Last (x) movies you saw

DD again. it WAS aimless and boring in quite lengthy patches, and though i haven't seen that many films, if it's one of the most enjoyable films of late, then that's bad news for cinema. Also, it was a self-contained fantasy with no hope of providing an interesting view of anything other than itself.

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 23 January 2003 11:39 (10 years ago) Permalink

''Julio what time is Seal No. Seven on tonight. Might be worth me shimmying down for.''

6:20 pm NFT1

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 23 January 2003 12:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

Self contained fantasy = good thing (though how insular a film with that many popular culture references which illuminate the plot can be I'm not so sure). I must admit I did not find it the least bit boring, yes there was a bit of weirdness for weirdness sake going on but I think the director did a better job that David Lynch usually does in justifying most of that. I think this may be a horse for course thing.

Dick rocks. ALl The Presidents Men is on next week sometime for decent comparison Graham. Dick tells the story a lot better.

Knackers, in seminar at 6:20.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 23 January 2003 12:03 (10 years ago) Permalink

I'm still counting down the days til Darkness Falls comes out. It's finally out tomorrow, hooray!

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 23 January 2003 13:36 (10 years ago) Permalink

8 mile
Birthday Girl - How can Nick be infatuated with someone with such an improbably large forehead? Also the first half of the movie is incredibly boring.

― Graham (graham), Monday, 27 January 2003 15:32 (10 years ago) Permalink

Chicago - great if you're into that sort of thing - singing & dancing, I mean
Lost Highway - very entertaining, I like movies that promote discussion
The Man with Two Brains - HA!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 27 January 2003 15:51 (10 years ago) Permalink

The Truth About Charlie - the last thing anyone needs is a remake of 'Charade'* (I thought) but Thandie Newton is gorgeous and is in virtually every scene. And it's J. Demme so it couldn't be too crap (I thought); it'll be nice, light brain-disengaging fare for a Sunday afternoon (I thought).

Goodness, what a mess! It's sooo French too - I don't just mean the Paris setting and the Aznavour/Karina cameos, but the plotting is typical 'policier' à la Diva what with all these sinister types menacing our heroine (when they're not chasing or squabbling with eachother, that is). Also, all the cast must have had ESP since they all managed to be in exactly in the right place at the right time. Nice sapphic undertones tho', and surprisingly light on violence, which made a nice change.

*as namechecked by Justin upthread

― Jeff W, Monday, 27 January 2003 15:59 (10 years ago) Permalink

Birthday Girl is a mess isn't it.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 27 January 2003 16:06 (10 years ago) Permalink

Mostly DVDs:

Imitation of Life
Chicago
Dogfight
Barbershop
Krush Groove
The Bourne Identity
24 Hour Party People (listened to commentaries while assembling CD rack)

― Andy K (Andy K), Monday, 27 January 2003 17:07 (10 years ago) Permalink

Finally saw Catch Me If You Can tonight! I loved it, which surprised me because I was fully expecting to hate it. Even Leo was quite good in it. If Minority Report hadn't cocked up the ending, I would have two Spielberg films in my top ten for 2002.

― Nicole (Nicole), Sunday, 2 February 2003 05:30 (10 years ago) Permalink

i saw 'about schmidt' the other night, it was really hard to watch. kathy bates and the set design in her house was great, but jack nicholson shouldn't have been in it at all. overall i didn't like it.

― minna (minna), Sunday, 2 February 2003 06:18 (10 years ago) Permalink

The Hours was disappointing. Its tone seemed vague/ambiguous/not-fleshed-out, in a bad way. Had a completely false character in the overprecocious melancholic child, something I had come to associate only with the Great Satan M Night Shyalaman. And John C. Reilly should have passed on this one.

Worth it to watch Meryl Streep, and Claire Danes is good but it's a small part.

― Aaron A., Sunday, 2 February 2003 06:42 (10 years ago) Permalink

Signs (again) - I have a man crush on M. Night Shyamalan.
The Bank - neat Aussie flick. Pi meets Glengarry Glen Ross. Er, I wish.
The Bourne Identity - Better then my low expectations. Go big head go.
Adaptation - about 3/4's grebt.

― bnw (bnw), Sunday, 2 February 2003 08:02 (10 years ago) Permalink

The Bourne Identity - I liked it alot; Clive Owens - the sexy Boris Karloff - was great - he barely talked!

Adaptation - s'okay; Nic Cage and Chris Cooper were great.

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind - Alot of fun. Gene Gene the Dancing Machine, plus Julia Roberts licking Sam Rockwell, plus Drew Barrymore looking fuckme adorable, plus RUTGER HAUER. The best Charlie Kaufman flick with Maggie Gyllenhaal to come out in the past year.

City of Gods - pretty damn good; a few shots were a little too flashy, and I can never judge a script well off of subtitles but it had an impact. I didn't think it was as relentlessly dark as some made it out to be, but I never thought gangsta rap was supposed to be dark or serious either.

25th Hour - I've mentioned this elsewhere; I cried my eyes out.

― James Blount (James Blount), Sunday, 2 February 2003 08:20 (10 years ago) Permalink

Plan Nine from Outaspace. Fell asleep the last five min. Apparently it was just as bad as the proceeding uh... 90 minutes. We wanted to see City of Gods but it's already out of circulation. Spider is up next as well as Mystery Train (for the 2nd time)

― nathalie (nathalie), Sunday, 2 February 2003 08:21 (10 years ago) Permalink

Last film that I saw at the cinema: ST: Nemesis

Last film that I walked out of halfway through: LOTR: The Two Towers

Last film that I got a nice big poster of: Vivre Sa Vie

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Sunday, 2 February 2003 08:43 (10 years ago) Permalink

"Catch Me If You Can" last night - very much enjoyed it, and yes, Christopher Walken was superb.

"Dirty Pretty Things" last week - even better, a beautifully satirsfying and moving British film. Recommend hugely.

― Mark C (Mark C), Sunday, 2 February 2003 10:27 (10 years ago) Permalink

8 mile = good

Chicago = great

I spy = okay

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 2 February 2003 13:45 (10 years ago) Permalink

bergman's 'The virgin spring' on friday.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 2 February 2003 14:25 (10 years ago) Permalink

(some of)Strangers on a train, 8 Mile, Schindler's List.

― naked as sin (naked as sin), Sunday, 2 February 2003 16:28 (10 years ago) Permalink

*thinks* Nothing in theaters since you know what, for obvious reasons (ie, no other current films are Return of the King). But I did pick up Branded in Flesh, a mid-sixties Japanese Yakuza film on the heavy duty art tip, on Critierion at Spencer's suggestion last week and Sean and I watched it a week ago -- a very 1967 film in ways and quite good at same. You can definitely see how the style was picking up all over the place from French cinema while the plot and how it was handled made me so not surprised that Tarantino is credited as an associate producer of the DVD.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 2 February 2003 16:44 (10 years ago) Permalink

ok last week i saw crimes of the future, man without a past, hamlet goes business and drifting clouds (kaurismaaki week) manhunter last night, er that vincent gallo vampire thing, about schmidt, poison (todd haynes)

i wanted to see bergman's hour of the wolf today but was at work

― zemko (bob), Sunday, 2 February 2003 21:30 (10 years ago) Permalink

hehehe...I was going to go to hour of the wolf but work put me off too.

should be watching 'persona' sometime this week.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 2 February 2003 21:34 (10 years ago) Permalink

I'm watching Sixth Sense on TV at the moment. I hope the allegedly astonishing twist doesn't turn out to be as blindingly obvious as I think.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 2 February 2003 22:05 (10 years ago) Permalink

It will Martin, it will

― luna (luna.c), Sunday, 2 February 2003 22:07 (10 years ago) Permalink

the kid's a vampire

― James Blount (James Blount), Sunday, 2 February 2003 22:08 (10 years ago) Permalink

I'm watching Austin Powers.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 2 February 2003 22:08 (10 years ago) Permalink

wasn't the sixth sense the one where it was all a dream, and then they all went back to Kansas or something?

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 2 February 2003 22:10 (10 years ago) Permalink

I am expecting him to wake up in the shower at the end.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 2 February 2003 22:11 (10 years ago) Permalink

Today I saw 'the Wild Thornberries' at Warner Village, Islington. We were about 20 minutes late for the 3.00 pm showing so the management gave me free passes to come and see it again which I thought was nice of them. The passes appear to be valid for anything not just that particular film.

― David (David), Sunday, 2 February 2003 22:24 (10 years ago) Permalink

I figured out the end to it not long into it - I HATE it when I do that.

― luna (luna.c), Sunday, 2 February 2003 22:24 (10 years ago) Permalink

I actually figured out the twist on the basis of the trailer to Sixth Sense. The first scene of the film gave the explanation. I should add that the Osment (sp?) kid is extraordinarily good. As good a child's performance as I've seen, I think.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 2 February 2003 22:53 (10 years ago) Permalink

As Good As It Gets - Amazing how easily his condition was solved, wasn't it? Puppies, eh.
Enemy of the State - v.v.good
Ghost World - <3 <3 <3
Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Fnatastic, except eveything involving Tommy Gnosis which is rub. Hedwig and the Korean Army Wives' Smells Like Teen Spirit = Best song that doesn't exist.
Cross Roads - Her mom really is Samantha! I nearly cried again.
The Sixth Sense - After the "I see dead people" money shot around 10:04pm there was no need to watch any more. But I did. That kid scares me.
Back To The Future III - As good as I remember

― Graham (graham), Monday, 3 February 2003 19:50 (10 years ago) Permalink

Has anyone seen that controversial French film, that I keep forgeting the title of? The one that tells the story backwards.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 3 February 2003 20:19 (10 years ago) Permalink

I saw Final Destination II over the weekend. Not as good as the first one, not as well-paced. But gorier--especially the massive car crash scene at the beginning. The female lead is kind of dull and the sexy blonde girl from the last movie is back and all edgy and annoying. The male lead is cute and very short.

― Arthur (Arthur), Monday, 3 February 2003 20:34 (10 years ago) Permalink

Last week we rented Signs, Memento and K-PAX though the g/f ended up watching Saturday Night Fever again ...

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Monday, 3 February 2003 23:02 (10 years ago) Permalink

Jel - yes, I saw 'Irreversible' today - I think I'll start a thread on it tomorrow, when my thoughts, such as they are, are a bit clearer.

I saw '6th Sense' when it came out, and like others here also guessed the twist ending abt 10 mins into the flick (this doesn't usually happen to me - I didn't suss the twist in 'Fight Club', for example, which other ppl have told me was equally obvious.) But re-watching '6th Sense' last night, without that sense of 'Is That All There Is?', I enjoyed it much more - the scene in the car w/ the mum and the little boy is incredibly manipulative/sentimental, but so well acted it nearly had me blubbing, all the same, and as a mood piece abt loss and letting go it works v. well (tho' I did wonder why, if the young girl was filming her mother poisoning her, she didn't actually do anything abt it). I also think Bruce Willis is really tremendous in it.

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Monday, 3 February 2003 23:11 (10 years ago) Permalink

Russian Ark, Solaris (Tarkovsky), Letter from an Unknown Woman,, two documentaries on Abbas Kiarostami, two episodes of What Do Those Old Films Mean?, Moonrise

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 3 February 2003 23:35 (10 years ago) Permalink

"About Schmidt" = horribly unfunny, overrated, sentimental crap.

Today I saw: "Catch Me if you Can" = funny, underrated, enjoyable caper. balance has been restored! Hurrah!

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 3 February 2003 23:38 (10 years ago) Permalink

The Virgin Suicides (not bad)
Insomnia (pretty good)
Lord Of the Rings 2 (I got a little bored. It's probably better if you've seen the first, which I haven't.)

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 3 February 2003 23:39 (10 years ago) Permalink

caught the last hour of the 6th sense and wasn't worried abt getting the twist. The scenes with the boy and bruce are really trmemndous. The whole thing is so well acted really.

yesterday I went across the road and watched Donnie Darko. I know there were threads on this so I might post.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 07:57 (10 years ago) Permalink

I saw 'Narc' last night. I didn't really get much out of it. For the last half hour especially, I just kept thinking 'Now have I missed something or why the fuck would he do that?' every couple of minutes.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 14 February 2003 13:18 (10 years ago) Permalink

that's what I thought during 'rush hour 2.' was 'nark' as good as that?

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 14 February 2003 13:21 (10 years ago) Permalink

Nark off.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 14 February 2003 13:21 (10 years ago) Permalink

I saw Catch Me If You Can last week. Did he really just abandon Brenda? That bit was odd.

― Graham (graham), Friday, 14 February 2003 13:31 (10 years ago) Permalink

The Lady and the Duke - ohimigod this movie is so good

Russian Ark - ohmigod this movie is so good

Talk to Her - s'okay

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 14 February 2003 13:37 (10 years ago) Permalink

I haven't been to the cinema yet this year, but then seeing as I only went three times last year it's hardly surprising.

― chris (chris), Friday, 14 February 2003 13:40 (10 years ago) Permalink

I taped The Ice Storm last night and watched it when I came in. I love that film.

― Lara (Lara), Friday, 14 February 2003 13:45 (10 years ago) Permalink

I bought MASH on DVD and it was as good a film as I remember. If not better. Haven't watched the accompanying documaentaries yet though.

― chris (chris), Friday, 14 February 2003 13:49 (10 years ago) Permalink

Ohayo by Ozu on Tuesday, which was terrific, then About Schmidt last night, which I think is a genuinely wonderful movie that I recommend to everyone. Jack Nicholson's best, Kathy Bates' too (smallish role), loads of great and funny and moving details all the way through. Virtually perfect.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 14 February 2003 21:24 (10 years ago) Permalink