What was the last movie you saw?

[rockouthippie]

Umberto D. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045274/)

An 1952 Italian neorealist movie about a poor old guy and his dog in WWII. Don't read the imdb spoiler. I'd have to say this is one of the best movies I ever watched. Good movies take you to a believable place that you have never been. Great movies provoke an emotional response. This movie does both.

It reminds me a little of Life is Beautiful (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118799/). You could do worse than either of these for some not so mild drama.

[Widdykats]

:up::up::up::up:^ That is a great movie and much respected as it should be...
I recently saw
[Hanna] (http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110406/REVIEWS/110409995)

[rockouthippie]

I tried to watch "The truth about Love" with Jennifer Love Hewitt. Netflix. I think the Ghost Whisperer was cute.

When are people going to figure out that you can't fake a British accent? That goes double if you are Jennifer Love Hewitt. 20 minutes..... next...... What was that Stargate chick... err.. Amanda Tapping.... she's doing some scifi thing I might like, but I just can't take the phony British accent....

They sound like a drunk chick pretending to be British. No good could ever come of that. What happens after they start pretending to be British? It's never pretty.

Somehow I have this urge to run now........... RUN! FORREST!

[swingdjted]

The English Patient. Saw it for the first time last night believe it or not. I didn't know anything about it; didn't even know it was mostly a romance film, but it was alright. I'm usually not at all into romance, but this was done well enough to get me past that.

[Widdykats]

^ He kept his promise.....of course he did end up looking like a prune.....and he arrived too late...and...oh, never mind:stare:.

[Koopa]

Wraith of the Titans 3D.

Some of the 3D effects were good, but the movie was crap. No story, just rush from one fight to another.

[rockouthippie]

Beowulf (1999)

Beowulf gets a point for having Rhona Mitra in it. She's hot. Even with Rhona Mitra... 3/10...

[swingdjted]

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[rockouthippie]

Rango...

I usually like this sort of animated thing and Johnny Depp, but this movie has got to be the stupidest thing I ever saw. By 20 minutes, I was completely bored. That's mostly because the first 20 minutes of the movie are simply 99 ways to kill the lizard Rango. It got tedious. As did the mariachi owls, after 5 seconds. The animation is very poor too. It looks like they used 10 year old technology and the art is just ugly.

Rango himself is just ick. And the plot (if you can call it that) isn't any better. Take an iguana, put it in a paint shaker.........

People liked this movie. Were they giving lobotomies away free with your Rango ticket? I'm sure glad I didn't pay to watch this stinker.

I don't even think weed would help.

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Felix the Cat -1958 http://bit.ly/IWNohL lol

It's on Netflix too.
:up:

[rockouthippie]

I always had a crush on Kristin Scott Thomas, Netflix has some.

The Tenth Man
Sarah's Key
A Handful of Dust
Up at the Villa

These were the best ones.

[swingdjted]

First Wives' Club

Good cast, funny movie, although it tends to bash men a bit too much.

[Too-DAMN-Much]

last movie i watched was trigun badlands rumble, surprisingly good for a TV -> movie transition even though both were animated, it did have the annoying side effect however of making me wish the TV show wasn't long since over.

[swingdjted]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245686/

Was on comedy central. I was stuck sick in a hotel room while family were visiting each other.

[Widdykats]

I always had a crush on Kristin Scott Thomas, Netflix has some.

The Tenth Man
Sarah's Key
A Handful of Dust
Up at the Villa

These were the best ones.

She was also good in The Horse Whisperer. Love that movie...book has very different ending....

[rockouthippie]

Hooked on Borgia. I can't wait for the second season in the fall. I think the only place you can get it is Netflix streaming.

:up: isn't enough. Hella good.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borgia_(TV_series)

[Too-DAMN-Much]

saw "safe" and that new men in black flick, both were decent enough, safe was a pretty typical jason statham flick looking back on it, but pretty enjoyable for what it was, new men in black one was a lot better than i expected but nothing i would have paid to see.

[rockouthippie]

You live out there by Mac. Have you tried Imax 3d? I know they put in an Imax theater at the aviation museum, but haven't been out there to try it.

[Too-DAMN-Much]

nah i haven't, i thought the only one is the murdock theater at omsi? had no clue there was one near mac.

either way, i doubt i'd see the point in it, if i really wanted to i could probably figure out a way to watch 3d with VLC and my set of nvidia 3d vision glasses.

[rockouthippie]

As far as I know the OMSI theater only shows educational stuff. It looks like the aviation museum is doing the same right now. They were playing some real movies for a while.

Hmm...

I've been watching Earth 2 on Netflix. Typical 1995 fare. The men are wimpy, whiny and impotent. The women have balls. The toughest character is a 9 year old girl.

I'm getting kind of tired of that plot line. No wonder it got cancelled. All the intrigue of having coffee with a bunch of drama fags at a UC Berkeley Starbucks.

[rockouthippie]

John Carter. Meh... It's not a wonder Disney dropped a bundle. It's the formula blockbuster. Starts out a pretty decent story, then 20 minutes of ARRHG!!! KAPOW! SPLAT by a bunch of long haired scantily clad Irish guys, the girl gets a kiss. Somebody gets a gold cookie. The wookie growls. Fade out.

I found the 12 foot high aliens reminiscent of Jar Jar Binks, although not quite as far fetched. John Carter saves the planet, gets the girl... but we knew that before we started... It's remarkably similar to ERB's original work, but I'm not sure that's an entirely good thing. It's got some Disney comedy that's almost funny. Lynn Collins is pretty cute. Taylor Kitsch seems like a young Johnny Depp on Quaaludes. Willem Defoe as Tars Tarkus. Interesting choice. Not sure it worked. Without his face, DeFoe really might have been anyone.

You should probably spend a buck and get this on Redbox or something. 6/10. Wait for cable?

This movie looks expensive, but $250 million? Disney might break even.. probably not.. It's the franchise Disney was looking for. They were looking for a new Star Wars. I think we can safely say this ain't it.

[Too-DAMN-Much]

As far as I know the OMSI theater only shows educational stuff. It looks like the aviation museum is doing the same right now. They were playing some real movies for a while.

i thought they played that shitty blue cat people movie when it first came out? i forget the name. i'll give you though that most of the stuff that winds up there is done by that whatshisname that spends an entire 50mil budget on rigging and cameras per movie though.

[rockouthippie]

This was an interesting article about theaters by Roger Ebert.

http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2011/05/the_dying_of_the_light.html

[Too-DAMN-Much]

not a bad article, if entirely biased.

although, i fully agree except on one point, the problem is not the technology, but the ignorance responsible for operating that technology, 3D videos, movies and games using polarized lenses do definitely create a much darker picture than their 2D counterparts, however, i think it's also important to note that while 60% saw 2D as cited, 40% opted for 3D, i for one am amazed at how many people were willing to give the new technology a fair shake, i honestly thought it would have been much lower than 40% if i'm honest.

even still, i think it's important to support the current 3D technology that we do have which is unfortunately not as good as it could be to encourage ****** g r o w t h is censored? oh well and development of new and better 3D technology, take polarized lenses compared to the 3D method used by the 3DS handheld game console by nintendo, both are far from perfect, i'll be the first to admit that, but if the public shuns current polarized technology for being too dark and current 3DS technology for being too sensitive then how much longer will we wind up waiting for a monitor or TV technology that can be viewed from a wide angle without glasses or loss of brightness?

possibly, forever and that would be a shame.


at any rate, to get back on topic, i went to see the dark knight rises at the drive in tonight, just got back an hour or so ago in fact and it was awesome, they cleared didn't pay any heed to bane's backstory and if i'm totally honest they seemingly intended to miscast him, forgive me for being the voice of reason here, but bane was a mexican child, born in a mexican prison, he was not talia's son although the comics never point to a father in specific either and she did not calm him, his teddy bear did, also, he never was able to form complete sentences at one time before either and yet in this he comes off as some prison monkey with a cheesy british accent dubbed in.

all in all though, it was the only movie i bothered to see in the theater the entire year and it was well worth it, 9/10.

[rockouthippie]

I was reading that people aren't poppin' the extra $5 for 3D and if you watch a movie in 2D they didn't pull the filters so you're half bright.

Meh.

With Gene Siskel being dead, perhaps his ghost inhabits Ebert, who is also now very fucked up and close to being an ex-Ebert. I'll take his estimate with a grain of salt. I see no reason to disagree with his estimate of theaters. His estimate of movies is kinda limp wristed for my taste, but not as effeminate as it used to be.

Ebert likes a chick flick I'd pass on. It doesn't make him an idiot. I value his input for choice of movies understanding that he's who he is. I would give proper weight to anything he said understanding we don't like the same cup of tea. I would call him "dead on" about the lack of technical quality you're likely to find if you pop the $50 for taking a date to a movie.

I don't have to agree with you for intelligent input to be really useful. As long as I have a consistent frame of reference. Ebert is kinda soppy and sentimental. More power to ya bud. I'm pretty happy there is chocolate and vanilla.

[erica.lrk]

I have seen the grudge 3.

[rockouthippie]

Silent House.

Mary Kate and Ashley's little sister Elizabeth running away.... ahhh.... eeek... ahhh.... ahhh for 88 minutes. Gag me with a fork.

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Sister or Disney cloning lab? No one is quite sure.

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Moment by moment... second by second.. it will bore the living crap out of you.

[Sharmy]

I saw Dictator film, it was quite humorous.

[Widdykats]

Widdykats Recommendations:
Girl With The Dragon Tattoo *four paws up
Ides Of March...*three paws up
Tree Of Life (Like watching cement set , but it's Malick so visually stunning and interesting in it's way)
Bridesmaids *Three and and a half paws... Yes! It's funny
oh and Beginners..four paws wonderful
more to come...it's early....:weird:
A clip about Beginners
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[mike-db]

I can't remember the last movie I watched... I think it was the last Harry Potter.

[thinktink]

I just saw 2016: Obama's America. It was disappointing to be honest. Way too much back-story and not enough connect-the-dots. His ultimate premise that the reason Obama does the things he does is because of anti-colonialism I'm not completely sold on. I'm still glad I saw it though because it does give a different perspective and explanation into what he's all about and it may actually be either completely true or just one part of his core worldview. Either way I don't know. I'm not completely sold but I believe it is worth considering.

[rockouthippie]

Obama isn't sinister. He's just a liberal. He was born in the United States. We own him. He is our garden variety liberal. He isn't a great President, but we haven't had one of those in a long time.

If there is something about him that pisses me off, it's his interference with our fuel sources, the cronyism in the green power industry... the $250,000 every Chevy Volt cost the taxpayer so far.

Most of the stuff didn't make anything greener, and didn't make any power. I've had employees at Solar World down the street here that they thought it was bullshit (and I quote) that wouldn't exist w/o US and German government funding. They don't think they are making a viable product. They expect to lose their jobs as soon as the public wakes up to the fact that they don't know how to make a truly workable, cost effective solar panel.

Before we start tearing down the coal, natural gas and oil industries, we better have that other green energy source. We don't. Not even close.

This is Obama's big problem. Green that escapes reason. Should we be investigating green power... absolutely.... Should we implement green power without having any idea how to make it????

I think we should have the "Manhattan Project" for green power but we shouldn't deploy anything without it working. First we figure out how to make green power, THEN we deploy it. Now we're deploying things we know don't work and aren't remotely cost effective.

We should do the research. When we figure out something that works, then...... we deploy it... then we start cutting into oil, gas and coal.

Obama has got the cart before the horse.

If you see someone driving a Volt remind them to thank you for paying your taxes. They only paid about 20% of what it cost. We paid the rest.

Yay! We can make a green car that costs a quarter million that we can sell for $48,000!

Hell, if you're a yuppie, green, tree hugger that can afford 50 grand and doesn't mind driving a geo with a piano in the back, we'll just gift you $200,000 for being such a yuppie nut bar.

If you want a Volt.... You buy it! That'll be a quarter million....if Chevy foregoes any profit..... Are you still sold?

[ChrisLenga]

Theater wise, Expendables 2... Home, latest Transformers movie.

[rockouthippie]

On Netflix:

The Way

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This is a beautiful film and a wonderful character study. It's a collaboration between Martin Sheen and Emilio about a pilgrimage in Spain. 8/10.

[johnnyfirday]

old boy .. an awesome movie ... it is actually in i think in Chinese or Japanese language ,, i have downloaded the English subtitles and watched it .. it was awesome ....

[erica.lrk]

Avengers ....its good

[rockouthippie]

http://www.hulu.com/watch/324758

Frida. A surrealist movie about the surrealist painter Frida Kahlo. Free to USA and 7/10.

[daverafa]

My wife rented Jack and Jill a few weeks ago, I'm still mad at her and havent spoken to her since

[ujay]

Miserable weather, no football this weekend on account of the Internationals so I'm sat here watching "Support Your Local Sheriff".

I love them old James Garner movies, brightened up a dull afternoon.

UJ

[rockouthippie]

Garner is still with us. He turned 84 back in April. I think my mom was in love.

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[Aminifu]

Area 407: The Mesa Reserve Incident (2012)

A small US airliner crashes on a restricted Government reservation in the middle of nowhere. A few civilian guards are posted there. A creature, that is never clearly shown, is running around killing anybody it sees.

The only thing that made this interesting to watch was the filming technique and the interplay between the passengers and crew that survived the crash, as they alternated between trying to help each other and trying to survive individually. It was a compilation of sequences shoot by a camcorder belonging to one of the passengers (a teenage girl traveling with her older sister). It starts out with the girl filming everyone in the passenger section, with and without their permission. It held together for the most part, but there are times when you begin to wonder who is doing the filming.

It was presented as a 'true' story made possible by the retrieval of the camcorder.











Spoiler Warning:



The guards' job is to kill anybody that wanders onto the the reservation (this isn't made clear until the end). One of the crash survivors turns out to be an air marshal with an automatic pistol, but she isn't able to help much. They are all killed, one by one, by either the creature, each other by accident, or the guards. The last 2 are shockingly killed by a guard. Then the creature gets the guard that killed them.

[rockouthippie]

Abraham Lincoln vs. the Zombies.

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Destined to be a cult classic :rolleyes:

[Aminifu]

Can't decide which scenes I like best. Young Lincoln with his kung-fu axe, or him jumping from stampeding horse to stampeding horse, or old Lincoln jumping from train car to train car just before they fell off the burning bridge. Hilarious. :D

[rockouthippie]

Warlock - 1989

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At least fair.

[rockouthippie]

Loved this movie when I saw it in the theater... Got it for $3 ebay auction. Holds up decades later... 8/10... Joanna Pacula was great in this. Carried the show.

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[Widdykats]

http://www.hulu.com/watch/324758

Frida. A surrealist movie about the surrealist painter Frida Kahlo. Free to USA and 7/10.
Saw it on Starz... Wonderful movie Nice it's on Hulu !:D:

[rockouthippie]

I saw "The Hobbit" in 48 fps high rate 3D. Excellent technology, but the movie was not only boring at 2:50, it pissed me off because the end is a teaser. It likely won't tease me into watching a sequel.

You could arrive an hour late and not miss anything.

There is one part of the movie "My precious" that is outstanding. The Gollum Smeagol and his ring of invisibility. 10 minutes out of 2:50. Peter Jackson is in love with the HFR 3D cameras, so every pan has to include a fade out to a 3D landscape. I found it very annoying. If you watch this movie in 2D, I can't see it holding your attention.

Other people liked this movie, and it is a groundbreaking technology. But I thought it was like watching Jello harden. I think it should have been... let's watch this in 2D to make sure we had a movie. I don't think the HFR 3D could shine a turd. Another thing that annoyed me is the soundtrack. It's just so un-gifted.....

Maybe if you were stoned, but it would have to be some pretty good weed. 4/10.

The HFR 3D technology is "da chit" though. I'm looking forward to some more films using this technology. It's not a substitute for a movie. I left like I was watching a technology test.

So kids... you got 2:50 of a movie with 20 minutes of plot. Tolkien nerds will appreciate that the movie does follow the book with extreme accuracy. I'm not that sure it was a good translation to film. Man... where is JJ Abrams when you need him?

:down:

[rockouthippie]

Dark Star - Free to US users...

http://www.amctv.com/b-movies/videos/dark-star

[swingdjted]

Role Models

It's a comedy that guys can watch, but the gals probably won't like it as much. Some might be ashamed to like it but will like it anyway.

[rockouthippie]

Has anyone caught the Great Gatsby? I might want to see that one in theater 3D? If it's stupid, I'll pass. It seems to be getting fair reviews, but sometimes that isn't the perspective of a old guy.

[swingdjted]

Silver Linings Playbook

Definitely worth the watch. Very unique but not enough so to be considered an art film and not enough to turn off the mainstream viewer. I liked it.

Never saw the movie you're asking about. My wife wants to see it though. I read the book and saw the old movie; is this just a newer or modern version?

[rockouthippie]

I'll have to revisit Gatsby in literature. It was one of those things that was required reading for my freshman English class. 35 years later, I might appreciate it instead of thinking it was a chore.

Another bit of forced reading.... Vonnegut... I did and still despise Vonnegut. Vonnegut never said anything another author hadn't said better. Most of what was original was tripe.. hippie fest bullshit.

[swingdjted]

I'd have to say the same about the book; it's been since high school, but I remember not minding it too much.

I figured I'd play Silver Linings Playbook again. It's not as good the second time, but watching it once is good. I rented it on Youtube and it's good for re-viewing 48 hours once started.