The "last movie I saw" thread

[Lost Student]

Just saw Snowpiercer over lunch with the missus. I wish I would have stayed in the office and worked. There were many plot holes/nonsensical storyline issues, for example the entire premise of the movie:

Spoiler for awful movie spoiler:

A man made ice age hits earth and everybody who is not on this ridiculous train has frozen to death. I assume that in the event of the world freezing over, rational groups of people would decide to pile into a well-insulated building with everything they need to survive, enough fuel to burn to keep them warm, etc. But nope, if you weren't on this train barreling nonstop over the ice/snow covered train tracks, you turned into (as a child in the movie said) human popsicles.

There was never any valid reason provided (unless I missed it) for why the train must be constantly moving. Riding on the tracks through large, mountainous areas seemed to increase the danger factor by a lot. Why not just park the train on a flat, boring spot somewhere?

The dialog was pretty bad. Here is my favorite line:

Spoiler for bad dialog:

When the main character gave one of several expositions, he described how the people in the tail section of the train (the lower class) became cannibals:

You know what I hate about myself? I know what people taste like. I know that babies taste best.

My wife convinced me to see this by telling me about the 94% Rotten Tomatoes rating. I don't have a clue why it scored that high. Here's a couple of reviews:

"Snowpiercer" is a rich, ravishing experience, a motion picture dripping in social consciousness and thematic intricacy without becoming preachy or losing sight of its other purpose as a rousing, robust entertainment.

A rococo exercise in mayhem, boldfaced allegory and ramped-up chaos. It's a summer movie with a social conscience.

Dustin Putman and John Anderson are morons. WTF do they mean by social consciousness and social conscience? 1/5 stars.

[Maximus]

Just saw Snowpiercer over lunch with the missus. I wish I would have stayed in the office and worked. There were many plot holes/nonsensical storyline issues, for example the entire premise of the movie:

Spoiler for awful movie spoiler:

A man made ice age hits earth and everybody who is not on this ridiculous train has frozen to death. I assume that in the event of the world freezing over, rational groups of people would decide to pile into a well-insulated building with everything they need to survive, enough fuel to burn to keep them warm, etc. But nope, if you weren't on this train barreling nonstop over the ice/snow covered train tracks, you turned into (as a child in the movie said) human popsicles.

There was never any valid reason provided (unless I missed it) for why the train must be constantly moving. Riding on the tracks through large, mountainous areas seemed to increase the danger factor by a lot. Why not just park the train on a flat, boring spot somewhere?

The dialog was pretty bad. Here is my favorite line:

Spoiler for bad dialog:

When the main character gave one of several expositions, he described how the people in the tail section of the train (the lower class) became cannibals:

My wife convinced me to see this by telling me about the 94% Rotten Tomatoes rating. I don't have a clue why it scored that high. Here's a couple of reviews:






Dustin Putman and John Anderson are morons. WTF do they mean by social consciousness and social conscience? 1/5 stars.

the train was moving so it could break up the ice to create water. duh

[falafel]

Just saw Snowpiercer over lunch with the missus. I wish I would have stayed in the office and worked. There were many plot holes/nonsensical storyline issues, for example the entire premise of the movie:

Spoiler for awful movie spoiler:

A man made ice age hits earth and everybody who is not on this ridiculous train has frozen to death. I assume that in the event of the world freezing over, rational groups of people would decide to pile into a well-insulated building with everything they need to survive, enough fuel to burn to keep them warm, etc. But nope, if you weren't on this train barreling nonstop over the ice/snow covered train tracks, you turned into (as a child in the movie said) human popsicles.

There was never any valid reason provided (unless I missed it) for why the train must be constantly moving. Riding on the tracks through large, mountainous areas seemed to increase the danger factor by a lot. Why not just park the train on a flat, boring spot somewhere?

The dialog was pretty bad. Here is my favorite line:

Spoiler for bad dialog:

When the main character gave one of several expositions, he described how the people in the tail section of the train (the lower class) became cannibals:

My wife convinced me to see this by telling me about the 94% Rotten Tomatoes rating. I don't have a clue why it scored that high. Here's a couple of reviews:






Dustin Putman and John Anderson are morons. WTF do they mean by social consciousness and social conscience? 1/5 stars.

Coach vs. First Class. Pass.

[Pelado]

I made it through about 20 minutes of the first one and learned my lesson. Fool me once!

I did finally see the new X-Men: Time Fixers and liked it. I was most surprised to learn that JFK was a mutant. :mindblown:

Just saw Snowpiercer over lunch with the missus. I wish I would have stayed in the office and worked. There were many plot holes/nonsensical storyline issues, for example the entire premise of the movie:

Spoiler for awful movie spoiler:

A man made ice age hits earth and everybody who is not on this ridiculous train has frozen to death. I assume that in the event of the world freezing over, rational groups of people would decide to pile into a well-insulated building with everything they need to survive, enough fuel to burn to keep them warm, etc. But nope, if you weren't on this train barreling nonstop over the ice/snow covered train tracks, you turned into (as a child in the movie said) human popsicles.

There was never any valid reason provided (unless I missed it) for why the train must be constantly moving. Riding on the tracks through large, mountainous areas seemed to increase the danger factor by a lot. Why not just park the train on a flat, boring spot somewhere?

The dialog was pretty bad. Here is my favorite line:

Spoiler for bad dialog:

When the main character gave one of several expositions, he described how the people in the tail section of the train (the lower class) became cannibals:

My wife convinced me to see this by telling me about the 94% Rotten Tomatoes rating. I don't have a clue why it scored that high. Here's a couple of reviews:






Dustin Putman and John Anderson are morons. WTF do they mean by social consciousness and social conscience? 1/5 stars.

Sounds like the way to prevent global warming is to get rid of the trains.

[Paperback Writer]

Grand Budapest Hotel. Loved it. Yes, Wes Anderson uses the same basic style for each of his movies, but I still enjoy it.

In fact, I am on a Wes Anderson binge. Watched Life Aquatic for the first time (very fun - I remember watching Jacques Cousteau as a kid on TV). Re-watched The Fantastic Mr. Fox (maybe my favorite Wes Anderson movie). Re-watched Rushmore. Currently re-watching The Royal Tenenbaums.

Re-watched Moonrise Kingdom. IMO, the film gets better with each viewing. Looking forward to seeing Grand Budapest Hotel. Also recently watched Red Dragon, a prequel to The Silence of the Lambs with Ed Norton and Ralph Fiennes. I found Red Dragon disturbing without many of the elements that made The Silence of the Lambs a good film. So it was good to then watch Norton in a Wes Anderson movie and look forward to seeing Fiennes in GBH.

[OceanBlue]

My lovely wife and I saw Jersey Boys a Clint Eastwood movie Saturday night. The critics have panned it but we liked the movie. My wife did comment we were the youngest people at the movie. Still liked it but I love music. The previews showed a James Brown movie in the works that looked fun.

[PaloAltoCougar]

Hitchcock. A biopic centered around the making of Psycho. Some good performances (Anthony Hopkins as Hitch, Helen Mirren as his wife, ScarJo as Janet Leigh, and James D'Arcy all too briefly as a great Anthony Perkins) and an interesting story, esp. if you like Hitchcock and Psycho, for which this provides an interesting behind-the-scenes look. It received mixed reviews (60% or so on Rotten Tomatoes), but we enjoyed it more than that. Since the viewer knows Psycho turned out to be a huge hit (sorry for the spoiler), it makes all the handwringing over the Hitchcocks' possible financial ruin (he and his wife financed the movie themselves) rather entertaining.

[Green Monstah]

I watched the first hour of Godzilla before walking out.

[Commando]

I watched the first hour of Godzilla before walking out.

That scary, huh?

[UVACoug]

Watched Fellini's La Strada for the first time tonight. My first Fellini film, and I loved it. I don't have much to say, other than to recommend it. Excited to see more of his films. I've heard they get more esoteric after La Strada.

[Armenag]

We did watch an indie film called "about Time" with Rachel McAdams. We really liked it.

Caught that one the other night. One of the most enjoyable movies I've seen in a while. Bill Nighy is always fun and the protagonist (apparently Brendan Gleeson's son) was good, as was McAdams. That house is amazing.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Royal Tenenbaums (re-watch)
Bottle Rocket (re-watch)
The Darjeeling Limited (first time)

Now that I have watched the entire set of Wes Anderson films, I am ready to rank them.

1) The Fantastic Mr. Fox
2) The Grand Budapest Hotel
3) Moonrise Kingdom
4) The Royal Tenenbaums
5) The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
6) Rushmore
7) The Darjeeling Limited
8) Bottle Rocket

That being said, I really enjoyed Bottle Rocket. They are all good.

[Pelado]

The Maiden Heist - Christopher Walken, Morgan Freeman, and William Macy devise a plan to steal art from the museum they work for. I enjoyed it.

[Commando]

Can't Buy Me Love featuring a young patrick dempsey and an even younger Seth Green. I flixed this one up and it's about how I remembered it, perhaps a bit racier since previous adolescent viewings were VHS recordings from the edited TV versions. I also noticed a few sights I didn't notice before b/c it was filmed in Tucson. This movie is also one of the early perpetrators of the slow clap after the dramatic speech at the end.

[SteelBlue]

Just finished reading Lone Survivor and thought I'd check out the movie. Liked the book, hated the movie. Was the true story somehow not exciting enough? I really don't get why they felt the need to change a single detail. I have to quit watching movies so soon after reading the book. The comparison is likely never going to be favorable. I think the one time I thought the movie did a book justice was Blackhawk Down.