What's the Last Movie You Watched?

[rtifishul]

Please do not waste your money on that terrible Ashton Kutcher mistake, No Strings Attached. It is terrible even by rom-com standards.

[Green Man]

The classic Requiem for a Dream. Was looking through my 160 DVD collection for something rather messed up, depressing, and all around intense. Truly will stick in your mind for days after viewing, whether it's the first or tenth time around, Amazing.

[indeedproceed]

The classic Requiem for a Dream. Was looking through my 160 DVD collection for something rather messed up, depressing, and all around intense. Truly will stick in your mind for days after viewing, whether it's the first or tenth time around, Amazing.

Yes. I like Trainspotting more (because its a little less dark I suppose) but that movie will stick with you like gum on your shoe.

[looseball]

McCabe and Mrs. Miller  (1971)

The opening scene shows an anonymous rider coming slowly into this frontier mining town in the Pacific northwest in the dead of winter all bundled up so you can't see his face, with Leonard Cohen's haunting voice in the background singing:  "just some Joseph looking for a manger".
The final scene takes place in a snowstorm, and there was a snowstorm taking place outside my window at the same time.  So I was into this movie, I'd say.

This is a Robert Altman film, so there is a lot going on most of the time, and you're thrown into the thick of it.  It's a western, and it had to be the inspiration for Deadwood.
It tells the unpredictable story of a town being built from scratch and the people who migrate there in search of fortune, freedom, adventure..., displaying a mix of self-reliance and community spirit.  There is nothing sentimental or mythical about this movie, but it does contain a measure of redemption in the midst of frontier "justice".

It gets five-stars from me.

 


 

[Edgar]

Weekend family movie night:

Toy Story 3
Shreck Forever
Eclipse
Sorcere Aprentice
Inception


I am not going to go further


ahhh


and sunday morning

Cars and Nemo

[thirstyboots18]

Ha ha, Edgar.  My husband has been a mentor for a few years now, and the boy (Jake) is now 13 years old.  I tease him that he only became a mentor because it gave him a perfect excuse to go to all the cartoon movies!  Fortunately for him, Jake is also growing up to be a cartoon junkie, so he doesn't have to give it up yet.

[Edgar]

Ha ha, Edgar.  My husband has been a mentor for a few years now, and the boy (Jake) is now 13 years old.  I tease him that he only became a mentor because it gave him a perfect excuse to go to all the cartoon movies!  Fortunately for him, Jake is also growing up to be a cartoon junkie, so he doesn't have to give it up yet.

Secret of youth

be a Peter Pan and find each others Wendy

[Redz]

I was making myself nuts last week, waiting anxiously for an important phone call.  So I decided to see what was out there for comedies on the Netflix instant view.  I ended up watching "Balls Out:  Gary the Dennis Coach"...Very low brow, stupid humor, that was absolutely perfect for the occasion.  I found myself chuckling quite a bit.   Funny cameo from from Randy Quaid.   Definitely not a movie I would have ever thought I'd watch (and I'm not even sure I'd recommend it), but it did the trick to kill some time mindlessly.

http://amzn.to/fP8qrF

[dark_lord]

Sorcere Aprentice

is this the nicholas cage movie?  if so, how was it.  i love fantasia and the sorcerer apprentice short in that film, so im fearful this film was cheesy.

[Edgar]

Sorcere Aprentice

is this the nicholas cage movie?  if so, how was it.  i love fantasia and the sorcerer apprentice short in that film, so im fearful this film was cheesy.

U know..

Its not that bad

the only related scene is kind of short and only makes a small remembrance of fantasia music in the famous scene, but over all I like the movie.

I didnt put that much mind on it but it worth the 2 bucks I paid for watching it with my wife .And probably a little more.

I can recommend it as a good way to spend 1 hour and 20

[dark_lord]

Sorcere Aprentice

is this the nicholas cage movie?  if so, how was it.  i love fantasia and the sorcerer apprentice short in that film, so im fearful this film was cheesy.

U know..

Its not that bad

the only related scene is kind of short and only makes a small remembrance of fantasia music in the famous scene, but over all I like the movie.

I didnt put that much mind on it but it worth the 2 bucks I paid for watching it with my wife .And probably a little more.

I can recommend it as a good way to spend 1 hour and 20

good to hear.  i LOVE disney

[hardlyyardley]

Last night saw "the way back".....excellent....had not read anything about it but wanted to go to the movies....Ed Harris and Colin Farrell are in it...it's about a break out of a war prison in Siberia in 1940 and the trip to freedom

[jackson_34]

Last night I saw "Brick", a 2005 movie starring Jospeh Gordon-Levitt.

Fantastic movie that I think alone has to be credited for it's plot and theme originality.

The film is basically of the film noir category but instead of the dark and sinister city as its setting, it focuses in on a high school.

Jospeh G-L is the detective type character, there is also a femme fatale and many other devices commonly associated with film noir.

Superb acting, great script, great photography. Highly recommended!

 

[lon3lytoaster]

The classic Requiem for a Dream. Was looking through my 160 DVD collection for something rather messed up, depressing, and all around intense. Truly will stick in your mind for days after viewing, whether it's the first or tenth time around, Amazing.

That's a classic in my book, love that film. I'd watch that just to listen to the score. Truly a masterpiece (imo) both visually and musically.

[indeedproceed]

Last night I saw "Brick", a 2005 movie starring Jospeh Gordon-Levitt.

Fantastic movie that I think alone has to be credited for it's plot and theme originality.

The film is basically of the film noir category but instead of the dark and sinister city as its setting, it focuses in on a high school.

Jospeh G-L is the detective type character, there is also a femme fatale and many other devices commonly associated with film noir.

Superb acting, great script, great photography. Highly recommended!

 

Brick was an awesome movie, and it was very smartly done and well executed, but it was not original. That's like saying True Grit was original.

True Grit is based off of the novel "Red Harvest" by Dashel Hammit, which is one of my favorite books of all time.

Red Harvest inspired Miller's Crossing (another awesome film noir), Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo, which was the inspiration for the western "A FiEdited.  Profanity and masked profanity are against forum rules and may result in discipline.l of Dollars", as well as Bruce WIllis's "Last Man Standing".

Loved Brick, but just wanted to make sure everyone knows..its an homage, not an original film.