Thoughts On The Last Movie You've Seen

[Mr. Scratch]

This is just hands down one of the best horror films I've seen in recent years. And that soundtrack, holy sh*t.

 

 

[krashr]

machete -2010-. it was everything i'd hoped it would be.

 

i am a cock gobbler and i love to gobble cocks

[Mr. Scratch]

 

i am a cock gobbler and i love to gobble cocks

 

[Predator]

The Raid 1 and 2,it was beautiful

Edited April 12, 2015 by NiggaFromGanton

[UshaB]

The choreography in that movie is so smooth and slick.

[RussianCommie]

 

Let's face it guys..

 

 

 

 

[reiniat]

I saw Nightcrawler..... Seriously Academy y u no Oscars? Gyllenhaal was perfect in that movie.

[StellarRunner]

Dead man down. I fall in love with any film filmed in new york, and even more if it has shootings.

 

[jamesf274875]

Pulp Fiction. A true classic.

[Mr. Scratch]

 

This is Ryan Gosling's directorial debut, taking visual cues from Winding Refn's Drive and Only God Forgives it definitely has superb cinematography. What he tried to do here was make a dark version of Goonies, with obvious influences from David Lynch and Mario Bava. It's set and filmed in Detroit, so there are loads of scenes in various abandoned buildings.

 

The cast is varied and definitely perform as you'd expect. Matt Smith in particular is terrific as Bully, the king of metal scrappers in the city. Saoirse Ronan is charming as ever. The only fault this movie has is that it tries to be too quirky, too weird most of the time. For his first film, Gosling did a pretty good job, too ambitious in nature, but nonetheless a good film. The critics can suck my big one.

 

 

Edited April 14, 2015 by Mr.Scratch

[darthYENIK]

I've been watching all the MCU movies leading up to the release of Age of Ultron.

 

Just watched Avengers. No movie makes me grin with sheer joy the way this movie does. Mostly at things Hulk does in the final battle.

 

But overall, when looking at the MCU as a whole, scenes from previous movies take on another dimension. Like in Iron Man when Yinsen (the guy who helps Tony in the cave) dies, he says, "Don't waste it." Meaning the life he's saved. And that scene really pays off in Avengers when he decides to fight and is willing to die to save New York from a nuke.

 

And now, almost two seasons into Agents of SHIELD, all of the Coulson scene are much more interesting (not that they weren't before), and...

 

 

...his death is also more emotional...

 

 

...yet, now that we've seen the whole picture, and know what Coulson's fate is, what Fury does seem much less scummy.

 

Overall, this might be my second or third time saying this in this topic, but the Avengers makes me feel like a kid. The unbridled enjoyment I take from it is unparalleled.

 

I hope Age of Ultron makes me feel the same.

[Haha365]

The last one I've watched was The Godfather, as I have the collection. The last one I saw in the theater was...hmmm Anchorman 2...maybe.

[Mister Pink]

I watched Miracle Mile (1988) on Netlfix UK version. Brilliant if you like 80's LA. It's about a guy who answers a phone and the caller explains how there's some nuclear warheads heading for LA. Strangeness and panic ensues.

 

 

[Xl anthrax lX]

Watched Uncle Buck last night. Pretty good film.

 

[Average white guy]

Scream 3

[K20]

Started the trilogy, first with Pitch Black.

 

"20 menthol kools"... no idea what it means... sounds hard.

 

[Niko Montana]

I was watching Rush Hour 2 the other day. It's funny as f*ck, you gotta love Chris Tucker & Jackie Chan! My favorite of the Rush Hour series

[PhillBellic]

Blade Runner. WOW! That movie was trippy, and bizarre.

[UshaB]

Blade Runner. WOW! That movie was trippy, and bizarre.

 

Ahhhh man how much I hate that movie after watching it over and over at school and analysing it like god damn. I topped that essay so it was worth the watching.

 

OT: Escape Plan

[PhillBellic]

 

Blade Runner. WOW! That movie was trippy, and bizarre.

 

Ahhhh man how much I hate that movie after watching it over and over at school and analysing it like god damn. I topped that essay so it was worth the watching.

 

 

I actually saw it for the first time on Friday with my Cousin at Event Cinemas.

[UshaB]

Wait, since when did cinemas replay old movies?

 

And also, "what makes us human?" the question of Blade Runner.

[PhillBellic]

Wait, since when did cinemas replay old movies?

 

And also, "what makes us human?" the question of Blade Runner.

They were doing a Cult Classic "In The House" movie run.

[goodidea82]

I just saw "The Front Page" on TV a half an hour ago and I'm still smiling, such a great movie.

[miks5h27488]

Die Hard 1. One of the greatest actions films ever.

[ashley5]

Last movie I watched is "Predestination". I would say the movie exceeded my expectations. When I saw the trailer, the premise sounds very simple and I thought the story wouldn't have much depth, but the movie was a mind f*ck, in a good way. Great story, acting, and I would say I like it more than "Looper". You guys should check it out.

[GTA-Biker]

I watched Stone Cold last week http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Cold_%281991_film%29

[reiniat]

I just finally watched Dr. Strangelove (or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the bomb).

Im finally out of Fallout backdrops, geez i even saw Them! and it was terrible.... But this movie.... Seriously everyone should see Dr Strangelove... Its unique, the fact that it exists defies all logic; a dark humor political satire of the nuclear war released the same year Kennedy died, it won a bunch of Oscars and the whole thing is a sex joke.

 

Go f*cking see it.

Edited April 22, 2015 by reiniat

[Brobinski]

When I linked to my blog post about this film on facebook I went with what I thought was an accurate title: "How can I have been so wrong for so long? Ryan Reynolds is both funny and capable of acting. The Voices is both really f*cked up and really funny."

 

The Voices (2014)

Jerry (Ryan Reynolds) had a bit of a difficult childhood. He had a rough life. His mother was seriously mentally ill and his step-father was abusive. But that's all behind him. Jerry works a job he enjoys well enough at a bathroom fittings factory. He's got a nice apartment (even if it is above a disused bowling alley). Most importantly, he has his two lovable furry companions, Mr Whiskers and Boscoe. When he comes home from a shift on the factory floor he'll often recount his day to them as he pours their food and water.

And between mouthfuls, Mr Whiskers and Boscoe will reply.

The Voices is a black comedy drama following Jerry and how he deals with the reality presents itself to him, and how it's different to everyone else's. Things all reach a tipping point at the start when Jerry, the new guy at work, is asked to help organise the company picnic and he's joined on the task by the lovely Fiona (Gemma Arterton). As can probably be guessed from the fact that this is a black comedy, things don't exactly play out well. Things quickly unravel and we take a trip down the rabbit hole involving talking cats and dogs, severed heads in the fridge and obscene amount of takeaway and tupperware containers and one particularly brutal slaughtering.

With The Voices, director Marjane Satrapi leads you up the garden path then brutally stabs you within about the first half an hour. While some black comedies are funny films with a dark subject (like In Bruges or Sightseers or Fargo) The Voices is a lot darker and punctuated by funny moments. As soon as you get used to the concept of Ryan Reynolds talking to a Scottish cat and a dopey dog (both also voiced by Reynolds, fantastically I might add) it stops being funny and becomes really quite sad as it becomes more apparent what's really going on in those scenes. That's not to say that the film isn't funny because it is. It's just that the tactic used throughout is typically something absurd happening directly after something really quite troubling occurs. The finale just before the credits roll is something quite inspired to say the least. The Voices is just kind of like that though, making use of misdirection. The first 15-20 minutes certaintly left me feeling quite confident about hwo the plot was going to go. Wrong. Completely wrong. Things got a lot darker, a lot quicker than I expected.

Satrapi brings a really interesting visual style to the film that really brings it to life. Jerry's world is bright, populated by saturated colours and soft hues. The grisly, visceral gore that punctuates the film makes for an odd mix of the quirky and the horrific giving The Voices a unique feel.

Reynolds' performance is just as important as the visual style in making The Voices memorable. Jerry is a simple yet troubled man. He just wants to be happy and healthy and not be alone. He's not the most intelligent guy and he's in the grips of a truly awful illness that pretty much means he can't achieve all three of the things he wants. Reynolds' showing as Jerry is simultaneously harrowing, hilarious and supremely melancholy. I've never previously rated Reynolds, but his role here has really, really got me excited for what he can do with the darkest comedy in comics that is Deadpool next year.

The performances of Gemma Arterton and Anna Kendrick are also worth mentioning. They both play characters that they've done before, but they've done them before because they're good at them. Arterton is the sexy and fun woman who can actually be quite cruel and harsh, and Kendrick's the quiet, sweet, slightly self-conscious girl who wouldn't hurt a fly. Arterton's range of expression in her face in particular is astounding.

So, The Voices. It's really dark. Like really, really dark. There are moments of truly absurd hilarity and the kitschy aesthetic that clashes violently with some of the grislier visuals give it a unique and refreshing take on the black comedy genre. the humour in no ways detracts from the drama and it takes much more of a back seat as the picture goes on. The film doesn't make comedy out of the illness though, and rightly so. Jerry is a man afflicted with a terrible situation and you'll watch parts of this film through your fingers not because of the gore but because you feel awful for everybody involved.

[wiizardii]

Alot of movies I have watched lately: Matrix (FINALLY), boyhood, Drive, The Shining, Nightcrawler, Interstellar, American Psycho, Rescue Dawn, and the list goes, well on.....

 

 

PS: I watch movies for a living

[Pavle]

Dreamcatcher. It was really creepy, IMO.