What's the last movie you've seen?

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Date Night

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

United 93.

The first half was very boring. It might not be if you weren't already aware of what was going to happen, but it was hard to get excited when planes hit the World Trade Center. The second half however while also a foregone conclusion was very powerful and intense.

Wish Libertas could post here about how it's a military-industrial complex propaganda film and how Muslims had nothing to do with 9/11.

[War on Want]

The Departed

[Хahar 🤔]

Shrek: The Final Chapter - Wow.  This movie was absolutely amazing.  It was nothing but laughs from start to finish, and a really great way to finish the series.  I loved it.

Finish?

There'll be more Shrek movies.

Nah, this is the last one.

$$$

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

The Dirty Dozen

Mildly entertaining, John Cassevetes was very good in it, nothing great though (how it inspired a movie as awsome as Inglourious Basterds will remain a mystery to me).

[Eraserhead]

Shrek: The Final Chapter - Wow.  This movie was absolutely amazing.  It was nothing but laughs from start to finish, and a really great way to finish the series.  I loved it.

Finish?

There'll be more Shrek movies.

Nah, this is the last one.

$$$

But didn't you read my post? This one is basically bombing, doing a sequel/prequel will not be deemed worthwhile for some time (if ever). Remember, these movies actually have rather vast budgets.

[??????????]

Shrek 4 isn't bombing. It was actually pretty damn good.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

It's not necessarily bombing but it's not pulling in anywhere near as much as the other sequels, and as Eraserhead said remember that these movies have pretty massive budgets, not to mention the marketing as well.

[fezzyfestoon]

Shrek 4 isn't bombing. It was actually pretty damn good.

Yeah it is.  It's pulling in nowhere near what it was expected to and the high cost of 3D is killing its per-theater profits, which are half that of Alice in Wonderland.

Thankfully it looks as though this is starting the death of the artificially created 3D craze.

[The Mikado]

Shrek: The Final Chapter - Wow.  This movie was absolutely amazing.  It was nothing but laughs from start to finish, and a really great way to finish the series.  I loved it.

Finish?

There'll be more Shrek movies.

Nah, this is the last one.

$$$

$$$ that isn't there due to the extremely high cost of making the films (as pointed out by BRTD).

I've seen the first three, should I see this one?  (Eric Idle's cameo really carried the last one for me.  I'd see him in anything.)

[Vepres]

Shrek: The Final Chapter - Wow.  This movie was absolutely amazing.  It was nothing but laughs from start to finish, and a really great way to finish the series.  I loved it.

Really? I liked the first two, but was extremely disappointed with the third installment.

[useful idiot]

The Road: I'd heard a lot of mixed things, but I basically only know idiots so I didn't have any real expectations going in, other than that it was based on the Cormac McCarthy book. It was really good though, I'd give it a solid B+, maybe an A-

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

The Road: I'd heard a lot of mixed things, but I basically only know idiots so I didn't have any real expectations going in, other than that it was based on the Cormac McCarthy book. It was really good though, I'd give it a solid B+, maybe an A-

That movie was actually just too bleak and depressing for me to enjoy it at all. It lacked the "cool" factor in most post-apocalyptic works. This world was just a depressing horrid place with no real redeeming features.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Shrek: The Final Chapter - Wow.  This movie was absolutely amazing.  It was nothing but laughs from start to finish, and a really great way to finish the series.  I loved it.

Really? I liked the first two, but was extremely disappointed with the third installment.

Yeah, the third one was bad, but this is much better.  The only reason it isn't better than 1 or 2 is because those movies are so great.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Is it weird I haven't seen any in 2010 that I recall?

[??????????]

How "hard" is the labor? Lolz

[East Coast Republican]

Just Wright with her highness Queen Latifah.

If you see it, you'll see she doesn't end up as the home girl in the end.

[Swing low, sweet chariot. Comin' for to carry me home.]

The Awful Truth (1937 Irene Dunne, Cary Grant)

best movie I have seen in a long time!  I am always surprised how "modern" big city life was back then.

[Gustaf]

Last one is probably Youth in Revolt

It was allright, kind of funny to see two sides of Michael Cera as a confident bad boy for a change. Maybe he won't be completely type-cast.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

The Road: I'd heard a lot of mixed things, but I basically only know idiots so I didn't have any real expectations going in, other than that it was based on the Cormac McCarthy book. It was really good though, I'd give it a solid B+, maybe an A-

That movie was actually just too bleak and depressing for me to enjoy it at all. It lacked the "cool" factor in most post-apocalyptic works. This world was just a depressing horrid place with no real redeeming features.

So exactly like a post-apoclayptic world should look like, no?

Anyway the last three films I saw...

Scanners (David Cronenberg, 1981): Decent horror film though shows how much Cronenberg had to develop by then (his next would be the unbelievable and brilliant Videodrome). Notable for featuring exploding heads and Cronenbergian-themes in embyro. Features quite possibly the worst lead male protagonist acting performance in the history of film.

The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles, 1948): Totally destroys the myth that Orson Welles' career peaked at Citizen Kane and then went into decline and artistic sloppiness. While it verges (in both good and bad ways) on being totally over the top, flawed, depends on cliche, utterly baroque (and loses control of its self) and the plot does not particularly make alot of sense, it is an utterly brilliant film noir. The fact that I say this about a film in which Orson Welles puts on a stage Oirish accent (sometimes it's okay, but at other times I wanted to swear at the screen...) probably says alot of think at the film. Dialogue is Grade A and this must be one of the most visually 'borrowed' films ever... I'm looking at you Baz Luhrmann (The Music added in after the film by the studio is awful though and can lead to confusion)

The Enigma of Kasper Hauser (Werner Herzog, 1974): Sad, affecting 'realist' film set in 19th Century Germany. Has some excellent moments and is in many ways, the least Herzog Herzog film I've yet seen. Recommended though I think I admired it more than loved it. It perhaps engages too much in the idealization of the outsider (as being only an outsider) which is a trope I've grown to like less and less.

[Јas]

Bad Lieutenant

Bad cop movie turned up to 11. Deliberately. I suspect had an unknown director produced this is would be straight to DVD. Nic Cage does his Nic Cage performance - and it fits ok (given the great amount of hammy and clichéd dialogue generally).

[Phony Moderate]

I saw two yesterday.

Get Real and Nixon. Both enjoyable movies.

[useful idiot]

I saw two yesterday.

Get Real and Nixon. Both enjoyable movies.

I love [/i]Nixon[/i]. It overly inflated my hopes for W. though. I kept sitting there in the theatre wondering "Why is this movie such crap? Why couldn't you have just made this like Nixon and cut out the cheesiness and comedy?". It turned Bush into a cartoon character who makes gaffes in private conversations that happened during speeches. The best thing about Nixon was that it humanized him. The dialogue in Nixon and the casting were all amazing, the opposite was true of W.

Stone jumped the shark big time with Alexander, he'll never recover....

[Middle-aged Europe]

I saw two yesterday.

Get Real and Nixon. Both enjoyable movies.

I love [/i]Nixon[/i]. It overly inflated my hopes for W. though. I kept sitting there in the theatre wondering "Why is this movie such crap? Why couldn't you have just made this like Nixon and cut out the cheesiness and comedy?". It turned Bush into a cartoon character who makes gaffes in private conversations that happened during speeches. The best thing about Nixon was that it humanized him. The dialogue in Nixon and the casting were all amazing, the opposite was true of W.

Stone jumped the shark big time with Alexander, he'll never recover....

Yeah, that was also my problem with "W."

It was a movie which couldn't decide whether it wanted to be a serious character drama or a full-blown satire. The end product was a pretty uneven picture.

[dead0man]

Avatar and The Hangover....both were WAY WAY over-rated as I had suspected.  Avatar looked like a cartoon and was at least an hour too long....and preachy...I guess it was pretty.  The Hangover had like, maybe 10 funny things happen in it and I saw 7 of those in the previews for it.  And I LOVE Ed Helms.