What was the last film you watched? v3

Searching for Sugar Man - this was actually pretty good.

Prometheus - very good atmosphere, but with a script that would be a waste of time to even talk about

Game Change - great body talk by Harrelson, generally entertaining as well

Cabin in the Woods - nothing groundbreaking but a very solid average at least

John Carter, what a gigantic piece of fail. Fuck Hollywood has no clue whatsoever, it's like the technical ability they now have to put pretty much any images imaginable on screen has developed in inverse proportion to the ability to write, direct and act a coherent story.

Iron Man (2008) - still my favorite Marvel movie, Tony Stark is way cooler than he should be to someone like me.

Dark Shadows (2012) - Burton movies with Depp in them always work. What made this move come alive was the style clashes between vampire movies, hippie flair and the canning industry - love how dead serious Depp was all the time, the end was a bit too abrupt (in a sense the opposite of what I usually think about endings - that they drag on too long). Contrary to my expectations, Victoria didn't have the big female lead role I thought she'd get though. Which kinda felt like there was something missing. Not sure about the rewatch value of this movie, but the humor certainly was compatible with mine.

There are Burton movies without Depp???

Is that a serious question?

Helena Bonham Carter was also pretty cool in Dark Shadows, though IMO her best role was in Sweeney Todd. Which was a fucking masterpiece.

Hehe. Not a big fan of Burton, I just don't find him that dark or that quirky- two characteristics he's supposedly famous for. Depp's disappointing too. For some reason I still hold on to this idea that he's a good actor, even though he keeps making terrible movies.

I'm a big fan of both, but Burton stuff I wouldn't actually call dark or quirky. Hard to describe.

Depp is a great actor to me and I generally love all the movies he does. Can't say I've ever been disappointed by him though the Pirates movies got worse each installment. Wouldn't say that's Depp's fault though... IMO he really shines in the 'strange' roles. Was kinda shitting bricks when I rewatched the first Nightmare on Elm Street, and a young Depp was the male lead.

The Dictator. I think someone else already pointed out the similarities between Cohen's speech at the end of the film and Chaplin's speech at the end of The Great Dictator...I thought that was pretty good. The rest of the film was sort of "ehh". I chuckled occasionally, so I guess it's all right.

Are we still going to be allowed to watch movies with capitalist heroes post-revolution? 'Cause I friggin' love There Will Be Blood; so much that I'm kind of willing to become a liberal just so I can continue watching it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0074qfm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eKSp6j8UNw

Fascinating, particularly for a newbie.

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Forgive me if I get my marvel and DC mixed up (I'm sured you won't and rightly so! ), but it has to be Kick-Ass for me, though I haven't seen the Dark Knight Rises yet... oops that's DC, so yeah definitely Kick-Ass.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall - Wasn't enjoying it too much and then realised that I'd only been watching for 40 mins and couldn't face over an hour more of it.

Motorway, a Cantonese love letter to Drive without the melodrama or skinny jeans, although more's the pity.

I rewatched Gattaca the other day; it could be really interesting, but in the end the politics are shite. Looks amazing though.

Resident evil 5 3D - incredible opening scene plus some nice bits in the rest of the movie but poor screenplay and not likeable actors. still, a good entertainment if one doesn't expect much.

Bound for Glory - Woody Guthrie biopic. Really baggy, poorly scripted, but the songs are worked well in the film, so it just about scrapes through. It really went for the early background of the dustbowl period, which didn't make for the best viewing, but in retrospect probably made more sense. It did abruptly end pre-New York (where he took off in a big way, apparently) which was odd.

Dungeon Masters - Documentary which shows the worst side of three socially akward gamers. Good for observation, reminded me of certain personality traits that exist out there, but not very entertaining.

If a Tree Falls... - Award winning documentary on the recent repression against the ELF. Made all the good points along the way about the terrorism tag being shoehorned onto a non-violent group, about the conciousness/civility arc of people involved in direct action politics. Not being clued up about the events, somethings panned out different than I anticipated - basically who co-operates with the police etc. Interesting, but not a scratch on the Weathermen documentary from awhile ago.

Inheritance - Total emotional headfuck. The daughter of Amon Goeth, who ran the Plaszow death camp, discusses her life and we are subsequently taken on a journey with her to Plaszow to meet one of the survivors. Pretty gut-wrenching. Peppered with some really memorable scenes, because Goeth's daughter is plagued by her fathers actions.

Drag Me To Hell, after reading Dead Pledges: Debt, Horror, and the Credit Crisis by Annie McClanahan. Wasn't sure if she was right about it being a horror movie playing on our collective fear of financialisation and debt.

She was totally right.

Rollover (1981)
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here is the scene depicting Global Worldwide Economic Collapse:

- "gold over 2000"

- "by tonight that will be cheap"

Seconds, about a man in his 50s who begins a new life with plastic surgery and under a new name. Course, you can't escape your past and he dwells on the things he left behind, even if he is now Rock Hudson. Hudson was gay, but lead his public life as a straight married man, so there's a fair bit of parallels. He realises that all the nice things he had and his fancy job mean nothing, and he's led a wasted life which he's doomed to repeat. Made my corn flakes hard to swallow.

The World of Apu, bollywood film from the 1950s, loved it, great music. The one Satyajit Ray film I've watched that doesn't have blatant pro-British and pro aristocracy propaganda in it.

The breakup. prety pointless

Hangover 1 & 2 were ace, Lesley Chou is a god and very surprised to see Yasmin Lee lol. Really hope there's a third! Oh and why isn't 'Bridesmaids' nearly half as good??

Just started watching 'The Trotsky' (2009), the opening few minutes are hilarious:

http://laborfilms.com/2012/06/04/the-trotsky-2009/

AHHAHAHAHA THIS IS PISS FUNNY

Loved the Trotsky. Especially struck a chord with me, remembering my scowling young self who wandered about declaring everyone "facists!" There are loads of jokes in it which are nods to some of the absurdities of Quebec politics. There are 2 parallel school systems in Quebec, french and english, and at one point the kids are standing in front of a sign saying that their school is part of the Jacques Parizeau English School board. Jacques Parizeau was the Parti Quebecois Premier at the time of the 1995 referendum, and an absolute vehement opponent of allowing wider access to the english school system and restricting english across all sectors of Quebec society as a whole. Blamed the no vote on "the anglos and the jews, " an irony not lost on the anglos and jews when he was hospitalized in the Jewish General Hospital a few years back.

Last film I saw was Dredd. I grew up reading 2000AD and I thought it was amazingly faithful to the spirit of the comic, the oppressive, alienating nature of Megacity One, not trying to turn Dredd into some kind of charasmatic, sympathetic character, he's a nasty bastard. And loads of graphic, slow-motion gore. Best 90 minutes I've spent in a while.

Talk to Her: Pedro Almodovar.

The trials and tribulations of two men looking after women in comas. Strangely for an Almodovar film the main characters aren't the women. I enjoyed it, it's looking at some heavy themes of love and loss, and the performances (especially from Javier Camara, as Benigno, a nurse at the hospital whose obsession with one of the women is one of the film's main drivers) are excellent. Highly recommended for those who haven't yet seen it (it was released in 2002).

Depp is a good actor - who keeps making terrible movies. I think his last great performance was probably in 'Once Upon a Time in Mexico'. Or maybe 'The Rum Diary' (also not a great movie I thought).

He is a one trick pony that has coasted along for yonks on his 'good' looks. Even actually good looking Brad Pitt has acting chops. Dead Man was an awful long time ago now.

Monsters, about an alien invasion but not really. Disaster films wish they were this calm and soppy, and it helped with the hangover. And then Pierrot le Fou before going out again. "Why do you look so sad? Because you speak to me in words and I look at you with feelings."

So much Depp hate... I think I'm gonna have a crisis of fanboy butthurt overaccumulation...

Tried watching In the Mood for Love (2000) and The Double Life of Veronique (1991) but stopped halfway through both the films. I was finding the former quite slow, while the latter I found more ... engaging but progressively incomprehensible. Plus it was late at night and I had better things to do: lurk this forum, read up more anarchic texts, and since I follow cricket, update myself with the latest scores (England are out of the T20I; how does that make everyone feel? ) .

I would hate to be a pedant here but, strictly speaking, "Bollywood" tag is used only for those films wherein the language used is primarily Hindi. Some people also oppose the term "Bollywood" as they claim it makes the Hindi cinema sound like a poor cousin of Hollywood.

Satyajit Ray directed most of his films in his native language Bengali at his native state Bengal. Therefore, majority of his films form a part of cinema of Bengal, rather than the much larger "Hindi Cinema" (or "Bollywood").

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_Bengal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollywood

Soapy or Silent Wage Slave, do either of you know where I can watch The World of Apu? Thanks you

Not as mental as title suggests, some good reminders of what happened and how.