Rate The Last Movie You Saw.

[BROWNINGS CHILDE]

Thats funny! I watched The Expendables last night and thought it was great. No thinking cap there...haha. And, I don't mean that I disliked Inception, I just found it frustrating and hard to get into. I am sure that I will enjoy it more on a rewatch. I don't have a problem with asynchronous storytelling (pulp fiction and reservoir dogs are some of my favorite movies), but it seemed that being as abstract as this movie's plot is, he could have started you out on a little more solid ground.

[haunted.lunchbox]

I LOVED the Expendables!

[Merlin1958]

I have to admit, I thought he did pretty well with it, but then again I was kinda "into it" from the git-go. I guess a lot can be said for your mind-set going in.

[BROWNINGS CHILDE]

In all fairness, I was trying to watch it at work, and was interrupted quite alot. My perception might therefore be a little skewed.

[Merlin1958]

Hey, to each his own I suppose. Some will love it, some will hate it. I thought it was amazingly clever in light of what Hollywood normally throws at us.

[Mattrick]

Thats funny! I watched The Expendables last night and thought it was great. No thinking cap there...haha. And, I don't mean that I disliked Inception, I just found it frustrating and hard to get into. I am sure that I will enjoy it more on a rewatch. I don't have a problem with asynchronous storytelling (pulp fiction and reservoir dogs are some of my favorite movies), but it seemed that being as abstract as this movie's plot is, he could have started you out on a little more solid ground.

How was Inception not asynchronous? I'm amazed how linear it actually was. You just got confused because it had characters doing several things at the same time, in different realms. Pulp Fiction/Reservoir Dogs is non-linear because Tarantino doesn't know how to tell a story start to finish. Inception was start to finish, linear.

[Mattrick]

Expendables was good. Action was well done. Stallone, Lundgren, Stone Cold and Staham were good. No one else seemed to have personality or time to be characters. Jet Li was dull as fuck. Why did David Zayas, a name no one knows, have more character, moral qualms and screen time then the big names advertised? Not much sense. Nothing against Zayas, he's great.

Hopefully the sequel, if it does happen, cuts out the pointless (Crewes, Coutoure) and expands Willis' character. I head Stone Cold was coming back...which will be great because they did a great job of making him seem unstoppable. Him back angry and scarred will be awesome.

[Mattrick]

I was expecting to like this movie, not love it. During the beginning, the usage of effects worried me. I was afraid the narrative would be overshadowed by the effects and (like the coffee scene with DiCaprio/Paige) how they were being used seemed overindulgent. But by the time the movie got going each piece of special effect fit and didn't feel forced. It amazed me how Nolan was able to capture the time differences between the dreams. Top notch cast, even great to see Pete Postlewaithe appear. Marianne Cotillard was particularily creepy.

I had a grave sense of the limbo discussed. Often I have dreams that seem to go on for a long time, days or weeks. Just the other day I slept for the better part of 18 hours. When I woke up I was all disoriented and that day, like others following a night of intense dreaming, I'm trying to make sense of it all yet it's hard to disavow those dreams as not real, when I experienced them so fully. I can't imagine what feeling like 50 years in a dream would feel like. Damn.

10/10

[Mattrick]

But on a pure entertainment level, I don't find a movie that I spend the majority of the time feeling that I've missed some vital information to be very enjoyable. .

bears' issue with all Nolan movies I've seen exactly. (except The Prestige, that is)

Then again, when I go to a Nolan or Tarantino, etc. I expect to put my thinking cap on, which is nice once in a while for a theater experience, no? Considering the overwhelming amount of drivel we are fed (not saying I don't enjoy drivel on occasion, like "The Expendables" was just good old fun!!!

Tarantino films don't require thinking caps. Basterds, I would say yes. All his other films are pure entertainment. You should watch some Rodrigo Garcia if you want a thinking cap on.

[BROWNINGS CHILDE]

Inception finishes where it started. This is non-linear by very definition.

[fernandito]

Nolan opened the movie the way he did because he wanted to give the audience the sensation of actually entering a dream. In dreams you often find yourself in the middle of something with no knowledge of how you got to that point. The film is very linear, it's just a bit overwhelming during intial viewing because there are so many different things going on in different levels , it makes it hard to keep up sometimes.

[Mattrick]

Inception finishes where it started. This is non-linear by very definition.

? Did it not start in Saedo's dream and end

Spoiler:

when DiCaprio goes home to his children?

Don't see how it started and ended in the same place.

[pathoftheturtle]

But on a pure entertainment level, I don't find a movie that I spend the majority of the time feeling that I've missed some vital information to be very enjoyable. .

bears' issue with all Nolan movies I've seen exactly. (except The Prestige, that is)

It is too bad that we can't turn off real life when that feeling creeps up, isn't it?

[Heather19]

Sabrina 9/10

I absolutely adored this film. I really didn't think I was going to like it as much as I did. I'm not a huge fan of romance films but Emily has mentioned it numerous times, so I figured it was worth a watch

[haunted.lunchbox]

I just saw Shutter Island for the first time. It was awesome. The guy who played the bald doctor is an amazing actor.

SPOILER

I am really sad with the ending. The fact that he's faking regression because he feels like a monster when I don't think it was his fault sucks. It was the wife that killed the children, I would have shot her ass too. I wish it would have ended differently, not because it was bad, but because it wasn't happy.

[Emily]

Sabrina 9/10

I absolutely adored this film. I really didn't think I was going to like it as much as I did. I'm not a huge fan of romance films but Emily has mentioned it numerous times, so I figured it was worth a watch

Oh yay!!! I'm so glad you liked it! Isn't it so charming? It's my favorite Bogart movie, even more so than Casablanca. "A woman happily in love, she burns the soufflé. A woman unhappily in love, she forgets to turn on the oven." And Audrey Hepburn in that dress at the party :swoon:

[turtlex]

Sabrina 9/10

I absolutely adored this film. I really didn't think I was going to like it as much as I did. I'm not a huge fan of romance films but Emily has mentioned it numerous times, so I figured it was worth a watch

Sabrina 9/10

I absolutely adored this film. I really didn't think I was going to like it as much as I did. I'm not a huge fan of romance films but Emily has mentioned it numerous times, so I figured it was worth a watch

Oh yay!!! I'm so glad you liked it! Isn't it so charming? It's my favorite Bogart movie, even more so than Casablanca. "A woman happily in love, she burns the soufflé. A woman unhappily in love, she forgets to turn on the oven." And Audrey Hepburn in that dress at the party :swoon:

Audrey Hepburn is sublime. She's got that perfect screen presence which is so elusive for most actors.

[candy]

I just saw Shutter Island for the first time. It was awesome. The guy who played the bald doctor is an amazing actor.

SPOILER

I am really sad with the ending. The fact that he's faking regression because he feels like a monster when I don't think it was his fault sucks. It was the wife that killed the children, I would have shot her ass too. I wish it would have ended differently, not because it was bad, but because it wasn't happy.

Spoiler:

mostly i think it was because he could not bear to live without them

[pathoftheturtle]

I just saw Shutter Island for the first time. It was awesome. The guy who played the bald doctor is an amazing actor.

You mean Sir Ben Kingsley. Indeed he is. If you liked this, definitely do try some of his other work.

[Mattrick]

His performance as Ghandi was amazing. I loved the episode of Sopranos he was in. playing himself. Kinglsey to me is up there with some actors, like Morgan Freeman and Anthony Hopkins. They've had so many good roles they just have to show up. Them being on the screen adds to a movie. I didn't find Kingsley's character in Shutter Island really had much dimension. But he's such a good actor he brings the character to life without making the character stand out.

[Heather19]

Audrey Hepburn is sublime. She's got that perfect screen presence which is so elusive for most actors.

I really enjoyed her in this one. It's actually the only film of hers I've seen. I hate to admit this but I tried to watch My Fair Lady last year, and couldn't even make it past the first 15 or so min of her on the screen. But I really would like to go back and try to watch it again because I've heard such good stuff about it.

[pathoftheturtle]

His performance as Ghandi was amazing. I loved the episode of Sopranos he was in. playing himself. Kinglsey to me is up there with some actors, like Morgan Freeman and Anthony Hopkins. They've had so many good roles they just have to show up. Them being on the screen adds to a movie. I didn't find Kingsley's character in Shutter Island really had much dimension. But he's such a good actor he brings the character to life without making the character stand out.

Oh, I guess I see your point about the character, but it was really fun to watch him play with the layers brought to his role there by the nature of the story.

[Emily]

Audrey Hepburn is sublime. She's got that perfect screen presence which is so elusive for most actors.

I really enjoyed her in this one. It's actually the only film of hers I've seen. I hate to admit this but I tried to watch My Fair Lady last year, and couldn't even make it past the first 15 or so min of her on the screen. But I really would like to go back and try to watch it again because I've heard such good stuff about it.

Heather, you should watch Charade. It's such a fun movie. And Wait Until Dark. Both are fantastic.

[Heather19]

Thanks, I just added them both to my list

[Mattrick]

This was such a wonderful movie. Todd Field is quite the talented director. There were so many great elements to the film; the humanity behind a sex offender, the narration, the great detail taken in displaying the motivations behind the characters actions. In the end it's a film about regret and atonement. The effects of marriage and family the roles we're supposed to fill in society, was well depicted; the film is about struggling with who we are and who we strive to be.

10/10