What Was The Last Movie You Watched

[standardman]

Originally Posted by EastTexas

The Box

Is Cameron Diaz hot? I've never found her attractive in an aesthetic or sexual way. I digress... we all know the pitch in the trailer, you get a box, if you push the button inside someone you don't know dies and you get $1M. Oooo moral dilemma. I'm with you so far, after that point the story gets so weird and confusing I don't really know what the fuck it was about. I give this one a C-

She used to be hot but dumb like bricks, now she's just dumb like bricks.

[MalcolmSmith]

Originally Posted by madeyeshawn

I heard alot of people criticize the "Action set piece" third act. And as a movie goer myself I don't require action set pieces and typically dont enjoy them. For D9 I found myself wanting the tone to change, I wanted ass kicking revenge and they gave it to me at the perfect time. Then wrapped it up with a simple symbolic touching moment at the end. I'm not really a scifi fan, or to be honest im not a fan of any specific genre. This movie just worked for me, and I was genuinely surprised at how much I enjoyed this film.

Malcom, Is your complaint genre based or was it a fundamental story issue? I'm asking in curiosity just to understand what so many people didn't like about this movie.

The only thing I didn't like about D9 was the gratuitous Voodoo visuals. That shit should have found the editing trash bin. Along with some torture scenes that lasted a few beats too long.

I like Sci Fi. I did not like District 9. I did watch the whole thing. Fortunately, I was unable to dump it from my brain. Unfortunately, I will not watch it again in order to tell you what's wrong with it. You'll just have to trust me on this. It was bad.

[fluxquanta]

Originally Posted by standardman

He plays the same character in 90% of them.

Well, let's see: watch a guy play the same character 90% of the time, a character I like, or watch a guy try and most likely fail at playing all sorts of characters, and probably not enjoy it.

I'll stick with the former, at least until I'm done.

[standardman]

I'd rather watch an actor act.

[DudeEMETIB]

Finished season 7 of the X-Files.
I was a bit upset that they didn't really develop much of the alien-related story line, almost every episode was a "monster-of-the-week" style episode, and a lot seemed like the directors were trying out new things for fun...
it was still a great season, I'm just more interested in what goes on with the aliens, the cigarette smoking man, Mulder and Scully, Mulder's sister...etc.

[madeyeshawn]

Originally Posted by MalcolmSmith

I like Sci Fi. I did not like District 9. I did watch the whole thing. Fortunately, I was unable to dump it from my brain. Unfortunately, I will not watch it again in order to tell you what's wrong with it. You'll just have to trust me on this. It was bad.

I plan to watch it again, and although it is common for me to completely change my opinion upon a second viewing (recently happened with the new StarTrek [love-hate], and with The fantastic mr fox [hate-love]) I would be surprised if I changed my opinion on D9.

[Dominic]

I watched Book of Eli a couple of nights ago. Not bad, as far as post-apocalyptic films go. I'm going to have to watch it again, though, to see if the rest of the film plays nice with that final revelation.
I think I was most impressed with Mila Kunis in this one. Her 70's Show/Family Guy voice makes me want to punch someone, but she did OK in this role and managed to talk without sounding like a ferret being dragged across a cheese grater.
Of course, it says something for KATG that I was keeping a close eye on Denzel for that "repeating lines" behavior that Keith likes to parody. I didn't catch it in this one.
Oh....and it has Tom Frickin' Waits in it, which, in a film like this, is kind of like having Moses do a guest spot at your bar mitzvah.

[spooky]

Originally Posted by DudeEMETIB

Finished season 7 of the X-Files.
I was a bit upset that they didn't really develop much of the alien-related story line, almost every episode was a "monster-of-the-week" style episode, and a lot seemed like the directors were trying out new things for fun...
it was still a great season, I'm just more interested in what goes on with the aliens, the cigarette smoking man, Mulder and Scully, Mulder's sister...etc.

It's all downhill from there, sadly.

The episode, "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" is my all time fav followed closely by "Humbug". I was impressed with the widescreen ghost ship episode that came out after the first movie, "Triangle". There are some other gems, but those three are my high water marks.

"There are worse ways to go, but I can't think of a more undignified one than auto-erotic asphyxiation." I miss Peter Boyle.

[freeloader1]

Watched Jason X last night, and thought it was really fun and did the series justice, really loved the ending!

[fluxquanta]

Originally Posted by standardman

I'd rather watch an actor act.

Glad I'm not you, then.