Best movie you've seen recently?

[Brian278]

Originally Posted by terminat

The director's cut version right? 'cos I agree, the cinema version was poor - the DC version was deemed to be too long (to be fair it is almost 3 hours) so they cut out some quite key scenes, making the story seem very weird and non-sequential. I can see why some people don't like it - Orlando Bloom's hardly a heavyweight actor (tho I thought he was much more impressive here than in Pirates of the Caribbean) and it does have a bit of dramatic licence. But clearly Scott was trying to make a masterpiece, and send a message out to the modern world at the same time. Even if he didn't succeed (its not the best film of all time admittedly) I still think he did a pretty gd job

And it does compare very favourably with other recent movies about the same period - with the exception of Braveheart, the rest have been poor (Milla Jovovich as Joan of Arc, need I say anymore lol?)
I did see the cinema version. And admittedly, I often have the sense when watching recent historical/fantasy epics that Peter Jackson raised the bar so high that it will be a few years before any of them are impressive to me again in the action department.

 

[Chadley]

Last night my Mom and I settled down and contentedly watched Fast Times at Ridgemonet High and The Nightmare Before Christmas, both of which I hadn't seen in a while and my Mom hadn't seen in a much longer time. I enjoyed the pair of movies a lot, but it was even better listening to my Mom enjoy the movies as if it was the first time she had seen them.

 

[matadorpoeta]

there is a movie out right now called 'la vie en rose'. it is the story of edith piaf and i highly recommend it to everyone. the story is great, and all the actors are good except for gerard depardieu.

 

[volta]

Originally Posted by Get Smart

Knocked Up was very good. some think it's better than 40 Year Old Virgin, others not. I don't think it's as good either, but it's still damn good and funny. Some great one liners....the "brokeback mountain" scene they cut out was really funny (it's on youtube somewhere).

Saw "The Host" (korean) on dvd...it was good, not as great as reviews claimed. It'd been touted as "the best monster movie ever made". eh, dunno about that. And I'd also read about its social commentary, which I didnt pick up in any way...and also read that you HAVE to see it on a theatre bigscreen....eh, it looked fine on a 55" flatscreen. maybe I just missed all the good subtleties that have given it rave reviews.

knocked up is really good. i think i might be one of the people who prefers it to the 40-year-old virgin. definitely a great movie

 

[Go Surface]

NOT "Hostel II" which I unfortunately just saw.

 

[gdl203]

Originally Posted by matadorpoeta

there is a movie out right now called 'la vie en rose'. it is the story of edith piaf and i highly recommend it to everyone. the story is great, and all the actors are good except for gerard depardieu.
I need to see this. On a separate note, I find it amusing when the US titles for foreign films are another foreign sentence, although not the original title...

The original French title is "La Môme" (the kid), which was Piaf's nickname. The US title is "La Vie en Rose"...

 

[JBZ]

Originally Posted by gdl203

On a separate note, I find it amusing when the US titles for foreign films are another foreign sentence, although not the original title...

The original French title is "La Môme" (the kid), which was Piaf's nickname. The US title is "La Vie en Rose"...

It's cause "La Môme" sounds weird, while "La Vie en Rose" sounds real purty. Some marketing expert undoubtedly got paid a lot of money for this.

 

[imageWIS]

Originally Posted by GoSurface

I saw Knocked Up last night. It was hilarious. Katherine Heigl was adorable. I'd go straight for her. But not really.

Jon.

 

[imageWIS]

Originally Posted by kennethpollock

Just saw Paul Verhoeven's ("Basic Instinct," "Starship Troopers," "Soldier of Orange," "Show Girls," etc.) "Black Book," my first experience with a Appreciation Holocaust film, starring the beautiful Leslie van Houten and her two ****.
Sort of "Show Girls" meets "Schindler's List." A real hoot.

Nice: a holocaust movie made by a Nazi.

Jon.

 

[Edward Appleby]

Originally Posted by imageWIS

Nice: a holocaust movie made by a Nazi.

Jon.

A Dutch Nazi?

 

[LanAltec]

Originally Posted by GoSurface

NOT "Hostel II" which I unfortunately just saw.

Why would you go see that? You lose a bet?

 

[Go Surface]

Originally Posted by LanAltec

Why would you go see that? You lose a bet?

The girls wanted to see it. It was either that or Nancy Drew.

 

[Tokyo Slim]

Originally Posted by Edward Appleby

A Dutch Nazi?


Jon likes to pretend that anyone who uses fascist imagery as a metaphor for the mistakes people make or the evils of the world is a Nazi. He doesn't understand (or doesn't care about) the difference between symbology and sympathy, and doesnt get the fact that you can make a movie ABOUT Nazi's without BEING a Nazi or LIKING Nazis. Verhoven just happened to grow up under the heel of the Nazi regime as a child and saw their atrocities first hand in Amsterdam, so the images are a part of the experiences that he taps to tell a narrative, just like any other filmmaker or writer does. Jon would just rather play the ignorantly outraged Jewish guy than to understand that Paul Verhoven has no love for fascism, as he's stated on numerous occasions.

George Lucas (Star Wars/Indiana Jones) , Bryan Singer (Apt Pupil/X-Men), Tony Kaye (American History X), Michael Curtiz (Casablanca), Stanley Kubrik (Dr. Strangelove), Spike Lee (Inside Man), Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy), Stephen Spielberg (Duh), Sam Mendes (American Beauty), and many others are also Nazis to some degree or another by Jon's standard. Oh, wait... Spielberg is Jewish. I guess he gets a free pass to use Nazi imagery in films.

But we've had this argument before. The fact that he just doesn't LIKE Verhoven's movies is enough in his mind to be able to freely call him a Nazi.

 

[terminat]

Urgh, saw Sunshine last night... nowhere near what I was expecting

Since it hasn't been released in the US I won't give away any spoilers... except to say that I went in after watching trailers that heavily marketed it as a slasher, thus I expected to see Event Horizon (I liked it even if others didn't) and instead saw what was basically The Core (which I hated.)

Apparantly they marketed it that way to appeal to teen audiences... while I don't absolutely love slashers, I'll take Event Horizon over Mission to Mars anyday.

 

[Tokyo Slim]

Originally Posted by terminat

Urgh, saw Sunshine last night... nowhere near what I was expecting

Since it hasn't been released in the US I won't give away any spoilers... except to say that I went in after watching trailers that heavily marketed it as a slasher, thus I expected to see Event Horizon (I liked it even if others didn't) and instead saw what was basically The Core (which I hated.)

Apparantly they marketed it that way to appeal to teen audiences... while I don't absolutely love slashers, I'll take Event Horizon over Mission to Mars anyday.

Isn't that the new Danny Boyle movie? From everything I've ever read on it, it sounds like The Core/Armageddon - but without as annoying a cast, and actually directed by someone half capable. Did it really suck, or was it just not what you expected?