What was the last movie you watched?

[mrbasehart]

Singles -  Big fan of Crowe's films, but  I haven't bothered with Elizabethtown.  Should I?

It's a little too cute in places, and I still think Orlando Bloom isn't good enough to be a leading man, but I still ended up quite liking it.

[Sideswipe]

Transformers, on dvd.

[the long undertow]

The Corporation

[Compound]

In the past 48 hours, I've seen:

Wrong Turn 2: A direct to DVD sequel to the original Wrong Turn  (which was mostly memorable due to Eliza Dushku being in it.) Much better than it had any right to be.

Black Sheep: A kiwi film about genetically altered killer sheep. Played completely straight too, which hurt the film IMO as it's hard to take a film about cannibal sheep seriously. 

28 Weeks Later: Interesting. I'm not sure if I agree with the "better than the original" tag that it got in some reviews. And I have problems with how the rage virus returned, which I won't go into in case people haven't seen the film. Interesting though.

Giant of Marathon: The Film Crew version. Unfortunately, I was preoccupied while watching so I don't really remember much of it.

Planet Terror: I was looking forward to this one, but I was left a disappointed by it.  Something just seemed off about it. And the film kept reminding me that it was a movie, which lessened the immersion factor as well. Frankly, I think I enjoyed "Flight of the Living Dead" more than this one.

Next up: The HD version of Transformers. Plus some SCTV.

[MontyServo]

In the past few days:

Hairspray (2007) - caught a matinee of this one at the local second run theater.  Fantastic film, much more entertaining than I was expecting it to be.

Transformers (2007) - bought the DVD.  Really fun movie.

Superman Doomsday - rented it from Netflix.  not as good as I was hoping, but still enjoyable.

The Reaping - also rented from Netflix.  Ladies and gentlemen, I think we may have our Halloween Rifftrax movie.  stupendously awful (almost Wicker Man awful).

[mrbasehart]

Planet Terror: I was looking forward to this one, but I was left a disappointed by it.  Something just seemed off about it. And the film kept reminding me that it was a movie, which lessened the immersion factor as well.

I completely agree, it doesn't help when the lead actress isn't very good either.

[gbeenie]

The Corporation

[Maverick Joe Six-Pack]

Planet Terror: I was looking forward to this one, but I was left a disappointed by it.  Something just seemed off about it. And the film kept reminding me that it was a movie, which lessened the immersion factor as well.

I completely agree, it doesn't help when the lead actress isn't very good either.

To be fair this movie wasn't supposed to be Citizen Kane.  It was supposed to be a tribute to the old school Grindhouse exploitation films of the 70s.   I thought the little touches were brilliant.  The missing reel, the poor film quality... it was campy goodness.  I liked Rose McGowen too.  She was hot and she didn't talk a lot, but when she did it was pretty funny.

[the long undertow]

The Corporation

Care to expand on that?  I recognize that the documentary was biased against corporations to an extent, but really, how else should people react to stuff like Nazi Germany using IBM products (with IBM's knowledge) to better-organize the concentration camps?

[RoninFox]

Superman Doomsday - rented it from Netflix.  not as good as I was hoping, but still enjoyable.

My biggest disappointment with Doomsday were some of the main voices.  I got used to Adam Baldwin as Supes eventually, but Anne Heche as Lois Lane?  Ick.

The Kevin Smith cameo was hilarious if you know the in-joke though.

[mrbasehart]

A few more:

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof : A Tennessee Willam's drama, which, as usual with Williams' adaptations, is a little overheated and wrought in places.  Newman is decent as the broken down football player, but Elizabeth Taylor is shrill as his horny wife.

Criss Cross: Marvellous film noir starring Burt Lancaster and the future Mrs Munster, Yvonne De Carlo.  Tightly scripted, with some excellent performances - Dan Duryea, who specialises in bad guys, is particularly good here - make this a superior example of the genre.

Taste the Blood of Dracula: Run of the mill Hammer horror film with Christopher Lee as the titular vampire.  Lee is good, but pushed to the background in favour of a domestic sub-plot involving star-crossed lovers.  Hardly any heaving bodices either.

The Outlaw: Howard Hughes' notorious western.  Utter rubbish, with Jack Buetel as Billy the Kid giving a stupendously inept performance that makes the film unintentionally hilarious.  There are two things of note however: Jane Russell's marvellous cleavage - which caused quite a stir with the strict censorship laws at the time - and the rather overt gay triangle that exists between the three leads.

Nancy Drew: I got paid to see this, but it wasn't half bad, with Emma Roberts particularly charming in the lead.

[sarcasm_made_Easy]

last movie i watched was spirited away, and it was bad ass, again. 

[RobtheBarbarian]

Spider-Man 2. Still think they overplayed the woe-is-me angle.

And before that a western from the '60s called Hombre.

[RobtheBarbarian]

Well, I don't think the first one overplayed it too much at all. I understand the need to show the us that Peter's just this regular guy (etc.), but in the second one those scenes kind of dragged on past the point where I felt all I was going to feel for the guy and gave me a creepy "reading some highschool kid's whiny xanga" vibe. Especially the scene where he tells Aunt May that he feels responsible for Uncle Ben getting capped... it was so brutal and painful to watch that I felt like if I pulled up the programming information screen I would find out I was watching Peter Parker Gets Fucked Up by Life (6:00-7:30). All it needed was someone yelling "POWNED!" from offscreen.

[sarcasm_made_Easy]

i never really got that feel to it.  i dont really know why though.  sorry.