What did you watch today? v 22.0

[The Professor]

Tell everyone what you watched, what you thought, and what's up next.

The first post in this thread is # 6460

And as ever, link your films please.

[Hitch]

A Haunting in Connecticut 4 stars. First off this isn't a horror movie it's a docudrama and in some parts they lay on the drama pretty thick but other than that I really enjoyed watching this. I always found ghosts and what not interesting and I can definitely see where they came up with a movie out of this. I think if the movie is anything like this little episode it's gonna be a good horror movie because there is some strange shit that happens. In a way it has sorta of an Amityville Horror feel to it but in a different way, more sinister and more menacing than Amity. This docudrama may not be for everyone because some parts may seem a little lame but when you hear it come from the mouths of the actual people involved it's quite unbelievable.

[Snorii]

Just a list of some that I've watched recently.

Mr. Skeffington (1944) - Bette Davis marries an older Jewish banker in order to save her brother from embezzlement charges and ends up in a loveless marriage.

Eagle vs. Shark (2007)


The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944) - This was a lot of fun and it poked fun at the Hayes Code in the process. A girl finds herself in the family way after a wild night out on the town and can't remember who the father is. Definitely worth watching.

Shoot 'Em Up (2007)

Eight Legged Freaks (2002)

On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)

Sense and Sensibility (1995)

Man Trouble (1992) - Didn't like this one which felt like it didn't know what direction it wanted to take - ended up going nowhere. Stars Jack Nicholson and Ellen Barkin.

Hell's Angels (1929) - Jean Harlow. The best parts were the aerial shots and Howard Hughes did a superb job with those. The rest of the movie isn't bad (love triangle), but I think the planes are the real stars of this one.


Gerry (2002) - Two friends get lost in the desert and their friendship is tested to the limit. Matt Damon and Casey Affleck.


The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936) - I've been wanting to see this one for a long time. My grandmother skipped work to see this one in the theater and ended up getting fired for doing so. She blamed Henry Fonda afterward for losing her job. I had a good time watching it and was surprised to find out it was in color (Paramount's first Technicolor feature). It starred Henry Fonda, Sylvia Sidney, Fred MacMurray, and even had George 'Spanky' McFarland. (I've been going back through the Little Rascals shorts and made it to where he shows up a few years prior to this movie.)

Walkabout (1971)

Up next - Me and You and Everyone We Know & A Matter of Life and Death


Sorry I don't have time at the moment to give more insight on each - work calls.

[Sevorin]

Demonlover -- Why wasn't I warned?

It starts well, screws up a bit of tension, and saturates the plot in that stylishness that one associates with contemporary French thrillers. For a good 60% of the movie it tugged me along. I was liking it.

Then it goes off the rails, no longer feeling the need to explain the gaps in its story or in reality. The heroine ceases to act like anything recognizable as a human being -- which is rather extraordinary, considering that she's played by Connie Nielsen, an otherwise interesting actress, and supported by two additional actresses, Chloe Sevigny and Gina Gershon, who know their business. Scenes occur for little or no reason, consequences pop up with little or no cause.

I suppose it has a "point" to make, but the filmmakers choose to express it through a megaphone that they do not put directly to the movie's lips. Instead, they shove it up the film's ass, force it against the flow of the digestive tract, then up the gullet to its mouth.

Yes, there's some sex. Enough to keep you watching.

But it's definitely one of Pihk's blow-me specials.

[beeswax]

The other disappointment is that it was directed by Olivier Assayas, who has made some decent movies. Including an excellent documentary on Hou Hsiao-Hsien, so it's not like he doesn't have any taste. Having liked four of his earlier films, I was stunned by Demonlover when I saw it in theaters. Not stunned in the good way.

[Sevorin]

Christ, I'm a glutton for punishment. I followed the above with Wanted. I figured that any film with James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, Terence Stamp, and Angelina Jolie has to be worth watching.

And the plot is so terribly fresh and original:

An office nerd who's pushed around by everyone, who spends all his extra dough on anti-inflammatory anti-nerd medication, is actually not a nerd at all. He discovers that he is, in truth, the physically gifted son of Darth Vader. Overnight his repressive nerd-life is transformed into a pubescent wet-dream, filled with bitchen cars and bitchen car stunts, bitchen-looking super-bitches, and bitchen video-game violence, where he kicks the living shit out of villains and regenerates skin, repairs internal organs, and re-grows his dick while immersed in some sort of bitchen chemical soup after each of his tough, but bitchen, assignments.

I know. What am I doing watching this shit?

[The Continental]

I rented Wanted back when it was a new release because I'd watched the Director Timur Bekmambetov's Night Watch, which was really good/ could watch it again good, and Day Watch which is not so good but only fair/never probably re watch it.
His great visuals are there at the very beginning in Wanted, then the bullet bending and all that other crap gets tiring, and Mcavoy with a american accent dosent cut it either... I did like Freemans bad guy, he can do evil folks well also. And Jolie's tattoo gets 4 stars " No Sevorin I don't have a tattoo fetish,, it looked good on her,,the movie gets 2.5 stars or a C-

[Microwaved]

Well Sevorin my dear friend, I actually enjoyed Wanted a ton. I thought it was extremely good times. I'm a fan of Timur's work so far and I have no problem at all suspending my disbelief for extended periods of time for movies made out of comic books. But then again, my general movie viewing doesn't require much dialog just plenty of nudity and bitching hot women. :)

[Sevorin]

just plenty of nudity and bitching hot women

Angelina's a hot lick, I don't deny it. And I share your penchant for tits and ass and legs.

But there's a serious dearth of nudity and other hot women in Wanted.

Instead, we get vats full of "feel the force", "trust your instincts", "discover who you are", and a whole buncha the standard CGI chazerai that usually infests these adolescent wish-fulfillment stories. Yeah, I guess I can listen to that shit and still grab holda my dick.

But it's really not the same. Is it?

[Microwaved]

No not the same at all. I actually enjoyed Wanted for it's overload on the ole eyeballs. Visually I found it stimulating. I also identified with the hidden meaning to your life message in it. Perhaps it's "wish fullfillment fantasy" for me as well. I've spent most of my life wishing I was either the Wolfman, Spider-man or Nightcrawler from X-Men. So I guess for me the concept of living your whole life thinking this is who you are and then finding out that it's not who you are but something better is always a heart puller. It probably comes from the fact that I've never met my real father and I've always dreamed that I would be something special and just not another non-wasted ejaculation by another dead beat dad.

[CL]

Wow. We really are twins. Trust me, though, you're not missing anything by not meeting our father.

[Guy]

I think the movie was deliberately designed to manipulate young males with father issues, a huge market to be sure. Whether this was intended in a parodying way or not I don't know. I hated it.

[Pihk]

Angelina's a hot lick, I don't deny it.

I will! Give that lady a cheeseburger or five!

But there's a serious dearth of nudity and other hot women in Wanted.

Indeed. It's Schlock 101....when your plot is lacking, bridge the gap with some trusted TnA.