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

UP - It had it's funny moments but the beginning was quite odd to be in a kids movie, they could have dispensed with a good deal at the beginning and still would have made perfect sense. 7/10

High School Musical 3 - Campy Disney teen movie, my cousin loved it, me not so much. Hokey plot. 6/10

Hotel for Dogs - Cute, cute, cute. A couple of orphans try to keep their dog secret from their 80's throwback parents. In the mean time they find an abandoned hotel and some friends to help them take care of stray dogs they find along the way. 8/10

Bruno - I still don't know what to make out of this one. It had a few funny moments but it seemed like it was just a string of scenes meant to shock for no real reason. Most of the movies I was like "Really?" 6.5/10

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.

I dont care what half the folk here think, but i really really enjoyed it! the best one since Prisoner of Azkaban. It was dark, serious and funny. And i cried at the end. :(
8/10

It was my day off yesterday so I like putting on movies sometimes while I do housework. Yesterday I watched
Some Like It Hot which is quite funny and always enjoyable to watch. Marilyn's adorable, of course, but it seems like she's typecast in all of her movies. Kinda like Sharon Stone.

The Watchman- I really wish I'd gotten an opportunity to have seen this in the theatres. First of all, it's a fantastic story. The cinemetography and effects are astounding. There were a couple of parts that seemed a little cliched and corny, but I think it may have just been because of movie time constraints. Watching this made me want to read the graphic novel. I'm sure it goes into more detail.
There were lots of surprises...it is a well developed story with interesting characters. What I also found striking was the fine line that was drawn between good and evil. The "good guys" did appalling things and were shockingly human, and yet not, at the same time (if that makes sense) It was a scary mirror of human nature and the ironically destructive path that progress often leads on us.
This movie is well worth buying and I am intrigued to read the story now 10/10

Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban

10/10

When all is said and done, and Harry Potter is but a vision of the past, film reviewers will look back and see that this movie was so good that it pretty much overshadowed all that is Harry Potter. Another genius picture from Alfonso Cuaron: The director of Children of Men, Pan's Labyrinth, Y Tu Mama Tambien



Bruno

6/10

Not quite as funny as it really was a great social commentary. It did what it set out to do, quite brilliantly. The fact that one viewing is all any viewer would ever want to see of this movie, is partly where it fails. Decent documentary (with some fairly original pranks, I particularly found the scene in the CBS drawing room to be most amazing.).



The Hurt Locker

10/10

I won't be surprised when this picture takes the cake at the Oscars this year, simply the best war film I've ever seen. Brilliant. The fact that it is also the best-reviewed movie of the year is quite fitting.

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Bruno

6/10

Not quite as funny as it really was a great social commentary. It did what it set out to do, quite brilliantly. The fact that one viewing is all any viewer would ever want to see of this movie, is partly where it fails. Decent documentary (with some fairly original pranks, I particularly found the scene in the CBS drawing room to be most amazing.).

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I think I missed the social commentary part.:alien:

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I think I missed the social commentary part.:alien:

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the entire thing was an attempt at exposing the homophobia of the average American, in a slightly comical way. He puts average people, like Ron Paul, in situations so bizarre that they react in the first way they know how: to shout "that ****ing queer!", in rage. It was a bit tasteless, I completely agree, and I can understand why it outrages and offends a lot of people, but there was certainly a message behind it all. In the same way he did with Borat (which was a million times better), Sasha Baron Cohen does a great job at getting the real "human" to come out of people. The fact that he throws himself into situations where he may get only one take, or he may get no take at all (or even get arrested), shows a lot of courage as an actor.

See, and I think he just makes things worse. Some people will understand that he is portraying a completely over the top stereotype while the flip side is that the people he is trying to reach are just turned off by his antics and use that as just another reason to hate.

And really, I felt sorry for Ron Paul. He went in to do an interview and he has a jack *** trying to seduce him in a hotel room? What exactly was he suppossed to say? I mean he was playing a queer, no? Was he not suppossed to be upset?

Quite honestly, at least in Bruno, I think Sasha Baron Cohen is more concerned about shock value rather then any social commentary.

A load of Jacques Tati's films ; Jour de fête, Les Vacances de monsieur Hulot and Traffic. So far Les Vacances de monsieur Hulot is by far my favorite, the gags and characters are much better, but I still need to see Playtime.

the Impostors, written/directed/produced/leading role...... no other than Stanley Tucci. I love that movie, have seen it about a hundred times.

great actors, Stanley Tucci, Oliver Platt, Isabella Rossellini, Steve Buscemi, Tony Shaloub and many more

always funny.

The Muppets go to Manhatten, Woody Allenesque.

Public Enemies

Was really disappointed with it - don't know what it was trying to be - a biography....a gansgter movie....there were even some elements of the documentary handheld type shots.

Christian Bale was terrible, and (I HATE to say it) but Depp wasn't much better. Only Marion Cotillard shone.


5/10

After reading the Foer novel, the lovely Chava recommended that I watch the film adaption, too, titled the same, Everything is Illuminated; I watched it last night. As what seems common among all book-adapted screenplays, I felt a little disappointed in Liev Schreiber's leaving many, what I considered, important parts to the plot and literally re-routing certain parts of the story; on the contrary, the same individual did a fantastic job at directing it, capturing the mood of many situations, the right landscapes, camera shots, and unfolding of the mystery of the story - it really impressed me. The actors and actresses definitely made an impression upon me that I did not expect; I suppose I envisioned a few things differently, particularly in their interactions, especially of the elderly woman at the end (the maybe-Augustine), but Elijah Wood as the main character and Eugene Hutz as Alex strongly captured their portrayed fictional characters, especially among their awkward scenes. The only thing that seems to have negatively impacted the score seems in the screenwriting; otherwise, an amazing film.
Rating: 8/10.

"Before the devil knows you're dead" by Sidney Lumet - 10/10
"Slumdog Millionaire" by Danny Boyle - 8/10 (i didn't like the ending much although i can't think of an alternative :D)
"Wall-E" - 8/10
"Coraline" by Henry Selick - 10/10
"The Day the Earth Stood Still" (the remake) - ....no comments...

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"Coraline" by Henry Selick - 10/10

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I just watched this last night, manolia - great film! I could definitely see Selick's brilliant elements and Burton-esque imagination from The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach. To me, it started out a bit slow, and the plot seemed somewhat fragmented with loose connections, particularly with the well, Wybie's grandmother, and I wish it featured more about the ghost children, too, but this would have resulted in a long film even Phil Knight could not have funded (he did, anyway). I loved the character Coraline, Mr. Bobinsky cracked me up, and Miriam and April fascinated me; the imagery - beautiful; the plot - brilliant; the flow of the film - great, but a bit fragmented.
Rating: 9.5/10.

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"Before the devil knows you're dead" by Sidney Lumet - 10/10

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Good to hear you enjoyed this one, manolia - to me, one of the most neglected beauties in contemporary films. I own it, and watch it almost every few weeks for its delicately-constructed plot, carefully-selected cast (though the film itself almost lacks a main character), and amazing direction. Agreed 10/10, over and over again. :D

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"Slumdog Millionaire" by Danny Boyle - 8/10 (i didn't like the ending much although i can't think of an alternative :D)

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You heard what happened to the children who acted in that film right? That upon leaving the oscars they were kindly sent back to their slums and that it took the boy's town to be tore down and the girl's father to try to sell her for (cuss) Danny Boyle to pay attention to them and give them a few bucks to finance their education... Seriously, I thought the film was very well shot but that the story was extremely convoluted.

If.... - Lindsay Anderson

The film that revealed Malcolm McDowell as an actor. Great use of an english college boarding house as an allegory for the whole of society with its hierarchy and its outcasts. The way the film shifts from colour to black and white is used in an innovative manner for once.