What was the last movie you saw?

[Metryq]

Originally Posted by Hilarious Joke

Fascinating guy Banksy. One of my favourite quotes of his:

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

[Diggler]

Originally Posted by Hilarious Joke

Fascinating guy Banksy. One of my favourite quotes of his:

I'd actually never heard of him before this film. But I found his art to be highly original and really quite inspiring.

[Gabriel007]

X-Men: First Class

It's neither good nor bad, but it's entertaining enough to keep my interest.

[alchemist]

Cars 2 (in old-school 2-D): excellent visuals (especially Tokyo) and it entertained the kids. Lacked the charm of the first, and whatever message there was about friendship got lost in the explosions and flying cars. Verdict: not great.

[Diggler]

Survive Style 5+

Funny and irreverent. Survive Style 5+ is A kaleidoscopic journey of self discovery and existentialism within modern day Japan. It follows 5 separate groups of people, who's lives all inevitably intertwine with each other in some way. The ad executive that constantly has visions of bizarre advertisements. The man who is hypnotised into thinking he's a bird or the man who buries his wife every night, to come home and get beaten senseless by her, are truly wonders to behold. This is absurd cinema at it's finest, and is the sort of film only the Japanese could possibly transfer onto celluloid.

5/5

[Moonbat]

After 16 months of having it on our DVD harddrive we finally got round to watching A complete history of my sexual failures - a rather amusing documentary about a film maker who decides to interview all his past girlfriends to find out what went wrong, at times hilarious, sad, touching and too bizarre to believe some of it wasn't faked, this was much better than we had anticipated and had some moments of true hilarity and insight. I think Sacha Baron Cohen might have stolen one of the scenes for his Bruno film, but it was much funnier/more disturbing in this film.

Also watched The Other Guys with Mark Whalberg and Will Ferrell the other night, really quite funny in places, a shame it had to have hollywood style action interspersed with the comedy, as the comedy was sometimes brilliant and the action was nothing special. Some great lines and wonderful small parts for the Rock and Samuel L Jackson.

[pyan]

Harry Potter 8 (or HP7 Pt2, if you prefer)

Generally good winding up of the saga. One or two moments when I thought "Huh? That's different!", but all-in-all fairly close to the book. Some really good set-pieces, and the gradual disintegration of Voldemort (I mean, over the film, not literally) was an excellent piece of work by Ralph Fiennes.

7½/10

[svalbard]

Ironclads with James Purefoy. I expected more out of this Medieval movie. Watching it I wondered why did they have to : 1. Change History 2. Invent characters and 3. Ignore History.

[Abd-L-zeez]

its shrek 4 .. it was good but not as goo as shrek 2

[No One]

Originally Posted by Moonbat

Also watched The Other Guys with Mark Whalberg and Will Ferrell the other night, really quite funny in places, a shame it had to have hollywood style action interspersed with the comedy, as the comedy was sometimes brilliant and the action was nothing special. Some great lines and wonderful small parts for the Rock and Samuel L Jackson.

"Aim for the bushes!"

Just seen Mutant Girl Squad: a heart-warming, subtext-filled, drama of what it's like to be a social freak - subtly directed, elegantly written, beautifully acted...

...yeah right.

I'm not even a big fan of Yoshihiro Nishimura's work (having co-directed this), whose films don't so much require a suspension as a lobotomy of disbelief. If you had a drink every time there's a fountain of blood on-screen, you'd never make it to the end of the film for retching over the sink.

Utterly, utterly, utterly bizarre - to say nothing of nipple-swords and, er, "posterior" chainsaws.

Occasionally brilliant, frequently hilarious, but probably not to everyone's taste.

[j. d. worthington]

My own viewing has been rather sparse, but in the last few weeks I've had a rather diverse set of things:

Bell, Book and Candle (with Kim Novak and James Stewart)
Patton (with George C. Scott)
Nixon (with ... well, you name it!)
A Few Good Men (my first time to actually see the entire film)
Bullitt (ditto, believe it or not!)
The Cincinnati Kid
a documentary on Steve McQueen
The French Connection
Clash of the Titans (the original)
The Taiking of Pelham One Two Three (ditto)
A Bridge Too Far
Scaramouche (1923)

[Tillane]

Originally Posted by j. d. worthington

Clash of the Titans (the original)

This has been on Channel 4...or 5 (I forget which) almost every day for the last fortnight. And I've been good, and only watched it twice.

[clovis-man]

Idiocracy with Luke Wilson and Maya Rudolph. One of the silliest SF movies you're ever likely to see. The premise is that natural selection has expired and the stupid inherit the Earth. Watch this and then think about what's going on in Washington D.C. right now. Hmmm. Maybe not so far-fetched after all.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/

[j. d. worthington]

Originally Posted by clovis-man

Idiocracy with Luke Wilson and Maya Rudolph. One of the silliest SF movies you're ever likely to see. The premise is that natural selection has expired and the stupid inherit the Earth. Watch this and then think about what's going on in Washington D.C. right now. Hmmm. Maybe not so far-fetched after all.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/

My problem with this film is that it is obviously taken from C. M. Kornbluth's "The Marching Morons" -- not only the idea, but large sections of the plot and action, and even parts of the dialogue -- without benefit of even an acknowledgment. Sorry, but that sort of thing... well, to avoid being vulgar, let's just say I tend to react like a bull does to a red flag (according to folklore, anyway....)

[Connavar]

Originally Posted by j. d. worthington

My own viewing has been rather sparse, but in the last few weeks I've had a rather diverse set of things:

Bell, Book and Candle (with Kim Novak and James Stewart)
Patton (with George C. Scott)
Nixon (with ... well, you name it!)
A Few Good Men (my first time to actually see the entire film)
Bullitt (ditto, believe it or not!)
The Cincinnati Kid
a documentary on Steve McQueen
The French Connection
Clash of the Titans (the original)
The Taiking of Pelham One Two Three (ditto)
A Bridge Too Far
Scaramouche (1923)

Lot of quality films there and The Cincinnati kid i thought was a film ?

What do you think is the best George C Scott film other than Patton ?

I saw a film The New Centurions with him being very human, strong in it and felt to see more of him.