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

[PistisSophia]

I saw "Crazy Heart" last weekend. Excellent acting and a plot that keeps the interest. Beau Bridges was terriffic, as was the rest of the cast. I hope that this film gets the honors it deserves come Oscar time.

I haven't seen anything really good in quite a long time, beside "Crazy Heart".

[DanielBenoit]

Jules et Jim - It's been about a month since I've seen this film so I don't have the right mindset for writing a full review, but it has stuck in my head for so long I must mention it. This is probaby the best through-the-years film I have ever seen, and certainly one of the most accurate and cynical portrayals of human relationships as three friends (Jules, Jim and Catherine) grow with eachother before and after WWI in France and Germany. This is Francis Truffant's finest film and the best of the French New Wave. An encyclopetic magnus opus of style and modern cinematic grammer. I will never forget this film and what it taught me. Please go see it. 10/10

Bande a Part - Another masterpiece from the French New Wave, but this time by the more free-floating and postmodern Jean-Luc Godard in another film about three 20-somethings in France. Greatly "hip" but also intelligent, artsy and existential. Pure Godard. One might notice the famous dance scene in here greatly influenced the dance scene in Pulp Ficiton (also, as a side-note, Tarantino named his production company after this film in a play on words "A Band Apart"). 10/10

[Shalot]

Sunshine Cleaning 8.5/10

I liked this movie because it's orignal. The story revolves around Rose, who is a single mom employed as a maid, and she needs to make more money to make ends meet. In high school, she had it made as captain of the cheerleading squad with her football star boyfriend, but life after school has not been so kind. The football star married someone else but he still sees her on the side, probably out of guilt since he seems to be her son's father. He suggests that she get into the crime scene clean-up business, since it's similar to what she does already and it pays more.

So, she and her relunctant younger sister played by Emily Blunt (who, like Rose, is having a hard time in life as well) get into the crime scene clean-up business together. The job is disgusting and yet somehow just perfect for these two girls who discovered their own mother dead in the tub after a suicide when they were little girls, and through this venture, they end up working through some of their dysfuntional behaviors.

[sprinks]

Sunshine Cleaning 8.5/10

I really wanted to watch that when it came out, but I haven't gotten to it yet!

I FINALLY watched Citizen Kane, it's the top of most 'greatest films ever' lists, or ranks highly on others, and I was curious for a long time, but it took me so long time to find it! (Eventually my boyfriend found it while we were in a bookshop ) I had a very bad headache that day though, so I couldn't focus on it well, but from what I remember I'd give it about an 8 or a 9 out of 10. I'll have to watch it again before really being able to know.

I also watched The Shark Net which isn't a movie exactly but a 3 part tv series that was meant to originally be a film, based on the book of the same name by Robert Drewe. I was amazed that it actually stayed so true to the text! I rarely see that happen, but this time even most of the dialogue was word for word. I also really liked the way it was filmed, it was quite different and really interesting, so I'd definitely give it a 9.5/10 (it lost .5 because of some of the constant cutting between some shots that were mid shots then close up then mid shot gave me a headache, though it was effective.)

[atiguhya padma]

Precious 8/10

I am not that familiar with the controversy surrounding this film, but I do know that it is a great film, filled with the kind of realism that I am more accustomed to in European cinema. Precious is the victim of a blinkered society, whose escape route is originally through fantasy, but her fantasies give direction and enable her. She achieves despite the negative and selfish behaviour of those who are supposed to support her. She is not the romanticised, idealised achiever of some of Hollywood's less believable films, but rather a spirited, determined individual who cares about her future and the futures of others. I guess you would say she was something of a rough diamond. Anyway, recommended.

[Lumiere]

Deathtrap

10/10

The most thrilling of thrillers.

[Janine]

The Train ~ Burt Lancaster

This movie is fantastic! You can watch it here free and full screen; that is what I did last night. I enjoyed every minute of it. The filming is superb and the action is great. A true classic 10/10!!!

http://www.imdb.com/video/hulu/vi1203372569/

[manolia]

I watched the white ribbon yesterday..what a great film! 10/10
I have watched three Haneke films by now and i like them all very much!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1149362/

[Mathor]

I watched the white ribbon yesterday..what a great film! 10/10
I have watched three Haneke films by now and i like them all very much!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1149362/

yeah, I think Cache might be the best of all of his films, but White Ribbon is a pretty close second.

It got nominated for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Cinematography at the Oscars this morning.



Also, The Hurt Locker and Avatar lead the Oscars noms 9 to 9. Oscars has prepared for the greatest ex-husband and ex-wife showdown ever between Kathryn Bigelow and James Cameron (Inglourious Basterds is in 3rd place with 8). I'd like to see The Hurt Locker win all of them, but I wouldn't be incredibly disappointed by a Basterds best picture win either.

EDIT: and i might add that the whole 10 nomination is sort of a big joke, as The Blind Side has absolutely no chance of winning anything, except Sandra Bullock who will probably win for Best Actress. The only films that have a chance are the ones that were also nominated for Best Director. But I have to say hurrah for Clint Eastwood being shut out this year, and i'm so happy that Up was able to become the only film other than Beauty and The Beast to win a best picture nom.

[DanielBenoit]

Also, The Hurt Locker and Avatar lead the Oscars noms 9 to 9. Oscars has prepared for the greatest ex-husband and ex-wife showdown ever between Kathryn Bigelow and James Cameron (Inglourious Basterds is in 3rd place with 8). I'd like to see The Hurt Locker win all of them, but I wouldn't be incredibly disappointed by a Basterds best picture win either.

EDIT: and i might add that the whole 10 nomination is sort of a big joke, as The Blind Side has absolutely no chance of winning anything, except Sandra Bullock who will probably win for Best Actress. The only films that have a chance are the ones that were also nominated for Best Director. But I have to say hurrah for Clint Eastwood being shut out this year, and i'm so happy that Up was able to become the only film other than Beauty and The Beast to win a best picture nom.

Yeah I was thinking the same thing today as the nominations were announced. The 10 nominations thing is just a way for Hollywood to pat itself on the ***. Maybe I'm just saying this because of how mad I was because The Blind Side was nominated for best picture and not The White Ribbon. It's rather embarressing that in the year with a great film like Precious, there is a film with such superficial and old-fashioned views of African-Americans that the very fact that it's been nominated is insulting. I went to go see it with my family and I found it pitiful how my own dad was crying at some of the most superficial and corny parts, my God, can a movie get more manipulative? Idk, maybe people go for simplistic emotions and simplistic people and overused cliched lines like "I'm not changing his life, he's changing mine."

IMHO Where the Wild Things are was the best picture of the year, that said, I don't expect Oscar to give a children's film the award, especially one that was so controversial. But come on, that was a great film and should've been recognized in some way, maybe a screenplay nom or for special effects?

Either way, my vote is for The Hurt Locker, as well as for Katherine Bigelow winning the directing award (who is in fact James Cameron's ex-wife).

In the other catagories, I've heard enough good things about Jeff Bridges performance for him to win for Crazy Heart (though I certainly wouldn't mind seeing Jeremy Renner win for his manic and complex performance in The Hurt Locker). For best actor in a supporting role, it's Christopher Waltz hands down. Same goes for Mo'Nique for best supporting actress. I really want to see Gabourey Sibide or Carey Mulligan win for best actress, but it's almost a certainty that Hollywood is going to screw good movies over Sandra Bullock's star-role. As for cinematograhy, I must admit that despite that I loved The White Ribbon's visuals, The Hurt Lockers crisp-clean camera work and detail was just too good to ignore. Film editing is another obvious one to The Hurt Locker, the quick-paced editing which just further contributed to the film being a supremely skilled work of art. For foriegn language film, The White Ribbon gets it hands down. I really hope that Avatar doesn't win for score, because it was so unorginal that it was practically unrecognizable. I really liked a lot of the simple folkish music in The Fantastic Mr. Fox, so I'll go for that. As for best adapted screenplay, I've heard that In the Loop was quite clever. Inglorious Basterds is my hands-down choice for original screenplay. Any year with a Tarantino script is a good one.

[Janine]

I'm sad, no one every notices that I post about a film and no one ever comments. I am beginning to think I am living on Mars or I am invisible.

[manolia]

yeah, I think Cache might be the best of all of his films, but White Ribbon is a pretty close second.

It got nominated for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Cinematography at the Oscars this morning.



Also, The Hurt Locker and Avatar lead the Oscars noms 9 to 9. Oscars has prepared for the greatest ex-husband and ex-wife showdown ever between Kathryn Bigelow and James Cameron (Inglourious Basterds is in 3rd place with 8). I'd like to see The Hurt Locker win all of them, but I wouldn't be incredibly disappointed by a Basterds best picture win either.

EDIT: and i might add that the whole 10 nomination is sort of a big joke, as The Blind Side has absolutely no chance of winning anything, except Sandra Bullock who will probably win for Best Actress. The only films that have a chance are the ones that were also nominated for Best Director. But I have to say hurrah for Clint Eastwood being shut out this year, and i'm so happy that Up was able to become the only film other than Beauty and The Beast to win a best picture nom.

Hmmm i have yet to watch cache. I will soon, now you mention it.
I guess i should check Hurt Locker as well. I'll have to wait a bit more for the theater release.

It's really hard to believe that Bullock is nominated for an oscar. She is bad imo.

Last film i watched was "Death proof". I give it a 9/10.

[atiguhya padma]

Fish Tank 9/10

By the director of Red Road, another great film. Life in the grim reality of a London housing estate. Hopeless, heartless at times, but filled with a verve and spirit that overcomes the loss of opportunity, the abandonment of dreams.

[Shalot]

I'm sad, no one every notices that I post about a film and no one ever comments. I am beginning to think I am living on Mars or I am invisible.

I feel the same way about my posts in this thread. Although I think sprinks may have commented on the last thing I watched.

[wlz]

Paranormal Activity. The film comes off more like paranoid stupidity. Repetitve dialogue, visually tedious and dull, bad camera work, lack-lustre storyline - if we pretend that it had one. It takes something like 40 - 45 minutes before anything actually happens and when it does it is simply nothing - then more repetitive dialogue cuts in. There's only one good scene throughout the entire film: the final scene. It was hailed as the film which scared America????????????? Any response to this??????????? I tried getting in touch with the creator, Oren Peli, because I was so disgusted with the outcome of the film. I still want my money back, *******! I know what went on there... you were a bored young **** of man with too much money made from your other real career and very little imagination of what to do with your life to come so you decided to make a ****ing crap film with your girlfriend for a laugh... well I'm not laughing you bum!!!!!!!! How dare you produce such ****e...
Supposedly he learned how to edit or make films from information acquired through research on the internet. It took him a year. GO TO COLLEGE YOU CHUMP!!!!!! I'm not letting this drop...
It was the biggest scam of the year so far.


Paranormal Activity. Rating: - minus 40.