Last Film You've Seen

[Umatbru]

Last film I watched was transformers when it came on Channel 10, gave up after 45 minutes due to too many commercials.

Last film I watched in full was The Shawshank Redemption in class as part of my english curriculum, but you wouldn't care unless you were a Jay Sherman-esque snob.

Can I post more than one film? Okay then.

Driven was a film about CART (Later Champcar, Now Defunct) racing drivers starring Silvester Stallone (Rocky from, well, rocky). The Film was panned for its unrealistic crashes, any one of which could easily be a metaphor for Final Fantasy VII.

Meanwhile, Josie and the Pussiecats was a film based on the Hanna-Barbera Cartoon of the same name starring Rachael Leigh Cook (Tifa from the film whose name shall not be mentioned), Tara Reid (April from Sharknado) and Rosario Dawson (Ruby from Kids). The band is re-imagined as a trendy start-of-the-millennium pop-rock band who are signed to MegaRecords, who are conspiring with the United States government and are adding subliminal messages under the music to get teens to buy their records and follow "a new trend every week". The Government's motive is to help build a robust economy from the "wads of cash" teenagers supposedly earn from babysitting and minimum wage jobs. Any similarities with shinra?

Also this is the movie I just saw.




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Wikipedia article please?

 

[Airling]

The Government's motive is to help build a robust economy from the "wads of cash" teenagers supposedly earn from babysitting and minimum wage jobs. Any similarities with shinra?

 

[Umatbru]

Well, they are both evil corporations.

 

[Cthulhu]

I wanted to watch Interstellar at the new cinema in town, but it had just opened and had a big discount and shit going on, so when I got there there were only 5 free seats left and I was like "nvm", .

Then I went home and was like eh whatever and watched that new Transformers movie. Story? What story? . I saw a fuckton of Murcan flags, some humans running away, some poorly executed Steve Jobs duhard, and disregarded it all because robots. The CGI is still impressive as fuck, IMO, and I'd like to know how all that is made - probably with a lot of toiling by underpaid employees in a sweatshop.

 

[Carlie]

You should've watched Interstellar then, even with the 5 seats left.

 

[Abortedj]

Just watched "The Lego Movie". I liked it. It was good, and not just for a kids movie.

 

[Animexcel]

Watched Dumb and Dumber To earlier today. It was a fun time. I didn't expect it to be better than the original. It was the kind of sequel similar to Ghostbusters II where it echoes the first story with a few new things in it. If you do watch it, stay til the end of the credits

 

[Ⓐaron]

The Grapes of Wrath

A classic, obviously.

 

[Cthulhu]

That latest DBZ movie. It's pretty shit actually, not really a movie but a rushed / short kind of episode 1 deal. Or, about the first ten episodes out of a hundred of a DBZ season, . I wouldn't recommend it, TBH.

 

[Jeanette]

Juan of the Dead its like a Cuban version of Shaun of the Dead. It was such a funny movie. I speak Spanish so I understood the jokes better. xD

 

[Ghost X]

Big Hero 6

I'm so glad this film lived up to the trailers. Had a few things that bothered me, but only because I felt like being a nit picky bastard. 4.5/5 stars.

 

[Atticus]

^big hero 6 is epic.

My wife dragged me to 'Into the woods', I wasn't too enthusiastic about watching a musical but I have to say, it was quite a well put together production.

 

[Ⓐaron]

Films recently watched (probably not a complete list):

Nebraska. This was superb. It also makes me never want to live in flyover country. Florida may suck but at least it's not Nebraska.

From Russia with Love. Not much to say about this one that hasn't been said before; it's a bit dated and definitely a product of its time but it's still a classic.

Goldfinger. Also a classic, obviously.

Diamonds Are Forever. This one hasn't aged so well. However, it does have some of the most iconic villains in the series.

Oblivion. Don't really understand the hate this received in some quarters; sure, it's not the most original thing ever but it's fun and even thought-provoking in parts, and well acted/directed/etc. Plus it had a cool soundtrack.

Interstellar. The hype is justified.

The Imitation Game. Alongside Interstellar, this is probably the best film I've seen released this year. What the British government did to Alan Turing was shameful.

 

[Ⓐaron]

Skyfall and Casino Royale were just as good as I remembered them. Want to see Quantum of Solace again but nowhere is playing it and it's not on Prime/Netflix/HBO Go.

Also saw Wild today, which was probably about an 8/10. I'm trying to put my thoughts about it into words and failing.

 

[Cthulhu]

Want to see Quantum of Solace again but nowhere is playing it and it's not on Prime/Netflix/HBO Go.

Piracy is always an option, . And cheaper than having three VOD subscriptions.

 

[Ami]

Went to see the latest Night at the Museum yesterday. Haven't seen any of them before, but I liked it.

Spoiler: I loved

Hugh Jackman showing up and Lancelot (Dan Stevens) calling him Huge Ackman. Such a funny surprise! Also, as usual, I loved Rebel Wilson.

I'd give it 7.5/10 stars, not a bad film.

 

[Ghost X]

Predestination

A very interesting Australian film, which had some good reviews at film festivals.One review for it states something like "An intelligent film, rare in these times", and I agree. Pacing seems slow in the beginning, but I think the last two thirds justifies it. I'd give it a 4/5 stars.

 

[Ⓐaron]

Piracy is always an option, . And cheaper than having three VOD subscriptions.

This is true and tempting, but I don't have much disk space right now Anyway I'm not paying for the VOD so I don't care about that too much

 

[Umatbru]

Bad boys, Directed by Michael bay on his directorial debut. Not a lot of explosions though because this film has a smaller budget than The Shawshank Redemption. AND THAT FILM COST 25 MILLION DOLLARS!

 

[Ghost X]

Left Behind

I decided to punish myself by watching this film. The makers of which did not receive a cent from me in the process . As bad as all the reviews say. 0/5 stars

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

I wanted to see "Fight Club", because I've heard so many good things about it. The clincher was when a student wrote a paper on the film and I couldn't properly comment because I hadn't seen it. So I went to the second-hand DVD store and bought it.

To say I was disappointed would be an understatement.

The first part was interesting, where

Spoiler

narrator becomes addicted to hanging out at terminal illness group therapy sessions so that he can feel something, cry and then sleep

. Helen Bonham Carter also started off interesting, but then

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degenerated into the once-quirky and feisty girlfriend tamed by awesome sex

. I can't put my finger on where the film went wrong; I think, for me, it was after the fight clubs started to become popular. I almost certainly didn't appreciate this film to its fullest because I got so bored I kept falling asleep, but for me the second half of the film seemed to be nothing but a lot of violence pretending to be meaningful, and some cod-Nietzchean soundbites. It's like the film was written to be quotable. Maybe that was the purpose of Brad Pitt's character; I don't know. I lost interest and didn't care what happened to any of them, although I feel Helen B-C's character could have done better for herself.

I see Roger Ebert agreed with me.

 

[X-SOLDIER]

I almost certainly didn't appreciate this film to its fullest because I got so bored I kept falling asleep, but for me the second half of the film seemed to be nothing but a lot of violence pretending to be meaningful, and some cod-Nietzchean soundbites.

I think that falling asleep during the second part means that you're missing more of the little bouts of weirdness, and the fact that it's supposed to be just what you seem to have criticized it for essentially.

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The violence starts out in the beginning as something that has an intense and specific intent, but gets very self-obsessive and bloats into this strange monstrosity of pseudo-importance that winds very quickly out of control because they place so much cult-like importance upon it. I think that the most interesting part about all of it is how it takes the idea of a truly interesting subversive movement that's against the things many people dislike about modern society, but ramp it into full-blown extremism, and show just how empty and crazy it all really is in the end.

Another obvious reason behind people liking Fight Club is watching and then re-watching to catch the metric shitton of subtleties about Tyler that are hidden in plain sight all over the place in really clever ways.

@Topic: Recently rewatched Evangelion 1.11 & watched FMA: Brotherhood - The Sacred Star of Milos, and quite enjoyed the both of them.




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[Novus]

Haven't seen Fight Club in about ten years. It might be of its time.

 

[Super Mario]

The Interview. Not bad, it's just not worth the hype.

Star Wars Episode 4 and 5, arguably my most favourite stories of the Star Wars universe.

 

[Airling]

My in-laws showed us Transcendence. It was pretty interesting

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All along, I was pretty sure it wasn't really, essentially Will but an independent intelligence that grew off the foundation set by Will's knowledge etc. So the end quite surprised me.

. B and I kept referring to Max as Chaucer.