What's the last movie you've seen? (2nd thread)

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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

A poignant film in light of today's gun debates.

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Heh.

I'm going to have to watch the Graduate again, I didn't like it the first time.

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I saw spring breakers. At first I hated it but now I can't get it out of my head.

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Le Petit Soldat

For some reason it reminded me of a cross between Alfred Hitchcock and Ender's Game.

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Finally got around to watching Clerks. It was as funny as I imagined it would be.

I loved it.

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Spring Breakers

There's nothing in the AV Club's negative review that I necessarily disagree with (the description of the movie as "vacuous, repetitive, [and] hyperbolically stupid" is especially apt), but I came in knowing what to expect, and it ended up being an immensely satisfying experience. I expect this will be the most unique movie I see all year; certainly it's the least conventional movie I've ever seen in theaters. I'm not entirely sure how something like this received such a wide release.

I really want to see it within the next week, and prolly cause James Franco is in it, though his roll as a Riff Raff-ish rapper is also fairly unconventional.

James Franco doesn't show up until about halfway through the movie, but his performance is strange and magnificently compelling. He might be the best part of an excellent movie.

He's the only character they bothered to develop in an interesting way, which is kind of disappointing.

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Bedevilled. I highly recommend it.

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Anybody else a big fan of Roman Polanski? Love his dark, creepy, heady stuff. I saw a number of years ago The Nine Gates with Johnny Depp in which Depp plays a book dealer who gets sucked into a cult run by bored wealthy people. Really superb, one of his best films. A heady, creepy mystery.

Well, someone recommended to me Polanski's version of Macbeth from the early 1970s. I watched it and have to say that from the perspective of someone in the States it's one of the finest Medieval themed movies I have ever seen. I will watch it again. Really great. Dark and hyper realistic from the standpoint of locale and sets (filmed in Wales, I read). All the illusions Macbeth has and ghosts  that he sees and so forth are clearly a product of his mind, he clearly makes happen the prophecies, and best of all, it could easily be a 1940s Chicago or New York Godfather kind of deal. Really well done. The coronation scene of Macbeth looks a lot like stuff you see in artwork from the time, and there are places where the movie is really trippy. A+

The problem is that Polanski is too terrible of a person for that to be easily separated from his work. He is an extremely vile and disgusting individual.

. . . Huh?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Polanski_sexual_abuse_case

...but personally, it's easy for me to separate that from his work. Chinatown is obviously one of the greatest films of all time.

^^^

Agreed. Chinatown is one of my favorite films. I do find it creepy though that one of the themes is sexual abuse of a child, especially in the context of the ending. What it shows that the line between art and reality isn't always finely drawn.

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Things I learned from World War Z:

1. Singing will cause the Palestinians to invade Israel.
2. Never call your husband while he's at work.
3. Never call mother nature a bitch.
4. The North Koreans are winning.
5. If you're having trouble picking your poison, get Brad Pitt to do it.

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Gravity; not bad. A bit thin on the character development, emphasis on visuals. Thus very zeitgeist despite not being a superhero movie.

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I recently watched Hunger Games and today followed up with Catching Fire. Really an excellent series, I can't forgive myself for missing it out when it first started.

Truly fantastic characters (it's already rare enough to find a genuine female lead, but it did a particularly good job at avoiding and even subverting sexist tropes), and a very well-thought premise (one of most creative ideas in recent times for an apocalyptic future with disturbing elements from modern society). If these are adaptations, I can only imagine how good the original books were.

The awful thing is that I'll have to wait for a while to see the conclusion.

Left wing propaganda, really. It advocates the working class uniting against 'the real enemy' instead of competing against one another in an unwinnable game. The first 2 movies are about the struggle to raise 'class consciousness'.

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Casino - still cool after all these years. I noticed it was kind of right-wing though. The subtext is that this brutal, violent union run criminal organization is replaced by benevolent corporations financed by "junk bonds" in the 1980s.