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

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This 1955 film has the theme of a small town bank robbery co-incidentally linked to a serious of sub-plots
concerning various inhabitants of the town. Richard Fleischer's direction misses a chance to meld the
themes together convincingly enough but overall the film is fairly good entertainment and gets 6/10.

I watched The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad with my nieces last week and really enjoyed it. 8/10

I don't think it counts as a movie but I watched the only episode made of 'Mockingbird Lane' by Bryan Fuller, I am a big fan of his shows. I kinda wish he had gotten a chance with this show, I liked it and think it could have been something more if it had the chance. Then again he might not have done Hannibal if he had gotten a chance to do the Munsters, and I do love Hannibal!

I saw Polish Wedding: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Wedding

Score: 9/10

It might have been better titled "Shotgun Wedding", but there were no shotguns in the movie. Unlike Ebert (http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/polish-wedding-1998) I did not have problems with the film's believability.

The Brotherhood of the Bell (1970). With Glenn Ford in the lead role as a high flying college professor who reaches the top by being a member of a secret society that controls business and academia for its own ends, this television production shows how 'conspiracy theorists' are discredited by the forces they seek to expose. When Ford is ordered to prevent a certain individual, who happens to be a close friend, from gaining promotion, it ends in the man's suicide: at which point Ford decides to renege on the Brotherhood and expose them. However, he soon finds that each of the top people he turns to are also members who spread the story that he is delusional.
As a result, his father suffers a stroke and dies, his wife leaves him and he finds himself isolated but another member of the academic community finds suspicious cracks in the facade of Ford's enemies and helps him expose the organisation.
Glenn Ford is very good, as are the supporting actors, but the story lacks a certain cohesion with too few people to represent what presumably was a nationwide organisation.
However, it's played straight without the usual car crashes and bloodletting that has marked the decline of the US cinema with the onset of incipient nihilism and it's worldwide exploitation. 8/10

Watching the film, one is reminded of this interesting item:

http://youtu.be/6K5M0xtxQVQ

Howl's Moving Castle. It wasn't as good as I expected it to be, but my nieces loved it. 7/10

Saw Despicable Me 2 with my daughters, 8 and 10. All three of us revelled in its (as opposed to it's) incipient nihilism.

The last couple years haven't been great for American cinema, but the past 15 years have been overall amazing and I'd put the last decade and a half up against any other in the history of film.

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Originally Posted by Darcy88

The last couple years haven't been great for American cinema, but the past 15 years have been overall amazing and I'd put the last decade and a half up against any other in the history of film.

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I think you always have to give it a little while for the cream to rise, just like one can't make an accurate assessment of the quality of today's music from the current Billboard Top 100. Or, for that matter, the state of literature from the current NYT bestseller list.

I saw ''All that jazz'' yesterday...Score: 9/10 :thumbs_up

Finally saw "The Da Vinci Code". Despite the "is it true" hoopla, I thought it was a good movie taken at face value.

Rate: 8 out of 10.

I saw Hitler's Children. An excellent documentary on the reaction of the children of people like Hoess, Goering, Himmler, in coming to terms as Germans with the hidden reality of the Holocaust. Available on Netflix.

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Originally Posted by cafolini

I saw Hitler's Children. An excellent documentary on the reaction of the children of people like Hoess, Goering, Himmler, in coming to terms as Germans with the hidden reality of the Holocaust. Available on Netflix.

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If you haven't seen Downfall yet I would highly recommend it.

The Woman in Black (1989)

This earlier version of the film cannot be faulted on historical detail with very high production values to the fore. Where it fails is in being too long
and repetitive. Unlike the most recent version, that relies far too heavily on grand guignol for its effects, it has the quality of eeriness characteristic of the stories of M.R.James where the fear lies as much in the subconscious of the reader as in overtly frightening depiction.
It's unfortunate that the story is strung out to meet the required length of a major feature film whereas the most recent version overdoes the in your face frighteners. This highlights the difference between good and mediocre direction where getting the balance between two extremes is essential to making the best of a story.

Here's a filmed scene from Susan Hill's novel:

http://youtu.be/8wg4jKt3NIw

Here's one from an M.R.James story which was written long before :

http://youtu.be/DmN68aNnLqI

I remember seeing this excellent BBC adaptation of an M.R.James ghost story when it was first broadcast.
It was so good that I've posted all four episodes. It's a great pity that the BBC has gone totally downhill
and no longer produces such professional material.
If you are of a particularly nervous disposition, you might prefer to give it a miss.
As a TV presentation it gets 10/10.


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