What's the last movie you've seen?

[jokerman]

The Departed

Excellent movie.  Perhaps the best of the year.

[bullmoose88]

Silence of the Lambs.

[Gabu]

K-PAX. Wow, how did I ever miss that movie? I mean, I know I only saw the "edited" version on Sci-Fi but edited or not, it was pretty dern good.

Oh and I also saw National Lampoons Van Wilder on comedy...it was funny but cheesy.

Ah, K-PAX.  That's some quality movieing right there.

[Jake]

Children of Men

Very, very good look at a dystopian future.

[Ban my account ffs!]

That's really funny.. because I just saw that movie as well.  It wasn't exactly uplifting, to say the least.

I'd have to say the battle scene with a straight shoot for 15 minutes was cool.. especially when the blood spatters the lens and they just keep going.

Didn't give me a high opinion of the U.K though!  (BRITAIN SOLDIERS ON!!!... Do your duty.  Be sure to report ALL illegal immigrants.)

[Nation]

"The Prime Gig" from 1999 with Vince Vaughn.


I wanted to love this movie, I really really did, but in the end, it's just a watered down version of Glengarry Glen Ross with a couple amazing scenes, and about 30 mediocre ones.

[merseysider]

'The Battle for Algiers' - a black-and-white 1960s drama-documentary about the Algerian war of independence against the French.

[© tweed]

The Godfather

Amazingly I've never gotten around to viewing it before tonight.  I have the second and third with me too so I'll probably watch them within the next few days.

I've noticed that many alleged 'classics' from the 1970s and earlier have more weakly defined plotlines than the movies today.  There really was no funneldown or climax to The Godfather, just like there wasn't with Midnight Cowboy.  Maybe the sample size I'm employing is too small, but it's something I'd like to hear from others about and see if they notice the same thing.

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

Its baby boomer nostalgia that makes the "classics' have such a high prominence. Once that group starys dying off....

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

The Illusionist
Disney Anastasia (my sister was watching it while I ate)
Contact - really good movie.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

Notes on a Scandal... my GOD Judi Dench was good.

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

Swimming to Cambodia

Cambodia is landlocked, prude.

[Jake]

Cambodia is landlocked, prude.

I hope you're joking...

Anyway, I finally finished Minority Report. Excellent movie, even if I was watching more for how they handled the future rather than for the plot itself. Visually stunning.

[2952-0-0]

It was some Hong Kong movie about organized criminals controlling the banks. Though the last one I saw in the theatre was Borat.

[Gustaf]

Its baby boomer nostalgia that makes the "classics' have such a high prominence. Once that group starys dying off....

You are such an idiot.

The 70s were more psychedelic, maybe?

The truth is probably just that better movies aren't cliches. So there were probably tons of movies in the 70s that were exactly like most movies done today, but guess what, they didn't survive. Because no one wants to watch those sort of movies in retrospect.

[Michael Z]

Harry Potter & The Prisoner Of Azkaban

Quite good. Possibly the best of the Potter movies so far. Though that's perhaps not saying much, since I have absolutely no time for the first two.

[afleitch]

'Hot Fuzz' by the guys behind Shaun of the Dead - funny funny film

[Gabu]

I just saw Idiocracy, which Fox for whatever reason has tried so hard to make me not know about.  Great movie.

[Cubby]

Hannah and her Sisters a Woody Allen film from 1986.

It was better than Platoon, which won the Oscar that year. But it was still a little boring. Michael Caine's hair looked weird, it was like he was wearing a sheep on his head. A blond sheep.

And it seemed kind of dated. During the whole film, I kept thinking "I can't believe I was alive when this was made!"

[minionofmidas]

Funny thing. I had intended to watch the Real vs Bayern match to find, to my utmost surprise, that it wasn't available on free tv (they'll show Barca vs Liverpool tomorrow instead. I guess that tells you all about how deep in crisis Bayern are right now.) But as I already was plunked in front of my mom's television, I watched Four Weddings And A Funeral instead - movie I'd actually decided spontaneously that I did't really want to see it, while waiting in line to buy tickets, back when it was new.
Cute, but meaningless.
Or the other way round.

[Gustaf]

Children of Men. Pretty good, much better than V for Vendetta and reminiscent of the Shame.

[Michael Z]

The Departed

Very very good, but if I'm honest, not quite as good as the HK original (which was very very very good). But all the same, it was nice to see a Hollywood remake which for a change seemed to make an effort to match the original, had an excelling cast and a master director in charge, and on top of that made a few changes which seemed deliberately designed to catch fans of Infernal Affairs off guard ("Oh, I know what's gonna happen now! Oh shoot, no I don't!"), but still, I felt the final final FINAL plot twist was just a bit too much. Still, great cinema. I hope Scorcese finally wins his long-overdue Oscar.

[minionofmidas]

The Departed

Very very good, but if I'm honest, not quite as good as the HK original (which was very very very good).

haven't  seen it (yet).

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IIRC the Hollywood scriptwriter made a point of NOT seeing the original (though he had, needless to say, read the script.)

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Yeah, that coulda been better explained.

[Chiahead]

Rocky Balboa, The pursuit of Happiness, Flags of our fathers, groundhog day, and yesterday, Last of the Mohicans

[MODU]

"Letters from Iwo Jima"

Oh my was it a depressing movie.