what is the last movie you have watched?

[TRosa]

Originally Posted by PatanjaliTwist

Not doing so well with movies lately. Attempted to watch a few, which for me were flops.


Once again, Jodie helped ruin the day in Polanski's Carnage. I really wanted to like this one & love virtually all of Polanski's movies. The 4 characters were so unlikable, I didn't care what happened to any of them. Kate Winslet's (who I normally adore) ridiculously uptight, angry, over-emphasized American accent was distracting & once again, Jodie's pinched face & uptight, neurotic, bordering on hysterical character was one of the most unlikable in recent memory. That's all important, as the movie is more akin to a play as it's virtually shot in 1 room & a bit throughout 1 apartment. I just hated this script & again, FF through 80-min in 30. I know everyone loves this one... scratching my head as to why.


Again, 0 out of 5 stars for all 3. Either the stomach flu makes all things creative not so or I just had 3 duds this weekend.

I do understand how you feel about Carnage, because several times, I almost pulled the video out, but I just kept watching anyway and ended up with a twisted feeling of enjoyment. Can't explain why, it was annoying, and yes all the characters irked me to no end, but for some reason, I wasn't able to turn away. Like I said in a previous review, reminds me so much of my visits to many of the threads on this site. I absolutely wanted to strangle the characters in the movie. I too wondered, when are they going to leave this darn room. The movie will grate on most people's nerves, it did mine, but I found layers in the personalities that kept me interested to see how it was going to play out. Added note: I think more than anything, I have a deep seeded need to understand the mindset of how these kinds of personalities come to their conclusions about things. More than anything, I was facinated with their neuroticisms and pompousness.

Keep your reviews coming, I do enjoy reading your take on the movies.

[lovemaine]

Frozen (2010) - IMDb

I liked this movie!

[Osito]

Trade (2007)-a film by German producer/screenwriter Marco Kreutzpaintner, in which the subject is a human trafficking ring from Mexico City to New Jersey, with links to the Russian Mob. The movie starts out in Mexico City where two foreign women, from Brazil and Poland respectively exit an airplane. They then find themselves at the mercy of cunning human traffickers who had promised them jobs in the U.S. and now hold their passports and their futures in their hands.

A little later, a poor girl from Mexico City is abducted in the early morning while riding her brand-new bicycle from her brother that her mother had forbidden her to ride. Her brother soon discovers that members of a Russian enclave in town are responsible and sets out by himself to trail them and get his younger sister back.

At a Juarez stashhouse, the brother, Jorge, sneaks into the trunk of an undercover Texas cop who has been investigating the long-time disappearance of his own daughter, which he traced to that same house. The cop appears to think nothing of the horror that lies ahead of him after he agrees to help the illegal-immigrant boy track his sister who is headed to New Jersey to be sold off forever. Along the way they uncover a world of horrific child abuse and unscrupulous internet auctions.

This movie, though fiction, is a jarring look into the sordid underworld of human trafficking that will change your perspective completely. This movie literally changed my life. I'll never look at the world around me quite the same and not many movies have that power.

[PatanjaliTwist]

Originally Posted by TRosa

Keep your reviews coming, I do enjoy reading your take on the movies.

Cheers for the kind words, TR.

Well, here's another I had to mull over for a few days because I wasn't sure if I liked it or not as the ending initially left me feeling tepid. I watched Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles, a documentary about a group of young lads who are compelled to find the reason strange, homemade tiles began appearing in Philadelphia, several US states & several places in S. America 30-yrs ago. They are still appearing, seemingly out of nowhere, to this day.

No witnesses have ever seen who/what places these tiles, all carved with some apocolyptic message regarding Jupiter & raising the dead & a few with eerie, threatening messages. Is it metaphysical & supernatural or some scary group or entity who embeds these tiles onto streets & highway ramps then disappears in the blink of an eye before anyone can ever spot them/it? The closest call is during filming, one of the filmmakers walked to a nearby store in the dead of night & across an empty street, which upon returning home 5-min later, walked over the same spot which now held an imbedded tile. He heard nothing, saw nothing in any direction for blocks & blocks... no person/s or being/s could possibly have done this right outside the store, whilst he was inside.

The conspiracies have been circulating for years... strangely, I'd never heard of them, but once I began researching a bit, found it a fascinating subject. Not only that, I know I've stepped over a few of them, I think in Boston, but had no idea what they were.

The filmmakers have unravelled the mystery in the end... sort of, 99.99% chance it's correct & you'll see why if you watch this film which won the Director's Award at last year's Sundance. The lads are serene, gentle souls, all as quirky & unusual as the tiles they're detecting. This factors into the strange way I felt tepid at the ending. A purposeful choice of release that at first made me want to scream at the filmmaker, "What are you doing?!!!" I had to let it sink in & after a few days, I get it. I finally get it... the filmmaker's choice was decent & right, a most loving act.

If you're not interested in a documentary or this particular one, do yourself a favor & just look up the Wiki info on the tiles. I think the pics & sayings on each tile will prompt you into not being able to miss this surprising & deeply fascinating docu.

5 out of 5 stars... & then 2 more!

[slowesthand]

Last night watched Final Destination 5, same story as the rest of them but still had some good moments . The part where the screw falls on the balance beam was freaky!

[Joke Insurance]

Ted.

[Miss J 74]

Savages.

It was interesting, Salma Hayek and Benecio Del Toro definitely played their parts well. It was confusing at times, and had some truly messed up moments, but all in all a good film.

[skel1977]

The Three Stooges. What a crappy remake

[scarletgirl]

"The Avengers"..."The Avengers" Joss Whedon has made the best superhero action adventure film I have seen in years. I will never forget this movie.

[juan_john66]

man on a ledge is one cool movie.it was very unpredictable!