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

I saw Stuck in Love. It had Jennifer Connolly in it and I remember seeing her long ago in Labyrinth. I guess the acting was OK, but the story line seemed like it needed a touch of Woody Allen humor to liven it up. Score: 5/10

I saw “Twelve Years a Slave” last night. It’s directed by Steve McQueen, whose last film, “Shame”, highlighted the horrors of being a rich, white suburbanite. This one is different. It’s about a free black man who, in 1840, gets shanghaied (is that a racist term?) and sold into slavery in Louisiana.

Based on the evidence of this film, slavery generally involves getting whipped, hanged, humiliated and raped. I’m sure this is all correct, but the film appears to have concentrated 12 years of torture into a two hour titillation for sado-masochists. McQueen obviously has talent. The movie combines oppression with natural beauty. It’s gorgeously shot. In one scene, our protagonist gets hanged for defending himself against an overseer, with his toes barely touching the ground. All around, the other slaves go about their daily tasks, ignoring what appears to be a commonplace torture.

If McQueen’s goal was to make his audience feel the oppression of slavery, he succeeded. Nonetheless, after about two hours, I felt like I’d been tied to the whipping post myself. Perhaps being beaten is, in some ways, enlightening. But it’s not very enjoyable.

I picked up Johnny English Reborn from the library, wondering if I had seen it before or not. After watching the opening scene in the Tibetan monastery, I remembered that I had indeed seen it before and would probably not mind seeing it again.

Score: 9/10

Prisoners (2013)

Not bad, not half as good as Zodiac either. Hollywood cannot compete with South Koreans in this genre. Case in point: Memories of Murder. Jackman and Gyllenhaal have matures as actors, but the latter's annoying blinking, Cyrillic tattoos, and masonic ring reflected a half-arsed attempt at character development, on the pretense of giving it some depth - a past. More than a couple of scenes remind of the excellent, excellent Spoorloos (1988), which is a much better film.

7/10

Worth watching once.

I saw Butterfly Room last week. It was very disappointing. 2/10

Today in my PC i saw The Last Samurai.. and i liked it good.. I'd rate it 7/10 but a couple of days ago I saw Kick-*** 2 it was very nice.. I'd give 8/10 for that.

I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967)

Typical 1960s nonsense directed by Michael Winner and starring Oliver Reed as a brilliant advertising director with, mistresses, money, a wife and child and all the trimmings, who gives it all up to work for a literary magazine. But leaving the rat race doesn't prove easy because his former boss, played by Orson Welles, is determined to get him back and buys up the magazine.
Quite well done in a flashy sort of way but it sinks beneath its attempt to be with it. It's meant to be hip but turns out to be hype. 5/10

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Originally Posted by Calidore

For an idea of the heights Doctor Who can reach, I highly recommend "Blink" from the third season. If you like low-budget B-movies, you might enjoy much of the original series (1963-1987) as well.

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I just saw "Blink". It was pretty good. I'll never think of statues in the same way again. Score: 9/10

I watched Amour last night, it’s really good film but seemed too long. It was also tough to see the pain and suffering of Anne at some points. 7/10

What Maisie Knew: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1932767/ Score 10/10

This is the story of a pre-school child with dysfunctional parents mainly from the child's perspective. Onata Aprile did a great job as Maisie.

I loved Amour Snowqueen, although to be honest it's probably not going to be one that I would want to see again.

I would like to see Bling and What Maisie Knew. I like Sofia Coppola's movies a lot.

I watched Disconnect and it was better than I expected. It reveals the dark side of modern communication and internet. 7/10

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I loved Amour Snowqueen, although to be honest it's probably not going to be one that I would want to see again.

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It really is a good film but I found it a bit depressing, to be honest. :)

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Originally Posted by YesNo

Watching Billie Piper as Rose Tyler made the time pass quickly. I liked the way she'd not pronounce clearly the "t" in many words such as "later". Or at least that's how I heard it. She would say something like "lay-er" and the "t" in "not" would seem to get de-emphasized or combined with the next word to the point of not being there and the "o" sound made long.

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It's a form of glottal stop - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glottal_stop - and it's an identifying characteristic of Estuary English - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estuary_English - which is what you might call the 'street accent' where I grew up. Not many people would claim that it's a pretty accent, but its influence seems to be growing. Me, I flip to and fro between attenuated Estuary and BBC-style Received Pronunciation at will, and often within a single sentence.

Billy Piper's a West Country girl, which would suggest that that's not her native accent - though she seems to have lived around the capital since her teens, so she's had plenty of time to pick it up.

Just came from the movie theater with my boy, we saw Frozen a Disney movie about two princesses. I have a lot to say about Disney princesses and not all good but these two were pretty good. I liked how the ending was different from movies like this when I was a kid.

Watched "Taken 2" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1397280/?ref_=nv_sr_3

The saddest part is that I will never get back the hour and a half that I wasted watching this horrible excuse for a motion picture.