NationStates Jolt Archive

For me it was LOTR: Return of the King a few weeks ago.

I love everything about that movie.

Sahara.

I'm a diehard Cussler fan. Read almost all of his books.

Sahara

oooh, two Saharas.

Was it one of those fun action movies with a lot of comedy?

I liked The Ring 2 and will be seeing Sahara this week.

Sin City was the last great film I saw. It was a fantastic movie, not to mention a work of art.

Sahara was very good - Action packed, serious, yet with plenty of chuckles, in a kind of Indiana Jones fashion.

Al Giordino is the comedy relief, but he isn't stupid comic relief.

'My hat!'

Sahara... it was awesome... a little bit of everything. Plenty of laughs. :D

Last good movie... hm...
I loved 'Butterfly Effect' Haven't seen many good movies
lately. But that one was great. Saw Oceans twelve yesterday
It sucked. Although I loved the Bruce Willis part :D

oooh, two Saharas.

Sahara was very good

An unexpected showing by the 1943 Bogart film?

I liked The Ring 2 and will be seeing Sahara this week.

Do you know how that holds up to the original?

I'm really want to see it, but no luck yet :(

Last good film for me.

Deadman or Cube II, (I'm still in two minds about the latter)

I've been wanting to watch Sin City because of the way it was filmed, but I'm not a big Rodriguez fan. Seeing Jessica Alba dancing just..WOW

I'll have to watch Sahara one of these days. It looks like a good sleeper hit.

My friend Jill said The Ring 2 was funny because there were so many stupid parts. But it was also somewhat scarier.

I dunno. You'll have to see it yourself to find out.

Life aquatic with Steve Zissou

Oh, y'know another good movie?

Buckaroo Banzai across the 8th dimension. That was a cool movie - I wish they made the other one. :(

The last totally awesome movie I saw was "Office Space". I can't wait for Revenge of the Sith to come out. If it sucks though, it will ruin the whole series.

Oh, y'know another good movie?

Buckaroo Banzai across the 8th dimension. That was a cool movie - I wish they made the other one. :(

Didn't that come out in like 1984?

Yeah, and what makes it all scarier is the fact I was born in 1991.

Finding Neverland...

As my partner put it, "about time I get to see a film I actually like on the big screen instead of on DVD!"

The last totally awesome movie I saw was "Office Space". I can't wait for Revenge of the Sith to come out. If it sucks though, it will ruin the whole series.


<------- Star Wars nerd. From what I've been seeing, and it's been a lot. Revenge of the Sith should be amazing.

Yeah, and what makes it all scarier is the fact I was born in 1991.

You missed the greatest decade ever to grow up in. The 80's :D

*Sniff*

At least I have an Atari 2600 (seriously)! :p

<------- Star Wars nerd. From what I've been seeing, and it's been a lot. Revenge of the Sith should be amazing.
I'm definitely excited about it. It's going to come out during the summer too, so I'm definitely getting in at the 12 a.m. first showing.

*Sniff*

At least I have an Atari 2600 (seriously)! :p
Wow, that's for real old school.

*Sniff*

At least I have an Atari 2600 (seriously)! :p


LMAO, we used to have one. We had the three major consoles. Atari, Nintendo and Sega master system.

*sigh* the good ol' days.

Sin City, hands down. Even if you dont care for the story there is no denying the cinematic genius contained therein. Every shot is crafted to perfection, and the movie remains more faithful to the original comic book medium than any other movie-from-comic art I've ever seen in my life.

Sin City has my vote for best theatrical release since Pulp Fiction. It may, in time, overcome Pulp Fiction in my book if it stands up to a dozen or more viewings. But I've seen it 5 times and I love it more and more the more I watch it, so look out Tarantino.

Note the sig quote :D

Life aquatic with Steve Zissou

Seconded.

Hitchcock's "Vertigo."

Metropolis

I'm older than I look

Shultze Gets the Blues, Sin City, and Downfall where all seen within a few days of each other, and I liked all three for differing reasons.

Sin City sort of provides a 'proof of concept' for a way I've been thinking about film recently. I think that constructing the stories as a whole could have been a little better, but Tarintino I think has been twisting my expectations in that regard.

Shultze Gets the Blues was a fairly charming film. A different approach to a simple tale. No way a mainstream film would let something develop that slowly with so little dialog. Everyonce in a while thats nice.

Downfall-I know there was some concern that this film might 'humanize' Hitler too much, but maybe it's just me, but loving his dog and being nice to his secretary does not make up for what he does in that movie, much less in history. There's a speech in there by Goebbles that chills to the bone. Regarding the civilians that will be caught in the Russian assault: "I have no sympathy. I repeat, I have no sympathy. We did not force this on the German people. They gave us a mandate. And now they are getting their little throats cut." Fuck.

You don't end up feeling sorry for them. You have a feeling, it's not joy, it's not sympathy. Perhaps it's empathy with no sympathy. A feeling of regret-not that they died but that it came to that. Maybe thats it. It's a pretty interesting film, and I'm not a WWII buff or military fetishist or anything like that.

Seconded.
Thirded, though I have seen good films since-but I did like this movie.

Thirded, though I have seen good films since-but I did like this movie.

See, I went on the assumption that the question really implied what was the last good movie you saw in theatres. I've seen better movies at home since, but Life Aquatic was the last really good movie I've gone to the theatre to see.

Without A Paddle. It was about two weeks ago... Got it on Pay Per View. I was surprised, to say the least.

gone to theatre: Sin City. Excellent way to start off the summer action swing

Seen on DVD: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly. Possibly the greatest movie of all time.

Ring 2. It was good, not great, but good.

See, I went on the assumption that the question really implied what was the last good movie you saw in theatres. I've seen better movies at home since, but Life Aquatic was the last really good movie I've gone to the theatre to see.
Thats what I was going with, too. I've just had a good run with the theaters as of late.

Ring 2. It was good, not great, but good.

Seriously? I heard it was horrible... But, that was from those GameFAQs idiots. I'll take your word for it :D.

If you want the film I saw most recently that I'd never seen before, probably Seven Years in Tibet
If you count the movie I saw most recently that I enjoyed Unbreakable takes the honor.

hmmmm....
Kung Fu Hustle... (original Chinese production)
Royal Warriors... (Michelle Yeoh... sigh)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon...
LOTR...
Spiderman...


was going trough my DVD collection this past weekend.

Well, saying this will only show that for my age demographic I am not going to the cinema nearly as often as I ought to... but the last good movie I have seen in theatre, was 'I Heart Huckabees'.

It's an incredible movie, brilliantly written, directed and acted - that is, if you're into existentiallism. If you aren't, you may still find yourself entertained, but I think ulimately the ones who will appreciate this movie most for it's intelligence and it's sophisticated humor, will be those who are already enthusiastic about the subject. It is, to the best of my knowledge, the only movie that really uses this philosophical standpoint as a plot - and it does so quite well. There really is something in it for everyone though, and I recommend watching it very highly.

:)

Metropolis

I'm older than I look
Which Metropolis?


The last film I've seen in White noise but it wasn't good...hmm the last good film was

Oldboy

I cheat.

I'll watch Greenaway's The Pillow Book tonight. I know it's really good. It's the last good movie I've not yet seen.

'Three Dollars' with Frances O'Connor and David Wenham.

Sin City.

An exquitely stylish movie, very well done.

But too gruesome for me. I walked out disturbed.

Der untergang (downfall) and the merchant of venice.

Downfall
I would've put that, probably, were my local cinema showing it. :mad:

Well, I just saw The Naked Gun (again), so that's the last good movie I've seen so far :D.

I would've put that, probably, were my local cinema showing it. :mad:
The benie of living in hippy town-we have more art theaters than mainstream theaters. Though screen-wise I think it's a push.

Though I have to wait to see Kung Fu Hustle...and I think I missed my 'Steamboy' window.

Airheads :cool:

SHREK!

Finally convinced my stubborn-ass friend that it wasn't just a cartoon for kids :rolleyes:.

Sin City was the last great film I saw. It was a fantastic movie, not to mention a work of art.
grrrrrr.... :mad: i wanna see it. :( is it really almost as good as pulp fiction?

Patlabor 3 on STARZ.

Man On Fire....

Just, utterly, awesome. Seriously good film. But it never gets mentioned in any of these movie threads other than by me. Am I the only one to have seen it?

Man On Fire....

Just, utterly, awesome. Seriously good film. But it never gets mentioned in any of these movie threads other than by me. Am I the only one to have seen it?
Don't worry, I've seen it too. Saw it last year when I was flying over to HK. Have the DVD too. Denzel Washington is one nasty mutha in it. the fingers taped to the sterring wheel, the pliers, the cigarette lighter to cautherise the wound...could he get any nastier?
Oh, wait, he does. CS explosive on a timer shoved up a guy's arse to get him to confess. Brilliant, absolutely brilliant.
I thought at the end when he was in the car with the kidnappers that he had done the CS EX trick on himself, in order to wipe them all out. That would have been a cool ending.

Lisa: What are you gonna do?
Creasy: What I do best. I'm gonna kill 'em. Anyone that was involved. Anybody who profited from it. Anybody who opens their eyes at me.



As for me, the last good movie I saw at the cinema was "A very long engagement" by Jeunet. Great movie, just great.
The last good movie I saw was "The Big Liebowski" last weekend, again. Wonderful quirky superbly acted film.

Team America: World Police.

I haven't laughed that hard in years.