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

[YesNo]

I liked Owen Wilson in Midnight in Paris.

Last night I saw Jay and Mark Duplass' Jeff, Who Lives at Home: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1588334/

My score would be 9/10.

Jeff is a new age sort of guy. His brother is not. They answer the question: What is the greatest day in human history? If the answer is not obvious, you should probably see the movie.

[Emil Miller]

The Razor's Edge (1946)

This is a brilliant adaptation of WS Maugham's novel about expatriate Americans living in Paris after the Wall Street crash of 1929. Naturally, certain sections of the book had to be left out but the continuity is maintained and the acting from an all star cast is nothing short of outstanding. Special mention must be made of Gene Tierney and Anne Baxter as the two leading female characters who personify their respective fictional creations as crafted by Maugham's incisive imagination.
Here is the scene where the group run into the tragic Sophie MacDonald in a Bal Musette after she has gone to the dogs following the death of her husband and child in a Chicago car crash. Anne Baxter gives a towering performance of someone on the brink of self destruction.
A terrific film that deserves 10/10 for remaining as true as possible to the the book while allowing for its transformation into the medium of cinema.

http://youtu.be/IXId86uFMA4

[LitNetIsGreat]

I finally got around to finishing Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris, which was honestly a chore to sit through. What can I say, it's merely a reproduction of most of his films--Owen Wilson even does a remarkable job in impersonating him. 4/10

I thought it was a below par Allen film but I would have given it maybe a 6/10.

The Razor's Edge (1946)

This is a brilliant adaptation of WS Maugham's novel about expatriate Americans living in Paris after the Wall Street crash of 1929. Naturally, certain sections of the book had to be left out but the continuity is maintained and the acting from an all star cast is nothing short of outstanding. Special mention must be made of Gene Tierney and Anne Baxter as the two leading female characters who personify their respective fictional creations as crafted by Maugham's incisive imagination.
Here is the scene where the group run into the tragic Sophie MacDonald in a Bal Musette after she has gone to the dogs following the death of her husband and child in a Chicago car crash. Anne Baxter gives a towering performance of someone on the brink of self destruction.
A terrific film that deserves 10/10 for remaining as true as possible to the the book while allowing for its transformation into the medium of cinema.

http://youtu.be/IXId86uFMA4

I have favourited the film as all of it appears to be available on youtube. I'll give it a go. I've not read the book.

Tonight's late film choice is Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanour's. It's a pretty good one with a good ending as I remember.

[Emil Miller]

I thought it was a below par Allen film but I would have given it maybe a 6/10.



I have favourited the film as all of it appears to be available on youtube. I'll give it a go. I've not read the book.

Tonight's late film choice is Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanour's. It's a pretty good one with a good ending as I remember.

Yes I too saw it on Youtube but I have to say that, having read the novel several times, I put off watching the film for fear of the film doing less than justice to the book. Anyhow, I was so pleased that whole chunks of the Maugham's dialogue is incorporated into the screenplay and the acting is as good as could be expected. I did feel a bit sorry for Herbert Marshall, who plays Maugham, as he has to be both involved and at the same time an outsider recording the events; a difficult role to play.
I think you would find it instructive to read the book, if only for comparison's sake, but it will cerainly give you quite a lot to think about.

[Paulclem]

Tonight I watched Stalingrad - a German made film dubbed into English.

It was very good, and seemed to reflect events and conditions around the battle itself that I recognised from other reading. 6/10

[Emil Miller]

Last night I watched 'They Who Dare' a WWII story that was principally a vehicle for Dirk Bogarde as the leader of a group of commandos and Greek resistance fighters on a mission to destroy enemy aircraft on a Greek island. I was expecting a Boy's Own Paper yarn but it didn't even measure up as that. The commandos were more like Boy Scouts than hardened soldiers and the whole thing resembled a wizard wheeze to upset the enemy rather than a machine like operation to cause maximum damage to the enemy's aerial capability. 0/10

[Emil Miller]

Tonight I watched Chicago Deadline (1949) starring Alan Ladd in a remarkably ill-fitting suit in which he plays a reporter on the trail of addressees listed in the notebook of a girl found dead in a seedy hotel room. The plot lines are so convoluted that I honestly didn't know what was going on or why. The film had a kind of consistent ghastliness that kept one watching but on any objective assessment it must be 0/10

[Emil Miller]

I have just finished watching Night People ( 1956 ). The cast includes Gregory Peck and Broderick Crawford in a story set in Berlin during the cold war in which an American soldier is kidnapped and taken to the Eastern zone as a hostage for two people that are wanted ostensibly by the Russians. As the plot unfolds, it transpires that it's actually an undercover group of Nazis working for the Russians who are responsible for the kidnapping who, without he Russians knowledge, want to settle old scores with two members of the 1944 Hitler bomb plot.
Peck plays an American intelligence officer using a female double agent to effect a transfer but there's a double-cross ending that's quite well done.
Good performances all round and an intriguing story gets this 6/10. It would have been more but the script is rather overstated.

[Helga]

Just finished 'Jeff, who lives at home' and I simply loved it. very very good and funny. I really like Jason Segel and Ed Helms was very cool in a role so different from his 'Office' character

[LitNetIsGreat]

Oh dear I am finding myself watching Hannah and Her Sisters yet again (8/9th viewing?) this really is one of my favourite Woody Allen's, brilliant stuff. It's such a musical piece as well with some great jazz (as ever) and other songs + Bach. Not a perfect film but a solid 8.75 out of 10 I would give it! I think it would make a good stage adaptation as well, I could see it as that anyway. Michael Caine is a bit stiff in it but he is quite funny for it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieoFk...eature=related

[Paulclem]

Watched Star yesterday night. it is a Russian made account of a patrol behind German lines in WW2. i didn't like it much and turned off after half an hour. I could see where it was going - clumsy I would call it - and a bit dated. 4/10

[hazelk]

Watched "In Bruges"10/10 great movie, lots of everything.

[Helga]

Just watched 50/50 and I really liked it. funny and not too serious.

[Paulclem]

Watched "In Bruges"10/10 great movie, lots of everything.

Caught it last year by accident - and it was very good. One of the best modern films I''ve seen for a while.

[hazelk]

Hi paulclem,
I taped it quite by chance as a late movie, I missed out on some of the very Irish dialogue plus it was full of adds so yesterday I hired it from my DVD store and this time I will watch it with subtitles for a rewatch.

I told my husband about the movie and he was quite surprised that I (a very senior viewer) enjoyed it so much!!!

Hazel