What movie did you watch last night? (16 Viewers)

[avernus]

I really liked it - not amazing, but very good. I'll probably mull over it for days and decide I loved it. Natalie Portman manages to still look beautiful in a bright orange rag with a shaved head.. not that I doubted she would. And Hugo Weaving's voice is just stunning and transcends his mask. Yeah I liked this a lot.

 

[ponderosa]

Why, Ridley... Why?

 

[avernus]

Why, Ridley... Why?

does Russell Crowe crack anyone's head open? yeah I won't be going to see that.

 

[mr pharmacist!!!!1]

ive seen it before.
its actually quite shit apart from the bit where the first girl gets killed and is dragged upside down and around the walls.

 

[La La]

i just finished watching the stunningly beautiful Beijing Bicycle complete with exquisite soundtrack.

watch it folks.

 

[Squiggle]

Howl's Moving Castle!

I think that this may be my favourite animated film ever.

Amazing! I need to watch it again.

 

[xsteox]

the spongebob squarepants movie

Spongebob: "Open your eyes Patrick! We blow bubbles, we eat ice cream, we worship a dancing peanut for corn sake we don't belong out here. Patrick: We do not worship him. Spongrbob: Patrick you've been wearing the same goofy goober peanut party underpants for 3 years stright what do you call that? Patrick: Worship oh spongebob you are right we are kids"

plankton:"His chops are too righteous. The helmets can't handle this level of rock 'n' roll. Karen, do something."
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[Cormcolash]

I've only seen the Spongebob movie at a party with no sound on (for visual effect of course) and it looked amazing.

 

[MDR]

I watched Sunset Boulevard last night. At the risk of sounding like and old geezer, the dialogue in those old movies is streets ahead of anything you hear in modern movies. Great stuff. Funny how self-aware Hollywood was at that stage in terms of the downside of the movie business.

 

[Charlie Bucket]

"The man without a past" - quirky and warm hearted in that finnish stylee reminded me i need to see "Leningrad cowboys go america" again!

 

[pete]

this afternoon we watched Why We Fight.

It was rather excellent.

http://www.sonyclassics.com/whywefight/

 

[carbide]

cruel jaws. amazing. the acting, the original script and the pilfered footage that went from day to night to day again in seconds...? the shark trained as a killing machine? the camera lingering on an arse in stripy cycling shorts?

most impressively, it kept bringing in enough new stupid shit to avoid being boring.

 

[pete]

cruel jaws. amazing. the acting, the original script and the pilfered footage that went from day to night to day again in seconds...? the shark trained as a killing machine? the camera lingering on an arse in stripy cycling shorts?

most impressively, it kept bringing in enough new stupid shit to avoid being boring.

October 26, 2006
'Jaws' tuba player Tommy Johnson passes away
While his name may not be familiar to fans, Tommy Johnson helped create millions of nightmares and fantasies around the world through the films of Steven Spielberg.

Johnson, who passed away this past October 16 at 71 years of age, was a first tier studio session tuba player who brought the chilling notes of John Williams' famed "Jaws" theme to aural life. According to the Los Angeles Times, Johnson was still performing until just a few weeks before complications from cancer and kidney failure took his life.

Along with his most famous work on "Jaws," Johnson also performed on classic Williams/Spielberg collaborations including "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom," and "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade." He also stood out as the foundation of the brass section of scores on Spielberg productions as diverse as all three "Back to the Future" films (all composed by Alan Silvestri), and in more recent years, "The Flintstones" (composed by David Newman), "Twister" (composed by Mark Mancina) and "Men in Black" (composed by Danny Elfman).

The Times article features a reprinted quote from Johnson (via the musician's website tubanews.com — Johnson has extended comments following the link) about his work on "Jaws," which the musician cited as favorite recording experience out of over 50 years of work in the industry.

The first day of the "Jaws" recording sessions, Johnson was caught in rainstorm on the freeway en route to the studio.

"When you're late like that, you're just really all upset," Johnson said. "So as I sat down and barely got the mouthpiece in the tuba, I happened to open the book and the first cue is this big, long tuba solo….

"This solo kept recurring in almost every cue. I found out later that was the theme for the shark. I asked John Williams later why he wrote that so high for the tuba, why didn't he write that for the French horns since it was in the perfect range for them? He said, 'Well, I wanted something that was in that register but I wanted it to sound a little more threatening.'"

Along with the thorough write-up at the Times, even CNN.com covered today's announcement of Johnson's death. It's always nice to see one of the unsung artists of film classics recognized. If you have a chance, put the score for "Jaws" on tonight to listen to Tommy Johnson's virtuoso tuba playing.

http://www.spielbergfilms.com/jaws/1119

 

[Nate Champion]

cruel jaws. amazing. the acting, the original script and the pilfered footage that went from day to night to day again in seconds...? the shark trained as a killing machine? the camera lingering on an arse in stripy cycling shorts?

most impressively, it kept bringing in enough new stupid shit to avoid being boring.

This was gas! You forgot to say you saw it in the cinema...the atmosphere (i.e the heckling) was great. The Hulk Hogan lookalike, remember the shouting 'HO!' (even though it's Hacksaw Jim Duggan's trademark remark), 'Brudder!!' and 'What ya gonna do?!' as well as stuff like 'ged 'em Hogan!!'. Then the character Dag did actually say to someone 'What ya gonna do?!'. I nearly ruptured myself laughing. Actually I was in a lot of pain anyway and everytime I tried to laugh I had a minor coughing fit.

Gee, that boat exploding! Those hard edits day to night shots. Gas.

And the repeated line of 'I'll tear his balls off!' which must have been used by every character in the film.

Looks like the work of a speedboat propeller


Then I went home and watched 'Shivers'. Which was alright.

 

[mr pharmacist!!!!1]

is it still christmas that the special edition is lined up for or is it 2007?
man i love this movie.
forgot how good vangelis is.

 

[pete]

The Black Dahlia. Confusing.

 

[BC]

havent been watching fillums. have been watching tv stuff on dvd tho'

saw the mighty boosh for the first time. maybe i'm just not getting it, but all i can think is "stoned students with a budget and a camera". maybe i've just been spoiled by the league of gentlemen.

constantly re-watching series 5 episodes of family guy. series 4 was hit and miss (though when it hit it was fucking great), but series 5 is on a par with 3 in terms of no-holds-barred hilarity. the first two episodes - "ptv" and "brian goes back to college" - are two of the greatest ever.

 

[Nate Champion]

Poltergeist at the ifi. Hadn't seen it all before. Craig T Nelson sure has his moments (sure didn't he start out as stand up comic.)

Then I watched 'Rabid', which was much better than 'Shivers'. Great plot, bigger bubget, good sense of drama, ace score, bona fide porn star. This horror had the lot.

 

[Nate Champion]

I wanted to see this for ages. Pretty good.1968. Aged well. Perkins' naivety exploited again.

Then today. A hoot.

'The Knowledge'. Hawthorne, Elphick, good funny cast.

 

[Gambra]

Absolutely brilliant I thought

(although it wasn't really last night)