What's the last movie you've seen?

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@angus watch Children of Men asap.

picked it up today.  Looks intriguing, although very different than Y Tu Mamá También.

I'll try to watch it this weekend. 

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@angus watch Children of Men asap.

Wow.  I watched it last night.  Will probably rewatch it again today to appreciate the visual details.  Captivating movie, no doubt.  Brilliant direction. 

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Syrian Bride and Ratatouille.

The boy and I are off for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday, so I got us a couple of movies to watch.  Syrian Bride for me, the Rat for him.  Now, we're spicin' it up with GH and PH (because sometimes the letter F just ain't enough, according to The Electric Company.)  Oh, yeah.

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I just picked up Divine Intervention.  Six to eight inches predicted tomorrow for northeastern Iowa, and my administrators are wimps.  They'll shut us down if we actually get that, so I got myself a movie to enjoy at home.  I'll let y'all know how it works out. 

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Got around to watching Divine Intervention last night.  Some of it went over my head, I think.  I at least understood why it was so entltled.  Mostly it seemed to be about the monotony of life, and the difficulty of meeting with your girlfriend, even when she lives only a few miles away.  I think it also had the feel of a subtle political protest. 

The humor was dry, but clever, and the scenes were well done, but the characters and the plot were underdeveloped, in my opinion.

To use the Hustler scale of movie ratings, I'd put it somewhere between halfway erect and mostly flaccid. 

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A Serious Man.  We watched it yesterday.  Anyone see that?  I felt that it lacked denouement.  The characters were well developed, but the story was incomplete.

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Lemon Tree

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In order of most recent:
Inception
Full Metal Jacket
Gangs of New York

Eclectic mix.  Excellent movies all. 

I watched Life is Beautiful last night.  The first half is bawdy and hilarious.  The second half is deeply depressing.  Overall, I can recommend it.  Watch it with a woman.

At the moment I'm watching A Time to Kill on ION Television.  It's a good flick as well.  Matthew McConaughey's character's wife is fresh and creamy.  Boing.  Sandra Bullock isn't bad either.  (yes, I said it.)  Samuel Jackson is spot-on perfect in his role.  Even Donald Sutherland and his boy do justice to their characters.  Very well cast, imho.

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Just finished watching "Mondays in the Sun."  It was a bit depressing.

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Watched The Lorax last night.  Aw, man, we watched it a movie theater.  I was reminded of how much I hate going to the cinema.  I like watching movies, but I hate going to see them in a theater.  First, it says it starts at 5:10 PM, so we get there at 5:05 to get a good seat.  And we sit there ten minutes before anything happens.  Finally, at 5:15 the screen flickers and a defeaningly loud voice starts to sqwauk about Cinedyne or some such company in the speakers.  Really loud, and it remained loud for the next two hours.  But still the movie doesn't play.  We are treated to at least ten minutes of advertisements, some for popcorn and Pepsi products, but mostly for trashy pop movies that will be "coming to a theater near you" very soon.  Finally, maybe after we'd been seated patiently for about half an hour the movie starts.  To add insult to injury, this particular movie was a "3D" movie.  For the unitiated, it's where they charge you 12 dollars instead of 10 dollars to see the movie, and they give you a cheesy pair of plastic glasses that you have to wear, because if you don't, everything looks blurry.  How uncomfortable to sit there with glasses on during an entire movie.   It was my first experience with a "3D" movie and hopefully it will be my last.

Ah, well, the movie itself was good, with a decent prosocial message and the boy has been asking me for two weeks to take him to see The Lorax and I finally promised him that I'd take him if he had three good days at school.  And he did.  So I did.  I think it's only the second time in his life that I took him to a movie in a theater.  The first one was Alvin and the Chipmunks, about 3 years ago.  I take him to plays, concerts, museums, recitals, carnivals, haunted houses, and the like, but I have generally avoided taking him to cinemas because I don't like them.  I also bring him a DVD movie home about once a week, so he sees plenty of movies.  Still, once every three years is okay for me.

I'm never going to make any promises about any "3D" movies again.  That's for sure.

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Krzyżacy.  Excellent movie.  Made in 1960 in Poland and subtitled in English.  It gave nice account of a petty gentryman's quest to find a woman who had been kidnapped by the Teutons.  I'd just finished James Michener's Poland last week, so I was up on my Jagiellonian history, and I happened to find this DVD when I went to get a movie for my son.  What luck.  If you're interested in the medieval period and in large battle scenes, this one is very well done.