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

I was watching a documentary about Richard Rodgers and learned that he thought Carousel was his best musical and so I watched the 1957 film version yesterday. I've never seen this before, but about 2/3rd of the way through it, I was totally enjoying it: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049055/

Score: 10/10 (I know IMDb gave it 6.8)

A more modern version of the play which I think I would have found more entertaining is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVdI_...eature=related

As a comparison, here is the original version of the song from the movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuHAh...eature=related

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Originally Posted by MarkBastable

What about people - some of whom are gay - who dislike it for reasons other than homophobia?

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Then they simple lack taste for fine cinema.

The Dark Knight Rises. 6/10. So disappointing. My main gripe is there's not enough Batman. Anyone who sees it will understand.

While I understand why you and others might not have liked it, Mutatis, I'd give The Dark Knight Rises an easy 9.5/10. I thought it was amazing. The best of the trilogy, in my opinion.

Watched Hancock last night. It was a good funny start, but then they went and spoilt it with poorly told, immortal humans guff. I don't mind stories about immortal humans, but it was done in such a superficial way as to add virtually nothing to the story except to inadequately try to explain why he had superpowers.

5.5/10 for a good start.

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While I understand why you and others might not have liked it, Mutatis, I'd give The Dark Knight Rises an easy 9.5/10. I thought it was amazing. The best of the trilogy, in my opinion.

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I am definitely in the minority, but I honestly can't see how anyone could think its better than The Dark Knight. It was slow, the plot was convoluted and too far-fetched for the serious and realistic tone Nolan likes to set for his films, the action wasn't anything special, and there way too many little catch phrases and one liners that didn't at all fit the dark tone of the movie. I saw it a second time because I'm a huge Batman geek, and No,an fan to boot, and thought maybe I missed something. I liked it even less. After about two hours, I just wanted it to be over.

And I usually don't get pissed when they deviate from the comics, but this movie really screwed with too much. I won't go into specifics, but there was one thing in particular that really bugged me, because it seemed like they intentionally deviated from the comics more than they needed to for absolutely no reason.

And even when Batman was in the movie, he didn't even do anything aside from fighting, which seemed poorly choreographed--where we're the gadgets, the bat-hook and gliding with his cape? It was like a James Bond movie where Bond doesn't get any gadgets.

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Originally Posted by Darcy88

Then they simple lack taste for fine cinema.

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In which case, the movie and whether or not one likes it...

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Originally Posted by Darcy88

Brokeback Mountain is one of the best films ever made and homophobes who hate on it are quite simply ignorant fools. Just had to put that out there.

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...is nothing to do with the ignorance inherent in homophobia, is it?

I watched Sondheim! The Birthday Concert and realized I didn't recognize any of the songs. Some of the lyrics were witty, but I felt they lacked heart. However, the singing was well done.

Score: 3/10

Also, I heard that Bob Babbitt died recently, and Standing in the Shadows of Motown was in the library. I recognized every one of the songs on this documentary and I especially liked the Joan Osborne and the Funk Brothers version of "What Becomes of the Broken Hearted":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBzuNZ9DlnI

Score: 10/10

Ice Age: Continental drift I think it was very funny, and my boy loved it. Unfortunately I saw it in Icelandic but I plan on watching it in English as soon as possible. I still think Ice age 3 is the best one, but that is probably because I love Simon Pegg.

I also saw for the first time Fantastic 4 the rise of the silver surfer it was good but I don't really know how to rate it...


We also watched Spaceballs the other night and it is still funny. My son found Pizza the hutt very funny and Yogurt. A very funny movie.

The library has 2 for $1 movie rentals on Wednesdays. This is not only good because I am cheap, but there are more movies to choose from in the middle of the week than on weekends.

One of my selections was Bobcat Goldtwaith's God Bless America: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1912398/

The movie was entertaining. There was a lot of blood. It was a comedy.

Score: 8/10

Having no desire to watch the Olympic ballyhoo, I decided to watch a film and chose 13 West Street after a preliminary look on You tube.
Starring Alan Ladd and Rod Steiger it deals with Ladd hunting down a gang of juveniles who attacked him when on his way home from the office where he worked as as a rocket scientist. Steiger warns him off the case as it's interfering with his own investigation so Ladd hires a private detective to carry on the hunt.
The youngest gang member commits suicide when he realises the police are after him and the private eye is killed in a car chase involving the rest of the gang before Ladd finally catches up with the ringleader and gives him a jolly good beating.
Formulaic with undertones of ' they're not bad kids really' , I wasn't taken with it and, although it was better than the embarrassment of watching the Olympic fol-de-rols, I would only give it 5/10.

I can no longer remember the title of the second movie I picked out on the 2 for $1 on Wednesday library deal. It had Reese Witherspoon in it as a tester of consumer products that two spies were chasing while off-duty. One of the spies got her and the other went back to his wife who found him more attractive because she saw him on TV doing some spy-stuff that nearly killed him on an unfinished highway.

I think I dozed off during it a few times so I may have missed some critical parts.

The moral of the story as I remember it was: if you're a spy make sure your wife knows you're a spy so she will find you attractive and not leave you for someone else.

Since I don't recall seeing all of it, and can't even remember the title, the score would be 0/10.

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I can no longer remember the title of the second movie I picked out on the 2 for $1 on Wednesday library deal. It had Reese Witherspoon in it as a tester of consumer products that two spies were chasing while off-duty. One of the spies got her and the other went back to his wife who found him more attractive because she saw him on TV doing some spy-stuff that nearly killed him on an unfinished highway.

I think I dozed off during it a few times so I may have missed some critical parts.

The moral of the story as I remember it was: if you're a spy make sure your wife knows you're a spy so she will find you attractive and not leave you for someone else.

Since I don't recall seeing all of it, and can't even remember the title, the score would be 0/10.

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:lol: What did you expect at 2 for $1 ?

I decided to watch The Green Glove (1952). Directed by the reputable Rudolphe Matè and with Glen Ford in the lead role, it looked promising. But although it began well enough it simply fell apart as it went along so I abandoned it 3/4 of the way through.
Filmed on location in Paris and the South of France there was nothing to fault the scenery. The plot however, concerns an American soldier who returns to France after WWII to recover a jewelled gauntlet that he'd left in a chateau, but some crooks are also trying to locate it and the inevitable dust-ups ensue.
The Story was written by Charles Bennet who also scripted the film and on both counts his efforts were risible. It was painful watching a good actor like Glen Ford struggling with such an embarrassing script.

2/10

Youtube is currently the entertainment centre of the world. Where else would I have found Pool of London, an early 1950s film directed by Basil Dearden and set in the bomb scarred docklands of London?
Filmed in sharp black and white in semi-documentary style, it tells the story of a gangland heist and the effect on some merchant seamen involved on its periphery. Here's the robbery sequence, surely worthy of a Jules Dassin film.

http://youtu.be/Gewc3Maw0Z0

8/10

You actually liked a film Emil? Good on you.

Also, is the following the link you meant to post? What you have up there only leads to an 8 minute clip.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mem_zb-YMCA

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Originally Posted by Mutatis-Mutandis

You actually liked a film Emil? Good on you.

Also, is the following the link you meant to post? What you have up there only leads to an 8 minute clip.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mem_zb-YMCA

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No I deliberately chose the robbery scene because it shows the inner city to greater advantage as the gang are forced to drive around police road traps in order to escape. It's interesting to note the amount of bomb damage still around seven years after the war's end. The buildings still standing are encrusted with the grime of years of coal fired home heating that led to the infamous London smog.

Just watched The Woman in Black last night. Only downsides were a few loud-audio-sting jump scares (always a cheat, especially when the director shows, as this one did, that he also knows how to do it properly) and a long stretch in the middle with Daniel Radcliffe chasing and being chased by lots of creepy happenings in the house but no actual plot/character development of any kind.

On the other hand, the creators came armed with a good variety of creepy happenings, and except for the cheap jumps the movie was technically flawless. And by golly was it good to see "Hammer Films" in a credit sequence again.

Bottom line, a well-made and well-acted classical haunted house movie. If you like old-school ghost stories, don't miss it. 8.5/10

I watched Red Dragon for the first time and really liked it. Anthony Hopkins gave a wonderful performance; Ralph Fiennes and Edward Norton were excellent too. 7.5/10

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Just watched The Woman in Black last night....
Bottom line, a well-made and well-acted classical haunted house movie. If you like old-school ghost stories, don't miss it. 8.5/10

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Yes, I enjoyed watching it.

I watched Footsteps in the Fog, the lead roles being played by Stewart Granger and the gorgeous Jean Simmons. Made in 1955 it was a fairly routine Victorian poisoning tale in which a kitchen girl discovers that the master has killed his wife and blackmails him into allowing her to become mistress of the house. Granger gives a rather wooden performance but he didn't have a lot to work with.
The production values were pretty good with an authentic atmosphere created for a rather predictable story. 6/10.

http://youtu.be/UW0vYqw6ATg

A couple of days ago I watched a film that I have waited an awful long time to see again. Some saintly soul has managed to get hold of a copy and has posted it on Youtube, albeit with a few slight sections blacked out for some reason. The film in question being The 1950 version of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams. Directed by Hollywood veteran Irving Rapper it's pure magic with wonderful performances by Arthur Kennedy, Gertrude Lawrence, Kirk Douglas and, above all, Jane Wyman who epitomises the crippled daughter Laura Wingfield.
Some viewers posted complaints about G.Lawrence's hectoring of her son and daughter but it's in the script that Williams had a hand in himself. i checked out the more recent remake and there simply is no comparison either in terms of direction and especially the acting. A great performance by Wyman that just breaks your heart. 10/10.

I watched Emperor's New Groove with my nieces last night. I admit I enjoyed it more than they did. 8/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiTiAJRvo5o

Two weekends back, I watched The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
My usual ranking for this one; 10/10.
Morricone's score is superb.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AyxDVBX2o0

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Two weekends back, I watched The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
My usual ranking for this one; 10/10.
Morricone's score is superb.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AyxDVBX2o0

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When I worked in the architects division, there were a couple of guys and a woman who used to lunch together and that was their nickname amongst our disreputable gang in the general office. It's a good job they didn't know it, they made the ones in the film look like choirboys.

Last movie I saw... I think it was The Beaver but I'm not certain, probably a 7/10, it was a black comedy but oftentimes you couldn't see the comedy and then it just seemed kind of stupid. Mel Gibson's performance was great though and the film did bring a tear to my eye at one point.

I watched the Dark Knight Rises last night, I really enjoyed it. Not as good as the last movie but still pretty good 8/10.

I got home about 1am and watched the Devils Advocate, damn good movie as well 8/10

Last night I watched The Grey with Liam Neeson. A group of Canadian survivors of an air crash in the wilderness are menaced by a pack of wolves.

I didn't hope for much, but I was pleasantly surprised. The photography was great, and the story was made much more interesting by focusing upon the characters in the group. It was also a limited story, but enjoyable none the less. 6/10

Watched the film adaption of McCarthy's The Road and went into not expecting it to impact me like the book and it surely did not but I still had a tear or two. Not a bad film at all.

I’m watching Sideways again, very enjoyable film and certainly the greatest mid-life crisis, Allenesque wine road movie there has ever been.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0375063/

Watched The Island with Ewan McGregor and Scarlet Johanssun. Not bad - 6/10.

"Friends with Kids" 8/10 I liked it. I like Jennifer Westfeldt, but I actually prefer a previous movie that she made, "Ira and Abby" which I think is funnier and says more about relationships. However, I did enjoy it.

I finally got around to finishing Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris, which was honestly a chore to sit through. What can I say, it's merely a reproduction of most of his films--Owen Wilson even does a remarkable job in impersonating him. 4/10

I liked Owen Wilson in Midnight in Paris.

Last night I saw Jay and Mark Duplass' Jeff, Who Lives at Home: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1588334/

My score would be 9/10.

Jeff is a new age sort of guy. His brother is not. They answer the question: What is the greatest day in human history? If the answer is not obvious, you should probably see the movie.

The Razor's Edge (1946)

This is a brilliant adaptation of WS Maugham's novel about expatriate Americans living in Paris after the Wall Street crash of 1929. Naturally, certain sections of the book had to be left out but the continuity is maintained and the acting from an all star cast is nothing short of outstanding. Special mention must be made of Gene Tierney and Anne Baxter as the two leading female characters who personify their respective fictional creations as crafted by Maugham's incisive imagination.
Here is the scene where the group run into the tragic Sophie MacDonald in a Bal Musette after she has gone to the dogs following the death of her husband and child in a Chicago car crash. Anne Baxter gives a towering performance of someone on the brink of self destruction.
A terrific film that deserves 10/10 for remaining as true as possible to the the book while allowing for its transformation into the medium of cinema.

http://youtu.be/IXId86uFMA4

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Originally Posted by suprematist

I finally got around to finishing Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris, which was honestly a chore to sit through. What can I say, it's merely a reproduction of most of his films--Owen Wilson even does a remarkable job in impersonating him. 4/10

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I thought it was a below par Allen film but I would have given it maybe a 6/10.

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The Razor's Edge (1946)

This is a brilliant adaptation of WS Maugham's novel about expatriate Americans living in Paris after the Wall Street crash of 1929. Naturally, certain sections of the book had to be left out but the continuity is maintained and the acting from an all star cast is nothing short of outstanding. Special mention must be made of Gene Tierney and Anne Baxter as the two leading female characters who personify their respective fictional creations as crafted by Maugham's incisive imagination.
Here is the scene where the group run into the tragic Sophie MacDonald in a Bal Musette after she has gone to the dogs following the death of her husband and child in a Chicago car crash. Anne Baxter gives a towering performance of someone on the brink of self destruction.
A terrific film that deserves 10/10 for remaining as true as possible to the the book while allowing for its transformation into the medium of cinema.

http://youtu.be/IXId86uFMA4

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I have favourited the film as all of it appears to be available on youtube. I'll give it a go. I've not read the book.

Tonight's late film choice is Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanour's. It's a pretty good one with a good ending as I remember.

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I thought it was a below par Allen film but I would have given it maybe a 6/10.



I have favourited the film as all of it appears to be available on youtube. I'll give it a go. I've not read the book.

Tonight's late film choice is Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanour's. It's a pretty good one with a good ending as I remember.

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Yes I too saw it on Youtube but I have to say that, having read the novel several times, I put off watching the film for fear of the film doing less than justice to the book. Anyhow, I was so pleased that whole chunks of the Maugham's dialogue is incorporated into the screenplay and the acting is as good as could be expected. I did feel a bit sorry for Herbert Marshall, who plays Maugham, as he has to be both involved and at the same time an outsider recording the events; a difficult role to play.
I think you would find it instructive to read the book, if only for comparison's sake, but it will cerainly give you quite a lot to think about.

Tonight I watched Stalingrad - a German made film dubbed into English.

It was very good, and seemed to reflect events and conditions around the battle itself that I recognised from other reading. 6/10

Last night I watched 'They Who Dare' a WWII story that was principally a vehicle for Dirk Bogarde as the leader of a group of commandos and Greek resistance fighters on a mission to destroy enemy aircraft on a Greek island. I was expecting a Boy's Own Paper yarn but it didn't even measure up as that. The commandos were more like Boy Scouts than hardened soldiers and the whole thing resembled a wizard wheeze to upset the enemy rather than a machine like operation to cause maximum damage to the enemy's aerial capability. 0/10

Tonight I watched Chicago Deadline (1949) starring Alan Ladd in a remarkably ill-fitting suit in which he plays a reporter on the trail of addressees listed in the notebook of a girl found dead in a seedy hotel room. The plot lines are so convoluted that I honestly didn't know what was going on or why. The film had a kind of consistent ghastliness that kept one watching but on any objective assessment it must be 0/10

I have just finished watching Night People ( 1956 ). The cast includes Gregory Peck and Broderick Crawford in a story set in Berlin during the cold war in which an American soldier is kidnapped and taken to the Eastern zone as a hostage for two people that are wanted ostensibly by the Russians. As the plot unfolds, it transpires that it's actually an undercover group of Nazis working for the Russians who are responsible for the kidnapping who, without he Russians knowledge, want to settle old scores with two members of the 1944 Hitler bomb plot.
Peck plays an American intelligence officer using a female double agent to effect a transfer but there's a double-cross ending that's quite well done.
Good performances all round and an intriguing story gets this 6/10. It would have been more but the script is rather overstated.