What is the last movie you saw? and rate it.

An attempt at minimalist reviews:

Law Abiding Citizen - A product of Hollywood suspense which keeps you absorbed all throughout until you get to turning off the TV and thinking how preposterous it is. Well directed, but the screenwriter needs to cool it with the morality speeches. 6/10

Mall Cop - "Why the **** am I watching this?" Is pretty much what I was thinking throughout this film. But hey, it's cute. Kevin James makes for a good, honest and incredibly likable guy who works on a set filled with product placement opportunities. The love interest (isn't there's always one?) is unfitting for the role and too blonde. Not-so-surprisingly the Hollywood script can't handle just a likable mall cop. Character introspections? That's too boring for us! 5/10

La Grande Illusion - Renoir delivered one of the greatest double-punches in movie history with this anti-war masterpiece and The Rules of the Game two years later. Very few films reach the acting ability and beauty of this film. It is humanist cinema if ever there was one about the march of time and the death of the aristocratic order. Eric von Strohiemer gives a beautiful performance as the iconic German kommadant. 10/10

Sita Sings the Blues - "Produced by You." A real heroic jab at the system, juxtaposing rag-time jazz and Hindu epics, sketchy hand-drawn animation and South Park-like cut-outs, clever improvisational commentary (with Indian accents!), epic love stories, autobiography and musical numbers. What more is there to ask for? One of the most inventive films in years, animation or non-animation. For free on the internet. "That's all." 9.5/10

I went to the movies yesterday and saw Robin Hood, what a great movie! 10/10!

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I went to the movies yesterday and saw Robin Hood, what a great movie! 10/10!

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The only Robin Hood movie that I appreciate is The Adventures of Robin Hood with Errol Flynn. Kevin Costner nor Russell Crowe aren't even up to his knees.

Gentleman Prefer Blondes - Cute, campy. 8/10

Chinatown (1974) 4/5

The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) 4/5

Afghan Star --- great documentary, following some participants in the 'Afghan Star' ('American Idol' - Afghan version). Un-frakin'-belivable...

Julie and Julia - Pretty cute movie although I would have prefered to see more about Julia who seemed more interesting. 8/10

No Country for Old Men - I watched this with some friends the other night, and we all thought it was excellent, but we all interpreted it in different ways. A puzzling film to be sure, but that's a good thing! 10/10

I haven't watched a movie in quite a while..but i am currently watching Stargate-Sg1 episodes, a really good series :cool:

Definitely "Mulholand Drive"...Hi manolia! :smile5:

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Definitely "Mulholand Drive"...Hi manolia! :smile5:

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Hi Janine :smile5: :smilewinkgrin:

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Hi Janine :smile5: :smilewinkgrin:

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Just realised I posted in the wrong thread. I thought this was the one referring to the person you would like to watch the movie with; haven't watched "Mullholland Drive" since we discussed it Manolia...that was fun. I am not sure I even recall the plot now. Recently, I did notice on Hulu one can see episodes from "Twin Peaks". I guess that is in line for next viewing after Twilight Zone. Been watching a lot of stuff on there; but understand this site is only open to the US...a real pity. The site is amazing and free. Watched Hitchcock and Twilight Zone last night. Love those!

Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2003) 5/5

Slums of Beverly Hills (1998) 4/5

Unthinkable 9/10

The Book of Eli 9/10

I went to the cinema after many weeks ( I ussualy wander around blockbuster's art section) to watch Toy Story 3... wow! it was great and very emotional for people who watched the previous ones when they were kids, so... its kind of sad the kids of these generation wont get the full message.

I loved the recurring joke about Buzz losing his mind and everyone was like "again!?"

Match Point 8/10
anywhere but here 9/10
two weeks notice(really FUNNY!) 9/10

"Youth in Revolt"-Michael Cera is my Francois ! 9/10 pencil-thin mustaches

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"Youth in Revolt"-Michael Cera is my Francois ! 9/10 pencil-thin mustaches

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Wow, that is the strangest coincidence

it was also the most recent movie i watched, it was brilliant

Come and See - The most haunting and painful anti-war film ever made. It makes Schindler's List look like a cartoon, and with none of the hope. A bleak and despairing film and one of the most painful cinematic experiences of my life. A masterpiece of realism and the terrifying surrealism that follows through the looking glass. Not for the weak-at-heart.

The House is Black - If there ever was a such thing as a cinematic poem or prayer, this life-affirming short film is it, which in its meager running length of 20 minutes was enough to move me more than almost every other film made in the past 100 years. This is not just a short Iranian documentary on leprosy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHd41wlOK80

Ace Ventura: Nature Calls - A piece of crap.

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Wow, that is the strangest coincidence

it was also the most recent movie i watched, it was brilliant

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It was brilliant, wasn't it?

Surrogate 7/10

Shiver. It is a spanish horror film.

7/10

It had some plot holes, which makes me think that they may try to fill them up in a sequel. As things stand though the ending was less than great, and the plot itself seemed a bit random compared to the beginning of the film. :)

Still, Spanish horror cinema improves all of the time.

Das Weisse Band (I think English translation would be The White Ribbon), by Michael Haneke - 9/10.

It elaborates the sociological structure in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century, and tries to track down the roots of evil which strucked the generation of children who are to become German soldiers in the WW II.

The ending is a little bit...hmm - unclarified? (I don't know if that is the right word); a bit like the X Files - all is clear, but still is not!
But it's interesting how little we know about the social life and upbringing of children in not so distant past.

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Das Weisse Band (I think English translation would be The White Ribbon), by Michael Haneke - 9/10.

It elaborates the sociological structure in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century, and tries to track down the roots of evil which strucked the generation of children who are to become German soldiers in the WW II.

The ending is a little bit...hmm - unclarified? (I don't know if that is the right word); a bit like the X Files - all is clear, but still is not!
But it's interesting how little we know about the social life and upbringing of children in not so distant past.

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great film! It's the best film i've seen since the beginning of the year..at least so far.

Inception...20/10

Seriously, it was a great movie. Nolan really did a great job with this one.

The Exorcist - If there were two films to be marked as textbooks for the post-New Hollywood "blockbuster" era, they would be Star Wars and The Exorcist. And yet there is something old fashioned about The Exorcist, something which Star Wars lacks but Jaws doesn't. It possesses that old strange 70's-ish quality that its characters deserve just as much time, development and attention as its effects, if not more. Which is why The Exorcist cannot be remade and be as shockingly gruesome as it was in 1973; because time and measurement were given to the screen leading up to the horrors that await.

The very idea that this film was made in 1973 and got away with an R rating is just shocking. Imagine, only six years earlier, audiences and critics alike were stuplified by the display of violence in Bonnie and Clyde which would appear very tame by today's standards, and only three years earlier had the first use of the word '****' had been used in 1970's M*A*S*H.

The Exorcist has been so influential that its effect somewhat wears off. Before The Exorcist, horror was all about suggestion and suspense. 1963's The Haunting is one of the creepiest films I have ever seen and there is hardly anything onscreen shown. Hitchcock is known for being the all-time master of offscreen suggestion and horror. The same goes with the silent French silent The Fall of the House of Usher, which transports the viewer into such an atmosphere that the semi-apocolyptic ending is like a slow awakening from a long hypnotic dream. But The Exorcist set new standards. With the levels of sex, violence and obscene language being raised by masterpieces such as Bonnie and Clyde, M*A*S*H and Mean Streets, William Friedrikin saw the chance to re-invent the horror genre completely by adapting a novel claiming to be based on true events about the exorcism of a 12-year old girl possessed by the Devil.

After The Exorcist, audiences became impatient with the "old-fashionedness" of off-screen suggestion, and while this traditional technique lasted some years longer and flourished in Speilberg's Jaws, by the 80's all audiences wanted in horror films was more guts and more gore.

We cannot entirely blame The Exorcist for that, just as we cannot blame Star Wars for starting what it started; that is, a new revival of the Hollywood blockbuster based on franchises, bug-budgets and simple-minded stories with little regard for cinema as serious art.

Now The Exorcist, despite its imperfections (loose plot ends, occasional indulgence and lack of significant extra screen-time to the legendary Max von Syndow), is a grand achievement in the true terror which can be brought about by the manipulation of the film camera. While probably less shocking today than it was forty years ago, the film baffles the viewer in its violent and strange perversities. Some of the obscenities (while there are relatively few) used in this film would not make even into a rated-R film today, nor would some of the scenes (particularly one involving violent masturbation and a cross) find themselves in modern movies without an overwhelming surge of protests. I would have loved to have seen the meeting when Friedkin pitched this film to its studio's producers. They truly must've thought, "Is this man safe to be around?" Of course Polanski's supernatural horror film Rosemary's Baby had come out some years earlier, but The Exorcist reached beyond it into truly radical territory.

If ever there was a film for the religious to be offended by, it is The Exorcist. It so explicitly perverts Christian iconography as well as the innocence of childhood. But that is if we ignore the human story in it, which concerns a young Italian priest who is beginning to have his doubts. "I want out", he tells one of his superiors. He joined the priesthood with a degree in psychiatry, expecting psychiatrics, instead he is bombarded with people suffering from religious and philosophical pondering and doubts. The young priest learns what he was ignorant of while joining the priesthood; that the human psyche and soul are two different things (Cartesian dualism).

In discovering this he learns to accept his faith and preform the task that is asked of him; the exorcism. Father Damien's transformation is at the heart of the film, but not at the center-stage. There, is the grotesque and demonic transformation of the young Regan MacNeil which is what the film is remembered for. And boy is it terrifying.

But in the end, The Exorcist is a less effective film than say Psycho or Jaws, because contrary to the two, it shocks and terrifies you throughout its two-hour duration, maybe stays in your mind for some time, but it doesn't come to haunt you. Not many people today believe in demons or demonic possession, but I'm sure we all believe in the existence of sharks and serial killers. It is the while lies that rest at the center of the other two films is what makes them among the scariest ever. Logically, we all know that every time you check into a run-down motel a insane lunatic is not going to stab you to death in the shower, just as we know that every time you go into the water a shark is going to bite your leg off. But it is possible, and that sends a message to our most primitive instincts and leaves us with a superstition of enviroments, such as swimming in the ocean, or taking a shower. Jaws and Psycho are films that haunt you in the daytime, The Exorcist is one that haunts you in your dreams. The former is more effective, for one can always wake up. 8/10

toy story 3. I took my son to the movies for the first time and he loved it, the 3d part was unnecessary though, he took them off about half way through. I did see it in Icelandic and I think it hurt it a bit but it was funny and I do enjoy how they brought in toys I knew from my childhood like the carebear and the fisher price phone.

I always like toy story and this one was really good too, he of course loved it and I bought him a pez buzz lightyear and he has been playing with it and sleeping with it, he loves it. funny thing is he always says 'to infinity and beyond' even though he saw it in icelandic.

we checked out the tv show too yesterday and it wasn't as good, he kinda missed woody...

Inception was simply amazing. It really stood out to me during a summer of such mediocre movies.

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Yep, it's good enough to carry an entire summer.

Although, quite frankly, if the summer was filled with great movies, Inception would still probably stand above all the others.

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Inception...20/10

Seriously, it was a great movie. Nolan really did a great job with this one.

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40/10.


Genius.

Whoaaa, apparently I need to go see Inception.

Definitely.

I know that a lot of people will disagree with me, but I really thought that it was on par with The Godfather in terms of overall cinematic quality.

Inception - Brilliant.

Original, smart, action packed and has that Nolan style of quick scene cuts so you never get a chance to stop thinking. One that i will watch over and over again certainly.

Mother Night - Wow this really shocked me with how good it was, surprised it's not better known. A great Vonnegut storyline, excellent performance by Nolte too.

The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Well... It was ok... I wasn't fully satisfied but it was a good effort...

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead--really quite intense in its portrayal of alienation. Filmed in a bleached washed-out sterile style, it's gut-wrenching.
Philip S. Hoffman is great; Marisa Tomei shows some nice T'n'A.

The Karate Kid
Loved the original, so didn't go with high hopes. Surprisingly okay... not great, but I enjoyed it.

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What more do you need to have a decent movie? :)

I saw Rec. Well, i'd give it 7/10, but really it was a bit poor, and the premise was ridiculous. However it was better than the average zombie/infected movie.

Inception I like Christopher Nolan, and this one was pretty cool. Interesting plot and good actors, even though I can't stand DiCaprio, he was good. a few scenes where amazing and I just can't help but admire Nolan. there is just something about DiCaprio that really annoys me, almost as much as Nicholas Cage.

Hannibal (2001)
http://www.amazon.com/Hannibal-Two-D...0511193&sr=1-1

Fairly entertaining; visually interesting.