What movie did you watch last night? (9 Viewers)

[avernus]

Empire of the Sun. Excellent. Christian Bale is fucking amazing at any age. Really loved it. And it's quite a simple and simply told story for Speilberg too. The music was fab.

 

[Diddles]

Empire of the Sun. Excellent. Christian Bale is fucking amazing at any age. Really loved it. And it's quite a simple and simply told story for Speilberg too. The music was fab.

Brillo film - one of those films I' feel bad about watching at home cos it's 'too long' and hasn't got any horrific killing or tits in it (don't get me wrong - i like those films too - I just fancy a change now and again).

 

[Janer]

Bad santa with Billy Bob Thornton
5/5
BBT is in some of the most original films and this was black comedy with a laugh, I highlt recommend this.
I noticed in the credits it's dedicated in the memory of John Ritter who is in the film (he was the dad in Problem child)
I never knew he had died until I seen it in the credits.

 

[mr pharmacist!!!!1]

yeah, died a few years ago janer.
watched bad santa tonight.
funny shit

 

[Nate Champion]

Bad santa with Billy Bob Thornton
5/5
BBT is in some of the most original films and this was black comedy with a laugh, I highly recommend this.

Janer is right. The man has authentic range. And he's a good director too.

 

[avernus]

I watched some of it too - laughed my ass off at some bits. I was crying when he showed up drunk on the escalator, fell all over the grotto and bet the shit outta one of the reindeer. fucking amazing!!

 

[nlgbbbblth]

Empire of the Sun. Excellent. Christian Bale is fucking amazing at any age. Really loved it. And it's quite a simple and simply told story for Speilberg too. The music was fab.

far better than The Last Emperor and Little Buddha. Two films sometimes confused with Empire Of The Sun.

 

[Charlie Bucket]

meant to be a classic but i didn't really like it? anyone else agree?

 

[Super Dexta]

i got a bit carried away with watching films this week. in the last few days i've watched
the elephant man
alien 3
terminator
refused are fucking dead
stewie griffin: the untold story
silence of the lambs
the descent
irreversible

i cried absolute buckets at the end of the elephant man. state of me.

 

[Charlie Bucket]

i cried absolute buckets at the end of the elephant man. state of me.

its one of my mums favourite films!
so you basically went on a horror fest and then balanced that out with peter being stuck on a desert island with bono

 

[Super Dexta]

its one of my mums favourite films!
so you basically went on a horror fest and then balanced that out with peter being stuck on a desert island with bono

basically yes.
and also some hairy swedes talking about how disillusioning their last tour was.

 

[BC]

haha, i watched that family guy thing last night: ella fitzgerald griffin and jesus' miracles still make me laugh until it hurts.

dextoid, what did you think of irreversible?

 

[Super Dexta]

haha, i watched that family guy thing last night: ella fitzgerald griffin and jesus' miracles still make me laugh until it hurts.

dextoid, what did you think of irreversible?

hmm.. i thought it was an interesting piece of film-making, but i didn't really enjoy it. i didn't like any of the characters -- the bit on the train especially just had me sitting there going 'would ye ever shut up, for the love of god'. they were pretty boring people like. and the rape scene was pretty unbearable. i don't think i'd watch it again.

 

[BC]

i didn't like any of the characters -- the bit on the train especially just had me sitting there going 'would ye ever shut up, for the love of god'. they were pretty boring people like.

interesting, i liked all the primary three characters (cassel showed his incredible range as an actor: he goes through pretty much every emotion over the course of the film) and i loved that train scene in particular, the dialogue of which i think had the kind of wittiness that, say, tarantino strives for (all the more remarkable as it is all improvised throughout the film). always good and interesting to hear other and differring opinions though. that film is my favourite ever, i honestly dont think i have seen a more perfect example of film-making at its most intoxicating (the final scene in the park is still the most staggeringly beautiful and moving thing i have seen yet in a film).

the rape (and also the murder) scene is unbearable, but i dont think it should be any other way, compare with "straw dogs" for instance.

 

[Charlie Bucket]

haha, i watched that family guy thing last night: ella fitzgerald griffin and jesus' miracles still make me laugh until it hurts.

This place doesn't have porn. They think its immoral. You know, that really grinds my gears. Where in the bible does it say that a man can't fire off some knuckle-children in the privacy of his own neighbor's living room while his neighbor's at work because I don't have a DVD player? Well, I don't know where it says it because the Bible was way too long to read!

 

[BC]

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[nlgbbbblth]

meant to be a classic but i didn't really like it? anyone else agree?

I liked it but yes, it's not amazing.

Cybill Shepherd rocks in it.

But Targets is way better.

 

[nlgbbbblth]

compare with "straw dogs" for instance.

'tom's foot' scene .|..|

 

[classic seanc]

Last night I watched Fearless. It was good, a bit cheesy in the way that martial arts movies often are. Beautiful in the way that martial arts movies often are.
If you were a Chinese Nationalist it would probably be your Braveheart or Michael Collins. But I'm not, so it was just kind of wierd.

Oh, and westerners speaking English in Chinese accents for some reason.


The night before I watched:
A Matter of Life and Death as per the advice of this forum. I loved it, it was lovely. FUCK YOU LAW! Although, the start was copied in a Big Train sketch years ago, so I just couldn't help laughing at that.


Death of a President: Very well made but we lost track somewhere in the middle because it made us start talking about various jews and muslims we've met and what they're like, which is good I suppose.
Really though it's a bit boring. George Bush is bad, war is bad, anarchists are deadly. Some muslims are normal, but others are pricks, yep I get it.

 

[HMD]

watched the hills have eyes remake today, it's fairly gash.