Amph What was the last movie you saw?

You're right! Shaun of the Dead is also a parody, an homage and a legitimate film with genuinely sympathetic characters. I stand happily corrected and could set fire to myself with a molotov cocktail.

 

Safety Not Guaranteed

Pretty entertaining and sweet.

 

Identity Thief... Bateman & McCarthy were hilarious together, and the film flowed rather nicely (and Robert Patrick's supporting role was a hoot, as was the character of Big Chuck), but the ending was completely unoriginal/cliched as all hell.

 

Walking Tall

If you like Dwayne Johnson, then i am sure you will like this movie, it's very entertaining with action in it

 

Flight

A really good movie. Top shelf of 2012 films I've seen.

 

Beautiful Creatures

It was meh.

 

Columbus Circle

decent..I like selma blair

 

Watching Knocked Up.

Haven't seen it in a while. I love Katherine Heigl and it's just a funny film.

 

Brian DePalma's "The Untouchables" from 1987. I loved it then and I loved it this morning at 3 am when I found it on Netflix.

 

The Invisible War....man that was pretty sickening.

 

Salo: or 120 of Sodom.....which may have been more sickening.

 

Butterfield 8. I was sort of impressed with how dark and ambiguous it was willing to be. Elizabeth Taylor plays a call girl whose life is pretty much a ****show, and she half-realizes it and half refuses to recognize it. She's got one male friend whose life she's slowly ruining, and she gets involved with a self-loathing, self-centered rich guy, and it generally avoids going in the predictable direction. The end is a little silly, but overall it's pretty good -- basically a long observation of self-destructive behavior with a good script and good acting.

 

I saw The Perks of BEing a Wallflower last night. I haven't read the book, but I very much enjoyed the movie.

 

READ THE BOOK
READ THE BOOK
I SHUN THE MOVIE REAAADDDD

 

I did an Oscar best picture marathon, so the last film I saw was Beasts of the Southern Wild.

 

What did you think of it?

 

Argo. Great political thriller. Very streamlined, without unnecessary plot twists. Affleck's directing echoes of great 1970s movies like All The President's Men, most likely on purpose. The airport sequence maintains the suspense in a better way than I've seen in many years.

 

Argo was indeed good. Suspenseful and entertaining throughout. Too bad half of it is entirely made up.

 

It's no Braveheart, though.

 

That's true.

 

I 've seen bits of the original version, how can you even sit through the whole thing?

 

8 mile

 

i didn't really have an issue with the violence, but then i'm not particularly squeamish, unless it comes to needles.

the violence wasn't just gratuatious for the sake of it (ala saw, hostel), and that was the point; not a subtle one but enough to give the movie depth.

and besides, HANEKE!

 

Alien vs Predator

Good movie especially if like Alien movies or the Predator movies

 

Django Unchained for the second time.