The "last movie I saw" thread

[Green Lantern]

My wife and I watched The Howling on Netflix instant the other night. A fun werewolf movie I hadn't seen since the 80s. Joe Dante is one of the more underrated directors in my opinion. Between this movie, the original Pirahna and the two Gremlins movies, he has a wicked sense of humor and a deep love and respect for all the b-movies of the past.

We also saw Hanna this weekend and had a great time. That Saoirse Ronan is amazing. Loved the Chemical Bros. score too.

[Donuthole]

Nanny McPhee Returns. Maggie Gyllenhaal as Batman's love interest, Rachel Dawes? Not hot. Maggie Gyllenhaal as the farmer's disheveled wife and (possibly widowed) mother of 3 unruly kids? Kinda hot.

[UtahDan]

Source Code. Liked it. Good but not great.

[FMCoug]

Soul Surfer. Turned out to be a great movie. Started out slow but it was actually a great film. Highly recommended.

[thesaint258]

I saw Unknown this weekend, and I liked it. As you could predict for this kind of movie, there was a twist, but it wasn't one I was expecting. I usually like Liam Neeson's movies, too, The Phantom Menace notwithstanding.

[The_Tick]

Soul Surfer. Turned out to be a great movie. Started out slow but it was actually a great film. Highly recommended.

You wife mentioned this on FB and said "I give it two thumbs up."

I snickered and thought of all the poor taste replies I could give...but didn't.

[jay santos]

Saw Source Code and Hanna over the last month.

Both were pretty fun, slightly above average thriller types. Source Code better than Hanna. Both had interesting premise. Hanna had more potential but fizzled. The thing in Hanna where the director was trying to add the freaky surreal feeling (spooky German street with the graffiti, weird magician's house, weird abandoned spook alley/amusement park place at the end) didn't fit and just seemed to confuse.

[Flystripper]

Easy A was much better than I thought it would be. I had very low expectations and I laughed pretty hard in places. The dialogue is quite clever.

[LA Ute]

After weeks of effort my wife and daughter persuaded me to watch "Gone with the Wind" with them. We saw the first half (2 hours) last night, and will finish tonight. I must admit, it's quite an epic and I can only imagine what it was like to go see such a production in 1938 when it first came out. Also, I am enjoying it, even though it may be the mother of all chick flicks.

EDIT: Just finished it. I want those 4 hours back.

[BoylenOver]

"Dear Zachary"

A crushing documentary about a psycho chick who murders her unborn baby's father, and the legal/custody battle his parents go through when she flees to Canada.

[Katy Lied]

I saw Unknown this weekend, and I liked it. As you could predict for this kind of movie, there was a twist, but it wasn't one I was expecting. I usually like Liam Neeson's movies, too, The Phantom Menace notwithstanding.

So you'd recommend it? I'm thinking of seeing this at the weekend.

[thesaint258]

So you'd recommend it? I'm thinking of seeing this at the weekend.

Yeah, I would. I saw it in the dollar theater, and I thought it was worth the $1.50. I would have even paid $2.00.

[UtahDan]

After weeks of effort my wife and daughter persuaded me to watch "Gone with the Wind" with them. We saw the first half (2 hours) last night, and will finish tonight. I must admit, it's quite an epic and I can only imagine what it was like to go see such a production in 1938 when it first came out. Also, I am enjoying it, even though it may be the mother of all chick flicks.

EDIT: Just finished it. I want those 4 hours back.

I think it is not a great movie. But I say with all seriousness that the book is one of the best works of fiction I have ever read.

[Green Lantern]

After weeks of effort my wife and daughter persuaded me to watch "Gone with the Wind" with them. We saw the first half (2 hours) last night, and will finish tonight. I must admit, it's quite an epic and I can only imagine what it was like to go see such a production in 1938 when it first came out. Also, I am enjoying it, even though it may be the mother of all chick flicks.

EDIT: Just finished it. I want those 4 hours back.

I think it is not a great movie. But I say with all seriousness that the book is one of the best works of fiction I have ever read.

I think that there is something to be said for a film being improved by seeing it on the big screen as it was intended. I'd never seen GWTW until they screened a print during a classic movie series at Jordan Commons in Salt Lake. The images and the filmmaking in that movie are just incredible and their impact on a giant screen is one of almost overwhelming grandeur. Granted, it's hella long, the heroine is grade-A annoying and the melodrama can be cloying, but I'll still go see it play on the big screen the next time I get a chance. And Rhett is a badass.

[LA Ute]

I think it is not a great movie. But I say with all seriousness that the book is one of the best works of fiction I have ever read.

I am probably being too hard on it. The movie was spectacular and I can only imagine how big it hit the eye in 1938. Like Roger Ebert, I need to have an important character I care about in a movie, and Scarlett was just too hard to like -- although I began to see signs that she'd softened and become less self-centered towards the end. I liked Rhett. But the overall experience didn't move me much, other than being fun to watch.