Last movie you watched

[ShiftyPowers]

2. The Searchers

I wrote an essay on this in my freshman English class. It was a crappy compare/contrast paper that you write in school and almost never say anything interesting. I compared it unfavorably with Dances With Wolves because my professor was like a native american studies person.

 

[Sir Calumn]

I HATE everything Kevin Costner has ever done. Dances with Wolves is one of my all time least favourite films.

Did you check any of those westerns out Waldo?


Anyway, went to the cinema to see The Descendants, that new Alexander Payne movie with Clooney. Am I right in saying it's his first movie since Sideways? I really enjoyed Sideways. Anyway, the Descendants is good, a lot in it I couldn't relate to, and I found the relationship with the children often unrealistic, but it was a good story, funny when it meant to be funny, also quite moving, never dull. A good film, also nice to see something set in Hawaii, and this film managed to show of Hawaii's beauty (and not so beautiful side) very well without relying on it. Clooney's performance was very good, also nice to see Richard Forrester (Max Cherry from Carlos*ie Brown) back in a top movie. Worth seeing.

 

[rony31]

Ended up watching Chronicle last night. Pretty decent flick, well put together and was thoroughly entertaining for the $7 I paid for it.

 

[Waldo1639]

I HATE everything Kevin Costner has ever done. Dances with Wolves is one of my all time least favourite films.

Did you check any of those westerns out Waldo?

I watched The Wild Bunch, and there was The Outlaw Josey Wales last Sunday on television. Both are great westerns, I really enyojed it, especially The Wild Bunch. Every Sunday there will be "western night" on our national television, I see that Tomahawk (didn't watch) and For A Few Dollars More (watched) are next. How so you dont like Costners movies? I guess you like Tombstone better then Wyatt Earp then?

Anyway, I'm hoping I'll watch In The Land Of Blood And Honey soon, it's directed by Angelina Jolie. It talks about war in Yugoslavia, about genocide in Bosnia to be precise. It's a love drama. A lot of dust was raised these days about this movie. I think Serbs wont even show it in their country, they called it anti-Serbian...

And I watched Immortals. Damn, I thought it's a better movie. I was very, very disappointed.

EDIT: This is one of my favorite Tombstone scenes. Haha, just how Doc embarrassed Ringo...

 

[Sir Calumn]

I dont think that much of Tombstone either, though I admit I did enjoy Kilmer's Doc Holiday.

Costner irritates me as a person, an actor and particularly as a director because I feel he has no talent for it. At the Edinburgh Film Festival I once went to see a talk by Brian De Palma and he really laid into Costner (even though they worked together on the Untouchables), picking apart his directorial failing on Open Range (another Western). Dances with Wolves in particular just reeks so strongly of overblown nonsense designed for no other reason that to tweak the heartstrings of stupid people and impress populist critics and the smarmy out of touch hollywood elite. Wanker.


Wild Bunch is legendary - when you see Wild Bunch you understand alot about where Tarantino got his inspiration. Two of the best opening sequences of all time are in Westerns - one is Wild Bunch, the other is Once Upon a Time in the West.

You're lucky to have a western night showing quality westerns - in Britain we sometimes get the old classics on in the middle of weekday afternoons, but that's not exactly convenient, and otherwise they are shamefully neglected by television.

 

[King]

Three Musketeers - Crap
Hugo - Cinematography was awesome!

 

[MaestroZidane]

Rise of the planet of the apes - Good movie, glad I gave it a try

 

[Mint]

Rise of the planet of the apes - Good movie, glad I gave it a try

Worth watching then darling?

 

[MaestroZidane]

Give it a shot, you won't be dissapointed

 

[Keegan]

Wes Craven presents Dont Look Down - This review wasn't done by me, but the writer did a god job - no point in reinventing the wheel.

This movie is where Wes Craven's name was abused to the fullest. I saw the box, said to myself "Wow, a Wes Craven production I never knew about.." and promptly rented it. To my horror, I saw a movie that not only had the cinematographic quality of a Porno movie, but the acting was comparable as well. The plot and characters were pretty much a blatant rip off of an episode of any daytime soap opera. Why would anyone do something that lame????
The soap opera cliche' plot is this: A girl, her sister, and her husband are taking pictures at a beautiful overlook and her sister falls off the cliff, and begs her sister to save her .... blah blah..... dies.... blah blah...... surviving sister becomes afraid of heights..... blah blah...... series of murders she thinks the ghost of her sister is behind....... blah.... sorry excuse for a plot twist..... blah blah blah....bad ending. There is no point on earth to EVER EVER EVER EVER see this horrible piece of cinematic excriment. I am thoroughly saddened that Craven even let his name be soiled by this movie, and I almost cannot like him subconsciously because I can't think of his name anymore without thinking of that movie. I WISH there was a way to remove the memory of DON'T LOOK DOWN from my head, and I urge you to avoid this movie at all costs or it will cause you to have uncontrollable narcicistic rage for the rest of your life.

 

[Waldo1639]

J. Edgar, movie with Leonardo DiCaprio, it talks about J. Edgar Hoover, FBI director and his "secret" life. Directed by C. Eastwood. Sir_Didier_Drogba, you might liked it, although movie is not rated very high and some might find it boring.

The Inbetweeners aka British Pie. Not very know movie, but I laughed good, so, it's a fun to watch.

And I finally watched In The Land Of Blood And Honey, A. Jolie's movie, and was positively surprised. It's not bad at all, but it was weird (accent) cause I watched English version, and I didn't expect that kinda end. Anyway, not bad movie for Jolie's first.

 

[ShiftyPowers]

I saw The Artist and liked it. I wouldn't say it was as good as Inglourious Basterds, as an example, but it was good. The other two from this year I want to see are The Descendents and Young Adults. Moneyball was stupid. Just like Social Network.

 

[4ndr3i]

The Woman in Black - that was some scary **** ! Old school horror.

 

[Sir Calumn]

I refuse to watch anything with that wanker radcliffe in it

 

[4ndr3i]

I refuse to watch anything with that wanker radcliffe in it

You're missing out. It's the best horror movie I've seen in a long time.

 

[Pizarro14]

Harry potter all grown up?? how sweet maybe I'll give the woman in black a try. So did he finally get his PhD in Wizardry? (as in the Harry Potter saga is over?) Besides Emma I didn't see a point to ever watching the Harry Saga.

 

[Alex]

Don't bag Harry Potter. If it's good enough for Stephen King, it's good enough for me

 

[ShiftyPowers]

He ****s out mostly poor books every year, but why does that make him respectable?

 

[Alex]

He ****s out mostly poor books every year, but why does that make him respectable?

I imagine he knows his pop fiction. Love him or hate him, he sold the second most number of books (behind Grisham - another pop writer) in the nineties.

Anyway, Stephen King aside, the Harry Potter books are great, and that's why all 7 of them are in the top 50 sold books of all time. I don't read to better myself, I read for easy entertainment. Unless it's non-fiction.

 

[Alex]

Just watched Contagion. Is Jude Law meant to be Australian in that? Still sounds English to me