Thoughts On The Last Movie You've Seen

[Don Garcia]

Overall, this is another great War film from Spielberg and I hope he comes back to this genre soon.

He's tackling WW1 with War Horse, now in post-production. But it won't be the R-rated affair that Ryan was. Kids will be seeing it.

[meta187]

 

Saving Private Ryan

 

 

I honestly enjoyed the whole movie from start to finish.

 

It's been years since I've seen it but I always suggest it to anyone who hasn't seen it or to any person who wants a fairly accurate snapshot of the last legitimate military conflict North America involved itself in. There are so many dynamic characters aside from Damon that I never felt terribly bothered by his secondary roll in the whole thing. Great flick, highly suggested.

 

@make: Comeeee baaaaaake! I need some semblance of informed intelligence to make this thread worthwhile.

Edited January 10, 2011 by meta187

[Pico]

Saving Private Ryan is one of my favorite war movies. I have to agree with Imi that the opening scene is the best one, followed by the war scene near the end.

It does slow down through out the middle of the movie, but for the most part it's entertaining. My least favorite part is when they're spending the night and two of the characters have the conversation for about 10 minutes or so. A whole lot is said without much taken from it.

 

There was a Korean war movie I watched that had a battle scene with equivalent quality to the opening battle on Saving Private Ryan, but I can't think of it, sadly. It was a pretty damn good movie as well.

[Peltier]

I saw Cashback yesterday, it's quite wry and witty and if you've ever broken up with someone you'll be able to relate to it.

[trip]

Am I taking the title of this thread too literally? I watch a lot of bad movies.

 

 

Cyclone.

I'd like to say a 1987 classic, but it is far from that. It is just good old fashioned 1987 crap.

 

It's about a top secret motorcycle secretly being built Jeffrey Combs, of ReAnimator fame. Naturally, there are bad guys after it - that is why it is being built in secret. There are even 2 sets of bad guys, or so they want you to believe.

 

This movie screams mid '80s. It comes complete with all the 80s hair and music that you'd expect. Of course it includes the standard 80s naked girls in the shower scene. Almost every 80s movie seems to find a way to work in that girls in the gym shower scene...

 

Honestly, there is nothing good about this movie. There is no real action, the story is beyond thin, the acting is bad, and even the staring motorcycle is a laughable piece of plastic where you can actually see the crazy sh*t they superglued to it shaking as it rides.

 

It is worth the laugh if you like bad 80s movies like myself.

 

*Note to comcast customers. It is free on demand right now.

Edited January 11, 2011 by tripmills

[*MURDOC*]

I watch a lot of bad movies.

 

Cyclone.

I'd like to say a 1987 classic, but it is far from that. It is just good old fashioned 1987 crap.

 

*Note to comcast customers. It is free on demand right now.

I'm going on demand to put it on literally right now.

[dice]

There was a Korean war movie I watched that had a battle scene with equivalent quality to the opening battle on Saving Private Ryan, but I can't think of it, sadly. It was a pretty damn good movie as well.

Letters from Iwo Jima ?

Really good movie btw, basically Flags of our fathers from the Japanese point of view.

 

 

I watched Hounddog today, kinda wanted to watch a drama movie or something simillar to Sweeney Todd (didn't knew there was such a huge difference between the label 'Music' and 'Musical' on imdb ).

 

It was a good film, showing the good ol Elvis times in the rural areas of th United States. The acting of the main actress, the little girl, impressed me though, because I watched another movie starring here where here role was different and the huge gap between here characters personalities, and how well they were played, really impressed me, or I'm just impressed easily. The ending almost brought me a tear to the eye though

[wjf]

There was a Korean war movie I watched that had a battle scene with equivalent quality to the opening battle on Saving Private Ryan, but I can't think of it, sadly. It was a pretty damn good movie as well.

I am guessing it was Brotherhood, it is often billed as the Korean Saving Private Ryan, and yeah, it is a pretty good movie.

[Ryder 556]

I got a free trial to netflix a few weeks ago(sadly can't renew it for awhile as i dont have a credit card or anything and my gift card is empty) so I've been watching a lot of movies lately. I watched Requiem for a Dream last night and I gotta say. It's a great movie. Probably the best drama I've ever seen. Not the best movie though. That spot is still reserved for Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind.

[Pico]

There was a Korean war movie I watched that had a battle scene with equivalent quality to the opening battle on Saving Private Ryan, but I can't think of it, sadly. It was a pretty damn good movie as well.

I am guessing it was Brotherhood, it is often billed as the Korean Saving Private Ryan, and yeah, it is a pretty good movie.

That's it!

 

@Dice, Letters from Iwo Jima is about the Japanese in WWI and directed by Clint Eastwood, lol.

Was a pretty good movie, anyhow.

[Andyzoot]

Sleeper

 

One of Woody Allen's earlier films. I'll admit, this is only the third Woody Allen film I've seen (the other two being Annie Hall and Manhattan) There film is about a man who wakes up 200 years in the future where society has changed drastically (think a cross between Clockwork Orange and 1984) Woody Allen's character finds himself being one of the last hopes for humanity against this totalitarian society. Joining him as he bumbles through his adventure is Diane Keaton. This film is a slapstick comedy and I found it really funny, before this film I had the impression that this is a bit of an embarrassment for Woody and it's often swept under the carpet but I thought it was a really enjoyable film and deserves to be held up alongside Annie Hall and Manhattan. It's full of Woody's typical "Woody Allen one liners" (My doctor said I was only supposed to be in hospital for four days, he was off by 200 years!) I think everyone should watch this film, it gives you a side of Woody Allen that you don't see often. Definitely worth a watch!

 

 

[Minus the Boom]

The Hangover.

 

Got exactly what I expected really. A story that provides the right scenario for some good laughs and a few classic scenes.

[trip]

@Pandazoot, Sleeper might be my favorite Woody Allen movie. A true classic. The little lady and I were just commenting that it is time to watch it again. Humm...maybe tonight.

 

There are just way too many great scenes in that movie. Unfortunately, my favorite scene can't be expressed in text. It's when he is getting of the escalator and says to the girl(I forget her name) "but can he do this?" in reference to the handsome guy...and then he just performs a little jerky spaz type dance.

 

sh*t i wanted to add more but work just called

[WidowMaker]

I see that four years studying film theory has done you a lot. Bitching about people posting titles of movies in this thread on a video game forum. Yep, that's not wasting it. How's the job at the grocery store going? Hopefully it can pay off your student loans well.

I don't know what is more astounding, the amount of assumptions and sweeping generalisations you make regarding old movies, or the amount of assumptions you make regarding someone you clearly don't know a thing about.

 

It probably isn't worth telling you how much you're missing out by being so narrow minded. I think you're just too far gone.

 

I saw the new cut of Metropolis quite recently, it was 2 and a half hours long, over 80 years old, no sound beyond a pre-recorded score, and some of the print was so badly damaged that it would be unwatchable if not for the fact that this was rare footage long thought lost.

 

It never stopped being anything other than engrosing from start to finish.

 

Oh, it's in black and white tho. Fyi.

[Mister Pink]

 

The method/style of acting has progressed over the years and actors/actresses learn from each other, improving the overall quality of presentation.

Now, I do understand that many times more movies come out per year these days than 30 or more years ago, so it's not a surprise there are so many more great movies released per any given year. But that just makes it easier to find so many more good movies, and I've found that not many before a certain time frame do it for me.

 

 

Based on something similar my film studies teacher told me, I googled to find this: "At motion pictures' height of popularity in the mid-1940s, the (Hollywood) studios were cranking out a total of about 400 movies a year, seen by an audience of 90 million Americans per week." Nowadays about 600 are made per year from Hollywood. Only thing is that anyone has access to video and editing equipment, whereas in the 40's you'd have to be in the industry etc to try produce anything. You'll only see a handful of those 600 films because the rest are tripe and so much money is pumped in to certain blockbuster during certain seasons. You can't just say there are more better films out now. There's more but doesn't mean they are necessarily good when any chump can make a film nearly.

 

Sorry dude but you comments really grinded my gears. I think you are being narrow-minded. Maybe you'll change your opinion in the future. I don't see why a lot of your comments come down to bad acting either. Maybe for you the acting makes a film but for me it's the story/script/cinematography and everything else falls in to it after that and any production worthy of those things from the ground up usually attracts good actors.

 

On topic..

 

Last film I seen was Che (Part 2)

 

I enjoyed it and I thought I got it for what it was. Some critics noted that it didn't go in to the complexity or the negative and contradictory aspects of Che Guevara and maybe they're right but this reply from the director Steven Soderberg made me it clearer...

 

 

"I find it hilarious that most of the stuff being written about movies is how conventional they are, and then you have people ... upset that something's not conventional. The bottom line is we're just trying to give you a sense of what it was like to hang out around this person. That's really it. And the scenes were chosen strictly on the basis of, 'Yeah, what does that tell us about his character?'"

Edited January 13, 2011 by ThePinkFloydSound

[Andyzoot]

There are just way too many great scenes in that movie. Unfortunately, my favorite scene can't be expressed in text. It's when he is getting of the escalator and says to the girl(I forget her name) "but can he do this?" in reference to the handsome guy...and then he just performs a little jerky spaz type dance.

Haha! That was something I completely forgot about that. Something I forgot to add to my post before was the soundtrack. It's an excellent slapstick soundtrack that sounds like something straight from the 20's.

 

This trailer really sets the tone for the film and features excerpts from the soundtrack...

 

 

 

 

So I watched 'The Towering Inferno' last night. It's a disaster movie about the grand opening of a new skyscraper in San Francisco which goes tits up when a fire breaks out on one of the top floors and before you can 'The Poseidon Adventure', the whole building is burning to a crisp and the tens of guests to the opening party are dropping like flies. The cast features the talents of Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire, Robert Vaughn and...OJ SIMPSON!. But the film most revolves around Paul Newman, the architect who designed the skyscraper and Steve McQueen, the fire chief who's tasked with co-ordinating the rescue. I have to admit, I didn't find this film all the great. The effects are good, you really get a sense of danger as the characters traverse through the wreckage or get burned to death but at 2hr45min long I felt the film went on a bit too long to be honest. It seemed that the film took the same steps as every other disaster movie you've ever seen and there wasn't really anything that made it stand out.

[Lithium]

I watched American Psycho (2000) lastnight

 

It's about a successful business man who murders people. The movie is set in the mid 80's in New York City. It might be a little bit more in depth than I can take in, but the ending didn't make any sense to me. It was generally a good movie, but a little f*cked up. What can you expect from a movie about a killer I suppose.

 

 

 

 

If anyone knows the meaning of the ending of the movie, feel free to post it!

[wjf]

The ending is intentionally ambiguous, but I would say that the movie is more of a character study of Bateman, his alienation, and his descent into madness, not "a movie about a killer".

[Robinski]

I finally got around to watching Inception tonight. Thoroughly enjoyed it, but I was left a little underwhelmed. While it was a really good film, it just didn't quite live up to all the hype I'd heard about it. I know "don't believe the hype", but people in the media everywhere said it was an amazing example of a mindf*ck film. It'd been built up to a standard that it couldn't reach.

 

That said, it was good. Beautifully done, especially certain set pieces (I'm looking at you, hotel fight scenes). Granted, certain things about the plot towards the end got a bit confusing, to an extent that it took me out of the movie a bit. The worst offender of this was whether the true reality was in fact reality or not. I can understand wanting to keep it ambiguous, but I was left feeling unsure if the ambiguity was actually intentional (if that makes sense): the spinning top on the table is clearly on its way to falling over but they don't show it touching the table. If it had been simply left spinning it'd be obvious that reality is a bit trickier than we thought. There's being intentionally ambiguous about an idea and then there's communicating your idea in an unclear way.

 

Anyway, I'm not sure if that paragraph will make sense to anyone, but the plot was good and engaging on the most part. I'm a big fan of DiCaprio, he's actually a lot better at acting than I used to give him credit for. Ellen Page was pretty good too, despite the fact that her role seemed pretty familiar, I may have seen her do something similar that I can't remember. Mad props to Nolan for the name Ariadne as well, great greek reference. As for Tom Hardy, he was the acting highlight of the whole thing for me, he has a great quality about him that I can't quite put my finger on. I thought this was the first time I'd seen his work, but looking him up he was mother-f*cking Bronson, and in Layer Cake, and in Band of Brothers (bit part). The man's a chameleon!

 

Although, the morality of the whole thing doesn't sit well with me. Now I'm all for morally grey protagonists, but here it seemed that our hero did something morally reprehensible: fundamentally changing someone else, their whole essence changed. Doing this just to fix his own f*ck ups isn't really an excuse. But I guess I'm not a father, and I can't say whether I'd do the same or not.

Edited January 13, 2011 by Robinski

[McReary7772]

I rented out Inception last night and got round to watching it this morning.

 

Great film. Most of the time it kept you on your seat but sometimes it could be a little confusing.

 

8.5/10

[Mister Pink]

 

I watched American Psycho (2000) lastnight

 

It's about a successful business man who murders people. The movie is set in the mid 80's in New York City. It might be a little bit more in depth than I can take in, but the ending didn't make any sense to me. It was generally a good movie, but a little f*cked up. What can you expect from a movie about a killer I suppose.

 

 

 

 

If anyone knows the meaning of the ending of the movie, feel free to post it! 

 

 

That film is so funny. Did you see how furious he was at the guy having the better business card, lol. First time I watched the film I was a little younger and un-film-wise and didn't quite get it, but I watched it again when I became a little more knowledgeable and I really appreciated the film 10 times more. I give the fillm a 9/10

 

 

Edited January 13, 2011 by ThePinkFloydSound

[darthYENIK]

Raising Arizona. It's very easily my favorite movie by the Coen brothers.

[Pico]

Raising Arizona always used to be on Comedy Central when I was younger... and I hated it, lol. I'm sure it was primarily because I'd always catch it part-way in and being so young I couldn't follow what was going on. I just remember it being slow and involving Cage and a baby in an oddly decorated house. It's kind of burnt in my mind that it's a boring movie so I keep having a hard time getting around to watching it. I do like the Coen brothers, so maybe I'll check it out.

[Mister Pink]

Raising Arizona always used to be on Comedy Central when I was younger... and I hated it, lol. I'm sure it was primarily because I'd always catch it part-way in and being so young I couldn't follow what was going on. I just remember it being slow and involving Cage and a baby in an oddly decorated house. It's kind of burnt in my mind that it's a boring movie so I keep having a hard time getting around to watching it. I do like the Coen brothers, so maybe I'll check it out.

I didn't really enjoy that film myself. I can't remember why now as it's been long since I've seen it now but I remember being disappointed.

[Omnia sunt Communia]

 

Die Welle (The Wave)

 

Just watched this film with some friends. I found it to be really interesting, if not a bit scary! And not in a horror movie: "He's-going-to-kill-me-oh-my-god!" sort of way either. The way it shows how easily fascism can sneak into everyday life and how close we are to jumping off the deep end, even in our so-called "free democracy" is fascinating. The ending is a bit depressing but I guess it's the only way to really drive the message home.

[Tycek]

 

 

Die Welle (The Wave)

 

Just watched this film with some friends. I found it to be really interesting, if not a bit scary! And not in a horror movie: "He's-going-to-kill-me-oh-my-god!" sort of way either. The way it shows how easily fascism can sneak into everyday life and how close we are to jumping off the deep end, even in our so-called "free democracy" is fascinating. The ending is a bit depressing but I guess it's the only way to really drive the message home.

Great movie. One of my favourites.

[Finn 7 five 11]

I watched unstoppable, for the second time now since i didn't catch the end the first time i watched it like a week ago, i had to watch it again since my two buddies were over and wanted to watch it, it made sense the secon time as i wasn't really paying attention the first time.

Anyway, pretty much what is seen on the advertisements, train full of explosive stuff starts going and cannot be stopped, the whole idea of the movie is pretty stupid, but the movie wasn't so bad, it built suspense pretty well, the it climaxed (hardly what i call a climax) then ended, like the whole movie was build up, build up to nothing, to be honest i was a bit disappointed, but what can you expect when the whole movie is about a run-away train.

Probably one of denzels less interesting movies, his acting was great, as usual i guess thats a bonus, man he is getting pretty old, he is like turning into a morgan freeman, lol.

[pyramid head]

Resident Evil Afterlife, it wasn't too bad Resident Evil Extinction is better than Afterlife, Afterlife suffered from not having a single likeable character in it like Carlos in Extinction except maybe for Chris Redfield, Wentworth Miller wasn't half bad as Chris Redfield, i had misgivings about him playing Chris because i didn't like him in Prison Break, i'm glad i was wrong.

http://residentevil.wikia.com/Carlos_Oliveira#In_other_media

 

I did notice one difference between Afterlife and Extinction, in the flashback to RE extinction Alice says take care of the others good look k-mart Alice never said good luck k-mart, in extinction she just said take care of the others, maybe they used a deleted scene from Extinction in Afterlife where Alice says that, i just checked the RE Extinction DVD to be sure and Alice definitely doesn't say good luck k-mart.

 

Hard to believe that was Kim Coates playing bennett, he was completely unrecognisable from when i saw him in The Silent Hill movie, because i didn't recognise him or remember seeing him in the movie, i had to check the cast list to see what character he played.

 

[Robinski]

I posted last week about watching Star Wars Ep 1 A Phantom Menace last week, and I guess ITV are showing each of the movies (well the prequels at least), one every weekend. So yeah, Just finished watching Ep II: Attack of the Clones. Once again, not nearly as good as I remember it being from childhood.

 

The thing is, Phantom Menace was a pretty bad film but it had some resemblance to the original three in style if nothing else, AotC just seems like it's taking the piss out of itself. You've got the slapstick comedy stuff from R2D2 and C3PO, which has always been there, but here they're just too much. At one point you've got C3PO's head on a battledroid body shouting "Die Jedi! Die!". It really hit me that someone involved at least must have been taking the piss in the arena/execution scenes: Padme (Natalie Portman) is being attacked by some jaguar alien beast, dressed in some bodysuit, only to have it slash at her and somehow take half of her top clean off with no injuries. That's not even horror B movie standard, that's parody. Alongside this you've got Hayden Christiansen, playing an angsty teenager who's as easy to relate to as a beetle in a sewer drain.

 

Overall, I'm starting to come round to the idea that the prequels are totally unnecessary. I always thought those people were dicks, but not so much now that I'm actually going back and watching them again. That said, it is nice to see some of the Star Wars universe done with more special effects methods at the disposal of the Lucas, some of the battle scenes and the arena scene were still quite impressive.

Edited January 15, 2011 by Robinski

[Mike Tequeli]

I'm not one to bitch about acting but the acting in Episode II is atrocious, although I suspect it has more to do with George Lucas's stiff dialogue than the actors.