What was the last movie you've seen?

[lisalover1]

I just watched Scott Pilgrim in the theater again. It was just as good the second time.

[vash23n]

Just watched Legion. I really liked all but the last 20 minutes. To me, it wasn't really a thinking movie, just a nice actiony film. Suddenly, for the last 20 minutes, it required me to start thinking way more than I was ready to do. Not thinking about some deep lesson or anything like that, but trying to figure out what the hell what happening. Suddenly, a movie about an angel deciding to stick up for humanity when god and heaven had had enough turned into a movie about god testing his angels at the expense of human-kind. I get that it was probably a test for the humans as well, but that was not pulled off successfully enough for me to care about it.

I figured that the baby would turn out to be the second coming of Christ, which god wanted to prevent because he didn't think humans deserved any more chances. I figured that, once the brand-new, shiny baby Jesus was born, god and heaven would realize the error of their ways and stop acting out. This ending would have been silly as well, but at least it would have still been an entertaining action movie. The way it did end didn't seem like an artistic interpretation or idea that the writer/director skillfully pulled off, pulling the carpet out from under the feet of the unsuspecting viewers tricking them into thinking about life, life, and the American dream... sorry I got distracted. Instead, it felt like the director got so far in and realized "crap how can I end this thing, better just turn it all around."

Still, I didn't hate it. I think the first 3/4 was very enjoyable, not a masterpiece, but good enough for anyone, other than those uptight movie goers who never really enjoy anything unless it's been labeled a classic, to enjoy.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that I still prefer Gabriel to this movie!

[Jrecee]

Scott Pilgrim!!! It was awesome. Even my friend liked it and she doesn't play anything other than online puzzle games.

What really sucks is that in its first weekend 'vampires suck' has made almost as much as scott pilgrim in 2 weeks. ARGH!

[the7k]

Scott Pilgrim!!! It was awesome. Even my friend liked it and she doesn't play anything other than online puzzle games.

What really sucks is that in its first weekend 'vampires suck' has made almost as much as scott pilgrim in 2 weeks. ARGH!

Advertising. A complete lack of focused advertising has completely doomed Scott Pilgrim.

I watch A LOT of adult swim and Comedy Central - two stations I'd believe are PRIME target audiences... and yet, I have not seen a single commercial for Scott Pilgrim. I honestly don't know what their commercials looked like. Meanwhile, I've seen enough commercials for Vampires Suck to make me want to rip my own eyes out.

[lisalover1]

Scott Pilgrim!!! It was awesome. Even my friend liked it and she doesn't play anything other than online puzzle games.

What really sucks is that in its first weekend 'vampires suck' has made almost as much as scott pilgrim in 2 weeks. ARGH!

Advertising. A complete lack of focused advertising has completely doomed Scott Pilgrim.

I watch A LOT of adult swim and Comedy Central - two stations I'd believe are PRIME target audiences... and yet, I have not seen a single commercial for Scott Pilgrim. I honestly don't know what their commercials looked like. Meanwhile, I've seen enough commercials for Vampires Suck to make me want to rip my own eyes out.

Yes, but that also means it will be enshrined forever as a cult classic! But, you're right, of all the places it should be getting advertised, Adult Swim would be my first guess.

[Mod_Man_Extreme]

Scott Pilgrim!!! It was awesome. Even my friend liked it and she doesn't play anything other than online puzzle games.

What really sucks is that in its first weekend 'vampires suck' has made almost as much as scott pilgrim in 2 weeks. ARGH!

Advertising. A complete lack of focused advertising has completely doomed Scott Pilgrim.

I watch A LOT of adult swim and Comedy Central - two stations I'd believe are PRIME target audiences... and yet, I have not seen a single commercial for Scott Pilgrim. I honestly don't know what their commercials looked like. Meanwhile, I've seen enough commercials for Vampires Suck to make me want to rip my own eyes out.

Yes, but that also means it will be enshrined forever as a cult classic! But, you're right, of all the places it should be getting advertised, Adult Swim would be my first guess.

Actually, [AdultSwim] and Comedy Central gave it a LOT of advertising and there was even a 5 minute animated short based on the comics made for [AdultSwim].

The real problem is that as soon as the movie came out the retards at Universal pulled all the spots and ceased advertising for it.

[Ack]

The Wages of Fear, 1953, directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. The plot focuses on four drifters of varying European nationalities stranded in South America. To pay their way out, they end up accepting a dangerous job driving trucks loaded with nitroglycerin through 300 miles worth of the South American mountains. What ensues are some astonishingly tense moments in a film I felt was particularly graphic for its time period. Scenes include a partially built bridge collapsing under one of the trucks, the two nearly ramming into each other over a section of rivets in the road, their having to use some of the explosives to clear a rock from the road, and of course the constant pervading nervousness of the task they are undertaking.

SPOILERS FOLLOW in case you want to see it.

Over the course of the film, one may breaks entirely, two of the men are suddenly killed in an explosion, a third succumbs to complications of having his leg shattered under the truck, and the fourth, elated by the fact that he is the only man who made it, ends up dying on the trip back as his truck swerves off the road. The film is astonishingly brutal regarding the sudden explosive deaths of the two men (they're there and then they're gone), the slow agonizing death of the third man as he feels his leg rot, and the constant closeups of the sweaty nervous faces as they go about their task.

On a funny note, two of the four men are named Mario and Luigi, though they both look the opposite of their names concerning the two video game stars: Mario is a tall, skinny Frenchman, while Luigi is short and fat.

[Pulsar_t]

The Wages of Fear is an eternal 50s classic!

[emwearz]

The Great Escape.



It came up in conversation and my girlfriend said she had never seen it. Problem solved.

[Mod_Man_Extreme]

The Great Escape.



It came up in conversation and my girlfriend said she had never seen it. Problem solved.

Steve McQueen is classic cool.