Rate the last movie you watched.

[Greenlizard0]

Originally Posted by Belmit

Sounds virtually identical to Lorenzo's Oil.

I've not seen that but aye, it certainly looks like it. That's what I was saying, it's a Hollywood script all over and not very 'new'.

[Goose]

Originally Posted by Haly

A Single Man

Fantastic film. Not an easy watch but powerful. Stunning art direction also.

Colin Firth greatly deserved his Oscar nomination.

9/10

I'm watching right now, it's really striking a chord with me.

[BBx]

Sex and the City 2

It was ok. Wasn't amazing, but work took us all out so I didn't pay to see it... and I had champers. Just basically an extra long episode of the show.

6/10

BB x

[Haly]

The Ghost

Nicking IMDB's summary because I'm lazy

An unremarkable ghost-writer has landed a lucrative contract to redact the memoirs of Adam Lang, the former UK Prime Minister. After dominating British politics for years, Lang has retired with his wife to the USA. He lives on an island, in luxurious, isolated premises complete with a security detail and a secretarial staff. Soon, Adam Lang gets embroiled in a major scandal with international ramifications that reveals how far he was ready to go in order to nurture UK's "special relationship" with the USA. But before this controversy has started, before even he has closed the deal with the publisher, the ghost-writer gets unmistakable signs that the turgid draft he is tasked to put into shape inexplicably constitutes highly sensitive material.

Really quite intelligent, multi-layered thriller. Good acting all round. Shame it didn't do better at the box office although I'm not surprised it didn't.

9/10

[Jonny69]

In no order over the last few weeks:

Hotrod - Awesome road movie.
Two Lane Blacktop - Awesome road movie.
Blade Runner final cut - Just awesome, don't need to say more.
Anatomy For Beginners - Gross out.

All watched on my iPod nano. I think AFB needs a bigger screen to see the grossness in full detail though

[volospian]

Originally Posted by Jonny69

Two Lane Blacktop - Awesome road movie.

I watched this a while back. It was always one of those "you're into cars and HAVEN'T seen Two Lane Blacktop???" films, so I thought I'd better watch it. I thought it was tedious.

Mind you A Clockwork Orange was the same. Everybody banged on about it being awesome and when I watched it I nearly fell asleep.

I think you can get so expectant about something. Everybody hypes it right up and you're depserate to see what's so damn fantastic that everybody simply cannot conceive of a life without it, and when you watch it, it fails to be this life changing experience you expected, so you feel disappointed.

If I had stumbled upon them without hearing of them before, I'd have probably liked them for what they are, and possibly told others to go and see them.

IMO, if you want to watch a road film, watch Mad Max (except 3, that was rubbish).

[Jonny69]

Originally Posted by volospian

I watched this a while back. It was always one of those "you're into cars and HAVEN'T seen Two Lane Blacktop???" films, so I thought I'd better watch it. I thought it was tedious.

To enjoy 2LB you need to:

1) be a hotrodder or drag racer.

2) have done a road trip in a car like that.

Then you enjoy that movie

[Greenlizard0]

Remember Me

This film charts the 'adventures' of a couple's coming together as both live their lives with tragedy; the lass part of an incomplete family that poorly copes with the death of its mother, while the lad is clearly burdened after the suicide of his old brother. His family too, carries obvious and plentiful baggage to the point that the father (Pierce Brosnan), a very successful lawyer, appears in the opinion of his son to be distancing himself. he submerges himself in work in an attempt perhaps to avoid confronting his and his family's grief. The soon to be couple meet in a rather typically Hollywood coincidental fashion. However, there's far more to it than that and at this point I won't say any more because it's worth watching and letting the story unravel.

The film deals with tragedy quite seriously but didn't let the viewer forget it was a romantic story either. Often it wavered from one to the other and in the middle the two came together. The tragedy was good as it kept the film grounded while the couple falling together seemed to work like glue. Here it was the strength of the acting that carried it through. All the roles are by experienced actors including and they do very well with the excellent script.

I really enjoyed this film. It's part comedy, part romance, part drama and part tragedy. The music is very positive in places and it looks good in Blu-Ray.

Try and see this film, it's easily the best film I've seen so far this year.

8/10

[Belmit]

La vita è bella (Life is Beautiful)

Watched this last night and was stunned into silence at the end. This is the perfect film.

The film wouldn't have been made possible without the career of Charlie Chaplin. Roberto Benigni (writer, director, star, genius) has clearly based his style entirely on the former's characteristics and made them his own. The mood of the film, the laughs, the setups, the sheer tragedies that are often only nodded towards... all entirely influenced in this way.

To describe the plot would be to do it an injustice in multiple ways so I won't try here but Benigni never falters for a second in all capacities. To be roaring with laughter as a Nazi officer yells at a bunch of Jewish concentration camp prisoners is something I never thought I'd be doing, but it's the funniest scene in the film and never once detracts from the horror they're facing. That is pure storytelling gold.

Quite possibly my new favourite film.

10/10

[Kitten]

Heartbreaker (L'arnacoeur)

If you liked Amelie/Also Angel-A, you'll love this. In French with English subtitles, but done in such a way that you just *know* that if Hollywood made this, it would be awful, schmaltzy crap. However, the French have done it, and it's just fabulous. Laugh out loud funny, sweet, a cracking reference to Dirty Dancing. Go see, please.

9/10