BS: Seen any good movies lately?

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: alison
Date: 08 Oct 08 - 10:38 PM

Enchanted

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 Oct 08 - 12:10 AM

Thanks, oneL! Just watched a preview at netflix and it looks really funny/good AND I can watch it instantly on my PC at netflix.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 24 Oct 08 - 03:02 PM

Private Fears in Public Places (aka Coeurs)

House of D

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: ranger1
Date: 24 Oct 08 - 05:44 PM

Jason and I went to see Appaloosa the other day. Great western along the lines of some of the older Clint Eastwood westerns.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: DougR
Date: 24 Oct 08 - 06:05 PM

I doubt any of you will be breaking down the doors of your local theater to see the last movie we saw in a theater. It was "An American Carol." A tongue-in-cheek movie jabbing liberals. I'd like to say it was a good movie, but it wasn't. Oh, it took the jabs, alright, but there were very few funny scenes and it wasn't well written or acted.

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: GUEST,HiLo
Date: 26 Oct 08 - 09:59 AM

Paschendaele (sic), the Paul Grosse film about Canadians in the Great War Battle. A very good film for the most part, although the love story is a bit too much, still, a film worth seeing.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: DougR
Date: 26 Oct 08 - 03:47 PM

"Eastern Promises", is a pretty good flick. We watched it last night. The end left something to be desired, and it's pretty gruesome in parts, but it held your interest.

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: katlaughing
Date: 26 Oct 08 - 04:37 PM

We watched Death at a Funeral last night. It was fairly funny and good, though it went a little over the top in some places. Still, we enjoyed it.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Art Thieme
Date: 27 Oct 08 - 03:13 PM

I'm using this list regularly to aid our orders from Netflix. Thanks to you all.



Art

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: GUEST,Raydio
Date: 27 Oct 08 - 04:00 PM

Watched three AS (advanced screeners)over the weekend, quantum of solace, Henry Poole is here and Taken.

"Taken" is great, Liam Neeson played the part of his life in it. He plays an ex governmeny agent who comes out of retirement after his daughter is abducted in Paris. He seems to have lost so much weight. This film has to be on top of your list.

"Henry Poole is here" was so enjoyable, Owen Wilson's brother played the lead role. The face of Christ appears on his wall of his home and he tries to get rid of it. A great family film.

"Quantum of Solace" how the hell can they call this Bond, no gadgets, no women (one) and no one liners. There is also a guy in the role that no more fits bill than I would. Bond as we know it is over.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Amergin
Date: 27 Oct 08 - 04:13 PM

I watched a good movie called Liam last night....it is about a boy during the great depression....who watches his father slide into fascism...

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: deadfrett
Date: 27 Oct 08 - 07:53 PM

" Honeydripper" -Mississippi 1950's-with Danny Glover and Stacey Keach and great supporting cast. Good music too.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 28 Oct 08 - 09:22 PM

Ooooooohhhhhheeewwww......

Tokaido Yotsuya kaidan


Not for the faint of heart, but lovely blend of Japanese legend, stylized theater, and cinema!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: katlaughing
Date: 03 Nov 08 - 11:27 PM

"I'll be there" written and directed by Craig Ferguson, starring himself and some other great actors plus "introducing" Charlotte Church. It was such a fun and endearing movie!

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: MAG
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 09:50 AM

Well, I loved Bill Maher's slam at religion, though I don't suppose it will ever make wide release. I don't agree with him on some points, but found it very provocative.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Nov 08 - 10:01 PM

Just watched Mongol, first in a trilogy about Genghis Khan. Excellent and I loved the music, lots of Tuvan throat singing!

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Peter T.
Date: 09 Nov 08 - 02:39 AM

Last movies seen:
The Battle of Algiers (still the best movie about terrorism and urban warfare ever). I hadn't seen it in ten years, but Criterion has a new print of it, and it is still unbelievably good.

L'Atalante. Another film I hadn't seen in years, and really still maybe the most extraordinarily mythic film ever made.

Out Of The Past. One of the best of the film noirs, which I had heard about vaguely, but never ever seen. Just a total knockout. With Jane Greer in her one truly, truly, truly, truly great part.

yours,

Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: katlaughing
Date: 24 Mar 09 - 07:26 PM

Elegy with Ben Kingsley...very sexy, very sad, very funny, and good.

Just watched the docu A Very British Gangster...not much to say except the tenderness I felt for the young boys already so tough and matter-of-fact about their lives and one of them so talented as a singer. To hear them talk about their dreams amidst their mafia-like lives was a poignant juxtaposition, yet, not the only one in this superbly done docu.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: DougR
Date: 25 Mar 09 - 02:45 PM

"Taken," with Liam Neeson.

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: GUEST,heric
Date: 25 Mar 09 - 04:19 PM

Frozen River and Little Fish

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 25 Mar 09 - 09:42 PM

I saw "Double indemnity,' 1940s, yesterday, w/ MacMurray, Stanwyck, and Robinson. Still a great film nearly seventy years on.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Janie
Date: 26 Mar 09 - 01:43 AM

I just watched The Loss of Nameless Things, on Hulu. One of of the films from the PBS series Independent Lens.

It's a documentary about Oakley Hall, III (I think III -maybe he was IV.)   A brilliant playright who founded Lexington Conservatory Theater, and who suffered a severe head injury at age 29 that stopped him cold. Or not.

Fascinating.   I recommend it.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Neil D
Date: 26 Mar 09 - 03:35 AM

I recently caught an old one I had missed up to now, "Talk of the Town". Average plot, good dialogue but what a chance to hear 3 such
distinct voices playing off each other: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur and Ronald (could listen to him read the phonebook) Colman. "Goya's Ghosts" wasn't bad but I haven't seen anything I'd give 4 Stars lately. I'm waiting for "Milk" and "Slumdog Millionaire" to be available on Netflix.
   I have heard about a movie in the works that has me filled with anticiption. A Three Stooges movie with Johnny Depp as Moe, and its even rumored that Sean Penn might be interested in the role of Larry Fein. This could be an instant classic.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: goatfell
Date: 26 Mar 09 - 01:00 PM

no

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Wesley S
Date: 26 Mar 09 - 01:06 PM

As to the Three Stooges movie. The rumor I heard was Benico Del Toro was to play Moe, Sean Penn to play Larry and Jim Carey to play Curley.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 26 Mar 09 - 02:45 PM

Careful, He Might Hear You (1983)
Directed by Carl Schultz. With Wendy Hughes, Robyn Nevin, Nicholas Gledhill.

www.imdb.com

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: GUEST,BigDaddy
Date: 26 Mar 09 - 07:47 PM

Sometimes I think too much. Any time I start making a list of "Best Films Ever," or "My all-time favorite films," I end up with different categories. For instance, Some of my favorite films I would not necessarily consider "best films," and frequently some of the so-called best just leave me cold. Often my favorites are "guilty pleasures," films that I like but wouldn't necessarily recommend them to anyone I know. Frequently close friends or relatives are crazy about a film or films that I don't care for or can't stand. One friend literally can't get enough of Woody Allen, and I can't stand to watch his stuff. I loved the book, "No Country For Old Men," and enjoyed the film almost as much. One all-time favorite would be "A River Runs Through It." Last time I started a list I wound up with the following divisions: Favorite Films of the 1930's, 1940's, etc., up to the present. Then I added separate lists for "Must See Horror," "Good Spooky Stuff," "Gangsters," "Spy Films," "Westerns (Old School)," "Westerns (Modern)," then I decided to give it a rest. Three favorites, all from the 1980's have writer Horton Foote in common; "Tender Mercies," Trip To Bountiful," and "Places in the Heart."

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Neil D
Date: 26 Mar 09 - 10:07 PM

Wesley, you're absolutely right. I just saw an update on Maddow.
A Farelly Brothers production as well. Funny though, I was just thinking that if Jim Carey wanted to gain some weight, he could pull off the Curly role.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: GUEST,BigDaddy
Date: 27 Mar 09 - 08:01 AM

Correcting myself. Horton Foote was not responsible for "Places in the Heart." Another Texan, Robert Benton, was the writer and director for that one.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Micca
Date: 27 Mar 09 - 08:02 AM

I recently saw (borrowed from the College Library where I work) "Rififi", which has one of the Most Copied scenes in all 1930/40s Film noir in it, But which I had never seen the whole movie until now!!! The "break in" scene, silent,with NO background music track, only the ambient sound is rightly a Classic and as fascinating and revolutionaary now as it was when first made!! I would highly reccommend this one.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Victor in Mapperton
Date: 27 Mar 09 - 03:12 PM

Two excellent films I enjoyed recently are "Doubt" and "Electric Mist".

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: GUEST,BigDaddy
Date: 27 Mar 09 - 06:09 PM

I'll second that vote for "Electric Mist." Too bad the studio had no faith in their film, and too bad they released it directly to video missing 15 minutes of director Bertrand Tavernier's original vision. Still good with some elements that I always appreciate: Cajun country, cypress trees, Spanish Moss, Buddy Guy, blues, Cajun music, Tommy Lee Jones, visitations from the ghost of General John Bell Hood, meditations on how the past resonates in the present. Reminds me too of the William Faulkner quote, "The past is not dead. It's not even past."

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: GUEST,BigDaddy
Date: 27 Mar 09 - 11:06 PM

Forgot to mention that was Levon Helm as the ghost of General John Bell Hood in "Electric Mist." Mea big culpa.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: katlaughing
Date: 28 Mar 09 - 12:12 AM

Thanks, fellahs! I just put Doubt, Electric Mist, and Rififi in my netflix queue.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Amergin
Date: 28 Mar 09 - 02:46 AM

I saw a few good ones recently....

The Watchmen....which I found rather interesting the whole concept of an alternate universe where superheroes are known....and they are not necessarily good....

Juno....it was quite refreshing to watch a teen comedy that didn't include a quest for getting drunk and laid.....the sex had already happened before the movie began.

Atonement....my god....what a fabulous film....lives destroyed because of the actions of one misguided jealous girl...

neverwhere...a bbc miniseries by Neil Gaiman....very low budget but it works.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 28 Mar 09 - 07:02 AM

I got Neverwhere on DVD for Christmas and it is great - Lenny Henry had a lot to do with it if you didn't know. Anyhow - that was not what I got on to post about...

Defiance - Fantastic film with something for everyone. I didn't think Daniel Craig would work as a Bellarussian Jew but he definitely pulls it off. And in disagreement with a poster above I think he makes a good Bond as well:-)

Cheers

DeG

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Mar 09 - 12:18 PM

The Secret of Roan Inish - a gentle low-budget film - a story around the legends of the selkies.

The Long Riders - The story of Jesse James - music by Ry Cooder.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Neil D
Date: 29 Mar 09 - 05:40 AM

"Flawless" with Michael Caine and Demi Moore was very good. A heist movie but definitely a cut above the average genre piece. Caine is, as always, brilliant and Moore holds up her end well.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: GUEST,Jack The Sailor
Date: 29 Mar 09 - 11:55 AM

Seen any good movies lately?

I just saw a bad one.

"W" was disappointing. I learned nothing new. The acting was bland and the device of using Bush's malaprops from his speeches as dialog in private conversations was distracting. It tended to take my mind of what little narrative there was.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: katlaughing
Date: 29 Apr 09 - 06:01 PM

We tried Doubt and turned it off in disgust. It really just didn't work for me and Rog, who grew up in parochial school, etc. really had vile things to say about it. I was kind of shocked because I have always likes every role I've ever seen Meryl Streep in, until this one. This afternoon, I just tried to watch her in another, Dancing at Lughnasa (sp), and turned it off, too. Her Irish accent was weak and artificial, esp. compared to the other actors and the story seemed a bit unr/idealistic. Maybe I didn't watch it long enough, but I did not like her character nor the way she played her. It felt to me as though she'd been stereotyped with two very similar characters which, imo, just weren't right for her. I hope she gets into some more roles worthy of her abilities.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: katlaughing
Date: 23 Aug 09 - 11:18 PM

Watched a wonderful film called La veuve de Saint-Pierre/The Widow of Saint Pierre which was on a small French island off of Newfoundland. Juliette Binoche played the lead part. She is SO beautiful and did a superb job as did the two leading men: Daniel Auteuil as her husband the Captain and, Emir Kusturica as Neel, the man sentenced to die. Really well-done, imo and well worth watching a second time, even.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: maire-aine
Date: 23 Aug 09 - 11:38 PM

Saw "Julie & Julia" this afternoon, and thoroughly enjoyed it. Warning: don't go hungry.

Maryanne

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 24 Aug 09 - 12:04 AM

I thought "Doubt" was very good. Not exactly enjoyable, mind you...but very good. (I'm not Catholic...so what do I know?) ;-)

"Atonement" is an utterly superb film. 10 out of 10!

"The Reader" is a superb and very moving film that really gives the viewer a great deal to think about...specially if they can honestly relate to the 2 main characters in the film and put themselves hypothetically in their place without any prejudgement. "What would I have done if it were me and this happened to me?" "What would many others have done if it were them?" That is the question the viewer must ask himself or herself...if inclined to look directly and unflinchingly at the very real possibility that something like this can happen to anyone, given certain circumstances.

"Revolutionary Road" is quite good. It's also pretty damn harrowing to watch, so only watch it if you're ready for a heavy evening.

"Taken" is a perfect action film. It's a bit unbelievable at times...but you can't fault it for engaging your attention 100%, and Liam Neeson makes the best secret agent of all time. Bond is mere oatmeal in comparison to Liam Neeson in "Taken".

However...here's another vote for Daniel Craig as the best James Bond ever...in my opinion. I was prepared to be surprised at the first movie he portrayed Bond in, and I was. "Casino Royale" was wonderful. "Quantum of Solace" is only a so-so movie in comparison, but Craig is still excellent as James Bond in both films. You believe he's as tough as the part requires him to be.

"Apaloosa" is a terrific recent western.

"Juno" was very good. Best movie about a teenager that I've seen.

I really liked "W". But then, I like EVERY movie made by Oliver Stone. The only character who seemed not to have been caught very effectively in it to me was Condoleeza Rice. Cheney and Dubya were played extremely convincingly.

And lastly: I loved "Frost/Nixon" ...or is it "Nixon/Frost"??? Whatever. It's great.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: jacqui.c
Date: 24 Aug 09 - 07:08 AM

Knowing, with Nick Cage. Brilliant ending. I also caught up with the latest Star Trek movie on the transatlantic hop and thoroughly enjoyed it.

I agree with Taken - superb movie, got my daughter and son in law hooked so they've kept the DVD to watch again.

Took my granddaughter to see Ice Age 3 - that was great, lots of sub text for the adults, as had G-Force, which I saw with my grandson.

Caught up with the latest Harry Potter, as an addict I found it well up to the mark.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Lighter
Date: 24 Aug 09 - 09:43 AM

I was about to ask whether the name of this thread was a joke.

Then I remembered that "Revolutionary Road" really was first-class. Kate and Leonardo have come a long way from "Titanic."

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: katlaughing
Date: 24 Aug 09 - 11:31 AM

I forgot to say I'd also recently watched The LAST (forgot that earlier)King of Scotland. Wow, esp. the performance by Forest Whitaker.

Really enjoyed a sweet Irish film based on a story by Maeve Binchy called How About You.

Also, a rather disturbing one called Vers le Sud/Heading South. Very thought-provoking.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 24 Aug 09 - 12:40 PM

Oh yeah,....the last "Star Trek" was very good. And "The Last King of Scotland" was great. Thanks for the reminders.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 24 Aug 09 - 01:21 PM

Say, here's another good one:

"The Queen" - wonderful acting!

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: jacqui.c
Date: 24 Aug 09 - 01:35 PM

Seen it twice LH - I agree - great acting.

Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 24 Aug 09 - 01:49 PM

Not been to the Cinema in nearly thirty years !!