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

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Originally Posted by Hazel-Ra

I didn't like the film. I think this is because my imagination was in overdrive while I read these books, and although they did, in fairness, do well, it's just too different from the way I saw things in my head. I read them fairly recently. I think I'll give myself a few years to forget the books; then I can give the film an honest go.

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That happens a lot huh..Lik in Lord of the ring,Harry potter...& now Chroncles of Narnia.<sigh>
Actualli I didnt get to read the book but Im definitely plannin on readin it.starting with The magicians nephew. :nod:

the last movies I watched was Wicker Park.I thnk it was ok..I mean I alwaz get emotional watching movies lik tht but there were many othre movies tht affected me more :p Maybe a 5...

I love the way the what if's are portraued though.it really makes you wonder how much you are missing out by makin simpl decisions.Each decision is a life changer..Each second has a significance.....

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Originally Posted by Hazel-Ra

Wow, Riesa, 9.5/10 is a pretty high score.

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Yep, I agree it is a high score but not higher than 11/10 which I gave to The Sound Of Music. :p

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Originally Posted by Hazel-Ra

Wow, Riesa, 9.5/10 is a pretty high score.

I am infuriated by this film because rather than correct the general public in thinking that The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe is the first book, they enforced it! Why on earth didn't they do The Magician's Nephew first? It's a good book!

I didn't like the film. I think this is because my imagination was in overdrive while I read these books, and although they did, in fairness, do well, it's just too different from the way I saw things in my head. I read them fairly recently. I think I'll give myself a few years to forget the books; then I can give the film an honest go.

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Hey Hazel, In the states, or at least ever since I've read the series, many, many,many, long years ago, The Lion, W&the W, was always the first book, here they have only recently changed it to The Magician's Nephew. When I used to loan out my series, I'd always give them The M. N. first. I think that the L.W.W. is more action packed, draw in a larger audience from the get-go.
I read LWW seven years ago, and I just recently re-read the Horse and His Boy.
I felt that way about H.P. when the movie came out the book was still too fresh for me to really enjoy it.
Now, I like it better.
P.S. Have you ever listened to album 'the best of Lou Reed'?

I loved the Magician's Nephew. I can't imagine there being different beginning to the series. It explains how narnia was made, and introduces the series so well.

I haven't listened to his best of, no. I didn't know he had one! I actually prefer listening to studio albums rather than best of's. I find when I get into artist's studio albums I never listen to the best of again, and it seems like a waste of money.

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I haven't listened to his best of, no. I didn't know he had one! I actually prefer listening to studio albums rather than best of's. I find when I get into artist's studio albums I never listen to the best of again, and it seems like a waste of money.

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I actually meant 'the best of Leonard Cohen', Lou Reed is on the brain today.
It's so perfect, though I know what you mean about other 'best of' compilations.
Sorry this is off topic, everyone.

Has anyone seen "The Station Agent"? Sorry to break into your thoughts about "Narnia". I watched "The Station Agent" yesterday. It is a very unassuming film. I guess about friendship. One of the stars is Peter Dinklage. I felt it was very moving.

deb, I saw it a couple of years ago, and I remember liking it a lot. I should rent it again. Thanks for reminding me. :)

Grizzly Man by Werner Herzog.

Anyone who knows Herzog's work (esp Fitzcarraldo or Aguirre), will know that he is an obsessive who is fascinated by the stories and lives of other obsessives. Grizzly Man is no different. Annually, Timothy Treadwell abandon's the real world for his specially crafted dream world of bears. Maybe he wants to be a bear himself. The film shows the evolution of his obsession, at times dropping into paranoia. All the way through, Treadwell gives the appearance of someone on the edge, at times falling on the wrong side. I would have to describe this documentary film as a tragicomedy. Treadwell relates the tragic deaths of animals in such an infantile and ridiculous way that the audience finds it hard not to laugh. His rantings against the National Park Authorities likewise cause an eruption of laughter and all in all, one is left feeling a kind of sadness or sorrow for his life of delusion, that so cruelly led to the death of his girlfriend (who was always afraid of bears) and Timothy himself. Having said that, some of his camera shots are unwittingly beautiful.

I would say it gets 7/10 for me. Herzog is a remarkable director who often brings out such remarkably acute realism in his work, that it appears to be quite surreal. Life, according to Herzog, is chaos appearing as order. Our attempts to domesticate chaos and cultivate order often result in further anarchy. Herzog's the man to show us that. Anyone who has ever desired to get back to Nature ought to watch this film.

Klaus Kinski, grizzly bear maulings... what next, fun with nuclear explosives? Looking forward to it. :thumbs_up :p

I just saw Grizzly Man myself on television about a week ago. I must say at the end my impressions of Treadwell were that he ranged from being semi-hysteric to infantile in his passions for bears, but I admired him for his conviction to live his life doing exactly what he wanted to do. (Though he was somewhat of a chameleon and led a pretty varied life before he became a lover of wildlife)

The scene where he was admonishing the fox who had grabbed his hat and took off for the fox den was very silly and I was beginning to think the man insanely anthropomorphising one too many times :p

His profane outbursts at the National Parks people didn't help his cause, but he had legitimate reasons to be angry about poaching and the abuses of "power" in the system of supposed "protection" of the animals.

I am not against the systemic hunting of grizzly bears on Kodiak Island (or anywhere else) to control their numbers, but there is a lot of evidence pointing to certain higher ups and hunting guides (for example) that turn blind eyes to people who are merely poaching the animals for their gall bladders, paws, tongues etc. perpetuating the illegal industry of certain animal parts.

Treadwell did not live in vain, his exemplary video footage and still images of the bears are at least educational for understanding the animals and artistic in their own merit.

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Originally Posted by Hazel-Ra

I loved the Magician's Nephew. I can't imagine there being different beginning to the series. It explains how narnia was made, and introduces the series so well.

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Publishing dates for the Narnia books: -

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Originally Posted by wikipedia

The Chronicles of Narnia
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950)
Prince Caspian (1951)
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952)
The Silver Chair (1953)
The Horse and His Boy (1954)
The Magician's Nephew (1955)
The Last Battle (1956)

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This is the original order in which the books appear. The stories are however in a different internal chronological order. The events in "The Magician's Nephew" happening first, etc.

So everybody's right (and wrong). So feel free to feel smug or slighted as you wish.

Serenity by Joss Whedon

Serenity is easily the best sci-fi movie I have ever seen. After viewing it, the only thing that comes to mind is MOREEEEEEEEEEEE!

Rating: 10/10

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Originally Posted by EAP

Serenity by Joss Whedon

Serenity is easily the best sci-fi movie I have ever seen. After viewing it, the only thing that comes to mind is MOREEEEEEEEEEEE!

Rating: 10/10

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Ditto.

"Boy, it sure would be nice if we had some GRENADES, don'tchathink?"

:D Serenity rocked! There's a petition out asking HBO or Showtime to add it as a series with new episodes. If anyone's interested you can find it here: http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/revivefirefly

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Originally Posted by beer good

Ditto.

"Boy, it sure would be nice if we had some GRENADES, don'tchathink?"

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Ok, last movie I saw was Something New. It's a romance. I don't usually see many of those but this was very real and funny and sweet. It's about an interracial couple, a Black professional who gets involved with a White landscaper despite her efforts not too.

It had a mixed audience, men, women, older folks, teenagers, and all colors. It seemed as if everyone enjoyed it immensely. The leads were wonderful. Overall, great acting, good story, again very realistic and well worth seeing. I give this 4 out of 5. :thumbs_up

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Originally Posted by Xamonas Chegwe

Publishing dates for the Narnia books: -



This is the original order in which the books appear. The stories are however in a different internal chronological order. The events in "The Magician's Nephew" happening first, etc.

So everybody's right (and wrong). So feel free to feel smug or slighted as you wish.

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Well now, I did not know that... how interesting. I didn't even think to look! I guess you're right... everyone is both right and wrong, lol

“The merchant of Venice“ was the last movie I saw and I liked it a lot - the only thing I didn't like was that it was advertised to be a "romantic comedy". No comedy whatsoever. Though I may be overhasty to say that because there was one scene that made me smile a little - the "flight" of Jessica.
Back to the film - it was a great performance of the play. I'd rate it 10/10.

Saw Brokeback Mountain yesterday. Beautiful, though depressing, movie. Even if it does occasionally get a little too close to a Marlboro ad, it's Ang Lee back to the form he had in The Ice Storm - the outsider's view of America through some of its most obvious icons (the cowboys, the wilderness, the religion) and centered around a few people. (And of course, making text of the subtext in most cowboy movies.) Beautiful acting - I thought Michelle Williams was just another Dawson's Creek hangaround, but IMO she really should get that Oscar. As should Heath Ledger and the guy who wrote the script; to take a book and turn it into a movie where most of the plot is carried by images and facial expressions, never gets talky, never analyzes itself... Not perfect, but haunting. 4+ out of 5.

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Originally Posted by Isagel

Have to agree with you on that one. I loved the first movie, and was eagerly awaiting for the last one to wrap it all up. And then ...nothing. The third movie just shows that there was nothing underneath the oh-so-elegant surface.

"There is no substance."

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Yes, I agree with those disappointed in Big Fish. I'm also a long time fan of Tim Burton's who felt let down by Sleepy Hollow, although I quite liked Planet of the Apes, lol. I think Big Fish was about a son who seeks to know and be known by his abandoning, narcissist father.

The father, presumably attempting to be the "Big Fish" in a small pond, spins wacky tales of self-aggrandisement, which aren't remotely credible. The movie's point, it seems to me, is that the son is shown to be the stupid, crazy one in failing to take his father off the enormous pedestal. That 'moral' left me feeling disturbed.

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Originally Posted by EAP

Serenity by Joss Whedon

Serenity is easily the best sci-fi movie I have ever seen. After viewing it, the only thing that comes to mind is MOREEEEEEEEEEEE!

Rating: 10/10

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Wow, didn't know about Serenity, thanks for piquing my curiosity, am going to get the dvd and check it out.

Last night I saw The Constant Gardener and thought it was excellent. Learned a lot about corporate malice in East Africa with the pharmaceutical companies taking advantage of unsuspecting villagers, using them as unwitting guinea pigs, ugh. The relationship between the impassioned revolutionary wife and the phlegmatic Brit diplomat evolves into a political, social, emotional intrigue that is substantially interesting. The cinematography was a bit annoying for me, seemed to be filtered through a rust colored lens, perhaps mirroring the iron oxide red earth of sub-Saharan Aftrica? But that also gave the movie a strange documentary feel to it, like the eerie, somewhat garish color of the Cops reality series. Worth seeing and memorable.

The last movie I saw in the cinema was Good Night and Good Luck I didn't expect that a film about such dark subject matter could end up being so uplifting. In exposing the pathological bullying of the malignant Senator McCarthy, Edward R. Murrow's quiet heroism was shown to be brilliant and politically astute.

Last movie I saw at the theater: The New World. (6/10)
At home: Stage Beauty. (10/10)
I love Stage Beauty!! I'm found of Claire Danes...
Already loved her in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet and in Little Women.

Haven't been in a theater for some 10 years, so can't say about that side anything. The last vid I saw at home, though, was the latest Harry Potter movie. It was much like those horrible LOTR movies: no plot, a lot of money spend on special effects, and less than interesting characters. That's what you get when you try to stuff 30+ hours of good reading into 2 hours of poor watching. Then they wonder why the revenues are dropping...

In the series side, Deadwood, at least, seemed to be rather good after seeing the first episode. Gotta download the rest of them. :)

Mrs Henderson Presents - pretty good move, I really like that Judy Dench, but that whole part about boys going to war and not seeing a real womans body seemed slightly weird.

9/10.

In thinking about Grizzly Man by Werner Herzog, I agreed with Logos' ambivalence about Treadwell and atiguhya padma's point about Herzog's obsession with obsessed people. Sadly, Treadwell reminded me of the dufus model Owen Wilson played (brilliantly) in Zoolander. However, in spite of Treadwell's inability to cope as an adult in the world I believe he really did "protect" those bears he pitifully anthropomorphized, as it turned out after his death six bears a month were shot by poachers. After seeing Herzog's My Best Fiend about the raging Histrionic Personality Disordered Klaus Kinski and now Grizzly Man, it left me feeling somewhat sickened, that Herzog has a sort of cinematic necrophilia. Ultimately, it seems like Herzog feels enthralled by sick people, so fascinated by them he's drawn into their vortex and can't break free.

Donnie Darko: 10/10
A really great movie, one of the best I have seen in a long time...

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Donnie Darko: 10/10
A really great movie, one of the best I have seen in a long time...

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Yeah, I liked Donny Darko, it was weird!
Just saw the 2005 King Kong, wow. I NEVER scream in the movies but the prehistoric centipedes crawling on her face and those awful giant leech creatures coming out of the murk were astoundingly horrible, I found myself actually screeching and enjoying it! LOL! Amazing visuals, like Jurassic Park squared meets Chiller Theater. So it was incredibly long, I still liked it.

Same night I saw Syriana, a horror thriller of another ilk. Filmed like City of God, Traffic and a Constant Gardener, lots of slice and dice layers that were irritatingly confusing but in a way I think a mosaic image of the oil corruption thing is the cinematic way to go with such a complex subject. I felt overly politically correct coming out Syriana and needed to get some balance seeing King Kong, lol.

Big Mama House 2, funny as usual.

"In Space No One Can Here You Scream."

Just watched "Alien" for the first time in a long time. Very scary movie. Lots of suspense, very scary monster. Didn't see the alien very much until near the end. The acting was pretty good and believable.The special effect were great for 1979 (computers were not like we'd expect today otherwise everything was believable.)

Matchpoint, by Woody Allen.

Oh, let's see... What shall I give it? Let's say...
5/10

Horrible. Hilariously, painfully, teeth-grindingly horrible. The incessantly expositive dialogue, the directionless acting... the fact that in one of the painfully stilted and awkwardly-written love sequences, the leading man actually rips the woman's shirt, presumably because that's what Woody Allen thinks people do when they're in the height of passion. In any event... I had a good laugh, but I want my money back.

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[b]Matchpoint[/i], by Woody Allen.

Oh, let's see... What shall I give it? Let's say...
5/10

Horrible. Hilariously, painfully, teeth-grindingly horrible. The incessantly expositive dialogue, the directionless acting... the fact that in one of the painfully stilted and awkwardly-written love sequences, the leading man actually rips the woman's shirt, presumably because that's what Woody Allen thinks people do when they're in the height of passion. In any event... I had a good laugh, but I want my money back.

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Yeh,but Scarlett Johansen is the hottest chick in the galaxy. :banana:

Haha :D While we were walking home, my boyfriend (who shares the first name of the leading man) said, "The one redeeming quality of that movie... is when Scarlett Johansen says, 'Chris, I need to see you.'" I patted his arm and said, "If you need to change the error-alert sound on your computer, I'll understand."

I failed to mention in the course of my *****y tear-down that the one thing Allen did well—conceptually, anyway—was his rearrangement of the plot of Crime and Punishment, to infer the question, "What if luck had been on Raskolnikov's side?" You know, despite the entire point of Crime and Punishment being that it is the murderer's conscience that will do him in, and that external factors have little to do with his fate. But other than that, that part of Allen's "vision" had some weight. Way to reap of another's superior writing, Woody.

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Originally Posted by Ryduce

Yeh,but Scarlett Johansen is the hottest chick in the galaxy. :banana:

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I'd certainly rip off her shirt. And I wouldn't stop there either! :brow:

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Originally Posted by Xamonas Chegwe

I'd certainly rip off her shirt. And I wouldn't stop there either! :brow:

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It just occured to me in class today that even if Scarlett Johansen was shot in the face she would still be hotter than 70% of the population.

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Originally Posted by Ryduce

It just occured to me in class today that even if Scarlett Johansen was shot in the face she would still be hotter than 70% of the population.

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That's a horrible thing to say about the woman I love. :rage:

It'd be more like 85%!

My boyfriend told me the sweetest lie the other day. He said that he doesn't really want to do Scarlett Johansen, he only thinks she's hotter than other actresses in Hollywood because 1) he can tell her apart from them (the others all look the same to him), and 2) she always looks like she's a little bit sad. He also said that "attractiveness is 50% personality, 40% a pretty face, and 10% all that other stuff." (Or maybe it was 50% face and 40% personality.) I said, "Good, I can stop all that exercising and eat nothing but cake now." He thought about it and said, "Nah... how about you don't do that?" :lol:

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Originally Posted by Xamonas Chegwe

That's a horrible thing to say about the woman I love. :rage:

It'd be more like 85%!

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While we completly disagree on religious subjects,you couldn't be more correct here good sir.That's what makes this forums so wonderful.



Scarlett Johansen will be mine!!!!!!!!!!!!

this thread seems to have morphed into a focus group on the hotness (is this even a word?) of scarlett johansen...although i must say, she is gorgeous :blush:

Pah.....ye can keep your Scarlet Johansen, I'd rather Rachel McAdam or Elisa Cuthbert.

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Originally Posted by non sum

this thread seems to have morphed into a focus group on the hotness (is this even a word?) of scarlett johansen...although i must say, she is gorgeous :blush:

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It's general chat so we might as well have some fun.


Which is we why I've become so obsessed with dancing bananas.
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I watched "The King And I" It was very interesting and funny. I liked it a lot. I will give it 9/10.