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

[Tripredacus]

Prometheus! It was great!

[VinnyT]

The game show host couldn't do his lines properly due to his brain tumour, whilst the kid had just pissed himself and his father was shouting at him, to be honest I think I've seen the film before anyway (or at least parts) as I vaguely felt that it was going to turn out that the host was going to have molested his daughter, and it was going to rain lizards or something.

Frogs rain from the sky, so yeah you've seen it before. The film has its issues, but its still quite a fucking endeavor and I'm glad I watched it when I did. The only thing I had a problem with was when John C.Rielly loses his gun and things get all weird for like 5 minutes. It's never explained because there's a scene they never shot that would have explained it (It also would have followed up with the black woman in the beginning) That part always throws me off. My friend swears by the film though.

[VinnyT]

Watching The Rum Diaries right now.

"the average man doesn't rock the boat because he wants to climb aboard it"

Some nice dialogue and insight on a little known historical perspective. But obviously i'm not rapt as Sega-16 is equally entertaining.

Regarding Magnolia, I've walked out of three movies in my life: Weekend at Burnies 2, Hard Eights, and Magnolia.

Saw Magnolia opening weekend in a sold-out theater. Sat there wondering how the help can all these people tolerate this. I wanted to leave early on but stayed with it to give it a chance. Finally left, pissed at myself for sitting through it that long.

It was mildly amusing to later discovered that Hard Eights was by the same director.

I was gonna say yeah, they both were directed by the same guy. You're probably the first I've heard though that actually hated Hard Eight/Sydney enough to walk out. I'd say it's a shame but I'm not about to undermine your opinion.

Just curious though, have you seen Boogie Nights, Punch Drunk Love, or There Will Be Blood?

[QuickSciFi]

Casa de mi Padre: This movie had surprisingly amazing music. Even with the blatant comedic spoofs with their cigarettes and intentionally-bad special effects, it had tremendous depth in writing and acting. It sent me right back to Nacho Libre. These are extremely simple movies, but they carry more weight than the crapfest that are most comedies nowadays. Did I mention this movie had Amazing Music!?!

[VinnyT]

So...Moonrise Kingdom is the best thing Wes Anderson has done in 10 years. Even better than Fantastic Mr. Fox. It's the epitome of the overall feeling of childhood and adventure. It will stay with you for days.

It's barely playing anywhere yet, but when you get a chance to catch it you really should.

[QuickSciFi]

If it's anything like Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life aquatic or The Darjeeling Limited, I think I'll pass. But then again, it would be idiotic for me to even fathom at this point that it wont be like that.

[old man]

Wes is as polarizing as Michael Bay. People either love him or hate him. I'm one of the former.

[Bones Justice]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Watched this out of boredom. It was one of the few DVD's in the donation pile that I had not watched unless you count the "chick flicks". Given the concept, I expected a lame parody of kung fu movies with a lot of lame jokes. Instead, it's a relatively serious action-adventure film unless I'm just not sharp enough to get it. (To be fair, I thought the Adam West Batman was serious when I watched it as a kid.) The origin was weird, though, it was ridiculous but they played it straight so it sort of worked. The fight scenes were really good considering it was a bunch of guys in rubber suits (though I still prefer Warriors of Virtue). Casey Jones is a cool character, too. They needed a better villian, though.

Spoiler:
I was surprised when they killed the bad guy. Didn't expect that for a kid's movie.

Weird, but I recommend it if you like action movies.

[QuickSciFi]

Seeking Justice (Nick Cage): It's quasi-predictable, but then again so is every action film nowadays. It presented an interesting idea, so I liked it.

[MIZPHIT]

GOLGO 13 (1973):
The first live-action Golgo movie starring Ken Takakura. Better than Sonny Chiba's Golgo 13: Kowloon Assignment that came a few years later.

[Tripredacus]

I watched Space Rage. Its a cheesy 80s sci-fi movie, but the Governor's House is my new favorite fictional house, plus there was an Asteroids game in it.

[16-bit]

Sons Of Perdition: Great documentary about kids escaping from the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saint polygamous Mormon sect on the Utah/Arizona border and their journey figuring out how to adjust to normal life.

The film is great. It provides a clearer look into the sorts of lives people live down there. It's sickening to me that one man (Warren Jeffs) is allowed to have that amount of control over people even in prison where he's admitted to being a total fraud.

[old man]

You can't save people from themselves though. They choose to believe that shit. It's like scientology. Everyone knows Hubbard came up with it as a scam, but people still buy into it. None of it makes any sense to me.

OT: I bought the Mimic collection, but I just can't seem to get into them. For some reason I got them and was thinking about The Relic (a movie I really like) so maybe I was just disappointed over that.

[Thenewguy]

Watched the new Berserk CGI movie, the original anime was better IMO, it had better music and direction, and was more in-depth with the characterisation. Still, the cgi movie was respectable enough in itself, I just hope they carry on making them further than the anime reached as otherwise the whole endeavour is totally pointless.

Watched Lifeforce, an 80s movie about a naked space vampire woman who's victims become zombies. It had terrible acting, and not so great dialogue, but it was pretty entertaining in a silly way I guess, strangely enough it was written by the guy who wrote the original Alien movie.

[16-bit]

You can't save people from themselves though. They choose to believe that shit. It's like scientology. Everyone knows Hubbard came up with it as a scam, but people still buy into it. None of it makes any sense to me.

OT: I bought the Mimic collection, but I just can't seem to get into them. For some reason I got them and was thinking about The Relic (a movie I really like) so maybe I was just disappointed over that.

Sort of. The prophet keeps them in that small gated community, keeps the children away from public schools where they would learn to question his authority, those people are brainwashed from the moment they are born. Scientology is a little different because the organization actually makes an effort to spread itself around the world and gain converts, the FLDS tries to grow by getting all their women pregnant on at least a yearly basis. The difference is that no one chooses to be FLDS, you have to be born into the FLDS church to be a "member".

What's The Relic like?