What's the last movie you've seen?

[angus]

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

Most movies are. 

I watched Bottle Rocket last night.  The characters reminded me of people I know.  Much of the story played like an episode of Seinfeld or King of the Hill.  Probably 50 of the 100 minutes were just a trio of friends sitting around talking and thinking of what to do, or planning some improbably heist.  I enjoyed the story, and there were some humorous moments, but it lacked denouement. 

[Eraserhead]

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

Yes. It's a good movie but probably not something I'd watch again anytime soon. You have to pay very close attention from start to finish.

[patrick1]

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

Most movies are. 

I watched Bottle Rocket last night.  The characters reminded me of people I know.  Much of the story played like an episode of Seinfeld or King of the Hill.  Probably 50 of the 100 minutes were just a trio of friends sitting around talking and thinking of what to do, or planning some improbably heist.  I enjoyed the story, and there were some humorous moments, but it lacked denouement. 

My favorite part of that movie is the character name Future man and the entire Kumar character.   

[California8429]

Agora

[Kaine for Senate '18]

The Lion King in 3D - absolutely amazing.  Certainly one of the greatest films of all time; glad I got to see it in theaters.

[Eraserhead]

Drive

Very cool indeed. Great cast. I especially loved the opening sequence. I'm hearing from a lot of regular people who didn't like it though. Perhaps they were expecting non-stop explosions or something?

[Paul Kemp]

I'm hearing from a lot of regular people who didn't like it though. Perhaps they were expecting non-stop explosions or something?

Unfortunately that's usually the case.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

The marketing and name kind of implies a Fast and the Furious type of movie unfortunately.

[Paul Kemp]

The marketing and name kind of implies a Fast and the Furious type of movie unfortunately.

That's no excuse for ignorance/bad taste.

Not saying I've seen the film yet but that's usually the case.

[Gustaf]

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

Yes. It's a good movie but probably not something I'd watch again anytime soon. You have to pay very close attention from start to finish.

Memento is awesome.

[Marokai Backbeat]

Eu Não Quero Voltar Sozinho.

Short film, and incredibly good. I'm a sucker for even the tiniest hint of romance where one of the individuals involved suffers from one disability or another.

[Gustaf]

Eu Não Quero Voltar Sozinho.

Short film, and incredibly good. I'm a sucker for even the tiniest hint of romance where one of the individuals involved suffers from one disability or another.

You should watch Talk to Her by Almodovar then.

[angus]

Eu Não Quero Voltar Sozinho.

Short film, and incredibly good. I'm a sucker for even the tiniest hint of romance where one of the individuals involved suffers from one disability or another.

You should watch Talk to Her by Almodovar then.

Or you might find it under Hablé con ella.  I liked that one very much also.

I watched another Rosellini movie last night.  Dov'è la libertà?  Like Ladri it was basically a critique of the wretchedness of post-war Rome.  Humorous at times, but mostly depressing.

[Gustaf]

Eu Não Quero Voltar Sozinho.

Short film, and incredibly good. I'm a sucker for even the tiniest hint of romance where one of the individuals involved suffers from one disability or another.

You should watch Talk to Her by Almodovar then.

Or you might find it under Hablé con ella.  I liked that one very much also.

I watched another Rosellini movie last night.  Dov'è la libertà?  Like Ladri it was basically a critique of the wretchedness of post-war Rome.  Humorous at times, but mostly depressing.

I noticed that you're a fan of Almodovar. Great director. And I assumed the English title would be more useful.

[angus]

Eu Não Quero Voltar Sozinho.

Short film, and incredibly good. I'm a sucker for even the tiniest hint of romance where one of the individuals involved suffers from one disability or another.

You should watch Talk to Her by Almodovar then.

Or you might find it under Hablé con ella.  I liked that one very much also.

I watched another Rosellini movie last night.  Dov'è la libertà?  Like Ladri it was basically a critique of the wretchedness of post-war Rome.  Humorous at times, but mostly depressing.

I noticed that you're a fan of Almodovar. Great director. And I assumed the English title would be more useful.

Yes, In fact I posted in the Oliver Stone thread that while I appreciate Stone's use of weird camera angles and such, Almodovar remains one of my two favorite directors.  (I didn't vote HP/FF.  FWIW, I don't know much about Stone's personal life nor do I care.  But he's a decent director.)

On the issue of titles, I can't speak for others, but the place where I get movies always files them alphabetically by original title.  You'd drive yourself batty looking for Bicycle Thieves under B, for example.  That film would be under L for Ladri di Biciclette.  Anyway, if you can't find Talk to her under T, then I'm just saying try looking for it under H for Hable con ella. 

[Politico]

Drive, and it is the best film I have seen this year. I am likely going to see it again this weekend.

[Politico]

Moneyball: Excellent flick. I would not be surprised if Pitt gets an Oscar nomination. Maybe even better than Drive, but a completely different film altogether. Jonah Hill was not bad, but they could have done better as Hill is out of his element by being serious rather than comedic (casting him was probably necessary to pull in certain demographics). He is a joke next to Hoffman and even Pitt. However, everything else is AAA, making this a must-see on the big screen (Note: I am not a baseball fan, but I still loved this movie).

The Debt: Good movie with a terrible Hollywood-style ending. Still worth a rental, though.

[angus]

The boy broke his left arm Friday.  The radius, to be exact, which is the larger of the two long bones in the lower arm.  His school called me in my office around 12:30 and said he was on the playground just after lunch and was going across that thing where you climb up a ladder and make it across using your hands.  (modular overhead challenge for building upper-body strength)  Apparently he'd gone across it several times.  One too many, I suppose.  Usually, when he gets tired, he just drops to his feet, and they have this thick foam rubber pad under it, so it's not a problem, but I guess he was in mid-swing or something and landed on his left arm.  Anyway, so I got on my bicycle and dashed home, got the car, drove the three blocks to his school and picked him up and called the nurses station at his pediatrician and she said to give him 10 mL ibuprofen suspension and take him to be X-rayed.  

I thought about taking him to the nearest hospital emergency entrance, but figured we'd be better off at the clinic nearby.  It turned out to be a good decision.  They have X-ray capability there, and clearly his radius was broken.  And both the GP who initially saw him and the orthopedic surgeon were older guys, which is always best, and it wasn't very busy, so there was no wait.  And the nurses were mostly old as well.  He had a good attitude about the whole thing, surprisingly, and wasn't crying.  Even wanted to play with the Megablocks in the waiting room, while we waited for the X-ray technician to input the files into the system, but he was using his right hand and his teeth to put them together and I was worried about all the snotty children who'd played with them before him, so I made him stop.  Anyway, once the orthopedic surgeon started to manipulate his arm he started wailing.  So they said they could do a total anasthetic or a shot of lidocaine in the arm.  We opted for the lidocaine.  After that, he went numb, kept grabbing his left thumb and saying that it "feels like somebody else's thumb" and all that.  But he and the nurse tortured it and got it all straight, so they were able to set it without operating inside, which is good.  And the post procedure X-rays showed that it was very straight.  All in all, it seems to be a good alignment job.

Nowadays, they let you choose your cast color.  He chose red, of course.  Everything is red.  When we see the balloon man he wants a red sword or a red hat, and when he gets a new bicycle he wants red.  Always red.  Ah, well, my last two cars were red.  Maybe it runs in the family.  Anyway, there was only one color cast when I was 6.  It was white.  You could color it, paint it, get your chums to sign it, but when you left the clinic it was white.  

Also, they don't have a regular X-ray on a plastic sheet that you can photocopy anymore.  It's just an image on a screen.  A centralized system so you could look at it on any computer in any facility in the Wheaton-Saint francis system, but when I asked for a photocopy of the X-ray to show my wife, they said that they don't have a convenient way to print it out, so I ended up having to use my mobile phone to photograph them so I could show her.  I ended up calling her around 3:30 after they finished the cast.  I'd avoided worrying her as long as I could, as I knew she had meetings that afternoon and I didn't, and there's wasn't much she could do except worry.  She was edgy and pretty hard to get along with for about 24 hours, as I expected, but seems to be relaxed now.  Luckily this happened on a Friday, so he could stay high on painkillers for the first couple of days, and so we could use the weekend shopping for shirts that had arm-holes large enough to admit the cast but small enough so they wouldn't hang down to his knees.  Not an easy thing to find, by the way.  

We go for a follow-up exam and X-ray at one week.  And, if all is going well, the cast will be on for 4 weeks. No soccer, no swimming, and no bicycle during that time.  What a drag.  And, no piano for at least a week.  I'll have to call his teacher and cancel the next lesson or two.  He may or may not need a smaller, shorter forearm-only cast for a couple of weeks when this one comes off, but I'm told that the short one will be waterproof so we can start taking him back to the big pool.  We're making him drink lots of Calcium- and Vitamin C-fortified orange juice, and eat lots of tofu, meat, calcium pills, mango, brocolli, blueberry muffins, yogurt, and whatever we can find that has lots of Vitamin C and citrate/phosphate salts of calcium ions.  And a fair bit of codeine for the first couple of days to help with the pain and itching.  We're trying to go easy on that though.

Anyway, on the way home from the orthopedists, he says, "why did the dinosaur cross the road?"  And I think for a while and tried to come up with something clever.  He tells lots of corny jokes now so I'm used to it.  Finally, I say, "why did the dinosaur cross the road?"  And he says, "Because the chicken hadn't evolved yet!"  He was quite proud of that one.  "Get it?  Get it, Daddy?  The chicken is a bird, so it is the descendant of some Triassic reptile who gave rise to all ornithischian dinosaurs as well as birds."  Okay, I'm probably paraphrasing a bit.

But the jokes are becoming a bit more sophisticated.  He's also into word play now.  Lots of bad puns.  And, of course jokes about farts and pee are always a hit.  

It all put me in the mood for another Roberto Rosellini movie.  After all, I knew we wouldn't be going out much this weekend, and I should get some inside entertainment for all of us.  I ended up getting Era Notte a Roma.  It features a very attractive 25-year-old Giovanna Ralli in a prominent roll as Esperia, who at first seems to be a young nun, but is later revealed to be a black-market supplier of goods to the Romans.  She finds it easier to move about in the countryside, procuring prosciutto, wine, medicine, and other goods dressed as a nun, and a very pretty one at that.  The film was a weird combination of neo-realism and didactic, with a good measure of melodrama thrown in for good measure.  Fall 1943.  Three escaped prisoners, one US, one UK, and one Russian, make their way into hiding in Esperia's attic, and much of the action takes place there.  The buxsome young hostess can't speak English and the soldiers can't speak Italian.  The Russian is the loneliest of all, as he can speak neither Italian nor English.  There's much focus on how folks communicate with each other when they can't speak one another's language.  It's all pretty believable, but confusing when the scene goes from that attic to the house of a prince where they hide after Esperia is captured and tortured.  Definitely interesting, but somewhat hard to follow at times.  

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Horrible Bosses

Very funny movie even if the plot was kind of poorly put together. It's a good thing it's not the type of movie you'd watch for that.

[Lambsbread]

I rented Soul Surfer through On-demand last night.

Good movie. A little overdone and dramatic, but an inspiring story nonetheless.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Horrible Bosses

Very funny movie even if the plot was kind of poorly put together. It's a good thing it's not the type of movie you'd watch for that.

I saw it and liked it.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

The Lion King, obviously. I can't believe it's been 17 years since I last saw it in theaters.

[Tender Branson]

Star Trek yesterday evening. The newest one.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

The King's Speech - extremely good movie.  Excellent acting all around, and Rush was amazing.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Every bit as good as I'd hoped it would be and in the sort of way I wanted as well; a genuinely fresh (and also very well done) adaptation rather than an expensive and ill-judged remake of the television adaptation. Much of the acting was outstanding (to be expected with a cast like that, but, still) and many of the shots were really quite beautiful. Perfectly paced as well.