What's the last movie you've seen?

[Eraserhead]

I've been watching a lot of stuff lately.

The Video Dead

Goofy 80s zombie movie (apparently it went straight to VHS) with a few really hilarious one-liners but not a whole lot else.

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

Amazing. Seriously, just see it if you haven't. (If you're easily disturbed you should probably stay away though).

I'm Still Here

Pretty amusing and the ending is actually kind of touching, oddly enough. Still, you kind of wonder if it was really worth all of the work they put into the facade.

I've been watching a lot of Mystery Science Theater 3000 also.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Contagion

This was pretty well put together and it definitely kept you watching. I do agree though it sort of felt like an HBO cast, and a lot of the names were wasted. The exception was Jude Law who played his character as a douchebag like I doubt many could.

[King]

I thought Paltrow did an excellent sick person. Her seizure was awesome. Nobody died as dramatically as her.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Also the population of Minneapolis is not 3.3 million. That bugged me and you could tell the theater was also irritated. Michele Bachmann's district is not in Minneapolis.

That did kind of hit close to home though, especially seeing the map with North Dakota unaffected. I'd just have to escape to my parents sometime.

[exopolitician]

I work at AMC now, so it's been movies galore:

Contagion: Great outbreak thriller, one of my favorites of the year.

Columbiana: Like Hanna, but way better.

Cowboys & Aliens: Crap

Dont Be Afraid of The Dark: Bigger crap.

The Help: Good movie, and sad. The hype is overrated though.

Attack The Block: Funny stoner comedy, with aliens!

Movies I cant wait to see:

Melancholia
In Time
J. Edgar
Ides of March
Apollo 18

[Eraserhead]

River's Edge

Quite good. I developed a pretty bad headache by the end so that probably hurt the experience a little (don't think it had anything to do with the movie).

[Eraserhead]

I work at AMC now, so it's been movies galore:

Contagion: Great outbreak thriller, one of my favorites of the year.

Columbiana: Like Hanna, but way better.

Cowboys & Aliens: Crap

Dont Be Afraid of The Dark: Bigger crap.

The Help: Good movie, and sad. The hype is overrated though.

Attack The Block: Funny stoner comedy, with aliens!

Movies I cant wait to see:

Melancholia
In Time
J. Edgar
Ides of March
Apollo 18

Nice, I finally have a fellow theater worker on here! Apollo 18 is pretty annoying from what I've seen of it (fair warning), I do really like the songs that they used in the end credits though.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Présumé Coupable, a movie about one of the most famous and horrendous miscarriages of justice France has had in recent times (and yeah, the list is quite long). I really felt sick after watching this.

[Swing low, sweet chariot. Comin' for to carry me home.]

introduced my son to Top Gun last night

[King]

introduced my son to Top Gun last night

Was this his first encounter with homosexuality?

[Swing low, sweet chariot. Comin' for to carry me home.]

introduced my son to Top Gun last night

Was this his first encounter with homosexuality?

only if you assume it was his first Tom Cruise movie....but it was the cut version of Top Gun, so he was spared most of the sword fighting scenes

[angus]

introduced my son to Top Gun last night

Was this his first encounter with homosexuality?

only if you assume it was his first Tom Cruise movie....but it was the cut version of Top Gun, so he was spared most of the sword fighting scenes

LOLOL. 

Man, I can't take that movie seriously any more.  It's all your fault, with that clip from Sleep with Me that you posted.  Even today, as we were having a statistical thermodynamics exam, I was reading an article in National Geographic about Myanmar, and it was talking about three guys selling pirated DVDs on the streets of Rangoon, and in the author's interview with one of the guys, he starts telling about how his dream is to come to the USA and meet Tom Cruise, and that Top Gun is his favorite movie.  And I can't help giggling.  I had to leave the room.

It's all your fault. 

[Swing low, sweet chariot. Comin' for to carry me home.]

@King

true story - here was part of my 13 year old son's comments during Top Gun:

Son of jmfcst: [out of the blue comment regarding Kelly McGillis]  She's not even pretty!

jmfcst:  Not only that, she's a lesbian.

Son of jmfcst:  in the movie or in real life?

jmfcst:  in real life

Son of jmfcst:  at the time the movie was made or later?

jmfcst:  she decided she was a lesbian several years after making Top Gun

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Watching "Memento" in films class. Very interesting. Anyone else see it?

[Swing low, sweet chariot. Comin' for to carry me home.]

Man, I can't take that movie seriously any more.  It's all your fault, with that clip from Sleep with Me that you posted...

well, I ran across that clip by accident - I've never seen the movie...but he did make a dang good point, didn't he?

[angus]

I've never seen Sleep with Me either.  Only the clip you showed.

Yes, it was one of those "well, now that you mention it..." sort of epiphanies.

For that matter, I guess I didn't really know Kelly McGillis was gay.  I sure do learn lots from you, wise one.  I guess that makes you the Sage of the Hill.  You can be our Boomhauer. 

[Swing low, sweet chariot. Comin' for to carry me home.]

I've never seen Sleep with Me either.  Only the clip you showed.

Yes, it was one of those "well, now that you mention it..." sort of epiphanies.

For that matter, I guess I didn't really know Kelly McGillis was gay.  I sure do learn lots from you, wise one.  I guess that makes you the Sage of the Hill.  You can be our Boomhauer.  

are you trying to say I have my ears close to the gay grapevine?

her coming out was national news and according to wiki: "McGillis came out as a lesbian in April 2009 during an interview with SheWired.com, an LGBT-oriented web site.[12][13] She said that coming to terms with her sexual orientation has been an ongoing process since age 12, and she was long convinced that God was punishing her for being gay.[12][13] In 2010, Kelly McGillis entered into a civil union at a ceremony in Collingswood, New Jersey with Melanie Leis, a Philadelphia based sales executive; she and McGillis met in 2000 when Leis was a bartender at Kelly's.[14] The couple live in Collingswood.[15]"

and, no, I don't subscribe to SheWired

late edit:  ok, just googled Boomhauer, which at first went right over my head and still kinda does since I've never watched King of the Hill

also, did they purposely design the acronym LGBT to get more distubing with each successive letter, or what?!

[angus]

ok, just googled Boomhauer, which at first went right over my head and still kinda does since I've never watched King of the Hill

Ah.  Just a reference to another thread, really.

The show is basically the same formula as Seinfeld, another show from the 90s aimed at genXers. The protagonist is an old-fashioned, level-headed guy raised in a fairly conservative atmosphere, but he is surrounded mostly by idiots, one of whom is very shallow and conspiratorial (Dale/George). And there are four main characters.  One of them seems a bit weird, who likes to wear animal-print bikini briefs and whose fashion sense is a throwback to the 70s.  That's Boomhauer, and it's hard, at first, to figure out quite what he's talking about, and his famous soliloquies often involve bizarre metaphors (think:  Jelly Beans as personality types.)  He's sort-of the Kramer of King of the hill.  He's terribly misunderstood on many levels.  And initially he comes off as not quite all there, mentally, but then you begin to realize that he's the most astute character of all, and he's the one who gives the best advice to the others.  In fact he's the moral conscience of the group.  

that's you, man.  

[Swing low, sweet chariot. Comin' for to carry me home.]

also, did they purposely design the acronym LGBT to get more distubing with each successive letter, or what?!

ok, just found out there is another letter being added L...G...B...T...and now...Q, with Q standing for something called "queergendered"?!

something tells me I don't want to know the definition of that word

[exopolitician]

I work at AMC now, so it's been movies galore:

Contagion: Great outbreak thriller, one of my favorites of the year.

Columbiana: Like Hanna, but way better.

Cowboys & Aliens: Crap

Dont Be Afraid of The Dark: Bigger crap.

The Help: Good movie, and sad. The hype is overrated though.

Attack The Block: Funny stoner comedy, with aliens!

Movies I cant wait to see:

Melancholia
In Time
J. Edgar
Ides of March
Apollo 18

Nice, I finally have a fellow theater worker on here! Apollo 18 is pretty annoying from what I've seen of it (fair warning), I do really like the songs that they used in the end credits though.

Ive heard different things about it, a mix of good and bad. I just havent found the time to see it, I need too before it leaves the theatre. I agree though about the end credits music...I was at least able to catch that a few times.

[King]

Drive

It felt like a Quentin Tarantino movie without any Tarantino dialogue.  There was subtle humor in the action and it is very much an ode to exploitation flicks.  Gosling is very stoic.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Drive

I don't see how this was much like Tarantino at all. It was more one of those artsy slow-paced sort of action movies like The American or Hanna. It's pretty slow for the first half and you just have to kind of accept that and know that going in and you'll have a good time.

[King]

The direction reminded me of Tarantino.  His visual style is very slow paced, active, bloody, and with room for musical interludes.  He relies on an excess of conversation for pacing.  If he ever directed a movie he didn't write I imagine it would look something like Drive. 

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I should probably add that I think Naso would really like this movie, and I don't mean that in a bad way oddly enough (you have to see it to understand why.)

[patrick1]

Paul.  It was good for a few laughs. I'd venture it would be funnier high.