What is the best recent movie you’ve seen.

[Jean Kulasec]

Taken / l'enlèvement

Un de mes amis m'a conseillé de louer ce film en me disant que c'était exactement mon genre ... ben il n'avait pas tord !

 

[Special K]

The Heartbreak Kid!

One of the funniest movies I've seen in a very long time. It came out in 2007 but I don't remember hearing much, if anything about it. From the Farrelly Brothers who gave us Something About Mary comes this hilarious comedy also starring Ben Stiller!!

Highly recommended!!

 

[rumpleforeskiin]

This isn't recent, but..it's one of the best movies I've ever seen. It was released in the US in 1968 as "Alexander," starring Philippe Noiret. It ran at a little art house in Boston for over six months and I saw it several times as it was one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. It then disappeared, never released on VHS and not on DVD until just a few years ago, and then only in the original French, without subtitles. Apparently it was only pressed once as it's no longer available for purchase, but can be found in rental stores.

The film's original title is "Alexandre le bienheureux" and, if you understand French, this one should not be missed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_le_Bienheureux

 

[Doc Holliday]

Up!

Great movie & i hope it wins the Oscar tonight.

 

[Merlot]

The Hurt Locker.

Hello all,

I just happened to rent this movie because it was a recent release along with another on the afternoons of the Academy Awards night.

It's one of these "Day in the Life of" ideas that I first noticed became popular in books and movies during the 80s. Idea, take a random day and follow the subject to record whatever may happen as slice of life...so to speak. The result could be extremely mundane or unexpectedly contain some significant moment. The point is unscripted spontaneity without any plan or expectation. This is what The Hurt Locker tries to emulate.

Okay, so what you get is a pastiche of varying personalities with all their quirks, often being silly, bickering, inter-confrontational and sometimes a bit nutty surrounded by monotony and punctuated with high stress points.

Well-written and acted, done in a documentary kind of style, the film is an unflashy view into the routine of soldiers living/surviving in a war zone and dealing with each others idiosyncrasies as well as random death.

Is it worth seeing? I've seen so much of this genre already and there was nothing new here. Not for me. For others, marginally yes. It's a good film, but should it have won the Academy Award? It doesn't seem to be on that level.

Cheers,

Merlot

 

[Doc Holliday]

The Hurt Locker

I finished watching it today & liked it. However, i'm surprised it won best picture. I guess it wasn't much of a great crop of movies this year.

 

[hungry101]

The Hurt Locker

I finished watching it today & liked it. However, i'm surprised it won best picture. I guess it wasn't much of a great crop of movies this year.

Tarantino's movie, "Inglorious Bastards" was outstanding. "Informant" was also good. I got to see hurtlocker

 

[sirius.rex]

Ninja Assasin.... satisfied all my action cravings

 

[hungry101]

I just watched Bill Maher's Religulous based on the recommendation of a friend. Great flick. I haven't enjoyed anything that Bill Maher has done since the the "Cannibal Woman of the Avocado Jungle" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094834/. I happen to be a skeptic when it comes to religion anyway but even if you are a believer you will still laugh. I wish they would have spent a little more time dealing with Scientology. They only spent about 30 seconds on Scientology with Bill Maher standing out in public like some curbside prophet extolling the tenants of Scientology which was pretty funny. The best part is when Bill is talking to some black evangelist minister that told Bill something like "you don't have to call me Dr." and they ran a subtitle "He holds no degree of any kind." Anyway, the minister told Bill that he counselled a young man that just experienced a break up with a woman and was suffering from a broken heart. The man said he loved her so much he would die for her. the minister said "Now turn that love to God and now you have something." They cut to a scene of a Muslim suicide bomber driving a car into a target. Great flick. Watch this first followed by Year One or The Life of Brain and your guaranteed to go to hell...laughing anyway!

 

[joedoe88]

movie quality - district 9 nothing comes even close, avatar distant 2nd, shutter island was very good 2

action wise - ninja assassin, law abiding citizen

flops - wolfman, alice in wonderland, sherlock holmes

 

[BazookaJoe]

I finally got to see Avatar and it was fantastic. If you can, get the blue ray version. Well worth the entra 10$

 

[CS Martin]

I finally got to see Avatar and it was fantastic. If you can, get the blue ray version. Well worth the entra 10$

Saw it..........can anybody say Old Western plot updated for today's market (i.e. outstanding visuals)?? All that was needed was a Kevin Costner voice over......see if you recognize the plot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dances_with_Wolves

 

[Doc Holliday]

I watched "Up in the Air" the other day. Another very good movie starring George Clooney. No wonder it was an Oscar nominee. I actually found it much better than "The Hurt Locker". I haven't seen "Crazy Heart" yet (but plan to), but Jeff Bridges must have pulled one hell of a performance to win the Oscar over Clooney.

These days i've been watching a very good documentary called "The Battle of Chile", which was filmed during the preceding months of the Salvador Allende assassination/Augusto Pinochet coup. It won many awards around the international movie circuit. And well deserved they were.

 

[CS Martin]

The Ascent of Money via PBS is quite a mind altering realization. Portions are free on this website: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ascentofmoney/

 

[BazookaJoe]

Of course its an old plot. I enjoyed it anyways, I guess mostly for the visuals.

 

[CS Martin]

Where they lost me is in calling them "The People". This term was often used by the Native North American Indian to describe themselves. I'm wondering if they had left out that detail whether I would have caught on so quickly and not spent the rest of the movie anticpating the plot, admiring the visuals and comparing it with Dances with Wolves. They managed to change some details enough to give it some creativity, why screw it up by using warmed over terminology? Despite this, it was worth watching........and maybe a second time just to admire the visuals.

 

[Techman]

I picked up Avatar on Blu-ray and thoroughly enjoyed watching it. The picture and audio quality are just about reference standard and it makes a great disc to demo your HD surround sound system to friends. Sure the story was derivative, I thought it was familiar to a lot of stories I've read or seen- especially Dune, the book not the lousy movie - but how many original movies are there these days anyways? It really has to be seen in high def to be appreciated, the DVD copy that comes with it really doesn't make the grade. I'm looking forward to seeing Ironman 2 on Friday. Some mindless superhero action should be great for a change!

 

[CS Martin]

Great, I bought the Blue-Ray Disc and was going to try it out on the new HTPC I've been building. Really looking forward to the visuals.

 

[hungry101]

re: avatar - saw the basic dvd @ $24.99 & the blu-ray @ $29.99 @ future shop today.

Bought it for $0.40 in Guanzho

 

[Merlot]

Hello all,

What kind of offspring would a union of James Bond and Lara Croft bring? Answer: SALT! If logic and plausibility trouble you there may be issues. But, if you like to enjoy high intrigue and mayhem with an apocalyptic edge...GO. I rate this movie a solid B on the satisfaction scale for non-stop action adventure. The concept is outlandish, but the action is spell-binding.

Cheers,

Merlot