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What's The Last Movie You’ve Seen?

Shad said:
No one has seen pirates yet? I'm goin tonight so we'll see how it is.
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I went to the midnight showing. I didn't really want to see it, but I was offered free tickets. Started snoozing off during the first half of the movie, but the second half wasn't too bad.
 
Just saw Pirates and didn't care for it much but what I did care for was the stupid cup holder couldn't go up
 
I haven't seen Thor, nor have I gotten into the Superhero movies after Ironman, but I am quite looking forward to Captain America. He was always my favorite superhero as a kid.
 
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Are there any non-comedy silent films that are even remotely watchable to the modern eye?
 
While I agree that it is very hard to find a silent film that is decent to watch today, you have to admire what they were able to do with such a huge limitation in special effects magic and sound back in that era. They had to show everything we see now but without anyone saying a word and on a very limited sound-stage due to the problems with filming anywhere on location.

I personally kind of liked Nosferatu. It creeped me out. Heck the name alone is pretty creepy. I have seen it 2 or 3 times. Of course the first time I watched it I was 11 and woke up late at night and it was playing on some random station. Watching it with the sound down low in the pitch black of a somewhat creepy basement with an already over-active imagination at that age, it had an impact. Of course it doesn't have the same impact on me now as it did that first time, but I also haven't watched it again since the mid-90's. Maybe I will get the restored version and show it to my kids.
 
LogGrad98 said:
While I agree that it is very hard to find a silent film that is decent to watch today, you have to admire what they were able to do with such a huge limitation in special effects magic and sound back in that era. They had to show everything we see now but without anyone saying a word and on a very limited sound-stage due to the problems with filming anywhere on location.
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Which is why it's curious that the silent comedies still work. Some of that is creativity by restriction on options. Buster Keaton does things that you'd never see today because it's simply too dangerous.

I personally kind of liked Nosferatu. It creeped me out. Heck the name alone is pretty creepy. I have seen it 2 or 3 times. Of course the first time I watched it I was 11 and woke up late at night and it was playing on some random station. Watching it with the sound down low in the pitch black of a somewhat creepy basement with an already over-active imagination at that age, it had an impact. Of course it doesn't have the same impact on me now as it did that first time, but I also haven't watched it again since the mid-90's. Maybe I will get the restored version and show it to my kids.
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I'm planning on watching this version which was made in the late-1970s by the Herzog-Kinski team:

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I suspect the update will be a significant improvement.
 
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