The "last movie I saw" thread

[Viking]

We watched it as well on Sunday night. Funny flick.

We conducted an Arrested Development marathon last weekend. Not a movie but 4 hours of comic genius.

[hostile]

Just watched ZOMBIELAND over the weekend with my wife for Valentine's Day. We loved it. You know when you watch a movie and it turns out to be exactly what you were in the mood to see? That was ZOMBIELAND this weekend.

Watched it this weekend while my pager went off all night. It was exactly what I thought it would be and I loved it.

[hostile]

My wife and I watched THE COVE tonight. I thought it wAs a well-made documentary about dolphin fishing in Japan.

[hostile]

My wife and I watched THE COVE tonight. I thought it wAs a well-made documentary about dolphin fishing in Japan.

Watched this instead of the Oscars and then just discovered that it won for best documentary. I am no longer interrested in participating in a "swim with the dolphins" activity.

[RobinFinderson]

Watched A Prophet, which is a pretty cool story about a Corsican Muslim sent to prison for six years for getting into a fight with a police officer. To the Corsican mafia in the jail the youth is another Muslim, but to the Muslims, he is another Corsican. He has no friends or family on the outside and he is illiterate. When the Corsican mafia threatens to kill him if he doesn't assist in the murder of a fellow Muslim informant, the youth balks, but finally capitulates. His involvement in the assassination wins him some protection and begins his prison criminal career. He discovers within himself criminal talent so profound that other criminals who see his sudden rise wonder if he isn't some kind of prophet, capable of knowing things that other humans don't. This is a cool crime film that shows a peek into a French prison, which isn't so different than an American prison, except an old guard of traditional European gangsters is slowing being overtaken by a new prison population of Muslim immigrants. I liked the film very much.

[Green Lantern]

I watched Michael Haneke's FUNNY GAMES about two young hoodlums who spend the entire movie torturing a family for kicks. This was the 2008 remake of his own movie from a decade earlier. Naomi Watts and Tim Roth are very good in the film and the whole thing is expertly shot and incredibly unnerving but I couldn't help feeling that I was being lectured the entire time. Haneke has made it clear that he intends the movie to be an indictment of movie audiences' lust for violence but I think he's a bit misguided. If you're trying to condemn American moviegoers' appetites for violent cinema, why would you couch your argument in a very European, deliberately paced, art film? The only people who are going to see your movie are likely people who already agree with your premise, film-festival fans who like hitting the art house theater. The true challenge would me to make a movie that can draw in the fans of casually violent flicks like BAD BOYS 2 and SAW and get them to listen to your schoolmaster diatribe. As it is, you're preaching to the choir.

[BoylenOver]

"Hot Fuzz". Very funny movie. The "Romeo and Juliet" performance was intended to be over-the-top horrible, and it didn't disappoint.

[MarkGrace]

Somehow I got roped into watching Couples Retreat, and strangely that wasn't even the worst movie I've seen in the last week. My wife subjected me to documentaries about Anna Wintour (she's not as big a bitch as portrayed in The Devil Wears Prada) and Karl Lagerfeld that were just total snoozers.

[Green Lantern]

Somehow I got roped into watching Couples Retreat, and strangely that wasn't even the worst movie I've seen in the last week. My wife subjected me to documentaries about Anna Wintour (she's not as big a bitch as portrayed in The Devil Wears Prada) and Karl Lagerfeld that were just total snoozers.

THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE? Is that the Anna Wintour one? I thought it sounded interesting but if it's a snooze I've got plenty of stuff higher on the priority list.

We watched THE QUEEN this weekend and enjoyed it, particularly the two lead performances by Michael Sheen and Helen Mirren. I wish more "biopic" type movies focused on one moment in history like this one does. They seem to be a lot more effective than the ones who try to distill an entire life into a movie with a conventional three act structure.

[MarkGrace]

Yeah, the September Issue.

I saw The Queen last year (again at the behest of the Mrs.) and speaking of snoozers!

[Green Lantern]

Yeah, the September Issue.

I saw The Queen last year (again at the behest of the Mrs.) and speaking of snoozers!

I thought it was fascinating. I think it helps that I was on my mission over there when that happened.

[MarkGrace]

On Wednesday I saw The Bounty Hunter, starring Gerard Butler, Jennifer Aniston and Jennifer Aniston's rack. The last of the three showed the greatest acting range in this movie.

[Green Lantern]

On Tuesday, we watched THE BOX with Cameron Diaz. It's directed by Richard Kelly, who did DONNIE DARKO. Man, talk about a guy who likes to bite off more than he can chew. It was a "kitchen sink" movie: Lots of interesting ideas and good filmmaking all in service to a plot and screenplay that really needed some help. I mean, murder, brainwashing, aliens, conspiracies, the afterlife. Man, what a crazy movie. This movie failed, but it was an ambitious failure, which I always find kind of endearing.

[MarkGrace]

His last movie was an ambitious failure as well. I think he's establishing a pattern.

[Green Lantern]

His last movie was an ambitious failure as well. I think he's establishing a pattern.

I agree. The guy is in serious danger of disappearing up his own ass. He needs somebody sane to be sitting next to him telling him when things aren't a good idea. Definitely a guy whose reach exceeds his grasp. Did you see the director's cut of DONNIE DARKO? Also a disaster.