What was the last movie you saw?

Twk-tissh! :p

Jason and the Argonauts is freaking amazing, though. As is Clash of the Titans. Fantastic.

I'm about to watch The Mummy, I believe.
 
Watched Gone Baby Gone. It was alright, bit slow at times but not to bad. I liked Casey Afflect]k in the lead role, I actually have not seen him in anything before.

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Just watched Raiders of the Lost Ark on BBC1 - possibly the worst print that I've ever seen of the film - all crackly, and thin vertical white lines...
But still the best Indy film, IMAO.:D
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The local tv station is running the three Indy movies for three weeks also Pyan. I loved Raiders, last night was the Temple of Doom (my least favorite) and next week is Last Crusade which is pretty good also. Still Raiders remains my fav. Have to wait for the new one to see where it rates.
 
My collector's edition boxset of the Ring trilogy arrived today (which also includes, I found out when I opened it, Hideo Nakata's Sleeping Bride) and I couldn't resist it. Just watched the first one. Awesome. I think I prefer the second one, if I'm remembering correctly. I'll have to watch it soon and make sure.
 
Watched Forgetting Sarah Marshall last night-better than expected and made me laugh through my nose at one point-one to watch again definitely.
 
Saw Mike Leigh's Secrets and Lies, which I thought was a very nice bittersweet comedy. Even though it's a women dominated film, I thought Timothy Spall's performance was quite noteworthy.

Also I saw this short film called The Bespoke Overcoat, based on a Russian ghost story and made by Jack Clayton, the man who also helmed the superlative The Innocents (in fact, this is a bonus feature on my BFI DVD of The Innocents). Nice humorous and poignant ghost story with lovely dialog and some excellent visual tricks.
 
daisybee said:
Watched Forgetting Sarah Marshall last night-better than expected and made me laugh through my nose at one point-one to watch again definitely.
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Totally one of the better comedies I've seen. I'd go so far as to say best movie so far this year. I know - I sound crazy, but I laughed and laughed and laughed during the whole movie.
 
Speed Racer

Probably a bit of a marmite movie. It will split the audience into love/hate, but I must admit I didn't hate it as much as I thought and actually enjoyed it at times.

Be prepared for a pastel coloured assault on the senses as this film is like watching a computer generated kaledescope at times.
The races are multicoloured, fast and furious as the cars flip, corkscrew and do some kind of strange car kung-fu to stay on the track. There is absolutly no basis in realistic physics in this movie. It really is a living cartoon.

Unfortunatly off the track things are a bit boring, the plot is wafer thin, the twist you see coming a mile off and Speed's family are a tad annoying (They certainly could have done without the not-funny comedy little brother and his monkey sidekick). Christina Ricci as the girlfriend is a cute as a button though so that's not bad.

It is all very fake and pointless. So why was I having fun :confused:.

I'm fairly sure this movie is like some kind of LSD fueled dream and any moment I'm going to get the withdrawl.

5/10
 
Watched Donnie Darko for the first time.... (there are rumours of a sequel involving his sister) I do not get the premise for some of his acts (how does he get the axe into solid bronze), however I do understand his decision to enter the worm hole.
IMDb rated this film 8.3/10 (that is quite high for them) obviously alot of people understand the plot much better than I.
 
Watched Jumper and overall I was disappointed, a waste of Samuel L Jackson's time and talent, the man is better than this. Far to many questions left unanswered and if there is one thing I like in a movie is a decent explaination, this movie has far more questions than answers. Pretty disappointing really.
 
Watched a few movies at a friend's place:

Verboeten - A WW2 melodrama by Samuel Fuller about an American GI who falls in love with a German woman that saves his life, and the influence on their relationship by the post-war occupation of Germany by the Allied forces. Pretty good.

CJ7 - Hong Kong funnyman Stephen Chow's take on ET, which has some nice moments. Decent time pass on the whole, and preferable to ET as entertainment.

Princess - This was a Danish films we watched without subtitles. But we got the basic plot about a former preacher who takes revenge on a porn business for having caused the downfall of his sister. Done in very stylish animation (with some mixture of live action), this one was engaging for its runtime, although I'm sure we could have got it a lot better if we had the english subs.
 
BookStop said:
Totally one of the better comedies I've seen. I'd go so far as to say best movie so far this year. I know - I sound crazy, but I laughed and laughed and laughed during the whole movie.
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I get what you mean-I laughed my *** off at some points-which unless watched can't really be explained-LOVED the puppets and Russel Brand was pretty cool!
 
AE35Unit said:
Hmmm Russel Brand and cool in the same sentence,hmmm. The fact that that muppet's in it kinda puts me off it.
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Ha! He is an annoying prat- and I had to talk my mate into giving the film a chance, but don't be put off by his presence because his character is funny. Honest.
 
I try very hard to stay on top of the new movie releases... last movie I watched which was awesome, was The Forbidden Kingdom with Jackie Chan and Jet Li!
 
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