Last movie you've watched

[Bill Brasky]

We just saw True Grit and it was pretty good. The Dude plays a good Rooster.

I haven't been this stoked to see a movie since Quentin did the Nazi flick. 

[alaric89]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX6kVRsdXW4[/youtube]

Spoiler. The hero dies.
I was actually cheering him on til the end too.

[Fred]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX6kVRsdXW4[/youtube]

Spoiler. The hero dies.
I was actually cheering him on til the end too.

it fuckin pissed me off that the dumbass Jamie Fox actually got the better of him at the end.  What bullshit!

[freeAgent]

I saw True Grit tonight and it was enjoyable.  The dialogue was particularly good.  It's nothing I'd buy on DVD, but it was good in a theater.

[yamnuska]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX6kVRsdXW4[/youtube]

Spoiler. The hero dies.
I was actually cheering him on til the end too.

it fuckin pissed me off that the dumbass Jamie Fox actually got the better of him at the end.  What bullshit!

Agree, Jamie Foxx has become an ass kissing government whore in a lot of his recent movies, Stealth (crap), Jarhead, Miami Vice (crap), The Kingdom. If he feels that good about the government he should enroll his flag humping ass in the military and push off to Iraq. I like movies where people who work for the government lose, because, frankly, that is reality. Government can't solve shit on it's own. I was hoping Jamie Foxx's character would get flung off a cliff or something to that effect.

[Fred]

I thought ii was pretty good....  Felon:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqZqlZEvHpc[/youtube]

[Fred]

damn, almost the whole movie is on utube.  here's the first part of felon:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmrAh2NVtyk&feature=related[/youtube]

[Fred]

another not too bad movie....surrogates:  [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl_h9RaL0es[/youtube]

[Fred]

slow, but weird... in a good way.  the Undeserved:  [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md3qrX4o-uU[/youtube]

[Laetitia]

Knowing.

I have nothing to say about it, except that I watched it.

[mikehz]

I think Mikehz said he was gonna check it out too.. wonder if he did.

It's on my Netflix list.

[Cognitive Dissident]

"Moon." Better than average sci-fi, and better than I expected. This one totally fell through the cracks, I think.

Moon was definitely worth it.  

Made for $5M (not a typo), it played like it was made for $100M.  It was an indy film apparently bankrolled by the producer's dad, David Bowie, and by Sting.  Not only did they get 10x the money out of the effects, but they brought a great phildickian story to the screen.

The "special features" on the disc, including the commentary by the producer and director, and the commentary by the crew, describe the challenges of making a contemporary science fiction film on $5M.  A big part of this is to develop a script around a great, heady SF story and make the bulk of your effects incidental to telling the story, while making the rest of the effects with CGI-enhanced models, instead of full-on CGI.

The Heavy was worth the watch, including an ending I guessed, but including bits and pieces that were clever.  Acting was so-so, and I hated the cinematography.  It relied on a clever story, which seemed haunted by some flubs.

[Fred]

its different!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrAVc4hXMn0[/youtube]

[Cognitive Dissident]

The Man from Earth

Horrible sound quality, fair-to-bad acting and/or directing, and a mediocre screenplay spoil a compelling story.  It felt like a more serious twist on Mel Brooks' and Carl Reiner's 1000-year-old man gag.  I'm not sure I'd recommend it to anyone, unless that person liked to talk bullshit and was very open-minded about religion.  I'm somewhat shocked it's so highly-rated.  To speculate on why would probably be to spoil it for whoever dares to watch it.

Silent Running

I thought for sure I'd seen it before--maybe I fell asleep on it or something.  I had to watch it because it was high on a "best" list, and I'd seen just about everything else except the (?!) Japanese titles.  

If you can stand the repeated offenses of Joan Baez singing tree-hugging music, there's a fairly trite ecology message there, which can be said without clubbing you over the head.  The visual effects and cinimatography, of course (if you follow science fiction, you already know) are incredible for 1972.  The sound was 2-channel (mono), but tolerable.  Some of the technical aspects of the story were laughable.  Worth seeing for technical aspects, if not to see Bruce Dern as a young psychotic rather than an old son-of-a-bitch.

addendumTurns out it was 1972 and the sound was "2-channel mono."  I don't even know what that is.

[Sam Gunn (since nobody got Admiral Naismith)]

I thought the man from earth was very good considering the extremely low budget.