What's the last movie you've seen?

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Adventureland!  Quite enjoyed it, but it filled me with the most terrible ennui.  I'm in my forties, and I was a youth in the period depicted (late 1980s).  How sad.. I think its a sign of a good youth-movie when it makes olds feel sad rather than just bored.

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Adventureland!  Quite enjoyed it, but it filled me with the most terrible ennui.  I'm in my forties, and I was a youth in the period depicted (late 1980s).  How sad.. I think its a sign of a good youth-movie when it makes olds feel sad rather than just bored.

I found it kind of nostalgia-inducing in an odd way even though I could barely remember the time the movie is set in. Probably because I was such a big fan of the music in it. Two classic Minnesota bands on the soundtrack, the Replacements and Husker Du!

I was younger than the characters at the time depicted, but not by much.  Basically a college freshman where they were supposed to be mostly recent grads.

I worked in an amusement park for one day, but I quit immediately when they made me clean garbage pails.

[opebo]

Cool French/Tunisian movie that I think was set in Tunisia but I'm not sure.  It was about a woman in her late forties who was getting the menopause, and having difficulties.  Very good and very sexy.  Alas I didn't catch the name and can't figure out what it was.. it was recent though.

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Cool French/Tunisian movie that I think was set in Tunisia but I'm not sure.  It was about a woman in her late forties who was getting the menopause, and having difficulties.  Very good and very sexy.  Alas I didn't catch the name and can't figure out what it was.. it was recent though.

I can think of a one but it doesn't happen in Tunisia but in Western Africa, and it's about, yes, women of the menopause age, but some who go in Western Africa for sexual tourism. Which is something actually happening amongst European wealthy 50+ single women.

That sounds great!  Not the same movie I think, but I'd love to see the one you're talking about.  What's the title?

[opebo]

I saw The Fantastic Mr. Fox on a plane..  it was pretty good, but the best part was the reaction of a lot of the fat lumps on the plane - I think they quite disliked it!

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Fitzcarraldo
An amusing epic adventure farce.

I'm a big Fitzcarraldo fan..

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Something on the plane, what was it now?  I can't even remember it was so bad.  I should have watched Precious, which was the only worthwhile thing offered, but I wasn't up to it.  Oh I also rewatched Avatar from the eastward journey, if you can believe it.

But I'm just desperate to see Synecdoche, New York.. I just don't know when I'll get the change over here

[opebo]

Precious is pretty awesome. What did you think of Avatar?

I quite enjoyed it.

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I watched Papillon again the other day.

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Just watch 'The Wrestler', and rather enjoyed it.  The real america.

[opebo]

You, Me, and Everyone We Know.  Enjoyed it a lot.  It is funny how on late night Thai cable's few English movie channels, there will be nothing but the most horrid direct-to-DVD or direct-to-foreign-market dreck for weeks, and then a high-quality gem like this.

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Finally saw Slumdog Millionaire, and quite enjoyed it.  It wasn't as good as the other movie I watched that night - Son of Rambow.

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Food, Inc.  It was very good, and of course dismaying.  The things you poor b*****ds eat back in the Bad Place.  Soon we'll have to eat that garbage here as well.

[opebo]

Finally saw Juno on cable here.. it was alright though too terribly precious.

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Finally saw Juno on cable here.. it was alright though too terribly precious.

What did you think of the pro-life activist?

Reasonably cute asian. 

I also recently watched Its Complicated, a late-middle-aged to elderly romantic romp.  It depressed me to see both the old trying to be happy and the strange depiction of affluence.

[opebo]

I just watched the first Indiana Jones movie on a bus!  Yes the bus I was on was such a super-VIP it had little private video screens with a large selection of movies (only about 10% were in English).  Most of the English movies were Thai audio with English subtitles, but a few were the converse.  Most of the subtitles were the excellent original ones, but in a couple of cases they were google-type translations and made no sense at all. 

Indiana Jones was quite enjoyable, and the female lead was very lovely and slim.  Total cost for the 6.5 hour bus ride 400 baht or about $13.50 at today's collapsed dollar rate.

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I saw The Girlfriend Experience on mom's satellite - it wasn't a very good movie, but I liked it, and liked Sasha Gray in it.  She can only barely act, but is so far above most porn actresses in her acting that it is impressive.  I even talked the movie over with a hooker I visited with the very next night!

(you'll be happy to know I have escaped the Bad Place unscathed however).

[opebo]

Ghostwriter.  I liked it, quite interesting, and I certainly liked the politics.

[opebo]

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, the 2009 remake.  Pretty bad.

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Milk.  I liked it, but interestingly my ex-girlfriend, who I watched it with, came out with some anti-gay statements.  Like most Thais, she has many gay friends, and doesn't see homosexuality as a negative in and of itself, but rather she pointed out that 'gays are bitchy backstabbers, more than straight men or women'.  Pretty funny.

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Milk.  I liked it, but interestingly my ex-girlfriend, who I watched it with, came out with some anti-gay statements.  Like most Thais, she has many gay friends, and doesn't see homosexuality as a negative in and of itself, but rather she pointed out that 'gays are bitchy backstabbers, more than straight men or women'.  Pretty funny.

You had a Thai girlfriend? Was she just a working girl you were particularly fond of or was this some sort of platonic thing?

And are Thais thus less homophobic than Americans? Wouldn't surprise me but then again what are the odds of gay marriage being legal in Thailand anytime soon.

She's my ex.  I would only date upper-middle class educated respectable girls.  I don't 'date' working girls.  And yes, Thailand is extremely accepting of homosexuality, transgender, etc.  I'll wager more than any other country.

I just watched two really good movies yesterday - one is a favorite of yours: Kick-Ass.  I had resisted renting it for ages, but now I see it is very good.  Secondly, Rachel's Getting Married - wow, so good.  The main character reminded me almost precisely of a good friend of mine back home.

[opebo]

Cachorro, or Bear Cub, a nice Spanish movie about manly gays helping to raise a young boy.  Lovely story which is also fairly even handed with the straights involved, but likely to raise the ire of the jmfcsts.

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Trade.

Oh I just looked that up, thought it was going to be about straight guys working as gay prostitutes.

I just watched Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, very nice.  I challenge anyone to say something bad about Philip Seymour Hoffman.

[opebo]

The Hurt Locker.  I greatly enjoyed it, what a fine movie.  But what does the title mean?

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The Hurt Locker.  I greatly enjoyed it, what a fine movie.  But what does the title mean?

I assume it refers to the box the protagonist has with all the bomb stuff.

Oh, I see.  I missed that.  It didn't seem to be the main focus of the movie at all.