What's the last movie you've seen?

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Whatever Works

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Whatever Works

What did you think?

very positive.  exceeded my expectations

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Up in the Air x2    6.5-7/10 or so



saw the latter half of I Love You Man tonight, and it met expectations.. garbage plot, little to no hint of creativity or originality, etc.

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The Ides of March

Very well acted and plotted movie, though people who pay as close attention to politics as us will be so irked by minor details. The thing that bugged me was the idea that George Clooney's character was basically an open agnostic and yet the frontrunner for the presidency.

just saw it.  more thought provoking than the average flick.  the first 20 minutes had be write it all off as some bourgeois, white liberal fantasy, but that was precisely the point, to establish it and then to flip it on its head.

I have a lot of thoughts on it but feel unable to articulate it, perhaps because it is too soon.  two main terms are being shot out in my brain: "truth" and "consciousness". 

a key point to make is, the entire film is a bourgeois affair.  literally not one single line goes to somebody not very very much on the inside, except if we count the hotel worker who finds Evan Rachel dead.  and the main plot thread is resolved through interactions within this sphere: ie, they come together and decide who will be the next Dem. nominee, and presumably the next president, without the consent nor real influence of the mass electorate.

and the final scene, with Gosling about to be interviewed and asked, "how did it all go down", brings me to 'truth'.  the truth, for the masses, is unattainable.  it is hidden behind the silk curtains of the House atop the Hill.  the ruling sphere resolves its differences, determines its narrative, and then this gets parroted to the inconsequential Rest as a 'Truth'.


all my disparate thoughts.

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Wow The Muppets has a 98% on RT.

And 8.3 on IMDB. And 76 on Metacritic.

aren't those numbers always inflated at the very beginning?  I remember for a period in 2008 The Dark Night had overtaken Godfather and Shawshank for no. 1 on IMDb.

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watched Boogie Nights last night.

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saw He's Just Not That Into You last night.  trying to watch more movies as I take a harm-reductionist approach to escapism in my life.  also is an exercise in increasing my shot attention span.  as for the movie, it was ok.  better than most in its genre, probably.

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Devil's Advocate tonight! three movies in three nights.  kind of goofy.  took exception to the idea that bad people don't deserve representation.  I think evil deserves virulent defense in order to prevent the triumph of evil: the film was oblivious to the Great Paradox.

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Scarface (1983)

Certainly it's entertaining, and Al Pacino makes his character interesting. Unfortunately, all the other characters are flat as cardboard; Michelle Pfeiffer's is particularly bad. The whole movie is 2½ hours of glorification of violence with a bit tacked on at the end to hastily and unconvincingly say that all of that cool stuff that happened before is actually bad. It's not a movie with any sort of real merit.

Ive always felt it was an overrated movie as well. The tangential, incestuous subplot with Tony and his sister was just really weird also.

set the stage for Godfather3.

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and my answer is now Greenberg, a mediocre 2010 film featuring protagonist Ben Stiller.  despite its mediocrity, I could enjoy it, as I was a target demographic after all.  white, young educated, upper-middle class male.  it lacked crispness of direction, but I think this was part of the formula: life is not actually comprised of these meaningful narratives, we just construct them in the aftermath.  so who is to ask for finality out of a movie, particularly one that is heavily focused on the interpersonal?

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War Horse.  took my grandfather out for Christmas.  not recommended

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watching Moneyball right now.  somewhat hard for the baseball geek to enjoy, especially when at my computer and able to Google sh**t to fact-check, get a jump on the resolution of the upcoming scene, etc.

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I'm mentally working toward a vast, systematic criticism of you, Al.  just realize it's only so 1) because you're one of the top 3 or so posters here and 2) it won't be out for several months,

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Funny Ha Ha, as I start my journey into mumblecore (I've already seen Greenberg, but that was a Hollywoodized version of mumblecore)

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watched the first part of Friday Night Lights in my Anthropology of Sport class.  will finish it up at home tonight.  I'm pretty sure I watched it several years ago but having read 1/3 of the book it means a bit more this time around.

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Something to note about this thread: It's probably best to post your opinion (however brief it may be) of the movie/s you claim to have watched, otherwise it looks like you are post-paddling. (And no, I'm not singling out the above poster. It happens semi-regularly.)

post-'paddling'?  I like the sound of that.

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currently watching The King of Comedy.  very good but almost difficult for me to watch.  films featuring self-harming and psychologically ill characters are tough for me to watch.

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You've Got Mail... great food for my 90s nostalgia

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You've Got Mail... great food for my 90s nostalgia

it also motivated me to download AOL, which is now free and which I haven't used since 2005.  Young Tweed getting in touch with his past.

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posting this from AOL 9.7! awesome.  feels like 2002

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how can you even put Judd Apatow and Woody Allen in the same sentence?

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Baghead.  enjoyed it

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watching SLC Punk! now.  best movie I have seen in a while.  I think I will recommend it to my therapist.

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Ali G Indahouse... pretty horrible but ok as far as bad movies / "low culture" goes.  no comparison to the unscripted tv shows.

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Too Big to Fail.  pretty well done, in these movies I can't help but think the dialogues between the characters as so far removed from what they actually were (mimicking reality would serve to be so esoteric as to alienate 99% of the audience).  it's better than Wall Street II in this regard at least.