What's the last movie you've seen?

[5280]

Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

[Gustaf]

Bridge Over The River Kwai. Rewatched it with half an eye while studying to keep my flatmate company (he was watching it for the first time). Jolly good.

[Middle-aged Europe]

Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)

Some of the acting was a little stiff and the ending is somewhat predictable but the action is great. It also contains one solid "WOW HOLY F.UCK" scene.

Let me guess, the girl at the ice truck?

Assault is an interesting movie for the 70s, because it features a black guy, a convicted murderer, and a woman as proto-action heroes.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

The Iron Lady... great film, the left might hate it because it doesn't demonise her... but doesn't sugar-coat what she did either.

Streep is magnificent.

So you'd recommend it?

[CatoMinor]

The Devil Inside.

This was the first time I've ever seen the entire theater booing at the end of a film. I tdidn;t think the movie was too bad, but the ending is just awful.

[Eraserhead]

Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)

Some of the acting was a little stiff and the ending is somewhat predictable but the action is great. It also contains one solid "WOW HOLY F.UCK" scene.

Let me guess, the girl at the ice truck?

You got it!

[Phony Moderate]

Ocean's Twelve. Not bad for a sequel, but it was kind of incoherent, especially in the latter part when Bruce Willis showed up (as himself).

[Gustaf]

Showed my parents Mulholland Drive.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

The Iron Lady... great film, the left might hate it because it doesn't demonise her... but doesn't sugar-coat what she did either.

Streep is magnificent.

So you'd recommend it?

Sure

[Keystone Phil]

I saw The Iron Lady last night to a packed theater of...three (myself and two friends). The movie was ok. They filmed the movie in far too many separate flashbacks. I could understand beginning the movie in the "present" and having one, long flashback but there was too much jumping around and way too much of an emphasis on Thatcher in the "present."

Funny enough and totally coincidentally, the theater was in the small community of Cardiff. I think our Welsh miner friends would find that appropriate. 

[Swing low, sweet chariot. Comin' for to carry me home.]

Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951, w/ very well built Nancy Guild)



and

The Late John Louisiana (1970, Hawaii Five O, Season 3 Episode 9, w/ Marianne McAndrew as guest star)

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

The Graduate

I'm 45 years late, but it was an awesome movie.

[angus]

Syrian Bride and Ratatouille.

The boy and I are off for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday, so I got us a couple of movies to watch.  Syrian Bride for me, the Rat for him.  Now, we're spicin' it up with GH and PH (because sometimes the letter F just ain't enough, according to The Electric Company.)  Oh, yeah.

[© tweed]

watching Moneyball right now.  somewhat hard for the baseball geek to enjoy, especially when at my computer and able to Google sh**t to fact-check, get a jump on the resolution of the upcoming scene, etc.

[angus]

I just picked up Divine Intervention.  Six to eight inches predicted tomorrow for northeastern Iowa, and my administrators are wimps.  They'll shut us down if we actually get that, so I got myself a movie to enjoy at home.  I'll let y'all know how it works out. 

[Gustaf]

Riff-Raff. Very good, manages to very, very narrowly avoid being too preachy. I preferred the lighter, more person-oriented (more bourgeois I suppose ) style of Looking for Eric though.

Guess I want to be more able to ignore the plight of the working man.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Can't stand Loach, for the most part. I will make an exception for Kes.

[Gustaf]

Can't stand Loach, for the most part. I will make an exception for Kes.

Haha, somehow I could almost guess. Why not? Is it overdoing it?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Can't stand Loach, for the most part. I will make an exception for Kes.

Haha, somehow I could almost guess. Why not? Is it overdoing it?

My cultural tastes are utterly predictable, yes.

This will be less than entirely coherent... but... leaving aside some serious issues I have with Realism with a capital 'R' (and Loach is, and always has been, absolutely a proponent of that), much of Loach's work tends to present a particular picture of working class life and claims that this picture is an essentially accurate portrait of reality (and, thus, we must overthrow the system comrades, etc). But I come from a working class background and do not really recognise working class life (or working class values, actually) as depicted by Loach. Not just because he tends to display the traditional tendency to just focus on the most deprived elements (which is still deeply problematic, given his obvious goals), but because he removes the things that make life bearable. And it's those things, and not the 'objective class position' or whatever piece of pseudomarxist jargon seems appropriate, that have always defined working class identity and cultural life. His work is strikingly humourless, for example. So a vision of reality that is actually profoundly unrealistic. And because of that (and the claims that go with it, whether said or unsaid), deeply patronising. Or, to put it in a somewhat clearer (and certainly shorted), way, I think that Loach frequently dehumanises working class people in order to make political points about class and the capitalist system through the medium of film. Which is the point at which you remember who his work is actually made for...

[© tweed]

I'm mentally working toward a vast, systematic criticism of you, Al.  just realize it's only so 1) because you're one of the top 3 or so posters here and 2) it won't be out for several months,

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Perhaps unsurprisingly, I share Al's distaste for Loach, in my case however it is largely driven by that awful film he made on the Irish War of Independence/Civil War.

[minionofmidas]

The Singing Detective. BBC mini series, that is.

Al - yes, that's certainly accurate as far as some of them go (Sweet Sixteen anyone?) And the issue is probably there, in the background, as a running theme, throughout. But where is Looking for Eric (and it does have issues) "humorless" - or entirely devoid of the things that make life bearable?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I've not seen Looking for Eric (not even any bits of it, actually) so accept that it might be an exception in the way (well, presumably not in quite the same way) that Kes is.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

The Singing Detective. BBC mini series, that is.

What did you think of the teacher?

[minionofmidas]

The Singing Detective. BBC mini series, that is.

What did you think of the teacher?

Not hot.