What was the last movie you saw?

[Star Girl]

Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel Such a fun film with so many laughs. I think this film is just a must for any Science Fiction fan. I watched it on Iplayer a few months ago then had to go out and buy it just so I can watch it whenever I like.

The Man From Earth One of my favourite films. I love how this film doesn't do anything fancy, it doesn't even have any flash backs which you would think a film like this would have. However instead it captivates you by listening to the mans story as the other characters are, so this way you (like the characters) can decide whether the main character is lying or telling the truth. Wonderfully written with a great cast.

[Diggler]

Originally Posted by Connavar

I find Final Destination semi fun in shut of your brain type film. Also the fact there isnt many good horror films from hollywood these days doesnt make Silent Hill better.

If you dont want lower your standards you know there is good horror films from europe like Spain, South Korea, other countries.

I agree Connavar. American horror can generally be a cookie cutter affair. Japan, Korea, Spain, Europe, etc have made some extremely good horror/gore films in the past. Some get noticed (and remade), others don't.

Some of the small collection of brilliant films that aren't from the US, include.

Haute Tension (France)
Frostbitten (Norway?)
Shutter (Thailand)
Alone (Thailand)
Cure (Japan)
Dark Water (Japan)
Let the Right One In (Sweden)
The Devil's Backbone (Spain)
R-Point (Korea)
Arang (Korea)

[JunkMonkey]

Originally Posted by Metryq

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Movie note for American SFFC members: For some bizarro reason, a recently made Region 1 DVD {of Colossus: The Forbin Project} is still cropped for NTSC!

Point of order, chairman.

NTSC has very little to do with the screen ration (the shape of the image) so to say it has been cropped for NTSC isn't true. NTSC is the analogue television system used in the USA, Canada, Japan and a few other countries. It's true that NTSC has a standard for a frame ratio of 4:3 but so does PAL (the analogue television system used in Britain, Australia China and a lot of other countries - most of which used to be part of the British Empire), and for all I know in SECAM (the analogue television system used in France, Russia and various parts of their former Empires.)

[TheTomG]

Just watched 'Limitless' and thought it was a great movie, funny as well as thought-provoking, some surprises, some not surprises, but overall I liked it a lot. NZT to help on your next novel, anyone?

[Lomexray]

Last movie i saw was The Green Hornet. I thought the movie was amazing. If you saw Shrek forever after it was like that 3D the characters were kind of pooping out but nothing else. All cast performance was good. Cameron Diaz and Christopher Waltz were amazing. I recommended everyone to watch this movie.

[CyBeR]

Green Lantern yesterday, at a very out of the way cinema, with 3 more people in the room (two o which were with me).
And the film? Honestly not as bad as the reviews would have you believing. It's somewhere in the middle of the superhero pile of films, along stuff like the Spider-man 3 and X-Men Last Stand. I know those two are generally regarded as crap, but for me the real crap of this genre are Batman Forever, Fantastic Four and Daredevil.

[terryweide]

I rented Paranormal Activity a few days ago. I thought it was a scary movie while I was watching it, but the effect didn't linger. Meaning that days later, I'm not still frightened it.

Overall, I thought it was well done, but I had the same problem with it I had with the original Amnityville Horror. Once doors start opening and closing on their own, pots and pans start rattling for no good reason, dogs start growling at nothing, and people start levitating in the air, why does anyone stay in a house like that and why is there invariably one character who says, "Nothing's going on, it's all in your imagination."? (Well, see, Terry, if everyone got scared and ran away, the movie would end.) Heh...

[TheTomG]

Originally Posted by Lomexray

Last movie i saw was The Green Hornet. I thought the movie was amazing. I recommended everyone to watch this movie.

Yep I really liked this movie too, the humor was way better than I had expected as I had thought it was going to take itself pretty seriously, and it made it a much better film than I had been anticipating. Great fun!

[Mouse]

Originally Posted by TheTomG

Just watched 'Limitless' and thought it was a great movie, funny as well as thought-provoking, some surprises, some not surprises, but overall I liked it a lot. NZT to help on your next novel, anyone?

Ooh, now I watched Limitless at the cinema and both me and my friend commented on how smug and annoying the main character was! And that bit with the blood at the end? Stupid and gross.

I didn't want the guy to win. I wanted to punch him in his stupid, smug, junkie face.

[Sea Lion Books]

Planet of the Apes, great movie.

[Terrible Tempest]

Limitless. <Yawn> All that brain power and that's the best he could do? The whole thing felt as stale as beer on a bar floor to me.

[FeedMeTV]

Originally Posted by Mouse

Ooh, now I watched Limitless at the cinema and both me and my friend commented on how smug and annoying the main character was! And that bit with the blood at the end? Stupid and gross.

I didn't want the guy to win. I wanted to punch him in his stupid, smug, junkie face.

I haven't seen it but this made me laugh!

[TheTomG]

I think smugness goes with the territory with that drug! Plenty of holes in it of course, and yep the blood wouldn't have enough of anything in it to have an effect and was most likely there for the grossness factor.

I like the whole question though of whether you are still yourself or not. How much enhancing can you do before you are no longer you? How tempted would we all be to use something that would improve our thinking and creativity? That was where the whole self confident smugness comes in, was it really the same person just enhanced?

I was reminded a bit of the e-therapy concept in Our Friends From Frolix 8.

Oh and I always hate when anyone does the 'use the other 80% of your brain' bit, as if the brain would have all that wasted space. I did like the idea of being able to recall stuff you had glimpsed and make new connections though, that seemed more intriguing and feasible.

Anyways, I liked it,sparked lots of thoughts for me which is what I like in my stuff!

[Diggler]

Attack The block

What could have been quite an enjoyable film was marred by three things. A lack of comedy (Nick Frost did say a couple of funny things). The Chav characters were despicable, I actually hated them from the outset and was really hoping they were going to die quickly, and the "leet" speak. Do people with an intelligence level above double digits actually speak like this?

2.5/5

[Metryq]

Originally Posted by JunkMonkey

NTSC has a standard for a frame ratio of 4:3

Thank you, JunkMonkey. I've worked as a video engineer for over 20 years, and with multiple Standards. I believe most people here understood my point: that a Region 1 DVD released as late as 2004 was cropped to fit legacy TV screens—otherwise known as pan-and-scan—rather than letterboxed (yuck, waste of lines) or anamorphic. "Cropping" means cutting off some of the image, so letterboxing and anamorphic are not cropping.

And this was not an isolated instance. I've bought foreign discs on several occasions when a movie's full aspect was not available in the US.