Last movies you saw - Page 50

Angrist · 08-31-2009, 11:19 AM

Soylent Green. 7/10.
Decent movie from 1973. Another one of those weird takes on the future. The year is 2012 and the earth is overpopulated. Greenhouse effect means there's hardly any crops. People eat synthetic food. Then a rich guy gets murdered for suspicious reasons...
The main character makes the whole movie. He's a cop who takes part of the scene of the crime with him. Liquor, real soap, vegetables... He's from the time where police still punched bad guys until they started talking.

Professor S · 08-31-2009, 11:29 AM

Idiocracy. This is a cult classic in the making. Goddamn hilarious and dead on satire.

The Germanator · 09-18-2009, 11:57 PM

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Idiocracy. This is a cult classic in the making. Goddamn hilarious and dead on satire.

I just saw this recently as well. The movie itself wasn't the best constructed thing, but the general concept and the gags involved were outright brilliant and hilarious. I'm a big Mike Judge fan, and it's a shame this film didn't get the dues it deserved. Of course no production team will promote a film that basically calls its audience idiots.

BreakABone · 08-31-2009, 04:26 PM

Nothing but the Truth

It was an okay movie, which added a lot of points in my book due to the ending, and finding out her original source.

And maybe me curious about journalistic integrity

Professor S · 09-05-2009, 03:23 PM

This Waking Life

Possibly the dumbest movie ever made. So full of horrific pseudo-intellectual, self-aggrandizing bullshit I thought I was going to puke.

BreakABone · 09-09-2009, 09:05 PM

The Warriors

Unlike Gremlins, I could see the appeal to the movie and in 30 years, it has aged really well.

Seth · 09-10-2009, 01:44 PM

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The Warriors

Unlike Gremlins, I could see the appeal to the movie and in 30 years, it has aged really well.

Wasn't it good! I liked the cinematography. Like it was filtered but not...I agree. Aged well.

I saw The Good, The Bad, The Weird
Korean western shootem'up. I liked it, a bit drawn out in some scenes but still worthy of a watch.

Inglorious Basterds - I loved the basement drinking scene. imo it made everything else more enjoyable.

KillerGremlin · 09-12-2009, 06:09 PM

Sunshine Cleaning

This was an okay film. I enjoy watching Amy Adams; she's like a slightly less awkward Pam from The Office. The film had wonderful cinematography and I thought several of the setting shots and compositions were very nice. The rest of the film was cute and quirky. It was weird seeing Alan Arkin (the Grandpa) in Sunshine Cleaning after his role as the Grandpa in Little Miss Sunshine. All in all I would recommend it as a renter, but titles with "sunshine" that are better include (but are not limited to): Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Little Miss Sunshine

Dead Silence

This was a fun movie. Growing up with Goosebumps and Child's Play I have vivid childhood memories of reading about possessed dummies. Dead Silence is a B movie that has a lot of elements of a TV show. The acting is average, the cinematography is hit or miss. But the creep and horror elements are old school horror, something sorely missing from the genre today. If you're sick of slasher films, psychological nappers, or gross out films/gore fests/torture porn, then this film is right up your alley. Like King/Kubrick's The Shining or The Skeleton Key, this film relies on good old fashion creepiness and imagination to deliver the scares. I think this film is underrated if you enjoy fun mystery, suspense style horror.

Angrist · 09-14-2009, 08:17 AM

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Sunshine Cleaning

This was an okay film. I enjoy watching Amy Adams; she's like a slightly less awkward Pam from The Office. The film had wonderful cinematography and I thought several of the setting shots and compositions were very nice. The rest of the film was cute and quirky. It was weird seeing Alan Arkin (the Grandpa) in Sunshine Cleaning after his role as the Grandpa in Little Miss Sunshine. All in all I would recommend it as a renter, but titles with "sunshine" that are better include (but are not limited to): Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Little Miss Sunshine.

Exactly. An okay film. Enjoyable, nothing more nothing less.
Can't argue if you agree with eachother.

I saw Into The Wild. 8/10. Great movie. And to think it's (based on?) a real story.
Those Danes were crazy. Don't think all Europeans are crazy like that.

BreakABone · 09-13-2009, 03:10 PM

The Thomas Crown Affair (1999).

I've always liked Pierce as Bond, he has a charm to him. The problem was that his movies were never that strong.

This is pretty much him getting to play Bond in a different environment. Less superspy, more suave womanizer.

It is a good movie. Enjoyable character, and some nice twists.

Has anyone ever realized how little discussion we have in this thread at times?

Bube · 09-13-2009, 04:05 PM

I think we should have a "last movies watched" forum. Every movie watched should be a new thread, and after 1 week of inactivity, the thread should be deleted automatically. What does everybody think?

Teuthida · 09-13-2009, 06:16 PM

^ Sounds like a good idea. Folks would be more inclined to write a bit more.

Little Nicky
It was fun. And now I know where the portal from hell is in NYC. Was also nice to see Chubbs from Happy Gilmore again.

They edited out the twin towers from the DVD case and posters:

Did they think seeing the towers there would distract from sales or something? Know of any other censoring of this sort?

BreakABone · 09-20-2009, 06:45 AM

The Informant

It is a pretty funny movie, and a change of roles for Matt Damon. His design just made me chuckle everytime I saw it.

Seth · 09-20-2009, 05:56 PM

Who Am I - Jackie Chan film, most fans would have seen this by now; somehow it's taken me this long. Excellent film. Some bad-bad guy acting but good 2 on 1 fight near the end and decent production. I highly recommend this metaphoricalfull Jackie Chan beauty from 1998.

Teuthida · 09-20-2009, 07:28 PM

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - I liked it even though not much actually happened.

Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
Pros: Beautiful backgrounds. Solid voice acting.
Cons: Everything else.

I was so bored watching this I had to take a break in the middle. It's only an hour long so that's saying something. The entire movie is basically one big slugfest, which wouldn't have been so bad if the animation was any good. Horrible character designs that moved chunkily through monotonous fight scenes. (Minor grievance but they changed the ending from the comic taking the glory away from my boy Captain Atom. Can't a nuclear man get any love?)