list/discuss/rate - your recently watched movies

Bj-1 wrote: The Quiet One wrote: Coffee and Cigarretes by Jim Jarmusch Incredible! Loved it, the black & white, the dialogues, the jokes, the different themes, the simplicity of it all. Excellent work.     Agree, loved that movie. Light one up yourself while drinking coffee when you watch it for the best effect.

Conan the Barbarian (2011) last night.

Man!! Best action movie i've seen in a while.

Easy Rider.

Bj-1 wrote: Easy Rider.   Great druggy road movie with good characters, and of course, Jack Nicholson in his usual fine form.

Edited by Dayvenkirq - August 10 2012 at 01:38

The Dark Knight Rises.


Edited by Dayvenkirq - August 19 2012 at 23:10

Patti Smith: Dream of Life

Attack the Block - (SF-comedy-horror) - Witty slapstick horror that's sometimes too earnest in making a satirical point in Broken Britain of the 21st Century, stars a dislikable South London street gang who, after mugging a young nurse on her way home, proceed to bludgeon to death an alien whose space craft crash landed on the roof of a Volvo parked nearby. What follows is a passage of redemption as the gang team up with the reluctant nurse and a pair of stoned 2-bit drug dealers to defend their inner city tower block from a pack of aliens hell-bent on revenge. No more spoilers - it's a great debut by Joe Cornish (of Adam and Joe fame), superbly shot and directed with some well judged performances by the kids that play the kids. The language is London patois-slang, which while being depressingly authentic, does take a while to get your ear attuned to, but since that is a car-crash of cockney, Jamaican and American gangsta it's not impossible - certainly no more difficult that trying to understand Ice-T or Mos Def or any of the current wave of Hollywood actors who mumble their way through a script.

We watched The Hunger Games here at home last night and it's one of those rare films that is superior to the book.  Very well produced (though the lighting near the end was poor).

Epignosis wrote: We watched The Hunger Games here at home last night and it's one of those rare films that is superior to the book.  Very well produced (though the lighting near the end was poor).

It's a well done film. I think the depictions of Capital society and the domination of the districts deserve much praise.


Edited by Equality 7-2521 - August 21 2012 at 09:06

Silent House

Effective if sluggardly fright-flick about a young woman trapped in an abandoned house and her family members that begin disappearing.  A little Shining, a little Blair Witch Project, a good premise and suspenseful mood are spread  so thin - as the characters meticulously search the house from top to bottom - it's hard not to check your watch now & then.   Recommended to the patient.