The "last movie I saw" thread

[CardiacCoug]

Django was awesome. My expectations were high and were exceeded.

I loved Waltz's King Schultz character and Samuel L. Jackson's character. The bouncy tooth on top of the cart was awesome.

The shooting violence doesn't bother me because it seems pretty unrealistic with the blood flying everywhere. But the initial mandingo scene and the scene with the dogs bothered me enough that I had to look away.

My wife fell asleep. Kind of funny that we have very similar preferences in music but she generally falls asleep during movies that I suggest: action movies, James Bond type stuff, etc.

[Green Lantern]

The wife and I saw The Impossible last night, starring Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor as the parents of a family who were hit by the 2004 Indonesian tsunami. A stunning movie but also one of the hardest-to-watch films I've ever seen. It is absolutely emotionally grueling yet has a very humanitarian outlook. I'll share some more thoughts later but the short version is: Highly recommended but not for the faint of heart.

[MarkGrace]

The wife and I saw The Impossible last night, starring Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor as the parents of a family who were hit by the 2004 Indonesian tsunami. A stunning movie but also one of the hardest-to-watch films I've ever seen. It is absolutely emotionally grueling yet has a very humanitarian outlook. I'll share some more thoughts later but the short version is: Highly recommended but be not for the faint of heart.

I'm pretty interested in this.

[frank ryan]

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.

It's cause you guys are from Herriman. High school Elvis plays cause scandal in your neck of the woods.

[falafel]

The wife and I saw The Impossible last night, starring Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor as the parents of a family who were hit by the 2004 Indonesian tsunami. A stunning movie but also one of the hardest-to-watch films I've ever seen. It is absolutely emotionally grueling yet has a very humanitarian outlook. I'll share some more thoughts later but the short version is: Highly recommended but be not for the faint of heart.

After watching the trailer, this looks like a movie I may not have the stomach for. I don't do well with shows like this.

[MarkGrace]

Once a Time In Anatolizzzzzzzzzzz.

This year's Meek's Cutoff. Same painfully slow static shots (I was watching my timer on the DVR and I swear one was +2 minutes), same amount of absolutely nothing going on. In the first hour and ten minutes I think they went from sitting in the desert talking about nothing to sitting in a house talking about nothing.

[Green Lantern]

Once a Time In Anatolizzzzzzzzzzz.

This year's Meek's Cutoff. Same painfully slow static shots (I was watching my timer on the DVR and I swear one was +2 minutes), same amount of absolutely nothing going on. In the first hour and ten minutes I think they went from sitting in the desert talking about nothing to sitting in a house talking about nothing.

Crap, I'm already having hard time convincing my wife to watch this one with me before the Oscars. This does not encourage me. Why are movies like this and Meek's so beloved amongst much of the critical community?

[falafel]

I watched Half Nelson last night for the first time. A very good performance by Gosling, but the girl who played Drey really blew me away. She was incredible.

Also, I may just be stupid, but I don't understand the title.

[Jeff Lebowski]

I watched Half Nelson last night for the first time. A very good performance by Gosling, but the girl who played Drey really blew me away. She was incredible.

Also, I may just be stupid, but I don't understand the title.

I haven't seen the movie, but a "half nelson" is a wrestling move.

[Donuthole]

Also a Miles Davis song.

[dabrockster]

I haven't seen the movie, but a "half nelson" is a wrestling move.

To insult wrestler's even more.. The guys plays a Jr. High basketball coach...

[Sullyute]

I watched "Virginia" over the weekend on Netflix. It is about a mormon sheriff (Ed Harris) who is running for state senate. He has also been having a 16 year long affair with Virginia (Jennifer Connelly). He likes to keep his "magic mormon underwear" on when he has a rendezvous with Virginia. They both have kids the same age (roughly 16 years old) that like each other and eventually run off to Atlantic City to get married. It was written and directly by Dustin Lance Black of "Milk" fame. Other than about a dozen f-bombs it would have been PG-13. It was interesting but I wouldn't recommend it.

[falafel]

I haven't seen the movie, but a "half nelson" is a wrestling move.

Yeah, I get that, but I didn't get the relation to the movie.

I looked into it a bit more, and the writers said it is a reference to the wrestling move. Apparently its a difficult move to get out of, but you can get out. That is the idea they wanted to portray in the movie.

[MarkGrace]

I watched Half Nelson last night for the first time. A very good performance by Gosling, but the girl who played Drey really blew me away. She was incredible.

Also, I may just be stupid, but I don't understand the title.

Have you seen the other Boden & Fleck joints? You may like them. Sugar is the best, It's Kind of a Funny Story was a little more hit or miss.

[falafel]

Have you seen the other Boden & Fleck joints? You may like them. Sugar is the best, It's Kind of a Funny Story was a little more hit or miss.

No, I didn't know they had done other films. I will check them out.