What was the last movie you watched?

[MartyS (Gromit)]

Have you seen or (recommended more highly) read Hogfather?

It, like all things Pratchett, is on my to-read list. I will get to it at some point, I'm just not sure when (the shear size of the Discworld series intimidates me somewhat).

That's one where I thought the movie and book are both fantastic.  Can't say the same for the rest of the movies, although Going Postal came close.  I saw all the movies first and then read the books, wish I had read the books first for all except Hogfather.

[Tripe]

I really like the theo-philosophical ones so Hogfather is really high on my list of favourites.

Going Postal is my favourite of the adaptations though the Golem are a bit off, but I'm not sure what they could have done differently there. Spike was definitely worth tuning in for and the general feel of it has an authenticity that I didn't find in the others.

[Kete]

Did you guys like Arthur Christmas.  I thought it looked horrible, but I actually really liked it.

[Tripe]

Never heard of it. That was true of this Guardians thing until this morning actually.

[Relaxing Dragon]

Did you guys like Arthur Christmas.  I thought it looked horrible, but I actually really liked it.

I enjoyed it quite a bit, a very sweet and earnest holiday film (albeit one that's pretty much impossible to watch in any month besides December). But then, I've found that Aardman is pretty consistent with delivery a quality product.

[MartyS (Gromit)]

Have you seen or (recommended more highly) read Hogfather?

It, like all things Pratchett, is on my to-read list. I will get to it at some point, I'm just not sure when (the shear size of the Discworld series intimidates me somewhat).

That's one where I thought the movie and book are both fantastic.  Can't say the same for the rest of the movies, although Going Postal came close.  I saw all the movies first and then read the books, wish I had read the books first for all except Hogfather.

The Hogfather movie was good, not great. The douchebag Teatime kind of ruined it, and I'm not really a David Jason person it turns out.  Going Postal was my favorite of the lot.

The book, however, is marvelous. It's one I have to force myself not to read every year.

The awesomeness of Michelle Dockery and Ian Richardson make the Hogfather movie my favorite.

[MartyS (Gromit)]

I prefer Christopher Lee to Richardson, which leaves Dockery being about the only good thing in that adaptation.  I mean it was neat to see on screen and all, but Tripe nailed it on Going Postal. I hope we still get to see Making Money someday, Coyle was great as Moist.

We'll never know but I question if Lee would have had the right tone for the speech at the cliff, I thought Richardson nailed that perfectly.

I think reading the book lowered my rating on the adaptation of Going Postal a bit, putting it under Hogfather, it wasn't until after reading the book I had the same feeling as you guys about the Golem(s?).  (is Golem naturally plural?)

[Tripe]

Okay see I'm of the opinion that it's a natural plural; Traditionally the buggers are solitary creations and a closer rendering into English of the Hebrew plural (based on the rendering of the singular, a phonetic, ish, rendering, since I don't know if the symbols work here, would be Glem or Glim) would be Golemin and that's better than simply bolting an S on the end but still sort of inelegant.

I agree there is much missing from the book in the adaptation of Going Postal, still I hope the upcoming Watch series (if it's actually happening) is a development from the style and approach Going Postal more than anything else.

[Mrs. Dick Courier]

Moonrise Kingdom

Good movie, shot beautifully

Just reminds me how awesome Bill Murray and Bruce Willis are.

[Starman!]

Tarantula is on TV now. Great B movie.

[ScottotD]

Sleepwalk with Me

[lassieface]

Men In Black 3

I never would have watched this on my own, but a friend rented it and invited me over. I will say, it's not a bad movie. Definitely better than the second. I loved the attention to detail...the production designers did a great job.

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The Saturn V rocket looked amazing imo.

[Space version 2.0]

Sleepwalk with Me

And? Were you already a fan of Birbigs or did you see it for some other reason? He's my favourite comedian by a long shot, so I loved it. Kinda curious to see what people that aren't familiar with his stand up and sleepwalking condition thought of it.

[MartyS (Gromit)]

The Dark Knight Rises

Liked it.  I think it might hold up to repeat viewing a bit better than the previous one. 

 Although it suffered from the same problem as Skyfall, way too slow setting up act 3, I was almost tempted to hit the fast forward button a few times there.

[ScottotD]

Sleepwalk with Me

And? Were you already a fan of Birbigs or did you see it for some other reason? He's my favourite comedian by a long shot, so I loved it. Kinda curious to see what people that aren't familiar with his stand up and sleepwalking condition thought of it.

I liked it a lot, I knew a bit about it from his interview on Nerdist but I was still expecting more of a traditional 'low key indie romcom' so was surprised by how actually funny it was.