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

Just watched Zeppelin in which Michael York plays a British spy inserted into Germany during WW1 in order to discover German plans for the enhancement of airships to bomb British cities. The Germans are developing a giant ship to be used in a special operation to steal historic documents from a Scottish castle where they have been stored for the duration of the war. This unlikely premise gives rise to the usual explosions and gunfire associated with war films but as a 'ripping yarn' it has its moments.

6/10

http://youtu.be/mAjLzfKzXGo

I saw 'Super 8' last Friday. I loved it. I really liked the dialogue and the characters' interactions with each other. The kids who played in the movie were great.

9/10.

I watched Shrink and I wasn’t disappointed with it. Performance of Kevin Spacy was absolutely brilliant. 8/10

Die Hard for the gazillionth time. 10/10 It came on about 10 and I stayed up late to watch it. A perfect movie for a perfect summer activity when you don't have to get up the next day! Yippee-ki-yay!

I watched "A Woman under the influence" directed by John Cassavetes. Brilliant film.

Hamlet starring Kenneth Branagh. Honestly I wasn't a fan of Branagh's portrayal of the main character.

Paul - again, bought it today and my son hadn't seen it so we watched it very funny and Simon Pegg is always awesome.

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Paul - again, bought it today and my son hadn't seen it so we watched it very funny and Simon Pegg is always awesome.

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I love Paul. Especially the girl who swears a lot.

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Paul - again, bought it today and my son hadn't seen it so we watched it very funny and Simon Pegg is always awesome.

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Simon Pegg eh? They get obscurer and obscurer.

I watched Disney’s Beauty and the Beast with nieces last night. Though I’ve seen it hundreds of times before but never got bored. I think it’s the best animation by Disney ever.

I love this song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_lp1vEs5A4

I watched Villain (don't ask) a typical piece of British 1970s rubbish about a sadistic (ho hum) vicious ( surprise surprise) homosexual ( yawn) gangster played by Richard Burton. Yes, that Richard Burton who went from being a potentially great actor to a Hollywood icon of such overblown nonsense as Cleopatra, The Robe, Alexander the Great etc. while partially redeeming himself in some fairly good roles along the way. Anyhow, Villain is one of a number of British films of the period, specifically designed to appeal to that section of the cinema going public that identifies with lowlife and thinks that its highly coloured depiction by miscast actors gives credence to the imaginative depiction of their own even more pointless existence.

2/10

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I watched Villain (don't ask) a typical piece of British 1970s rubbish about a sadistic (ho hum) vicious ( surprise surprise) homosexual ( yawn) gangster played by Richard Burton. Yes, that Richard Burton who went from being a potentially great actor to a Hollywood icon of such overblown nonsense as Cleopatra, The Robe, Alexander the Great etc. while partially redeeming himself in some fairly good roles along the way. Anyhow, Villain is one of a number of British films of the period, specifically designed to appeal to that section of the cinema going public that identifies with lowlife and thinks that its highly coloured depiction by miscast actors gives credence to the imaginative depiction of their own even more pointless existence.

2/10

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The piles are giving you gyp again, I see.

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The piles are giving you gyp again, I see.

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Thankfully I don't suffer from them but it's a cinch that you do judging from your picture.

Got a Tremors project going. I'll be watching all four movies and the TV series. So far:

Tremors: A few clumsy bits where they had to hit buttons and a few bits where the low budget detracts, but this is still a tremendous modern B monster movie. 8.5/10.

Tremors 2: This, on the other hand, is just a B movie, and not a good one. Actors who look like they're acting (even Fred Ward and Michael Gross, who were both perfect in the original), the new characters are all generic, nobody has chemistry, and the script is purely by numbers. 5/10

Except now I can't find the DVDs with 3 & 4 and the show. So tonight was Battle Royale, which is still tremendous. 9/10

I saw Prometheus this weekend. It was watchable, it just didn't leave me astounded or thinking, which was what I was hoping for. 5/10

Meek's Cutoff 8/10 What a beautiful movie. I have to admit that I watched this at home and my attention wandered. I'm not sure I could have happily watched this in the theater. I never would have thought that such an arrid and empty landscape could be so beautiful, and Michelle Williams is awesome, as usual. This movie is based on true events. The real wagon train had a thousand or so people, I gather, whereas in the movie the cast of characters is pared down to nine, the better to create psycological tension, I suppose.

Some of the usual western tropes are present-the lack of water, the presence of Indians, accidents and illness-but there is a complete lack of even the delicate beginnings of an infrastructure for civilization. Just these intrepid settlers, literally putting one foot in front of the other, and the hope that drives them.