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Last Movie You Watched (and what you though of it)
Literally that last one you saw, could be out in cinemas or a DVD you've watched a dozen times before. What was it and what did you think of it?
Mine was 'The Pianist', on DVD last night. Just as moving, tragic and uplifting as the first time I saw it. Adrien Brody is sublime.
I haven't seen The Pianist but I remember a while back seeing a film called The Piano.
Anyway, last night I watched Twisted, with Ashley Judd, Andy Garcia and Samuel L. Jackson. As the title suggests it's a moody and 'sexy' thriller with a twist. It's one of several DVDs I got in order to help me learn German - it can be watched with German dubbing. I recommend it as a film in its own right anyway as I think it's a clever little story and the three leads are good actors.
The previous evening I watched The Hunt For Red October, another film that can be watched with German voice-overs, and one especially recommended in this context because there's lots of repetition of instructions between sailors, as seems to be the protocol.
If anyone can recommend a DVD they know can be watched with German voice-over I'd appreciate it. Others that I watch for this purpose include Dazed and Confused, The Manchurian Candidate, Meet the Parents, Zoolander, The Edukators (that one is German), Blue Streak, V for Vendetta, Shaft (the Samuel Jackson remake), 16 Blocks, Arlingon Road, Go, Flatliners, Fright Night, American Graffiti, Air Force One and Con Air.
It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but their social existence that determines their consciousness. Karl Marx.
Watched Apocalypto last night, I'd heard good things about but was a bit disappointed, had hoped that the movie would explore the Mayan civilisation more and all their achievements but it never really did. Really good visuals and everything though, and it was sort of entertaining so I'd still give it a 7/10
The new Sherlock Holmes. It was great. Funny, insightful, mysterious. I recommend it.
The HBO show is way WAY WAY better tho.
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"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth." ~Albert Einstein
The Aviator. Had seen parts of it before and watched long parts of it again.
I thought it was a very well done film with superb acting and it really brought to life the magic of developing flight the way Hughes did, and he himself was an interesting character.
Politically, I like what one rotten-tomatoes reviewer described when he wrote "It's a measure of The Aviator's complexity and ambiguity that it can be read equally as a celebration of rugged, capitalist individualism and as a leftist critique of cutthroat free-market competition."
I guess the last movie I saw start to finish though was "Howl's Moving Castle." Excellent film; I hadn't seen it in a while, and the subtle magic of the film really speaks to me, especially when complimented by the stunning visuals.
I finally got around to watching The Trotsky.
Pretty good film, and was rather funny. Didn't really tell me anything about Trotsky's ideals, but I don't give a shit.
"what a fucking non-study that is anyway, you might as well study "Warlock Tarantulas" or some shit" - Comrade J on theology.
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I'm going through a weird stage where I can't bring myself to watch movies. I download them, even watch the intros on some of them, but then I can't concentrate and go do something else instead :/
The last movie I saw (10 minutes of) was We Need To Talk About Kevin. Seems promising, maybe I'll get round to watching it properly.
“People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by the democratic republic. In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.”
- Friedrich Engels
Last movie I saw was "The Green Hornet" with Seth Rogan. It was alright, nothing special. I like Seth a lot tho, so that made me see it.
"[People] act like its some kind of rock solid homogeneous body of masculine oiled men with big hammers and flat caps standing outside factory gates chewing tobacco and muttering 'those damn petit-bourgeois students and their alienating camera-smashing, I sure love me some CCTV! Don't you, comrade stakhnov?'." - Ravachol
Literally just watched Mr Smith Goes to Washington. It makes me laugh knowing that the patriotic series of clips as Smith travels about the city was made by a Soviet Montage expert. It's a good film with some good performance but the message is so corrupt even as it's attempting to explore corruption.
Modern democracy is nothing but the freedom to preach whatever is to the advantage of the bourgeoisie - Lenin
Yesterday I saw 500 days of Summer, for like the tenth time. It's definitely one of my favorite films, the music is just awesome, and I love Zoey Deschanel.
"I never was aware of any other option but to question everything." Noam Chomsky.
"The paths they are plain, the choices are clear: if things are to change, friends, it's gotta start here.
And if now ain't the time I hope the time's near, while there is still something left worth saving.
So stand up, fight back, to hell with your fear for the times, they are not a-changin' " Ryan Harvey
I watched Return of the Living Dead, for the 6th time the other day. Max Brooks (Author of World War Z and Zombie Survial Guide) once expressed his hatred for it in a interview, claiming it ignored every thing about the Zombie genre. I disagree, RotLD takes the zombie genre and has fun with it. The movie is stupid, ridiculous, and entertaining as hell and has some damn good special effects, for a movie made in 1985.
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I saw Mystery Team. It was funny as hell. Donald Glover is a really funny actor.
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Planet Of The Dinosaurs (available on youtube)
what a fantastic film this is- the acting is stunning, the dinosaur fx are amazing for its time, it's full of interesting twists and turns and the action in it is unrelenting
"whatever they might make would never be the same as that world of dark streets and bright dreams"
http://youtu.be/g-PwIDYbDqI
I just watched Warren Beatty's film Reds. I actually liked it. Yes it does criticism some aspects of the USSR (while pointing out that some of the problems were due to counter-revolutionary activities of the Whites). I don't think it was very pro-USSR but it wasn't as biased against it and heavy handed as most US films. I also thought it was well made in general. I liked the direction and cinematography quite a lot.
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[FONT=Arial Narrow]"Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts."[/FONT] [FONT=Arial Narrow]- Joseph Stalin.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial Narrow]"History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce." [/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow]- Karl Marx[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial Narrow]"Wah-wah-wah I threw my dummy out of the pram"- Sam_b[/FONT]
Horrible Bosses, watched it last night. It had some funny scenes but there was too much cheap comedy and predictable scenes. It's a hit and miss movie for me but It's still worth a watch to anyone who hasn't seen it. Also watched Stake Land last night, I read optimistic reviews about it but the film was a predictable let down, cheap vampire crap that's been done 1,000 times before.
[FONT="Arial Black"]Our lives are rivers, gliding free
To that unfathomed, boundless sea,
The silent grave!
Thither all earthly pomp and boast
Roll, to be swallowed up and lost
In one dark wave. - Jorge Manrique[/FONT]
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (American version). I liked it. I'm a big David Fincher fan and mostly saw it for that reason. For an R rated film, I was surprised with how much they got away with. It's not that often that you see such a commercially available film (in America) with so much sex. It's probably because it's Fincher and the MPAA will let him get away with that. If it was some indie or unknown filmmaker, you can bet most of that would have been left on the cutting room floor.
The last film i saw was "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo". I thought the movie was a complete waste of time.
I saw the American version of the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo first and noticed several scenes didn't make any sense. After seeing the Swedish version it dawned on me, the American version took several scenes directally from the original movie, but cut dialogue leading up to the said scenes that was in the Swedish version. I also thought the rape scene in the American version was badly done, the scene dragged on for way to long and yet still manged to have less impact then Swedish version.
I found it horribly racist at best. I mean it IS a Mel Gibson film so I cant say I was terribly surprised, but that he didn't even ATTEMPT to show the complexity of Mayan society and chose to focus on only one aspect of their culture and to go out of his way to make the Maya look bad did not sit well with me.
The last movie I saw was Cashback. I didn't expect to like it as much as I did and any synopsis of the plot doesn't do it justice at all. Part of the plot is an artist who gains the ability to stop time after not sleeping for weeks. He uses this ability to undress and draw female customers in a store where he works.
I had thought there was going to be some bones thrown to the perv crowd; shots of him feeling someone up, him taking pictures of the naughty bits, having sex with someone while time was stopped, etc. But surprisingly none of that happened and it was actually quite well done.
It's on Netflix right now, I highly recommend it. The beginning is a little slow but it gets REALLY good after that.
As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me.
-Henry Rollins
I re-watched The Room a few nights ago. It's so terrible that it's good.
