What was the last movie you saw?

[Steve S]

The Mist - loved it! A simple premise, superbly executed. The Lovecraftian monsters were frightening, the locked-in humans even more so. Proof, if needed, that horror can be intelligent and challenging. And that ending...

[HoopyFrood]

Had a bit of a mehish day and generally been tired this week, so I bought takeaway food and came home to watch Army of Darkness for the nth time.

SO. FUNNY.

The mini Ashes. Especially the one that slides. "Surf's up!" Had to watch that twice. The skeleton arms in the graveyard. And, of course, the lines. "Yo She-bitch. Let's go." Love it all.

[JunkMonkey]

The Adventures of Chris Fable (2010) - when I'm President of Everything I'm going to make sure all HD cameras are fitted with ultra-smart detection technology - coupled with on-board GPS and a small explosive charge. The cameras will be programmed to explode if they detect that they are being used to film people pointlessly wandering around in woods.

"Okay," the chip says to itself. "That's the fifteenth setup within two hours in a wooded location. Arm the bomb!"

There's a lot of pointlessly walking around in woods in The Adventures of Chris Fable (aka The Wylds, aka The Blair Bunyan Project). It's a 'contemporary' reworking of Pilgrim's Progress shot in Montana with a cast of first-timer amateurs and a few not very good jobbing actors. And it is awful. Not 'so bad it's funny' type awful but just painfully 'this is painfully awful' type awful. It's hard to feel sorry for them but there are people out there who seriously thought this was worth making. It's Christian allegorical bull***t at it's most insultingly inept. I'm not a Christian. Far from it. 'Born again Atheist' is what I put on application forms but I notionally respect the concept that other people have a need to believe in something 'bigger than themselves'.* Bilge like this undermines that respect. I think the makers of The Adventures of Chris Fable thought they were 'spreading the word'. They're not. They're preaching to the converted and helping us non-converts loose any respect we may have for modern Christianity. I'm now off to watch something with lots of naked women, ritual disembowelment, and graphic, pointless, repeated violence to take the taste of this film out of my head.



* I choose to believe in elephants when that particular urge comes over me. They're bigger than me. Or better still Blue Whales; I've seen and touched an elephant but I've never seen a Blue Whale so I have to take their existence on trust.

[Foxbat]

There's been a few mentions of Kolchak The Night Stalker on the forum recently so I decided to sit down and watch this one again. I was not disappointed. Time simply does not age this movie. I enjoyed it just as much now as I did when I first saw it so many years ago.

[Foxbat]

The Last Samurai I'm not a fan of Tom Cruise but I love this film. His finest work in my opinion

[kd5]

My wife & I have been rewatching the Star Trek movies (2-Disc CE/DC/DE all), We watched Star Trek: The Motion Picture, then The Wrath Of Khan, In Search Of Spock, last night we watched The Voyage Home, next will be The Final Frontier. The only one I don't have is Insurrection. -kd5-

[biodroid]

Super 8 - Awesome movie, not sure why it was dissed but it worked for me, very entertaining, well acted and the SFX were brilliant. JJ Abrams does it again.

[Moonbat]

Watched Chronicle at the cinema, pretty darn good. I thought it was very interesting, the end was quite a step up from the rest of the film, but for once it was undersatandable why the super villain is as angry as normal. In most films the over the top cartoon villains have no discernable reason for hating everything so much, but this really worked, and we could emphasise with Andrew as to why he was so angry. Really good film, if a bit annoying it was done in mocumentary style.

Then, watched Kill List on DVD, very disappointed, I had heard good things, but this just descended from an ok hitman film into some kind of wickerman-esque pile of nonsense. Really not that pleased with this film.

And also saw Hatchett on Friday night, very very poor film, a friend said it was good, but was so awful that it made me laugh. such a waste of a film, where Kill list was bad it at least tried to be something good, this was all just tongue in cheek graphic violence for no other reason than to amuse, and the jokes were lame.

[tangaloomababe]

Limitless. I want one of those Pills, think of all the things you can get done. Oh and War Horse (how many tissues did I use? Lots!!!) But I think I like the book better.


Foxbat I have not seen Night Stalker for years, didn't even know it was still around, used to give me nightmares! That and Twilight Zone, but Nightstalker was scarier.

[Foxbat]

Originally Posted by tangaloomababe

Foxbat I have not seen Night Stalker for years, didn't even know it was still around, used to give me nightmares! That and Twilight Zone, but Nightstalker was scarier.

You can pick it up fairly cheaply on DVD from Amazon

[Tiffany]

War Horse, it was a lovely film & I cried nearly all the way through it.

[Interference]

Originally Posted by Foxbat

There's been a few mentions of Kolchak The Night Stalker on the forum recently....

As one of the ones who may have mentioned it, I decided to track down a couple of eps on You Tube after I read this. I've had a pleasantly entertaining evening as a result. Thank you, FB

Now, if anyone else mentions Warhorse being good because it made them cry, I'm gonna t'row somet'in' atya! *grrrrrrrrrr*

[tangaloomababe]

Interference: I read the book first, so really when I went to see War Horse I shouldn't have cried, but I still did. We went to see War Horse Gold Class so there were only 10 other people in the cinema and they were all crying!!!
They should have sold them on the way in, I came prepared! Sometimes we just need a good cry!

[FireDragon-16]

We watched the Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole the other day. It was actually quite good, and I loved the score

[Tiffany]

Originally Posted by FireDragon-16

We watched the Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole the other day. It was actually quite good, and I loved the score

I love that film too, saw it in the cinema & have it on DVD.