What was the last film you watched?

[Gandalf]

Just watched 'Attack on Leningrad'.  Either moving or slow and depressing, depending on your POV.

[Chris S]

Up. 

[MSeries]

Footloose

[LEE]

Footloose

The Heather Mills ("it was never about the money") McCartney biography?

[Manotea]

Wargames - an unappreciated seminal movie of its time replete with cinematic motifs recycled endlessly by other movies (unless of course, Wargames got them all from somewhere else...)

Pop quiz:
1) What does WOPR stand for
2) How old was Falken when described by Lightman (Broderick) as 'pretty old'
3) What exactually was the female technician walking around the WOPR processor with all the flashing lights carrying a clipboard doing?
4) Why was including Seattle on the list of targets an inherently bad idea?
5) Having 'sealed up the mountain' with massive deadbollted steel doors, how exactly are survivors supposed to get out if (a) the power fails or (b) more likely, bombardment induced shockwaves cause the doors to lose alignment causing the bolts to stick like an IKEA drawer?

[clarion]

Cool film.  A bit fanciful, but good nonetheless.  And you get to see an Avatar 2000 LWB recumbent.

[TimO]

watched Moon last night.  very good, really enjoyed it

Glad to hear that, I just got a copy on DVD on the basis that "It's about space, I'm a rocket scientist, I ought to watch it", and it was cheap(ish). Now I just need to find time to watch it.

[Wascally Weasel]

Wargames - an unappreciated seminal movie of its time replete with cinematic motifs recycled endlessly by other movies (unless of course, Wargames got them all from somewhere else...)

Pop quiz:
1) What does WOPR stand for
2) How old was Falken when described by Lightman (Broderick) as 'pretty old'
3) What exactually was the female technician walking around the WOPR processor with all the flashing lights carrying a clipboard doing?
4) Why was including Seattle on the list of targets an inherently bad idea?
5) Having 'sealed up the mountain' with massive deadbollted steel doors, how exactly are survivors supposed to get out if (a) teh power failed or (b) more likely, bombardment induced shockwaves cause the doors to loose alignment causing the bolts to stick like an IKEa drawer?

The answer to 1 is 'War Operations Plan Response' (I think).

I think Falken was meant to be something like 45.  I had forgotten that the same actor was the evil prelate in Ladyhawke.

[LindaG]

American Flyers, borrowed from the YACF lending library 

Pure '80s madness, especially the Costner 'tache, but I've never seen better footage of a bike race.  It was good to see all those steel bikes in action with their shiny down-tube levers (I still maintain something's been lost with hood-mounted STi's).  And the film captures the joy of riding a bike for the sake of it.

But the film isn't really about cycling.

Much, much better than I expected.

[Moloko]

but I've never seen better footage of a bike race.  

There's a scene in the mountains where a rider goes over the side.   (blink and you'll miss it)

This was a genuine mistake whilst filming and the rider luckily snagged on a tree which possibly saved him from a certain death.

[Deborah]

An Education 

[Jacomus]

Taxi Driver - Still AWESOME even on the nth viewing

[Zoidburg]

Sunshine Cleaning.

Crime scene clean up-tastic.

[Valiant]

Amerika

Good film I think.

[IanDG]

Sherlock Holmes

[mrcharly-YHT]

V for Vendetta

meh. It can't decide what it is. silly film with some good performances.

[Wascally Weasel]

Taken

I would have been musing about the uncomfortable underyling (possibly sexist) messages but I kept getting distracted by Liam Nesson brutally killing people.

[spesh]

Wargames - an unappreciated seminal movie of its time replete with cinematic motifs recycled endlessly by other movies (unless of course, Wargames got them all from somewhere else...)

Pop quiz:
1) What does WOPR stand for
2) How old was Falken when described by Lightman (Broderick) as 'pretty old'
3) What exactually was the female technician walking around the WOPR processor with all the flashing lights carrying a clipboard doing?
4) Why was including Seattle on the list of targets an inherently bad idea?
5) Having 'sealed up the mountain' with massive deadbollted steel doors, how exactly are survivors supposed to get out if (a) the power fails or (b) more likely, bombardment induced shockwaves cause the doors to lose alignment causing the bolts to stick like an IKEA drawer?

Q4 - Seattle was Lightman's home town.

Q5 - See Cheyenne Mountain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Captain Zep]

Juno.  Very well acted.  Funny and well-made in places.  A bit worried by the messages (it may inadventantly have) given out.

[Spinners]

Cinema - Sherlock Holmes

TV - Liar Liar

[Manotea]

Wargames - an unappreciated seminal movie of its time replete with cinematic motifs recycled endlessly by other movies (unless of course, Wargames got them all from somewhere else...)

Pop quiz:
1) What does WOPR stand for
2) How old was Falken when described by Lightman (Broderick) as 'pretty old'
3) What exactually was the female technician walking around the WOPR processor with all the flashing lights carrying a clipboard doing?
4) Why was including Seattle on the list of targets an inherently bad idea?
5) Having 'sealed up the mountain' with massive deadbollted steel doors, how exactly are survivors supposed to get out if (a) the power fails or (b) more likely, bombardment induced shockwaves cause the doors to lose alignment causing the bolts to stick like an IKEA drawer?

Q4 - Seattle was Lightman's home town.

Q5 - See Cheyenne Mountain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

So Q5, the whole installation was on springs to accomodate shock waves!

Q4 Calling in a nuclear strike on your home town is one thing. Being in your home town at the time is another!

Yes, when you're 17 or so, 41 is pretty old. I know I was shocked when I found out Debbie Harry was more than 20 years older than me!

NOBODY knows what that female techie with the clipboard was doing though....

[spesh]

NOBODY knows what that female techie with the clipboard was doing though....

Supercomputers mit der blinkenlights ALWAYS have to be attended by someone wielding a clipboard.

It's an ancient charter or something.

Failing that, she is a spy. After all, carrying a clipboard and wearing a serious expression will allow you to infiltrate almost anywhere.

As Tom Lehrer once remarked, the staff at Los Alamos was composed almost exclusively of spies...of one persuasion or another.

[mattc]

Yes, when you're 17 or so, 41 is pretty old. I know I was shocked when I found out Debbie Harry was more than 20 years older than me!

I guess someone has to break this to you ...

She still is. Sorry dude.

[Moloko]

Blade Trinity.

You cock-juggling thundercunt.

 

[Zoidburg]

Blade Trinity.

You cock-juggling thundercunt.

 

"I'm sorry...I ate a lot of sugar today"