Last Movie Watched

[David]

Any thoughts on the last movie you watched?

LAWN DOGS (1997)

Atrocious. The screenplay is like something dredged up from the imaginations of drunken college freshmen majoring in creative writing. There's no coherent theme or style or tone, & the actors are uniformly rotten. Mischa Barton, who plays the precocious, misunderstood 10-year-old, obviously had no more ability at that age than she does now. Sam Rockwell plays the loner nonconformist gardener, who achieves Zen while mowing lawns. Christopher McDonald rises to his usual level, which in this instance gives us a bird's eye view of the weeds. Kathleen Quinlan is completely wasted.

Everyone in the upscale suburb talks with a sneer or one of those community theater southern twangs, even though the story appears to take place in the midwest. Along the way, a couple of animals are killed, but there appears to be a look of gratitude on their faces. They must have known they had better roles ahead of them. The young girl gets upset & runs across the prairie in medium & long shot, like an Andrew Wyeth painting.

Not much else happens, except that some of the characters bed down with one another's spouses, & during a block barbecue some sort of point is feebly made about class distinctions & hypocrisy -- the usual student film claptrap. In fact, the whole thing feels like a senior thesis. None of the inhabitants of this seething suburb does or says anything that resembles any word or deed that has ever been said or done anywhere on earth. At one point, the Alannah Myles song "Black Velvet" plays on the radio in some guy's pickup, & it's the truest thing in the movie, which should give you an idea.

My verdict = AVOID

[JWS]

The last was "The Other Boleyn Girl". The next will "21" about the MIT students that took Las Vegas.

[Steviefan49]

The last was "The Other Boleyn Girl". The next will "21" about the MIT students that took Las Vegas.

I still want to see "The Other Boleyn Girl" and "21" too.. Last night we went to go see Horton Hears a Who.. and I gave it a "thumbs up"! LOL:thumbsup:

[David]

Last night we went to go see Horton Hears a Who.. and I gave it a "thumbs up"! LOL:thumbsup:Looks cute. But I'm a big fan of the original! :nod: :D

[strandinthewind]

Maurice (1987)

I love Merchant Ivory films and I love E.M. Forster. I think this was a good production. It ran a little long, but it was good quality.]

I watch Age of Innocence later the evening. It is in my top 5 films and I watch it at least two times a year. I think the cinematography is fantastic and is heavily influenced by D.W. Griffith. Sadly, neither of the Gish sisters was available to perform in it.

[Steviefan49]

Looks cute. But I'm a big fan of the original! :nod: :D

It was too cute! I already put in that we're going to get the DVD when it comes out! LOL.. I'm a huge Steve Carrell fan!;)

[Gypsy-Rhiannon]

I watched The Pursuit of Happiness last night. Loved it!

[tuigirl]

I watched The Pursuit of Happiness last night. Loved it!
Is that Will Smith? I always thought that it might be a bit of a heavy subject to watch. Having said that, our last DVD movie was Elizabeth-Golden Age ( heavy subject for others I expect :)) but I do admit, it's what the Brits really do best.(unlike the current T5 chaos).....costume drama and plenty of it.

[Gypsy-Rhiannon]

Is that Will Smith? I always thought that it might be a bit of a heavy subject to watch. Having said that, our last DVD movie was Elizabeth-Golden Age ( heavy subject for others I expect :)) but I do admit, it's what the Brits really do best.(unlike the current T5 chaos).....costume drama and plenty of it.

Yes Will Smith. And you should watch it. Brought a lump to my throat more than once and made me smile at the end. Funnily enough the film I wanted before that was Elizabeth The Golden Age. which I thought was great too!

[GODDESS6]

"hitman" based off of a video game~ it was really good tho & i love Timothy Olyphant~

[David]

A CHUMP AT OXFORD (1940)
Laurel & Hardy

A bliss-out. What can beat hearing Stan say to Ollie: "Step over here, Fatty"?

Chump isn't the achievement that Keaton's College or Lloyd's The Freshman is, but it can stand proudly beside the Marx Brothers campus dunciad Horsefeathers.

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/c/cf/Laurelandhardychumpatoxford.jpg

[Villavic]

The Bucket List

great movie. Morgan Freeman is a great actor. And no need to mention Jack Nicholson!

[SortaSavageLike]

Pearl Harbor.

Sweet Jesus, what a piece of ****.

[DavidMn]

No Country For Old Men- for the 3rd time.

Maybe my favorite movie ever!

[petep9000]

'The Hours'. The train station scene where Virginia tries to flee Richmond? The kitchen scene where Clarissa falls to pieces? The bathroom scene where Laura is in anguished psychic pain, and desperately tries to buy herself a few more minutes to pull herself together?

"I'm brushing my teeth."
"Are you coming to bed?"
(gulps down tears) "In a minute.."
:distress:

[mylittledemon]

The Bucket List

great movie. Morgan Freeman is a great actor. And no need to mention Jack Nicholson!

Cool...I never saw it, but wanted it to be good.

I just saw "Vantage Point"--nothing life altering, but it was entertaining.

[David]

Le Carrosse d'or (1953)
(The Golden Coach)
dir. Jean Renoir

I spent the afternoon with Magnani & her troupe of actors in the New World. I first saw "Carrosse" (see my Top 10 Movies list) on campus in college. The print was in bad shape but I was under its spell from the beginning: the artifice is constructed -- literally & figuratively -- when the actors arrive at the inn & see a dusty old courtyard populated by livestock, but transform it into a "proper" stage. In this movie, propriety is actually a function of the needs & lineaments of art & of theater. At first, Magnani wants the golden coach to carry her out of the exhausting microcosm of the actors; money is hard to come by, & the lure of the gold necklace & coach is powerful to the artist. Camilla believes that she's beneath the courtiers not only in social rank but in interest; but what I think Renoir is saying is that these creators of theater, in their ability to construct artifice with such color & panache, are far more absorbing than their audience (who are stupid enough to turn their backs on the stage in order to applaud the bullfighter as he strolls in). (The movie is doubly ironic, because several of the performances of the actors playing the philistines -- some of the nobles as well as Magnani's mundane lover Philippe -- are monotonous & unsatisfactory.)

At the end, Camilla is confronted with the "truth" of her art: the gold & the lovers & the scramble for rank & favor are immaterial to the artist, diversions that prevent her from practicing her true calling, which is -- again ironically -- her only hope of happiness. Everybody knows Magnani is great in this movie. It's as if she had two or three different performances going on simultaneously, sometimes within the space of a few lines, as if the movement in her face had its own dialog going, playing themes on the actual dialog, the way the Vivaldi themes emphasize & variegate the action.

http://janusmuseum.org/panabasis/goldencoach.jpg

[darklinensuit]

Goodbye, Columbus (Peerce).
Suffered through the dated music and direction and jokes and (groan) Ali MacGraw.

Last movies before that were Hester Street (Micklin Silver) (not much better), Kippur (Gitai), Love at First Bite (Dragoti), Birthplace/Miejsce urodzenia (Polish documentary by Lozinski - by far the best on this list), and What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? (Katzin) (a waste of Ruth Gordon and Geraldine Page).

- Jake

[Villavic]

JUMPER
I saw it on sunday and I enjoyed it

[Moz]

Last movie I watched was THE WIZARD (1989). "I love the Power Glove. It's so bad." :laugh:

[David]

I saw a picture called DON'T BE A MENACE TO SOUTH CENTRAL WHILE DRINKING YOUR JUICE IN THE HOOD (1996), which I enjoyed greatly. From gangsta rappers to emergency room receptionists to Korean minimart owners, each slice of urban life in this work is truthful & illuminating. There are scenes of great emotional power: a wheelchair-bound cripple is hit by a lowrider & sent sprawling onto the pavement, only to breakdance like MC Hammer; a front-yard barbecue sizzles dramatically as young men & women dance, make out, drink, & remember their dead, who lie next door in a pile; the protagonist (Ashtray) reads a touching bedtime story to his younger brother, who jacks off under the covers & then falls into a peaceful sleep; a young man heads off to college, accompanied by his lifelong friends, only to get popped on the campus steps. The writing & direction are masterly. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

Favorite character: Grandma

[Miss Vicky]

Sweeney Todd.

I hate musicals.

Cool story. Love Depp. Love Burton.

But damn I hate musicals.

[macmar71]

American Gangster

[BTFLCHLD]

Into the Wild

[gretchen]

Can't Buy Me Love

I love this movie... so cute...Patrick Dempsey is so skinny and geeky in this and look at him now!!!:D

[mylittledemon]

Just watched Sweeney Todd on DVD. Quite possibly a perfect movie... Unrequited love, and blossoming love. Revenge and justice. Humor and gore. Amazing.

[Lee]

It was free HBO during Easter Fri-Sun from our cable provider, so we (my husband & I) watched Blades of Glory on that Saturday. I thought it was really funny. I haven't had much of a chance to watch any movies with all the reality shows that I've been watching lately. So it was really nice to actually sit & watch a funny movie.

Lee :)