What was the last film you watched?

[Manotea]

Ironman 2.

Made the first 'Ironman' film look like Shakespeare...

[her_welshness]

Ironman 2.

Made the first 'Ironman' film look like Shakespeare...

I totally agree 

[Exit Stage Left]

I just saw 'Taking Sides' on the TV for the second time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taking_Sides_(film)
I still don't know what to make of it. I enjoyed it though

[CAMRAMan]

Watched Tora! Tora Tora!

It was on Film4 on Saturday, I think, so likely to be repeated.

Very good perspective of a) how incompetent the septics were in the lead up to Pearl Harbour and b) how reluctant many Japanese were to enter into a war against the septics.

[Jaded]

Hopefully the septics were rebuilt afterwards and thus worked better? 

[mrcharly-YHT]

Hot Fuzz.

What pile of mindless idiocy. I laughed, sometimes.

[Nightfly]

Lawrence of Arabia last Christmas. I'm due to watch it again some time on Christmas Day. Then NorthbyNorthWest on Boxing Day afternoon/evening.

[LEE]

"Control"

A bio-pic of Ian Curtis and Joy Division.

Despite being the perfect age and location (at the time) to be a Joy Division fan I never even heard of them until after Ian Curtis was dead (at 23) I thought this film was a real insight into the period (I worked in Macclesfield at precidely the time the film was documenting).

Exceptional lead performance to the point I've just checked Youtube to compare the actor's stage performance with the real Ian Curtis, it really is superb.

Highly recommended to anyone remotely interested in, or aware of, the origins of the Madchester music scene.


"On the 6th day God created Manchester"

7/10 on the LEE scale

[itsbruce]

I am no longer surprised that cinema is losing its audience.

Except it isn't.

"In the nine years from 2000, cinema admissions have averaged 162.3m a year, up from 119.2m in the 1990s and just 77.5m in the 1980s.Despite the upward trend there are signs that growth is stagnating, with 2002 still the best year in modern times."

Report from last year.

I'm just going by what I saw

Repeat after me: "There is at least one sheep in Scotland, at least one side of which is black."

[mr endon]

I've not seen the films for a while now but I may dig out Part 1 and re-watch the death of Boromir chapter.  I think it's a simply stunning piece of cinema..

Watch again. Watch the Uruk-Hai uber orcs racing towards the melee. They swarm over some ruins, down a flight of stone steps, but one extra in his orc suit isn't so light on his pins. My gran could make a better fist of purposeful descending of stairs, even after her stroke.

[clarion]

Watched The Commitments.  It's just brilliant.

[BrianI]

Logan's Run.

  Jenny Agutter

[clarion]

'Let's take our clothes off before they freeze to us'

[Exit Stage Left]

Taking Sides. A film about Willhelm Furtwangler and the de-Nazification process in post war Germany. I've now seen it a couple of times and I disagree with the general view of Harvey Keitel's central performance. A very good international cast.
Istvan Szabo's Taking Sides: the true story of Wilhelm Furtwängler starring Harvey Keitel and Stellan Skarsgård

[mattc]

I am no longer surprised that cinema is losing its audience.

Except it isn't.

"In the nine years from 2000, cinema admissions have averaged 162.3m a year, up from 119.2m in the 1990s and just 77.5m in the 1980s.Despite the upward trend there are signs that growth is stagnating, with 2002 still the best year in modern times."

Report from last year.

I don't have any figures to hand, but IIRC the gains are mainly in teenage boys. Hence the mulitplexes show nothing but teenage boy fodder.

If you own your own place, watcing a DVD with loved one is quite appealing; if you live with your parents, escaping to the flicks with your mates is more attractive.

[Clandy]

  Jenny Agutter

+1 

[Jaded]

I am no longer surprised that cinema is losing its audience.

Except it isn't.

"In the nine years from 2000, cinema admissions have averaged 162.3m a year, up from 119.2m in the 1990s and just 77.5m in the 1980s.Despite the upward trend there are signs that growth is stagnating, with 2002 still the best year in modern times."

Report from last year.

I don't have any figures to hand, but IIRC the gains are mainly in teenage boys. Hence the mulitplexes show nothing but teenage boy fodder.

If you own your own place, watcing a DVD with loved one is quite appealing; if you live with your parents, escaping to the flicks with your mates is more attractive.

Getting youth to engage in a supposedly dying medium is a triumph, surely.

[her_welshness]

I watched 'The Other Boleyn Girl' last night. I quite enjoyed the Philippa Gregory book, so I tuned in. It was shockingly awful.

[CAMRAMan]

I saw Eyes Wide Shut last night. It was an ITV2 version, so I suspect cut a little, though it's been 10 years since I first saw it.

Dr Strangelove is pure genius. EWS is pure shite. Sorry Stanley, Kieslowski bowed out in a much better way than you.

[mike]

I watched 'The Other Boleyn Girl' last night. I quite enjoyed the Philippa Gregory book, so I tuned in. It was shockingly awful.

yes, we watched that too.  I gave up and went to bed after 20 minutes, Mrs Mike stayed up out of stubbornness and hated it.

[arry_b]

"The Brain that wouldn't die" on Showcase (channel 201).

B+W fifties horror starring a telepathic head in a baking tray. What's not to love?

[Chris S]

Armageddon. What a roller-coaster ride of Complete Bollocks and One Liners that is  .

[Clandy]

300… haven't seen that much homo-eroticism since the volleyball scene in Top Gun.

[Exit Stage Left]

300… haven't seen that much homo-eroticism since the volleyball scene in Top Gun.

There is a minor cult for setting 300 to It's Raining Men. I encountered it because I thought of doing a treatment of the wet PBP footage, honest. This is a short version.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/ONRUwwLrAa0&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/ONRUwwLrAa0&rel=1</a>

[andyoxon]

Armageddon. What a roller-coaster ride of Complete Bollocks and One Liners that is  .

I watched that again.  Steve Buscemi is a bit of a hoot  'Guess what guys, it's time to embrace the horror!'