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

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Originally Posted by Calidore

Except now I can't find the DVDs with 3 & 4 and the show.

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I enjoyed 4 in a weird way. It was very nonsensical with lots of bad acting but its perfect when you're drunk.

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Originally Posted by qimissung

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.

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Meeks Cutoff is a great movie. Also, Kelly Reichart' other great film is "Old Joy" with Will Oldham. Very quiet film similiar in feel to Meeks Cutoff - I would watch out for her, one of the best on the indy side.

I like the way the Chicago Reader critic opened his review of Prometheus: "The plot of this Alien prequel was a carefully guarded secret—so carefully guarded, in fact, that not even the movie reveals it."

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Originally Posted by qimissung

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

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Same here. The usual special effects, alien landscape, inscrutable alien purposes and violence, with some predictable characters - including the cowardly Brit. (The geologist). I had hoped for a good film: the critics on the review show had panned it, but I had to agree with them. 6/10 I think all the Alien films were better.

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Originally Posted by Emil Miller

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

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From my picture? How do you come to that conclusion, Holmes?

I saw Benny & Joon (1993) last night: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106387/

It was story of Benny, who was acting too responsibly, dropping his fear and and his sister Joon beginning to assume more responsibility for her life. Very well done.

I give it a 10 although IMDb gave it a 7.

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Originally Posted by MarkBastable

From my picture? How do you come to that conclusion, Holmes?

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I once saw a film in which one of the characters was supposed to be a sufferer, and sitting with a lugubrious expression as though his mind were elsewhere was exactly how he was portrayed by the actor playing the part.

I watched Count Five and Die, a film about espionage. Set in London during 1945, it concerns a group of agents under the command of the excellent Nigel Patrick who plays a British Army major in control of a plan to fool the Germans into believing that an allied invasion will take place through Holland. Overlooking the fact that such a plan would have involved many more than is shown in the film, the authentic scenes of a bomb scarred London in the 1950s when the film was actually made, add realism to a story that starts out well enough but degenerates into melodrama as the film reaches its conclusion.

Transsiberian - a US couple meet a pair of dodgy backpackers and end up mixed up in a drugs cartel. An unusual story if a bit predictable. 6/10

The lives of others - about the surveillance of artists in East Germany. Thoughtful 6/10.

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Originally Posted by Calidore

I like the way the Chicago Reader critic opened his review of Prometheus: "The plot of this Alien prequel was a carefully guarded secret—so carefully guarded, in fact, that not even the movie reveals it."

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:lol: That's funny.

And Paul-"inscrutable alien purposes..." so true! YOu know I like a bit of a mystery in a plot, but this was just poorly done. The one question that kept pounding in my head was whydid the robot put the whatever it was in the man's drink? And why did the alien try to kill them when one of his species had given us life (I guess; it was all a little confusing)? None of it added up, and as a narrative, some of it should have.


This was a really good review, and there were some excellent comments, although they're a bit lengthy. Obviously I've got some time on my hands. :D



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I watched the new Fright Night last night for the first time. It was OK, but not a patch on the original 2. 6/10

'Everything is illuminated', it was very good, I think I'd like to read the book when I have the chance too. I am not a big Elijah Wood fan but he was good in it, one of his best roles (his best being Sin City).

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I once saw a film in which one of the characters was supposed to be a sufferer, and sitting with a lugubrious expression as though his mind were elsewhere was exactly how he was portrayed by the actor playing the part.

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Under any circumstances, drawing conclusions about life from the movies is a rather naive course of action. And, as we know, your interpretation of film and your appreciation of perfomance is quite often awry in any case. So you're probably going to something a bit more concrete, Agatha.

With widespread flooding and lack of sunshine, the English summer remains out of sight. However there's still YouTube to brighten the day and so, instead of dutifully reading War and Peace, I took in Man Trap, a film made in 1961 that was quite good until, like so many others, it was unable to resist the barn storming ending that renders the whole enterprise null and void. However, I was hooked when I saw that Stella Stevens was in it because, although I don't usually go for glamorous blonds, no normal male could pass up on a woman who made Marilyn Monroe look like a vicar's daughter.

http://youtu.be/Joc9BnF0XQs

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Under any circumstances, drawing conclusions about life from the movies is a rather naive course of action. And, as we know, your interpretation of film and your appreciation of perfomance is quite often awry in any case. So you're probably going to something a bit more concrete, Agatha.

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So, 'as WE know', is a sure indication that 'YOUR' individual opinion is worthless without the support of those mythical 'others' who have had no input into your unwarranted personalisation of my observations on a thread that asks for individual comment. Unless of course you are among those referred to in my comment as being those who relate to lowlife: in which case, your attitude is understandable.

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I saw Prometheus. I thought it was really good. Smart story, amazing effects and cinematography, and a strong female lead. I thought it better than any of the Alien movies, the first of which I find extremely overrated. The connections to the Alien movies are subtle, and Scott said many times it wasn't going to be directly connected to any of the previous films, so the fans were, for some reason, disappointed when it turned out not to have a bunch if aliens running around eating people. 8/10.