list/discuss/rate - your recently watched movies

Gozu

Finally got around to watching Inception--  first rate entertainment for sure, and clearly one of the better dream/subconscious movies (though I must say I think Joseph Gordon-Levitt would've been great in DiCaprio's part).  I particularly like the way they handled time & movement perception within dream layers and how that relates to external reality.  Perhaps a tiny bit too long, and I didn't quite buy the shallow rich kid just going along with such an absurd and complex adventure, even in a dream (wasn't that Scarecrow?).  Quite a ride though, and makes you feel almost like you've been right there with them for an unknown span of time.  Ambitious and very effective (does the spindle fall over or not?!)

Sixth in the classic Godzilla film series, the awkwardly translated Invasion of Astro-Monster (known in the states on TV as 'Godzilla vs Monster Zero') was the sequel to Ghidorah the Three-Headed Monster, and is one of the more lively and sci-fi based of the Toho Studios run.  The devious inhabitants of Planet X pit three of Japan's most feared monsters against each other and eventually against Earth itself.  It's one of the best of Toho's golden age monster movies, followed in 1967 by equally good Son of Godzilla and Destroy All Monsters. 

 

yeah they're pretty pointless, aren't they

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Last nite, i saw Triumph Of The Will again.
          Again, a film that was technically a marvel, and ahead of it's time, but the "theme", if you can call it that, made me feel depressed, and the way Hitler and his cronies brainwashed the Germans was sickening
       I must say, though, that some of the obviously Wagner inspired music used i actually liked. Too bad it had to be wedded to such a nightmare

"Galaxy of Terror"

Edited by El Pollo Guerrera - February 22 2011 at 23:43

"Forbidden World"

The movies I saw in February :

Black Swan
Arronofsky's best for me; very modern, light&shade and camera work are beautiful. Natalie Portman is absolutely tremendous, I could amost feel the way she felt.
18/20

The Way Back
One of the adventure/survival true story we like to see, beautiful landscapes, great story and characters, though the time spent in the desert was too long, and the focus on the crossing of the Himalaya at the end is far too short.
15/20

True Grit
I'm not a Western type of guy, but this is a fantastic movie; all actors are great, Jeff Bridges would have deserved to win the Oscar again but Colin Firth was also tremendous.
16/20

Three Kings
Similar to The Hurt Locker, but even better, more realistic; it makes me wonder why Three Kings was overlooked 11 years ago, but The Hurt Locker got so many awards in 2010.
14/20


Edited by Curutchet - March 01 2011 at 10:13

Paper Moon

Peter Bogdanovich's period masterwork from '73 with Ryan&Tatum O'Neal paired as two reluctant travel companions in the Depression-era Midwest as they drift and grift illicitly hawking bibles, conning farm folk, flimflaming bootleggers, and other criminal enterprises.  Great fun, stunning photography and attention to detail, brilliant supporting cast (the late Madeline Kahn in one of her best appearances); still holds up as timeless.