Last film you saw

[AlexMagd]

To complement the 'what are you listening to' thread.

I just went to see The Dark Knight, and thought it was fantastic. Acting, special effects, story, characterisation, Heath Ledger: all were brilliant.

Unfortunately it didn't look like any new decent films were coming out (unless you count The Mummy 3, which I don't).

So what has everyone else seen?

[norman]

It's been ages since I last went to the cinema. In fact I think Semi-pro was the last film I saw there!

The last film I watched in general was Blast From The Past.

[StuartPilbrow]

Dark knight, and hell yeah it was good. I would like to see the new X-files movie, I used to love watching it as a kid, but i'm not sure if I still would. But by the looks of the trailer it was a religious guy been proved wrong so it can't be that bad :)
There is also that new Bill Maher film Religulous coming out in October which look hilarious.

[grammar king mike]

Last film I went to see was Wanted. It was good with the action and all that, and if you're in the mood for a 'Shoot 'em up' style no holds barred action film then it's perfect, but the storyline's so stupid. Click below for the basic plot (hopefully spoilers work on here).

So, starts off with a guy getting killed from about 20 miles away with a sniper rifle. Then shoots off and a guy in an office gets recruited to this brotherhood of assassins located in a cloth-weaving factory. He's told the guy who got shot at the start is his father who walked out on him after a week. Cue the montage and his training. Apparently he's one of a small percentage of people who have the ability to speed their heartbeat up to 400 bpm, increasing adrenaline flow and slowing stuff down in the head. Right.

So, assassins need people to kill. How they decide who to kill is the stupidest thing I've ever heard (other than Thetans and Xenu). A weaving machine called "The Thread of Fate" or something equally crap makes cloth continually, which contains a code. If a loop of thread in the cloth leaps over 2 threads in the perpendicular direction downwards, it's a 1. Same thing across, and it's 0 (medieval cloth code). Read it in binary code and that's the name of someone you've got to kill. You may want to take a second here to recover from how utterly ridiculous that concept is.

Anyway it turns out the guy who sniped the guy at the start is a rogue operator killing the assassins. Surprise surprise there's a "Luke, I am your father" cliche moment, but office-guy-turned-assassin kills him anyway, then discovers it was the truth. So he goes on a rampage going through all the assassins (at some point he got like a million times better than all the assassins who trained him, they missed that somewhere), using rats soaked in a liquid explosive and armed with digital watches to blow the factory up. Angelina Jolie (assassin turned good at the end) curves a bullet (oh yeah they can do that too somehow) all the way around a circular room killing all the assassins and herself in the process. Then office guy kills Morgan Freeman. Wow

Hopefully that worked.

[grammar king mike]

Oh right. Spoilers don't work...

[AlexMagd]

Wanted was pretty stupid; a few people in the cinema laughed out loud when the loom was mentioned. Very stylish though, and a good brainless actioner which is what you want sometimes (Die Hard 4.0 woo!)

Religulous looks OK but I'm worried it'll just be Maher point-scoring against fundies with really poor arguments (like the "can God make a rock so big..." one). I do like that a fairly mainstream TV host is openly critical of religion though, and here's hoping that it's successful!

[Chris Worfolk]

Unfortunately it didn't look like any new decent films were coming out (unless you count The Mummy 3, which I don't).

New X-Files movie is out this summer. Can't wait!

[AlexMagd]

Ah I forgot about that one, for some reason they didn't trailer it. I'm ashamed to say I'm kind of tempted by Wall-E too although my faith in Pixar has been shaken after some of its recent films.

[Jenna]

at the cinema - mamma Mia
I knowwwww, I thought it'd be crap too, and swore not to see it because it was cringeworthy but I went with my mom who said it was about mother and daughter relationships. Actually really liked it, it's set in Greece so it's nice visually, Julie WAlters is v funny, and it was sweet.

at home- Texas ChainSaw massacre (orig)
really liked it, cool being that bit older but not black and white thankfully.

Also saw the dark Knight, excellent I thought.

[AlexMagd]

Just saw In The Loop by Armando Iannucci and thought it was absolutely brilliant. I'm a fan of the TV series so not a surprise really, but I loved the way it straddled the line between funny and angry.

Obviously I was rooting for Malcolm "Mother" Tucker throughout, and that was weird considering what he was up to. It was easy to be on his side because of his skill at his job but it was easy to hate him because of what his job meant for the world! There's one shot in that scene which is just brilliant. No dialogue required, just acting. :D

Plus, I never thought I'd hear the phrase "lubricated horse cock" in a 15-certificate film. Just goes to show!

Not quite as good as the two-part Christmas special of The Thick Of It (the second half, Spinners & Losers, is just about the greatest thing the BBC has produced in the last decade) but still brilliant.

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[ChloeC-F]

at the cinema - mamma Mia
I knowwwww, I thought it'd be crap too, and swore not to see it because it was cringeworthy....

My brother keeps trying to get us to watch that film... and buy Singstar Abba... and I've seen him dressed up as Bjorn. Hmmm.

you can't beat internet downloads. Recently saw the Studio Ghibli film 'The Cat Returns'. Weirdest. film. ever. I think there was something lost in translation! It was bit like Alice in Wonderland but with furries. And the voice of Tim Curry.

[Ellis Pugh]

Mama Mia's QUALITY, and no I'm not gay. Everyone loves ABBA :)

My house and I are hoping to watch 'Troll 2' tomorrow, which is apparently one of the worst films ever made. It should be a right laugh if the wikipedia description is anything to go by:

'Troll 2 is a 1990 horror film, directed by Claudio Fragasso, under the pseudonym Drake Floyd. During production, the film was known as Goblins, and some foreign releases of the movie were labeled as such, but upon release in the United States, the title was changed to Troll 2 in an attempt to help sell the film by connecting it to an established horror movie, the 1986 Empire Pictures film Troll. The two films, however, have no connection apart from the title. In fact, despite the title, no actual trolls appear in Troll 2.

The plot concerns an American family, the Waits family, who are taking a trip to the country to visit a small town called "Nilbog" (goblin spelled backwards), but are plunged into a nightmare as they are relentlessly pursued by vegetarian goblins, who turn people into plants before they eat them'

hahahahahaha

On a more exciting note, is anyone else looking forward to the impending release of Angels and Demons? I always thought it'd make a good movie and can't wait.

[Chris Worfolk]

Mama Mia's QUALITY, and no I'm not gay. Everyone loves ABBA :)

Highest grossing film in the UK you say? ;)

[Mexrc]

Recently watch Notorious and Bride Wars back to back - did exactly what they were meant to do; allow me to zone out for a few hours.

The latest Xmen Wolverine was good.

[grammar king mike]

I've been getting up early (read: before 10) every day for a couple of weeks or so for exams, so when I had a day off yesterday but still managed to get up far too early, noone was around and I had nothing to do. So I made a blogpost and saw the Star Trek trailer on YouTube and I thought, fuck it, I'm gonna go watch Star Trek. So I did. On my own. :( But I still felt cool given who else was in the screening. I suppose the cool kids don't often go to the morning screenings :D.

It was pretty awesome but a bit of a copout. Obviously none of the makers could be arsed watching all the episodes to make sure they didn't make a continuity mistake, so at the very start of the film someone came back from the future, changing everything that happened so that what happened in the series, doesn't happen in the future timeline of the film. Lazy bastards. But nonetheless, a great film, and you don't have to be a Trekkie to get it.

[AlexMagd]

I'm quite keen to see it, though I saw a review yesterday that basically said: it's good, but if it didn't have the Star Trek name on it, it'd just be another boring genre film.


Last film I saw was Taken, with Liam Neeson. Plot: Liam Neeson flips out and kills people for two hours. It was fantastic! It was a really unusual story, didn't try and dress up its fairly basic premise in needless exposition and the characterisation was actually pretty good.

Before that I saw Franklyn, which is a British film that didn't get much publicity. Its one of these "separate characters moving towards a common explosive climax" type films but with the added bonus of bits of it being set in a parallel universe in which the law demands you have a religion (any religion). In that setting, the hero is the only atheist in the city who looks a bit like Rorschach from Watchmen. So, quite interesting, and a good cast too (Eva Green! Bernard Hill! Sam Riley!)