BS: Seen any good movies lately?

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Beer
Date: 19 Jun 11 - 10:20 PM

Maybe "Glory" was mentioned in the 400 plus previous threads, i don't know but it is an excellent flick if you are into the American civil war. Wow!!
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: number 6
Date: 24 Jun 11 - 11:13 PM

"Biutiful" .... directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. Incredible acting by Javier Bardem. This has to be one of the most compelling movies I have ever seen.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: paul vaughan
Date: 25 Jun 11 - 07:07 AM

"Small Engine Repair" Got it on DVD recently though I think it was originally released about 5 years ago. Maybe not the greatest movie of all time but worth a look if you fancy a good story with a musical theme. Here's a traler Small Engine Repair

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 25 Jun 11 - 06:32 PM

Finally and long overdue:

Terminator 3: extra full star for the ending.

A league of their own: Tom Hanks really, really acting, the evolution of his character amazing. Also, I didn't know half that stuff...

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: GUEST,Lighter
Date: 25 Jun 11 - 07:42 PM

Go see "Cave of Forgotten Dreams," Werner Herzog's documentary about 32,000 year old cave art - in 3D if possible.

An archaeologist even plays a familiar tune on a stone-age bone flute.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Janie
Date: 28 Jun 11 - 10:25 PM

Just watched Running the Sahara.

Excellent!

A documentary produced by Matt Damon and distributed by National Geographic - 3 guys, one American, one Canadian and one Taiwanese, who ran the length of the Sahara from the Atlantic coast of Senegal to the Egyptian coast of the Red Sea. 110 days with no days off.

Very well done.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 28 Jun 11 - 10:53 PM

Hot Tub Time Machine (free on NetFlix) Its better than the title would make you think. I admit that the title sets a low bar.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Beer
Date: 28 Jun 11 - 11:10 PM

Thanks Jack. I just recently signed up to Netflick and it is great. Just watched a movie called "Defiance", great flick.
Thanks again for your suggestion.
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 28 Jun 11 - 11:37 PM

Defiance was very good as well. It is a VERY different movie.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Janie
Date: 28 Jun 11 - 11:51 PM

"Running the Sahara" was on Netflix streaming also.

Their monthly subscription service seems to be a good value. Son (with his Dad's consent,) has added my home computer to their monthly subscription account. I think it costs about $8.00 per month.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Sawzaw
Date: 29 Jun 11 - 08:41 PM

Super 8 wasn't bad.

Reminiscent of ET.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 02 Jul 11 - 01:33 PM

Clash of the Titan 2010, (Netflix mailed to our house)

Excellent effects, better story than I thought it would be, generally excellent acting, Sam Worthington's accent kinda wavered between his native Australian and the neutral English accent that nearly everyone else was affecting. Why does Hollywood so often use English accents in the portrayal of classical Greeks and Romans? But it is is early in Sam's career. He is improving.

A very nice little comedy was "Feed the Fish" which had Tony Shaloub as a producer and actor. A fun picture of rural Wisconsin. You might want to read the blurb to see if the plot is your cup of tea.

Leaves of Grass, another fun little movie which Carol knew from watching was written by someone who knows rural Oklahoma quite well. Tim Blake Nelson

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 02 Jul 11 - 01:41 PM

seen a good few 'quality' indie/arthouse films in the last month
but today I nominate

"Meet Dave" (2008)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0765476/

by any reasonable standards it's complete CGI dominated rubbish.

But the wife is feeling very low and demoralised by work pressures
at the monent;
and by good chance of early evening TV scheduling
this modern day 'Jerry Lewis' style children's comedy
took her mind off her problems and had her laughing herself silly for 90 min..

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: katlaughing
Date: 02 Jul 11 - 04:07 PM

JtS, thanks for the recommendation for Feed the Fish. I just finished watching it. What an adorable, quirky feel-good movie. Love Shaloub and Corbin. The rest of the actors were great, too.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 02 Jul 11 - 04:19 PM

u r welcome kat

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: DougR
Date: 02 Jul 11 - 04:25 PM

I saw a bad one last night. "The American" with George Clooney.
DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 02 Jul 11 - 04:42 PM

I haven't seen it DougR but I won't watch a movie where Clooney is the only star. So I won't be watching it.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 03 Jul 11 - 12:56 AM

Inception!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Wesley S
Date: 03 Jul 11 - 08:34 AM

Doug R and I can agree on something. "The American" was an awful movie. The ending made no sense at all. Just a lot of people shooting each other.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 03 Jul 11 - 11:54 AM

Yes, but, as previously answered, none recent. Watched "Two For the Road" on DVD last night. I think I appreciated it even more than when it was new back in 1967. The difference? Forty years being married.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: katlaughing
Date: 03 Jul 11 - 03:03 PM

Finally got to see The King's Speech. No wonder it was raved about. I really enjoyed it.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 03 Jul 11 - 08:06 PM

I will soon. Film4 has got an Ingmar Bergman mini-series coming up.

Incidentally, I was at the 'Magritte: The Pleasure Principle' at the Tate, Liverpool today, and I thought his 'Homage a Erich Stroheim' was hilarious.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: katlaughing
Date: 10 Jul 11 - 08:42 PM

Docu. on netflix: Beyond the Burly Q. Very good. Lots of interviews with the women of burlesque, with the history and film footage, plus Alan Alda talking about growing up travelling with the troupe his parents were in. It was really good!

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 10 Jul 11 - 09:23 PM

Centurion was pretty good.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Bert
Date: 29 Jul 11 - 08:42 AM

Saving Grace
Calendar Girls
Full Monty (The English one)
Harry Brown

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 29 Jul 11 - 09:15 AM

Still Bill - a biography of Bill Withers. If you liked his music, you will probably enjoy it. I particularly enjoyed the discussions of "Grandma's Hands."

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 29 Jul 11 - 04:52 PM

Inception was good. It wasn't cheerful. It didn't leave you feeling marvelous. But it was pretty good.

I find that Leonardo DiCaprio seems to be attracted lately to very heavy movies of dark psychological torture and suffering...such as "Shutter Island" and "Inception". He does them well, but I'm not sure they're what I'm exactly yearning to devote a few hours of my life to.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 30 Jul 11 - 09:59 AM

And seeing as over 50 non cinema going single men are Hollywood's target market, I'm sure that situation will soon be corrected.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Bert
Date: 01 Aug 11 - 05:30 PM

Secretariat

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 01 Aug 11 - 05:32 PM

Jack - LOL!!!!!

Yeah, Hollywood doesn't give a shit what kind of movies I like. But I have not yet quit going to the cinema. I just don't go very often, that's all. It's TV that I have quit totally on, not the cinema.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 01 Aug 11 - 05:37 PM

Secretariat was good.

Big hearted horse. Literally.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Amos
Date: 01 Aug 11 - 06:01 PM

The Rage of Placid Lake" is a beautiful, funny movie about self discovery in an AUstralian youth who has a wicked sense of humor.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: katlaughing
Date: 06 Aug 11 - 11:35 PM

We haven't been watching too many movies, lately, as we were working our way through all of A Touch of Frost on neflix. We were, ah...addicted, ya might say.:-)

We then moved on to Midsomer Murders of which we've seen about three episodes. Really enjoyed them, too, but not as addictive as DI Frost or is it DCI?lol

Tonight, we made it to a movie, via netflix. A comedy called "In and Out" with Kevin Kline, Joan Cusack, Matt Dillon, Debbie Reynolds, Wilfrid Brimley, Bob Newhart, Tom Selleck as a gay reporter, very well done, and a host of other well-known characters directed by Frank Oz. It was really fun, good, and poignant. A feel good movie with a twist.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 10 Aug 11 - 10:23 PM

Wild Target.

A little English flick on Netflix instant. Very funny story about a hit man.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Wesley S
Date: 11 Aug 11 - 04:47 PM

If you like funny movies about hit men - here's one of my favorites. With Ben Kingley and Tea Leoni


You Kill Me

Here's the trailer

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 11 Aug 11 - 04:51 PM

Yeah Wes, that was a good movie, I saw it.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: GUEST,Bluesman
Date: 18 Sep 11 - 06:31 PM

Just watched Michael Caine in "Harry Brown" it is excellent.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Brown_%28film%29

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: C-flat
Date: 19 Sep 11 - 03:58 AM

Just watched "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy".
I was really looking forward to it as I was a fan of both the novels and the TV series with Alec Guiness but came away dissapointed.
As good as the TV series was, the slow pace of delivery that made Guinness' "Smiley" so appealing, doesn't work nearly as well in a 2 hour movie format and the producer seemed to be slavishly and reverentially copying the original.
Some good performances and I would have loved it as a remake of the whole TV series but a different approach was needed for the cinema.
I found myself wondering what the younger members of audience, who may not of read any of the Le Carre novels and were too young to have seen the TV series, could have made of it.
At least it makes the audience work, rather than constantly explaining itself in the way a lot of todays dumbed-down offerings do, but, for me, the effort was poorly rewarded.
C-flat

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Fred McCormick
Date: 19 Sep 11 - 07:34 AM

Der Untergang is a great movie. Bruno Ganz's portrayal of the Nazi monster in his final days is an acting tour de force which has to be seen to be comprehended.

You can watch a trailer of it Here .

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 Sep 11 - 05:58 PM

Der Untergang is excellent, but it's not (IMO) a depiction of a monster. It's a depiction of a tragically flawed little man with some very strong oratorical skills who unfortunately rose to very high political power in an unstable time and whose rise resulted in the development of a monstrous political system. It is the systems which are monstrous, and that sure wasn't the only one. There are several more mostrous systems around right now, usually run by tragically flawed little men who rose to very high political power.

They all imagine they are doing what is "right", what is just, what is good, noble, and proper. They think THEY are right. They're absolutely sure of it. (Just like most of the people reading these lines are sure they are right.) They're sure that those who disagree with them about anything are wrong. Dead wrong. Evil, in fact. And that's what makes them so dangerous. They'd rather be "right" than be merciful.

Hitler sincerely thought he was saving Germany from the most evil and terrible forces, and he created an evil and terrible system while trying to do it.

I see people very similar to Hitler in high places now. Some of them are governing in what we call "democracies". They are dangerous men, and they are in command of exceedingly dangerous powers.

But they are not monsters. They are just flawed men out of their depth. They're rather be right than be merciful. They're rather win the next battle than secure a lasting peace. They'd rather compete for final "victory" than share and share alike. The systems they have created are monstrous.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Oct 11 - 09:50 PM

We've been watching a lot of series including Midsomer Murders, Inspector Lewis, Luther, etc. Tonight we watched Ironclad which was really pretty good, though gory. One of the taglines at IMDB was "heavy metal goes medieval!" LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Joe_F
Date: 09 Oct 11 - 08:00 PM

_Tortilla Flat_, at last, to pay homage to the source of the delightful song "Torelli", which I have sung for many years. I suppose it's not as good as the book, but it is fun, and incidentally it makes no concealment of the nasty side of peasant mores.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Wesley S
Date: 14 Oct 11 - 02:59 PM

I just saw this one on the Sundance Channell this morning. An excellect documentary about presidential elections:

The Return of The War Room.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Micca
Date: 14 Oct 11 - 07:41 PM

Just watched the First of the EXTENDED set of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" Trilogy!!! It( the 3 "films" packaged more like a TV series) includes more than 2 hours of additional material and is much closer to the books , it has room for more Character development especially Lizabeth Salander which I felt the shorter Cinema release lacked, and therefore does more justice to Larsons original concept. I am looking forward to enjoying the rest of the series.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: katlaughing
Date: 26 Nov 11 - 10:27 PM

We finally finished watching all eight seasons of an Australian television series called McLeod's Daughters; each season at over 25 episodes. I suppose some might call it nighttime soap opera, but we found it quite engaging and enjoyed it very much.

I watched some others in the meantime which were absolutely riveting. One we just finished was produced by and starred Wes Studi. It was produced in 2009 and is called, The Only Good Indian. A lot of us already know about how Native Americans' and First Nations' children were torn from their homes and placed in boarding schools and much worse. The movie is about that with some well-done inner conflicts among the various characters. Takes place in Kansas. Quite well done, imo.

Another stunning indie film, which I watched recently, was The Unmistaken Child, a documentary. It had a profound effect on me.

Cosi, was hilarious, touching, and uplifting. Inexperienced guy is hired to run crafts, etc. for folks in an insane asylum. There were some outstanding actors in it, one of whom convinces him they should do a production of the opera by Mozart, Cosi fan Tutte.

One more documentary, highly recommended, Blossoms of Fire, about the families, the women especially, of Juchitan, Isthmus Zapotec in Mexico. The outside world calls it the last matriarchal society, but the women do not call themselves that. From what I saw, as much as there can be, it was an even society between men and women, though the majority of men do give their earnings to the women who then manage it for the entire family. Very much a sharing community and trying very hard to keep from losing their language and their culture. It was beautiful to watch.

I typed this using a voice-recognition program. Any typos or mistakes are entirely its fault. Next time I will proofread.

(Okay, I lied. Came back to check it and couldn't stand the mistakes. I have to speak more slowly!)
kat

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Max Johnson
Date: 27 Nov 11 - 09:28 AM

Anyone following the epic series 'The Story of Film: An Odyssey' on More4 in the UK? Brilliant! (Apart from the, sometimes, bizarre commentary).

Apart from that, the film I've most enjoyed recently was 'The Station Agent'.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Lighter
Date: 27 Nov 11 - 10:34 AM

Arthur Christmas. (Excellent.)

Puss in Boots. (Even better.)

I may not go to any more movies with actual humans on the screen.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: katlaughing
Date: 27 Nov 11 - 11:47 AM

I forgot to mention an excellent movie we just watched: The Ip Man. it starts out in 1935 just before the Chinese invade Japan and is about A Wing Chung master who was very careful about using his martial arts. He was the best there was and once the Chinese came in he was eventually forced into a tournament by one of their generals who wanted to fight the best as he felt Japanese kung fu was superior to Chinese martial arts. It's based on a true story. Ip Man became Bruce Lee's teacher.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Feb 12 - 12:03 AM

The follow up movie to Ip Man is excellent, too.

I just watched and indie film, The Civilisation of Maxwell Bright. At first it seems very raunchy and as though it may not be that good, but it takes some very unexpected turns and tells a deeply thought out message. Excellent, imo.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: GUEST,Bluesman
Date: 08 Feb 12 - 04:34 AM

500. The Iron Lady and Girl with Dragon Tattoo are excellent.