, Rabbees) but I didn't think it was very good. Very much looking forward to True Grit though.

[Forve]

Originally Posted by Moonbat

Shouldn't that be meet the fockers?
How did you get such a rude word, i thought the system blanked them, oh well.

not sure, how it works here, but on some forums it just blanks if u just write **** without any addons.

P.S
yeah i was right

[No One]

Another South Korean flick - Brotherhood of War. It's touted as Korea's answer to Saving Private Ryan, which is an obvious comparison.

Not as good as that, and there's a couple of scenes that don't sit so well with the general visual excellence, but still very good.

[Jayaprakash Satyamurthy]

Originally Posted by sloweye

The search for spock. Never a bad thing to say about this one.

Totally.


I watched [REC]. Not sure why I bothered.

[ravenus]

Saw A Bay of Blood, which has some very good visual moments (Mario Bava is an expert at shooting in dim light) but on the whole disjointed and never particularly involving.

[ravenus]

Originally Posted by sloweye

The search for spock. Never a bad thing to say about this one.

Saw this as a kid and liked it tremendously then, although that was probably because it was one of the few English language films I didn't have any trouble following (because I'd already read the comic book based on the film )

[Moonbat]

by the guy that did Noah and the Whale

Oops, that should be Squid and the Whale, Noah and the Whale are a band.

I can't believe you didn't like [Rec] Jay. I thought it was really very good. It was paced so well that it built up the tension right to the ending. I must admit that [rec] 2 isn't as good. But I'd like to hear why you didn't like it?

[Jayaprakash Satyamurthy]

Well, it may be a matter of personal taste. [REC] was a pretty well made of its kind - shaky-cam horror - a lot better in terms of pacing and narrative coherence (how all the shots were made, the sequence, gaps, and so on) than some other examples. But the story? It was just another interchangeable zombie flick with some religious/scientific mumbo-jumbo tacked on at the end. I look for a certain atmosphere, a touch of the truly weird in a horror film, something films like this seem to have no interest in delivering. More horrifying than terrifying, it brings the thrills but little else.

[Moonbat]

ah, ok. I agree that the religious mumbo jumbo was a little bit odd and didn't really give us a believable reason for the zombies. Then again what reason for Zombies is believable (28 days later?)

So, out of interest, what modern horrors do you like. I'm trying to gauge the relevance of your tastes to my own? So if you say The happening I'm going to ignore you from now on.

[Jayaprakash Satyamurthy]

Heh.

Well, my tastes are very close to ravenus'. I can't say I am an expert in the horror films of the last ten years, I tend to watch the older stuff more, but I liked Pan's Labyrinth a lot, even if you may argue it was more fantasy - dark fantasy is horror - I did think 28 Days Later was a better example of a zombie flick. I'm not so worried about rational explanations, but the Vatican stuff in [REC] just seemed like it was thrown in because that sort of angle might be popular in the light of Dan Brown's success. I'm not a Catholic or indeed any sort of believer, but I don't like lazy storytelling. Among older stuff, faves include Martin by Romero, Picnic At Hanging Rock, I Walked With A Zombie, Romero's trilogy, early John Carpenter, The Beyond (mostly for the ending), Suspiria, Bride Of Frankenstein and others.