What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[Darhling]

Hopefully still doing Old Spice commercials and films like Bubba Ho-Tep.

I.LOVE.THIS!!!

 

[RIOT]

I saw The Ruins (2008) the other day. Let's just say it was O..K.. More gore than scare.

 

[Feraud]

I started watching AVP: Requiem last night.
A "by the book" ho-hum kind of film.. [huh]

 

[Brinybay]

Not to be...pedantic but the White/Indian warfare that took place in LOTM hadn't been seen by anyone for around 163 years by 1920.
Last of the Mohicans takes place in 1757 and concerns a drama in the midst of the French and Indian War. The action is different from the much later plains warfare.

I realize that, I was speaking in general terms, i.e. it wasn't a "sanitized" version of the type of conflict. I'm trying not to get too graphic, but some of the type of actions they depicted would never make it into a film today, not even the 1992 version. The plains warfare may have been different, but was no less bloody.

 

[WH1]

The Man Who Wasn't There - Not sure how I heard about this movie, maybe it was somebody on FL. Great vintage "stuff" (clothes, cars, etc), shot in B/W, somewhat bizzare plot. Billy Bob Thornton did well in this role. He's one of the few actors that can say nearly nothing and pull it off. Most actors with few lines but many appearances come across as deadpan or wooden, but not BBT. Does James Gandolfini ever play a role where he's not punching and kicking someone? But then, I've only seen him in Sopranos and this movie.

Gandolfini was also in Get Shorty, a great movie btw, one of my favorites. Of course "he's punching and kicking someone". He was also in Lonely Hearts, with Travolta and Salma Hayek. A pretty good period piece as well. I don't remember if he punches and kicks anyone though.

 

[Lady Day]

The Prestige
(The Illusionist is next )

Two magicians have a rivalry because one killed his wife. Okay, good. But it kept going around in time, almost incoherently, as these 'two' men kept sabotaging each others career.

I saw the end for one of the men a mile away, but the other, come on! That was silly and totally unbelievable. Prestige, indeed.
What a lame pay off.

LD

 

[Feraud]

But it kept going around in time, almost incoherently, as these 'two' men kept sabotaging each others career.

That would be due to the the touch of director Christoper Nolan. His films like Memento, Insomnia, Batman, Prestige, etc. use flashback as an integral part of the storytelling process.

 

[Lady Day]

That would be due to the the touch of director Christoper Nolan. His films like Memento, Insomnia, Batman, Prestige, etc. use flashback as an integral part of the storytelling process.

It made sense in Memento and Insomnia, where you were suppose to be a bit up in the air. I just didnt care about these people at all (except David Bowie, he was cool!) because we only got a superficial take on them. And I was weirded out by Jackman and Johansen's kisses, ew!

LD

 

[Darhling]

just put on Office Space lol 'mine'

 

[Jack Scorpion]

I started watching AVP: Requiem last night.
A "by the book" ho-hum kind of film.. [huh]

I LOVED AvP:R. So much better than AVP 1 and the last couple Aliens movies.

Also, I loved seeing one of my favorite actors from the TV show Rescue Me say, "GET TO THE CHOPPER."

Not that it broke any rules.

 

[WideBrimm]

Mamma Mia

On Tuesday evening I saw the "sneak preview" of Mamma Mia (movie) featuring the music of ABBA. I never saw the stage production, but I have to say the movie is unique and entertaining. Enough of a plot to keep it interesting. Good musical. Lots of singing and dancing. Great if you like the music of Abba, which I do. As to genre, wow, how about musical, music video, romantic comedy, beach movie, chic flick, Greek wedding, father of the bride, all rolled into one. It was fast paced, funny, at times hilarious, and entertaining. :eusa_clap

 

[deadpandiva]

Blackbook

fftopic: I love your Avatar and Signature. Virginia is my favorite.

 

[Feraud]

I LOVED AvP:R. So much better than AVP 1 and the last couple Aliens movies.

Also, I loved seeing one of my favorite actors from the TV show Rescue Me say, "GET TO THE CHOPPER."

Not that it broke any rules.

Everything was so damn dark! I couldn't make anything out on screen. [huh] lol
Between those goofy teenagers (which must be added to the retired plotline thread) , the boring army mom and her daughter, blah. I didn't care if the entire town was destroyed. A couple of the actions sequences were good but overall I could not sit through it again.

 

[IndysGal41]

Rush hour 3

 

[ShooShooBaby]

ooh, i'm excited to see Mama Mia!

a couple days ago i took my friend's 11-year-old daughter to see Kit Kittredge: An American Girl. we both loved it! it was funny, sweet, and totally tear-jerking. we both really loved the costumes! there were lots of fun historical details thrown in. lots of familiar faces, too... Kit is played by the little girl who starred in "Little Miss Sunshine"; Joan Cusack has a supporting role, Julia Ormond and Chris O'Connell played the parents, and look out for Will Smith's kid, as well!

 

[Spiffy]

Act II of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog.
Not sure if it's exactly television or a movie (it was made for almost nothing, cast and crew both working for free during the Writer's Strike) because it's independently produced for the internet with zero studio input.
But it's amazing.

Joss Whedon+musical madness+charmingly awkward antihero=best thing I've seen all summer​

 

[Josephine]

Act II of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog.[/CENTER]

Just caught Acts I and II. All my LJ buddies who have seen it want to have Neil's babies. lol

 

[KY Gentleman]

Elizabethtown.

Good movie!

They filmed part of this movie here, it was kind of a big deal for awhile!
I liked the movie up until they started back West to CA.
The Elizabethtown scenes I thought were very good though.

 

[MadelienneBlack]

I just recently saw "The Wackness" starring Ben Kingsley and Josh Peck. I have to admit, for a film set in in the 1994 revolving around a teenage drug dealer and his psychologist, I enjoyed it.

 

[John in Covina]

John Carpenter's

"They Live"

Intergalactic industrialists have taken over the whole world. Our heros, down and out or struggling work-a-day people get hooked up with scientists that have discovered how to cut thru the memerizing signal that blocks us from seeing their subliminal messages and makes them look just like us. Turn coats are with the evil invaders and you don't know who to trust.

Cool sunglassses effects!


No special features here but a good film none the less.