What was the last movie you've seen?

[KalessinDB]

Now I'm trying to remember if I stayed. I gotta imagine I did. I'll have to youtube this after work...

Edit: Yep. Stayed for that. Was awesome

[noiseredux]

I feel like AVP Requiem is better than it gets credit for. Although for the most part I think most Alien and Predator movies are better than they seem to get credit for. Haha. I like that this one was on Earth rather than how that first AVP movie is just in an underground temple. It kind of gave this one a weird slasher feel or something. Or almost a throwback to how Predator 2 was in the city. My one complaint is that some of the actual "Aliens vs Predator" scenes were just filmed way too dark and it made it confusing what was going on at times. But fun movie.

I don't know if I've mentioned but in the past year I've been having my wife watch all Alien, Predator and AVP movies in release order. So:

Alien (1979)
Aliens (1986)
Predator (1987)
Predator 2 (1990)
Alien 3 (1992)
Alien Resurrection (1997)
Alien Vs. Predator (2004)
Aliens Vs. Predator Requiem (2007)
Predators (2010)
Prometheus (2012)

[Michi]

I rather enjoyed the AvP films. They may not be high-art action films, but they gave me exactly what I was expecting. Personally, I prefer the first one, but that's mostly due to the second films horrible lighting decision. Even after turning the brightness all the way up on my television I couldn't make out half of what was going on

I've read recently that there's a new Predator film in the works. I is interested.

I don't know if I've mentioned but in the past year I've been having my wife watch all Alien, Predator and AVP movies in release order.

Cool.

...Alien Resurrection (1997)...

Dude, that's just unnecessarily cruel.

[noiseredux]

a new Predator film in the works?!?!? I will see it.

Jokes aside... I don't think that Alien Resurrection is horrible. Seriously. It is such a weird movie though. But I genuinely like all the Alien films - to varying degrees. It is amazing that Joss Whedon and the guy who made Amile were involved in this though haha.

[Michi]

Jokes aside... I don't think that Alien Resurrection is horrible. Seriously. It is such a weird movie though. But I genuinely like all the Alien films - to varying degrees. It is amazing that Joss Whedon and the guy who made Amile were involved in this though haha.

Oh, I don't necessarily think it's horrible. I just think it's a really crumby Alien movie. It has it's moments, but it's just.....yeah, weird a good a word as any to describe it. It doesn't help that you can practically feel all the re-writes the poor thing went through while you watch it.

[KalessinDB]

I personally thought that Prometheus would have stood on its own, better than it currently does, if they hadn't attempted the weak Alien tie-in. If there had been no xenomorph, I think it would have been a more solid stand-alone film.

But that's just me.

[REPO Man]

Watched this gorgeous French classic by Jean-Luc Godard on Hulu back on Valentine's Night (cuz it wasn't daytime anymore):



If the male lead looks familiar, you might recognize him as Antoine Doinel from Francois Truffant's "The 400 Blows", and its sequels "Antoine and Colette" (a short film from the anthology "Love at Twenty"), "Stolen Kisses", "Bed and Board" and "Love on the Run", which span twenty years.

[Ack]

Movies I watched recently...



The Blue Dahlia

Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake star in a George Marshall picture written by Raymond Chandler. Here's one for the noir fans: it's got a tough guy Navy officer who finds his wife has been cheating on him. Soon she winds up dead, and he's blamed. But before he turns himself in, he does his best to find out what really happened. The ending was re-written a bit, which makes it slightly sloppy at the tail end, but the performances are delightful, and other onscreen accidents ended up finding their way into the script with great dramatic flair. I recommend it to the other noir fans here.



A Fish Called Wanda

Charles Crichton and John Cleese wrote and directed this hilarious comedy about a bunch of jewel thieves trying to double cross each other in England, while the local barrister also tries to get in on the action. While it's at times cringe-inducing if you don't like embarrassment, it's also consistently funny. Kevin Kline in particular is delightfully over the top, though everyone involved gives a great performance. I loved this.



A Walk Among the Tombstones

I admit, I went into this expecting it to be terrible and was pleasantly surprised. Not that it's great, but it's certainly serviceable, even if I found some of it more than a little forced. Liam Neeson plays a retired alcoholic detective who has sobered up and become an unlicensed PI. He gets hired to look into the kidnapping and murder of a drug trafficker's wife and then discovers a pair of serial killers making their way through the New York drug don scene. Violence ensues. Also, there's a kid that follows Liam Neeson around, though he gets a far better backstory than most characters like him would normally receive...as in he gets a backstory at all.



Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

This is a classic example of why Hollywood meddles. Sam Peckinpah made Alfredo Garcia for $1.5 million in Mexico and said it's the only film he ever put out that is exactly how he wanted it. Unfortunately for him, it feels bloated, particularly the first half. A Mexican mob boss puts a bounty on the head of Alfredo Garcia, a dude who impregnated his daughter. Two guys end up sort of accidentally hiring Warren Oates to track him down(I say accidentally because it just kind of happens for some reason), and Oates finds out Garcia was boning his girl Isela Vega before getting killed in a drunk driving accident. Oates then seeks out Garcia's body with Vega in tow to get the bounty.

The first half of this movie mostly consists of Oates sitting around with stuff just sort of happening that puts him on the trail while Vega gets topless a lot(including a cringe-inducing rape scene). The second half involves all of the gunfights and violence that Peckinpah was known for, and it's much better than the first half. Now that I've seen this, I have no desire to ever watch it again. Oh, and Ms. Vega's end credit has her topless again.

[prfsnl_gmr]

You guys are finally watching good movies! I love pretty much all of Jean Luc Godard's films - particularly Breathless and Band of Outsiders - and and A Fish Called Wanda is one of my favorite comedies.

[MrPopo]

You guys are finally watching good movies! I love pretty much all of Jean Luc Godard's films - particularly Breathless and Band of Outsiders - and and A Fish Called Wanda is one of my favorite comedies.

I was going to say, this wasn't looking like the usual pile of schlock you guys watch.