The "last movie I saw" thread

[Dwight Schr-ute]

What Dreams May Come.

Not to be confused with the middle school educational movie "Wet Dreams May Come."

[dabrockster]

What Dreams May Come.

That is a very tough one to watch now. But he was really good in that one. Visually stunning for that time.

[Moliere]

http://www.reignofjudgesmovie.com/

Totally stoked about this movie. It'll certainly be much better done that the first BofM movie.

[SCcoug]

http://www.reignofjudgesmovie.com/

Totally stoked about this movie. It'll certainly be much better done that the first BofM movie.

You better move it to DH's thread before he goes postal on you

http://www.cougarstadium.com/showthr...trailer-thread

[jay santos]

I liked Nightcrawler. Good character film.

[falafel]

http://www.reignofjudgesmovie.com/

Totally stoked about this movie. It'll certainly be much better done that the first BofM movie.

Why does he keep calling it a "movement" instead of a movie?

[myboynoah]

Why does he keep calling it a "movement" instead of a movie?

Maybe because it kind of looks like one.

[MarkGrace]

I liked Nightcrawler. Good character film.

Did you catch the temple in the opening establishing shots? That gave me a chuckle.

[MarkGrace]

I really enjoyed Chef.

To go artistic on you, th sandwich was a metaphor for his life, he needed to simplify go back to his roots and find his true home. Not the wine pairings, ScarJo, fancy restaurant.

Jk

I really enjoyed it though thought it was great.

I thought it was great with the exception of the "6 months later" addendum which felt unnecessary and out-of-place. My read on this was that it had more to do with the idea of dealing with criticism than anything. You try hard to make something to impress someone and they rip your shit. So you toss that aside and just start making what you enjoy and are passionate about and hope that in the end people like it. I'm guessing that scene where Favreau goes postal on the critic was very cathartic to him on a personal level. There's a near identical scene in Birdman (at least in idea) that similarly seems to be Innaritu lashing out at his critics.

[falafel]

Did you catch the temple in the opening establishing shots? That gave me a chuckle.

I saw that too. Funny.

[jay santos]

Did you catch the temple in the opening establishing shots? That gave me a chuckle.

Yes, I had read your post and looked for it.

[old_gregg]

I thought it was great with the exception of the "6 months later" addendum which felt unnecessary and out-of-place. My read on this was that it had more to do with the idea of dealing with criticism than anything. You try hard to make something to impress someone and they rip your shit. So you toss that aside and just start making what you enjoy and are passionate about and hope that in the end people like it. I'm guessing that scene where Favreau goes postal on the critic was very cathartic to him on a personal level. There's a near identical scene in Birdman (at least in idea) that similarly seems to be Innaritu lashing out at his critics.

it was nice to see sofia vergara not being gratuitously obnoxious for a change

[Northwestcoug]

Birdman

I'm not familiar with the director's previous films like MG is. But I did enjoy Birdman. Acting was excellent. Cinematography was a pleasure to watch. Some unbroken scenes lasted minutes (though I suspect some of the really long ones were digitally enhanced). I liked that the whole movie had a theater flair to it, dialogue and all, since it essentially all took place in a theater. Mrs. NWC found it very poignant, and saw a lot of parallels to life. I'm not sure if I thought it was all that, but I'd still recommend it. Solid B+.

Mrs. NWC has become slightly obsessed with Birdman, so we paid to watch it again. I still liked it, and enjoyed it more than when I watched it the first time. I was even more impressed with the acting this time. Some of the clunker lines stood out more this time. But still, a solid good movie.

[Dwight Schr-ute]

I just wanted to congratulate The Dude on his arrival to the Library of Congress. Well deserved.

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/20...lebowski/?_r=0

[PaloAltoCougar]

Mine is a minority opinion (as evidenced by the 90+% Rotten Tomatoes approval rating) but I didn't love Chris Rock's Top Five; I didn't even like it much. It has some funny cameos (Jerry Seinfeld, Tracy Morgan, Whoopi Goldberg, Brian Regan, among others), and Rock can be very funny at times, but he's really not a great actor on the big screen, and the movie is overstuffed with eff bombs and over-the-top raunchiness. Want to see Rock with a rotund, naked Cedric the Entertainer in a four-way with a couple of hookers? This film is for you. And what is supposed to be a major climactic scene, involving the insertion of something gross up the tush of a naked dude who's presenting like a mandrill, was more than a little offputting. Mrs. PAC is a good sport and will accompany to pretty much any movie, but this one taxed her patience to the limit.

BTW, we laughed more at the previews before the movie (including Will Farrell's Get Hard, the trailer for which was really funny).