What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[John in Covina]

A Touch of Evil Anything with Welles is going to be good.

I have to say that ATOE was hard for me to watch because the tension and the emotionally charged scenes like at the motel got me very upset. So it connected in a hardhitting way.

 

[Feraud]

The Train with Burt Lancaster was on last night. Enjoyed it.
From my library I pulled The Stranger with Orson Welles and EG Robinson. A very good thrilller if you've not seen it.

 

[Wally_Hood]

Vera Cruz (1954), with Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster and a dozen familiar faces. Second time this year, probably.

 

[Miss sofia]

The Big Lebowski, as i'm house sitting and that's all they had that was worth watching, great film, very amusing, Jeff Bridges is always a pleasure to watch!

 

[Neophyte]

Not everyone's thing, but I really do love Japanese animation. Most go for the imaginative mind of Hayao Miyazaki, but I enjoy the work of Makoto Shinkai as well.

I didn't get to finish the movie earlier, but I finished it just moments ago.

The Place Promised in Our Early Days a.k.a. Beyond the Clouds, Our Promised Place.

If you're interested, here's the trailer with the English subtitles. I like watching it for the music and imagery, they real know how to make a trailer :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMVAMNeJGTw

 

[John in Covina]

The Big Lebowski, as i'm house sitting and that's all they had that was worth watching, great film, very amusing, Jeff Bridges is always a pleasure to watch!

Always a fun film. It got a big dicussion in one of the film noir threads as it is a modern film noir detective story. As I recall the Coen brothers talked about how they came up with the idea for this while working on Miller's Crossing. It has some of the classic noir elements one of which is an un-real quality. With the drugged scenes and unconscious scenes echos similar scenes in noir.

 

[Edward]

Churchill: The Hollywood Years. Engagingly awful; about enough plot to sustain thirty minutes, really. Harry Enfield was wonderful, though, as the King.

 

[Bugsy]

The Stuntman

 

[Rocketblast]

I watched 'Nine' at the weekend. I really like Marion Cotillard, who is in it alongside loads of others including Daniel Day Lewis, Sophia Loren and Penelope Cruz. I thought she was great as Edith Piaf and I loved the way she looked in Public Enemies although the film was so difficult to watch I find it hard to comment on her role... Looking at her filmography I remember her in 'A Good Year' and see that she was also in 'Big Fish' and 'A Very Long Engagement' but I don't remember her particularly. Any others I should look into?

 

[AmateisGal]

The Hangover. A bit vulgar, but oh my goodness - hilarious.

 

[Lefty]

Greenberg - sort of. I'm done with it, though my wife is watching it all the way through.

 

[VitaminG]

Somebody Up There Likes Me

 

[Salty O'Rourke]

I had the opposite reaction

Went to see The Girl Who Played with Fire, the move adaptation of Stieg Larsson's book. Excellent, as was the first movie adaptation.

I just cringe when I think Hollywood is making their own English language version (La Femme Nikita anyone?). But then again, if anyone can pull it off, David Fincher can.

After seeing TGWTDT, I thought to myself "Hollywood can't improve on this, they'll just screw it up". After seeing the second film, I thought "Hollywood better get busy, someone needs to do this project right".

The two leads are superb, as in the first film, but the movie looks like it was filmed quickly, with a movie-of-the-week budget. For some reason the original director was replaced for this project, to its detriment. The pacing is frenetic, characters are introduced only to disappear, and the cinematography is pedestrian. Zala's makeup is terrible, not realistic at all - like he was made up by the Little Theatre makeup lady.

I realize that the second book is much more complex than the first, which made it harder to transfer to film. Still, this effort disappointed me.

 

[AmateisGal]

After seeing TGWTDT, I thought to myself "Hollywood can't improve on this, they'll just screw it up". After seeing the second film, I thought "Hollywood better get busy, someone needs to do this project right".

The two leads are superb, as in the first film, but the movie looks like it was filmed quickly, with a movie-of-the-week budget. For some reason the original director was replaced for this project, to its detriment. The pacing is frenetic, characters are introduced only to disappear, and the cinematography is pedestrian. Zala's makeup is terrible, not realistic at all - like he was made up by the Little Theatre makeup lady.

I realize that the second book is much more complex than the first, which made it harder to transfer to film. Still, this effort disappointed me.

I saw the first one and loved it, but I haven't heard good things about the second Swedish installment.

Daniel Craig is cast as Blomvkist (sp?) and I think he'll do a superb job.

 

[HHISIII]

I just saw TGWTDT the other day and thoroughly enjoyed it to my surprise. I was leary when I heard there would be a hollywood version, but I'm curious to see how Daniel Craig does with the part.


Watched 'Harry Brown' tonight. It was a very good movie, but as a warning, those not from the UK might have difficulty with the accents at times.

 

[jillybeanlynn]

I just watched In the Mood For Love [Wong Kar Wai] again.

Every time I see it, I am blown away by the cinematography and production value. The camera practically dances through the scenes! Also love the story.

I highly recommend it to anyone who hasn't seen it yet. It's on the slow side with pacing, but worth it.

 

[Tomasso]

The American.

It was pretty good. Decent story filmed on location in Italy. And, there was a love scene that had my GF gettin' all frisky. Oh to have been in a sparsely populated balcony of those old movie palaces of my youth; rather than a jam-packed cineplex.

 

[VitaminG]

The Princess Bride

 

[Dav]

Avatar 3D,
The first film I've seen in the new style 3D, I was quite impressed.

 

[JPH]

Kokoda