What's the last movie you've seen?

[Jake]

Rape of Europa

Another bullet mark on the "Why Nazis Sucked" list.

[Beet]

Blue Velvet (1986), Kyle MacLaughlan, Dennis Hopper, Isabella Rosselini, D: David Lynch. Lynch has certainly established his particular variation of neo-noir, but on other levels the plot falls within formulaic prescriptions; and his stylistic imprint can be found on his other works as well. Certainly not deserving of a remake.

Adam's Rib (1949), Spencer Tracy, Katherine Hepburn, D: George Cukor. Cukor, who was gay, had a reputation of a "woman's director", and this early feminist film is congruent with that, but he resented this, point out that no director has directed more performances that won the Academy Award for Best Actor.

[Robespierre's Jaw]

Red Dawn.

My Mum didn't believe that the American pilot in the film wasn't Powers Boothe. What a great feeling it was proving her wrong .

[dead0man]

Galaxy Quest.  It still kicks ass.

[AkSaber]

Cloverfield

I liked it. My favorite part was when they are making their way to Midtown Manhattan, their journey was interrupted by the creature. So they turn around to run away, but there they are, the Army. Bullets, missiles, artillery, all those were going off around them.

[dead0man]

I'm in the middle of Annie Hall.  Woody just said "My grandma didn't give gifts, she was to busy getting raped by Cossaks" and I thought I was going to die laughing.  I totally was not expecting that.  So far it's been a lot better than I expected.

[Beet]

Wow. A movie that suggests a family has starved to death in contemporary America, shows a police officer firing recklessly into a crowd, general lawlessness in the California agriculture industry, children who are unfamiliar with toiletry. A Spike Lee film? It also provides a vaguely positive impression of "Reds" and government-run camps. A Soviet propaganda film? No, it's Grapes of Wrath (1940), Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, D: John Ford, a toned-down version of Steinbeck's extensively researched novel released just the previous year, produced with the knowledge of studio executives and endorsed by Whittaker Chambers. It won John Ford the second of his eventual five academy awards for Best Director. The cinematography by Gregg Toland stands out as one of the best examples of B&W for doing justice to Depression-era images.

[dead0man]

Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song - Blaxploitation films kick ass

Snuff - weird European erotic thrillers don't

[JohnFKennedy]

Persepolis. Loved it although some of the translations for the subtitles were a bit dodgy.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Persepolis. Loved it although some of the translations for the subtitles were a bit dodgy.

You got to see the French Language version?

(Persepolis also being btw the last film I saw)

[JohnFKennedy]

Persepolis. Loved it although some of the translations for the subtitles were a bit dodgy.

You got to see the French Language version?

(Persepolis also being btw the last film I saw)

Yup, Arts Picturehouse round the corner from my room was showing it. I was greatly amused by the translation of 'ah merde' as 'oh no'.

[Jake]

Iron Man

Nice to see a blockbuster finally deliver.

[Beet]

It Happened One Night (1934) with Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, D: Frank Capra. Supposedly the original "screwball comedy", this story of a mismatched couple's adventures through the medley of depression-era America, keeping secrets from one another, each trying to one-up the other, and generally finding themselves in tough situations, is praised by Leonard Maltin as "still as enchanting as ever." The script can be read as a sort of allegory of the Great Depression (Colbert's money is stolen in an early scene; then Gable's final dollar is given away to a hungry boy and his mother) and the proletarian man who teaches the spoiled rich girl a lesson or two about life, but Gable and Colbert's interpretation on-screen dampens any ideological thrust in the script. The final marriage scene is a more subtle version of the walk down the aisle in The Graduate (1967), minus the generational wars.

[Lief 🗽]

Baby Mama.

Really good actually. Plenty of laughs and a lot of small but hilarious performances from random actors.

[King]

I finally saw SiCKO yesterday.  Not a bad film... insurance is a scam, but I already knew that before this movie.

[they don't love you like i love you]

I caved and went to see Iron Man.

Entertaining yes, no question about that.

[dead0man]

Fast Times at Ridgemont High - still good

[MasterJedi]

Lars and the Real Girl, gets a big meh from me. It wasn't bad, just really weird and it dragged.

[Robespierre's Jaw]

The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear

And I thought Leslie Nielsen was only funny in the 1980 film Flying High!, I was proven wrong in the Naked Gun and in The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear, which played back-to-back last night. So many funny quotes in that film, especially the pictures in the background when he's at the Blues Bar. Michael Dukakis, The San Fransico Earthquake of 1906, Neville Chamberlain. Hehe.

[exopolitician]

The Astronaut Farmer

not a big Billy Bob Thorton fan but it was still a good movie

[dead0man]

Thriller:en grym film (Thriller - A Cruel Picture, also known as They Call Her One Eye, Hooker's Revenge) - The full on hardcore X-rated version.  It's not often you get to see actual penetration in a movie with so much plot.  Actually a pretty good movie overall.  The violence was stupid cheesy, even for a mid 70's Swedish film.

And Mallrats again for the thousandth time (not literally, but I'd guess it's quickly closing on Raiders of the Lost Ark as the single movie I've seen the most times).

[MasterJedi]

In the last 4 days I've watched:

Good Luck Chuck (haven't seen it before and liked it)
Transformers (haven't seen it before and liked it)
Short Circuit (saw parts a long time ago in the early 90's, good movie and funny, amazing how much they got away with in a PG movie in the 80's )

[they don't love you like i love you]

Persepolis.

Very entertaining and well done. They dropped the ball a bit with that ending though, could've tried something a little less anticlimatic.

[dead0man]

Hot Fuzz
Better than Shawn of the Dead I think.  Funny as hell.  I can't stop saying "narp".

[Jake]

Philadelphia, which was incredible. Definately makes my favorite movies list and not only because it was top shelf Denzel.

The new Narnia. Meh. Not very impressive at all.