The last movie you've seen thread 2016

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I saw Lucy.  I liked it.

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Boyhood.  One of the greatest films I have ever seen in my life.  A day later, I'm still in tears.

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Bird man: great performances but other than that it wasn't that good. 2/4

Theory of everything: interesting story but apparently not very accurate. 2/4

Big eyes: burton at his best 3/4

Imitation game: brilliant 4/4

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The Great Beauty (La grande bellezza). Let's just say that the title is accurate, although there's so much more to it than that. For want of a better way of putting it, this is film. Paolo Sorrentino is an obscenely talented director and Toni Servillo is a ridiculously good actor. Go and see it at once.

The Great Beauty is indeed a truly fantastic film.  It's Californication without the fart jokes, but with a meaningful ending.

I'm planning to go see Inherent Vice this weekend.  While I felt The Master, Paul Thomas Anderson's latest film was all over the place, There will be blood remains the best film of the last 15 years at least.

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Saw Whiplash tonight. It exceeded my expectations mainly because I had no real interest in the subject so the fact that it held my attention for the full length is an accomplishment in itself. The ending scene was kind of cool but went on a bit too long. I don't know if he needed a love interest.

I agree The Imitation Game does have some very convenient Oscarbait movie formula cliches in it, but Cumberbatch was so good I really sort of glossed over it while watching it. It wasn't until much after did I think back and realize "wow, that obviously did not happen."

I really have no intention of watching Whiplash despite the great reviews.  I understand the criticism for The Imitation Game but the film was very engaging, especially for someone like myself who doesn't know much about Turing's life.

Some films that I saw this year that I would recommend were:
Finding Vivian Meier
Under the skin
Only lovers left alive
Bella vita
Moon Indigo

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I haven't seen American Sniper and I have no intention of seeing it either.  But is it really as bad as this review claims it is?

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I haven't seen American Sniper and I have no intention of seeing it either.  But is it really as bad as this review claims it is?

No. I didn't really feel like it was propaganda. It's just bland and full of cliches from better war movies.

I really wish Spielberg had stayed on the project as director instead of Eastwood. He apparently didn't want to make it much of a biopic and instead wanted the entire film to focus on a part of the book where Kyle is in battle against an enemy sniper that he couldn't locate. He dropped because he couldn't agree on the budget. Much more interesting idea for a movie right there.

Well after reading your response I was curious of who wrote the script, and apparently it was written by a Buffy the Vampire Slayer actor.