what was the last movie you saw?

[VertOlive]

Up for "Meatballs and a Movie Night": Pain & Gain.

Wahlberg and The Rock do Black Comedy, with Ed Harrison [and his fabulous house] thrown in for perfect counterpoint.

[85AKbN]

Meet Me in St. Louis (1944). 8/10 Starring Judy Garland and Mary Astor. Noticed a very young June Lockhart (18,19), who played the mom in Lost in Space, and also in the Lassie tv series. Chill Wills makes an appearance.

[Tracy Lee]

Captain America: Winter Soldier. Enjoyed it a lot!!

[Malcolm]

There's Something about Mary.

[85AKbN]

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014). 8.5/10 With the passing of Roger Ebert, I've found a new reviewer - Dana Stevens.

[kaisnowbird]

The Hunger Game: Catching Fire. I found it to be a lot more engaging and enjoyable than the first instalment.

[85AKbN]

Two documentaries in a row.

Sweetgrass (2010). 7.5/10 One of the last shepards taking sheep through the mountains of Montana. The opening scene is unreal - starts at :59 through 1:43. Directed by Lucien Castaing-Taylor. He also made Leviathan (2012) 8.5/10.

Bobby Fischer Against the World (2011) 7/10 Fascinating. A literal descent into darkness. I had to throw on Darren Aronofsky's Pi (1998) 8/10 for a rewatch after.

Pride & Prejudice (2005). 8.75/10 Directed by Joe Wright (Atonement, Hana). Stars Keira Knightley, Donald Sutherland, Judi Dench, Rosamund Pike, and Carey Mulligan has a small roll. First of his films and I have to say I'll be watching all to catch up. Hana has been moving up the queue and should be next up.

Roger Ebert gave it 4 stars.

[johniem]

"God Isn't Dead" with Shane Harper and Kevin Sorbo

[Malcolm]

Dances With Wolves. Great film.

[kaisnowbird]

Watched The Hobbit 2 again, this time on dvd.

Conclusion: watching it on the big screen was soooooooooo much better!!

[85AKbN]

Another documentary: A Brief History of Time (1991). 7/10 Directed by Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line, The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara). Excellent soundtrack by Phllip Glass. His Gates of Heaven, about the pet cemetary business is very good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjFynyihXuY

Hanna (2011). 7.5/10 Directed by Joe Wright. Next up from him will be Atonement. Saoirse Ronan is excellent as the genetically modified soldier. I'll be following her films. A couple of instances where belief is suspended.

[Malcolm]

It's a while since I last saw it, but I enjoyed Hanna too.

Other Saoirse Ronan films I've enjoyed are Atonement, City of Ember, The Way Back, How I Live Now, The Lovely Bones, and The Host.

[Malcolm]

Cloud Atlas...Tom Hanks et al.

Struggled with it at the start, but I'm so glad I stuck with it. Excellent, and I shall be watching it again.

[85AKbN]

It's a while since I last saw it, but I enjoyed Hanna too.

Other Saoirse Ronan films I've enjoyed are Atonement, City of Ember, The Way Back, How I Live Now, The Lovely Bones, and The Host.

She is outstanding in The Grand Budapest Hotel as Agatha, the girl with the birthmark on her face in the shape of Mexico. One scene is very memorable to me in Hanna - in the Safari club where Marissa meets Issacs (Tom Hollander) and the eerie Chemical Brothers' music playing - the soundtrack tune labeled appropirately The Devil is in the Details, one of Issacs lines in that scene - and he whistles that tune throughout the film. Memorable. You can hear the tune in this clip:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xht...lub_shortfilms

Being a Joe Wright film, I just watched his first film Pride & Prejudice, and Tom Hollander played the visiting cousin Mr. Collins - no way I would have recognized him.

[Mags]

The daVinci code. I think I have seen it 4 times now.

[kaisnowbird]

Captain America: Winter Soldier. A very good action movie. Scarlett Johansson is particularly fun to watch. They should have a spy movie just about her character.

[85AKbN]

Ugetsu (1953). 9/10 Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. Stars both the samurai (Masayuki Mori), and samurai's wife (Machiko Kyo) from Kurosawa's 1950 Rashomon.

Spoiler: 

Two signature scenes: first is the lake scene, and second the final scene when the potter returns home to his wife and son.

Masayuki Mori also starred in Kurosawa' The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail, Sanshiro Sugata Part II, The Idiot, and The Bad Sleep Well.

One of Roger Ebert's Great Movies:

http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/gr...ie-ugetsu-1953

[85AKbN]

Atonement (2007). 9/10 Directed by Joe Wright (Pride & Prejudice, Hanna). Wow. So many moments where your feelings just well up and you can't hold it back this film is so well done. After seeing the two others from Joe Wright that I've seen, he just joined a short list of my absolutely favorite current directors. And the ending. The way you see one version and then, you are seamlessly merged back into time to show you what you thought you saw, or what Briony (Saoirse Ronan) thinks she saw. And the films narration is primarily from one character - as you find out in the end - and what an ending. Do not read the Roger Ebert review as it may contain spoilers - watch this one cold.

http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/atonement-2007

Primer - What Happens if it Actually Works? (2004). 8.75/10 Directed by and stars Shane Carruth (Upstream Color), his first film. I had to watch this with the subtitles on, and the pause / rewind handy, so I could keep up. Even so, I missed so much, though this takes nothing away from the genius of this very low budjet gem. Watched it again back to back with the director's commentary and he explains a lot. I will definitely watch this again - several times. Another new director who I will follow - and who made my list.

http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/primer-2004

[kaisnowbird]

"P.S. I Love You' -- unimpressed. Good actors (mostly) with a poorly written script and uninspired direction. 2.5/10.

"Rio" -- much better than expected. 7.5/10.

[Kaputnik]

The Lady from Shanghai, 1947, Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth. One of those films that you can spoil for yourself by analyzing it too much; it's first rate if you just go with it.

Before that, it was The Party, a 1968 Peter Sellers comedy which I think once seemed hilarious to me. Coming back to it, it was unwatchable. Couldn't finish it.

And before that it was Li'l Abner, a 1959 musical based on the comic strip which some of us remember. Pretty good, I thought.