The "last movie I saw" thread

[BoylenOver]

"Wings of Desire"

Very interesting film. Not an easy watch by any means, but beautifully shot, and the dialogue is quite rich.

[RC Vikings]

PS: I always that that "10% of your brain" thing was a just one of those made-up facts we toss around because it seems interesting to contemplate. How on earth could anyone know (or gauge) something like that anyway?

If you were using more than 10% of your brain you would know the answer to that.

[Shaka]

Paul....

Holy crap. Not what you would expect at all.

I laughed my ass off.

I saw it Saturday night. Definitely not going to win comedy awards but there were some seriously funny moments.

[Gidget]

I saw it Saturday night. Definitely not going to win comedy awards but there were some seriously funny moments.

The Reader

I really liked this movie. Very moving.

[MarkGrace]

Eyes Wide Shut

Somehow this received an R rating. That Kubrick was one weird dude.

[creekster]

Jane Eyre.


Saw it with my wife (of course). It wasnt bad, actually. But it was like Masterpiece Classic. If you like this sort of thing (Pelagius, I am talking to you here) you will like this one.

[Green Lantern]

"Wings of Desire"

Very interesting film. Not an easy watch by any means, but beautifully shot, and the dialogue is quite rich.

Great movie.

I just watched E.T. with my 5 year old. She loved it.

[Katy Lied]

Run, dont walk, to see this movie. What a charming little gem, and I don't mean in a chick flick way. With the best wrestling scenes since Loudon Swain labored through a bloody nose in Vision Quest, this movie will be liked by everyone. I can't think of a single person that wont.

It won't change your life, it wont leave you breathless. It will allow you to celebrate human nature, chock full of frailty and triumph in every scene.

The cast is amazing--you already know Giamatti in the schlub-next-door role, but the others are great as well. The 16 year old boy is a natural. Amy Ryan (Michael Scott's girlfriend) and the Charlie Sheen stalker girl in 2-1/2 Men also turn in good performances. Bobby Cannavale too.

Apparently the kid actor is also a NJ state champion wrestler.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Run, dont walk, to see this movie. What a charming little gem, and I don't mean in a chick flick way. With the best wrestling scenes since Loudon Swain labored through a bloody nose in Vision Quest, this movie will be liked by everyone. I can't think of a single person that wont.

It won't change your life, it wont leave you breathless. It will allow you to celebrate human nature, chock full of frailty and triumph in every scene.

The cast is amazing--you already know Giamatti in the schlub-next-door role, but the others are great as well. The 16 year old boy is a natural. Amy Ryan (Michael Scott's girlfriend) and the Charlie Sheen stalker girl in 2-1/2 Men also turn in good performances. Bobby Cannavale too.

What movie?

[Donuthole]

What movie?

Win-Win, i'm guessing. The kid who plays the wrestler is actually a state champion wrestler (New Jersey, maybe?)

[BoylenOver]

"In The Mood For Love"

Very entertaining. The ending was unfulfilling, though.

[Chachi]

127 hours. Loved it. Next in line, Jackass 3 and Fighter.

[Sullyute]

"In The Mood For Love"

Very entertaining. The ending was unfulfilling, though.

I am sorry but this is just begging for a "that's what she said" line.

[Katy Lied]

Source Code

Saw it for girls night out. At the end of the movie, one of us was asleep, one was sitting forward in her chair, engrossed, one was outright sobbing, and one was somberly contemplative.

Roger Ebert calls this movie "Hard" sci-fi, as opposed to other scifi movies which appear to be just war movies taking place in the future. This one attempts to come up with an explanation for a fantastical event.

Vera Farmiga-- I dont know what it is about her, I dont think she's particularly beautiful, but I just cant look away. she has real screen magnetism, in a soulfull, translucent skin sort of way. Molly Ringwald had the same sort of charisma, although it disappeared when she turned 18. Anyways, Farmiga does a great job in acting with her head and shoulders, since that's all you see of her in 95% of the movie.

Lots of hidden comments:

Spoiler for Lots o' hidden comments for this movie.:

The director also did the movie Moon, which was recommended by you Cuffites. Source Code is Moon with a viable screenplay (unlike Moon, which had a listless, meandering script. Themes that are repeated include:

1. The protagonist is a shadow of his former self (clone, the last vestiges of the brain of a dead person)
2. There are problems in the mirage that manifests itself as reality to the protagonists, little tweaks in the matrix.
3. The protagonist's actual self (clone, brain stem) is repeatedly and cold bloodedly used by the big corporation/military to meet a goal larger than the life of our hero.
4. The protagonist repeatedly plays out the same life over and over, sometimes the same way, sometimes with a little variation, and is trapped and beyond the redemption of ever going "home" and ending the cycle. (See the Matrix geek posts for this theme in the Matrix Movies.)

The code sign for mission control is Beleaguered Castle. I wonder if it has anything to do with the solitaire card game, especially since the call sign includes playing cards.

[Coach McGuirk]

Radio Bikini doc from the 80's about two atomic bombs detonated at Bikini Atoll, one above and one below the surface of the water. The doc follows months before with hearings in congress to a couple weeks after the second bomb detonated. The story centers around the Bikinians who were basically removed from their country and told we would be dropping bombs on it, and an enlisted man who died in 1983 from cancer caused from his exposure to the radiation.

The doc was up for an Oscar in the 80's and deservedly so.


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