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JohnWesleyDowney Registered: Jan '04	Date Posted: 6/7 12:48am Subject: What was the last movie you saw? - Date Edited: 6/7 12:52am (2 edits total) Edited By: JohnWesleyDowney
	"Angels and Demons" Never read the book, just wanted to enjoy the film on it's own terms. It was a good summer popcorn flick with a touch of philosophy thrown in which I enjoyed immensely, the endless conflict between science and religion. A few parts were a little ludicrous, but I enjoyed it nevertheless, I took it on it's own terms. Several sequences of suspense were superbly handled, and there were also some moments of droll and wry commentary such as the line of warning absolutely packed with commentary: "Be careful. These are men of God." I liked it. Got my money's worth. Apparently the studio did too, it's global gross is 364 million. Not bad. -----signature----- Namaste.
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Merlin_Ambrosius69 Registered: Aug '08	Date Posted: 6/7 9:30am Subject: What was the last movie you saw?
	Cold Mountain In this, my fourth viewing of the film, Cold Mountain has been confirmed in my mind and heart as the Gone with the Wind of the 21st century -- a gut-wrenching Civil War epic about love and loss, tragedy and triumph, the heights of human kindness and the depths of human evil. The film-making is so perfect and fluid that, as my wife noted, "you don't even realize you're watching a movie!" The 2003 movie was based on the 1997 best-seller by Charles Frazier. The film was nominated for 7 Academy Awards and won one -- Renee Zelwegger for Best Supporting Actress. IMO, it should have swept the Oscars, taking everything from Best Picture and Best Director (Anthony Minghella) to Best Actress (Nicole Kidman) and Best Actor (Jude Law). Again IMO, the film is unparalleled in its raw emotional power, cinematic aplomb, and exploration of complex philosophical themes. It is my favorite non-sci-fi/fantasy movie of all time, the absolute peak of movie-making perfection. -----signature----- "Chance makes playthings of us all." -- Seneca Shameless non-Manager Emeritus sock of Vortigern99. Fan of George RR Martin, JK Rowling and JRR Tolkien.
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Jediflyer Registered: Dec '01	Date Posted: 6/7 11:53am Subject: What was the last movie you saw?
	The Fugitive - I had somehow missed this movie. Its good, but not great, typical of early 90's action/drama movies. I did like the use of Chicago in the movie. You really got a feel for the character of the city. 3.0/4 Repo! The Genetic Opera - Fun movie. A nice combination of Sweeney Todd, Labryinth, Dark City, Moulin Rouge, and Once More With Feeling from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The shout-out to Labryinth during during Shilo's "17" piece with the muppets bouncing on the couch was great. 3.5/4 Collateral - I love this movie. Watch it with the window open on a cool night and you almost feel like your driving around Los Angeles. 3.8/4 -----signature----- As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences. -Eugene McCarthy There are no dialogues, only intersecting monologues -Mark Twain
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 6/7 12:57pm Subject: What was the last movie you saw? - Date Edited: 6/7 2:13pm (2 edits total) Edited By: Zaz
	"La Roue" (1923) dir. Abel Gance (silent) This film was originally eight hours long, was cut to four, and the cut shown on TCM was 273 minutes (!) Sound familiar? Sure it does; it's the "Greed" of France. In fact, it resembles "Greed" quite a bit. The brutish leading man, Severin-Mars, looks a lot like Gibson Gowland, there's a barge-load of heavy-handed symbolism, and the pace is slow. The plot: a railway engineer named Sisif rescues an orphan, Norma, from a catastrophic train crash, and takes her home to be a sister to his small son, Elie. His wife is dead, and thechildren grow up together. Elie, who grows up to be a violin-maker (!), his father, and his father's business partner, Hersan, (Sisif is an inventor as well...!), all fall in love with Norma. Through endless complications, Norma marries Hersan, but longs for Elie, and vice versa. It all ends tragically, I suppose. I don't know for sure, because my recorder had pity on me and cut out after three and a half hours. I went to the Wiki summary for the ending, but I couldn't say for sure. The acting is not all that good. Sisif does a lot of brutish staring; Norma is supposed to be enchanting, but comes across as hyperactive; Elie's dim, and Hersan's a nasty twit. Putting your recording on fast forward helps a good bit vis a vis the plot. However: there are some absolutely brilliant scenes...the railway accident, tinted in bilious orange, is wonderfully done, and the scenery in the last half, which takes place in the mountains, is beautiful. So the film has its rewards, but a lot of patience is required. Gance has a poetic eye, and not much discrimination as to whether the plot makes any sense whatsoever and whether he is overloading it with more than it can bear, which IMO, he is. But then I thought the same of "Greed"; von Stroheim kept insisting that GREED was the cause of everyone's grief, when other explanations--such as slow-wittedness, lack of opportunity, obsessive-compulsive disorder and machismo, do come to mind.
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Dubya_Scott Registered: Jun '02	Date Posted: 6/7 4:32pm Subject: What was the last movie you saw?
	I watch Ice Age the other day...in preparation for the new one coming out next month. -----signature----- I wish I had the height and girth of D2. I play hockey with the "Clone Wars" director! Save GARGOYLES! Buy the Season 2 DVD! (See Profile for more info) Proud father of the RPF's "007 Family".
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DAR Registered: Jul '04	Date Posted: 6/8 5:04am Subject: What was the last movie you saw?
	Bonnie and Clyde-Aside from slow first ten minutes the rest of this movie just moves. It's a great film. A Patton-An all time classic. George C Scott is the best A -----signature----- Packers prediction 12-4 Actual 5-4
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Chancellor_Ewok Registered: Nov '04	Date Posted: 6/8 6:44pm Subject: What was the last movie you saw?
	Poseidon. Can't understand why critics hated this movie. Its a pretty solid disaster flick. -----signature----- http://tlongpublications.wordpress.com/ http://tlongportfolio.wordpress.com/ http://thestarsailors.wordpress.com/
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Miana Kenobi Title: Pacific RSA & NSWFF Mod On Limited Time Registered: Apr '00	Date Posted: 6/8 9:22pm Subject: What was the last movie you saw?
	This is Spinal Tap. Such an awesome mockumentary. -----signature----- President of San Diego FanForce He tini nga whetu e ngaro I te kapua iti. Dyslexics of the world, UNTIE!
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big_boss_nass Registered: Nov '01	Date Posted: 6/8 11:15pm Subject: What was the last movie you saw?
	PadmeA_Panties posted: Paul Blart: Mall Cop. I'd give it a 9/10. I seriously hope that you are kidding. -----signature----- Pittsburgh Penguins - Stanley Cup Champions Pittsburgh Steelers - Super Bowl Chamions Pittsburgh Pirates -
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 6/8 11:20pm Subject: What was the last movie you saw?
	"The Blue Gardenia" (1953) dir. Fritz Lang, starring Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, Raymond Burr and Ann Sothern. This is late, and not great, Fritz Lang. The cast is decidedly down market; Conte has no charisma, and I dreaded watching Baxter over-emote at every opportunity (she's really terrible). Raymond Burr and Ann Sothern add some flavour, but the denouement is a disappointment. That's because Lang does not appear to be interested in it. He loves, however, the semi-innocent caught by guilt and violence, and that section of film is interesting. But it's only for completists.
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Sven_Starcrown Registered: Mar '09	Date Posted: 6/9 12:42pm Subject: What was the last movie you saw?
	The Dark Knight -----signature----- Nobody's perfect. There was never a perfect person around. You just have half-angel and half-devil in you.
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Drac39 Registered: Jul '02	Date Posted: 6/9 1:02pm Subject: What was the last movie you saw?
	A Clockwork Orange -----signature----- "That's all there is to life, just a little laugh... a little tear"- Lon Chaney
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black_saber Registered: Apr '02	Date Posted: 6/9 1:20pm Subject: What was the last movie you saw?
	Munich. -----signature----- "Just when I thought I was out , they push me back in." I never liked micheal Jackson and he was always a looney.
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Mastadge Title: Manager Emeritus Registered: Jun '99	Date Posted: 6/10 3:00pm Subject: What was the last movie you saw?
	Marty -- Delbert Mann, 1955 -- "Ma, sooner or later, there comes a point in a man's life when he's gotta face some facts. And one fact I gotta face is that, whatever it is that women like, I ain't got it." Great movie. Definitely a product of its time, but a great movie. (**½) Revolutionary Road -- Sam Mendes, 2008 -- Suburban angst. Got some good actors, and as always with Mendes the movie looks beautiful, but virtually none of the dialogue rings true -- it always sounds like the characters are reciting lines for each other rather than talking or yelling at each other. (½) He's Just Not That Into You -- Ken Kwapis, 2009 -- Watchable movie. Nothing wrong with it, except the characters are boring. Sometimes cute, but boring. Most of them seem to have no life, no interests other than dating, and people who have no interests besides finding the right date are boring. Not a keeper but sometimes amusing. () The Future of Food -- Deborah Koons, 2004 -- Lopsided documentary that comes off as a smear piece against Monsanto. Not that Monsanto doesn't deserve it, and some of the stuff here is fantastic and chilling and leaves you scratching your head at the ethics of it all. But there's no one speaking for the other side, a few of the facts are questionable, which helps discredit the many that aren't, and there's no segment on What You Can Do. The film got me all riled up once again about the sorry state of the food industry in America but didn't offer any tips as to what the average consumer can do to make a difference. Still, well worth seeing for anyone interested in what they're putting in their body, which should be everyone. (½) Defiance -- Edward Zwick, 2008 -- Poor Ed Zwick. He could be a top-notch summer blockbuster director, but he has delusions of grandeur and always tries to make Important movies about Serious topics, which come across as being far too self-important and take themselves far too seriously for the sensationalized melodramatic historifictions they are. This movie is very enjoyable, sometimes quite powerful, but like most of Zwick's movies it's overbearingly straightforward and unsubtle and sentimental. (½) The Texas Chain Saw Massacre -- Tobe Hooper, 1974 -- Small budget horror flick from when horror flicks weren't played for laughs almost every time. This film is insane and terrifying despite the dearth of acting talent. The first two minutes are more unsettling than the two Bay-produced remakes put together. (*) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre -- Marcus Nispel, 2003 -- A pointless remake that either doesn't know or doesn't care what made the original so good. Or what makes anything good. Because there is nothing good here except Jessica Biel's body. There is not a solid thrill in the film. The characters are so unrelentingly stupid that you wonder how they survived as long as they have and are grateful to the chainsaw for removing them from the gene pool. Even gorehounds will be disappointed as the camera usually cuts away before letting us see the actual tear and splatter. Garbage, beginning to end. () The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning -- Jonathan Liebesman, 2006 -- Unnecessary prequel to awful movie is also awful. Slightly less awful. But its sole purpose is setting up the first movie and it does it in a very boring way that leaves you scratching your head wondering why you're supposed to care. () Gran Torino -- Clint Eastwood, 2008 -- This movies is really in IMDB's top 100? Srsly? Gah. This is Eastwood's jab at political correctness. The first half of the movie is an awkward comedy in which Eastwood plays an ornery old man who's awful to everyone but that's okay and actually kinda funny haha because he's an ornery old man. And he's Clint Eastwood. The second half is an extremely heavyhanded redemption story in which Eastwood dies for your sins. The scenes in which Eastwood attempts to teach a kid how to be a man are cringeworthy. And really, it's okay to be awful and offensive to everyone as long as you've got good old-fashioned American values and know how to maintain your property and don't know how to relate to people but deep down inside wish you did. It's almost sad to watch the way the camera cuts around the punches and kicks to get around the fact that Eastwood is no longer the badass he once was. There is some funny dialogue, around all the namecalling and Hmong infodumps and Eastwood mininarrations, and the movie is certainly watchable and not boring, but I'm not sure why it's so well-loved. (**) -----signature----- "This will be our reply to violence: To make music more intensely, More beautifully, More devotedly than ever before." - Leonard Bernstein
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Darth Dark Helmet Title: Manager Emeritus Registered: Dec '99	Date Posted: 6/10 3:13pm Subject: What was the last movie you saw?
	The Hangover. Funny, funny movie. -----signature----- When dealing with genocide, you must ask yourself, "What would Hitler do?" And then, you know, do the opposite.
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