Last movie you've watched

[Turd Ferguson]

I didn't cooperate in govt school, so I have no trouble reading subtitles.

I usually prefer it to bad dubbing, which is how dubbing seems to always be.

Surely you jest. Here is a great example of dubbing done right.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNmeixYw9m0[/youtube]

[hellbilly]

Speaking of hype..

I've caught a cold (which reminds me of which thread to bump) and so I tried to watch Netflix a couple of nights now. Two movies, both rated 4 and a half stars on Netflix:

I'd heard so much good stuff about The Big Lebowski that I tried that one. Made it almost half way before realizing that I'd been waiting for the movie to really "begin".

Everyone seems to love Boondock Saints too. Another crap movie totally overrated. Made it about 45 minutes in and turned it off. Even Ron Jeremy couldn't save that one.

Turned off both of those and went back to a book both nights.

Try Inception.  Best I've seen in a while...or Moon if you haven't seen it yet.

Moon was great.

[BKO]

Yeah, I think Inception was a terrific flick.

[hellbilly]

Remember I mentioned wanting to "experience" a movie ?

Found one!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-rUBFFyPm8[/youtube]

5 stars.

[Riddler]

the american w/ geo. clone-e
absolutely horrible
fucks a coupla hot chicks
makes a cool gun
dies

[Cognitive Dissident]

Catfish

Can't believe I sat and watched the whole fucking movie.  I kept waiting for something to happen which I didn't expect.  Seemed to be a rip-off of a script from a Law and Order episode, done in indie documentary form.  I really wish I could have that 90 minutes back.

[yamnuska]

I've been watching lots of mainstream Hollywood lately.

Due Date - bland, snooze.

The Informant - I liked it, a bit over acted for the first 15 minutes but I liked it overall.

The Fighter - Bale was awesome, really good movie.

Red - I just watched it because Helen Mirren was in it, I think she is sex on two legs, shes my dom fantasy.

[dalebert]

Trick 'r Treat was a fun, silly horror movie kind of in the Creepshow tradition.  You can watch it streaming on Netflix right now.

[Cognitive Dissident]

Gandhi

Given all the unrest in the middle east recently, it was worth a reset.  Reminded me that non-violent resistance is considerably more than sitting on the hoods of police cars.

[Fred]

amen

[LTKoblinsky]

Gandhi

Given all the unrest in the middle east recently, it was worth a reset.  Reminded me that non-violent resistance is considerably more than sitting on the hoods of police cars.

Did they include his racism against Africans or sleeping with (literally) young girls?

[Cognitive Dissident]

Gandhi

Given all the unrest in the middle east recently, it was worth a reset.  Reminded me that non-violent resistance is considerably more than sitting on the hoods of police cars.

Did they include his racism against Africans or sleeping with (literally) young girls?

No.  Rather than conduct character assassination (which can be done just as effectively to the likes of Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Martin Luther King Jr., etc.) they chose to focus on his famous and proper message and acts, and their successful and beneficial application.

[yamnuska]

9,  awesome animation, just awesome.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnoJecu9e7c[/youtube]

[Cognitive Dissident]

Network

Rather than fade over the decades, the message in this film intensifies and magnifies, as it exposes the cancer of something bigger than television.  In fact, it doesn't really seem to be about television, or "news" at all.

IMO, it's about corporatism, mercantilism, or "fascism" (as even the lead commie character identifies it, late in the film), in fact.  It's about how every aspect of our lives is being sliced and diced, not by a free and open market (though this nuance may have even been lost on the principles in the film, and the story itself), but by international power brokers.  Maybe it wasn't apparent at the time that this was bigger than television, or even media.  In the aftermath of the Middle East wars, brought to you by Fox News, etc., however, there is an even more chilling context.  We are getting our bread and circuses, and the least our media outlets can do is report it, or make it happen--and even profit handsomely from it--at least while we can afford to pay the bills.  Then I suppose our decline will become the news story, and yuppie Chinese will eat it up.

[dalebert]

9,  awesome animation, just awesome.

Agreed, and worth watching for that reason.  Unfortunately, Nine was disappointing over all as a complete package.