What was the last movie you've seen?

[indecks]

My wife and I watched Bernie (2011) last night. It was great, and it is now my favorite Richard Linklater film (beating out Dazed and Confused (1993)) and my favorite Jack Black film (beating out....well...looking at his filmography...I'll just say that he is amazing in the title role, and I would love to see him get an Oscar nod for his performance).

Truly a great film.

[Gamerforlife]

I just watched The Raid: Redemption. It's a fantastic action movie, but it's been hyped up WAAAAAAAY too much. It's not the greatest action movie I've seen and it's not the greatest martial arts movie I've seen. It wouldn't even crack my top 5 to be perfectly honest

All bullshit hype out of the way though, it's an awesome movie. There's plenty of great fight scenes and the last one is very epic.

[REPO Man]

The first film of 2013:

Splendor (1999) is a film directed by Gregg Araki starring Kathleen Robertson, Johnathon Schaech and Matt Keeslar. The film is a romantic comedy, and deals with a polyamourous relationship between the three leads.

When struggling Los Angeles actor Veronica (Kathleen Robertson) finds herself simultaneously falling in love with a sensitive writer named Abel (Johnathon Schaech) and an airheaded drummer named Zed (Matt Keeslar), she initially tries to see them both without the other finding out, and then to choose between them. When she is unable to do so, she begins openly dating them both, and the three eventually move in together, forming a unique yet functional group relationship. Veronica's friend Mike (Kelly Macdonald) is critical of their relationship, though she warms to the concept over time. Abel and Zed are initially antagonistic to one another but grow closer over time, eventually becoming closer to one another than either of them are to Veronica. When Veronica becomes pregnant, the relationship becomes strained and she eventually leaves both Abel and Zed for charming director Ernest (Eric Mabius), whom she agrees to marry despite not loving.

Splendor was both a response to the controversy surrounding his relationship with Robertson (he was self-identified as gay until dating Kathleen Robertson, who he directed in Nowhere, but after their relationship ended in 1999, he's mostly dated men) and an homage to screwball comedies of the 1940s and 1950s. Hailed as the director's most optimistic film to date, it made its premiere at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival.

[Luke]

I just watched The Raid: Redemption. It's a fantastic action movie, but it's been hyped up WAAAAAAAY too much.

I don't think it can be hyped up enough. Every movie should be required to have a ten minute scene including Maddog.



WARM BODIES

Off to a pretty good start for 2013. Not a great start, but a good one. The premise is brilliant; zombie apocalypse from the viewpoint of a zombie (who has a lot of inner monologue, and is also crushing hardcore). The writing is a bit flimsy, and I'd love to see another director take a stab at the same premise, but you won't be checking your watch when watching this film.

The lead nails it. His performance is so believable that you find yourself relating to a zombie. If bullets are being sprayed, you hope none of them blow his zombie brain out of his skull. But there is a "comic relief" zombie played by Rob Corddry that sometimes boarders on being Deuce Bigelow not-funny. Rob is great is small doses, and Bodies should have stuck with that formula.

There are surely a few cheesy moments, but when the movie is a "zom-rom-com" you have to expect that, The movie works, could have been better, but would make for an incredible date night movie.

[REPO Man]

'80s sci-fi at its best.

The plot follows two young men who spent 15 years alone in a bomb shelter after the planet is nuked by missiles, where they're raised on detective noir novels and swing music. When they find a way out, they arrive in a world destroyed by a nuclear attack and get roped into a plan to find the last working missile.

But like the soundtrack, the film's stuck in analog purgatory, though the film occasionally airs on MGMHD. There's also a German DVD that has the soundtrack on CD, as well as an expanded soundtrack in Spain (with 14 tracks as opposed to the American release with only 12).

It also features Sue Saad as she sings "Guilty Pleasures", one of the many tracks she contributed to the soundtrack (which include "Radioactive Dreams", "She's a Fire" and the penultimate track "When Lightning Strikes").

[Stark]

WARM BODIES *snip*

I'm interested in this one for sure. I saw the first 4 or 5 minutes that they released online a couple of days back and it seemed cool.

What I've been watching?
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST and TINKERBELL AND THE GREAT FAIRY RESCUE of course! The girls are addicted to the Tinkerbell movie right now. And it honestly isn't that bad or maybe I'm just numb to it now.

B&TB I've always liked, the music is fun and enjoyable. This is my first viewing of the blu-ray and some of the visuals seem ... off. I'm not sure if it's because they did something to the original to make it more 3D worthy or what. Some of the CGI stuff just looks bad now. They added a new song too called Human Again, which I think is a great add.

[indecks]

The Castle



This movie is great. I've seen it 50 times or so by now and it cracks me up every single time. It's Eric Bana's first movie and his part is small, but he's pretty funny in it as well.

[Forlorn Drifter]

Warn you ahead of time- this movie could really offend some people, even within the first 5 minutes or so.

The movie is good, but I'm not exactly sure why I liked it. Its disturbing, raw, has a lot of unexplained twists, and ends on a very odd note. The movie entertained me nonetheless, similar to something in the vein of Natural Born Killers, or something similar. Probably one of the best performances out of McConaughey.

[KillerJuan77]

Warn you ahead of time- this movie could really offend some people, even within the first 5 minutes or so.

The movie is good, but I'm not exactly sure why I liked it. Its disturbing, raw, has a lot of unexplained twists, and ends on a very odd note. The movie entertained me nonetheless, similar to something in the vein of Natural Born Killers, or something similar. Probably one of the best performances out of McConaughey.

The chicken drumstick scene is as icky and darkly hilarious as it can be (I was wondering why the film was NC-17 and then that happened ). McConaughey is absolutely terrifying.

[Forlorn Drifter]

^I laughed throughout the movie feeling like I shouldn't have, especially in that scene.