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

[YesNo]

The trailer looked interesting. I'll see if I can find Macadam Stores / Asphalte in the library.

I've been having a hard time trying to find a movie I can tolerate finishing. This is unusual for me since I can sit through most anything. However, one movie I was able to finish, "Not Another Teen Movie": http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/not_another_teen_movie/

Rotten Tomatoes thought it stunk, but what do they know? I give it a 10/10. Get the uncensored director's cut.

My wife sent me a YouTube clip of Rudolph Nurejev in Swan Lake. If you like ballet, and especially if you don't, this might be worth three minutes of your time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHbGqJ_MonU

I give that a score of 10/10.

[Danik 2016]

LOL The "pig" dances wonderfully! 10/10 for the pig and 10/10 for Nurejev.
I hope you find and enjoy Asphalte. End of times relationships with drama and humour.

[Helga]

I saw Captain America: Civil War, probably the best Avengers movie, if Loki had been there it would have been perfect...

Black Panther was brilliant, easily the best part of the movie

[Emil Miller]

Taken from a celebrated stage play, this British film concerns the poisoning of the wealthy wife of a village school teacher in Victorian England and the quest by a Scotland Yard police inspector to uncover which of three suspects, who all stood to gain from the deceased's will, administered the poison. The director skillfully keeps one guessing by showing that each suspect was equally likely to have been the murderer only to subsequently sow doubt in the viewer's mind.
The ending has a twist that shows not only who killed the victim but why, and it has nothing to do with money.

9/10

[Snowqueen]

I have started watching Sherlock ( TV Series). It's quite good.

Also watched X-Men: Days of Future Past and liked it. I really enjoyed the scene where Quickslive shows off his powers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NnyVc8r2SM

[Emil Miller]

Jennifer Jones, who must surely have been one of the most beautiful women ever, gives a good performance as a gypsy girl in 19th century England.
The famed partnership of Powell and Pressburger, who produced a number of outstanding films, should have avoided this one however, for the wild gypsy girl is pursued by a rampant Squire: the very stuff of Victorian melodrama and reminiscent of a Barbara Cartland bodice ripper.
The camerawork and scenery are outstanding but the plot leaves much to be desired.

[Emil Miller]

At 71 minutes duration this film has been made by the vote to leave the European Union side of the forthcoming UK referendum.
It's a compelling series of grounds for getting out of what is a ragbag of internationalist wishful thinking, working principally for an axis of power centered on Berlin and Brussels.
The film shows how EU restrictive trade practices keeps Europe from acting in its best interest, but perhaps the biggest eye-opener is the sheer size of the bureaucracy and the salaries that are paid to those running it. According to the film, 10,000 EU personnel earn more than the UK Prime Minister, with all kinds of additional perks added to their salaries. This massive bureaucracy has impoverished large parts of southern Europe to the benefit of the north: principally Germany.
The film also gives the lie to the idea that the UK would lose trade by leaving. The UK already does far more trade with the rest of the world than with the EU and imports more from Europe than it exports.
UKIP notwithstanding, it defies belief how anyone, who wasn't in on this costly racket, would vote to remain after seeing this film.

10/10

[YesNo]

I just saw Brexit the Movie. I didn't realize that Switzerland was not part of the EU. This was very informative overall. Score 10/10.

[Dreamwoven]

I just saw Brexit the Movie. I didn't realize that Switzerland was not part of the EU. This was very informative overall. Score 10/10.

Switzerland with its cantons and decentralised (and German-speaking) was the refuge of ordoliberals fleeing from Nazi Germany, several got chairs in Swiss Universities, gave them many ideas that were new at the time. Nor is Norway in the EU, nor is Iceland. Nor are any of the Balkan countries, though they are applying. Nor is Turkey, nor Israel.

[Dreamwoven]

I would add Russia to the countries not in the EU, and Belarus.

[YesNo]

The US and China aren't there either, but since Switzerland is in the middle of what I imagine Europe to be I assumed it would have been swallowed up by the EU by default. I thought Norway was in the EU, come to think of it. Turkey and Israel seem a little far from Europe in my naive map of that part of reality and Iceland is in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

The movie did present an interesting idea that if Britain were not in the EU it would be prosperous because it wouldn't have a self-serving bureaucracy manipulating it. That may be true for all I know and it is as good a reason to leave the EU as the justification the US made to leave Britain a couple centuries ago. And doesn't Scotland keep trying to leave Britain? Maybe social mood today favors decentralization?

[RalphX3]

I would add Russia to the countries not in the EU, and Belarus.

I would be surprised about Belarus. Why some would want two incompetent tyrannies is beyond me.

[Dreamwoven]

I don't think the Eurocrats want them, but my point was that Russia west of the Urals is larger than the rest of Europe put together. There is a website called "the other side of Europe": http://www.oseweb.org/. Let us also remember that Ukraine isn't part of the EU either, it will be interesting to see if they are accepted once they apply in 2020: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrain...nion_relations.

[Emil Miller]

The US and China aren't there either, but since Switzerland is in the middle of what I imagine Europe to be I assumed it would have been swallowed up by the EU by default. I thought Norway was in the EU, come to think of it. Turkey and Israel seem a little far from Europe in my naive map of that part of reality and Iceland is in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

The movie did present an interesting idea that if Britain were not in the EU it would be prosperous because it wouldn't have a self-serving bureaucracy manipulating it. That may be true for all I know and it is as good a reason to leave the EU as the justification the US made to leave Britain a couple centuries ago. And doesn't Scotland keep trying to leave Britain? Maybe social mood today favors decentralization?

Switzerland isn't in the EU because constitutionally it is neutral, a fact that kept it out of European and two World Wars. So while others were squandering their wealth fighting each other, Switzerland prospered. Even if Germany had wanted to incorporate it into the 3rd Reich, strategically it would have been too costly because Switzerland is surrounded by mountains and easily defended.
It is probably the only true democracy in the world because the government cannot pass major legislation without a referendum; this gives the public a whip hand over their elected representatives: would that we had such a system in the UK.
Scotland has only recently been in a position to seek withdrawal from the UK since the Scottish Nationalists' became the governing party in Scotland.
Social mood does favour decentralisation but, because there is no Swiss referendum system to defend it, governments have carte blanche to impose globalisation on their citizens.

[YesNo]

I forgot about those mountains. That makes their country a natural castle.

I don't know much about Brexit, but it seems like a general problem. The benefits derived from having a bureaucracy babysit you so you don't hurt yourself have to out-weight the joy of not having a back-seat driver telling you every turn to take. It's a tough choice. Generally I favor making my own mistakes.