Last movies you saw - Page 65

The Germanator · 09-23-2010, 12:25 PM

Manhattan

My Netflix queue is full of some Woody Allen I've been meaning to catch up on. Manhattan looks beautiful and is obviously one of the classic Woody Allen flicks. I understand the love/hate on Allen, but I find his movies pretty charming...At least the good ones, he's got a lot of bad ones too. Manhattan is a good one.

Seth · 09-23-2010, 01:09 PM

Manhattan is my favourite Allen film.
I actually quite liked What's New Pussycat - Allen's first screenplay. It's hard to dislike anything involving Peter O'Toole though. It's got that crazy 60's inhibition, boundary pushing kind of flavour that devolves in its revelry until the last frame. don't hurry to see it unless you like silly 60's humour. A funny homage to Chaplin made it worth it to me.

dunno why I was thinking Gothic Knight. The opening part done by the Mind Game guy was f'ing brilliant. Love his flexible style.

Angrist · 09-25-2010, 05:09 PM

Termininator Salivation. 6/10.
Wasn't as bad as I expected, but still not a worthy Terminator movie.

The Germanator · 10-01-2010, 12:04 AM

The Science of Sleep

Took me a while to get to this one for some reason. I love the dream world that Gondry creates. Some of that stop animation was just so beautiful that I wish there was more of it. Still a really good, heartbreaking, but funny movie.

Angrist · 10-01-2010, 03:46 AM

Did you watch it in French?

The Germanator · 10-01-2010, 11:24 AM

Well, the movie switches between French, Spanish, and English throughout. I obviously had subtitles for the French parts.

Angrist · 10-03-2010, 04:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Germanator

Well, the movie switches between French, Spanish, and English throughout. I obviously had subtitles for the French parts.

Ah ok I forgot about that. I was just afraid you watched a version with voice-overs, although that's probably not your style.

Professor S · 10-03-2010, 11:04 PM

Get Him to the Greek

Hilarious. Sean Combs is a comic genius.

Seth · 10-02-2010, 09:04 PM

Love Exposure - Japanese flick that I absolutely loved. 4 hours. Felt like 2. It's over the top. Japanese cults and voyeurism. Filmed with a handheld so there's a poorly lit indie feel but it works wonderfully. The original cut was supposedly 6 hours long! Studio required a shorter film so the director took it back to 2 hours...but it didn't make sense so it got rolled out to 4. I really enjoyed the alternative cultural take on Christianity and cultism.

Tai Chi Masters - Produced by Jet Li. Set in old China, rebels vs army. There's some cool action. Michelle Yeow from the early 90's!

Angrist · 10-05-2010, 05:59 AM

Twilight: New Moon.

Wasn't as bad as expected. It had transforming werewolves and some decent fights, but all the emotional stuff was just stupid, boring and too obvious. Oh and Jacob > Edward. He looked so bad in this movie that I wondered if the actor was on drugs.

The Germanator · 10-05-2010, 01:30 PM

The Social Network.

Not as great as I had hoped, but still pretty good. A lot of quick, witty dialogue and general intrigue. A pretty fascinating thing to be the world's youngest billionaire. Dude is a year older than me. Crazy.

Teuthida · 10-05-2010, 01:42 PM

Zombieland

Pretty funny that Eisenberg says the best thing about living in Zombieland is the lack of Facebook statuses and now he's playing Zuckerberg.

The Germanator · 10-14-2010, 04:40 PM

A Streetcar Named Desire

Pretty great in that classic Tennessee Williams as cinema kind of way. I hadn't actually read this play, so some of the stuff the censors take out is kind of confusing and important. It's good to know a couple of those details now. Young Marlon Brando is pretty great...Vivian Leigh too.

Waiting for Guffman

Hadn't seen this for whatever reason. I've always been a fan of the Christopher Guest stuff so I assumed I'd like it and I did.

The Cove

Oscar winning documentary about dolphin slaughter in small Japanese town. Pretty enlightening. I didn't know that most of this was happening.

Angrist · 10-14-2010, 06:01 PM

How graphic is The Cove? Would I as a vegetarian want to see it? I've heard good stories about it, but there's stuff I just don't want to see.

Transformers 2
Pfff what a weird movie. Boring, illogical and confusing story. 10% of this movie is in slow motion... Seeing those huge robots fight is cool, but not thrilling enough for 2h30.
Oh and I thought Megan Fox was no big deal.

The Germanator · 10-14-2010, 07:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Angrist

How graphic is The Cove? Would I as a vegetarian want to see it? I've heard good stories about it, but there's stuff I just don't want to see.

There are a few very graphic scenes where the water is literally turned red from all the blood. Otherwise it's a lot of talking heads and happier dolphin scenes. If you can get by the gruesome stuff it's certainly worthwhile to watch.