What's the last movie you've seen? (2nd thread)

[King]

Cloud Atlas.  I was curious about it, didn't think I would like it, but I actually really liked it. 

It's definitely not for everyone and it's pretty hard to explain.  That being said, like The Master, some of the acting performances deserve recognition even if you don't like the movie.

[King]

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Felt like I was watching a great subplot to a big budget scifi movie.

[King]

Life of Pi.  Amazing visuals.

[King]

Finally got to see Killer Joe today.  Great Christmas film.

[King]

Watched a few recently:

Bottle Rocket

Barton Fink

Wow... a lot of stuff going on here...

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974 original)

Skyfall

Finally got around to this. Easily the best Craig Bond movie yet. By a lot.

And, damn, you guys weren't kidding about about the TDK influence...

Barton Fink has some great scenes, especially when John Goodman is involved.

[King]

The best part of Killer Joe is when Joe asks Ansel "what he thinks of all this" during the chicken fiasco.

[King]

Zero Dark Thirty

Good, kind of disturbing and a little too long. I think someone (BRTD?) mentioned this already but all of the characters are pretty unlikeable. Also the raid at the end left me feeling angry and disgusted, but maybe that was point. I'd like to look into how accurate certain parts of it were. Like The Hurt Locker, it's not something I'd be inclined to watch again but I'm glad I saw it.

Yeah I pointed that out about the characters. All very flat as well, no doubt intentionally.

I think just about everything in the movie was supposed to be morally ambiguous. It was just saying "This is how things work whether you like it or not". Obviously everyone ends up with different opinions.

The members of the Seal Team, in particular, come off like complete lowlifes.

They were rough, but I saw them as people who don't have much of a life outside their jobs and thus become their gritty and ugly work.

[King]

I just saw Silver Linings Playbook.  Lawrence definitely deserves the Oscar over Chastain. 

Zero Dark Thirty was strong no matter what.  JL walks into what felt like a bad movie 30 minutes in makes it and everything around her good.

[King]

I finally saw Les Miserables.

The major iconic numbers were very well done.  Everything in between?  Meh.  It sounds weird for a 2:30 long movie, but IMO a lot of it went too fast.  For a film version, not enough effort was really taken in establishing the world.  Too many scenes felt like I was being moved from sound stage to sound stage.

It probably didn't help that I rented it to give the effect that I was watching a Broadway show in an empty theater.  Still, if it's going to be movie...

All that being said, I'm glad it was made.  It gives all the major songs quality YouTube renditions now and that's all we really needed.

[King]

Amour. Remarkable piece of work - properly complex, genuinely sad (in a way that never relies on cloying sentimentalism) and a lot of true things going on - and very much worth watching. The characters of Georges and Anne were very familiar on a personal level, though obviously that won't be true of everyone.

Amour is next on my queue after Take Shelter.  I haven't had much time to sit through a movie lately, though.

[King]

Take Shelter

I put off seeing this one for awhile despite the reviews and someone who's opinion I really respect calling it her favorite film of 2011, just because the premise doesn't sound interesting. A guy has hallucinations and bad dreams and so he decides to build his family a tornado shelter. But it works. The movie is largely just Michael Shannon having nightmares, but once you know the whole story it works very well. Big complaint is despite being set in northern Ohio everyone has this sort of quasi-Southern accent which is Hollywood's stock for "redneck" type characters. Oh and the ending is kind of dumb.

Finally got around to watching this today.  Loved it.  I agree though, it felt more like the Oklahoma or Texas than Ohio.

So did you guys see Iron Man 3?

I basically thought it sucked.

I've given up on the Marvel movies.  I realize a lot of people like them, but I just have to settle on they aren't for me.  Probably because I didn't really watch/read these characters as a kid so it's not really reliving something great for me.

[King]

Polanski's best film (the mentioned Chinatown) was entirely Robert Towne's unchanged shot-for-shot perfect script, anyway.  So I don't feel bad about calling him a HP because I liked the movie.

[King]

I saw Man of Steel this afternoon.  Disappointing, but I'm still hopeful that it will spawn a great sequel since most trilogies peak in the middle.

[King]

I thought Bradley Cooper's part of that movie was boring.  That whole middle could have been cut out for me.

[King]

Spring Breakers was awful.  That is all

[King]

James Franco gave a great performance, but pool sex isn't enough to save really lame attempts at being deep.

[King]

Star Trek Into Darkness

Great.  I liked it more than the 2009 one.

[King]

ARGO

Well made and enjoyable but Best Picture?

I thought Lincoln was more Best Picture worthy, but it's hard for Spielberg films to earn votes with him being the perpetual overdog.

[King]

I saw Prisoners and The World's End this week.

Prisoners was great.  The World's End started out great but IMO the third act was insufferably boring.

[King]

Gravity.

See this movie.  See it in theaters.  See it in 3D.

That is all.

[King]

World War Z

I don't know... the nihilist in me can't really get into the whole spirit of stopping the zombie apocalypse.  I would probably just let the immortality take hold.

[King]

Checked out Rush tonight. Terrific and, for a subject I didn't care or know much about, exciting

[King]

I saw Her last night.

I'm a huge Jonze fan so it was pretty much guaranteed 4 stars out of me and it delivered.

[King]

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

The most Wes Anderson Wes Anderson film yet. I liked it but I can't say I loved it. So like the rest of Anderson's work then...

The aspect ratio thing seems a little much.