What's the last movie you've seen?

[Mr. Morden]

Pan's Labyrinth.  Definitely liked it, but not quite as much as I was expecting, given all the rave reviews.

[Mr. Morden]

District 9.....unbelievably good.

[Mr. Morden]

Moon

Greatly enjoyed it.

[Mr. Morden]

The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus

The latest movie by Terry Gilliam.  Stars Christopher Plummer and Heath Ledger (the latter died during filming, and this is his final movie).  Enjoyable, but not as good as the movies Gilliam made in his prime.

[Mr. Morden]

Avatar

I think my eyes are going to explode from visual overstimulation.

[Mr. Morden]

Avatar

I think my eyes are going to explode from visual overstimulation.

Was it actually any good though?

*As a movie* it was OK.  Not great or terrible, but OK.  But the visuals brought it up to the level of "must see" (by which I mean as much the 3d effects as the CG).  And I say this as someone who normally wouldn't go out of his way to see a movie just for the spectacle, but they really raised the bar on this one.

And I will say that the action sequences are well staged.  Contrast that, with, say, Transformers (the first one....I haven't seen the sequel), where there were way too many closeup shots of robots that looked identical, and I couldn't tell what was going on.

[Mr. Morden]

Kick Ass

Crass humour and gore, what else could a guy want in a film worth viewing when hardly any good ones are actually on. Nicholas Cage, was particularly funny; initially I thought he was some kind of paedophile with that slowly balding scalp and that Village Peopleseque ginger mostache.

Yeah, I saw it last night and thought it was ridiculously fun.  It's something like "Kill Bill" meets "Spider-Man" meets "Superbad", except more fun than any of those movies.  Matthew Vaughn's last movie ("Stardust") was also pretty fun.

[Mr. Morden]

Kick Ass.

It was everything I expected, hilarious and bloody. Too bad the theater started showing the wrong movie at first (Date Night), but everyone in the theater got a coupon giving free admission to any movie at the same place that never expired so it made up for it.

Did your daughter like it?

[Mr. Morden]

I just flew back from Perth, and watched "127 Hours" and "Never Let Me Go".  Amusingly, neither has actually seen a theatrical release in Australia yet.  Apparently, the only way to watch them is on airplanes.

[Mr. Morden]

Mysterious Skin

It was pretty good.

[Mr. Morden]

Watched "Thor" last night.  (Which, oddly, is out in Australia a week before the rest of the world.)

It was about as good as a movie like that can hope to be, which puts it in the same category as, say, "Iron Man".  But not likely to end up as a contender for best movie of the year, or anything like that.

[Mr. Morden]

Avengers

It was pretty good for what it tried to be.