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

[Janine]

"Sweeney Todd" I liked it, but I don't want to see it again. It was excessively bloody, but I think that was needed and the "blood" did look decidedly fake. I didn't like that it was musical, but I did like the art direction and thought it was superb. The atmospheric "old London" was terrific. I'm glad I watched it, but it's forgettable to me.

7/10

Antiquarian, Thanks for writing this up. It is good to finally know the blood looked really fake. I will venture to see it soon, when it becomes available at my library. Currently, it is always checked out, when I go to get it. I keep wondering if I will like it being a musical, too; but that was the point of the play, right? I know Depp can sing; I saw him in "Baby Face" and he did a good job of singing; I think he did his own singing in that film. I am sure the art direction would be good and creative, with Burton as the director. He excells in that sort of thing.

"A Good Year" based on the Peter Mayle book. Although a box office flop, I found this a charming, relaxing movie, with beautiful cinematography of southern France. Not the greatest story in the world, and pretty predictable, but relaxing and fun to watch. I might watch it again sometime.


6.5/10

I really enjoyed that film, too. I think I did see it twice already since I took it out from my library again thinking I had not seen it. It was a cute and light film; enjoyable. With all these 'dark' films lately we need a 'light' one once in awhile!

[Janine]

Hello Janine! It's been a while!

Yes, I would definitely recommend seeing Juno. It's adorable.

Yes, Anne's performance really wasn't memorable, which is a shame. I thought the film had potential when I first heard about the concept. Ooh I have yet to see Atonement. I can't wait. I read the novel for school last year and couldn't decide what I thought, but I'm planning on reading it again after I've seen the film. I've heard mixed reviews about it, though.

Yes, *Classic*Charm* - it has been awhile, hasn't it? I haven't really seen you around. Maybe we just don't frequent the same threads.

Yes, I agree with your assessment of Hathaway. She just did not seem emersed to me in the role of Anne. She still seemed like herself and not the character. Maybe she seemed to modern to me or something. I felt disappointed, because I thought as you said, that 'it had great potential' and it fell short. I wish they had gotten it right.

I loved "Atonement". I have not read the book,but I thought the movie was very well done; one of the best films I have seen this year. Let us know what you think after you see it. I will check this thread to see, when you write something about it. I am curious.
I wish now to read the book....maybe in the summer. Good plan to read it again after viewing the film; I often do that, too.

[*Classic*Charm*]

No, Janine, I simply haven't been around much lately! School has been very time consuming.

I agree with you- I much prefer to watch the film befoe reading the book simply because the books are always better. If I read first, the film is always a letdown. If I watch first, I can enjoy the film and then love the book even more.

Sorry, Antiquarian, Anne Hathaway is definitely American.

[Madhuri]

Currently watching ~ The Mask..... entertaining movie.....

[sprinks]

I just watched Jeff Wayne's musical version of War Of The Worlds. Loved it! The music was awesome, and the singers were fantastic, but they were kinda really bad actors! But nonetheless, it was great!

[NickAdams]

Antiquarian, Thanks for writing this up. It is good to finally know the blood looked really fake. I will venture to see it soon, when it becomes available at my library. Currently, it is always checked out, when I go to get it. I keep wondering if I will like it being a musical, too; but that was the point of the play, right? I know Depp can sing; I saw him in "Baby Face" and he did a good job of singing; I think he did his own singing in that film. I am sure the art direction would be good and creative, with Burton as the director. He excells in that sort of thing.

Yes, the play was a musical. He didn't sing in Babyface, but I enjoyed his singing in Sweeney Todd. I've seen the film three times and the soundtrack is in heavy rotation on my Ipod.

[Sweets America]

Just saw 'The Dreamers':



It was really good, it's about a young American guy(Michael Pitt, I like how this guy chooses his movies, I really liked 'Bully' too) who comes to France, and the guy meets a brother and his sister who have a strange relationship, not incestual but they still sleep naked together, and they become friends and it's difficult to sum up the movie, but it's about cinema (a lot of references of other movies are found in this movie), it's about dreams, revolt (it takes place during mai 68 in France and there are references to the Vietnam war), I like the soundtrack too (Janis Joplin's voice!!) and it's about sex too, there is quite explicit sex in it and you can see them all naked together, it's beautiful. I really recommand it. But in the meantime I have strange taste in movies so....
I like the French poster of the movie:

[blp]

Changing Lanes with Samuel L. Jackson and Ben Affleck. Bloody amazing.

[islandclimber]

Just saw 'The Dreamers':

It was really good, it's about a young American guy(Michael Pitt, I like how this guy chooses his movies, I really liked 'Bully' too) who comes to France, and the guy meets a brother and his sister who have a strange relationship, not incestual but they still sleep naked together, and they become friends and it's difficult to sum up the movie, but it's about cinema (a lot of references of other movies are found in this movie), it's about dreams, revolt (it takes place during mai 68 in France and there are references to the Vietnam war), I like the soundtrack too (Janis Joplin's voice!!) and it's about sex too, there is quite explicit sex in it and you can see them all naked together, it's beautiful. I really recommand it. But in the meantime I have strange taste in movies so....
I like the French poster of the movie:

I loved this movie... it was really excellent... It showed the beauty of freedom and free-falling away from the brutal reality that is so much of life... and the harsh consequences of being different in real life..

Pitt is a good actor, he was great in 'Bully' and in "Jailbait".. he seems to choose controversial movies and I like that... I also liked him in "the hawk is dying' with Paul Giamatti...

[Sweets America]

I loved this movie... it was really excellent... It showed the beauty of freedom and free-falling away from the brutal reality that is so much of life... and the harsh consequences of being different in real life..

Pitt is a good actor, he was great in 'Bully' and in "Jailbait".. he seems to choose controversial movies and I like that... I also liked him in "the hawk is dying' with Paul Giamatti...

Yeeeaaaah you know I like your mind?
I read that several actors refused Pitt's role because of the naked scenes and especially that close-up....
I liked this strange relationship between the brother and the sister, it was sad in a way, and I loved how the movie was made with all those scenes from other movies. But I'm not sure I understood the ending, I was waiting for something else maybe.
And yeah Pitt's a nice actor, but I only saw him in Bully, I love those kinds of controversial movies. Oh I saw him in Dawson's Creek too, now that's a different style. But, I loved Dawson's Creek...

[Sir Bartholomew]

World say hello to Eva Green!

[Sir Bartholomew]

Chinatown 3.5/4.0

[novelsryou]

The Painted Vail (Naomi Watts, Edward Norton) - Loved it so I ordered the book (Somerset Maugham)

[Idril]

Vodka Lemon, a depressing yet oddly uplifting movie about Armenia and the hardships of life after the Soviets left. It was slow paced, not a tremendous amount of dialogue or plot really yet it was very revealing and devastating with odd bits of humour and surrealism thrown in every now and then.

[Seabird111]

The last movie I saw?

I just saw Fargo and No Country For Old Men, and I have to say that I gave them both 4/4 stars. Here's why:

FARGO:

Pros:
-Steve Buscemi is just hapless and bumbling.
-The ridiculously overdone North Dakotan accent.
-Everyone is so cheery despite all the violence happening around them.
-The plotline is just ridiculous. A husband has two guys kidnap his wife so he can split the ransom money.

Cons:

-Nope.

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN:

Pros:
-Holy crap that was a dark movie! Just the way I like it.
-Amazing acting by Javier Bardem and Tommy Lee Jones.

Cons:

Again, none.

Watch them both.