Last Movie You Watched

[strappinglad]

Just watched a documentary on Netflix called " Serving Life" . Narrated by Forest Whitaker it follows the lives of 4 men in Louisiana State Prison that sign up for a unique program where inmates serve fellow dying inmates as hospice volunteers. Very well done and respectful as well as enlightening about the changes in attitude and levels of compassion of these volunteers. Made me review my own position on incarceration. The warden seems to have an excellent idea here .

[LinuxGal]

The Italian Job, because my mother won't get nightmares from a caper flick.  She would if I showed her Prometheus or something.

[Deborah]

During this Thanksgiving weekend, I'm getting a couple of the premium channels for free, so I've enjoyed a couple of movies

 

Daughter and I watched a couple as well, Pompeii and Elysium. both which I'd seen. I recorded After Earth and never saw that in theaters but didn't go because of ratings. We want to go see Interstellar sometime this week, early in the day since I am now retired. Yay....!

[seriously honestly]

The Santa Clause. 1990's feel good family cheesiness, and I love it

[Deborah]

Watched Guardians of the Galaxy again with my daughter. What a fun movie. Reminds me of the early Star Wars.

[bluebell]

I watched Looper and The Fault in our Stars this last weekend.

 

Looper (recorded it off of the t.v. so i have no idea what the original rated R version is like) was a good story with good acting, but in some ways a very difficult movie to watch.  There is violence against children, for example, and one little boy in particular that is heartbreaking to watch.

 

TFIOS was good.  I read the book a couple of years ago and the book was a lot better but the movie was fine.  I don't know how i would have responded to it if i hadn't of already read the book, but knowing what I did, i thought the movie was a little too fast paced in some places (the depth of the love between the main characters doesn't really make sense in the movie.) and it really annoyed me that the movie doesn't ever explain where the title comes from.  The explanation is in the book and it's very poetic.

[Kenngo1969]

Guilty pleasure admission. I saw the new Dracula movie with Luke Evans. I loved the movie and loved Luke. He also plays the Bard in the Hobbit. The movie had a surpirsing love of family and a moral compass.

 

Nitpick, Bard is his given name, not his profession (poet), so he is Bard the Bowman. (archer) so no "the Bard"...

 

I realized that after I wrote it and thought no one would notice. LoL.

You dare to underestimate Cal's All-Seeing Eye?!!

 

[Calm]

Never mind...looked it up

Edited December 11, 2014 by calmoriah

[altersteve]

I attended a pre-screening of the new Hobbit movie last night. And if I'm being honest, I didn't like it at all. In fact, I almost hated it. Half of it is one incredibly long fight scene, there's very little story and almost no humor (except for one unintentionally funny and remarkably stupid scene showing Thorin's change of heart), Gandalf plays almost no role in this one at all, the forced romance between Kili and Tauriel is completely pointless, Smaug is killed way too quickly, and I didn't like how the White Orc was built up to be the main antagonist again. Visually it's nice to look at, and a scene involving a battle between Thorin and the White Orc on a frozen waterfall is particularly cool, but overall the film is pretty dreadful. Not the worst movie of the year by any means, but certainly the most disappointing, especially after the fun second movie. Blech.

Edited December 15, 2014 by altersteve

[Tacenda]

Everyone should see "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas", with Jim Carey. I watched it with my son and his gf tonight. There was stuff I'd never noticed before. One of the greats!

[Rock_N_Roll]

We saw Exodus last week. I liked the movie, thought the effects were cool, but I didn't much care for how they portrayed God.  As an angry child. Huh? 

[altersteve]

We saw Exodus last week. I liked the movie, thought the effects were cool, but I didn't much care for how they portrayed God.  As an angry child. Huh? 

I think they said the child was a messenger of God, not God himself.

[seriously honestly]

Saw Mockingjay last night with sister (loved it!).  I was pretty impressed! Really liked how close it followed the book while at the same time showing what was happening in the other districts.

[Kenngo1969]

I just watched one of my favorite "lawyer" movies -- The Rainmaker... starring a very young Matt Damon from I think 1997.  He plays a lawyer right out of law school, who gets involved with a colorful, questionable, ambulance chasing lawyer and his partner (Danny DeVito).  [Emphasis added by Kenngo1969] ...

 

 

Ah, but according to the rules, lawyers cannot "partner" with nonlawyers, My Dear!  (I realize you were probably using that word in a less literal sense. )  Danny DeVito, aka the never-admitted-to-the-Bar-even-though-he's-taken-the-exam-six-times "Deck Shifflet" skates on the very thin edge of unauthorized practice (if not falling through that ice altogether! ) by calling himself a "paralawyer" and doing things only those admitted to practice can do.  It reminds me of Catch Me If You Can: Frank Abagnale, Jr. is a "fake" airline pilot, a "fake" pediatrician, and a "fake" Spanish instructor, and the one thing he does that's legit is study his butt off and pass the Louisiana Bar Exam.  (Insofar as I am aware, the Bar Admission Rules for every state today dictate that one must graduate from law school in order to be eligible to take the Bar Exam, but who knows what the Louisiana Rules Governing Admission to the Practice of Law said in the late '60s or early '70s, when Mr. Abagnale took it! )   

Edited December 19, 2014 by Kenngo1969

[Garden Girl]

Ah, but according to the rules, lawyers cannot "partner" with nonlawyers, My Dear!  (I realize you were probably using that word in a less literal sense. )  Danny DeVito, aka the never-admitted-to-the-Bar-even-though-he's-taken-the-exam-six-times "Deck Shifflet" skates on the very thin edge of unauthorized practice (if not falling through that ice altogether! ) by calling himself a "paralawyer" and doing things only those admitted to practice can do.  It reminds me of Catch Me If You Can: Frank Abagnale, Jr. is a "fake" airline pilot, a "fake" pediatrician, and a "fake" Spanish instructor, and the one thing he does that's legit is study his butt off and pass the Louisiana Bar Exam.  (Insofar as I am aware, the Bar Admission Rules for every state today dictate that one must graduate from law school in order to be eligible to take the Bar Exam, but who knows what the Louisiana Rules Governing Admission to the Practice of Law said in the late '60s or early '70s, when Mr. Abagnale took it! )   

 

Picky, picky, picky, Kenngo  ...  I did it for expediency as I didn't know what to call him to quickly describe his relationship to the Rourke character... regardless... DeVito played a good part and it's one good story...

 

GG

[Kenngo1969]

Picky, picky, picky, Kenngo  ...  I did it for expediency as I didn't know what to call him to quickly describe his relationship to the Rourke character... regardless... DeVito played a good part and it's one good story...

 

GG

Wasn't pickin'!  Was just havin' a little fun with ya.  I like the DeVito character.  I haven't taken the Bar Exam six times, but I can relate to him.

[Garden Girl]

I rented "The Maze Runner"... an edge-of-your-seat sci-fi that is too complicated to try to describe in any depth... just that it involves a group of boys (and eventually one girl), who are sent to live within the center of a huge maze... there are certain boys who are designated "runners" who run through the maze during the day to try and find a way out... but they must be back out of the maze before nightfall because no one survives a night in the maze.  Naturally there are some nasty creatures that live in the maze and try to kill the runners.  Good movie...

 

GG

[Deborah]

Enjoyed Maze Runner. They are in production for sequel.

[Garden Girl]

Enjoyed Maze Runner. They are in production for sequel.

Hi Deborah..

I can see where the ending left it open for a sequel... lots of good possibilities...

 

GG

[Calm]

There are three books in the series plus a prequel apparently.

[cursor]

Argo

And my wife and I quite enjoyed it.

[Stargazer]

I attended a pre-screening of the new Hobbit movie last night. And if I'm being honest, I didn't like it at all. In fact, I almost hated it. Half of it is one incredibly long fight scene, there's very little story and almost no humor (except for one unintentionally funny and remarkably stupid scene showing Thorin's change of heart), Gandalf plays almost no role in this one at all, the forced romance between Kili and Tauriel is completely pointless, Smaug is killed way too quickly, and I didn't like how the White Orc was built up to be the main antagonist again. Visually it's nice to look at, and a scene involving a battle between Thorin and the White Orc on a frozen waterfall is particularly cool, but overall the film is pretty dreadful. Not the worst movie of the year by any means, but certainly the most disappointing, especially after the fun second movie. Blech.

That proves one thing: there's no accounting for taste. The only movie reviewer I pay any attention to, Michael Medved, has this to say (gave it 4 stars):

 

http://www.michaelmedved.com/wp-content/uploads/THE-HOBBIT-BATTLE-OF-FIVE-ARMIES.mp3

 

[Grudunza]

Hobbit 3 was my least favorite of the three. I enjoyed it fine, but it felt the least significant, almost going through the motions. And whereas I cared about the characters and their plight somewhat in the first two, at this point it was just resolving everything. And Thorin's "dragon sickness" and that Alfred guy were kind of dumb and tedious. And though the LOTR ending did seem to drag on forever, it seemed like this ending was almost rushed by comparison, considering all that had happened.

Any misgivings I have about this probably wouldn't matter if I had just watched the whole series at once. I'm sure the slower pacing of the first Hobbit film and the nature of this one would work better when seen as a whole. But regardless, I can't help feeling that it could have been a fantastic 2-part, 6 hour film event, but doesn't work as well as 3-part, 8.5 hours.

[Deborah]

Finally caught up on the movies I wanted to see but haven't had time. This week I saw the Hobbit, Catching Fire, Interstellar and Into the Woods. Enjoyed them all. Interstellar had so many surprises and truly held my interest for the whole 3 hours.

[bluebell]

I saw 42 this weekend (it's about Jackie Robinson) and was very pleasantly surprised.  It was interesting (and even held the interest of my 10 year old son who is all about football and nothing about baseball and who protested at the thought of watching a movie about it), touching, and even humorous.

 

I also found that it was beneficial for my boys to watch as they don't have much of an understanding of the American history with racism or why it's still relevant today.