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The Last Movie You Watched; And how was it?
Topic Started: Mar 29 2011, 10:37 AM (20,129 Views)
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Oh wow I have so many movies from class. I actually can't remember them all, so I'll put the ones I do remember.

Jaws
ET
A Beautiful Mind
True Grit
Spider-Man 3
Iron Man
The Avengers
Back to the Future I and II
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Phantom of the Opera

I think that's it. Anyway, brief review of all of them. Jaws is okay, but I fell asleep during it. The guy next to me wouldn't shut up about how great it was, but I was sorely disappointed. ET: I hate this movie. Always have. It's dumb. A Beautiful Mind: holy shit awesome. It's a biopic about a math genius who suffers from schizophrenia, and it's acted out SO well. Spider-Man 3: It's not as bad as everyone says it is. It has good parts (the Sandman story line, most everything up to the symbiote suit), but a lot is confusing and just dumb. Also:
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Iron Man is of course awesome. And then, the Avengers. Holy fucking shit so fucking good. It easily jumped into my top 3 movies. I hadn't been able to see it over the summer, so the fact that we watched it here was awesome. Wonderful visuals, great acting, and a plot that is better than the average superhero movie. The concept was difficult, trying to bring all these different stories together, but Joss did it. I <3 Joss.
Breakfast at Tiffany's was kinda like "wat", but it's fairly good. I gave it a 3/5. We only just started Phantom of the Opera, but I still like it.

On my own recently, I have watched Team America: World Police and Braveheart. I really liked Team America, but I know a lot of people here have an issue with comedies. It's by the South Park guys if you didn't know that, and it's where we get the AMERRICAA! FUCK YEAH song. Good satire. Braveheart is of course amazing, if horribly horribly historically inaccurate. It took me most of the afternoon to watch it, but I love all of it. I really wish Mel Gibson wasn't such a crazy asshole, because most of his movies are sooo good.
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We watched A Beautiful Mind in health and had to write a paper about it for the final. That and Dead Poets Society are the only quality movies we've ever watched in school.


Let's go:

The Shawshank Redemption-Welp. I liked it. But it didn't really meet the exceedingly high standard that everyone had set for it. I also thought the ending was overly optimistic.
8/10

Fight Club-I was wrong. I knew most of what happened in this movie. And it still kind of managed to surprise, and definitely entertain me. I feel like guys like this movie more than girls, but regardless, I definitely gets its place in pop culture, and David Fincher is badass. It's honestly probably one of my favorite movies now.
10/10

V For Vendetta-Well, it was going really well. But every scene that doesn't have V is a scene sorely wasted. Which is about half the movie. Evey is just not that interesting of a character. So the beginning and the end are cool.
7/10

Capote-Basically the only reason anyone likes this movie is for Hoffman's performance. And I love Hoffman, but eh. Not that I didn't like the movie. I thought the end was horrifically dark, which is good. The problem is that as the character's life starts to murk and drudge, so does the pace and it gets boring.
7/10

Crash (The one not about car crash porn)-...how did this win best picture? Capote was definitely a better film from the same year. Here are my problems with this movie:
1. Racial issues are not as implicit as this movie states repeatedly for two hours.
2. Not everybody is racist. Especially not to the degree that everybody's characters are.
3. There are like 7 storylines, and they all get really scattered screentime. Sandra Bullock is the lead credit and she's in like 5 minutes total. Ludacris was a more important character than you.
That being said, there are some redeeming parts. Basically, just watch the Mexican guy's storyline and you're good.
5/10

Ran-MORE KUROSAWA. Honestly, I don't know why he's so acclaimed. None of what I've seen from him is bad (except maybe Rashomon), but none of it is amazing. Maybe it's because I'm not a fan of jidaigeki. I dunno. The main thing to point out is that the climax is like halfway through, so the second half seems way too long.
6/10

Platoon-Another best picture! And another one I'm indifferent about! If I don't love a war movie, I won't like it at all, and I didn't love Platoon.
6.5/10

Super 8-I'm so behind on the times. The sci-fi angle of this movie could have been better approached [by not existing], but it's actually pretty negligible. Ignoring that, it's a striking period tragedrama with a great teenage emsemble cast. I really loved this movie.
9/10

Margin Call-HOLY SHIT THIS WAS SOOO BORING. I guess it's my fault for expecting more about a movie about a company trying to resolve it's financial difficulties, but that doesn't mean I have to like it any more. Honestly, it was probably just out of my age demographic completely, but eh.
3/10

Sunset Boulevard-The movie, "I'm ready for my close up!" came from, and if you watch it, will never be able to look at that quote the same way again. In context, it's actually really creepy. That said, it actually has a lot of really great quotes, and a great performance by whoever it was that played the lead female that delivered all the great quotes. Yet after a while it becomes sort of repetitive. Until the ending gets all creepy and disturbing that is.
8/10

Amores Perros-It's basically Mexican Pulp Fiction with dog fighting. I didn't really feel that connected to the movie, particularly the second storyline, but it wasn't bad. The scene with the old man and his new dog was so sad.
8/10

Battle Royale-Huh? I'll just say off the bat, The Hunger Games is better. BR has so many opportunities to be powerful, but only takes some of them. Then it has inconsistent stylish flairs that just make it confusing (e.g. random quotes get their own little titlecards). I wouldn't consider the acting that great, and the plot randomly just gets weird. If you watch it, you'll know what I mean. It's very...Japanese.
6/10

Mulholland Dr.-OH WHAT THE FUCK. I loved the first 3/4 of this movie while I was watching it. It even made total sense, which is weird for a Lynch movie. But the last half hour compensated. Everyone suddenly changes names, personalities, and life stories with no explanation provided, which isn't really a spoiler because I'm not going to explain it, because the movie doesn't explain it.
Kind of. Because it turns out, unlike most surrealism, there actually IS a way to piece this together, it just takes superhuman observation skills. Or IMDb FAQ's. Once you figure out what the fuck the last half hour was about it makes SOOOOO much more sense and is actually awesome. This is why I hate ambiguous endings. If there wasn't an explanation provided, I wouldn't have liked this because of the ending, but when there is it's actually a clever idea. I don't know if I like this or Blue Velvet more honestly. They're both better than Lost Highway, which is leagues better than Eraserhead, so whatever.
9.5/10
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Mulholland Dr.-OH WHAT THE FUCK. I loved the first 3/4 of this movie while I was watching it. It even made total sense, which is weird for a Lynch movie. But the last half hour compensated. Everyone suddenly changes names, personalities, and life stories with no explanation provided, which isn't really a spoiler because I'm not going to explain it, because the movie doesn't explain it.
Kind of. Because it turns out, unlike most surrealism, there actually IS a way to piece this together, it just takes superhuman observation skills. Or IMDb FAQ's. Once you figure out what the fuck the last half hour was about it makes SOOOOO much more sense and is actually awesome. This is why I hate ambiguous endings. If there wasn't an explanation provided, I wouldn't have liked this because of the ending, but when there is it's actually a clever idea. I don't know if I like this or Blue Velvet more honestly. They're both better than Lost Highway, which is leagues better than Eraserhead, so whatever.
9.5/10

A million times yes. Definitely my favorite Lynch movie that I've seen. Lost Highway and Inland Empire are the next ones on my list, but it sounds like I should go with the latter? I heard Lost Highway is Lynch trying a little too hard, whereas Inland Empire is just weird. Which is cool. Not expecting either to measure up to Mulholland Dr. (which made me want to watch it over and over and over again to look for everything, whether they be clues to the ending or figuring out why each character was like he/she was in the first part). But I'm okay with that, since it really was such a great movie.
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Just got back from "Ted". I posted in the ToJ that I was a little skeptical about it, that it might be a bit too "Family Guy-y", it wasn't really, although it had quite a bit of satirical content in it.
Definitely a good movie, and I recommend seeing it if you want to check out a good comedy.

I'd give it a solid 7/10. A little cliché-y...but aren't all popular movies like that? >.>
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Looper. Amazing.
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Mulholland Dr.-OH WHAT THE FUCK. I loved the first 3/4 of this movie while I was watching it. It even made total sense, which is weird for a Lynch movie. But the last half hour compensated. Everyone suddenly changes names, personalities, and life stories with no explanation provided, which isn't really a spoiler because I'm not going to explain it, because the movie doesn't explain it.
Kind of. Because it turns out, unlike most surrealism, there actually IS a way to piece this together, it just takes superhuman observation skills. Or IMDb FAQ's. Once you figure out what the fuck the last half hour was about it makes SOOOOO much more sense and is actually awesome. This is why I hate ambiguous endings. If there wasn't an explanation provided, I wouldn't have liked this because of the ending, but when there is it's actually a clever idea. I don't know if I like this or Blue Velvet more honestly. They're both better than Lost Highway, which is leagues better than Eraserhead, so whatever.
9.5/10

I hadn't really got into Lynch until recently, so I haven't seen this movie. But I DID see Videodrome which basically made me feel like I was on acid or some other hallucinogens or something. Lynch is a master of toying with your mind, and I can't wait to see this movie.
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Videodrome is Cronenberg, not Lynch, but I get how you could confuse the two.

Videodrome is so psychotically trippy I don't even know what to say. Pulling the gun out of his stomach-hole was pretty gross.
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I watched My Neighbor Totoro for the first time last night, and it was an amazing movie. It felt a little slow at the beginning, but I enjoyed every moment of it. I should definately see more films by Miyazaki.
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We watched The Return of Martin Guerre in AP Euro. Interesting movie. It's about a guy, Martin Guerre, who marries Bertrande when they're both ~14 years old and then he leaves for about nine years and comes back. However, the villagers then suspect that he's not the real Martin and proceed to find out the truth. It's all in French, so we watched the English subtitles. I liked it.
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It's Halloween, which means nothing is different!
We watched "Brave" tonight. Very good animated movie. You never get too old for animated movies.
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I watched a bunch of horror movies around Halloween, but most of them are negligible. Only the ones I care enough to write about, and some non-horror:


[REC]-You might recognize this better as the movie Quarantine is based on. I haven't seen Quarantine, but I've heard it's just awful, which is a shame because the original is so awesome. It is found footage, but it's from 2007, the same year the original Paranormal Activity came out (and thus must have already been planned that way), so it's not just a mindless rip-off. It's in Spanish, so you can take a fun crash course in foreign vulgarities because that's like 75% of the dialogue in the second half. It's more than half really. The awesome thing about [REC] is that it sets itself up, and then is essentially a nonstop horror sequence for the next hour. There's none of that pansy, "Well, we're outside in the sunlight laughing so you know nothing's going to happen," shit.
8/10, but does better in the realm of just horror movies

The House of the Devil-There are two ways to view this movie. You're either going to think it was amazing and retro, or horrific, boring, and cheesy. I go the former. The House of the Devil might be THE SLOWEST HORROR MOVIE EVER. Meaning that literally almost nothing happens for the first hour. If you just want cheap scares, this is a terrible choice. It's a throwback to the suspense-based horror movies from the 70's so it contains little gore and actually little technically scary scenes at all. It's just suspense. The climatic end scene is a little iffy, especially since there was SO MUCH build up, but the ending isn't terrible, so whatever. Overall, it's not scary at all really, but it's so much smarter and better thought-out than other modern horror movies. It also managed to be a convincing period piece, which is uncommon for horror. OH, ALSO, you want the main character to live because she actually has a personality, unlike most horror movies (including [REC).
7.5/10

The Artist-The Best Picture itself! I don't really have that much to say about this, because unlike the longer two above, people know what this is. It's really moving without even using words, which is utterly impressive. Also, Uggie should've won Best Supporting Actor. Oh, also, sound is a metaphor for George's comfortablility with his ego and self-image. Pay attention to when sound is used and that'll make sense.
9/10

Barton Fink-Okay, what? If you don't know what this is, it's a cult film from the 90's by the Coen Brothers (No Country for Old Men, O Brother, Where Art Thou) about...something. It's supposed to be a drama and a comedy, but like other Coen comedies *cough*The Big Lebowski*cough*, I didn't find it that funny. The plot is boring and surrealistically disorienting for the first hour and a half, and then the last half hour is just utter batshit insane weird. It's supposed to be a satire of Hollywood or something, but it just left me feeling like I missed the point. I liked John Goodman in it though.
4/10

Elephant-It's a movie by the guy that directed Good Will Hunting about a school shooting. It is soooooooooooo unconventional. A lot of people rightfully hate it for it's weird hyperrealistic style (although most don't realize that was on purpose). What that means is that the actors aren't acting. They sound like TERRIBLE actors, but that's because they're not. All of the characters' names are literally just the actors' names. They aren't delivering lines, they're just casually talking while being filmed. A lot of the dialogue was improvised to add realism. Here's the other bad thing about the realistic style: Nothing happens in a normal day at high school. Literally about 30 minutes of the 70 minute movie is just the camera following random characters walk silently around the school. I honestly don't know why I liked this movie, but I did. It's in-your-face artsy, but all the setup makes the ultraviolent ending more brutal. I was half-expecting it to just cut when the shooting started, but no. It shows pretty much the whole thing in great detail. And here's the punchline: At no point does the movie explain why what happened did. The motives are even hinted at. And that's the point. You get all these different, boring, and ordinary characters' perspectives of this big event, and none of them know why.
8/10, but don't take that as a recommendation unless you like art film and have a large attention span

Almost Famous-I don't have a ton to say about this, other than the cast is awesome. It was really good, but unfortunately the movie I watched right after this was so thought-consuming (but not necessarily better) that it got kind of washed out. I didn't care about the romance that much, but eh, it was still good.
8/10

Mysterious Skin-The movie that stole all of my thoughts for a day, and it's pretty easy to explain why in a single [run-on] sentence: It's a NC-17 movie about two teenagers who were sexually molested as children and now cope with their fucked up lives in radical ways, featuring alarmingly detailed pedophiliac scenes and NUMEROUS explicit gay sex scenes featuring none other than Joseph Gordon-Levitt. He's magnificent as always, and incredibly bold, as there are lots of violent foreplay scenes with other male actors who are clearly much older than him. While there's oddly enough never any frontal nudity, there are countless sex acts. At this point I should probably explain that it's because he's a gay teenage male prostitute. The other guy gets less screentime, which is good because his story was kind of weird and not as emotional. He rationalizes his young rape as an alien abduction and sets out to figure out what happened by tracking down the other character, because he remembers him being there for the...abduction. It's a bold watch, but the end is pretty powerful even if the journey there is really uncomfortable. Also, the dialogue is possibly more dirty than the sex scenes. There's a rather long talk about the kids fisting their baseball coach. It's not NC-17 for nothing.
8/10, but it's not something you would want to rewatch repeatedly
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I don't have long lists like the rest of you (I watch more TV episodes than movies, but some of you manage to do both... hmm), but I watched The Silence of the Lambs today. It was very good and I am now uncomfortable.
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Saw Silver Linings Playbook. It may be one of my new favorite movies. The music fit perfectly with the movie. The tone was great. Most importantly the acting was just unbelievable. Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, and Robert DeNero all deserve Oscar nominations for their performances. Their ability to play their parts so good is just amazing. The story is amazing too. It has a bit of everything. Seriously advise everyone to see it.
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For my AP Statistics class, my group is checking for a relationship between the number of deaths in a movie and its ranking in the IMDb top 250. Due to the time-consuming nature of the project, we're only using 63 of the top 100 (the teacher recommended that with a population of 100 we use a sample of 63, so yeah, that was easier than the recommended sample of 100 for all 250). So, 21 movies each. The movies that were randomly selected are below:

Double Indemnity
The Silence of the Lambs
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Once Upon a Time in the West
Léon: The Professional
Rear Window
Saving Private Ryan
American History X
The Great Dictator
The Godfather: Part II
Star Wars
The Lives of Others
Rashomon
Citizen Kane
Inception
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Dark Knight Rises
Amadeus
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Usual Suspects
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
The Brdige on the River Kwai
Amélie
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
The Shawshank Redemption
Braveheart
Se7en
City Lights
Pulp Fiction
Singin' in the Rain
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Toy Story 3
A Clockwork Orange
Metropolis
Gladiator
Some Like It Hot
Taxi Driver
City of God
The Third Man
Psycho
Modern Times
Seven Samurai
Requiem for a Dream
Bicycle Thieves
Alien
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Casablanca
The Departed
12 Angry Men
Full Metal Jacket
All About Eve
Unforgiven
WALL-E
Amélie
North by Northwest
The Matrix
It's a Wonderful Life
Apocalypse Now
The Green Mile
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Chinatown
Raiders of the Lost Ark

EDIT: Oops. I thought I had replaced all the repeats, but I guess not. Star Wars was originally on there twice. The repeat of it was randomly replaced with Psycho. Though I doubt that means very much to any of you. :P
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Those are bitchin' movies, yo. Although that project is going to take you FOREVER.

How are you dealing with offscreen/ambiguous deaths?


My suggestions for you:

Double Indemnity
The Silence of the Lambs
Once Upon a Time in the West
Leon: The Professional
Inception
The Dark Knight Rises
Amélie
The Shawshank Redemption
Pulp Fiction
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Toy Story 3
A Clockwork Orange
Metropolis
Some Like It Hot
Seven Samurai
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
12 Angry Men
Full Metal Jacket
WALL-E
The Matrix
Chinatown


Because I've seen those and liked them. Although be aware that Seven Samurai is 3.5 hours long. You should force the same person to watch all of the Lord of the Rings so that they can do nothing else for several days.
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