Perpetual Movie Thread/What was the last movie you watched?

Watched Disturbia again last night.

Not a bad movie. But I was again left with the same feeling that I got from a handful of other movies, including that blackjack movie with Kevin Spacey: it's a goddamn kid's movie. As soon as I realize that teenagers are the target audience for a particular film, I tend to get pulled out of it.

It was different when I was a teenager (and those movies I enjoyed 10 or 12 years ago are still fine with me today), but now I just find it incredibly distracting.

God, I'm old.

The wife and I just bought The Dark Knight and watched it tonight (we've already seen it in the theaters, though).

My God, wow. Christopher Nolan is awesome.

And yet it still rather disturbs me that, while there isn't a drop of blood in the entire movie, it is still being marketed to kids. This is as much a kids movie as Heavy Metal was.

Oh, and I heard a rumor that the big black prisoner who takes the ferry bomb detonator at the end of the film will eventually be Mr. Freeze. Has anyone else heard this?

Heath Ledger made The Dark Knight my favourite batman movie!

Dark Knight was good, but it wasn't as awesome as reviewers would have you believe, personally I believe it is a solid film that shows just how far Batman movies have fallen.

The last film I watched was Quantum of Solace - James Bond is awesome :ok:

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Dark Knight was good, but it wasn't as awesome as reviewers would have you believe, personally I believe it is a solid film that shows just how far Batman movies have fallen.

The last film I watched was Quantum of Solace - James Bond is awesome :ok:

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I'll admit that the Dark Knight didn't entirely live up to my expectations, although that honestly would have been impossible. I thought the writing, paving, and direction was superlative, even though things became a little unraveled towards the end.

I thought that, for how much time they spent developing Harvey Dent, Two-Face's role was a bit anticlimactic.

And the fact that the Joker thread was totally unresolved was a bit disappointing (although I believe there was deliberate symbolism in the fact that he was "left hanging" at the end of the film).

Saw Quantum of Solace myself. I love this new direction the Bond series has taken. Daniel Craig may very well prove to be the best Bond ever (or at least second best)

If Tony Lister (aka Deebo, aka ZEUUUUUUUS) is Mr. Freeze it would be up there with the Mr.Freeze of 11 years ago that pissed everyone off.

Know who needs to play Mr. Freeze? That one guy from Under Siege who did all the computer stuff, then gets shot by the girl. I don't know his name, but him.

And the new Punisher movie was bad, but had some of the best goofy violence in a movie in a LOOOOOONG time. I'm talking better than Shoot-em-up, and I loved that movie for it's goofy violence.

Actually, you know who might make a good Mr Freeze? Jon Torturro. It might sound out there, but so was Heath Ledger at first. I bet he could nail it.

Or, since Christopher Nolan seems to favor Australian actors, what about Hugo Weaving?

Watched Choke last night.

I had high hopes because I loved the book and I like Sam Rockwell, but the movie was a complete mess.

Has anybody ever seen The Killing Kind (Curtis Harrington, 1973)?

Sincerely, this must be one of the best (if not the best) serial killer movie I have ever seen, from a psychological point of view. Seriously underrated and unkown material.

I remember for years loving Throw Momma From The Train even though I never fully watched it. I just knew it'd be awesome.

I finally watched the whole thing a few days ago and now understand that it's one of the greatest movies out of the 80's, and it never get's discussed anymore.

Then I showed a newer friend Battle Royale, and he found it to be incredible although he made fun of it a bit more than I would have liked.

I just finished reading Watchmen for the second time, and it has given me even more reasons to hate that godawful film adaptation. Man what a hack Zach Snyder is.

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Has anybody ever seen The Killing Kind (Curtis Harrington, 1973)?

Sincerely, this must be one of the best (if not the best) serial killer movie I have ever seen, from a psychological point of view. Seriously underrated and unkown material.

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have it on dvd thought that i was a lost slasher gem
but i found it a real stinker ain t happening much only good thing is that the mother poisend her own son in the end

The last movie I saw was The Haunting In Connecticut. Let me just say, I hate most horror movies these days, all these tedious Japanese horror novel adaptations... They're mostly just bad. But this movie was seriously pretty decent. Pretty spooky. Supposedly based on a true story! :huh:

Yeah, it's worth checking out.

Rear Window - My favorite Hitchcock movie, with Vertigo a close second.

Dead or Alive movie, I have never played the game, but it seemed to be related to it to some extent... nice movie IMO

Watched Step Brothers last night, it wasn`t too bad, the usual laughs at immaturity.

Last night I watched the new Alex Proyas, Knowing.
It's awesome.
First movie I see that's atheist and christian at the same time, how cool is that?

Another good thing is that it puts Nic Cage's career back on track. He needed this.

Last good movie I saw was BLAST OF SILENCE, an old noir or crime flick from the 60s.

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Last night I watched the new Alex Proyas, Knowing.
It's awesome.
First movie I see that's atheist and christian at the same time, how cool is that?

Another good thing is that it puts Nic Cage's career back on track. He needed this.

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Ugh, seriously? I thought Cage was worse than ever in this.

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Ugh, seriously? I thought Cage was worse than ever in this.

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Well, I agree his performance is a bit unstable.

But the fact that he's in this movie is reinvigorating. For him and his career I mean.

State of Play had me guessing correctly at almost each and every turn and had some of the most generic dialogue and characters possible.

But it was free, so I'm good.

Max Payne. Rather boring. Didn't make much sense. Next time, I'm picking the movie when I meet with my friends...

I can see why Clockwork Orange is a great movie, but I wouldn't put it on any favorites lists.

It's good, but the book is much better*.



*see also: every other book-to-film adaptation that isn't No Country For Old Men and Blade Runner

Then I watched 4 for Texas since I bought it around Christmas with other Rat Pack movies and never checked it out.

I can now see why it's forgotten.

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I can see why Clockwork Orange is a great movie, but I wouldn't put it on any favorites lists.

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This is how I feel about most Kubrick movies, actually. I think 2001 was his best movie, outside of the last ten minutes or so.

Spaceballs hasn't aged very well at all. It just isn't that funny.

Definitely one of the lesser Brooks films, imo. They can't all be The Producers or Young Frankenstein though, I suppose.

Eh, I have to agree. Still a lot better than Robin Hood: Men in Tights, though.

I just saw Quarantine for the first time. Yeah, that was pretty bad.

Except for beating the guy with the camera in first-person, I generally agree with you.

Never Cry Wolf....weird movie, good, but a bit weird.

Watched about half of Hellboy II: The Golden Army, but was interrupted by a phone call which became more entertaining than the film.

Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth was light-years ahead of Hellboy II in terms of quality film making.

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Originally Posted by Iced Snowman

Watched about half of Hellboy II: The Golden Army, but was interrupted by a phone call which became more entertaining than the film.

Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth was light-years ahead of Hellboy II in terms of quality film making.

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Ah yes. This is what happens when you throw the comic book to the side and try to make your own story. Not that the drunk singing scene wasn't funny, it's just that the movie was kinda pointless.

Unfortunately, I can't defend it even though I enjoyed it. The drunk scene and "I'm not a baby, I'm a tumor!" were awesome, but other than that that last fight scene had me wishing Hellboy would lose, since it just took so damn long. I usually wont recommend the film to most people.

The title says it all. For me, it's really easy to make a top five. :)

1. Blade Runner
2. The Nightmare Before Christmas
3. Pulp Fiction
4. Highlander
5. Back To The Future

1: Blade Runner
2: Vanishing Point
3: The Empire Strikes Back
4: Django
5: Akira.

1) The Big Lebowski
2) The Terminator
3) Dirty Harry
4) Heat
5) This is Spinal Tap

Hmm... Tough one. There's so many.

I'll go with... the original The Four Feathers, the original Frank Capra Lost Horizon, Jean Cocteau's La Bete et la Belle, Jean Cocteau's Orphee, Robert Bresson's Diary of a Country Priest, the original Flight of the Phoenix, Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (specifically, Sunshine in the Rain and Watermill Village), A Man For All Seasons, El Cid, Lawrence of Arabia, George Pal's The Time Machine, the original Journey to the Center of the Earth, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Last Crusade, The Lord of the Rings (although I still think I could have done it better :) ), Whisper of the Heart, Howl's Moving Castle, Spirited Away, the first ten minutes of Ridley Scott's Legend, Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, Ikiru, Hornblower (all of them), Scrooge (the musical with Albert Finney, pretty much every great musical...

I can't really pick one, or even a few, in particular as my favorite.

Thats really had for me to pick just five.

1) Brazil
2) Life Aquatic
3) Dr Stranglove
4) O Brother Where Art Thou?
5) Lost in Translation
6) Big Lebowski
7) Rasing Arizona
8) Schultze gets the Blues
9) Harold and Maude
10) Amelie

Edward Scissorhands.