What have you watched recently?

Nozebleed

paulosham wrote: »

The American was great.

the prostitute in the american was great. the flick was crap. George clooney cant act.

Joeface

Millers crossing ,, Very good

and just starting into "The Warrior and the wolf"

LizT

The King's speech....

Absolutely amazing!

Caprica

The Elephant Man

Outstanding movie. First time to see it. Wonderful performance from John Hurt in the lead role, I found his scene with Mrs. Treves very moving. 8 oscar nominations but no wins unfortunately.

The Kings Speech

Oscar nominations all round here. Was impressed with both male leads but Helana Bonham Carter as the Queen Mother was superb her love and support for her husband was clear to see.

Season of the Witch

Entertaining movie. Nice break for the young irish lad.

bnt

Just finished watching The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) for the first time in about 5 years. It's the kind of film that drives some people mad, the pacing is bizarre and "stagey", but it's all in the performances. Gene Hackman is great throughout, and I was really impressed by Gwyneth Paltrow this time: Margot might be the coolest character in the film (in every sense of the word), but it takes more to show such existential sadness than a bit of Nico-esque eye shadow. Ben Stiller - not so impressed.

Spoiler Alert: some scenes have extra resonance if you know about what happened in later years. It was co-written by Owen Wilson (who's in it too), and features a scene in which Richie Tenenbaum (played by Owen's brother Luke Wilson) attempts to commit suicide. The music playing in the background is by Elliot Smith, who did commit suicide, in 2003. Owen attempted suicide himself in 2007, not long after completing another Wes Anderson film, The Darjeeling Limited. Hmmm ...

Tony EH

'Casino'

Overall, much better than I remember it being when I saw it in the cinema 15 years ago, 'Casino' focuses on the mob run Las Vegas gambling palaces that were the major attraction to the Nevada desert city. During the 70's and 80's, Chicago crime bosses ran all the major casinos and made a tidy profit from it as well.

Scorsese stalwarts, Di Niro and Pesci are joined here by Sharon Stone, in the only role of hers worth watching. Robert Di Niro plays "Ace" Rothstein, a Jew who is an expert gambler and is hired by the mafia to run one of the biggest casinos in Vegas, "The Tangiers". He wants to do it his way and remain as legit as he possibly can (while avoid the need for a licience), but that is made very difficult with the arrival of violent mobster Joe Pesci who proceeds to wreak havoc in the usual Pesci way. Stone is Ginger, Rothstein's ex-hooker squeeze.

As one can guess, 'Casino' is full of violence and excess, that is indicative of the times and the people involved. It also comes across a bit like 'Goodfellas Part II' and although that's a little unfair, it's difficult to get away from. All that was needed was Ray Liotta and Paul Sorvino involved and it would have been impossible to get the previous Scorsese film out of your head.

It's also shot with a LOT of voice-overs, which go into a lot of detail explaining what exactly is going on. In fact, I don't think there is a dialogue sequence for the first 30 minutes of the film!

All in all though, everyone does a great job, including brilliant support from James Woods and you don't really feel the lengthy running time pass by.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t09aGcMjnWM

Turtyturd

Scott Pilgrim Vs The World.

Dunno how to describe it to be honest so I will go with meh.

With the books I was really enjoying it until the end of the first volume, then it just kinda went downhill pretty quick. The film I thought was the opposite. It started off slow and it took a while for the little references to gel into the movie, without being distracting. But towards the end it was ok.

That said they did a good job of condensing the 7 exes into the movie and I was expecting one or two to be cut out but glad they didn't.

The casting, although also hit and miss I think was probably the main issue for me.

The Bad: Cera was not what I pictured Scott to be, and the fact that he delivers his lines in the same way in every movie makes it hard to picture him as anyone but Michael Cera. I actually felt like the guy who played Young Neil seemed more like Scott Pilgrim than Cera. Knives I also felt was badly cast.

The Good: Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Ramona, played the part perfectly and she looked amazing. The guy who played Steven Stills did a great job, Chris Evans and Brandon Routh hammed it up, and the highlight was undoubtedly Kieran Culkin as Wallace.

Like I said over all it was meh...but it did make the bass seem like a proper instrument .

And this was another highlight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGB4VDQI6XM

Duggy747

Got around to watching American: A Bill Hicks Story.

I've always liked him, not in the god-like way people have him painted, but he's always made me laugh at least with some of his bitterness. I couldn't really swallow a lot of his idealistic views on how life should be but I respect him for his gutso and that he believed in what he spoke.

Anyways, I'd been meaning to watch it for ages but being on the back-burner I forgot about it until the other day. I love documentaries of all kinds so this was one I'd been looking forward to seeing since I heard of it's production.

It goes right back to his days as a kid and the people who contribute to this are his family and closest friends. Really breaks down Hicks showing his determination to get into comedy, the progression, and explanations to how he became the loud, angry comedian he's seen as today.

It was a bit odd watching a biographical documentary where you didn't get to see the people's faces as they talked about him until the end but the imaginative and unique style of animation the film-makers used from nothing but photographs was excellent and made me quickly forget about it.

The only gripe was that it just stopped................I know where it was leading to (his death) but the doc never touched on his final days and just ended out of the blue. You're enjoying what you think are the final minutes when next thing the credits just roll.

Excellent documentary but poor ending considering the amount of work, detail and archive media that was used, I thought.

Morlar

The Other Guys - a will ferrel comedy so you know what to expect. Some quite funny scenes including the 'my first deskpop' one and the predictable 'Who is that ? No, seriously who is that ?' scene which also worked very well.

padma

The Green Hornet, quite good movie

krudler

Morlar wrote: »

The Other Guys - a will ferrel comedy so you know what to expect. Some quite funny scenes including the 'my first deskpop' one and the predictable 'Who is that ? No, seriously who is that ?' scene which also worked very well.

"aim for the bushes" was surely the most surreal comedy moment of last year, just so random but hilarious as well

Morlar

krudler wrote: »

"aim for the bushes" was surely the most surreal comedy moment of last year, just so random but hilarious as well

This will sound stupid but I didn't actually see that coming till just before the impact. Lots of great one liners in that.
'Can I smell deer vagina ?'
'Guys, rub your dick on his car as you run past' (from the homeless people being chased off).

The extended version has some more madness.

bungler

Watched "The Expendables" last night. Have to say i liked it was suprised it was only 1.30 Hrs thought it would have been more but i suppose they were all deaf from 1.29Hrs of bombs and guns going off:D

budgemook

Watched buried the other night. I thought it was dirt. There were so many plot holes it was ridiculous. Also a needless sub plot thrown in the middle, hate when films do that. Am yet to see Ryan Reynolds in something I enjoyed.

Tonight I watched exit through the gift shop. An excellent film. Was never much of a documentary man but I'm coming around. Banksy had a point to make and he did so very well. Am choosing not to believe the hoax rumours.

ValJester

Lives down to it's reputation.Truly laughable nonsense, although it DID feature possibly the most ludricous getaway in film history.

VW 1

Recently getting around to watching some stuff I have had for ages but not had a chance to watch!

Fargo- Well acted and loved the direction, engaging and funny, almost constant action or humour, thoroughly enjoyed watching this one.

I'm Not There- This story of Bob Dylan played by 6 different actors each representing a different facet of his character, while I enjoyed the movie, and enjoyed the music, everything was great, but at the same time I'm not quite sure I fully 'got' what the movie was trying to do/say with all of the characters but Im sure with another view or two all will become clear.

Hunger- Story of Bobby Sands, dramatic, violent, leaving no detail about how life was in the Maize to question, at times it was hard to watch and almost disturbing but a truely great film IMO, thoroghly enjoyed this one.

Hank Scorpio

unforgiven, all i can say is wow

really intense, really emotional and a great but sad ending

loved it and would watch it again

MagicMarker

marienbad wrote: »

watching easy befure bed

ShiverinEskimo

What MagicMarker said...

Herb Powell

Milwaukee, Minnesota
It's daycent

Morlar

Pontypool

Smokin_Aces

Overnight - Documentary on Troy Duffy and The Boondock Saints.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overnight

Cropsey - Documentary based on an myth that was actually real in staten island. Has a horror feel, great watch.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cropsey_(film)

Paddy Samurai

Watched this tonite.Some good gags,worth a look.

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

Anyone else watch Wanted last night?? As unrelistic as the stunts and stuff are I love that movie! It was a bit much though when

the train carriage fell like a few hundred feet but yet everyone seemed to be unharmed!

I love the idea of curling bullets though.

saintsaltynuts

The Kings Speech and nearly fell asleep twice.

eh i dunno

THFC wrote: »

Anyone else watch Wanted last night?? As unrelistic as the stunts and stuff are I love that movie! It was a bit much though when

the train carriage fell like a few hundred feet but yet everyone seemed to be unharmed!

I love the idea of curling bullets though.

Watched it myself and wasnt expecting much but loved it. AJ looking well only added to it

budgemook

Just watched The Virginity Hit last night and agree with GerryLovesU in that it's really good. Although it's a teenage sex comedy it's also very different to a teenage sex comedy in how it's made. Think The Blair Witch meets Superbad I suppose. I liked it a lot. The Creed fella is a tosser though!

Andre80Johnson

The Town - I enjoyed it, I think Ben Affleck will have a big future as a director. Didn't enjoy Jon Hamm that much, not sure why. But worth a watch for sure.

String

Full Metal Jacket

Limerick Dude

2001: Space Odyssey

Amazing.