The "last movie I saw" thread

[Green Lantern]

Yes, it was. I'm assuming that's atypical?

You must have just had the dubbing on instead of the subtitles. I did that on accident.

Yea Let the Right One in defaults to dubbing, but I changed it in the blu ray settings. You lose a lot of the acting in movies like LTROI and oldboy with dubs.

That's interesting that some DVDs default to the English-dubbing. I guess I don't know what's typical for Oldboy since I saw it at Sundance several years ago. I usually have a hard time watched dubbed movies though. Lots of the Jackie Chan movies only come dubbed and I wish I could find them with subtitles instead.

[MarkGrace]

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.

Terrible. Awful. A complete abomination. The only thing I liked about it was that half of the soundtrack was made up of selections from David Byrne and Brian Eno's excellent 2008 album Everything That Happens Will Happen Today.

[Katy Lied]

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.

Terrible. Awful. A complete abomination. The only thing I liked about it was that half of the soundtrack was made up of selections from David Byrne and Brian Eno's excellent 2008 album Everything That Happens Will Happen Today.

How much of the abomination was due to Shia Le Bouf (or Chee Lay BOO, as pronounced by Sophia Vergara)? He bugs me as much as Matthew McConnaughey bugs me, and his acting is so derivitive, except for Disturbia and most of Holes.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

How much of the abomination was due to Shia Le Bouf (or Chee Lay BOO, as pronounced by Sophia Vergara)? He bugs me as much as Matthew McConnaughey bugs me, and his acting is so derivitive, except for Disturbia and most of Holes.

At least McConaughey is nice to look at, those abs are dreamy!

[Green Lantern]

At least McConaughey is nice to look at, those abs are dreamy!

Also McConaughey fought and killed dragons. LaBeouf would get his ass handed to him by a dragon, even with his Transformer buddies.

[MarkGrace]

How much of the abomination was due to Shia Le Bouf (or Chee Lay BOO, as pronounced by Sophia Vergara)? He bugs me as much as Matthew McConnaughey bugs me, and his acting is so derivitive, except for Disturbia and most of Holes.

Not as much as was due to Oliver Stone. Is this what he's up to these days? Ouch.

[Katy Lied]

Watched Белое солнце пустыни, or White Sun of the Desert (1969), the most popular movie ever to come out of the Soviet Union. It is part of the Red Western genre--western movies made in the USSR. Apparently, politburo leaders loved westerns, and requested that the local MosFilm studio create one. Filmed in Turkmenistan, it's about a red army soldier who has just come from the Soviet revolutionary wars against the basmachi and white russians, and on his way home is charged with protecting a harem of women abandoned by their husband and master.

This movie is traditionally watched by Cosmonauts right before takeoff, and the music and dialogue lines from the movie have become entrenched in modern russian culture.

Had to buy it from germanwarfilms.com since it wasn't on netflix, but my copy is very clean with options to view in russian with english subtitles. The best part is that it comes with two interviews with the film's writers, translated into english. It was fasciinating hearing about all the problems the filmmakers encountered in getting their movie made, one of which was that the translation of harem into russian is brothel, and soviet censors thought it was inappropriate for soviet audiences. The producers had to jump through many many hoops to get their movie made, all of which sound suspiciously like the hoops that movie backers make for films in this country.

[RobinFinderson]

How much of the abomination was due to Shia Le Bouf (or Chee Lay BOO, as pronounced by Sophia Vergara)? He bugs me as much as Matthew McConnaughey bugs me, and his acting is so derivitive, except for Disturbia and most of Holes.

No doubt. How this fool got tapped to be the new Hollywood wunderkind is beyond my understanding. As you point out, he turns in a passing performance in Disturbia and Holes, but nothing worthy of the attention he has received.

[PaloAltoCougar]

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.

Terrible. Awful. A complete abomination. The only thing I liked about it was that half of the soundtrack was made up of selections from David Byrne and Brian Eno's excellent 2008 album Everything That Happens Will Happen Today.

We saw it last night. I need to take these abomination warnings more seriously. Actually, I didn't hate it, but what a mess. Oliver Stone had about five good ideas and thirty bad ones, and put them together in a goulash of cinematic tricks and devices that a high school filmmaker might think was clever.

Oddly, the performances were really pretty good, but the director and writers should be taken out back and beaten.

I did kind of like the meetings at the Fed which seemed pretty accurate given the descriptions I've read of the confabs that led up to the downfall of Bear Stearns and Lehman, but so much of the rest was utterly implausible, and the cinematic tricks (split screens, double images, bubbles rising and bursting, etc.) were beyond annoying. The popcorn was good, though, so such trips are never a bad thing.

[MarkGrace]

and the cinematic tricks (split screens, double images, bubbles rising and bursting, etc.) were beyond annoying.

Soooo bad. I couldn't believe how amateurish the thing looked for an Oliver Stone film. I swear it was like a first-year film student project gone wrong.

[Katy Lied]

So we're off on a long road trip with a car DVD player. No kids, so we don't have to bring any Disney or kidflix. You have to pick a certain type of movie to watch in the car--nothing too overwrought or involved because you're distracted and cant focus as much. Light comedy or drama but nothing that palls on repeat viewings, plus some old friends:

The Best of Arli$$- The Art of the Sports Super Agent
Strictly Ballroom
Keene Eddie--The Entire Series
Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Boy, everyone is gonna kill me for bringing this one)
Gosford Park
Fight Club
The Thomas Crown Affair
Point Break
Office Space

[Bastage]

Saw Devil a few nights ago. I went in with zero expectations, but it was much better than I anticipated. It wasn't scary, just a murder/suspense movie. I'd give it a C+.

[PaloAltoCougar]

Pirate Radio. Anyone else see this? I watched it tonight and it was surprisingly enjoyable. In the '60s, with the BBC broadcasting only 30 minutes a day of rock and roll (too decadent), Radio Caroline and other stations set up offshore in the UK and broadcast to the rock-starved Brits. The movie is very loosely based on that. Hilarious turns by Kenneth Branagh as a stuff-shirt British cabinet minister, and by Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, Emma Thompson, Phillip Seymour Hoffman and others. I suspect those who didn't grow up in the '60s won't enjoy it as much, but for Boomers it was a great nostalgic trip with a superb soundtrack. Finderson will probably hate it, since the whole movie is talkin' bout my generation.

Rated R for language and naughty bits.

[USUC]

Saw half of Dinner For Schmucks tonight at the dollar theater. It was terrible. I just couldn't get into it. We walked out about an hour into it. Worst $1.50 I've ever spent. I could have bought 2 Snickers for that price.

[BoylenOver]

"Conversations With Other Women"

Beautiful and heartbreaking. The actor and actress that played their younger selves did a great job.