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What's The Last Movie You’ve Seen?

Me and the kids turned on some Winnie the Pooh. It's about the only thing I let them -- and myself -- watch. I don't trust myself with anything else, too erotic.

- Craig
 
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foreign film, called 'the last circus'. one of the strangest films i've ever seen
visually entertaining, acting was good, but the movie was just so weird
contains some things you cannot unsee like the scene where he runs naked in the woods
would only recommend it if you want to see something really different
 
Watched Despicable Me the other night. I get a huge kick out of the minions. They need a minion movie as a sequel.
 
Watched the new True Grit again last night -- man, what a great movie. There are so many funny 1-liners that I didn't catch the first time around. Loved it!
 
I tried to give True Grit another shot a couple weeks ago and liked it just as little as I did the first time. I'd put about 10 Coen Brothers movies ahead of that one for me.
 
I'd rank their movies...

1. Fargo
2. The Big Lebowski
3. No Country for Old Men
4. Raising Arizona
5. True Grit, Blood Simple, The Man Who Wasn't There, O' Brother, Miller's Crossing...all together tied here...

So maybe not 10th but nothing special...the movie, like many of theirs felt flat. Their camerawork is boring as all hell and use of sound is meh.
 
SalmonHobo said:
I'd rank their movies...

1. Fargo
2. The Big Lebowski
3. No Country for Old Men
4. Raising Arizona
5. True Grit, Blood Simple, The Man Who Wasn't There, O' Brother, Miller's Crossing...all together tied here...

So maybe not 10th but nothing special...the movie, like many of theirs felt flat. Their camerawork is boring as all hell and use of sound is meh.
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Your pretension of expertise is amusing to me. But seriously, no love for The Hudsucker Proxy? I mean, I might rank that as high as second or third but I recognize that I have very heterodox opinions on the Coen's.

Two most recent films I watched (other than a repeat of Inglourious ********):

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Was very impressed. Thought it hit my personal best case scenario for the film. To be fair, I am a sucker for this particular kid genre and have tremendously fond feelings for all kinds of films that follow similar formulas across various genres (Stand by Me, Goonies, Monster House, even Monster Squad).

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Highly recommend. Although Marcus would hate it since no one goes to hell.

I also recently viewed "Rubber" which is a film that is more fun to talk about than to watch. No summary I could write would be as good or as appealing as the Netflix one that convinced me to watch it in the first place.

Quentin Dupieux directs this inventive twist on low-rent revenge flicks, which follows a car tire named Robert that rolls through the desert Southwest using its strange psychic powers to blow up birds, bunnies, human beings and more. But when Robert spies a gorgeous woman motoring down the highway, he decides to follow her and take a chance on love.
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It is presently on Netflix Watch Instantly. I can't recommend it but it is certainly unique. Community fans will get a kick out of Fat Neil in a minor role.
 
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Thanks Johnny Come Lately on "Rubber." I only mentioned that in some other thread about five months ago.

'But seriously," I don't think I've ever seen all of HP. In fact, looking at Joel's filmography, I haven't see that, "Crimewave" (whatever the **** that is) and "Paris, Je T'Aime" (again, whatever the **** this movie is though I do know it means I love you)...regarding my pretenses, it doesn't take a genius to figure out how boring their camerawork or use of sound is and how they don't use either in any way to enhance their film--other than perhaps the lack of use of sound/music at times which in its own right can be equally as effective. In any case, they're way better writers than they are directors imo.
 
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