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

Hywel Bennett plays a freelance chauffeur whose connection with wealthy employers leads to
a romance with Haley Mills' American millionairess. After which, he has a house built by a
famous architect in a beautiful English landscape. The marriage is marred by a mysterious old
woman who tries to frighten them away and a feeling of malaise that has no apparent cause.
Some of which is explained towards the end of the film when the wife's body is discovered in a field and
the verdict is a heart attack. Unfortunately, there's no explanation for the old woman or the hideous
statuette of a cat that is brought into the house by a mutual acquaintance, so perhaps it's a case of poor editing.
A key scene at 2.37 in this compilation video, was missing from the film that I saw. 6/10



http://youtu.be/H-J9t1BW43c

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Originally Posted by MarkBastable

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.

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Perhaps because it sounded so unusual to me and looked so cute when Billy Piper said it, I like hearing Estuary English. I didn't know there was a name for it. I work with someone who grew up around Manchester. I hear the "cheers" and "mate", but he doesn't sound like Piper, of course, Manchester is north of London and I shouldn't expect him to.

Adapted from Agatha Christie's 1929 novel, this TV version takes us right back to the English aristocracy's last gasp when characters were called 'Pongo' and ''Bundle', and Bentley roadsters were thick on the ground. It wasn't all fun and games though because, when the cricket bats and hockey sticks had been stored away, there were serious things like mysterious societies, spies and secret formulae of national importance to be dealt with. That didn't mean that these too weren't a jolly jape or a spiffing wheeze to be enjoyed, so long as one was prepared to take the occasional risk that the unknown villain might be the least likely of one's fellow players. The important thing was that the bounder was eventually unearthed and true love blossomed in the knowledge that once again, England had been saved for those who knew best how to enjoy it. 7/10

Today, I have seen "The Hobbit.Desolation of the Smaug". It was much better that the first part but for me it wasn`t much to do with the book.

Don't know if it counts as a movie but I just saw Doctor Who Christmas special. I would have liked to see River Song in it but it was good. I will probably watch it again tonight when my son is back from spending the holidays with his dad. I expect lots of crying when he sees that bow-tie he loves so much fall.

probably the second best Christmas special they have done so 8/10

"The Trip" with Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon - very funny movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8BPP4ASQWo

I recently went to '47 Ronin'.

The special effects were above average, but the story felt rushed and thin. The Samurai were too melodramatic for me, and (sorry if this offends anyone) I have never enjoyed watching Keanu Reeves. He is like an Asian Nicholas Cage.

6/10

American Hustle. I'll give it a 6.5/10.

It was a bit slow at first, but it picked up and ended up being pretty good. Plus, there were great actors.

I just watched Blue Is The Warmest Color.

WOW.

Has anyone else seen this? If so, I'd like to get your thoughts on it.

Mandela - Long Walk to Freedom, 10/10

I saw 'The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug' yesterday. I went into the theater knowing I was seeing Jacksons take on the book and his re-writing of scenes so in general it was a good movie. Way to many useless fightscenes aimed at the teenage boy part of the audience. I was there with my stepdad, my brother, his girlfriend and her son and it was obvious that the young boy loved it more then the rest.

I was very disappointed with Beorn and his part, he was my favorite character in the book and he was just crappy and the whole scene was useless to the plot and nothing like the book.

I love Lee Pace, he will always be my favorite baker and I liked him as an elf too.

Well in general I give it 7.5 as a movie but as an adaptation it would get a lot less.

Over the past 24 hours I watched The Hangover (which I saw previously), The Hangover Part II and The Hangover Part III. It is probably not ideal to get so much enjoyment over such a small space of time, but the movies were very satisfying. Score 9/10.

It's not surprising that Arthur Miller fell foul of the Un American Activities Committee when his first play All My Sons was produced, because it attacks the profit motive that is the mainstay of business.
This filmed adaptation is well acted by a cast that includes Edward G Robinson, impressive as the paterfamilias whose rise to wealth includes the selling of faulty equipment to the US government during WWII that leads to the death of 26 pilots. Burt Lancaster is the son who survives the war while his brother is killed: a fact that the mother refuses to believe, expecting him to be simply missing in action. Robinson's business partner is blamed for the mis-selling of the equipment and is sent to prison but, although acquitted by the court, an aura of doubt continues to hang over Robinson.
The whole thing spirals out of control when the dead son's fiancee, who is the condemned man's daughter, is proposed to by the eldest son and her brother objects to the engagement; accusing Robinson of being the real culprit and not his imprisoned father.

The script betrays its theatrical origins and it's not for those with a minimal attention span, but viewing the film as a morality tale without the political undertones, I would give it 9/10.

Dead-end Drive In (1986)
8/10

I don't find watching fiction movies very interesting but this flick was first-rate.

Inside Llweyn Davis-10/10
Nebraska-10/10

Some good movies got made this year! Gotta get the soundtrack for Llewyn Davis and I'm rooting for an Oscar for Bruce Dern. So is he, I've heard, lol.