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

Yesterday I watched The Hill starring Sean Connery, Harry Andrews and other British actors from the mid sixties. Set in a North African British army prison camp during WWII, it concerns a fresh intake of five new arrivals who have been court martialed for various offences. The punishment meted out includes the repeated climbing in full kit, under a blazing sun, of a sand hill that has been constructed in the centre of the camp and that leads to the death of one of the prisoners.
Harry Andrews epitomises the megalomaniac officer in charge as do the various staff officers assigned to punish the prisoners comprising a mixed bunch of deserters, drunkards, thieves etc.
I had seen the film before but wasn't so impressed this time around as it seemed somewhat exaggerated in its relentless daily punishment routines and the constant barking of orders to the prisoners. There really wasn't a lot for the actors to do in a plot that was fairly weak anyway. Produced by MGM with the American director Sidney Lumet it nevertheless had an authentic British ambiance.

6/10

just finished 'Indiana Jones and the kingdom of the Chrystal skull' gotta say it's the worst indy movie!! I did like LaBeouf's Brando look though.

Watched The Green Lantern. Not bad if somewhat predictable. 6/10

Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol, it was good. Simon Pegg was awesome like only he can and Jeremy Renner was so great. Cruise kinda bugs me and the one thing that annoys me in all the MI movies is how he seems to be able to do everything, even with broken bones.

Renner is a big favorite of mine at the moment, can't wait for the Bourne Legacy and Hansel and Gretel...

The Amazing Spider-Man. Quite good if you're a fan of the genre. Much better than the horrible Tobey Maguire movies (aside from 3, he' the sole reason 1 and 2 suck). 8/10.

The Trip with Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon was pretty entertaining. Alot of improv and pretty good script/plot.

I give it 7/10

The Ice Storm, it was good. Good actors and interesting plot, kinda liked the beginning cause it was similar to Wonder boys Maguire and Holmes in a class room.

Watched two movies today.

One was The Artist. It was really good, but not the amazing movie everyone was raving about. I think it got caught up in hype. 7.5/10.

The other was The Shawshank Redemption. In terms of pure story-telling, I think this may be the best movie ever made. There's literally no flaw. There's a reason it's the highest rated movie on IMDB. 10/10.

Melancholia 10/10 I really liked it. I'm a sucker for a good metaphor and I adore intense human interaction. Lars Van Trier, I guess, wrote as well as directed this. He did not squander his talents.

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World 10/10 Ah Hollywood. If only they could understand that we are actually hungry for thoughtful, well-written, well-acted material. This is what a romantic comedy (if such it is) is, or should strive to be. The final scene is sweetly affecting.

Prelude to a Kiss 10/10 This gets a high score for the sheer beauty of Alex Baldwin if nothing else. He actually does a pretty good job in it. Meg Ryan is decent, but really the weakest link. But what really makes the movie shine, apart from the screenplay (it was originally a Pulitzer prizewinning play), is Sydney Walker, a noted stage actor, as the old man. It's essentially one of a long string of movies in which two people switch bodies, so its plot is by now a highly cliched trope, but this one, unlike those other imposters, has a great deal to say about love, and what it is and what it isn't, and of course, how to live.

""Never to be squandered-the miracle of another human being," Alec Baldwin says as he leans in to kiss his bride.

The Amazing Spiderman- it was great! So much better than the other crap a few years ago! I did think the lizard was kinda badly done, it could have been done a whole lot better I think.

I liked Stan Lee's cameo, I heard he wanted a speaking role but didn't get it. Apparently he wanted to say something like 'Ah Dostoevsky, they say he's the Russian Stan Lee'

Oh he is always funny..

I haven't seen the new spiderman, but I like that actor guy.

Source Code. 8/10. Much much better than I was expecting. From the director of "Moon," which I love (9/10), this was very engaging. As a conceptual film, its premise held up nicely. It was suspenseful and endearing. Not over the top actiony.

I watched Johnny English Reborn, didn't really like it. 5/10

Johnny English was much better.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO9BK4X_38s

Saw 'Crimes and Misdemeanors' again. It's been a few years since I saw it and it's still one of my favorite Allen films. I also watched 'Annie Hall' the other day and it's great too!

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