The "last movie I saw" thread

[The_Douger]

Zero Dark Thirty

Loved it. I thought she did a great job and deserved her nomination.

[MarkGrace]

The Piano Teacher

This has to be one of the most disturbing things I've seen in a while. There are at least four scenes that are going to take some time to shake out of my head. Great performance by the lead, because she somehow got me to feel compassion toward one of the most f***ed up characters I've ever watched.

Was reading some reviews just now and saw this:

It is as unlikely that you have ever seen another movie like The Piano Teacher as it is that you will ever want to see another one.

ha. Damn, I feel like I need a shower.

[FN Phat]

Got around to watching Looper. Awesome movie. And in a rare double movie weekend at the Phat household, and even rarer movie theatre experience, we went in search of watching Zero Dark Thirty. It was a late showing and we already had the baby sitter on the hook for 1-1/2 hours. We opted for Gangster Squad instead. We both really enjoyed it. Good action, good humor and eye candy for both.

[Katy Lied]

Has anyone seen The Paperboy? I'm not sure I want to see it and I'd like someone else's opinion. I'm looking at you PAC or GL or Gracie.

I hear Nic Kidman is great at playing trashy, and looking at this photo, she's chanelling Brittany Spears.



I'm cautious about this movie because of 3 scenes:

1. Kidman peeing on Zac Efron's jellyfish welts which happen to be on his face.
2. Kidman and John Cusick having telekinetic sex. (The New Yorker calls it Air Guitar Oral Sex)
3. Matthew McConaughey's rape in a motel room.

Anybody?

[Green Lantern]

Has anyone seen The Paperboy? I'm not sure I want to see it and I'd like someone else's opinion. I'm looking at you PAC or GL or Gracie.

I hear Nic Kidman is great at playing trashy, and looking at this photo, she's chanelling Brittany Spears.



I'm cautious about this movie because of 3 scenes:

1. Kidman peeing on Zac Efron's jellyfish welts which happen to be on his face.
2. Kidman and John Cusick having telekinetic sex. (The New Yorker calls it Air Guitar Oral Sex)
3. Matthew McConaughey's rape in a motel room.

Anybody?

I still want to see this one, but mostly for the train-wreck characteristics it seems to exhibit. Also, Air Guitar Oral Sex sounds like a great new wave band from the 80s.

Outside of Sundance, my most recent viewings were Gangster Squad, which was, to me, a pretty weak pastiche of several superior movies. Basically, if you've seen Untouchables, Scarface and L.A. Confidential, then you don't really need to see Gangster Squad.

My wife and I also watched The Deep Blue Sea on Netflix instant. This was Terence Davies' adaptation of the Terence Rattigan play from last year. Rachel Weisz is the upper-class wife in post-WWII London who has a devastating affair with a callow ex-soldier played by Tom Hiddleston (Loki from The Avengers.) The actors, especially Weisz, were great and the film is quite beautiful. That one's been haunting me for days. (Warning: This movie does not feature intelligent sharks or LL Cool J.)

[jay santos]

Has anyone seen The Paperboy? I'm not sure I want to see it and I'd like someone else's opinion. I'm looking at you PAC or GL or Gracie.

I hear Nic Kidman is great at playing trashy, and looking at this photo, she's chanelling Brittany Spears.



I'm cautious about this movie because of 3 scenes:

1. Kidman peeing on Zac Efron's jellyfish welts which happen to be on his face.
2. Kidman and John Cusick having telekinetic sex. (The New Yorker calls it Air Guitar Oral Sex)
3. Matthew McConaughey's rape in a motel room.

Anybody?

Sounds like those might be the only three good scenes in the film. 5.8 on IMDB, that's a virtual lock it will be a stinker.

[MarkGrace]

So the Mrs. and I walk over to a deli near our place to grab some dinner tonight. As we're walking home, we see a film crew shooting on the street next to ours. I'm walking on the sidewalk next to the building where they're filming, which is typically this old empty space. They've got it all set up like a house, with these cool concert posters on the wall (Belle & Sebastian, Sonic Youth, etc.). I'm walking away and bump into this kid working on the set, and I ask him what is being filmed. He tells me and we start talking about some recent movies from that Seattle collective of The Duplass Bros, Lynne Shelton, et al., that have been quite busy of late with Safety Not Guaranteed, Your Sister's Sister, Humpday and more. The director of the movie they're shooting was a co-producer on SNG and YSS, and it's mostly the same crew from all those films. The kid seems reasonably impressed (potentially even weirded out) that I'm familiar with all these names and movies.

Anyway, he tells me that if I want to hang out for a bit Thomas Haden Church and Toni Collette are about to come out of the house set they've created to shoot a scene in the street. So I got to watch them in action! Cool! I've never been around anything like that. Here's more on the movie:

Oliver Platt, 90210‘s Ryan Eggold and The Help‘s Ahna O’Reilly have joined Toni Collette in Lucky Them, the film that Paul Newman was working on when he passed away in 2008. The “un-romantic comedy” about a female rock journalist on assignment to hunt down her musician ex-boyfriend began filming in Seattle last weekend on Newman’s birthday — January 26th. Newman’s wife Joanne Woodward signed on to executive produce the picture last year to help its cause. Thomas Haden Church plays the elusive ex, with Platt, Eggold and O’Reilly rounding out the supporting cast.

Newman had hoped to cameo in the film and gave notes on the project, inspiring Woodward to get involved. The semi-autobiographical script is by Emily Wachtel and Huck Botko; Woodward, Wachtel, and Amy Hobby (who previously produced Sam Shepard’s doc Shepard & Dark) are producing alongside Adam Gibbs with Peer Pedersen executive producing. Megan Griffiths is directing. The project previously had Marisa Tomei, Alec Baldwin, and Allison Janney attached.

Emmy-winner Collette (The United States Of Tara) is set to return to TV in CBS’s Jerry Bruckheimer-produced drama Hostages. On the big screen she most recently co-starred in Hitchcock and appears in Nat Faxon and Jim Rash’s crowd-pleaser The Way, Way Back, which Fox Searchlight snapped up for $10 million at Sundance. Later this year Collette is set to make her directorial debut in the omnibus pic Sydney Unplugged. She also stars in Nicole Holofcener’s untitled next film and Pascal Chaumeil’s A Long Way Down, adapted from the Nick Hornby novel. Collette is repped by WME and Jackoway Tyerman Wertheimer Austen Mandelbaum Morris & Klein.

Meanwhile, rising indie helmer Griffiths (The Off Hours) comes off the award-winning human trafficking drama Eden and co-produced Lynn Shelton’s 2011 pic Your Sister’s Sister. She is repped by WME and Caliber Media Company. Eggold is repped by Gersh, while Platt and O’Reilly are with WME.

http://www.deadline.com/2013/01/paul...anne-woodward/

[Donuthole]

So the Mrs. and I walk over to a deli near our place to grab some dinner tonight. As we're walking home, we see a film crew shooting on the street next to ours. I'm walking on the sidewalk next to the building where they're filming, which is typically this old empty space. They've got it all set up like a house, with these cool concert posters on the wall (Belle & Sebastian, Sonic Youth, etc.). I'm walking away and bump into this kid working on the set, and I ask him what is being filmed. He tells me and we start talking about some recent movies from that Seattle collective of The Duplass Bros, Lynne Shelton, et al., that have been quite busy of late with Safety Not Guaranteed, Your Sister's Sister, Humpday and more. The director of the movie they're shooting was a co-producer on SNG and YSS, and it's mostly the same crew from all those films. The kid seems reasonably impressed (potentially even weirded out) that I'm familiar with all these names and movies.

Anyway, he tells me that if I want to hang out for a bit Thomas Haden Church and Toni Collette are about to come out of the house set they've created to shoot a scene in the street. So I got to watch them in action! Cool! I've never been around anything like that. Here's more on the movie:


http://www.deadline.com/2013/01/paul...anne-woodward/

Pretty cool stuff. Did you meet Thomas Hayden Church?

[MarkGrace]

Pretty cool stuff. Did you meet Thomas Hayden Church?

No. Just watched them shoot the scene.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Based on a recommendation from BigPiney, I watched This is England. Really liked it. And a great soundtrack to boot.

[BigPiney]

Based on a recommendation from BigPiney, I watched This is England. Really liked it. And a great soundtrack to boot.

Now you really need to watch the TV show if you have not. So good.

[Green Lantern]

The Tower Theatre is doing its annual screening of all the Oscar nominated short films. My daughter and I caught the animated shorts last night. There were a couple standouts, including a story of the first dog in the Garden of Eden, a short with Maggie Simpson and one about an unusual art thief that doubled as a 5 minute tour through art history.

The company that puts these together distributes them nationally, but mainly in specialty theaters. They usually only play for a week so check them out if at all interested.

[Northwestcoug]

Warm Bodies.

Really neat idea. Not bad execution. This might be the zombie film that Mrs. NWC finally likes. It's a solid B for me.

[MarkGrace]

Warm Bodies.

Really neat idea. Not bad execution. This might be the zombie film that Mrs. NWC finally likes. It's a solid B for me.

Dude who wrote the book lives on phinney ridge. I have some interest in seeing it, but will probably wait for the dvd.

[CardiacCoug]

Trouble with the Curve: Moneyball for idiots.