What was the last film you watched?

[fuzzy]

A Sunday in hell

Great film!

To quote some Left Pondian folks- 'fuckin A!

[tiermat]

Gravity.

Wow!

Gripping doesn't even start to cover it!

[Chris S]

The Hobbit - Desolation...

Finally.

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Every bit as stretched and padded as I'd feared. It's such a shame that they made the LoTR first. If it'd been the other way round, The Hobbit would have been one film for sure, and I doubt the three films of LoTR (Which makes more sense, there being three "books" in the original) would have been any the lesser for it.

We too are hoping for a re-edit of all three Hobbit films (once released and on DVD) , into one film without all the extra stuff, although sadly there's no hiding from some of the departures in the original story line.

I liked Smaug though.

[L CC]

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I can believe in fire-breathing dragons, but I can't believe in all that fire/molten gold/no burning clothes/ instantly heated forges utter desecration of the laws of physics

I was quite irritated.

[clarion]

Gravity.

Wow!

Gripping doesn't even start to cover it!

An item on the radio a short while ago suggested that, barring the actors' faces, the entire film was created in Soho.

[fuzzy]

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I can believe in fire-breathing dragons, but I can't believe in all that fire/molten gold/no burning clothes/ instantly heated forges utter desecration of the laws of physics

I was quite irritated.

In the words of the oft maligned Paul Daniels- Thats Magic! You'll like it- not a lot but you'll like it.

[Jakob]

Gravity.

Wow!

Gripping doesn't even start to cover it!

An item on the radio a short while ago suggested that, barring the actors' faces, the entire film was created in Soho.

That's stretching the truth a bit, but it's probably fair to say that something around 90% of it was CG. However, there was still a huge amount shot on stage, using very eloborate lighting/motion control rigs, an area where the UK have lead the way since the 90's.
It's also one of the few 'life action' films to have VFX before catering in the credits and I'll be curious to see if it wins the Oscar for best cinematography, if the DoP will do a 'Life of Pi' and take all the credit. (Virtually none of the shots used to highlight the cinematography on Life of Pi were shot in camera).

[Jaded]

Limitless

Quite a fun film with a silly ending.

[Kim]

That new Die Hard rubbish, which was even worse than the last lot of Die Hard rubbish.  That's a trilogy that really should have stopped at three.

[interzen]

Gravity.

Wow!

Gripping doesn't even start to cover it!

Pity they forgot about physics, though ... quite enjoyable otherwise.

[tiermat]

Gravity.

Wow!

Gripping doesn't even start to cover it!

Pity they forgot about physics, though ... quite enjoyable otherwise.

Yes, but the actual story was good enough stop me getting irritated by such things, which is very rare.

[T42]

Elysium. Load of unmitigated shit.  Poor old Jodie Foster, getting shoved into roles like that.

[Pickled Onion]

Broken.

Briefly:

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Exceptionally good.

[fuzzy]

This weekend I watched-

Equilibrium- a very good take on the 1984 genre with gun toting martial arts and sword play 

GATTACA- Uma Thurman! Like

[interzen]

Monsters University.

I don't normally do the prequel/sequel/whatever-quel thing, but this was really rather good - whilst you don't have to have watched Monsters Inc., some of the jokes will make more sense if you have. Of course, since it's Pixar you've got drop-dead gorgeous animation, and since the Mouse is involved you've also got periods of anvilicious moralising. Even so, it's worth a watch.

I still prefer the original Monsters Inc. though (it's one of my all-time favourite movies)

[fuzzy]

Monsters University.

I don't normally do the prequel/sequel/whatever-quel thing, but this was really rather good - whilst you don't have to have watched Monsters Inc., some of the jokes will make more sense if you have. Of course, since it's Pixar you've got drop-dead gorgeous animation, and since the Mouse is involved you've also got periods of anvilicious moralising. Even so, it's worth a watch.

I still prefer the original Monsters Inc. though (it's one of my all-time favourite movies)

Absolutely! For me, one of the revelations of that film was the wind playing through Sully's fur in the snow- fantastic.

[Wascally Weasel]

12 Years a Slave – getting a lot of attention and rightly so.

I thought it was a very well made film as well as a very well told story.  It’s interesting just *how* they tell the story too.

It could easily just be filmed as a catalogue of the horrors and evils of slavery but it manages to do something more and show the impact on people, including the slaveholders – it’s very impressive on the banality of evil as much as it is on the visceral horrors of the conditions and tortures slaves had to endure.

[interzen]

Monsters Inc. (again)

Pixar's best movie by a country mile, IMO (closely followed by 'The Incredibles'. The 'Toy Story' movies were amazing technical feats, but didn't do it for me story-wise; 'Finding Nemo' I found to be insufferably cute and I thought 'Cars' was a bit 'meh')

As I mentioned above, the prequel's pretty good but this is yet another case where the original is best.

[Pickled Onion]

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Very good, beautiful and moving, but perhaps not quite as good as the raving on imdb would have you believe.

[Jakob]

Enders Game - surprisingly boring.

[Wascally Weasel]

Enders Game - surprisingly boring.

I liked how they had realised the Battleroom scenes but yes a pretty dull film with the only suspense the deep struggle within the mind of Harrison Ford, seemingly torn between texting or phoning in his performance. 

Perhaps a good thing in that it neither raises the profile of the unpleasant views of the author nor risks any sequels based on the later (duller and increasingly messianic) sequels.

[Andrew]

Atom Egoyen's 'Calendar'.

He's one of my favourite film makers. He let's the camera linger, he allows space and silence. It all adds up to quite haunting viewing with stories being told slowly, visually. You realise the story rather than be told. 'Calendar' is an earlier work, and one I took great pleasure immersing myself in.

[Ruth]

I've had Letters to Juliet on with no sound on tonight, the few bits I've peered at have looked like marvellous vintage chick-flick stuff.  I may actually watch that properly tomorrow.

I watched this the other night. It was an OK-ish chick flick, made worth watching by Vanessa Redgrave being old, girlish, womanly, beautiful, strong, and vulnerable, all at the same time.

[geraldc]

Wolf of Wall Street. Very enjoyable cautionary tale about greed. Not really that cautionary about drugs though, as we all walked out wandering if Qualuudes really were that good. The Qualuude marketing board couldn't have made a better advert.

[Steph]

The Soldier's Girl.

Obvious interest...
No spoilers here, for it is all over the internet. Soldier meets transwoman. Love ensues. Comrades have differing opinions.
Brilliantly acted, with a man playing the transwoman. I wept gallons. I could say more, but I am still crying.