What Is The Last Movie You Saw?

[SuitedAces21 2,723]

saw the dark knight rises. very good movie. bane was the tits. i'll wait until later for all my thoughts.

[BigDMcGee 3,353]

We're all on pins and needles, believe me.

[SuitedAces21 2,723]

HEY BUDDY ALWAYS KEEP EM WAITING THATS MY THING.

[GWCGWC 83]

Come on, there's plot holes everywhere throughout the trilogy. It's ****ing Batman and all three movies are awesome so who cares? It's ****ing Batman.....BATMAN!!!!

[SuitedAces21 2,723]

[ShakeZuma 585]

like crazy. now number two right behind blue valentine as the movie that made me feel the absolute worst. jesus.

[JubilantLankyLad 1,957]

Just watched Blue Valentine last night. Holy crap, surprised I didn't off myself afterwards.

[brvheart 1,755]

"The film did $64.1 million, bringing the final chapter's 10-day haul to $289.1million, according to studio estimates from Hollywood.com.While the haul is sizable, analysts say the movie is unlikely to come near the grosses of 2008's The Dark Knight, which did $533 million."

[frautotenkinder 1,025]

Lawrence of Arabia and Dark Knight RisesI've seen Lawrence before, always on the big screen, and when I see it's presented somewhere, I make every effort to go see it. I think it might be my favorite movie of all time, and definitely my favorite blockbuster. This is the movie that made me start to switch from written word to visual medium. I had no idea the script was going to be as complex as it was.It was part of the 70mm fest the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences is currently putting on, so there was a special print, and a little bit of technical restoration talk. I have no doubt that I saw the finest version of LoA currently available. My issue was the dark registers--the blacks looked crushed, which is noticeable in the sequences where Lawrence crosses the desert at night.The next day I saw Dark Knight Rises, and was struck by how many similar themes there are between the two. There are themes of terrorism versus freedom fighters, what justice is, and what the protagonist is willing to sacrifice to attain his moral ideal. Also, both protagonists profess to want a peaceful world, but both are continually surrounded by violence. As a script I didn't think it moved well. I wasn't convinced I (as a first time viewer) understood what was happening and why. There were a bunch of action sequences all the characters on the screen seemed to agree were crucial, but if the movie was suddenly stopped, and I was asked to explain the plot so far, I would not have been able to do it. [My bench mark for a action/adventure movie that totally succeeds at that question is Raiders of the Lost Arc.]Maybe I'll check it out again, in IMAX--I've heard the fight scenes are expanded (wider shots, not longer sequences) and the whole kit and caboodle is worth the extra cash.Did anyone else see the Rocky III similarities?

The back of Bane looks like Mr. T, the pit fight, and the statue at the end. It can't be a coincidence, right?

[frautotenkinder 1,025]

Films (in order of appearance, with cinematographer in parenthesis):Man with a Movie Camera (Mikhail Kaufman),The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Roger Deakins),Baraka (Ron Fricke),Koyaanisqatsi (Ron Fricke),Days of Heaven (Nestor Almendros),Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams (Takao Saito, Shoji Ueda),What Dreams May Come (Eduardo Serra),Legends of the Fall (John Toll),Lawrence of Arabia (Freddie Young),El Topo (Rafael Corkidi),La Dolce Vita (Otello Martelli),The Tree of Life (Emmanuel Lubezki),Daughters of the Dust (Arthur Jafa),Chinatown (John A. Alonzo),Hero (Christopher Doyle),Kagemusha (Takao Saito, Shoji Ueda),The Night of the Hunter (Stanley Cortez),Ugetsu (Kazuo Miyagawa),Songs from the Second Floor (Istvan Borbas, Jesper Klevenas, Robert Komarek),The Black Stallion (Caleb Deschanel),Vertigo (Robert Burks),Manhattan (Gordon Willis),Apocalypse Now (Vittorio Storaro),Lovers of the Arctic Circle (Gonzalo F. Berridi),The Duellists (Frank Tidy),Powaqqatsi(Graham Berry, Leonidas Zourdoumis),Ran (Asakazu Nakai, Takao Saito, Shoji Ueda),Bombay Beach (Alma Har’el),2001: A Space Odyssey(Geoffrey Unsworth),The Thin Red Line (John Toll),Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Peter Zeitlinger),The New World (Emmanuel Lubezki),Solaris (Vadim Yusov),The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Janusz Kaminksi),I Am Love (Yorick Le Saux),A Matter of Life and Death (Jack Cardiff),Onibaba (Kiyomi Kuroda),Blue Velvet (Frederick Elmes),No Country for Old Men (Roger Deakins),I Am Cuba (Sergei Urusevsky),The Fountain (Matthew Libatique),There Will be Blood (Robert Elswitt),The Human Condition (Yoshio Miyajima),The Proposition (Benoit Delhomme),Raise the Red Lantern (Lun Yang, Fei Zhao),The Godfather Part II (Gordon Willis),2046 (Christopher Doyle, Pung-Leung Kwan),Beauty and the Beast (Henri Alekan),Melancholia, (Manuel Alberto Claro),Road to Perdition (Conrad L. Hall),Alexander Nevsky (Eduard Tisse),Sunrise (Charles Rosher, Karl Struss),Blade Runner (Jordan Cronenweth),Citizen Kane (Gregg Toland),House of Flying Daggers (Xiaoding Zhao),Wings of Desire (Henri Alekan),Atonement (Seamus McGarvey),The Last Emperor (Vittorio Storaro),Before Night Falls (Xavier Perez Grobet, Guillermo Rosas),The Last Picture Show (Robert Surtees),The Red Shoes (Jack Cardiff),Down by Law (Robby Müller),Amelie (Bruno Delbonnel),Chungking Express (Christopher Doyle, Wai-keung Lau),Children of Men (Emmanuel Lubezki),Black Orpheus (Jean Bourgoin),The Leopard (Giuseppe Rotunno),The Age of Innocence (Michael Ballhaus),Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Frank Griebe),Raging Bull (Michael Chapman),The Fall (Colin Watkinson),The Pillow Book (Sacha Vierny),Martha Marcy May Marlene (Jody Lee Lipes),Nosferatu the Vampyre (Jorg Schmidt-Reitwein),The Third Man (Robert Krasker),Good Night and Good Luck (Robert Elswitt),The Scarlet Empress (Bert Glennon),The Man Who Wasn’t There (Roger Deakins),Talk to Her (Javier Aguirresarobe),In The Mood for Love (Christopher Doyle, Pung-Leung Kwan, Ping Bin Lee),The Man Who Cried (Sacha Vierny),Santa Sangre (Daniele Nannuzzi),The Passion of Joan of Arc (Rudolph Maté),In Cold Blood (Conrad L. Hall),8 ½ (Gianni Di Venanzo),Brazil (Roger Pratt).http://www.flavorwir...faith-in-cinema

Eight minutes? tl;dwThe movies I've seen on that list:Jesse James (really really great, and I've continued to think about it for years)Lawrence of Arabia (see above)Tree of Life (yep, if the Oscars weren't a false god, this should have been movie of the year)Vertigo (I was still in high school, and don't remember it that well)Manhattan (I prefer Annie Hall, and my favorite Woody Allen is still Hannah and her Sisters)Apocalypse Now (I think it might be great, but I can only see the Hollywood cliches, the Martin Sheen heartattack, Coppola and Brando spats, etc. when I watch it.)NCfOM (so very, very good. Friendo)There Will Be Blood (again, so very good and operatic. It might not be for everyone, but man, it hits me where I live)Raise the Red Lantern (this movie and To Live show you how the color red should always look on screen)Godfather Part II (I love the first two Godfather movies, but I don't have the time of day for FF Coppola now. I can't imagine seeing a current movie he directs. Dude has no taste left in his beret wearing head.)Road to Perdition (didn't like it.)Blade Runner (it's so good, and it doesn't look futuristic and it's so very very good. And I love the LAPD have offices in the Bradbury Building, which is where the interiors for this movie were shot.)Citizen Kane (it's art, and brilliant, but leaves me cold. There was a screening last fall at San Simeon that I should have gone to.)Atonement (it was good, but I don't think it's like the other movies on this list)Amelie (too cute, and that's not a compliment)Children of Men (maybe the best scifi of the last 10 years.)Age of Innocence (oh, who can remember?)PillowBook (again, can't remember)Third Man (great, really great, and I like it more than Citizen Kane. I find it more rewatchable.)Good Night and Good Luck (very good, but I haven't seen it in years)

[DJ Vu 176]

Eight minutes? tl;dw

Haha.I think those who are distracted by logic holes or whatever in Batman are just looking for those things.

[ShakeZuma 585]

shamewow.

[JubilantLankyLad 1,957]

shamewow.

I know, right? What a unit.

[ShakeZuma 585]

I just kept telling myself that he's a shower not a grower

[Essay21 2,385]

i still need to see that thing. and the movie too.

[ShakeZuma 585]

shouldn't have watched shame and the virgin suicides in the same weekend. now a pedophile.

[Theraflu 1,035]

Watched Detachment this morning. Adrian Brody flick with a nice cast (Lucy Liu, Bryan Cranston, Christina Hendricks, James Caan). Super depressing and sad. I kind of liked it, but it was over-directed and a bit heavy handed. Kind of like Half-Nelson, but the main character isn't a communist druggie; he's just a sad sack with a weird soft heart for freaks. Wouldn't recommend it.Went to see Killer Joe in the afternoon. Pretty entertaining, really funny. First time seeing an NC-17 movie in the theater, didn't think it really deserved it. Mcconaughey was pretty brilliant; Thomas Haden Church's character was hilariously played and written. You'll definitely remember the fried chicken scene. Action was tense and not rushed or overly graphic (well, most of it). Great sense of foreboding mixed with humor through a lot of it. I think a lot of people here would really like it.

[Essay21 2,385]

jeff who lives at home.hey it was okay.

[ShakeZuma 585]

just watched warrior again (it's on netflix streaming, check it). such a good movie. gonna go watch vertigo now I think. supposed to be one of the best movies ever, right? well we'll see. saw citizen kane a while ago and didn't think it was all that. old ass bitches tryin'a be smart and shit, like they all fancy and shit.where is this vernacular coming from? jesus christ.

[ShakeZuma 585]

gonna go watch vertigo now I think. supposed to be one of the best movies ever, right?

thafuck?

this dumb bitch falls 5 feet backwards out a damn window because somebody comes up the stairs? thafuckingfuck?

[brvheart 1,755]

Total Recall (the new one)Sucks.They took out every cool element of the first one and replaced it with nothing. Nothing makes sense. It's terrible. People get to work by traveling through the Earth's core from one side of the planet to the other, every day (seriously).ps. That is not a spoiler, since you see that in the opening credits.

[DJ Vu 176]

Shake, every ten years Sight and Sound magazine polls a bunch of movie critics and directors for the best movies of all-time. Citizen Kane had been on the top since 1952, but this year it was replaced by Vertigo. 1. "Vertigo"2. "Citizen Kane"3. "Tokyo Story"4. "The Rules of the Game"5. "Sunrise"6. "2001: A Space Odyssey"7. "The Searchers"8. "Man With a Movie Camera"9. "The Passion of Joan of Arc"10. "8 1/2"

[iZuma 764]

yeah I had seen that, it's why I watched it. my conclusion: they're all idiots.

[Governator 54]

We saw The Campaign on the weekend. We picked it because it's 80 something minutes so my 7 month pregnant wife could sit through it. It was decent. Zach G out-shined Farrell although the supporting cast had the more hilarious parts overall. Will played his typical, very stupid character again which made him less funny imo.

[Theraflu 1,035]

CoriolanusBased off the Shakespeare play, but taking place in a modern-ish Italy, but with most of the original dialogue. I've never been good at following anything Shakespeare, but it's a pretty good film with some well-acted, if slightly overdone, scenes. A little long, but I liked it.