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Date Posted: 10/31 11:05am Subject: What was the last movie you saw?
Saw VI
Pretty good story and loved the gruesome traps. Though I love the series it's time for them to end it or move away from the whole Jigsaw/Amanda/Hoffman/Jill centric plots.

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
Good but could have been better. Lots of laughs but not serious enough IMO, plus the whole ending was a giant cop out.

 

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Date Posted: 10/31 2:05pm Subject: What was the last movie you saw?
Transformers Revenge of the Fallen

Not bad, but hated the annoying twin robots.

 

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Date Posted: 10/31 7:25pm Subject: What was the last movie you saw?
Ridley Scott's Alien. Creepy movie. worried

 

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Date Posted: 10/31 9:16pm Subject: What was the last movie you saw?
Where the Wild Things are . . . . not too sure about that one, but I didn't read the books either.

 

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 Date Posted: 10/31 11:11pm Subject: What was the last movie you saw?
"To Die For" (1995) dir. Gus Van Sant, starring Nicole Kidman, Matt Dillon, Ileana Douglas, Wayne Knight, Joachim Phoenix, Casey Affleck and Alison Folland.

Black comedy is particularly hard to get right. This film is based on a book (by Joyce Maynard) which itself is based on a true story: the Pamela Smart case. Smart had a degree in communications, and her own late-night radio show (celebrating heavy metal music), which in the movie becomes an obsession with making it on television.

The reviews are all over this, of course, and several of them imagine that this movie is a satire of celebrity (it isn't), and pop culture (not that, either).

I had heard good things about this film, particularly Kidman's performance, and looked forward to seeing it. But it reminded me very unpleasantly of another film much praised by the critics: Alexander Payne's "Election" (1999). That, too, involved a very ambitious female protagonist, and a crime, albeit a minor one.

"To Die For" is better than "Election"; at least at the beginning there are some genuinely funny moments, and the film boasts three terrific performances, none of them by Kidman. I'm talking about Joaquin Phoenix, Casey Affleck and Alison Folland as the three high school kids she inveigles into a murder plot. They're all terrific.

But Kidman seems wrong. Yup, she's really beautiful, and she works really, really hard, and you can sense her working really, really hard, which is the problem. She's a lot like Jane Fonda, another very beautiful actress with a lightweight, rather boring presence, a somewhat unsympathetic screen persona, and a very undistinguished voice. She just doesn't have the distinctiveness of a star.

The script doesn't help. The film changes direction at least three times, and Kidman's character is not at all consistently drawn. Part of the problem, like "Election", is that while the secondary characters are treated in a generally realistic manner, Suzanne Maretto (Kidman) and Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon) are broadly camp. I think for a black comedy to work, the tone has to be consistent; as it is in "Fargo" or the original British "The Ladykillers". (The Coens stumbled badly with the remake by not remembering this rule).

Van Sant directs it well and the cameo at the end is a hoot, but this film is a misfire.

 
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Date Posted: 11/1 2:12am Subject: What was the last movie you saw?
Under Siege: The best of the Die Hard clones. Good action and pacing, plus the cast is good, though Tommy Lee Jones goes wildly over-the-top as the bad guy.

 

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Date Posted: 11/2 7:38am Subject: What was the last movie you saw?
Bad Taste - Good film.
Meet the Feebles - Great fun.
Forgotten Silver - Intersting and well executed mockumentary.
The Blob (1988) - Way better than the 1958 film.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off - Not John Hughes best film but It's still great.
Eagle vs Shark - A sweet lovestory. It's also very, very funny.
The Wrestler - One of the best films from 2008. I love Darren Aronofsky earlier films.
Léon (aka The Professional) - A classic. Besson at his best.
The Orphanage - A very positive surprise. Creepy and a near perfect script.

 

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Date Posted: 11/2 10:57am Subject: What was the last movie you saw?
In the theater

Zombieland great movie personally I thought it was better then Shaun of the Dead

On DVD

Ghostbusters come on early Bill F'n Murray

Revenge of the Sith awsome

Big Lebowski

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Milk another example of Sean Penn and why hes one of the best actors of our tinme

 

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 Date Posted: 11/2 12:46pm Subject: What was the last movie you saw?
"The Black Room" (1935) dir. Roy William Neill and starring Boris Karloff.

I recorded this off TCM for only one reason; in an old out-of-print book of movie reviews (by Graham Green!) it was mentioned favourably. Green said it was 'wildly artificial' or something like that, but enjoyable. Never heard of the director at all--he started in 1917, and seems to have worked mostly at Universal. But Green's right; the film's highly entertaining, very well paced, photographed and directed, and Karloff has a ball as good and evil twins. There's none of the patchiness of the early sound period.

Highly recommended.

 
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Date Posted: 11/3 8:21pm Subject: What was the last movie you saw?
soitscometothis posted:
Under Siege: The best of the Die Hard clones. Good action and pacing, plus the cast is good, though Tommy Lee Jones goes wildly over-the-top as the bad guy.


Agreed. Under Siege is a great action movie. I love Tommy Lee Jones' random nuttiness.

 

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Date Posted: 11/3 9:25pm Subject: What was the last movie you saw?
Brian De Palma's "The Untouchables" (1937)

 

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Date Posted: 11/3 9:49pm Subject: What was the last movie you saw?
TMNT (2007) - The animation was incredibly well done, particularly the fight scenes. The rooftop battle between Leonardo and Raphael is the highlight of the film.

 

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Date Posted: 11/4 8:32am Subject: What was the last movie you saw?
^ I agree that fight is the best thing in the movie.

Transformers: Watched this last night, I really really like it. Getting ready to watch the second one which I saw in theaters but haven't seen since.

The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: This was the movie my mom picked out for us to watch last night. I enjoy it. I've never read the graphic novel so I don't know how it compares. Random side note on this movie: My brother went to high school with a guy who could almost be Dorian Gray's twin, aside from the whole not dying thing.

 

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Date Posted: 11/4 5:58pm Subject: What was the last movie you saw?
Finding Nemo. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming, swimming.....

 

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Date Posted: 11/5 10:20am Subject: What was the last movie you saw?
Zombieland. It's the funniest movie of recent memory for me.

 
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