Last movie you saw

[HumphreyB]

Across the Universe

Just saw Across the Universe. Great movie. Wall to wall Beatles songs, linked together with a love story. Bit clunky at times (the plot, that is), but the contextualisation of the Beatles songs, and the way they are used, is terrific. Well worth a view. It also has people to look at:

and

as well as...

Yes, that's my namesake, doing a fine turn as a drug-addled "visionary" from California - and singing I Am The Walrus.

 

[mackenziemonkey]

Are you serious????

I thought that movie was really good but then again I am a girl I will probably buy it when its like $12 at big w....

What was really good about it? What was it about it that you liked? I'm a girl too, so that's no excuse!

 

[Bkeela]

I saw Death Proof today. Classic Tarantino. I'm a bit disappointed the original Grindhouse concept was split, but I guess it is incentive to get the DVD.

Anyway, Death Proof by itself is a superb film. You know you're onto a good thing when it bombs in America and Margaret Pomeranz gives it half a star.

 

[Jake]

Just saw Across the Universe. Great movie. Wall to wall Beatles songs, linked together with a love story. Bit clunky at times (the plot, that is), but the contextualisation of the Beatles songs, and the way they are used, is terrific. Well worth a view. It also has people to look at:

Heard this was good, though Im not a big beatles fan, so I guess that would be a turn off?

Is it true that none of their main popular songs are played in the movie or did I read that wrong in a review the other day?

 

[molloch!]

Watched Transformers on dvd yesterday It's still awesome even on my littler tv.
Watched some of the documentaries on the second disc too and i enjoyed those.

 

[Karaoke]

Invasion of the Saucer Men!!!
A fun little 1950's sci-fi movie, teenagers and cows vs midget Saucer people with needles in their fingers that inject pure alcohol.

 

[Alkoholik]

30 days of night

^^ was this movie suppose to be scary? Okay I guess though can't say that I'd recommend it to anyone.

 

[Goldenberry]

"Plan 9 from Outer Space" was a good laugh.

 

[rabymon10]

Jake, it doesn't really matter at all I don't think if you're a Beatles fan or not. For the most part, it's not The Beatles singing anyway, and most of the arrangments are a world away from their original counterparts. As for 'main popular songs', they've got a good selection. Hey Jude, Across the Universe, Strawberry Fields, Come Together, Let It Be, All You Need is Love are just some of them - and for me, they're enough.

I've got to say, I was very dissapointed in this film. Coming from a strong theatrical background, I was expecting so much more from Julie Taymor, who herself is most famous I suppose from directing The Lion King for Broadway and The Magic Flute and Titus. Some of her work is just extraordinary, but I thought that this was way too lackluster and indulgent for my liking. For most of the film, I was thinking 'where is this going'? A lot of it just did nothing to move the plot forward, rather it just sat there in it's own puddle of mess. Also, I think it seemed to lack a real emotional crux. The film encompasses so many different stories and themes from the 60's, that anything became hardly likable because it was pushed aside for the next big thing. Character development... don't think there was much at all there. Shame, this film could have been so much more. So, so, so much more...

 

[Jake]

Jake, it doesn't really matter at all I don't think if you're a Beatles fan or not. For the most part, it's not The Beatles singing anyway, and most of the arrangments are a world away from their original counterparts. As for 'main popular songs', they've got a good selection. Hey Jude, Across the Universe, Strawberry Fields, Come Together, Let It Be, All You Need is Love are just some of them - and for me, they're enough.

I've got to say, I was very dissapointed in this film. Coming from a strong theatrical background, I was expecting so much more from Julie Taymor, who herself is most famous I suppose from directing The Lion King for Broadway and The Magic Flute and Titus. Some of her work is just extraordinary, but I thought that this was way too lackluster and indulgent for my liking. For most of the film, I was thinking 'where is this going'? A lot of it just did nothing to move the plot forward, rather it just sat there in it's own puddle of mess. Also, I think it seemed to lack a real emotional crux. The film encompasses so many different stories and themes from the 60's, that anything became hardly likable because it was pushed aside for the next big thing. Character development... don't think there was much at all there. Shame, this film could have been so much more. So, so, so much more...

thanks rabymon

Will still probably give it a miss, Musicals like Moulin Rouge and Chicage I enjoyed, I might grab this one on DVD one lazy evening when it becomes a $1 for a week hire

Saw no brainer Good Luck Chuck the other day. Heard good things from friends. However I didnt enjoy it. The sex jokes were all lame and done to death before in other movies. Didnt even break into a giggle at any stage.
The casting I thought was hopless. Regret going to see it. 3/10

 

[Goldenberry]

I feel like I've already heard all the gags from "Good Luck Chuck" - it's one of those movies they peddle on the screen when you're at Fitness First.

 

[Jake]

Saw the Butterfly effect earlier tonight for the first time

Have had many people say its a great movie... "makes you think" etc...
So had a chance to watch it (love these $1 a week hires )

However I was a little dissapointed, Its a good movie, but I dunno, was expected more somehow. Expecting to "really think", but its quite unrealistic in the way it tried to relate its message imo

To me it was a cross between Sliding Doors and a Beautifull mind (true story), but a little more "technical"

Btw at the end of the movie it says it is dedicated to Amanda Moses
Anyone know what link she has to the movie?


TBE - 7/10, (was expecting to be blown away with an 8 or 9)

 

[Ravenau1]

Saw the Butterfly effect earlier tonight for the first time

Have had many people say its a great movie... "makes you think" etc...
So had a chance to watch it (love these $1 a week hires )

However I was a little dissapointed, Its a good movie, but I dunno, was expected more somehow. Expecting to "really think", but its quite unrealistic in the way it tried to relate its message imo

To me it was a cross between Sliding Doors and a Beautifull mind (true story), but a little more "technical"

Btw at the end of the movie it says it is dedicated to Amanda Moses
Anyone know what link she has to the movie?


TBE - 7/10, (was expecting to be blown away with an 8 or 9)

I have to say that I was blown away when I saw it, but that could have been because I had pretty low expectations... Was expecting something like "Dude where's my car?" I think ~shudders~

 

[Bkeela]

I watched Butterfly Effect when it was on TV recently. I was expecting the worst since my TV Guide gave it only one star. I thought I would give it a few minutes and then get on with other things, but it was interesting enough to stick with. An okay film. I wouldn't buy the DVD, but definitely worth staying up late for.

 

[rabymon10]

I think your opinion of the movie changes depending on which ending you saw. The director's cut DVD release has a completely different ending to that of the theatrical release, and to me it kind of makes the whole movie come a bit more full circle. I think overall though there are four different filmed endings, the subsequent others also available for viewing on DVD.

 

[Bkeela]

Plan 9 From Outer Space.

Well, the first ten minutes anyway.

I wonder about people who can sit through a film of this standard. I mean, such people would probably find high school creative writing assignments fascinating, or derive aesthetic value from the finger paintings of preschoolers. Not me. Life is too short to sit through an Ed Wood film.

 

[tarn_seiche]

The Heartbreak Kid
You can rely on the Farrelly Brothers to give you the movie the shorts lead you to expect, and something more (that is even more hilarious). This is the kind of gross-out-funny that cheap and nasty flicks like 'Good Luck Chuck' can't touch. Stay to the very,very end, when all the credits are over, for the easter egg.

 

[Kiya]

30 Days of Night.

Freaking annoying young girls in the audience screaming at the most inappropriate times.

 

[Goldenberry]

Plan 9 From Outer Space.

Well, the first ten minutes anyway.

I wonder about people who can sit through a film of this standard. I mean, such people would probably find high school creative writing assignments fascinating, or derive aesthetic value from the finger paintings of preschoolers. Not me. Life is too short to sit through an Ed Wood film.

The film was pretty short wasn't it? I saw it at an Incredibly Strange Film Festival and we went in knowing it was so bad it's good. Like a Russ Meyer film or something.

Yes, creative writing assignments were good though.

 

[Goldenberry]

I watched Butterfly Effect when it was on TV recently.

Saw that at a cinema a few years ago, expecting it to be derivative crap, and actually really enjoyed it. It was like being on a rollercoaster, a good ride.

The last movie I saw was on TV last night, called "Red Eye". It featured the crazy terrorist guy harassing the young lady he is sitting next to on the plane, because she is a hotel manager and he wants her to change the room for some important guest he wants to kill.

That Irish guy who was in "Breakfast on Pluto" was on it.

Man it was crappy, and unintentionally funny. Get this. The airline they were on was called "Fresh Air". LOL