Author Topic: What was the last film you watched? (Read 965072 times)

geoff · « **Reply #3775 on:** 21 December, 2013, 04:38:49 pm »

"Frozen" for about 25 minutes, then we walked. There's only so much screechy singing and sexist imagery my better half can take. After which we repaired home and watched "Benda Bilili" on DVD which we loved.

fuzzy · « **Reply #3776 on:** 21 December, 2013, 11:28:12 pm »

Paul.

Made me larf out loud

Redjeep! · « **Reply #3777 on:** 22 December, 2013, 11:02:12 pm »

The Day After Tomorrow whilst on my turbo earlier today. Kept me entertained for a couple of hours.

Life of Pi yesterday.

Enjoyed them both.

citoyen · « **Reply #3778 on:** 22 December, 2013, 11:25:30 pm »

Alpha Papa.

A bit flimsy but very funny.

Jakob · « **Reply #3779 on:** 23 December, 2013, 06:17:34 pm »

The Hobbit, part 2. Loved it.
(edit:)
Very little extra fluff in this one. Still amazed by the designs of just about everything.
Smaug was amazing. Easily some of the best character animation in years. Typically, CG has resorted to adding more human features in order for CG characters to emote properly, but they virtually skipped that here.

Too bad there's a year until the next one

rogerzilla · « **Reply #3780 on:** 23 December, 2013, 09:44:43 pm »

For the first time in years, Gerard Depardieu in Cyrano de Bergerac. My, he's good.

I suppose the moral of the story is that you save a lot of trouble in the long run if you just ask.

tiermat · « **Reply #3781 on:** 23 December, 2013, 09:46:06 pm »

The Croods.

Brilliant!

spindrift · « **Reply #3782 on:** 24 December, 2013, 01:06:26 pm »

MIDDLE-AGED BLOKE'S FAVOURITE FILM OF THE YEAR IS THE ONE WITH NAKED LESBIANS.

Blue Is The Warmest Colour. (After a bit more thought.)

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In fact the sex scenes don't seem authentic to me, they were necessary but a bit boring. Everything else is studied in extreme detail and we have to know how deep the connection between them is, but is there really all that slapping? I'm glad I didn't see it at the cinema, apparently people were giggling at those bits and that would give me cinema rage.

This is the best film I've seen for years, I envy people who haven't seen it. I know I mentioned it upthread but the film stays with you for days, it's an immense, shattering emotional experience. Everything is relateable, if you've been in love you'll recognise yourself, if you've had your heart broken you'll get flashbacks.

The bit I recognised was the cafe scene, you realise quite a long time has passed because the child is three, yet Adele is still bereft and besotted. Adele asks the question she knows the answer to, and knows the answer will destroy her. Been there. That's not just eating scabs, it's sticking a dagger in your heart and twisting.

Lots is left unsaid, had they had contact in that period? What happened to her parents in the second half? (I know the director removed a parental confrontation scene that was in the book because he didn't want to politicise the story) Did Emma already cheat with Alise? Emma was acting like a male chauvinist pig in the final party scene, that said so much about how a relationship can become stale and tainted by routine and neglect. It was also why Emma was so angry at the break-up- Adele is lashed in anger and spite because the truth, that Adele is pragmatic and content and disinterested in philosophy or writing for others, is something Emma can't bring herself to say.

It was right to split the Palme d'Or between the director and two leads, Seydoux says she studied James Dean in preparation for the shoot and when Emma first appears behind Adele in the club there is a definite Dean-like swagger to her posture.

Just a stunning film, a film Hollywood would never make. Film-making at its best. (250 hours of film was shot, Kechiche says a different edit would have been a completely different film, it took four editors to make the final movie.)

woollypigs · « **Reply #3783 on:** 24 December, 2013, 01:13:10 pm »

Los amantes pasajeros aka I'm So Excited!

Rude, fun and a typical Almadova filum.

CAMRAMan · « **Reply #3784 on:** 24 December, 2013, 06:03:07 pm »

The Harry Hill Movie: I didn't find it anywhere near as amusing as the girl along the row from me, who was in stitches, but it had its moments. At least 20 minutes too long, though.

Mind you, I had asked for tickets to the Moshi Monster Movie, so it was with great surprise and relief (to me) when we both found out that we were at the wrong screen. Even Little Miss AWL wasn't too disappointed.

BrianI · « **Reply #3785 on:** 24 December, 2013, 08:40:44 pm »

Currently watching Airplane II

Quote

Buck Murdock (William Shatner): We'd better get to the tower, Lieutenant.

Lt. Pervis: We have no tower, sir.

Buck Murdock: No tower?

Lt. Pervis: Just a bridge, sir.

Buck Murdock: Why the *hell* aren't I notified about these things?

Kim · « **Reply #3786 on:** 24 December, 2013, 10:03:48 pm »

Shatner makes that film.

Ruth · « **Reply #3787 on:** 25 December, 2013, 01:37:46 pm »

Avengers Assemble. Loki is a nommy villain, much nicer than his brother, who looks suited to playing rugby and shouts all the time.

citoyen · « **Reply #3788 on:** 25 December, 2013, 07:27:52 pm »

Casablanca.

Gets me every time.

clifftaylor · « **Reply #3789 on:** 25 December, 2013, 08:15:07 pm »

Toy Story 3 - excellent

Jakob · « **Reply #3790 on:** 26 December, 2013, 02:38:31 am »

Kick-ass 2. A bit meh and unnecessary gory.

mattc · « **Reply #3791 on:** 26 December, 2013, 08:27:39 am »

Quote from: clifftaylor on 25 December, 2013, 08:15:07 pm

Toy Story 3 - excellent

Yup - still great on 2nd viewing. And a real tear-jerker - HTF do they manage that with a cartoon?!?

Best new (to us) kids film this year - Prep and Landing.

Jakob · « **Reply #3792 on:** 26 December, 2013, 09:20:01 am »

Lone Survivor - Peter Bergs take on the book of the same name, a non-fiction story about a failed Navy Seals operation in Afghanistan.
I got this on a DVD screener (yay, awards season!).
I really wanted to like this movie, but it was a bit, well, simplistic. I think this one is for military nerds only.

Jaded · « **Reply #3793 on:** 26 December, 2013, 09:23:06 am »

Love Actually.

Hot Flatus · « **Reply #3794 on:** 26 December, 2013, 09:31:48 am »

Now that is a film that is better on your iPad whilst doing something else.

At least that way you don't get to watch it.

spindrift · « **Reply #3795 on:** 26 December, 2013, 10:27:15 am »

I liked the bit where Martine Mcutcheon acted.

Oh.

citoyen · « **Reply #3796 on:** 26 December, 2013, 02:56:00 pm »

Quadrophenia.

My son wanted to see it so we watched it with him. I first saw it when I was a little older than he is now and I loved it then, though I don't think it's aged too well. He enjoyed it though. Which is good. It's a film aimed squarely at the disaffected youth, after all.

Lucky I don't mind him watching films with rude words in. It has rather a lot of them.

CAMRAMan · « **Reply #3797 on:** 26 December, 2013, 04:51:12 pm »

Hetalia. A manga film that my daughter pestered me to watch. I hadn't a clue what was happening & I fell asleep in the middle (from tiredness, not boredom), but she was keen for me to watch it, so I suffered in silence and feigned interest. She now wants me to watch the TV spin-off. Maybe tomorrow...

ian · « **Reply #3798 on:** 26 December, 2013, 06:56:35 pm »

Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (which for a while I was convinced was Attack of the Clowns). Not as bad as I remembered it after the dog-awful Phantom Menace. To be honest, even the older Stars Wars movies weren't as good as everyone likes to remember them, so the bar wasn't exactly left high at the close of the credits to Return of the Jedi. It seemed to pack all the usual elements, though good god, the script was abysmal. I've no idea how much moolah it takes to get Portman, MacGregor, and Jackson to drop by and do their acting shtick, but I reckon Lucus spent the $5 they had left on the script. George Lucas should have spared us and got himself a chow mein instead. I'm also unclear why aliens sound a bit like Jim Davidson pretending to be [/ethnic_stereotype]. If so, first contact is going to more fucked up than Carl Sagan could have guessed at.

tiermat · « **Reply #3799 on:** 26 December, 2013, 07:05:40 pm »

Alice, the Tim Burton one, followed by Cars 2.

A great, chilled out afternoon.

Author Topic: What was the last film you watched? (Read 965072 times)

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