What was the last movie you've seen?

[TheSegaSaturnGuy]

I just watched Taken for the first time. Damn was it a good movie. Liam Neeson's character is a complete badass, especially because he killed someone with a broken wine bottle. I have not researched Taken 2, but for anyone who has watched it, is it nearly as good as the first?

[MrPopo]

Taken 2 is not as good as the first, but it's still quite a fun action movie. I'd recommend it to fans of the first.

[Cronozilla]

Yeah, the second is not as good ... HOWEVER, I haven't seen the unrated cut, which I assume fixes some of the problems with the movie (There's at least two "how did that person die?" moments)

But it's still a good time and has it's own memorable moments.

The third is also greenlit.

[prfsnl_gmr]

Liam Neeson's character is a complete badass, especially because he killed someone with a broken wine bottle.

That's actually not that hard to do. A properly broken bottle is probably just as effective a weapon as a knife.

[BitFaced]

I've recently seen, besides The LEGO Movie, LEGO: The Adventures of Clutch Powers, The Lion King 3 (or 1/2 in some places) & Doctor Who (1996).
One was enjoyable, one sucked really badly, and one was... eh.

I'm so sorry you subjected yourself to the really sucky one. I was happy about it until I watched it when it came out and wondered WTF they were smoking trying to Americanize it.

They smoke in Lion King 3?

No, and an already American franchise (with British and Japanese origins ) couldn't be even more Americanized. But the smoking I could take. It was the just-about-everything-else-that-wasn't-McGahn-I-guess that I couldn't.

[Luke]

BLUE JASMINE

I was pleasantly surprised. Excellent dialogue, great acting, beautifully shot. Totally story driven and usually a pleasure to watch, but it is a movie about life, so at times it gets heavy.



NOOOOO! Jurassic Park needs you!

[BoneSnapDeez]

NOOOOO! Jurassic Park needs you!

That's too bad. I loved his character in Jurassic Park.

I got a lizard right after I saw the movie and named it Ian.

[prfsnl_gmr]

My wife and I watched two excellent films recently:

Cruel Gun Story (1964) - which stars the instantly recognizable Joe Shishido - is an excellent Yakuza film, and it is easily one of my favorites (alongside Branded to Kill and Youth of the Beast...both of which also star Joe Shishido). I think I like this genre so much because the films are basically 1940s and 1950s American film noirs set in 1960s Japan and without any of the restrictions imposed by the Motion Picture Production Code (i.e., the Hays Code).

Foreign Correspondent (1940) is a relatively early (and, unfortunately, somewhat forgotten) Alfred Hitchcock, WWII-era spy thriller that is every bit as good as his later work. (Joseph Goebbels even conceded that it was "[a] masterpiece of propaganda, a first-class production which no doubt will make a certain impression upon the broad masses of the people in enemy countries.") The performances were fantastic; Hitchcock's talent for directing suspense is apparent in every frame; and I highly, highly recommend it. (This is especially true for fans of Hitchcock's work.)

[Ack]

My wife and I watched two excellent films recently:

Cruel Gun Story (1964) - which stars the instantly recognizable Joe Shishido - is an excellent Yakuza film, and it is easily one of my favorites (alongside Branded to Kill and YOuth of the Beast...both of which also star Joe Shishido). I think I like this genre so much because the films are basically 1940s and 1950s American film noir films set in 1960s Japan and without any of the restrictions imposed by the Motion Picture Production Code (i.e., the Hays Code).

What, no love for Tokyo Drifter?

[Luke]

That's too bad. I loved his character in Jurassic Park.

He was playing a character? Thought it was Gooldblum being Goldblum.

"D-d-d-d-d-dino droppings?"