Best Film you have seen recently:

[chicag0]

What did you think of it? We streamed it via Netflix, and found it a bit tedious, despite some of the more harrowing moments.

Yeah, it was a little too long, but I thought it was a really good adaptation of the book. I have to say, I'm not really looking forward to the American version of the movie.

 

[Dr. Bill Kobb]

Yeah, it was a little too long, but I thought it was a really good adaptation of the book. I have to say, I'm not really looking forward to the American version of the movie.

Urgh. I know. It shames me that our country feels the need to remake perfectly fine films just so American audiences don't have to read subtitles.

 

[chicag0]

Urgh. I know. It shames me that our country feels the need to remake perfectly fine films just so American audiences don't have to read subtitles.

Me too, though at least the author(s) will get a shit ton more money from the American movie vs the Swedish version. That's about the only good thing about it lol

 

[TheGodfeather]

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.
Yeah, I know, I'm such a boy 😛

Let me join you then, because that is the last movie I saw (twice) in the theaters! Loved it! I would really like to see True Grit as I'm a ***** for anything the Coen brothers put out. I know critics are asking if a remake of that movie was really necessary, but I could care less. And lastly, I still need to see Inception and am highly disappointed that bills got in the way of watching it in the theater (I was pretty strapped that month). Wait, this thread was about the last movie I saw, I think I went too far. . .

 

[melanie2]

Best movie i've seen recently...not a recent film but on HBO, one of the HBO's anyway..

The Manchurian Candidate the original..Angela Lansbury, one of the all time great actresses.

O and i find that when a foreign movie is dubbed with English, it loses much to me..like hmm Hidden Dragon or whatever it was called..lately it's been shown, dubbed with English..made it almost an entirely different picture, to me.

 

[Dr. Bill Kobb]

O and i find that when a foreign movie is dubbed with English, it loses much to me..like hmm Hidden Dragon or whatever it was called..lately it's been shown, dubbed with English..made it almost an entirely different picture, to me.

Indeed. Egregious examples include a version of the Japanese animated tale, Ninja Scroll and a dubbed version of Let the Right One In. In the former, the lead character in the period fantasy piece has a Brooklyn accent, and in the later, they actually did a decent job with the kid's voicework, but bunged it bad on afew of the extraneous characters.

 

[kopfhorer1]

Best movie i've seen recently...not a recent film but on HBO, one of the HBO's anyway..

The Manchurian Candidate the original..Angela Lansbury, one of the all time great actresses. ...

And she co-stars with Frank Sinatra in that movie!

Anyway, the best movie, hmm...the documentary, Fuck. Got it for my birthday a few years ago but never watched it end to end until now. Weird cameos by Pat Boone and former president Bush.

 

[melanie2]

The Sea Inside but damn that Javier is one hell of an actor..now i read where he's nominated for the Oscar..along with Colin Firth..now that will be some competition.

 

[Dr. Bill Kobb]

Saw The Eagle at the theater last week. It was decent enough. Moves a tad slower than the trailers might make it out to be.

Watched The Burrowers on disc last night. Solid little horror/western.

 

[chicag0]

Scent of a Woman

 

[SupportGunner]

The troll hunter. Best monster movie ever and probably the best thing norwegians ever done for humanity.

 

[Dr. Bill Kobb]

The troll hunter. Best monster movie ever and probably the best thing norwegians ever done for humanity.

Huh. First I'd heard of that. Wanna see it now!

We saw The Green Hornet yesterday. Seth Rogen quickly gets on my nerves. Has some moments, but is mostly just a mess.

 

[larichmond]

I saw quite a few movies in theaters recently, like Tangled and True Grit, and they were really good, but I have to say...

Everyone, you better see The King's Speech, because it is amazing.

Colin Firth... sigh <3

 

[flashy_athlete]

Inception.

 

[Dr. Bill Kobb]

Rango! I didn't care for it much. Hopefully, the kiddies will. It just seems that, while watching most big-budget movies these days, there's a tiny voice telling me, "Oh, this must be in there mainly for the video game cross-marketing tie-in".

 

[Johnny lea]

In a Lonely Place (1950) with the fabulous Gloria Grahame and Humphrey Bogart. They say it was the closest portrayal to the real life Bogart you'll ever see on the screen. Gloria Grahame is phenomenal, it's a crying shame she isn't remebered as well as other stars in that era.

 

[Dr. Bill Kobb]

The Adjustment Bureau - I enjoyed this. Turns out it's more of a romantic fantasy than I'd have guessed from the ad campaign. I've heard a variety of complaints (to wit): Too long; Didn't like the ending; Don't like Matt Damon; and so on. Eh, I beg to differ. Worth at least a look on disc when it comes out.

 

[UBU]

DVDs are so CHEAP these days ...

Lately, Pan's Labyrinth. I cannot add anything to the praise heaped onto this movie. I heartily recommend seeing it on disc. It is such a visual stunner that you need to absorb the fable before you can enjoy the cinematography.

I repeat the warning that every responsible reviewer issued when this was released. This is NOT a movie for the young. The villain is a police-state military officer, and he does not shrink from torture. The movie is not graphic, but it leaves no room for ambiguity.

All time favorite, Bladerunner. The overlooked pivot of this movie is that asks the question over and over again, in as many different ways, what is it to be human?

If you're not fascinated by this film, you can skim the rest of this post, or just blow it off. I have put hours of thought into this movie. By contrast, my other all-timer is Casablanca, a movie I take entirely at face value.

This is not a sentimental movie, not at all easy. The Voight-Kampf is a test used by Bladerunners to determine whether a subject is a man or a replicant. When Rachel flees, only to confront Deckard in his home, she challenges him. "Did you ever take that test yourself?"
Deckard cannot answer. He has doubts about himself, doubts so grave he cannot put them into words.

The Voight-Kampf machine is a concretization of the movie's theme. How evil is a machine that determines humanity?

Well, "kampf" is a German noun, roughly struggle or fight as a matter of ideals. Example -- Adolf Hitler wrote Mein Kampf. Udo Voight is the head of the German National Democratic Party, a far-right group founded in 1964 by surviving officials of the Nazi Party.
Perhaps evil is solely a matter of kind, not at all of degree.

http://www.newsnet14.com/?s=Voight+speaks+up+about+real+German+history&x=8&y=8

Newsnet14 is "World News for Europeans Worldwide". Story filed same date as this post.

 

[pwner_91]

Battle: LA. hands down the BEST film i've seen this year. awesome acting, excellent special effects, a great cast, and an even better storyline.

 

[LoneZero]

Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World - One of the few movies I can watch beginning to end without being bored.

 

[Dr. Bill Kobb]

Hanna(2011) is highly recommended, both to the vast majority of video-gaming/comic-book-loving zombies out there who want an exciting action/adventure film AND to those who might just find some deeper subtexts to the story. Great soundtrack by The Chemical Brothers, btw.

 

[Miss Sassy1]

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1- This movie was the best by far yet. It was just, I was like, and they were, and -tears- Oh poor poor Dobby....what'd he ever do to those people besides save Harry Potter from them? -cries in her hands-

 

[PurpleStyle]

I recently saw Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. Tim Burton's very hit or miss with me - and this was definitely a hit.

 

[Inverse]

Was pretty surprised by Source Code. I'm impressed by the writing and directing. They didn't abuse the jumps, it never felt overdone~ I was never bored. Not to mention, they managed to make a scifi thriller while remembering it's a scifi, that is meant to thrill. Duncan Jones also directed 'Moon' which I found to be a great true scifi movie. Like a reminder that science fiction is not about blowing stuff up and lasers and aliens~ but the actual questions that arise when you mix humanity and technology and the places between them. x3

 

[Rox_My_Sox1]

Tron: Legacy! 70's-80's goodness to the maximum. ^_^