Amph What was the last movie you saw?

The Life Before Her Eyes which was rec'd to me here. It was...powerful, heart-wrenching and I didn't suspect that ending.

 

Sorry, this was just one of those where I wasn't really interested but had heard good things and saw it at Redbox.

Same with The Help, which I watched last night.

 

Men in Black II

A very fun movie.

 

Hot tub time machine: Comedian Jim Gaffigan does a bit where he talks about those books and movies you don't read/watch until they've been out for a few years. You end up loving them, but nobody wants to talk about them anymore because they've moved on to whatever's hot at the moment.

That was my experience with HTTM. A movie I absolutely loved, but could only elicit a few "Yeah, that was pretty good [mumbles] three years ago." from my co-workers today. - 8/10

 

Safety Not Guaranteed. Can't say it worked for me as a comedy but I still really enjoyed it. B+

 

The Pirates: Band of Misfits. I loved it.

 

Invictus
Directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon, this is part a sports movie in the vein of Remember the Titans, Any Given Sunday et c. and part biographical political drama. Following the end of apartheid, Nelson Mandela, contrary to popular demand, rather than dismantling the old rugby team, the Sprinboks, decides to get behind them and use them as a vehicle to advance his vision of national reconciliation and unity. The 1995 Rugby World Cup, which was to be held in Johannesburg, serves as a vehicle to galvanise support for the Springboks.

Well made, well paced, well performed and not overly sentimental (imho, at least). I liked it; I found it inspiring and uplifting.

 

Side Effects

I really loved this movie. It's Soderbergh doing a sort of riff on Hitchcock. The less you know about this film the better, though you should certainly know that Rooney Mara is still the best actress under thirty right now. And as for Jude Law . . . where the hell have you been? His performance is really great and it just reminded me of just how much fun he is to watch. Be in more movies, stat!

 

I saw Looper last night. It was okay. Entertaining, with clear time travel rules and with a strange change of pace and setting midway through the film.

 

The thing I loved about that change of pace and setting was just how unexpected it was because they had purposely not shown anything out of that section in the trailer. I don't think they hinted at anything in the last hour of the movie in the trailer, which is great.

 

Stuart Little

A fun movie

 

I loved "Looper" for exactly that reason...and the fun time-travel aspect of it.

 

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie

 

Flight

Pretty good even though the commercials for the Blu-ray/DVD spoiled the end of the film
I really enjoyed Denzel's performance
If you are/were a "My Name is Earl" fan, you will LOVE the first 5-10 minutes of the movie

 

The last couple of films I watched on my cable's OnDemand:

The Amazing Spider-Man- It was pretty much okay, but did they really need to rehash Spidey's origin and Uncle Ben's murder?

Wanderlust- Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston are a couple with hectic lives who discover a hippie commune, where they feel much free. It may not be for everybody, but it's good for some cheap laughs, like when Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston are about to make love in their New York apartment, but they're so tired he ends up falling asleep on top of her.

Oh yeah, since Judd Apatow produced this, expect to see much peener.

 

Limitless: A very interesting SF thriller. I didn't quite like that certain things were left rather vague or in the air (such as the origin of the wonder drug that drives the plot), but it was still very entertaining. This is perhaps the first collaboration between Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro and, to borrow a line from the end of the film, Cooper made De Niro his b****. Then again that's not much of a stretch considering the sorry state of Bobby's career in his twilight years.

 

That was Hancock.

 

I do give them kudos for not spoiling this aspect in a day and age of marketing where the trailers give away almost everything, but the second half felt to me like it belonged to an entirely different film. The effect was jarring. I suspect it might play better the 2nd time around.

Get the Gringo - Deftly manages to be both unflinchingly dark and hysterically funny. Also a great reminder that Gibson is easily the best of the AARP action stars working today - 7.5/10

 

Stuart Little 2

Better than the 1st one but the music sounds sooo much like Back to the Future

 

Cloud Atlas. Weird but good.

 

finally saw Django. it exceeded my expectations.

 

Argo- still wondering how that won best picture...

was good but nothing to write home about...

Quality in movies has dropped off quite a bit... This movie in 1994 wouldn't have even been nominated