<p>So here's a list of movies, you can Hit/Give +2/-1. No, I'm not doing that. Just review the last movie you saw, especially if you have a differing opinion of a previous poster or if the movie hasn't been reviewed yet. </p>
<p>Last film I watched was The Pianist, starring Adrian Brody. Great great movie about a Jewish pianist during the Holocaust; very engrossing. See it if you haven't already. </p>
<p>I'm also going out to see Dinner for Schmucks (being dragged by friends). I'll review that when I come back.</p>
<p>The last movie I watched was Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Extended Edition, of course). It was awesome, as usual. It’s my favorite of the trilogy. I felt bad for the cave ■■■■■.</p>
<p>The last movie I saw was Salt. It needed a sex scene, and an actual conclusion. It felt like the Bourne Identity, but without scenic locations and with a female protagonist instead.</p>
<p>Inception - Very intense, thought provoking, and complex movie. Loved it.</p>
<p>Salt - Basically a watered down female Bourne. Most of the movie is the first chase scene… Like many have said, there’s a huge Cold War hangover here, and the plot is too unrealistic. Good for redboxing, not good to spend money for theater on.</p>
<p>Dinner for Schmucks was actually funny. And the emotional parts are well done for a comedy, as the issues at play are more complex than with most comedies. I can’t believe I’m recommending to see a Hollywood comedy, but… ya, I am.</p>
<p>Inception has been so successful partly due to the general US population mistaking ambiguity for intellectualism and patting themselves on the back for being smart enough to discuss the movie. Besides that, I thought Inception was a very entertaining movie with a fairly original plot.</p>
<p>^That’s what I thought! Being a Lost fan, I’ve been over conspicuous name-drops posing as intellectualism for a while now. It’s a perfectly fine flick, just not a great one.</p>
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While I think it’s perfectly reasonable for people as individuals to dislike these movies, I think it’s very hard to argue that these films fail in accomplishing their goals or are significantly lacking in any way.</p>
<p>This seems to be the consensus among the intellectual elite. Regardless, it was certainly one of the more original and enjoyable movies to come out recently.</p>
<p>I think the first time you see Inception, it seems like it’s just an action flick posing to be a thinking man’s film.
If you give it a second go’round, and really pay attention to the dialogue between Mal and Cobb, and all the things Mal says, I think you’ll see that what just seemed like an emotional core the first time is in fact a rich intellectual feast as well.
The ambiguity has also allowed for cool interpretations though. That’s a major plus. </p>
<p>I don’t want this to turn into a discuss Inception thread though.
The fact that any discussion of recent movies inevitably falls on inception is a pretty good indication of the poor quality of movies nowadays… </p>
<p>Other recent movies I’ve seen in the past year are District 9, Moon, Where the Wild Things Are, Invictus, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Magruber and Get Him to the Greek.
District 9 and Moon are both well done scifi films, I really liked the charm in WTWTA and actually found Magruber to be absolutely hilarious.</p>
<p>And…? If you have actually seen his movies but don’t like them, then I’m fine with that, but I hope you’re not assuming that a guy who took advantage of a 13-year old can’t make a quality film (i.e. Chinatown, Rosemary’s Baby).</p>
<p>Other movies I saw tis year included Splice, Predators, and Knight and Day. They were all pretty mediocre. </p>
<p>Knight and Day actually starts off mediocre and only gets bad, maybe, twenty minutes in. That surprised me. The mood was incredibly inconsistent. The characters lacked significant motivation for their actions. The acting was shoddy, the plot unrealistic, the romance contrived, and the ending corny. Everything one would expect. I’m glad I only paid $2.50 to see it.</p>
<p>Adrien Brody can play a Predators-type character much more convincingly than many are likely to believe, but Topher Grace’s role seemed unnecessary, as did, to a greater extent, the twist. I have no idea what Laurence Fishburne was doing in this movie. The diversity of the cast was lovely to see. I’d been worrying that the presentation of the characters might be stereotypical, or that only minority characters might be racialized, but it wasn’t really a problem. The movie’s better if you choose to not take it seriously (which is how it seems that many the actors felt. I mean, we’re talking people from the Pianist and Cidade de Deus here). Conversely, I think it seemed to be way too obvious in setting itself up for a sequel. There seemed to be some suggestion of romance, which disappointed me, but it was very minot.</p>
<p>Splice was, well… I watched it a while ago now, but, it was well acted. I think the violence of the penultimate scenes were out of tune with the mood of the film, though they were foreshadowed. A deeper and more cerebral exploration into the morality of the main character’s choices – especially those of Brody’s character, as some of Polley’s motivations were explained with admirable subtlety – would have been appreciated, but it was a very decent flick.</p>
<p>@ DonDraper: Did I say anything about the quality of his films? Not in the least. I’m very aware that he’s a fine director, but I’d rather not spend money to see anything of his. Does this mean that I walked out of English class when we watched his Macbeth? Of course not.</p>
<p>I am not the biggest fan of Inception, although it is certainly better than most of the mainstream films released this summer. Then again, I really do not like Chris Nolan (The Dark Knight is probably the most overrated film of the 2000s among high school kids).</p>
<p>I particularly do not like how they designed the dreams to look…nothing like dreams.</p>
<p>^^He “hope[d]” that I wasn’t assuming Polanski was a bad director, which is often, if not always, colloquially, a presumption that the person in question is doing whatever the speaker hopes against. The if-then statement similarly suggests presumption.</p>
