Movie What's the last movie you saw? (5)

[mandy]

Anyone else think the DVDSCR's are a bit late this year?

Asking for a friend.......

 

[spinynorman]

Your Name.

The fourth biggest film in Japanese box office history - I'm not a big anime watcher but its success at home and its critical praise drew me to it.

The animation was absolutely gorgeous. One of the most beautiful looking animated films I've ever seen. I found the first two acts interesting and enjoyable, but the third took a strange turn for my liking and inserted a romance that felt forced and confusing. The rest of the cinema seemed to love the melodrama though and there were some sniffles going on around, so maybe it was just me.

Still, I rated it. It's become a major cultural sensation in Japan and the cinema I was in seemed to reflect that.

 

[Exe Gesis]

Just finished watching ENEMY (2013) by Denis Villeneuve

Amazing movie. So many layers. I picked up most of what it all meant.

But for those who haven't seen it, or even heard of it, it's a must-see movie. And then when you're done, if you are still confused, there are youtube and web resources to figure it out tho there's always still room for interpretation.

 

[scotslad]

Your Name.

The fourth biggest film in Japanese box office history - I'm not a big anime watcher but its success at home and its critical praise drew me to it.

The animation was absolutely gorgeous. One of the most beautiful looking animated films I've ever seen. I found the first two acts interesting and enjoyable, but the third took a strange turn for my liking and inserted a romance that felt forced and confusing. The rest of the cinema seemed to love the melodrama though and there were some sniffles going on around, so maybe it was just me.

Still, I rated it. It's become a major cultural sensation in Japan and the cinema I was in seemed to reflect that.

Japanese films are quite good albeit don't watch anime, might give it a try

 

[blackcat]

if anyone watches PAterson and does not have the same opinion as me they deserved to be digital high calibre weapon shot, then they deserve it...

jim jarmusch should not be shooting in digital much is shot looking like a tv commercial and is too high grade resolution cos it was shot on the digital there is no way jarmusch shoots on digital as i think all or much was on digital praps some was transferred across because if you wait for the credits at the end there is some credits to 35mm lab so not sure the firm or what they do I assume they were transferring some celuloid across, or praps just cellulite cos it was a bit padded. jarmusch still had his detritus and rust belt, but he needs degraded footage, whattya reckon skilts ?

this is not #Poe's_law just a austerlitz like 7 page extemporisation by sebald

/grammar
that should be an austerlitz, "an" blackcat. *asterisk indicates peremptory
and since austerlitz is a proper noun it must be capitalised innit

 

[bradrowe#32]

The David Brent movie. It was nice, but probably should have been a 40 minute Christmas special. Gervais has created absolutely one of the most cringe-worthy characters that television has even seen. Some of his little mannerisms and comments are just brilliant. But I felt that they really laboured the point that everyone finds him awkward and annoying. The interviews with band members, colleagues etc. just keep coming and they always basically said the same thing. They really could have cut a lot out of this film and there was an air of predictability about the whole thing. It was still pretty decent. 3.5/5.

 

[Magpiespower]

Jaws

Again.

But I really wanna see this classic on the big screen...

 

[blackcat]

Jaws

Again.

But I really wanna see this classic on the big screen...

where did you see it? Astor in Windsor?

 

[Big Sauce 21]

Finally got around to watch Now you see me. Pretty keen on the 2nd now

 

[Marlowe]

Moana

Was finely animated but there's something incredibly generic about the voice cast especially for a movie set in the South Pacific. Story-wise it hits all the right beats but overall it's very manufactured and vanilla.

I also horribly disgusted by the adjoined opening short as well. 'Oh no, office jobs!' is insulting, like that guy couldn't go surfing and hang with that thick redheaded honey on weekends, not like he was taking that work home with him either. Pfft.

 

[Magpiespower]

where did you see it? Astor in Windsor?

Channel 7, lol. Showing it for the umpteenth time. But I'm hoping for a cinema screening one of these days...

 

[blackcat]

Channel 7, lol. Showing it for the umpteenth time. But I'm hoping for a cinema screening one of these days...

those 35mm prints will be aging and even tho it is JAWS, I dont think there will be heaps of prints in every state. The economics of digital are so great in favour of screening the digital, even in those outdoor cinemas the hipsters pervade.

and then there is the issue of having a proper person trained in prep(ping) the 35mm print.

 

[The Dice Man]

Finally got around to watch Now you see me. Pretty keen on the 2nd now

Lower your hopes, rapidly.

 

[Kong]

rogue one ******* awesome 10/10

10/10?

Flawless? The perfect movie?

Big call.

 

[Kong]

Interstellar is probably the most dissapointing movie of the year, I had high hopes but big let down for me.

I really enjoyed it.

It came out in 2014, by the way; not 2016.

 

[Summer Nights]

Interstellar was too long for the story it was trying to tell (IMO). I found myself dissatisfied in the wank it was sort of having over itself. I liked the interplanetary moments. They were cool. Being a geek, how could one not appreciate them?

The rest just felt like a bit of a grind.

 

[Stevi_Tigers]

10/10?

Flawless? The perfect movie?

Big call.

perfect for me as a star wars fan

 

[bgt2110]

Tehran Taxi - 8.5/10
Really enjoyed this one, Iranian director who is banned from making movies so he sets up as a taxi driver and films his interaction with his passengers. Interesting view of the streets of Tehran and some of the people he picks up including a guy selling pirated movies and a couple of old women who need to return a gold fish to its home by a certain time. Only 78 minutes long and well worth a watch.

Marshland - 8/10
Spanish movie about a couple of detectives who are sent to rural Spain to investigate a serial killer. Nice thriller which touches on life in a small Spanish village not long after the Franco reign in Spain.

Would recommend both movies

 

[blackcat]

Tehran Taxi - 8.5/10
Really enjoyed this one, Iranian director who is banned from making movies so he sets up as a taxi driver and films his interaction with his passengers. Interesting view of the streets of Tehran and some of the people he picks up including a guy selling pirated movies and a couple of old women who need to return a gold fish to its home by a certain time. Only 78 minutes long and well worth a watch.

night on earth bro, i already did that

Marshland - 8/10
Spanish movie about a couple of detectives who are sent to rural Spain to investigate a serial killer. Nice thriller which touches on life in a small Spanish village not long after the Franco reign in Spain.

Would recommend both movies

so, the guy with the gestalt haircut of jarmusch and lynch at MIFF, has anyone seen him?

Chief, he of unmatched wisdom your forum coding is really starting to piss me off bro

 

[Kong]

Interstellar was too long for the story it was trying to tell (IMO). I found myself dissatisfied in the wank it was sort of having over itself. I liked the interplanetary moments. They were cool. Being a geek, how could one not appreciate them?

The rest just felt like a bit of a grind.

I could have watched another hour of it.

Once I saw this package, I couldn't take it as seriously, though:

 

[NitroFan]

The Exterminator. aka Death Wish ripoff #42348

I think 99% of the budget for this was spent on the opening 5 minutes which is set during the Vietnam War and features an almost non stop barrage of explosions. Also, a guy getting his head sliced off. Well, almost off. Its held on by bit of skin and just flops to the side.

Flash forward a few years and Our Hero and his friend who saved him in the war are in New York. His friend gets attacked by a gang and let the vigilantism begin. At first Our Hero is just after the gang that attacked his friend but about 3/4 through things take a turn to more general crime fighting when he encounters a prostitute who was burnt by the pr0n parody version of Danny Devito with a soldering iron because she refused to bum an underage boy with a strap on. Before he burns her he sticks the soldering iron in Vaseline which made me think it was going to end up somewhere much worse than her torso

This was an entertaining B grade 80s movie but after the goryness of the opening head slicing I was a little dissapointed in the relative lack of violence during the revenge attacks.

6/10

I also watched its sequel, unsurprisingly titled The Exterminator 2. If you like seeing people on fire then this movie is for you. Since the events of the first film Our Hero has evolved in to a vigilante who just goes around with a welders mask and flame thrower turning criminals in to smoldering corpses. This time his ire is turned to a gang led by Mario Van Peebles (who of course is dressed in appropriate 80s movie street gang leader attire) after they beat up his dancer girlfriend and put her in a wheelchair. Frankie Faison from The Wire, Banshee and Luke Cage helps him out until his machine gunning death.

4/10

 

[spinynorman]

La La Land.

The hype is real.

 

[Barney_stinson]

"We brought a zoo"

Matt Damon and Scarlett Johanson - fantastic family movie

I love zoo's, well zoo's like this.this reminds me of the zoo in San Fransico (Safari West) where the animals can roam free and not be in small enclosures. Brilliant film.

Will never win an oscar but for value and entertainment I'll give it an 8 out of 10

 

[Rod Stroker]

Tehran Taxi - 8.5/10
Really enjoyed this one, Iranian director who is banned from making movies so he sets up as a taxi driver and films his interaction with his passengers. Interesting view of the streets of Tehran and some of the people he picks up including a guy selling pirated movies and a couple of old women who need to return a gold fish to its home by a certain time. Only 78 minutes long and well worth a watch.

Yeah pretty good movie, much better than a lot of the sausage factory Hollywood junk that's come out in recent years.

 

[raskolnikov]

Watched Jaws 2 last night for the first time in years. Always hated how the only nice teen is the one who gets to be lunch.