Last Movie You Watched V. 1.0

[rowech]

I should clarify...I liked Good Night and Good Luck and Munich. (How important was the i that I forgot in my original post?) Thought they were both better. What I meant was that it just wasn't a great year for a standout movie.

[Pyser]

Originally Posted by rowech

When I finally saw this movie, I couldn't believe it had won best picture. However, the other nominees were: Brokeback Mountain, Good Night and Good Luck, Munch, and Capote.

i like thinking munch is the porn version of munich.

[stevew]

Originally Posted by larrymcg421

I didn't care for Capote, but the other three movies were infinitely better than Crash.

I tried to watch Capote. I just don't do the Flamboyant accent thing. Big fan of Phillip Seymour Hoffman too.

[sabotai]

Originally Posted by stevew

Crash was utter garbage. I think Imran was the one who led the "this movie sucks charge"

I thought it was garbage too. All you have to do is watch the first 10 minutes since the whole movie is the same 2 scenes with the same two character archetypes on repeat.

I thought Good Night and Good Luck was the best of the movies nominated, and that Walk The Line should have been nominated for (and then should have won) Best Picture.

[stevew]

Hustle and Flow should have won the year Crash did. Terrence Howard was amazing.

[rowech]

Originally Posted by Pyser

i like thinking munch is the porn version of munich.

Either that are it's a Disney movie about a fat kid.

[Chief Rum]

Originally Posted by rowech

Either that are it's a Disney movie about a fat kid.

Or the long awaited prequel life story of John Munch, SVU detective.

[Swaggs]

I thought Good Night and Good Luck and Brokeback Mountain were both really good.

[Groundhog]

Did nothing but watch DVDs all day sunday.

Wall-E - 9/10
Didn't really know what it was about but had heard the praises, so I expected good things, and wasn't dissapointed. Some amazing animation, and a solid story line. Really dug the end credits animation too.

Hell Boy 2 - 7.5/10
Liked it a heck of a lot more than the first one. Only watched it because it had del Toro directing it, but glad I did. The other people I watched it with didn't enjoy it much, so maybe it was more del Toro's style that kept me interested rather than the movie itself.

Land of the Lost - 7
This movie got slammed by everyone, but I got exactly what I was expecting - a big, dumb, funny Will Ferrell movie. I LOL'ed a number of times, but for some reason completely lost it during the mosquito scene.

Bruno - 7
Man. Some cringe worthy scenes, especially the finale. The hit/miss ratio was worse than Borat though.

[Dark Cloud]

Netflix has resulted in me watching all sorts of movie I missed before. I'm not including any of the documentaries I've watched, just the movies.

Traitor: Don Cheadle does good work, but I found the whole thing a bit too unbelievable and slogged through it. What they got right, I liked. (5/10)

I'm Through With White Girls: It's an indie flick that was originally called something else, but they gave it a provocative title to think it'd help it sell. It's a pretty basic indie romantic comedy with a guy who thinks his dating choices are the problem, not himself. It's kitsch, but cute enough to make it worthwhile and a pretty accessible flick. (6/10)

Medicine for Melancholy: A beautifully filmed, but slow moving film about a one night stand. The filmmaker, Barry Jenkins, called it his 'love letter to San Francisco', so it's full of imagery of that city. I think all of that was a bit lost on me, because it's one of the few major U.S. cities I haven't
visited yet, but...save for that, I thought the story was a bit too politically overt and obscured whatever was going on between the characters. So I loved the cinematography, the soundtrack is kickass, but..the story was a bit plodding and yet, it works okay. (7/10)

Rachel Getting Married: Anne Hathaway is amazing. And the lead singer from TV On The Radio is in it, too. Overall, it's well acted but as others have said before it's a complete mess otherwise and so slow that I had to stop watching it. (4/10)

Serenity: I remember all of the hype about it, but because I don't watch movies "like that" I didn't really ever figure out what it was about. But I watched it today and even though I'd never seen the TV series, I found it generally entertaining. I think it'd have been better for someone who knew what they were getting into and it was a movie I almost would've had to watch again to figure out precisely what the storyline was, but...it was generally well done and the heaps of praise seem fairly well founded to me. (8/10)

[Honolulu_Blue]

Originally Posted by Dark Cloud

Serenity: I remember all of the hype about it, but because I don't watch movies "like that" I didn't really ever figure out what it was about. But I watched it today and even though I'd never seen the TV series, I found it generally entertaining. I think it'd have been better for someone who knew what they were getting into and it was a movie I almost would've had to watch again to figure out precisely what the storyline was, but...it was generally well done and the heaps of praise seem fairly well founded to me. (8/10)

Put the TV series on your que. It's even better.

[NewIdentity]

2012 gets 9/10 A great movie, I don't get the bad publicity.

A solid 8 for the action adventure side, but gets another point for the added humor. This is a pretty funny movie with a lot of good laughs in it.

I wonder who was opriginally cast for the lead, I bet it wasn't Cusak and all the great comedy in the movie was added later.

Wood Harelson was hilarious as the wacked out conspiracy nut.


Car, Start....... That was freakin hilarious.

[cubboyroy1826]

2012 - 8/10

A solid entertaining movie with some funny moments and some tear jerkers as well if you have kids. I thought the movie was very well done but it does require a bit of suspension of reality. This is not a complaint of course because if you go to see this movie you should probably know that already. Gotta go make my plans for 2012.

Oh yeah the car start part is confirmed as one of the funnier movie moments in a while.


All Fixed

[Honolulu_Blue]

Originally Posted by cubboyroy1826

2010 - 8/10.

2010 some sort of webispide prequel (that apparently borrows the same jokes) to 2012?

[watravaler]

Saw Fargo for the first time. Don't think it's a 10/10 like many others seem to, but it was certainly entertaining. 8.5/10

[endemicFOF]

Two music documentaries, both were amazing and both featured ridiculously talented musicians who suffered from serious mental illness. I can't believe I had never heard of the 13th Floor Elevators before viewing, what an euphoric sound.

You're Gonna Miss Me(2005) profiles Roky Erickson, lead singer of the 1960's band 13th Story Elevators. Groups like Led Zepplin were clearly influenced by this band, and Roky's singing voice is on par with the best of the best in the rock n roll world. Don't want to spoil anything, but check it asap...amazing show. 8/10

The Devil and Daniel Johnston: Profiles Dan Johnston, who pretty much lived in his garage making music. Obviously crazy, but the music speaks for itself. A better film than You're Gonna Miss Me due to main character. 9.5/10

[Matthean]

Scanning back on the reviews for 2012 I don't exactly get it. To me it wasn't nearly humorous as some people seem to think it was. There were a couple of times where I chuckled, but generally speaking I was fairly bored outside of the action sequences, which pretty much all of the early ones were already shown via the previews. Since they bounced around to so many different characters, it felt like it took a long time to really get going. I won't even mention the head scratcher moments. The action sequences were awesome though, but since the movie was so long, they felt too spread out.

[Kodos]

Quarantine 8 out of 10. A zombie movie featuring the Blair Witch shaky camera, although the camera was not nearly as bad (perhaps because I watched it on TV rather than at the theater) as it was in BWT. The acting was good, and it was a fairly intense movie. Outside of a few too many instances where people who've seen zombie attacks put themselves in a vulnerable position with someone who is obviously about to turn, it was very enjoyable. I recommend it for any zombie fans out there.

[Kodos]

Originally Posted by Groundhog

dola

And I tell you what, anyone who lives in Sydney and watches the chase at the end of that movie with Neo and Agent Smith will find it very amusing as the actors run past a familiar building, take a turn, and are suddenly 15 minutes down the road.

I had the same feeling watching Breaking Away. They were biking around Bloomington with no regard to continuity.

[DataKing]

Tropic Thunder (8 / 10): One of the funnier movies I've seen in quite a while. There were a few parts that were "meh," and frankly it could have done just as well without Nick Nolte, but it was pretty funny. But what pushed this to an 8 was Tom Cruise. I never thought I'd find myself typing this, but he was absolutely hilarious. Completely stole the show IMO.

Cross of Iron (7 / 10): A pretty good Sam Peckinpah piece about the Eastern Front during World War 2. I could have done without the obvious anti-war aspects, but it was still a pretty good flick with good action sequences for its day. I wish we could see what Sam could have done with modern movie effects.

Fast and Furious (5 / 10): Completely unrealistic with plot holes you could drive a Chevelle through. I am now officially sick of Dom Toretto (who has apparently replaced Superman as the Man of Steel, based on the events of this flick). Still, if you like hot cars and scantily-clad chicks, this might be worth your time.

[NewIdentity]

Originally Posted by Matthean

Since they bounced around to so many different characters, it felt like it took a long time to really get going. I won't even mention the head scratcher moments. The action sequences were awesome though, but since the movie was so long, they felt too spread out.

I think the bigest problem with your idea of too many characters is the fact that the lead character is a Joe Nobody. Every other Disaster movie out there has the main character as a somebody, Scientist, Engineer, Politcal Leader, Conspiracy Nut. But, not this movie, hell this character is not even a Top in his field; actually truth be told pretty much the opposite.

The main characters role has nothing to do with story development in this movie. The main character has no role what so ever in the Big Picture. Just an extremely ordinary guy trying to get his family through a crisis. This is what makes this "disaster" movie different from most of the others I have seen.