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

[Tetro Kornbluth]

12 Years a Slave (2013)

Intense and harrowing. Which is exactly as it should be. It's definitely avoids pc kitsch (except for the score which really I think shouldn't have been there). Although I also found it somewhat unsatisifying perhaps because often it doesn't go much beyond 'slavery is bad m'kay'. On the other hand, the most interesting scenes imho were those showing the social dynamics of the plantation outside of Northup's direct experience and those depicting the religious language which truly drenches the whole thing. For these scenes, the film is excellent.

However, the Brad Pitt ending (which I believe is what actually happened) is something of a deus ex machina and clunky. The final scene is meant to be tearducts. Oh well.

[Middle-aged Europe]

Nebraska

[Knives]

12 YAS - 3.5/5
Wolf of Wall St - 5/5 Best of the year, maybe the decade.

[King]

Checked out Rush tonight. Terrific and, for a subject I didn't care or know much about, exciting

[Lief 🗽]

Thor 2. One of the worst movies I've ever seen. Just nonsensical, ridiculous and over-wrought garbage from beginning to end.

[Eraserhead]

Thor 2. One of the worst movies I've ever seen. Just nonsensical, ridiculous and over-wrought garbage from beginning to end.

Did you like the first one?

[Lief 🗽]

Thor 2. One of the worst movies I've ever seen. Just nonsensical, ridiculous and over-wrought garbage from beginning to end.

Did you like the first one?

Never saw it (but I know basically what happened in it). Really liked Avengers though.

[RosettaStoned]

 Zulu (1964). Rather good.

[TheDeadFlagBlues]

Thor 2. One of the worst movies I've ever seen. Just nonsensical, ridiculous and over-wrought garbage from beginning to end.

Why on earth did you watch Thor 2???

[Lief 🗽]

Thor 2. One of the worst movies I've ever seen. Just nonsensical, ridiculous and over-wrought garbage from beginning to end.

Why on earth did you watch Thor 2???

GF and I wanted a fun movie to watch while high on saturday night.

Zulu (1964). Rather good.

Great, great film.

[TheDeadFlagBlues]

smh lief you can do better.
You are totally correct that watching big budget films while stoned is an amazing experience though.

[DemPGH]

As per a recommendation from Al a while back I watched an Italian movie called Il Divo. It's about a corrupt Italian politician (Andreotti) with ties to the Mafia. The director wants you to see him as the Italian Nixon, only instead of breaking into buildings and spying on people, those who oppose him wind up offed. Andreotti goes out of his way to put forward a very pious exterior and persona meanwhile he's privately calculating and dark. A great line goes, "You fight the battle with the troops available." Yeah. Sounds better in italian, tough. And Machiavelli is around every corner.

Polanski movie called The Nine Gates with Johnny Depp, Lena Olin, and Frank Langella. It's about bored rich people in some vaguely defined Satanic cult who seek a book that will raise the Devil, I guess. Very, very good and again wonderfully photographed with a sleepy, threatening atmosphere all the way through. More of a mystery story than anything else.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

Dallas Buyers Club

Great movie

[Phony Moderate]

I watched Groundhog Day (not for the first time) on...Groundhog Day.

[Middle-aged Europe]

Dallas Buyers Club

[Paul Kemp]

Killing Them Softly

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Airplane!

[Middle-aged Europe]

Airplane!

Hope it didn't give you a drinking problem.

[afleitch]

The Lego Movie

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Airplane!

Hope it didn't give you a drinking problem.

I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.

[DemPGH]

A movie from 2008 or so called In Bruges. It's about the . . . well, darkly weird misadventures of a couple of Irish hit men who get out of town for a spell to Bruges. They encounter various stereotypes and crack jokes about their boss, who goes out of his way to swear (Joe Pesci does that best of all, but this guy was mildly humorous). And there's of course violence.

It was a good movie that had its moments, but honestly the kind of humor in the movie really doesn't do a lot for me. I'd recommend it, but there's a lot of random stuff and smart-alecky tongue-in-cheek humor that had me thinking, "Was that supposed to be funny? Oh, I guess. Ha!"

[The Dowager Mod]

Monuments men.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

A movie from 2008 or so called In Bruges. It's about the . . . well, darkly weird misadventures of a couple of Irish hit men who get out of town for a spell to Bruges. They encounter various stereotypes and crack jokes about their boss, who goes out of his way to swear (Joe Pesci does that best of all, but this guy was mildly humorous). And there's of course violence.

It was a good movie that had its moments, but honestly the kind of humor in the movie really doesn't do a lot for me. I'd recommend it, but there's a lot of random stuff and smart-alecky tongue-in-cheek humor that had me thinking, "Was that supposed to be funny? Oh, I guess. Ha!"

It's a postmodern anti-violence film.

[King]

I saw Her last night.

I'm a huge Jonze fan so it was pretty much guaranteed 4 stars out of me and it delivered.

[Lincoln Republican]

At a theatre, The Butler