The "last movie I saw" thread

[frank ryan]

From just this year? The last couple years?

last couple

[Jeff Lebowski]

Don't encourage him.

MG is a great movie critic.

[MarkGrace]

MG is a great movie critic.

Except you saw Take Shelter on my recommendation!

But I really dug that one. MMMM was actually quite similar in some ways. Both deal with people who are mentally fractured, though for different reasons. Take Shelter because of a psychological disorder, MMMM because of indoctrination by a cult. They also have similarly ambiguous endings, though many have argued MMMM's more effective -- I can see that argument.

[The_Douger]

We saw Jack Reacher over the weekend. I thought it probably deserved an R rating. Maybe I'm just being overly sensitive because of the recent stuff in Connetitcutt. My wife was turning her head and covering her eyes and she's usually not like that, it was pretty violent.

I liked the story itself. Tom Cruise is a weird dude, but he still does a good job in these types of shows. I guess people didn't like him being hte character because he is such a little dude and the character from the book is a large man, but I never read the book so I didn't feel real strongly one way or the other.

It was good, not great. There's better stuff out right now to see, but it was decent.

[Donuthole]

saw it yesterday and loved it, even the one uhhhh particularly uhhhh graphic uhhhhh scene uhhhhhh.

uhhhh which one?

Spoiler for GRAPHIC DISCUSSION:

Send it in a spoiler post, as I'm curious as to which scene you found most graphic.

[Green Lantern]

uhhhh which one?

Spoiler for GRAPHIC DISCUSSION:

Send it in a spoiler post, as I'm curious as to which scene you found most graphic.

My guess:

Spoiler for graphic scene?:

Jamie Foxx naked and hanging upside down from the ceiling.

[old_gregg]

uhhhh which one?

Spoiler for GRAPHIC DISCUSSION:

Send it in a spoiler post, as I'm curious as to which scene you found most graphic.

Spoiler for spoiler:

the guy getting his ding dong shot off. the dogs scene was really horrific, but i didn't think it was graphic. the gunfight was really bloody, but after the sword battle in kill bill it's what i expected. the wiener shooting was not something i expected.

also, wtf was up with the girl in the bandanna? what am i missing?

[Commando]

Django definitely deserves its own thread, but being against thread-proliferation and all, I'm not about to be the one that starts it.

This might be the best movie I've seen all year, Tarantino's infatuation with the N-word notwithstanding. As for the length, three hours in a movie theater have never passed quicker for me. Waltz is just as brilliant as he was in inglourious basterds, even if the role won't garner him the same hardware considerations. And Jamie Foxx was fantastic; I didn't complain about his overacting a single time, which is a first. Though in smaller roles, Samuel L. and Leo are both great, of course.

The over-the-top-gore is very typical of a QT spectacle, and I'd be lying if I said I didn't cringe a couple times.

I loved it too. QT gets absolutely genius performances from his actors- and it doesn't hurt that they are of the DiCaprio/Waltz caliber.

As usual, I loved the pacing, dialogue, music, cinematographic swoops and flourishes, and stylistic choices.

However, I am getting a little weary of QT's revenge flick motif- which has been his last 4 movies. It's lazy B.S. and keeps his films from getting back to being as great as Pulp Fiction. I know it worked well for Kill Bill, but it's just boring now.

Also, I was a little disturbed by the cruelty portrayed in the film. Not because of the content, because Inglorius Basterds was worse, but the story there was more serious to match it seems. There are very light moments and comedic exchanges in scenes punctuated with incidents of extreme cruelty and violence. I think it's that juxtaposition that bothered me. Not enough to dislike the film, but that tonal dissonance threw my vibe off a bit. I don't know if that was QT's intention, but if it wasn't he's one emotionally crippled guy it seems.

[Donuthole]

IAlso, I was a little disturbed by the cruelty portrayed in the film. Not because of the content, because Inglorius Basterds was worse, but the story there was more serious to match it seems. There are very light moments and comedic exchanges in scenes punctuated with incidents of extreme cruelty and violence. I think it's that juxtaposition that bothered me. Not enough to dislike the film, but that tonal dissonance threw my vibe off a bit. I don't know if that was QT's intention, but if it wasn't he's one emotionally crippled guy it seems.

I initially thought this as well. But after pondering on it for a few days, it dawned on me that slavery was/is every bit as serious as the Nazi extermination of Jews.

[Donuthole]

Spoiler for spoiler:

the guy getting his ding dong shot off. the dogs scene was really horrific, but i didn't think it was graphic. the gunfight was really bloody, but after the sword battle in kill bill it's what i expected. the wiener shooting was not something i expected.

also, wtf was up with the girl in the bandanna? what am i missing?

Spoiler for Grrrr.:

Holy crap. How is it that I don't remember this (the penis shooting) at all? I wonder if this was edited out of the Utah version? Or did you see it in Utah, too? Maybe I blinked and missed this.

[Katy Lied]

I saw Trouble with the Curve from Redbox. It is the antithesis of Moneyball. Moneyball portrays baseball scouts as doddering old fools with a list of trite descriptive words when evaluating a recruit. In Moneyball, it's all about the spreadsheet, concocting up permutations of possible baseball outcomes. Who gets on base a lot. Who is underpaid with respect to his performance. It is hardboiled and realistic, and nothing is romantic and lyrical about the baseball in this movie.

In Trouble with the Curve you get the same doddering baseball scouts, but they really know baseball, they can read small variations in baseball grip, how the wood is stroked, the minute physical manifestations a player shows in reaction to a pitch or a throw. Gus, the protagonist who suffers from macular degeneration, can actually hear how a potential recruit reacts to a curve ball. Whereas the younger scouts all rely on statistics to predict how a high schooler will hit against pro pitchers. Of the two movies, this one has a taste of baseball lyricism which we've seen in Field of Dreams, the one that sings praises to the art of the game.

I recommend renting both at the same time, and comparing them.

[old_gregg]

Spoiler for Grrrr.:

Holy crap. How is it that I don't remember this (the penis shooting) at all? I wonder if this was edited out of the Utah version? Or did you see it in Utah, too? Maybe I blinked and missed this.

Spoiler for spoiler:

saw it in utah. i might have been hallucinating schlongs (it's happened before), but when django busts into the cabin where they're holding "broomhilda" one of the guys is taking a bath and stands up and gets his love muscle blown off.

[Commando]

I initially thought this as well. But after pondering on it for a few days, it dawned on me that slavery was/is every bit as serious as the Nazi extermination of Jews.

While that is true, there was a lot less comedic relief/levity in IB. The whole movie maintained a pretty heavy, ominous tone throughout with the tension only broken fleetingly with some breaks of imaginative dialogue like in Reservoir Dogs.

[frank ryan]

I saw Trouble with the Curve from Redbox. It is the antithesis of Moneyball. Moneyball portrays baseball scouts as doddering old fools with a list of trite descriptive words when evaluating a recruit. In Moneyball, it's all about the spreadsheet, concocting up permutations of possible baseball outcomes. Who gets on base a lot. Who is underpaid with respect to his performance. It is hardboiled and realistic, and nothing is romantic and lyrical about the baseball in this movie.

In Trouble with the Curve you get the same doddering baseball scouts, but they really know baseball, they can read small variations in baseball grip, how the wood is stroked, the minute physical manifestations a player shows in reaction to a pitch or a throw. Gus, the protagonist who suffers from macular degeneration, can actually hear how a potential recruit reacts to a curve ball. Whereas the younger scouts all rely on statistics to predict how a high schooler will hit against pro pitchers. Of the two movies, this one has a taste of baseball lyricism which we've seen in Field of Dreams, the one that sings praises to the art of the game.

I recommend renting both at the same time, and comparing them.

Moneyball looks good. I've been meaning to see it even though baseball related stuff usually makes me sleepy.

[Donuthole]

Spoiler for spoiler:

saw it in utah. i might have been hallucinating schlongs (it's happened before), but when django busts into the cabin where they're holding "broomhilda" one of the guys is taking a bath and stands up and gets his love muscle blown off.

Spoiler for Ding Dong the Witch is Dead:

Wow. I remember that scene and the guy bathing in the tub. But I must have missed the dong shot. Or maybe i've repressed it?