Last movie you've watched

[lad]

Originally Posted by El Liontamer

City of God aka The Greatest Foreign Film ever. I never knew I could love a movie so much till I came along this bad boy.

One of my all-time favourites.

[irontony88]

the departed...

[speed]

Originally Posted by Satanstoenail

I'm not having a good run with movies at the moment. Saw another stinker the other night called "Syriana", starring George Clooney. It was an extremely hard to follow political drama about evil American oil companies merging in the middle east. It took so long to figure out what was going on that by the time I did, I was well beyond caring.

That was the obvious point though: oil is so complex, corrupt, shadowy, etc., its impossible to simplify and understand.

[s_a_o]

Enemy at the Gates. I could watch that over and over.

[Belligerent]

Alphadog
Yes Justin Timberlake is a shit actor...but its a good movie.
Suprised the hell outta me too.

[Satanstoenail]

Originally Posted by speed

That was the obvious point though: oil is so complex, corrupt, shadowy, etc., its impossible to simplify and understand.

I agree, but if you're going to make a movie about it, surely some importance should be given to involving the viewer? If the point is that oil is complex, why does that mean that the movie has to be hard to follow? I'm not saying it should be dumbed or watered down, but the plot was complicated to an unnecessary level imo. It felt messily put together.

[speed]

Originally Posted by Satanstoenail

I agree, but if you're going to make a movie about it, surely some importance should be given to involving the viewer? If the point is that oil is complex, why does that mean that the movie has to be hard to follow? I'm not saying it should be dumbed or watered down, but the plot was complicated to an unnecessary level imo. It felt messily put together.

Perhaps it was a bit too postmodern or artistic for the average movie-goer? And since it was a major Hollywood release, not a art house film, this could explain alot of the confusion.

Personally, I loved it as it really never tried to dumb anything down or sentimentalize, etc as 99.99% of Hollywood movies do. I just finished watching Stranger than Fiction, a perfect example of a wonderful idea and perfectly good movie, ruined by a hammy sentimental final act (the last 30 minutes were atrociously bad and overwrought).

Oh, Blades of Glory was good for some big laughs.

[s_a_o]

The Queen.

Now, I thought it was awesome.

[angelofdeath9308]

Hot Fuzz, best action movie I've seen

[Satanstoenail]

Originally Posted by speed

Perhaps it was a bit too postmodern or artistic for the average movie-goer? And since it was a major Hollywood release, not a art house film, this could explain alot of the confusion.

Personally, I loved it as it really never tried to dumb anything down or sentimentalize, etc as 99.99% of Hollywood movies do.

Perhaps it was just badly put together? And perhaps intellectual types loved it because it appeased their sense of superiority over "average movie-goers", and enabled them to be condescending to anyone who happened to dislike it?

[speed]

Originally Posted by Satanstoenail

Perhaps it was just badly put together? And perhaps intellectual types loved it because it appeased their sense of superiority over "average movie-goers", and enabled them to be condescending to anyone who happened to dislike it?

True. Its not the best movie ever or anything, but it was good and interesting. I still think if it was a art-house movie released to just a few theaters, one wouldnt find it condescending.