What was the last movie you watched?
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equinox
Hall of Fame
Haven't seen Battlefield Earth, but I've heard reviews. Is it really that bad?
Only Plan 9 from outerspace surpasses in scifi awfulness.
Battlefield Earth is new generations Plan 9.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space
dak95_00
Hall of Fame
Source Code
= very, very good! I watch a lot of movies and this was very, very good. It was probably the best movie I've seen in the past year. It might not have the best cinematography, acting, etc. but the story is great and easily makes up for it. This movie was entertaining.
= very, very good! I watch a lot of movies and this was very, very good. It was probably the best movie I've seen in the past year. It might not have the best cinematography, acting, etc. but the story is great and easily makes up for it. This movie was entertaining.
jamesblakefan#1
G.O.A.T.
Just finished Rush Hour 3 and am writing a paper on the social inequalities demonstrated in it for my sociology class.
rainingaces
Legend
Don't forget to mention Rush hour 3 had nobody under 5,9 except for Jackie Chan staring in it and it had a cameo for the worlds tallest man.
Bobby Jr
G.O.A.T.
I'm with you on the first two but The Green Hornet was an unmitigated steaming pile of crap. They could not have made that film worse if they tried and they clearly tried really hard.
If you're into that rough genre a far better film is Watchmen.
jamesblakefan#1
G.O.A.T.
"The Social Network". Boring at times, but the ending was nice. Zuckerberg's a dovchebag.
subz
Rookie
Liked Watchman. I think Green Hornet is a good movie if you are just looking for fun and things to explode
tennismonkey
Semi-Pro
your highness. natalie portman, danny mcbride, james franco.
rottentomatoes gave it a 25% approval rating. i liked it -- a couple of really good laughs and overall enjoyable.
rottentomatoes gave it a 25% approval rating. i liked it -- a couple of really good laughs and overall enjoyable.
AA winner of best foreign film last year: The Secret in Their Eyes
CanadianChic
Hall of Fame
The Fighter.
forthegame
Hall of Fame
The King's Speech - 1st time I enjoyed an Oscar-winning movie.
Haven't seen Battlefield Earth, but I've heard reviews. Is it really that bad?
It's no Shawshank Redemption. Or maybe it is... I haven't seen it.
You mean the actual person, or the character based on him as portrayed in the film?
You must not have seen all that many. Some are excellent. For every boring "Gandhi" type feel good (aka, the King's Speech) there's a "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest".
jamesblakefan#1
G.O.A.T.
The portrayal made it seem like he screwed Saverin over - at least as much as you can be screwed over and still be a billionaire like Saverin is.
I don't really know any of the real story myself, having not followed these issues.
JustBob
Hall of Fame
I tend to hate remakes of foreign films with a passion but "Let Me In" was actually quite good, albeit unnecessary. Of course, if you listen to the "making of" on the Blu-ray disc, you'll never know you just watched a remake because the director keeps talking about how great the book was, that he even wrote the author, etc... and yet he never mentions the Swedish film ("Let the Right One In") when his film is almost identical...
The_Question
Hall of Fame
Formosa Betrayed...
Really?! How many have you seen? Here's just a couple I can think of that were excellent oscar winning movies. Maybe you should check them out:
The Godfather
The GodfatherII
Amadeus
Platoon
Driving Miss Daisy
Silence of the Lambs
Unforgiven
Schindler's List
Braveheart
Gladiator
A Beautiful Mind
LOTR: The Return of the King
Slumdog Millionare
The Hurt Locker
The Kings Speech
Give these movies a chance, you might be surprised.
ollinger
G.O.A.T.
I'll add Cuckoo's Nest to pmata's excellent list. Two of the three films to win the big 5 awards (actor, actress, director, film, screenplay) concerned psychiatry -- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Silence of the Lambs. (The other was It Happened One Night, with Clark Gable). Regrettably, the psychiatrists depicted were either sadists or cannibals, or both.
You picked up some of the lesser oscar winners, my friend. I wouldn't watch most of those movies again. A lot better choices than those.
Now we're talking. Possibly the greatest movie of all time.
I don't recall that, and I've seen the film at least a dozen times since first seeing it in a theater on Central Avenue in Yonkers, NY in 1976 as a 13 year old, walking out into the parking lot afterwards, and thinking "Wow. That was the best movie I've ever seen", a statement that pretty much still stands. Some of procedures done to the lead character may not have been fun, yes, but the real villains were the lesser staffers, nurse Ratched specifically. The hospital administrator seemed a good enough fella, nor did we meet any Dr. Evil type characters.
Please share, I'm always interested in watching a good movie
I tried to pick oscar winners that also had commercial appeal so that "forthegame" might have a better chance of enjoying the film.
"Manhunter" is an exact remake of an episode of Miami Vice.
It's purely coincidental that both were directed by Michael Mann
Please share, I'm always interested in watching a good movie
I tried to pick oscar winners that also had commercial appeal so that "forthegame" might have a better chance of enjoying the film.
Well, okay. Going backwards in time, here are several winners I'd rather watch then most of the films on your list:
2005 - "Crash"
1983 - "Terms of Endearment"
1980 - "Ordinary People"
1978 - "The Deer Hunter"
1977 - "Annie Hall"
1975 - "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest"
1969 - "Midnight Cowboy" - Number 1 choice besides 'Cuckoo's Nest'!
1965 - "The Sound of Music"
1961 - "West Side Story"
1954 - "On the Waterfront"
1950 - "All About Eve"
1946 - "The Best Years of Our Lives"
1945 - "The Lost Weekend"
1939 - "Gone with the Wind"
Koona t'chuta, Solo?
CyBorg
Legend
I can't figure out why people like this. It felt like something out of the BBC vault to me. Just with more big name actors.
There are some charming moments, but some really cloying ones too (the dumb humour with the wife finding out about the king).
The redemption tale is all too familiar. I got a big kick recently from reading an article that compared the plot of this to the Karate Kid.
The one thing that is good about this film is that it avoided the all-too-typical stereotype of the stuttering, mindless buffoon that we see so much in films. It's nice to see a sympathetic portrayal of someone with an underrated affliction.
I guffawed when the director of this won the oscar. He directs mediocre miniseries for tv.
JohnnyCracker
Semi-Pro
Crash? :lol: That's on my list of worst movies ever. Preachy, horrible over acting, outrageous coincidences, lame plot. Ludacris -- enough said.
What's the movie about? Prejudice. If you don't get it after the 500th times, don't worry, the director made sure you'd get it at the end where he spelled it out in big bold fonts for you. Ghetto car-jacking gangsters by night, heroic sweat-shop-slaves saviors by day. Give me a fkn break. :lol:
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Angle Queen
Professional
A Few Good Men
For the upteenth time. Guess I can handle the truth.
For the upteenth time. Guess I can handle the truth.
chrischris
G.O.A.T.
Gasland. Interesting movie.
