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What was the last movie you saw on TV, DVD or/and in the threater. Oh and what did you think about it?

Went and saw 'Get Smart' I really liked it even tho i didnt get all the jokes cos i didnt watch the original show. but it was still awesome :)

I saw "Soldier's Girl" last night. It is about a soldier and a MtF woman.
I found it a beautiful movie and I'm sure I will see it again in the (near) future; perhaps with my girlfriend.

Quote from: PolarBear on July 11, 2008, 09:48:14 AM
I saw "Soldier's Girl" last night. It is about a soldier and a MtF woman.
I found it a beautiful movie and I'm sure I will see it again in the (near) future; perhaps with my girlfriend.

i love that movie :)

The 1987 film adaptation of E. M. Forster's Maurice. The movie as of about half an hour ago, the book about six hours ago. Both brilliant. It's a shame the book wasn't published earlier (written 1914, published 1971) - would have been horrendously controversial, of course, but would also have caused greater awareness of LGBT community. Oh well. Both great, I recommend them (though I suggest reading the book first). 

Nim's Island was the last in-cinema movie we saw. I loved it, it was a sweet and neat tale. Of course, I absolutely love Jodie Foster and she played the agoraphobic author really well, of course!! And the Little Miss Sunshine girl was excellent as Nim as well. It was a good story and a good "heart" movie. Even my 10 year old "Ninja Warrior" liked it and that sort of movie can be a hard-sell for him when he could see Iron Man instead.  :laugh: :laugh:

At home, the last one we watched was August Rush, Catherine and I had seen it in the theaters, but the Ninja hadn't. Again, he loved/loves it. We've had it for three weeks now and it's been watched probably 10 times!! The story is fanciful, of course, but again, a very "heart" appealing fancy. The acting is excellent, so good that perhaps Robin Williams is kinda shadowed by Keri Russell and omg! the little boy from Finding Neverland. So bad at child-actor names except for Dakota Fanning who seems ubiquitous!!

Anyhoo, I'd recommed both, highly, for people that sort of "chick flick" movie appeals to.

Nichole 

The last film I watched on TV was called 'Strange Days' with Ralph Fiennes. It was a very well done sci-fi/thriller and really fast paced. I would love a device like the ones in that film, where you can live other people's memories.

There's actually a really interesting part in the film, near the beginning, where Fiennes' character is trying to sell one of these memory disks to a middle-aged businessman, and he's explaining all the benefits. He's like "have you ever wanted to be a girl? With this you can." Then he proceeds to give the buisnessman a demo using the memory of an eighteen year old girl taking a shower.

Very interesting.

Anyway, here's the trailer. It's a 1995 film, but I really enjoyed it. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NkjKS_BCqU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NkjKS_BCqU)

The last movie I saw was on DVD.  The Fantastic Four, Rise of the Silver Surfer.  I love Sci Fi films.

And I saw the newest Harry Potter movie recently.

Both were fun.

Janet

American Beauty on DVD.

Highly, highly recommended. Not at all what I thought it was going to be about.

~Kate~

The Producers, 2005 ver. with Nathan Lane, Uma Thurman and Matthew Broderick.

In short... cute. :P

Iron Man!

Very good. :D

Hellboy.

tink & I watched the happening.  man it wasnt that scary.  dont watch it :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

In the theatre: Prince Caspian - Which I actually enjoyed more than The Lion, the Witch and th Wardrobe.  That surprised me, since I remembered Prince Caspian as being my least favorite of the Narnia books.  But maybe I've been getting it mixed up with Voyage of the Dawn Treader.  At any rate, I hope they eventually do a movie of The Magician's Nephew, since that was far and away my favorite Narnia book.

Anyway, most recently on DVD I watched Cloak and Dagger, which was one of my all-time favorite movies when I was a kid, but I hadn't seen it since I was probably 12 or 13.  It actually held up pretty well, despite the fact that the girl who played Kim couldn't act to save her life.  (I always thought so.  But her part was small enough that I could mostly ignore her.  Made it kind of hard to care, though, when Davey realizes that she's about to be blown to bits. >:D)

I watched Wall-E the other night, really cute. I liked it.

Serenity......again...  brilliant

Hey.... Ive just finished the Firefly Series ~ and it's only the 3rd time this year...

..and has anybody seen Hancock yet..Is it any good?


Chrissty

Quote from: Jamie-o on July 12, 2008, 04:21:44 AM
In the theatre: Prince Caspian - Which I actually enjoyed more than The Lion, the Witch and th Wardrobe.  That surprised me, since I remembered Prince Caspian as being my least favorite of the Narnia books.  But maybe I've been getting it mixed up with Voyage of the Dawn Treader.  At any rate, I hope they eventually do a movie of The Magician's Nephew, since that was far and away my favorite Narnia book.

Anyway, most recently on DVD I watched Cloak and Dagger, which was one of my all-time favorite movies when I was a kid, but I hadn't seen it since I was probably 12 or 13.  It actually held up pretty well, despite the fact that the girl who played Kim couldn't act to save her life.  (I always thought so.  But her part was small enough that I could mostly ignore her.  Made it kind of hard to care, though, when Davey realizes that she's about to be blown to bits. >:D)

The Magicians Nephew Was my favorite, too.  It would make a great movie but expensive to produce.  Of course they could just use LA as the location for Jadiz's home world!

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I watched The Believer on DVD last night.  It's about a conflicted young Jewish man who winds up becoming a Skinhead and neo-Nazi in NYC.  A psychological thriller, it's kinda dsturbing.  Great acting!

I watched Wall-E the other day with my son.  He thought it was okay.  I thought it was a great love story.

Chaunte

Wall-E:  Waste Acquistion Load Lifter - Earth class.

Quote from: sd on July 12, 2008, 04:50:07 AM
I watched Wall-E the other night, really cute. I liked it.

same here. I loved it. specially when Wall-E meets Eva for the first time.

Hubby and I went and saw Hancock last week and yah, we liked it.  Liked Wanted better, but Hancock had more to it than we were expecting, which is always nice.

Hi "Whatsername"

Thanks for the info..I thought Iron Man was excellent too... ;D

..So I'm off to book my seats for Hancock...Will's acting was superb in the
truly awful "I Am Legend" ....so I hope that Hancock is a better vehicle for him...

Thanks

Chrissty

sex & the city.  it was terrific!  in no way did it spoil the series. i have all six seasons at home and have watched it countless times, and the movie has just added to it.

I saaaw Prince Caspian (and I hated it)
so, I guess the last (good) movie I saw was "Elling"
:D

well... lately I've been a movie addict. Hehe.
the last movie i saw was national treasure 2. it was a DVD I'm afraid, it was really good still.
*smiles*

I came back from Hellboy II and it was awesome.

Quote from: Drik on July 13, 2008, 04:45:27 AM
I saaaw Prince Caspian (and I hated it)
so, I guess the last (good) movie I saw was "Elling"
:D

I loved Elling!  I think it's the only Norwegian movie I've ever seen.  Are there many more like that?

Posted on: 14 July 2008, 19:37:33

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Paris, Je t'aime

This was a great film!   A Valentine from France to the world!

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkrqtxogmME)

i saw kit kittredge yesterday. i saw wall-e last week, and i saw kung fu panda two weeks ago.

Just caught the "Watchmen" viral trailer for June 2009....

I'm hooked....do I really have to wait a year for this movie... :(

Chrissty

Went and saw The Dark Knight today, great movie.  It made me so sad about Heath Ledger...

I was Wall-E today, and thought it was a really sweet story.  It should be watched with someone you can hold hands with.  I saw it alone.

Quote from: Lisbeth on July 19, 2008, 07:40:58 PM
I was Wall-E today, and thought it was a really sweet story.  It should be watched with someone you can hold hands with.  I saw it alone.

I so agree!  And, yes, I was alone as well...

"How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days"

OMG, rofl... the beginning and end were kinda blah and predictable, but most of it is hysterical, lol...

But I can't imagine anyone being so clingy, melodramatic and overly emotional and obessive like that!

Hey, waitasec...

;)

(yes, I took notes, lol)

~Kate~

Destry Rides Again, starring Jimmy Stewart and Marlene Deitrich.  Very fun western released in 1939, just before the world turned to ->-bleeped-<-.  Very funny.  The thing O ;ove about 30s films is they have these incredible old character actors. the like of which we've not seen since.

Quote from: Claire de Lune on August 04, 2008, 10:14:32 AM
Destry Rides Again, starring Jimmy Stewart and Marlene Deitrich.  Very fun western released in 1939, just before the world turned to ->-bleeped-<-.  Very funny.  The thing O ;ove about 30s films is they have these incredible old character actors. the like of which we've not seen since.

Got to love Marlene. My word.

I just tried to watch David Lynch's "Blue Velvet" yesterday, but i found it too disturbing and didn't want that stuff in my head so I stopped it and returned it. I love his "Mulholland Drive", it is one of my all time favorites, so I thought I'd try BV. But, ick, no thank you.

Stealth, at the movies

We saw "Brick Lane" & Brideshead Revisited" this weekend. They were both excellent and feeling/thought-provoking.

Particularly the last one. My partner was raised RC & we talked, for about on hour on the drive through and outta Philly after seeing it, about the way we view the way Catholicism molds people. How, when you're Catholic or Jewish there are cultural as well as religious elements that get very deeply ingrained.

I'm of the opinion that RCs never quite "give up" Catholicism when they leave. Nor really have to. You're born into a community and although you may go away that community is always waiting for you to return, even at death's door after years of being lapsed.

I don't believe that after maybe the first couple of generations that effect applies to most Protestants, Amish probably excepted. The "priesthood of all believers" kinda makes everyone realize their innate lonliness in a way that Catholicism never does. It also makes a kind of positive of "going one's own way," community is what one makes it and is okay because, well, everyone has their own view.

Catholicism seems to me much more thorough-going from cradle to grave, so to speak.

Anyhow, two thumbs up for both movies. Good production values as well. :)

Nichole

Yeah you can be a 'recovering catholic' or a 'lapsed catholic' but a true ex-catholic is rare.

:) 'zactly. And with very sure and tried reasons why. Not much in the western world has an unbroken heritage of 2000 years, figuring from about 125 CE when the bishops took control exclusively. That's a very long train to stop, or to get off of when it's humming along without killing yourself.

And even then there are prayers and intercessions that mitigate the damage. The West's most tight-knit indigenous community, imo.

N~

Ya know the Catholic Church, 'come for the architecture and stained glass, stay for the scholastic choir.'  I sure don't believe the creed, or the doxology or the dogma, but its ok, one of my best friends is a priest, I'm still considered a member of a Catholic order (different from a parish church) and I tell the priest there "I don't believe" and he says "no problem, we all have a crisis of faith" and I'm like "It's been going on for 30 years now" and Father X says "Hey, no one said they were overnight deals."  So I hang out, I like to sit in the deep shadows of the Gothic church (that real Gothic Architecture, not a church with tight pants and eyeliner) and sit in the near total quite and wait, who knows god might talk to me someday.  However as Father X says "There are people with much larger problems then you have, so you might have to wait a bit."

Along those lines, and its really only going to work for people raised real Catholic, watch Dogma, with Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Linda Fiorentino, Alan Rickman, Bud Cort, Salma Hayek, Chris Rock, Jason Lee, Jason Mewes, George Carlin, Janeane Garofalo and Alanis Morissette.  Its very funny.

Burn After Reading- man, that should get an Oscar, so ironic and funny.  ;D

Saw 5 and it was awesome!

Killer Klowns from Outer Space, then The Eye. Killer Klowns is an absolute classic... if you haven't seen it, please do. The whole thing was filmed in Santa Cruz, CA, the place I claim as home, and it's so far from the typical horror or comedy or... anything....

The Eye was, amazingly, much better than I thought it would be. I can't stand Jessica Alba, but she did a good job, and the story was great. Not the typical horror film... more just a suspense/mystery with a really endearing ending. I think, apart from The Ring, this is probably the best American remake of a Japanese horror film thus far.