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

[Maria May]

''Fantastic fear of everything'' (2012)...10/10,it was so cool,I really enjoyed it

[Varenne Rodin]

I've seen more than a few movies recently. Here are some:

Mud - 9/10. I saw this in a theater because a (probably terrible) Apatow movie was sold out. I wasn't expecting anything. Mud turned out to be a pretty great movie. It flows well. The actors all gave solid performances. Someone pointed out to me that it's a bit sexist. All of the female characters in the film are portrayed very negatively, as though the gender is designed to destroy men. For that, I knocked off a point. It's based in a southern state, though, so all of the characters made sense to me within their dirty backward environment. Everyone in Mud is filthy dirty, but it's still somehow a beautiful movie. Lots of feeling.

Tron: Legacy - 3.5/10. This would be a 0/10 if not for the soundtrack and the occasionally interesting light sequences. The computer generated Jeff Bridges was so lifeless and off-putting. I don't know who the animators were, but they should be fired from everything forever. I like the original Tron well enough. This sequel was like Tron run through the new Hollywood, Twilight style glazed, overly digitized, poorly written, blockbuster garbage machine. I think I hated it.

The Man in the Moon - 6.5/10. I watched this movie a few times as a young kid. I loved it then. I still like it. It holds up ok. I like how it clips along one way at the beginning of the movie, following a couple of Southern sisters and their interactions with boys and puberty. Then it takes a surprisingly deep turn. Not exactly a twist, but unexpected, sort of gut-wrenching. I knocked off a couple of points because there are babies and toddler youngsters introduced into the story and then frequently forgotten and grossly neglected throughout. I didn't notice it when I was young, but now I think it's a big oversight that should have been corrected. I knocked off a little bit more because Reese Witherspoon stole the show from the sister who was supposed to be upstaging her. Young Reese was pretty great then; not the romantic comedy shill we are familiar with today. Even with the score I gave, I think this is a highly watchable movie.

Despicable Me 2 - 1/10. I got dragged to see this with young relatives. They didn't like it. I didn't like it. I gave it a point because the characters resembled the characters from the first film, which I would give 5.5/10. This sequel was completely incoherent. Bubbly, cheesy, ultra lame, insulting, stereotypical, racist, artless trash. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.

[Snowqueen]

I had been planning to watch an Argentinian film, "Secret in Their Eyes" for quite some time, but wasn’t able to do it. Last night I finally managed to see it. It’s an excellent film and I would recommend it. 9/10

[Emil Miller]

Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

This shows why a great director like Billy Wilder can take something as unlikely as an Agatha Christie play and turn it into a film that make all those Poirot and Miss Marple TV efforts look like the amateur theatricals they really are.
Charles Laughton gives a stunning performance as Sir Wilfred Robart, a top defence lawyer defending Tyrone Power's accused murderer at London's Central Criminal Court. The star witness for the prosecution is the accused's wife, played by Marlene Dietrich who is just one of a number of players who turn in marvellous performances. Even if you guess the surprise ending, it's unlikely you will work out how it was done without actually seeing the film. 10/10

It's all on YouTube but here's an extract.


http://youtu.be/Fq3UK04pNrY

[cafolini]

Extraordinary documentary called Happy People. Its about a region of Syberia where a group of people live of the land, almost exclusively. The wilderness is called The Taiga. Available on Netflix.

[Helga]

'Beowulf and Grendel' really bad, really really bad. The worst part of how bad it is is that it was written and directed by a man from the ice and filmed on the ice and Grendel was played by an actor from the ice and the only word he spoke was icelandic. a really bad movie but perfect for my BA so I give it 5/10 for that

[Hawkman]

'Beowulf and Grendel' really bad, really really bad. The worst part of how bad it is is that it was written and directed by a man from the ice and filmed on the ice and Grendel was played by an actor from the ice and the only word he spoke was icelandic. a really bad movie but perfect for my BA so I give it 5/10 for that

I'm afraid I haven't seen this version of the tale, though I have seen others, which are nearly all incomprehensibly bad. What really annoys me about them is the fact that the filmmaker wants to make a film of a classic text that has survived for over a thousand years, and yet they think that they can "improve" it by completely changing the story. I have in mind the ghastly CGI version starring Stan Winston in particular. Personally, I'd rather they just had someone read it on the radio, so the audience can imagine the pictures themselves! If a filmmaker just wants to use the idea to inspire their own story then the best approach is to write their own and call it something else, like, "The 13th Warrior."

[Snowqueen]

I watched REC with my friends last week. It was disappointing. 3/10

[Helga]

I'm afraid I haven't seen this version of the tale, though I have seen others, which are nearly all incomprehensibly bad. What really annoys me about them is the fact that the filmmaker wants to make a film of a classic text that has survived for over a thousand years, and yet they think that they can "improve" it by completely changing the story. I have in mind the ghastly CGI version starring Stan Winston in particular. Personally, I'd rather they just had someone read it on the radio, so the audience can imagine the pictures themselves! If a filmmaker just wants to use the idea to inspire their own story then the best approach is to write their own and call it something else, like, "The 13th Warrior."

I do agree with that, and this version completely changed everything. The CGI version is next on my list and also Beowulf the sci-fi movie and one animated. I will be writing about Grendel in my BA so these changed movies are exactly what I will write about.

I just saw Spider-man 3, hadn't seen it before, my son and I watched all three in a three days so I could rate them all I guess.
Spider-man 6/10 it's ok but not great. So many great actors,Willem Dafoe, James Franco, Kirsten Dunst and of course Maguire but something about the story was just annoying.

Spider-man 2 5/10 again great actors but not that special

Spider-man 3 6/10 more villains make it a bit better and the music was a fun twist.

[cafolini]

HEY, BOO. An excellent biography of Nelle Harper Lee, and the production of To Kill a Mockingbird, with the role of the excellent editors that made it possible. BOO is the character she thought portrayed her in attitude as well as aptitude. Also the false version of her being friends with psychopathic Capote is taken care. Available on Netflix.

[YesNo]

H G Wells' Things to Come (1936).

For wierdness this scores 5/10, otherwise about 1/10. I doubt I need worry about spoiling the plot, so here it is. Between 1940 and 1970 there is a world war that puts us back to the stone age until the engineers and mechanics come out of hiding dressed in a new black fashion and driving huge airplanes save the day by creating a world order using science. In 2036 after they clean up the mess and make improvements like living underground (as if that's an improvement), the world order engineers are ready to shoot someone to the moon with a space gun. It is then that the masses start acting like masses again and try to stop the space gun by rushing at it, but just in time a young couple, unprotected from radiation, get shot to the moon before the anti-scientific masses can stop them. At the end the leader of the world order makes an impassioned speech about the glorious future of this future world to come.

One of the pieces of machinery that carved out the underground living quarters reminded me of Dr. Zarkov's spaceship in Flash Gordon (the early TV series) which brought back childhood memories.

[Snowqueen]

I watched Despicable Me 2 with my nieces. They enjoyed it, but I didn’t. Yes, the minions were funny. 4/10

[Lykren]

The Sacrifice, by Tarkovsky. The cinematography was great!

[Helga]

'Beowulf' oh it was even worse than the movie I watched the other day based on the poem. Just very bad. I guess if you know nothing of the poem it's a great adventure movie and at least Grendel ate the people he killed. 3/10 is my rating. The three stars are for Crispin Glover and a few quotes I can use.

[cafolini]

I watched The Story of Eleanor Roosevelt. Very good documentary available on NetFlix. Don't miss it.