What was the last movie you saw?

[clovis-man]

Burke And Hare (2011). Featuring Tom Wilkinson, Simon Pegg as Burke, and an interesting cast featuring Jessica Hynes, Andy Serkis as Hare, Christopher Lee (in a hilarious unintelligible cameo), Tim Curry, Isla Fisher and even a brief appearance by Jenny Agutter. This is a really dark comedy about the famous Edinburgh anatomy murders that is enjoyable on many levels. Worth a watch.

[Diggler]

The Avengers

Great fun Marvel Superhero extravaganza. This film, for me, is second to X-Men: First Class and actually exceeded my expectations. If you like superhero flicks, Marvel Comics or any of the superheroes in the film. Then you can't go wrong.

[j. d. worthington]

God on Trial (2008). Though I have some quibbles with it, overall I found it to be an immensely powerful drama with some sterling performances and very taut direction. Hard to watch at times, but very compelling....

[Foxbat]

Jackson County Jail (1976) Reasonable gritty flick starring Yvette Mimieux and Tommy Lee Jones.

[Moonbat]

Watched Hugo last night, and was not impressed. For a film that won 5 oscars (all technical) and was nominated for best film, most of it was very boring. I thought Chloe Morentz (spelling) was awful, and she is usually good, the line where she says 'you don't like books?' was dire.
The film got a little bit better for the second half, but it was still very boring. It had Sascha Baron Cohen in as a train station guard, he was obviously supposed to be a comic character and yet most of what he did I didn't find funny at all. I know this was a film aimed at kids, but I am quite happy to watch kids films and I rarely find them so boring. I am really quite disappointed in Scorsese for such a rubbish film. Talking about Christopher Lee in strange cameos, he has a small part in this film, but it doesn't seem to come off, at one point I was lead to believe that he would turn out to be Hugo's God-father, but it didn't happen, Ben Kingsley ended up saying 'this child belongs to me' which wasn't strictly true. But oh, well. It was probably better than the Adam Sandler/Jenifer Aniston film that we started watching but turned off after 10 minutes because it looked so awful.

[AE35Unit]

In Time
Interesting SF where Time is a commodity rather than money with Justin Timberlake. I prefer his acting to his music
The film is like a mix of Logan 's Run, Robin Hood and Bonnie and Clyde!

[clovis-man]

Moneyball. A sports movie with a much different twist. Well acted. Brad Pitt was quite good. Very much worthwhile.

[Foxbat]

The Haunted Palace (1963) Arkham is not a happy place. Add a dash of Poe, a peppering of Lovecraft, a smidgeon of dry ice and a slice of shadows. Saute with a wonderfully overpowering soundtrack.

Mix it all together in a Corman directed movie and what have you got?

Actually, what you've got is a pretty good piece of American Gothic. It might have been done on a low budget but Vincent Price is top-notch in this movie. Lon Chaney fills a creepy supporting role whilst Debra Paget and Cathie Merchant get to heave their ample bosoms in this dark tale of irate villagers with torches (now there's a surprise)

Despite my flippancy, this is worth a watch

[j. d. worthington]

The Haunted Palace is one of those odd pieces which neither entirely works, nor entirely doesn't work, and can hit people distinctly either way. Charles Beaumont was not a fan of HPL -- in fact, he cordially disliked his work pretty much all 'round -- and it shows in the sometimes lackadaisical and unsympathetic (as in not being at all in tune with the original author's intention) handling of the material in his script... yet he was also a very talented writer himself, and there are elements of this one which are nonetheless quite good. A strange entry in the Lovecraftian cinema range, but I agree, worth a watch.

(Incidentally, I have something of a fondness for Debra Paget, who was also in the "M. Valdemar" segment of the Corman/Poe Tales of Terror; to me she had an air of quiet tragedy about her performances which made her a fine choice for a Gothic heroine....)

[Mouse]

Saw The Avengers (Assemble) last night at the cinema.

I enjoyed it. I've not seen the other character films, so didn't fully understand what accent Thor was doing. First of all I was wondering why Loki sounded English and Thor American if they were brothers, then realised Thor wasn't doing 'American' exactly. I guess it was supposed to be Asgardian.

I don't really like the character of the Hulk. Or Ironman - though I could tolerate him by the end. Quite liked Captain America (though watching too much Team America means I was mentally doing the 'f*ck yeah' every time he was on screen.)

Also, pretty amusing film, though I was the only person in the cinema not laughing. Somebody even clapped. I mean, contain yourself!

[SJAB]

The Iron Lady


Actually watched this film last night and was quite surprised that it wasn't the total whitewash of her character others had lead me to believe. It didn't try to justify her decisions, which I thought it would, just showed you them. (Actually treated the audience as if it had a mind of its own to judge the content with, and actually confimed my long held opinion of the woman.) Was surprised at how many well known British male actors there was. Both Anthony Head (playing Geoffrey Howe) and Richard E Grant (playing Michael Heseltine) were great. Both gents don't look like the men they were playing, but I noticed that both had their hair done in the style of said former Cabinet Ministers and through superb acting created their persona, just as I remembered them to be.

[Mouse]

Originally Posted by Mouse

I've not seen the other character films, so didn't fully understand what accent Thor was doing. First of all I was wondering why Loki sounded English and Thor American if they were brothers, then realised Thor wasn't doing 'American' exactly. I guess it was supposed to be Asgardian.

Just found out the actor is Australian. That'll be why I couldn't place his accent then! (Not that I don't know what an Australian accent is - more that I knew he wasn't doing 'American' or 'English')

[Foxbat]

MacBeth (1997) Fairly decent portrayal of 'The Scottish Play' by Jason Connery and Helen Baxendale in the lead roles. Unfortunately, the transfer to DVD was not great and looks like it's been a straight port from video. Watchable but very grainy in places.

[Starbeast]

Contagion (2011)

It was alright. More realistic than Outbreak, and not as much action, but it was alright.

The Green Mile (1999)

One of Stephen King's best movies adapted from a novel. Even though I've seen this powerful supernatural drama before, I still get emotionally drained after watching it.

"Heaven, I'm in Heaven..."

[sonic]

In Time (2011)
A movie with such a great premise and such a low delivery. It could have been much-much more than it was (the general idea of making "time is money" into movie) while the ending was probably one of the worst in movie history. Timberlake was rather good for my surprise.