What Was The Last Movie You Saw? Welcome Cinephiles.

[Hollylane]

Conan the Barbarian. I watched it all. Not my favorite movie by any means, or even something I would generally be interested in, but I gave it a chance because I love Jason Momoa from watching SG Atlantis. I almost didn't recognize him in this movie because he looked like this:



And I'm used to him looking like this:



I won't say the movie sucked, but it was at best, mediocre.

Tonight I will be watching



I will like this movie regardless of whether or not it effects my public image.

[girl_dee]

AMAZING story here.

[WomenMoveMe]

Wow...this movie made me all weepy about 20 different times. It is a Chinese film made in 2010. It tells the story of how a family was torn apart and rebuilt after death, loss, decision, and fate, in the aftermath of the 1976 Tangshan earthquake in which 240,000 lost their lives.

It more or less begins when a mother, who has already lost her husband to the earthquake, must decide which of her children is to live. The two children are trapped under a concrete slab at opposite ends. Moving the slab to save one, will crush the other. Both children are alive and can hear the rescuers pressuring the mother to make the decision. She must make the decision quickly or lose them both. The mother is anguished as she whispers, save my son. The daughter hears the mother make this decision and her silent tears were to cause the first of my many crying jags throughout this movie.

The daughter is taken from the rubble and laid beside her dead father. The mother and the son head off to rescue camps. It begins to rain heavily and the rain awakens the daughter, who obviously was not as dead as they thought.

I will not tell you more as I hope some of you will actually give this movie a look.

I loved loved loved this movie!!!

[Sparkle]

I saw "Hugo" this evening at the cinema.

Its a lovely film with a stellar cast, great writing, stunning cinematography and production design.

I would have preferred it not be in 3D (why gild the lily?)

[Rook]

Volver

I'd call it a Dramedy

Penélope Cruz plays a very independent and hard working woman dealing with a neurotic sister, a daughter smack in the middle of puberty among other issues.
After the much understood Murder of her srsly creepy asshole of a Husband, she tries to find a way to conceal any trace of evidence leading to the truth or the fact alone of his death, while her own aunts death puts a dent in a few plans already forged..
Her closest friend & neighbor, a medical marijuana user (diagnosed with Terminal Cancer) tries uncovering a personal mystery that bind them all together from events that happened long ago involving Raimunda's mother, (which is where everything leads to in the Film) she returns from the Dead in the process, for reasons u'd have to figure for yourself while watching....
It's got a serious plot revolving around Death with humor to soften the edges..

Caveat - If you don't foreign films with Subs, skip this.
It's better in original language, Spanish {Spain}.

Bonus: Cruz lip-syncs' a Flamenco rather well....The only part that's "musical" thankfully.

Pedro Almodóvar and Penélope Cruz have made quite a few films together as Producer/Actor combo that are amazing...
Those 2 would be, for me , like... Tim Burton & Johnny Depp.
w/o the "Camp"....

[SugarFemme]

Hey Rookie I have seen ALL of Almodovars films and I have loved each and every one of them. The two that have special places in my heart as they were the first two that I had seen are, "Tie me up! Tie me down!" and, "Matador". I just LOVED the metaphorical bullfight between the leads in, "Matador".

Originally Posted by Rook

Volver

I'd call it a Dramedy

Penélope Cruz plays a very independent and hard working woman dealing with a neurotic sister, a daughter smack in the middle of puberty among other issues.
After the much understood Murder of her srsly creepy asshole of a Husband, she tries to find a way to conceal any trace of evidence leading to the truth or the fact alone of his death, while her own aunts death puts a dent in a few plans already forged..
Her closest friend & neighbor, a medical marijuana user (diagnosed with Terminal Cancer) tries uncovering a personal mystery that bind them all together from events that happened long ago involving Raimunda's mother, (which is where everything leads to in the Film) she returns from the Dead in the process, for reasons u'd have to figure for yourself while watching....
It's got a serious plot revolving around Death with humor to soften the edges..

Caveat - If you don't foreign films with Subs, skip this.
It's better in original language, Spanish {Spain}.

Bonus: Cruz lip-syncs' a Flamenco rather well....The only part that's "musical" thankfully.

Pedro Almodóvar and Penélope Cruz have made quite a few films together as Producer/Actor combo that are amazing...
Those 2 would be, for me , like... Tim Burton & Johnny Depp.
w/o the "Camp"....

[ScandalAndy]

Yeah... I cried.... a lot. This one really got to me.

[foxyshaman]

Originally Posted by Hollylane

Conan the Barbarian. I watched it all. Not my favorite movie by any means, or even something I would generally be interested in, but I gave it a chance because I love Jason Momoa from watching SG Atlantis. I almost didn't recognize him in this movie because he looked like this:



And I'm used to him looking like this:



I won't say the movie sucked, but it was at best, mediocre.

Tonight I will be watching



I will like this movie regardless of whether or not it effects my public image.

Isn't he the same guy that played the Khan in "Game of Thrones"? He sure looks like him. And the muscles in the movie picture are in line with what he looked like in the TV series. He has awfully nice tri-ceps.

[foxyshaman]

I saw "Underworld - The Awakening" in 3D. It was "meh". But they have certainly left it as a sequal producing movie. At the end I was like "that's it. I finally figured out the plot and you end it?" If this one flops chances are we will never see the next one. But Kate... she can still kick ass. Contented sigh.

[TheDreadPirateRoberts]

we've been watching a lot of movies lately....i def recommend water for elephants

[Gentle Tiger]

Holy Rollers

[foxyshaman]

I saw "A Dangerous Method" last night. I enjoyed the film. Keira Knightley did a very good job. I loved, loved, loved the set designers amazing attention to detail for the "Frued office set". I wished I could have paused the movie just to see what nic a nack and bric a brak was in there.

[Venus007]

I saw "The Artist" today. What an amazing film. It is a black and white silent film that is a love story set during the transition between silent films and talkies. It was visually mesmerizing, emotionally satisfying and just a deep pleasure. The film quotes many famous films and is the perfect antidote to all the mindless schlock being passed off for movies. Check it out, it is pure cinema pleasure. Oh, I almost forgot it has an amazing little dog named Uggie in it that nearly steals the show.

[Sassy]

Watched "The King's Speech" this weekend. Really enjoyed it

[Toughy]

ok now I am having a menopausal moment.....I was gonna say what movie I just saw...........it was LONG.....2hrs 35 minutes.....dammitttalltohell......... the name of the movie was....I read the damn book............

YES

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

actually they were pretty true to the book except for the end when Lisbeth bought him the leather jacket and went to his house to give it to him and she saw him with his main squeeze and tossed the jacket in the dumpster............that was not in the book and cheapens lisbeth into some hollywood romance.......

[girl_dee]

Originally Posted by Sassy

Watched "The King's Speech" this weekend. Really enjoyed it

I LOVED this movie. I was completely surprised at how much i loved it.