What was the last movie you watched?

Kingsman: The Secret Service with the girlfriend. Absolutely brilliant movie.

The last film I watched was the original Die Hard. Best Christmas film ever. Solid plot, believable characters and good pacing.

Watched two movies with a friend tonight:

• Vice-Versa (1948): An “ancient” Indian artifact (with a label “Made in Sheffield” on the bottom) allows a Victorian-era father (Roger Livesey) and son (an impossibly young Anthony Newley, before his voice changed) to switch places, allowing the father to see how miserable his son is at his boarding school. James Robertson Justice as the dictatorial headmaster very nearly steals the show. Unlike later movies of this type which try to stuff morals and messages down your throat, director/scriptwriter Peter Ustinov goes after the comic potential of the situation. Both leads do a great job, it also features an early appearance by a teenaged Petula Clark.
• Dünyayı kurtaran adam (1982): A.k.a.: The Man Who Saves the World. A.k.a.: Turkish Star Wars. As near as I can tell (there were no subtitles), this film is about two astronauts who land on a desert planet with lots of Egyptian, Christian and Muslim iconography in the ruins, go up against an evil man who looks like Rasputin wearing an empty box of Quaker Oats on his head and battle his army of carpet monsters using cardboard swords, trampolines and clumsy amateur kung-fu. Notorious for stealing a lot of footage from Star Wars and music from Raiders of the Lost Ark, Flash Gordon, The Black Hole and others. Silly but fun.

Dragon Ball Z Battle Of Gods - A fun movie for preteen males. Featuring a 31 year old woman being courted by a 9 year old, a pregnent woman being shot, and women getting slapped around.

edited 5th Mar '15 8:25:22 AM by SilentlyHonest

And a lot butthurt fans.

Big Eyes. Wonderful movie, but I do wonder if this is 100% true. Still, very nicely done. Weird to see so many bright colors with Burton, of all people.

Duck Tales The Movie Treasure Of The Lost Lamp: A really fun movie, that feels like an expanded episode of the TV series. Sure, the plot is a bit straightforward, and the villain is somewhat generic, but the more epic scope, great performances by everyone, and some clever writing (Obligatory Joke it may have been, but I still laughed at the "crash course" line) and a good time was had by all.

edited 6th Mar '15 6:15:02 AM by DrFurball

Big Hero 6. I enjoyed it. For me one of the more interesting aspects is it sort of pulls a Frozen with its villain: The sleazy, profit-motivated guy we meet early in the film isn't the bad guy... The seemingly benevolent guy who we meet right about the same time is. And now I've just realized that on top of that, Alistair Krei and The Duke Of Weselton are voiced by the same guy.

edited 28th Mar '15 5:01:15 PM by MikeK

John Wick. I liked it a lot. It's probably my fav revenge flick since the Kill Bill films. I had no idea that Eva Longoria was one of the producers of John Wick. Damn, girl.

Big Hero 6 was a good movie. It was also the last movie that I watched, although due to time issues, I was unable to see the end, but I was able to see The Reveal, at least. Pretty unique in a way that it's not the usual Disney movie, with Disney taking its adaptations even further.

Thanks to online research, that DuckTales movie borrowed aspects from the original Aladdin fairytale. And the movie came out two years before the fairytale as a whole got the Disney theatrical film treatment.

So I've been writing my Trollslayer thrash metal novel trilogy, and as the title suggests, it's about internet trolls and the musical stylings of Tom Araya and Jeff Hanneman are frequently referenced. Main character is Ichi Tanizaki: Grandson Of The SS, born of both sides of the Axis (Heinrich Himmler related on his German father's side, Japanese Imperialist general on his Japanese mother's) who's the only one who can stop a creepypasta curse that's been offing internet trolls who make rape and death threats online. I swear I wrote this before GG, even though it fits this premise like a glove. The reason I bring this up is, in order to avoid being haunted by the angry ghosts of Holocaust survivors like how Oscar Wilde's ghost laughed at me in my night terrors for writing fan-fic implying he'd support gay marriage, I've been very cautious with my research so Anne Frank doesn't do a drive-by shaming when the Sandman comes. As a result, I've had two films awaiting my viewing for some time, Schindler's List, and City Of Life And Death, both are black and white, bleak historical dramas which feature the sorta war criminals my MC is related to. And I wasn't expecting Schindler's List to be this... non-smaltzy. I felt so bad about actually having parents at all, that I immediately fetched the pepper shaker on command if only to stop those sad violins being stuck in my head. From what I saw in this movie, I'm not doing anything too offensive that'd provoke angry undead in my dreams, but at the same time I was floored by how brain-shakingly good it was, like there was legitimate art in the cinema. I wasn't jealous of Spielberg's craft as much as relieved his Holocaust drama doesn't have any rape in it, unlike City Of Life And Death, which definitely does. Schindler's List finally helped me understand why critics were divided over The Book Thief movie adaptation, cause that's one hell of a List to compete with. Also, isn't it odd that both Schindler's List and The Book Thief were based on Australian novels? What is it with Australia being a fertile environment that spawns Holocaust drama novels? Gonna watch City Of Life and Death soon enough, pray for me.

Snowpiercer

I can pretty much only describe it as Bioshock in a modern ice age.

edited 11th Mar '15 10:22:15 PM by strawberryflavored

A few in the past few days:

Friday the 13th Part III. I still haven't seen the whole series, but this is one of the more So Bad, It's Good entries, mostly due to overly pointless, gratuitous use of the 3D gimmick - it's full of things like the Harbinger of Impending Doom-ish character holding an eyeball up to the camera, or one of the teens holding a baseball bat towards the camera for no reason whatsoever.

Gone Girl: I think this did it's job of keeping suspense going, and if nothing else, it had some decent points to make about media sensationalism. On the other hand, I do see the Unfortunate Implications of the Shocking Swerve: Mainly, well, It's a movie where a woman fakes her own rape for the sake of getting revenge and attention, which is something some people think is much more common in real life than it really is.

Cabaret. I've liked a few, but I'm still a bit skeptical about movie musicals... But on the other hand, the film version is supposed to be a classic in general and happened to be on display at the local library. I did come away liking it - I think it helped me as a musical neophyte that the film version focuses more on the story than the songs, and in fact cuts almost every song not performed at the Kit Kat Club, so all the musical numbers are done in a situation where they would realistically occur.

Punisher: War Zone (2008)

Maleficent. It was OK. Angelina was great in it, and there were many beautiful CGI effects (maybe a bit too much CGI), but I thought that the storytelling was a bit lazy. The narrator whose identity you actually learn at the end does a lot of "tell, don't show" work for the script. Also, Stephan was evil but the film didn't bother to explain why he fell so far. That annoyed me. He, like Maeficent, claimed that true love wasn't real, but why??

edited 27th Mar '15 8:59:42 PM by BearyScary

I saw two films today, one a quite charming Disney vehicle for Elliot Gould called "The Last Flight of Noah's Ark", and the other the classic war movie, "Tora! Tora! Tora!"

edited 28th Mar '15 11:29:05 AM by TamH70

Big Hero 6 again. 14th time, I think. I keep running into people who want to see it and watching with them.

Honeymoon. Not quite the scariest, but pretty interesting for taking the Puppeteer Parasite trope in a different direction than usual: See, usually the idea is that the main character or characters are trying to evade an ever-growing horde of pod people... But instead, there's a Minimalist Cast consisting of two couples, so instead of fascism or conformity, the subtext is finding out the person you love is not who you think they are.

Office Space, which is really good because of how real the movie presents itself and how easy it is to identify with it.

I mean, I didn't really sit down to watch it as much as it was in the background, but it's still one of my favourites and I do enjoy it whenever it's on.

Legend Of The Millennium Dragon.

Boring. Just that. Boring. There was little movement, the plot make no sense, there is no charisma.

Just a boring animated movie.

I'm currently halfway through(ish) watching Doctor Strangelove, or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb. I would have watched the whole lot but I have the special edition dvd, and that had a really good making-of documentary on it, which I watched last night.

Kingsman: The Secret Service, the whimsical spy movie you've always wished for, but never got until now.

Interstellar. I had kind of been avoiding it because of all the hype, but now I really wish I had seen it in the theater.

Up. Why did the first act have to be so depressing? The bit with the gynecologist hit me right in the Adult Fear.

Werewolf: The Beast Among Us - a cheesy, slightly steampunk schlock film, where the protagonist is a cowboy, one of his buddies rides a horse with a pair of wheels in place of its hind legs, another one of his buddies uses a silver vampire grill as a weapon, yet another one is secretly a vampire and the extras are apparently genuine Romanian villagers as the movie was shot in Romania.

Ouija. This was okay - pretty tame, and not too original, but some decent scares and a plot that doesn't have to make it's characters act dumb to work. At very least better than you would think a PG-13 horror movie based on a board game would be.

Before that, Empire Records. Because yesterday was officially Rex Manning day. I still enjoy this, but I'm pretty sure 90% of my enjoyment is pure 90's nostalgia.

edited 9th Apr '15 11:03:34 PM by MikeK

I just watched Divergent and just now rewatched The Secret Garden.