last movie you watched (Flag Up SPOILERS)

[El Kabong]

'The Sun Also Rises' starring Eva Gardner ....she was quite stunning in her day. Errol Flynn was also in the movie though he was clearly past his prime it helped him play the role of the worn down old Mike Campbell.

I am quite fond of 'The Lost Generation' and I enjoyed the film, but I am not a fan of the bullfights although there is great drama and symbolism with them. Jake, the lead character being impotent from his wound in World War I his will is strong but he knows his limitations, Cohn being young very capable but also unsure of himself, Mike being older and a bit worn down but still putting up a fierce display of bravado knowing his limitations but not caring to address them, and Bill being a fit man, capable of proper mischief with drink and women, and Romero the youngest most sure of himself most capable yet constrained by his position as a torero/matador. All men in different walks of life, different states of success of failure, differing levels of resiliency a bit like the life of a bull in or out of the fighting ring.

Solid movie albeit a very long one 2 hours and 10 minutes

[Master]

Watched Riff Raff starring Robert Carlisle not a very good film and dated looks like they made it with a camcorder.

[Stickgrappler]

Oz the Great and Powerful

watched with my 10 yo son, we both liked it for what it was, a fun family movie.

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Enter the Dragon

in honor of Jim Kelly who passed away 6/29.

[Beanz]

Watched Riff Raff starring Robert Carlisle not a very good film and dated looks like they made it with a camcorder.

It's a great film. G.R.E.A.T. It's bleak relentlessly so just like Britain for the working class. It looks like they made it with a camcorder because Ken Loach probably did.

[Beanz]

[FinitoElDinamita]

I watched The Deerhunter for like the 49th time last night and it gives me a different feeling everytime..

The last scene with the Russian Roulett always gets me choked up. I cried

[Memphis]

Parker - Jason Statham beats the shit out of everyone and JLo gets down to her undercrackers.

Cloud Atlas - Started watching but I was a bit tired and ended up binning it because I was confused. I was only really watching to see if Hallie Berry got um out or got banged. Will give it another go.

[El Kabong]

'Deadball'.....that is one in-fucking-sane movie! Deadball - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Its funny in parts, always gory, always twisted......very Japanimation but done with live action characters.

[IamInuit]

I watched To kill a Mocking Bird for about the 100th time last evening. Incredible acting.

[Stickgrappler]

I want to watch Parker but haven't had a chance yet.

El K,

Deadball looks like i may like it! lol

[El Kabong]

I want to watch Parker but haven't had a chance yet.

El K,

Deadball looks like i may like it! lol

It's a long strange trip man

[FinitoElDinamita]

It's not a big budget film but I just watched a British film called ' Interview with the Hitman ' or something like that and I was pleasantly surprised...

MOvie is very good considering its budget.. Good acting, storyline, subtle action etc..

I highly recommend it..

[El Kabong]

'For Whom The Bell Tolls' another Hemingway novel come to the silver screen starring life long Republican Gary Cooper and the always gorgeous Ingrid Bergman

Solid movie, great story....I LOVE that era of history, World War I, The Spanish Civil War, World War II....a time of MEN not of children trying to be men.

[Stickgrappler]

watched 3 movies with my son and partly into the movies, my oldest daughter and then my second daughter joined in. one of them surprisely my wife sat through too (expendables 2). great times with family watching:


Expendables 1-2
Prometheus

in an effort to bond with my 10 yr old son more and watch more 'macho' things to get him to man up a bit - Expendables was on the menu. Prometheus was a change of pace to test if he may like Science Fiction movies.

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Expendables is gory at times but doesn't harp on it like splattergore movies. What is there not to like about a bunch of over-the-hill action stars of days of yore getting together to make an action movie? nice action with weapons and some emptyhands (although some of the stars are not martial artists so the usual film artifice of shaking cameras and fast cuts were used to create false energy and exciting fights). As is typical of Hollywood action movies (especially from 1980's) - loads of one liners which were cliched and cheesy but expected and welcomed by me!

Not one but two Deus Ex Machina IMO in Expendables 2 were fun and great moments. Loved all the in-jokes with the one-liners referencing the stars' former movies.
Both Expendables 1 and 2 are highly recommended by me if you are looking for big explosions, mindless fun, and watching your oldtime action stars like Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Willis, Norris, Lundgren, Van Damme, Eric Daniels, mix it up with current action stars Statham, jet Li, Couture, Terry Crews, Scott Adkins, Steve Austin. One note: Schwarzenegger and Willis appear briefly in #1 and in #2, they join the action. Norris was in #2.

Brazilian MMAers Big Nog and Little Nog have a cameo in #1.

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Prometheus was visually a feast. Similar to Aliens' design by H.R. Giger. Director Ridley Scott is back. Asks heady questions and while watching with my family, my viewing was interrupted and i missed about half an hour in the middle. I was a little confused, but after reading one online article as well as the wiki on it, I was appreciative of the overall themes and what Scott was after.

One thing with me which is either good or bad: as i watch a movie, i get into it and generally don't try to be a geek and dissect/criticize everything as well as treat the actors as their characters and not who they really are. Case in point, I knew Noomi Rapace was in this, loved her as Lisbeth Salander in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, but as I watched it, i didn't make the connection that it was her. Rapace was great in this.
Charlize Theron was great also. But the one who stole the show, so to speak, is Michael Fassbender, whom i last saw as Magneto in X-Men: First Class. He played an android which was tasked to watch over the humans when they were in stasis sleep. I don't want to give away too much as it's a brainy watch on a higher level.

Also reco this, but if you are looking for Aliens (i.e. Alien 2 - action) and not Alien-type (i.e. Alien 1 - horror) of stories, then pass on this. There is an Alien mythos connection to Prometheus but it works as a standalone movie. There are some questions left unanswered which paves the way for a sequel which at this point I don't know if it's officially on or not.

[Stickgrappler]

Neglected to add Taken 1 and 2 also. My son and I liked both. My 14 yr old daughter 'got' why they didn't use the original ending of #2 before I did. There's hope for her! Smarter/sharper than her old man!

an aside: Liam Neeson is an ambassador for the new (now not so new) martial arts style Keysi Fighting Method, which was featured in the Christopher Nolan/Christian Bale Batman movies as well as in some of Tom Cruise's movies, most notably the recent Jack Reacher movie. Sux that the fights were of the shaking camera creating energetic fight scenes with the fast cutting/editing a la oldschool MTV style music videos to probably hide the fact that Neeson is no martial artist and also 60 yrs old, if not close to 60.