What was the last movie you saw?

[clovis-man]

Originally Posted by Lemmy

I did a double-feature and watched The thing from another world and the Carpenter remake The Thing. They are both pretty darn good movies when watched independently, but they are even better if you watch both together. In many ways they are identical (scientist in the Antarctica finds a spaceship buried under the ice and unleash a deadly alien), but they are two very different movies. The original focus heavily on the alien stalking the corridors and fighting an enemy you don't know (and clearly an inspiration to Alien), but the remake is more about paranoia and not being able to trust anyone. Both are excellent and well worth watching.

The Carpenter film is the one that is faithful to John Campbell's original story. But, as you say, both are classics in their own way. Would you believe there may be a prequel in the works?

Who Goes There? - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[pyan]

Independence Day (1996) - on TV for the Bank Holiday afternoon.

Enjoyable hokum, though even my suspension of reality was severely tested by the revelation that the Critters-from-Another-World apparently use Windows 95...

[Moonbat]

I have watched quite a few films recently, lets see if I can remember them.
In no particular order (except that in which I remember them)
Fair Game - not as good as I hoped, interesting, but not really very thrilling, I have seen better political thriller type films. Naomi Watts is good (as always) and Sean Penn wasn't bad, but the film just didn't get into the nitty gritty thrills that I expected, I suppose because it was based on real life. and we all know real life is boring!

Wake Wood - what a pointless film, a couple lose thier child to a dog attack then a year later they move to some small Irish village/town called Wake wood, where, through the process of some ancient ritual, people who have been dead less than a year can be brought back to life for 3 days (as long as there is a dead body to use so someone has to die and be utilised) but if they are dead more than a year then they become evil and kill lots of people. Kind of ridiculous premise and not very well done. Lots of animal violence, girl killed by dog, man killed by bull, dog skinned alive after being hit by a car.

Little Fockers - I'm not a big fan of the Focker films but this one (as most of them did) made me laugh a few times, Owen Wilson's character is quite amusing, but I don't like Robert De Niro (I once thought he was great but then I read a biography and since then I think he sucks, his old stuff is brilliant, but I don't think he has done anything good since awakenings) and Ben Stiller is never as funny as he when he is being silly. Still it made me laugh out loud several times and is probably worth a watch. Just hope they don't do anymore.

umm. I think that is it. no wait! I also saw most of Princess Mononoke a Anime film about, hmm not entirely sure some sort of battle between humans and animals and gods, something to do with a forest and the spirits that live there. I thought it was brilliant, very cool. Will have to try and watch it all sometime.

[Foxbat]

The Football Factory
A pretty decent film but extremely violent. It left me thinking...why do people actually live like that?

[Lady of Winterfell]

Originally Posted by alchemist

Jumper, for the second time. Not as bad as it first appeared. In fact, quite enjoyable, although Hayden Christensen can't act his way out of a paper bag.

That's what I thought watching him in the Star Wars movies.

[Lemmy]

Originally Posted by clovis-man

The Carpenter film is the one that is faithful to John Campbell's original story. But, as you say, both are classics in their own way. Would you believe there may be a prequel in the works?

Who Goes There? - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Of course, if you want a movie-version of the book, go with Carpenter. But if you want a great movie loosely inspired by the book, either will do.

Prequel? Ancient news. There's an Alien-prequel, two more Terminator-movies and a new Jurassic Park trilogy that doesn't have anything to do with the first one planned. There's even a Mortal Kombat web-series called Mortal Kombat: Legacy, starring Jeri Ryan Michael Jai White. And it's pretty good, too. And that's for starters.

[Overread]

*wishes that Hollywood would just leave the darn classics alone - or at least hire some halfdecent screen writers and directors so that its not a total mess*

As for the last film - Nausicaa - Valley of the Wind. I have to say, no matter what they do with CGI, contrast and bright shiny stuff this old-school art direction of this and several other older animations will always be enjoyable! And the story is just great (plus you get Patrick Steward doing the english voice over - I mean can you get any more awesome into a single film -- well aside from adding wolves of course )

[clovis-man]

Originally Posted by Lemmy

Prequel? Ancient news. There's an Alien-prequel, two more Terminator-movies and a new Jurassic Park trilogy that doesn't have anything to do with the first one planned. There's even a Mortal Kombat web-series called Mortal Kombat: Legacy, starring Jeri Ryan Michael Jai White. And it's pretty good, too. And that's for starters.

Yeah. Who'd want to do anything original anyway. That would be too much like work.

[cornelius]

RED - Retired Extremely Dangerous.

I expected a light, funny action-packed movie. It was a bit ligther even, and not as funny as I thought. All in all not too bad, you have to watch this type of movies with the proper mindset, which pretty much comes down to this: "jump" from gunfight to gunfight and don't think too hard during the segways inbetween.

[Demonomania]

Source Code - Nice Little sci-fi film. Not too filled with hard science but very, very enjoyable.

[Hilarious Joke]

Fantastic Mr Fox

What an odd movie. I quite liked the animation. I think I quite liked it. But it was strange!

[Riselka]

The Island

I enjoyed it for what it was. It didn't explore the ethics behind what was going on very deeply, but I didn't really expect that of a Michael Bay film. It does reference quite a few other films in its content.

Lots of great action sequences, and another great performance by Sean Bean as a baddie. It's definitely my favourite Michael Bay film now.

[clovis-man]

Red Cliff (2008) - IMDb

Beautifully filmed. Amazing scenes and camera angles. Good action. But underneath it all, it still seems like just a large scale martial arts pic. But it is undeniably "epic".

[Riselka]

Originally Posted by clovis-man

Red Cliff (2008) - IMDb

Beautifully filmed. Amazing scenes and camera angles. Good action. But underneath it all, it still seems like just a large scale martial arts pic. But it is undeniably "epic".

Did you see the 5 hour epic version, or the 2 1/2 hour chop job they made for US consumption?

I've got the 5 hour version, and was blown away by it.

[clovis-man]

Originally Posted by Riselka

Did you see the 5 hour epic version, or the 2 1/2 hour chop job they made for US consumption?

I've got the 5 hour version, and was blown away by it.

I watched it via netflix online, so I guess I got the mini-epic. But 2 and 1/2 hours seemed to be enough for me.