What Was The Last Movie You Watched

[standardman]

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Given what I'd heard, I went into this expecting Forrest Gump 2 and, while that's a little harsh, there certainly are similarities.

Technically, it is - in every aspect - a marvel. However, it's not the meaningful of profound work that it holds itself up to be. If we take it as a story about age or time or how the macrocosm effects the microcosm, it's not successful.

The characters are just there while things happen around them. It's like watching a scene of someone driving a car in an older movie - sure the background is moving and the driver is rotating the wheel - but you still know that it's just a projection and that they're being jiggled about by a stage hand.

I realise I sound harsh here but I liked it fine and watched it as a love story set around someone with a condition, rather than a movie about larger themes.

I will say this though, the sequences with the clock make a really nice short film that deals with those themes in exactly the way that the film as a whole does not.

[Lord of the Cock Rings]

Originally Posted by standardman

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

[Insightful review.]

I agree 10,000% I was hoping for some kind of a profound statement about the nature of life, magnified by observing a life in reverse. I was disappointed.

Ghost Town-- I was completely prepared to hate this movie based on some of the reviews I read but wanted to see it because, ya kno, it's Ricky Gervais.

I really liked it though. Good job of keeping comedy in a rom-com and throwing some twists in the plot that weren't completely transparent and predictable.


[edit] I don't understand why ghosts can walk thru doors and walls effortlessly but can plop down in a chair.....

[LabMonkey]

Just watched Amelie. Loved it.

[iheartnihilism]

Originally Posted by Cretaceous Bob

I don't even know what Thirteen is, but she's that crazy bitch that was fucking Marilyn Manson? Man, I have a ton of pop culture I've absorbed without actually putting a name to a face. Welp, she may be nutters magoo, but she's damn fine at acting.

[Cretaceous Bob]

Originally Posted by iheartnihilism

Oh god. No wonder I never heard of that.

Originally Posted by Peet

FINE AT ACTING?????? ok..... but then... William Shatner is realllllllyyyyyyy goooooooooooooood

Whatever dude, I thought she did a good job with that role.

[roxymodest]

Originally Posted by Lord of the Cock Rings

Ghost Town-- I was completely prepared to hate this movie based on some of the reviews I read but wanted to see it because, ya kno, it's Ricky Gervais.

I really liked it though. Good job of keeping comedy in a rom-com and throwing some twists in the plot that weren't completely transparent and predictable.


[edit] I don't understand why ghosts can walk thru doors and walls effortlessly but can plop down in a chair.....

i also had my doubts about this movie...but you cannot deny the power of ricky gervais so but i'm glad i did cos i loved this movie! tea leoni's not that bad and i love dr. paschar, cos of the whole indian/english complexity between him and ricky gervais...
[edit] why did people keep sneezing when walking into ghosts? does that mean whenever we sneeze we are walking through ghosts? not.

[Sheepy]

Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind (2004)

I adore this movie. It's very creative and has a very nice love story in it as well. This definitely makes it onto my top 10 list I think.

[pinoy0004]

The Strangers - Now I don't normally look for and point out continuity errors like Keith does, but there's this one part of the movie where Liv Tyler hurts her ankle and can barely walk (shes crawling for a good 10 minutes), then five minutes later she's walking fine like nothing ever happened, and shortly after, she's limping around again. How could the editors miss that? It distracted me from the rest of the movie.
Besides that, the movie wasn't too bad.

[iheartnihilism]

hrm.. i know i replied to this last night.. am i too drunk to see it?

I watched reign of fire = good time waster. (cristian bale, gerard butler and dragons, how could they fuck that up?!)
and Idlewild = boo. I've seen better blacks-during-the-prohibition-jazz movies before. I think what irked me more was that knowing it was a musical of sorts, big boi's raps were so fucking out of place it really took away from what was already a cliched flimsy plot. It could have been so damn good and instead was crappy. sigh.

[dzagama]

Originally Posted by Sheepy

Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind (2004)

I adore this movie. It's very creative and has a very nice love story in it as well. This definitely makes it onto my top 10 list I think.

Anyone seen Synecdoche, New York? I can't find it on the tubes.

EDIT: FOUND!