What was the last movie you've seen?

[samsonlonghair]

He hasn't done anything that hasn't been terrible in nearly thirty years. In fact if I were marketing a new thriller, I'd tag it with "Not written nor directed by M. Night Shyamalan".

I thoroughly enjoyed (and still enjoy re-watching) Unbreakable. I enjoy the pacing, the character development, the acting, and the script. Unbreakable dissects the superhero genre in smart ways. Yes, you see the twist ending coming, but it's fun to watch normalcy unravel towards the inevitable conclusion. This was quality film making from M. Night Shyamalan and proof that he understands how to make good movies. One must assume that either M. Night Shyamalan is choosing not to make good movies anymore, or he just doesn't give a darn anymore.

[Pulsar_t]

But isn't his new TV series supposedly good?



Everyone enjoys disaster flicks for their own reasons. Mine is that it shows our humility as highly fallible critters atop Terra's crust. The CG weren't as ridiculous as 2012 at least, here.

[Luke]

Unbreakable.

Most like-minded movie friends of mine also like UNBREAKABLE. I find it a waste of time and talent. If Ambien was a movie, for me it would be UNBREAKABLE. I doubt a hammock could put me to sleep quicker.

[Luke]

Serious question for all of ya:

What was the last movie that made you cry, and why?

[Jmustang1968]

Serious question for all of ya:

What was the last movie that made you cry, and why?

I've never cried because of a movie.

[MrPopo]

Serious question for all of ya:

What was the last movie that made you cry, and why?

Schindler's List, the scene where they present the ring to Schindler after the war is over. I don't think I need to explain why.

The only other one I can think of is Les Mis, near the end of Dreamed a Dream because Anne Hathaway did a brilliant performance that got all the feels into me.

[noiseredux]

most movies make me cry.

[Stark]

Serious question for all of ya:

What was the last movie that made you cry, and why?

I've never cried because of a movie.

Pretty much this, but I've teared up because of a very strong performance. The last time I can think of this happening was the father breaking down towards the end of HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE. The Les Mis that Popo mentions is also very sad.

[Pulsar_t]

Grave of the Fireflies, but it was an exception. Tearjerkers can nail me, but plain crying is rare. The more resembling to reality things are (such as the case with Miyazaki's classic), the better chance of own salty discharge.

Speaking of anime, I've grown up with it, dubbed for the most part, and the pattern in post-WWII Japanese anti-war sentiment was ever so strong. From superrobots racing to save cities from extraterrestrial invaders to movies condemning the violence of war (Barefoot Gen) to epic dramas investigating the very nature of conflict (Legend of Galactic Heroes) to space operas about stopping the destruction of the environment (Space Battleship Yamato), it was (and in some ways remains) an interesting cultural and anthropological phenomenon.

[Ack]

What was the last movie that made you cry, and why?

Come and See



I watched this movie with a buddy of mine because we had been told it was one of the most brutal war movies ever made. We watched the whole thing, and at the end both of us sat there in silence for several minutes after. When I finally managed to speak, all I could do was whisper, "Holy fuck."

The film is about a Belarusian boy who attempts to join the Soviet partisans against the Nazis in WWII. By the end of it, his family has been slaughtered, he has watched his friends die, he barely escapes a massacre in which the Nazis burn down a church full of people, and he has basically withered away on camera. At this point in the war, the Nazis were using penal units made up of rapists, thieves, murderers, serial killers, pedophiles, and whatever other rabble they could give a gun and a uniform to for the purpose of hunting down the partisans and commiting genocide against the local inhabitants.

Hell, here's a description for part of the movie:

An Obersturmführer (played by Juri Lumiste) announces to the terrified people, "those without children can leave." Everyone inside the church calls the Germans, "Beasts." Flyora takes up the offer and climbs out of the church, only to be handled by a German sergeant and shown to the Sturmbannführer, the commanding officer of the German unit. He is then thrown down and Flyora watches as a woman and her child get climb out of the church. She is grabbed by German soldiers and her child is thrown back into the church, the woman being dragged by her hair by a Collaborator and then is made to stay too. Around the whole village, drunk Germans and Collaborators laugh and listen to music, many finding ways to entertain themselves. Grenades are then hurled into the church as a truck playing music parks near the other German vehicles. Molotov cocktails are then thrown at the church while a collaborator inside of the top of the church escapes out. All the soldiers clap and laugh as the people inside burn to death. The soldiers then start firing at the church. Flamethrowers ignite the church more and music keeps playing to the sounds of the people dying inside the church. The Collaborators use most of the people that got out to herd the animals and Flyora is used in a picture, A German officer points a gun to his head while they pose for a picture. The officer does not kill him and leaves him to die.

The woman who was dragged by the hair is thrown into a moving truck and presumably gang raped by the soldiers in the truck. The soldiers leave the burning village and carry an old woman outside to watch them as they leave, torches in many of the soldier's hands and music can still be heard playing as they drive away from the inferno. Flyora lies face down on the ground and is kicked by a motorcycle riding German soldier.

For the record, I do recommend watching it.