What's the last movie you've seen?

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Ratatouille

A very funny movie with a good plot twist at the end. I liked it.

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The Incredibles

Finally saw it, and while it was entertaining, um... Nietzsche much? The film was almost disgustingly Nazi.

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The Pursuit of Happyness

Very good movie; it even made me smile at the end.¹ I don't think the part at the beginning where Reagan is talking about economics on TV was unintentional. Reaganomics=poor-hating.

1: I'm not very emotional; I didn't really care when a kid in my class died in 5th grade.²

2: Not in class, of course.

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The Simpsons Movie

I'd been meaning to watch this for a while. It was very stupid (in a funny way). Itchy/Hillary '08!

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National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets

Pretty good, I preferred it to the first one, altough it was not much better.

The Simpsons Movie

I'd been meaning to watch this for a while. It was very stupid (in a funny way). Itchy/Hillary '08!

I LOVE that movie.  It was the funniest film I had ever seen, I saw it three times the first day it came out.

You stayed in the theater for 6 hours?

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National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets

Pretty good, I preferred it to the first one, altough it was not much better.

The Simpsons Movie

I'd been meaning to watch this for a while. It was very stupid (in a funny way). Itchy/Hillary '08!

I LOVE that movie.  It was the funniest film I had ever seen, I saw it three times the first day it came out.

You stayed in the theater for 6 hours?

Nah, different times, and I saw it at two different places.

So you had to pay for it twice?

[points finger at you]

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The Naked Gun (1988) & Borat (2006)

Two of the funniest films I have ever seen in my life.

Same here

Haven't watched either, but my friends say the latter is hilarious.

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Star Wars Episode IV.

Great movie.

Rin-chan

That is my favorite movie. Ever.

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Star Wars Episode V

My roommate and I just got Lego Star Wars for Gamecube and we've been in a Star Wars kinda mood for a while.  Also, my Taiwanese friend has never seen any of them and, since my friends and I were appalled, we are now forcing him to watch them with us.

Rin-chan

Never?

Lego Star Wars is a great game.

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Really?  I thought the plot was almost painfully standard.

I thought the concept was excellent and the story was solid enough. Toy Story is one I'd place at the bottom of the heap, though that's just a distaste for the film itself.

Incredibles
Monsters Inc.
Ratatouille
WALL-E
Cars
Bugs Life
Toy Story

I quite liked Toy Story. I like The Incredibles the least, but only for the message.

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WALL-E

I rarely go to the movies (Why blow $15 when you can rent a DVD at Safeway for $1?), but I'll always go to watch the Pixar movies. AEach one seems to upstage the last, and this one was no different.

Right from the start, it was different. I thought this was because of the lack of dialogue, but later I realized it was something more. The contrast between Ratatouille and WALL-E its immediate successor, is amazing. While the former was an upbeat movie with an unabashedly happy ending, this was much darker. It conveyed a level of despair I haven't seen in any Pixar movie since the original, Toy Story. And it was by far the darkest.

The interesting thing about it is that it manages to be dark without much of a villanous presence. Toy Story had Sid, A Bug's Life had Hopper, Toy Story 2 had Al, Monsters, Inc. had Randall, The Incredibles had Syndrome, and Ratatouille had Skinner. Before this movie, the only two films without an important villain were Finding Nemo and Cars, neither of which were on the same level emotionally. Here, the sole villain who stays villainous through the whole film is the Autopilot, which is on screen for no more than ten minutes.

The end was somewhat more ambiguous than the earlier films as well. The captain's statments at the end seem to indicate that he would be profoundly disappointed by the reality of life on Earth (though the credits indicate that they did, in fact, prosper). The rebirth of WALL-E, and the ensuing loss of memory, was a powerful scene. It would have been a better movie had he not remembered, but it is, after all, a children's movie.

And there was, of course, the message. A message vcan be denied for The Incredibles; it canopt for this one. It was An Inconvenient Truth for children, in a way. The criticism from right-wing sources verifies that for me. Corporatism is, and always has been, a very bad thing.

As often happens, the sum of all this was greater than its parts. I was left thinking, profoundly thinking. A testament to that is the fact that I was inspired to write this post, which took 25 minutes. In sum, an excellent movie, quite possibly the best. I strongly recommend it, especially for you anarcho-capitalists out there.

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Movie tickets where you live cost $15?!

They did last time I checked. They're probably more. I never go to the movies unless somebody takes me (which happens not infrequently).

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WALL-E

I rarely go to the movies (Why blow $15 when you can rent a DVD at Safeway for $1?), but I'll always go to watch the Pixar movies. AEach one seems to upstage the last, and this one was no different.

And I thought DC's movie prices were a ripoff.

Anyway, I agree it is a good movie.  And I was proud of myself for identifying the Hello, Dolly! soundtrack from the opening seconds of the movie (the second I heard the phrase, "Somewhere outside this hick town, Barnaby, there's a slick town, Barnaby").  I'm glad that Hollywood is willing to keep referring to the works of a much better cinematic era.  What I wouldn't give to see a new old-fashioned movie musical with old-fashioned music.  Not Mamma Mia.

You recognized it? I commend you.

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My god. That was so bad that words cannot describe it.

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Paris brule-t'il? Old movie. But good stuff.

I especially like the part where the FFIs come to take over Matignon and the commanding officer (French collabo) there stands up and does a German salute. The FFIs tell him in the name of the GPRF that they're taking over the palace, and the officer promptly says "I was always loyal to the Republic. Long live the Republic".

How collabo.

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I'm pumped for American Carol (perhaps more for Kevin Farley than conservatism), but I can't go opening night because I have SATs this Saturday

Seriously?

I hope you like plotless movies. I wouldn't go to a movie like that if it had Rush Limbaugh instead of Michael Moore.

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WALL-E.

Yes it was awesome. Who would've thought you could get more humanity out of two inanimate mechanical characters than most movies have altogether?

You liked it? Interesting.

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WALL-E.

Yes it was awesome. Who would've thought you could get more humanity out of two inanimate mechanical characters than most movies have altogether?

You liked it? Interesting.

Why?

Yoiu've found fit to criticize my movie tastes (or lack thereof) several times.

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You go to sleep?

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You go to sleep?

Not for very long, but occasionally

You're on well after I go to bed, I know that much.

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Valkyrie.

I had no idea that they advanced so far.  I mean, I knew they blew up a table, but the rest of the plot...

As I recall, they didn't.

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In the last few weeks:

Dr. No
Live and Let Die
The Man With The Golden Gun
Moonraker
The Living Daylights
Tomorrow Never Dies
The World Is Not Enough
Casino Royale
Quantum of Solace

Some hilarious ones in there.

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On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Tries far too hard to be a Bond movie, and has obvious day for night shooting, gratuitous greenscreen usage, silly fight scenes, and choppy editing.

Despite all that, it manages to be a very good movie.

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It's funny how everyone is talking about one thing and Naso another.

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Antichrist

Whoah...

Anyone else here seen this?

I read the Wikipedia article. That was quite enough.