What was the last movie you watched?

Harvester · Tue Dec 28, 2010 10:43 pm

Not really, I choose to watch only the most critically acclaimed Dutch movies because the rest is mostly crap. I think I watch less than 5 Dutch movies a year. I did happen to watch a few (4) in the last couple of months, but that's an exception, usually months go by without watching one.

We also watched a Dutch movie yesterday night, but I'm not going to talk about it at length because it's not been released abroad so no way for you guys to watch it except by illegal downloading. I will only say that it was a very sad movie about a person dying from cancer, my best friend couldn't stop crying and I was moved by it as well.

But if you're going to watch one Dutch movie: pick Black Book, it's pretty good.

Orodrist · Wed Dec 29, 2010 4:23 pm

True Grit.

Still not finished the original, but that was good.

Harvester · Thu Dec 30, 2010 12:06 am

Resident Evil: Afterlife
Was okay to watch once. Worth renting if you liked the other Resident Evil movies. 7/10

Exam
Interesting little indie movie. It's similar to the movie Cube in the sense that it's a movie about a bunch of people who have to solve a puzzle, and then they turn on each other and stuff. But it's less of a horror movie than Cube was, there are no gruesome deaths in this one. The storyline kept me interested throughout. I might buy this one when it drops in price. 8/10

Thu Dec 30, 2010 2:42 am

Toy Story 2 - great movie!

GarthVader · Fri Dec 31, 2010 6:05 pm

Van Helsing

I like Vampires and Werewolves and stuffs so I enjoyed it.
B+

Kendrik · Sat Jan 01, 2011 2:26 am

GarthVader wrote:Van Helsing

I like Vampires and Werewolves and stuffs so I enjoyed it.
B+

Me. Too. O.o

Well... the enjoyment, anyway. Didn't watch it recently.

Did watch 2001: A Space Odyssey last night. Definitely think that a lot of its effectiveness has been lost in the 40+ years since its release. A big deal for the time? For sure. Still as meaningful today? Nooooot so much.

It's also boring as crap. A movie doesn't have to be entertaining in the common sense to rate well with me, but it does need to be engaging (and I think you can have one without the other). Definitely didn't feel engaged with more than five or ten minutes of the movie. The rest was a lot like space travel; taking forever to get where you're going... bored the whole time along the way.

Sat Jan 01, 2011 6:22 am

I guess you're just not a fan of Clarkeian Sci-Fi.

The Da Vinci Code

Well. It was interesting until it hit about the 30 minute mark (When they met with Teabing). After that it quickly become one of the hokiest movies I have ever had the displeasure of viewing. XD

F

The Ring

Really weird. But I like weird. I adore weird. So naturally, I really enjoyed this movie. Granted, it wasn't perfect, but it was a very well-done horror remake. Now i need to see the Japanese original. XD

A-

Men in Black II

It was...alright. It's been forever and a day since I've seen the first so maybe it wasn't as appealing to me, but I thought it was a roughly average comedy-science fiction.

C-

X2

Not gonna lie, but this movie exceeded my expectations. Blew them out of the water, in fact. I actually enjoyed it quite a lot. Jackman was a little more tolerable this time around, even though they didn't focus on the characters as much as I'd have liked.

Also, Ian McKellen as Magneto = best idea in X-Men history. Or close to it.

B

Kendrik · Sat Jan 01, 2011 6:39 am

Deepfreeze32 wrote:I guess you're just not a fan of Clarkeian Sci-Fi.

I'm not one for deriving a pattern from a single instance.

Sat Jan 01, 2011 6:51 am

Yeah, but this is the guy's seminal work. That's gotta mean something.

Drewsov · Sat Jan 01, 2011 9:53 am

No, it's Kubrick's seminal work; not Clarke's.

It's Clarke's seminal novel.

GarthVader · Sat Jan 01, 2011 4:57 pm

Went to the theater for only the third time this year, hoping to see either VotDT or True Grit. Ended up seeing neither, but Gulliver's Travels instead. Fortunately I am a Jack Black fan, so I didn't die.

C

Orodrist · Sat Jan 01, 2011 5:41 pm

^ I've made it quite clear anyone in my family who watches that is disowned

Frankenstein (1910)

Thomas Edison was a genius.

Kendrik · Sat Jan 01, 2011 8:07 pm

Drewsov wrote:No, it's Kubrick's seminal work; not Clarke's.

It's Clarke's seminal novel.

I think I would like the novel more. Just sayin'.

GarthVader · Sat Jan 01, 2011 10:10 pm

Orodrist wrote:^ I've made it quite clear anyone in my family who watches that is disowned

Haha. Unfortunately, I didn't really have a choice.

Despicable Me

Love this movie.

B+

Harvester · Sat Jan 01, 2011 11:47 pm

Kendrik wrote:Did watch 2001: A Space Odyssey last night. Definitely think that a lot of its effectiveness has been lost in the 40+ years since its release. A big deal for the time? For sure. Still as meaningful today? Nooooot so much.

It's an ideas movie. The ideas and philosophical themes that 2001 touches upon, are every bit as relevant today as they were when the movie came out. You can pick apart this movie for hours. I found it fun to read essays on what Kubrick wanted to say with this movie, there is an unbelievable and almost unrivaled amount of depth in this movie.

It might be less effective today but that's mostly because audiences have changed, they're not used to such slow movies anymore where you have to figure stuff out for yourselves.

Anyway, I totally get why people think this movie is boring, but I find it a very fascinating film. Transformers 2, now that's boring (to me).

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