Movies you've recently watched

[syk]

Strange Days

[Octavian]

The Hangover

It was hilarious.

5/5

[DisturbedPervert]

Watched Steamboy.  Some Japanese animated film about steampunk England.  The most expensive cartoon ever made in Japan.  I usually like the steampunk setting, but I didn't like this at all and can see why it didn't make money.  The anti war preachiness that seems to be present in so many Japanese films is especially annoying in this one. 

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Steamboy was really disappointing, should have been cool, was

[Admiral Yi]

Wonder Boys.  Very talented cast of actors saying lines to each other which don't really matter.  Bleh.

[Lettow77]

To Live. I found it oddly endorsing of communism, in that everyone was so self-sacrificingly enthusiastic about it.

I do not think that was how it was supposed to come across. A good movie, but depressing. Childbirth really scares me- nothing I am ever going to watch.

[Josquius]

Watched Steamboy.  Some Japanese animated film about steampunk England.  The most expensive cartoon ever made in Japan.  I usually like the steampunk setting, but I didn't like this at all and can see why it didn't make money.  The anti war preachiness that seems to be present in so many Japanese films is especially annoying in this one. 

They made Robert Stephenson  a poshy too
He wasn't as bad as his dad but was still rather Geordie. There's one story of George meeting the Queen (or some high up government type, not sure who) and they remarked they couldn't understand his German. Yet in Steamboy Robert is posh as can be.

It was alright overall but yeah, nowhere near as good as it should have been.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Cruel Gun Story back to the 60's Janus/Criterion Japanese noir box set for this one. Directed by Furukawa  iirc, stars Shishido Joe(Tokyo Drifter, Branded To Kill etc) as a thug released from prison to do a big armored car robbery for the mob. double crosses abound in this straight forward and often funny look at post war criminal elements in Japan.

movie takes no prisoners, rockets through the story 123 abc. good fun.

8.1 Gangsters who never put their arms through their coats, using them as capes really outta 10

[Savonarola]

Love Find Andy Hardy (1938)

One in the series of 16 Andy Hardy films that were used to showcase up and coming MGM talent.  This film has teen-aged Ann Rutherford, Lana Turner, and Judy Garland as well as the star Mickey Rooney.  The films are all comedy-dramas set in the fictional town of Calvert, sort of a Depression era Maybery RFD.  The plot revolves around Mickey Rooney's difficulties with getting a girl to take to the Christmas Dance.  The funniest part of the movie is Mickey is supposed to be 16, and Judy Garland is supposed to be 13 yet she towers over him (as does everyone else, of course, it's just funny to watch him dismiss her as a kid when she could easily dunk over him.)

[Josquius]

The Time Machine- WTF. The Eloi as half-caste people rather than rabbit things? Gragh!
Apparently this was done to add a romance element with that pop star lady.
Why is it that EVERY movie seems to have a romance element tacked onto it?
At least this one avoided the typical hate-acceptance-love-omg you are scum mega hate-redemption cycle

[Eddie Teach]

Dude, the Eloi were people in the book.

[Josquius]

Dude, the Eloi were people in the book.

Evolved from people but I'm sure I recall them being small, dumb, odd looking rabbitish things, not modern humans.

[Queequeg]

To Live. I found it oddly endorsing of communism, in that everyone was so self-sacrificingly enthusiastic about it.

What the fuck movie did you watch?  Their daughter is murdered because all the doctors are out on the street dying of starvation, and their son dies due shoddy workmanship, and the cathartic ending comes when Mao is dead and seems to prefigure the Xiaoping thaw. 

[Eddie Teach]

Dude, the Eloi were people in the book.

Evolved from people but I'm sure I recall them being small, dumb, odd looking rabbitish things, not modern humans.

I always thought they sounded like elves.

[Sheilbh]

Dude, the Eloi were people in the book.

Evolved from people but I'm sure I recall them being small, dumb, odd looking rabbitish things, not modern humans.

I always thought they sounded like elves.

I don't remember them being rabbitish but they were written as being like deteriorated humans.  Weak, small, fragile, ugly, unable to speak and presumably not very intelligent.