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

[LadyWentworth]

Well, I would lend it to you, seeing as I have it, but it would be quite the toss to get it to you... I would have to be one of those Milwaukee Brewers that you love so much, to throw that far... instead i think I may just wath Quills as I go to sleep tonight ... But if you want I could send it to you someday, just to make up for this appalling gloating that I am partaking in at the moment

My, you were in a very teasing mood last night! I am tempted, but no. I thank you, but I don't need your copy of that movie. After all, it was offered in a way of trying to "make up" for being a tease! Oh, wait! Unless you were teasing with the offer, too! You are just too bad!


Breaking Away (1979)
10/10 Good film!

[Idril]

Breaking Away (1979)
10/10 Good film!

Oh, I love that movie! I was just obsessed with Dennis Christopher when I was in jr high or somewhere around there.

[Janine]

My, you were in a very teasing mood last night! I am tempted, but no. I thank you, but I don't need your copy of that movie. After all, it was offered in a way of trying to "make up" for being a tease! Oh, wait! Unless you were teasing with the offer, too! You are just too bad!


Breaking Away (1979)
10/10 Good film!

He is mischievous! Watch out for him, Lady Wentworth! Also, he wears shorts year round, even when it is 0 degrees C out. He confessed on another thread, right, islandclimber?

I am not sure if I saw that film you listed. I know I wanted to see it. Can you recap it for me, LW? I think I did see it and liked it so much. Who stars in it?

Would you believe I have not seen a film now for over 3, 4 nights?

I guess the last films I watched were plays and I greatly enjoyed them; something different for a change.

The Enemy of the People, original play by Henrik Isben
The Widowing of Mrs. Holyrod, a play by D.H.Lawrence

Not assigning numbers to them, but they both were excellent!

[djy78usa]

Just finished watching the 2007 remake of 3:10 to Yuma. I usually don't like newer western movies (you just can't beat the look of the old B&W westerns ), but I have to say, this movie was pretty darn good. Not sure when it happened, but somewhere along the way, Christian Bale has become one of my favorite actors working.

[Janine]

Janine, I did watch an older one I'd opened, but hadn't gotten around to watching - "Get Shorty."

It was okay, but nothing great.

6.5/10

Was going to watch "The Leopard," but it was too long for tonight.

Antiquarian, another night has passed by and I have not watched a movie - this makes about 4 now...what is the world coming to? ugh...I have gotten tied up on this computer again posting like crazy - totally obsessed of course.

I am curious, what is "Get Shorty" about? I need to break open one I bought about a year ago, too! I might take off the wrapper and find it has disintegrated!

[djy78usa]

Janine, I highly reccomend Get Shorty. Its a based on Elmore Leonard's book of the same name about a mobster loan shark that becomes involved in the movie business. Unfortunately, they followed it up with Be Cool, one of the worst sequels ever made.

[cranberry]

Sweeney Todd , Loved it very much.

and thanks again

[amifielei_007]

hi to all!
Im leigh..
im a newbie here...
just want to answer this poll...
last week was the last time I watched a movie...
I watched 10000 BC..
its good, but its not my favorite...
i think its just the same as the others...
nothing new...
out of 10....
maybe 5...

[djy78usa]

[QUOTE=Antiquarian;550733However, there's no motivation for him to become involved in the movie business other than he likes Hollywood and L.A.[/QUOTE]

What more motivation should there be? Seems to me, doing something because you like it is all the motivation you need. I agree with you on Pulp Fiction though...one of my favorites movies of all time.

[djy78usa]

different stroke for different folks, eh? Fair enough. The movie is pretty true to the book, btw.

[LadyWentworth]

Oh, I love that movie! I was just obsessed with Dennis Christopher when I was in jr high or somewhere around there.

I can see why.

He is mischievous! Watch out for him, Lady Wentworth! Also, he wears shorts year round, even when it is 0 degrees C out. He confessed on another thread, right, islandclimber?

Well, I am not going to critcize. I think it is crazy to wear shorts when it is so cold, but how can I talk? I wear jeans when it is 100 degrees outside! I'm not joking either! I do that!

I am not sure if I saw that film you listed. I know I wanted to see it. Can you recap it for me, LW? I think I did see it and liked it so much. Who stars in it?

Basically, it is about this boy that wants to become a championship bicyclist. He worships the Italian riders. Eventually, he gets a chance to ride against them. That is the basic storyline. Dennis Christopher is the star. Dennis Quaid and Daniel Stern happen to be in it, too, as his friends. It is a good movie. This was one that my brother watched a lot when I was little. I hadn't seen it in years until the other day. I really like it.

[islandclimber]

I can see why.

Well, I am not going to critcize. I think it is crazy to wear shorts when it is so cold, but how can I talk? I wear jeans when it is 100 degrees outside! I'm not joking either! I do that!


Basically, it is about this boy that wants to become a championship bicyclist. He worships the Italian riders. Eventually, he gets a chance to ride against them. That is the basic storyline. Dennis Christopher is the star. Dennis Quaid and Daniel Stern happen to be in it, too, as his friends. It is a good movie. This was one that my brother watched a lot when I was little. I hadn't seen it in years until the other day. I really like it.

well, usually it is surf shorts... I have some strange obsession with wearing surf shorts year round, at least when I am out on Vancouver Island, where we don't get many below zero days all year.. plus I swim in the ocean year round... it sure is cold in december, january and february.. after about 15-20 minutes you start to get hypothermic and have to get out...

Jeans in 100 f !!! ick... that would feel so so so hot... I where jeans in the summer but only in the evening or at night... never just to lounge around in during the day... but whatever floats your boat... right...

I love that movie... I had forgotten the name... but it is a really good movie... I'm glad you brought it up!!

Janine!!! Calling me mischevious!! you have it totally backwards... you're putting your own mischevious nature on my shoulders... and it is not a coat I intend to wear!!!

I watched "Chariots of Fire" again this evening... I had forgotten how good that movie is.. I love it... 10/10 it's funny that none of the actors in it really starred in any other big films... though I do recollect that a few of them were big on stage... hmm...

I am going to watch "Withnail and I" tonight I think.. which is a 20/10 in my books... one of my favourite films of all... Grant is so amazing as "withnail"...
I love this scene... withnail and i
actually every scene, the movie is so sharply funny... dark and biting...

[islandclimber]

Sweeney Todd!! It is great.. I loved it... If you enjoy the new Depp and Burton version.. you should try to check out the Lansbury, Hearn broadway version.. it is wonderful too... and then seeing it live is a great experience...

But I have to say Tim Burton did an amazing job of bringing this musical to film... Depp is wonderful and so dark in the lead role, and Carter, is amazing as Lovett... she fits the role so well...

maybe 9.5/10, as there is maybe a little too emphasis on excessively overexaggerated bleeding, something that wasn't in the broadway musical of course... I find it silly when they make bleeding so ridiculous like the blood spraying everywhere in the Kill Bill movies... so my only criticism is that... otherwise fantastic..

[islandclimber]

thank you

I hope you enjoy Sweeney Todd.. it isn't quite as bad as the "Kill Bill" movies.. but it is still a little to excessive in my books... Depp is fantastic in dark roles... but my favourite movie of his, is actually, "Benny and Joon"... it is just such a great movie...

[LadyWentworth]

Jeans in 100 f !!! ick... that would feel so so so hot... I where jeans in the summer but only in the evening or at night... never just to lounge around in during the day... but whatever floats your boat... right...

I don't lounge around in them! That ridiculous I am not! Only if I am going out. And the odds of me leaving the house when it is really deadly outside, if I have no reason to have to go somewhere, is very slim! I honestly don't own a pair of shorts. I find them very uncomfortable. So, my choice has to be either a dress (which I prefer not to wear), a skirt or jeans!

And I want to watch "Sweeney Todd." I'd love to run down to the store and buy a copy, but my husband told me to rent it, so I'd better behave. LOL

May I join in on this? See below.

Sweeney Todd!! It is great.. I loved it... If you enjoy the new Depp and Burton version.. you should try to check out the Lansbury, Hearn broadway version.. it is wonderful too... and then seeing it live is a great experience...

But I have to say Tim Burton did an amazing job of bringing this musical to film... Depp is wonderful and so dark in the lead role, and Carter, is amazing as Lovett... she fits the role so well...

maybe 9.5/10, as there is maybe a little too emphasis on excessively overexaggerated bleeding, something that wasn't in the broadway musical of course... I find it silly when they make bleeding so ridiculous like the blood spraying everywhere in the Kill Bill movies... so my only criticism is that... otherwise fantastic..

Back in Decmeber I wrote a ridiculously crazy, rambling review on here praising this film. Some people here will remember it. Well, I LOVED the film!! As I have said many times before, as a musical, it is the all-time best next to "Phantom". Now, I, too, have seen the film, Hearn-Lansbury version and live in the theater. Knowing the original version of this show, the film is an excellent adaptation of it (excluding some minor flaws - too much to go into all over again here). If you would ever watch the Hearn-Lansbury version, that is basically the original Broadway version (with the exception of George Hearn replacing the great Len Cariou in the role of Sweeney Todd). So, it would make an excellent choice for something to compare it to. If you would ever see the show live, try to make sure it isn't the revival version. That is just the wrong thing to do! Besides, for me, the concept of how they presented the revival is just absurd. But I am not going to rant on that.

As for the blood, I am always going to say that I don't understand what the problem is. It is so over-the-top that it didn't bother me at all. Like I said before, it looks like orange paint! The only time it looks realistic is towards the end. At that time it isn't over-the-top, which I felt Tim Burton did deliberately. So I don't see the problem with it. But that is all just my opinion.

So, islandclimber, how bloody was the stage version that you saw? The one I saw looked pretty good. Well, I suppose it was pretty bad depending on one's view of how much blood is too much blood.