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

[Clopin]

I don't really think it sucks I was just bantering with Lykren

[YesNo]

Dr. Strangelove is an excellent satire of conservative foriegn policies and the jingoism/xenophobia prevelent in the American populace. It made fun of rampant militarism and the race to build ever more destructive weapons. The movie also satirizes the tying of masculinity to who has the biggest gun; in the case of this movie, that is a literal metaphor. The guy riding the missile like horse has an extremely large penis.

Come to think of it it could have been a large penis although he did wave that hat like he was riding some animal in a rodeo. I saw the movie too long ago to have an opinion on it.

[Emil Miller]

This one's a real weirdo and concerns two scientists in love with the same woman. After they invent a method for replicating inanimate objects, the woman marries one of them: much to the disappointment of the other who, after successfully experimenting with animals, gets the brilliant idea of replicating the woman so that he can marry the replica.
Needless to say, things do not go according to plan and the story ends sadly.

Directed by Terence Fisher, whose downward spiral later included The Earth Dies Screaming, one wonders why he so obviously hit the skids after the excellent So Long at the Fair.

4/10

[Emil Miller]

This has James Cagney doing his usual tough guy act as a reporter for an American newspaper based in Tokyo before Japan and the USA were at war. The story revolves around a secret, albeit unlikely, Japanese plan for world domination that falls into the hands of Cagney through an agent working against the Japanese.
Cagney prints the story in his newspaper and starts a series of events that leads to him smuggling the plan to the outside world after the usual roughhouse scenes that were a hallmark of Cagney's films.
Although the film is obviously a propaganda piece, the settings are convincing with real Japanese actors speaking in their own language to add authenticity to the story.

7/10

[Sancho]

A Walk In The Woods

I had high hopes for this movie because I loved the book and I admire the actors.

However the movie is only loosely based on the book. I think if you take Bill Bryson's book and then superimpose Robert Redford's age and sensibilities on it, you get this movie.

I still enjoyed it.

I rate it, 2 worn-out hiking boots and a half-finished trail.

[Diem My Bui]

the lastest one I watch is "A beautiful Mind". Well, it's awesome we know it.
Love how he overcame his paranoid schizophrenia and pursued his passion.
of course an 9 for the wonderful movie!

[Number 34]

Dumb and Dumber To was the last film I watched.

Not bad, although not as good as the first one. Took a bit of time to warm to it. Perhaps due to a twenty year gap between films.

[YesNo]

I loved the Dumb and Dumber films.

[Number 34]

Did you see the prequel one they did? If so, is it any good?

[Scheherazade]

Hey, Emil. They continued to make movies after 1960s as well!

Papaya and I watched "Dreamgirls" last Saturday and it has been a major disappointment. The storyline was so-so, songs were nothing to write home about... Great acting but to no particular end.

I am quite surprised that it's got so many award and such critical acclaim.

[YesNo]

Did you see the prequel one they did? If so, is it any good?

I only saw two of them, the original Dumb and Dumber (1994) and the more recent Dumb and Dumber To (2014). I didn't know there was a prequel. Whether they are "good" or not would depend on who you are talking to. My wife, for example, refused to watch them after seeing the trailers. I could see them again.

[Ecurb]

I saw "Meru" and "Everest" recently. Both are mountaineering films: Meru is a documentary about the ascent of a legendary face on the titular peak; Everest is a dramatization of "Into Thin Air", Jon Krakauer's best-selling book about a tragic Everest expedition.

Both movies are duplicitous. Meru features climbing star Konrad Anker, and co-stars all the equipment of his sponsor, North Face. After one failed expedition to the unclimbed face on Meru, the team returns and succeeds. But the movie fails to mention that the face had been bagged (on a slightly different route) by a Russian expedition a couple of weeks earlier. The movie recounts some of Anker's climbing history: his two most famous partners were Mugs Stump and Alex Lowe. Mugs was a famous "dirt-bag" climber. He was one of America's greatest climbers, but was never sponsored, and never had a guide's license (although he sometimes picked up cash guiding illegally). Alex Lowe was one of America's early professional climbers -- heavily sponsored and sent off on expeditions funded by clothing and equipment lines. Both Lowe and Stump died in the mountains -- Stump in a crevasse fall on Denali and Lowe in an avalanche in the Tibetan Himalaya. Anker, it seems, has chosen Lowe's route over Stump's (personally, Stump is one of my climbing idols).

A documentary like this succeeds on the basis of scenery and the personalities of the climbers. The scenery was good; the climbing scenes and the personalities dull.

Everest was an Imax, 3D production. It felt tricked up, to me. In some over-dramatic scenes on the Khumbu ice fall, crevasses spanned by bridges made from ladders appeared to be bottomless, which, I think, is not a feature of the ice fall. Worse, the story-telling was amateurish. What exactly happened to the group that hunkered on the South Col during the storm, unable to find the tents? If you want to know, read the book. The movie fails to tell the story.

The dramatic center of the story is Rob Hall's phone conversation with Keira Knightley (who plays his pregnant wife, back in New Zealand). Hall is stuck near the top of Everest, dying, unable to come down. It's dramatic, but Keira Knightly? Come on.

A couple of minor quibbles: First, the movie talks about how Everest had been climbed only by "professionals" prior to the guided trips, which began a few years before the events of the movie. Huh? The English expeditions -- all the early Everest expeditions and the first ascent in 1952 -- involved no professional climbers, except the Sherpas. The Brits were experts, but amateurs to a man. European expeditions did include Alpine guides, who were professional, but English expeditions did not. Second, the movie has some of the clients talking about climbing Mt. McKinley. Barack Obama has now changed the highest North American peak's name to "Denali", but no climbers would have called it "McKinley" in the 1990s, when the film takes place. The name "Denali" was already firmly established.

I enjoyed both movies, but I would not recommend them to anyone less interested in climbing than I am.

[Emil Miller]

Hey, Emil. They continued to make movies after 1960s as well!

Yes but by then they were just going through the motions.

[Number 34]

I only saw two of them, the original Dumb and Dumber (1994) and the more recent Dumb and Dumber To (2014). I didn't know there was a prequel. Whether they are "good" or not would depend on who you are talking to. My wife, for example, refused to watch them after seeing the trailers. I could see them again.

The prequel was called Dumb and Dumberer. Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels and the Farrelly brothers weren't involved with it.

[YesNo]

I'll look for it! Thanks, Number_34!

I just finished watching "Matinee". Rotten Tomatoes thought it was pretty good and so did I: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1041870-matinee/

After seeing "Burying the Ex" and hearing from Rotten Tomatoes that Joe Dante directed better movies, I had to look for some. "Matinee" is one of his comedies.

The story is situated in Key West throughout the Cuban Missile Crisis. People were reasonably afraid that nuclear war was about to start. Undeterred by the fear of disaster a nearly ruined movie maker was going to try to scare the audience at the local theater with radioactive man-ant (mant) mutants hoping the real crisis would drive people to the theater to watch his fabricated one and save his career.

There are two and a half high school couples to provide the love interest. The "half" is a jealous ex boyfriend who was released early from juvenile detention because someone liked his poetry. He wasn't pleased to find that his ex-girlfriend moved on. The other couple is a mix between the son of a career military man and the daughter of parents who would likely be anti-military.

Yeah, it's complicated, but entertaining.

Score: 10/10