The "last movie I saw" thread

[RC Vikings]

The closest is Boise. Jeez, the potato farmers have better cinema tech than we do.

Once again the western Idaho (Boise) eastern Oregon is the largest ONION growing area in the nation. All the potato farmers are in southern and eastern Idaho.

[old_gregg]

Once again the western Idaho (Boise) eastern Oregon is the largest ONION growing area in the nation. All the potato farmers are in southern and eastern Idaho.

onions in the west, potatoes in the east, and white supremacists up north!

[Moliere]

Once again the western Idaho (Boise) eastern Oregon is the largest ONION growing area in the nation. All the potato farmers are in southern and eastern Idaho.

and sugar beets, don't forget about the sugar beets!

[clackamascoug]

Once again the western Idaho (Boise) eastern Oregon is the largest ONION growing area in the nation. All the potato farmers are in southern and eastern Idaho.

I bet the folks at ORE-IDA in Ontario would take umbrage with your statement.

[MarkGrace]

Gone Girl

Easily bottom tier Fincher for me. Agree with Commando that it came off way too Lifetime movie. There was zero suspense in him actually being the murderer, and the second half came off really campy to me. For whatever reason it reminded me a bit of Soderbergh's Side Effects, only the camp there was deliberate and here it seemed unintentional. Also, I basically couldn't stand Rosamund Pike anytime she was on the screen.

Award winning performance from EmRat's rack, though

[Topper]

So should I see it on a non IMAX screen

[UVACoug]

Saw two movies yesterday--Whiplash and Interstellar. Maybe I was just in a cynical mood, but I found both to be almost laughably preposterous.

Whiplash is about a music teacher from hell (an understatement) who pretends to treat his jazz band students like crap in order to turn them into icons. In reality, he is just the world's biggest pretentious asshole who doesn't give a crap about anything but his ego. I've seen a lot of critics rave about it, claiming it is incredibly unique and profound. To me it felt very cliched ... like every sports movie Disney has ever made, but about a jazz drummer and with all the feel-good tropes taken out. And the message--that you must be driven by a hardass to achieve true greatness--is nonsense that is never seriously challenged by the film. I won't spoil the end, but it is so inconsistent with what the movie purports to be about that it really makes things fall apart. Miles Teller and J.K. Simmons acted the hell out of the roles they were given, and their performances make the movie somewhat redeemable in my eyes. But the script was so full of inconsistencies and impossibilities that I came away from it feeling like I wasted a good two hours ... should have gone to see the Snowden documentary instead.

As for Interstellar, I really wanted to like it and expected that I would. I am a big Nolan fan (though maybe not as much of an aficionado as Katy or PAC). I just felt like so much of the almost three-hour running time was mumbo-jumbo nonsense that it really kind of fell apart. I'll admit that I did go to the 10:40 p.m. showing and might have been close to dozing off a couple times ... but to me, that means that the movie couldn't keep my attention. So much of it seemed like a chore to get through and, as had been noted, the score and sound effects made about 25% of the dialogue really difficult to understand. Another 25% of the dialogue was spent blabbering on about what I assume is nonsensical ideas about relativity and gravity and dimensions ... blah, blah, blah. Maybe that babbling would be coherent to an astro-physicist ... or if you had a few hours to dissect it ... but in a blockbuster film, it just felt like a waste of time that really made the movie drag for me. The acting, for the most part, was really good. Chastain was criminally underused though, and there were a few McConaughey scenes that almost made me laugh out loud when I was supposed to be crying. Let's just say that his cry face is a little over the top. There were a lot of things I liked about the movie so I don't want to be totally down on it. I appreciate Nolan's ambition. It really needed some good editing though ... a some better sound mixing. I think cutting out a good third of the film would have made it a really great movie. I want to watch it again though, when I am a bit more coherent.

[Color Me Badd Fan]

The robot in Insterstellar also made a joke about blowing the crew out of the airlock. That sequence in 2001 where HAL takes over and Dave has to improvise is amazing, still one the more suspenseful pieces of film ever.

Interstellar was really good through the first 2/3 and then kind of falls apart at the end. The biggest flaw is the idea that semi-habitable planets could simply revolve around a black hole.

The most interesting thing was the relativety of time aspect of the movie. While I don't understand all the equations and I don't know if the ratios presented in the movie are accurate, it was still interesting to see it presented.

Jessica Chastain almost ruins the movie, kind of like what she almost did in Zero Dark 30.

[Dwight Schr-ute]

Alao saw Django Unchained. One of Torrentino s best. Foxe is fantastic as Jackson.

Love his stuff.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Love his stuff.

I like bits of Torrentino's work.

[Dwight Schr-ute]

I like bits of Torrentino's work.

I tend to get a lot of Italian themed malware after his stuff. And porn. Lots of porn.

[Armenag]

Jessica Chastain almost ruins the movie, kind of like what she almost did in Zero Dark 30.

Is she good in any of her movies? I agree that she's often terrible in both Interstellar and Zero Dark Thirty. She ruins too many scenes to keep getting roles that good.

[Armenag]

Interstellar - par for the course for Nolan. Big and generally fun but also messy and overly expository. Worth seeing.

Cuban Fury - Mostly terrible. I want to like a movie that casts Ian McShane as a salsa instructor but despite a solid cast, it just wasn't any good. A few funny lines, mostly from Chris O'Dowd, but on the whole it was too nasty. Also had virtually no scenes of actual salsa dancing. That's what happens when you cast Nick Frost as a great dancer I guess. Not worth seeing.

[CardiacCoug]

We went and saw Nightcrawler.

Maybe my expectations were too high but I thought it was just kind of average. There wasn't much in the way of nuance or subtlety to any of the characters, that's for sure. It seems like the type of movie that would do great with Hollywood celebs though because it vilifies paparazzi types and newspeople. And I agree with creekster that the ending was dumb.

[Commando]

Just saw Interstellar. I had forgotten that this was a Nolan movie, but what a movie it was. I'm not sure where to begin on it, but I thought it was a homerun. Hard to watch, but a homerun nonetheless. Masterful filmmaking.