Just like my Television thread, only this deals with movies. Weather you watched it on television or at the cinema, list it here. Feel free to discuss.

Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory

Great idea for a thread Marcella. The last movie i watched was Hostal 2 & it was crap!!!!

Thanks for the comment, CCW.

Watched Willy Wonka again last night on cable TV. Love that movie. It takes you out of all your troubles and puts you someplace else for an hour or two.

James Bond 007 QUANTUM OF SOLACE. It was a thrill! Great action movie, although I wished they slowed down the pace during the first 1/3 of the movie. Well worth watching and very entertaining.

Watched SIDEWAYS a couple nights ago and loved it.

"If anybody orders f**king merlot, man, I'm LEAVING!!"

Mongol with Asano Argunov. Really good movie about the early days of Genghis Khan. I believe the movie was up for a 2007 academy award ? I didn't mind the sub titles as they were well done and the actor's and story really flowed

I watched "Rescue Dawn" the other day, good film.

"This film tells the real-life story of U.S. fighter pilot Dieter Dengler, a German-American shot down and captured in Laos during the Vietnam War. Dengler organized a death-defying escape for a small band of POWs, including Duane Martin"

Just watched REPO MAN.

One of those movies that you hear so much about for years and years and years, and then when you watch it... well, you've seen it.

I always thought it much over rated, or as they say a critics darling ?

I watched the New Batman film "The Dark Knight" last night got it on DVD. Great film the Jokers awesome in it.

Wasn't that the late Heath Ledger?

Yes and he will be up for an Oscar, not because of the regretful passing, because he emote's madness in a highly special role.

I recently watched The Dark Knight too. My youngest brother rented it and practically begged me to watch it with him.

Great film.

The forbidden Kingdom

Instead of a traditional Christmas bonus, the survey/construction company for which I work blew me away by presenting me a flat-screen TV for a gift. I was very honored and humbled, and inaugurated my new TV by watching the movie The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.

Favorite part: when the Narnians were storming King Miraz's castle, and Reepicheep and his mice enter the room occupied by the cat. In the next scene you see that the poor kitty has been bound up with ropes. I'm a lifelong cat lover, but this cracked me up so much I had to pause the movie.

I'm also a lifelong Narnia lover, and did find the inevitable deviations from the original story frustrating.

well 1stly i LOVED "Prince Caspian" a GREAT film as well. & i remember that scene i just laughed my ass off too. i haven't seen it since last it was in the theatre though. & as for the book? i haven't read that thing in YEARS! i have yet to finish well any of the books after that one. from 'The Voyage of the dawn treader" to "The Last Battle" i dunno why i just havne't. perhaps one day i'll finish it. anywys as for the film i last watched? well 1stly


i've been watching 'Dark Shadows" the Original Tv series as of late. buut movie wise the last film i think i watched was
"The Kentucky Fried Movie" which is NOT Reccommend to watch with young kids. or kids under 16. there are parts of it that was just plain stupid. buut it was a funny movie. NOT the greatest film buut NOT the worst either. if you don't take the film Serious like sometimes people make the mistake of doing than you'll enjoy it a LOT better. & that one is from (1977) an old one granted buut i'm glad i watched it.

Yesterday, I watched that classic chick flick - "You Got Mail"


Hey give me a break, i haven't got satellite and don't go to the movies..

I really liked it. I recently watched Driving Miss Daisy.

I shall be watching Black Book tonight (in Dutch) on Mark's recommendation.

Excellent film, Mark.

Superbad... What a great, funny film!

Mark

yeah that films ace. Love the bit where the geek' kid (forget his name) gets punched in the supermarket, and in slow motion on the CCTV so funny.

Hmmmm... I watched Tropic Thunder last night and to be honest, I felt a little let-down by it. I was expecting a really funny film with all the great actors, but sadly it was only Tom Cruise and Robert Downey Jr that really shone at all throughout the whole thing. Don't get me wrong, there were some cool parts to it, but with this cast it should have been a steller performance!

Mark

Watched DUCK SOUP last night. I've seen this movie probably a dozen times, and each time it's just as funny as ever.

Margaret Dumont: This is certainly a gala day for you!
Groucho: Well, that's fine with me. I don't know if I could HANDLE more than a gal a day!

Here's a great sequence from DUCK SOUP: the famous "mirror scene." Not that plot is EVER important in a Marx Brothers movie, but... in this scene, Groucho is in Margaret Dumont's room; she has battle plans in a safe downstairs, and Chico and Harpo are spies who want to steal them. So... Harpo and Chico disguise themselves as Groucho... Groucho is the one coming down the staircase... Harpo-as-Groucho is the one who runs into the mirror. Look for Chico-as-Groucho's cameo appearance at the very end of the scene.

Love it. Never get tired of watching it.

Beautiful!

I remember seeing a film of theirs that was originally a play? This was some years ago. Quite incredible what they managed with an absolute minimum of means. Which one would that have been? I think it was set in a hotel...

VALKYRIE. Very good movie. I was actually surprised with Tom Cruise, he was good in this one. No over the top or overacting, solid work on his part.

ROOM SERVICE... although...

...ANIMAL CRACKERS, their first movie, was an adaptation of a Broadway show. The Marx Brothers first became famous on Broadway, after all.

The brothers took a couple of their movies on the road and performed them AS stage shows in front of live audiences. They did this with A NIGHT AT THE OPERA and A DAY AT THE RACES; I'm not sure if there were any others. Certainly DUCK SOUP would have been difficult to do in front of an audience.

Groucho, when interviewed, said that they did this because they wanted to see which gags worked and which ones fell flat. They also TIMED gags by the live audience's response... meaning that if a line or a gag got a long laugh from an audience, they would make sure that they edited the film with plenty of reaction time so that the laughter didn't drown out or "step on" the next line.

I remember a story from a book called THE MARX BROTHERS SCRAPBOOK about how the Marx Brothers and their entourage used to have a tradition that they would give writers-cast-crew members an expensive bathrobe on their birthdays. When the brothers were doing ANIMAL CRACKERS on Broadway, there was a crew member whose birthday was coming up and he kept saying "I can't wait to get my bathrobe"... so the brothers decided that they'd string him along and not give it to him right away. His birthday came and went... no bathrobe. So... the next evening, during the show, in the scene where Captain Spaulding (Groucho) makes his entrance, with an entourage carrying his trunks etc, the actors set the trunk down on the stage, and when the applause died down, the trunk popped open and this crew member got out and looked at Groucho and said "Where in the hell's my bathrobe?" and walked offstage.

They gave him the robe the next day!

Intresting stuff. Thanks for that. I didn't know any of this. That's what comes of living in "Yurp". Culturally bereft, hahahaha...

Room Service - that's the one! I also remember a ridiculous scene with an ostrich in A Night At The Opera. And A Day At The Races I enjoyed too. Only, those musical interludes... that's show business I suppose. Probably a leftover from their touring days. Even Groucho needed to take a break now and again it seems.

One of the things that I love about DUCK SOUP is that the few musical numbers are almost satires. There are no love songs sung by Allen Jones to the female lead, or 10-minute-long sequences of Harpo playing the harp or Chico playing the piano, or any of the other sap that signaled TIME TO RUN TO THE CONCESSION STAND in some of their other movies.

THE MARX BROTHERS SCRAPBOOK by Richard Anobile, by the way, is an amazing book. One of my five favorite books of all-time. Highly highly highly recommended.

I went to go see Angels & Demons at the cinemas last night, it was good. Anyone seen it? i havent read the book but i hear they go into more depth same with the Da Vinci Code book.

Twilight... so horribly addicted to it

Oh, it's that Brown bloke again. No I haven't seen it, to answer your question.

Now that's what used to mightily pee me off with otherwise great films like A Day At The Races and A Night At The Opera. Sod Harpo's harp! And those love songs, OMG...

I shall wait patiently until Duck Soup crops up on the telly.

me neither, i shall wait till someone i know buys it on dvd and then borrow it and not watch it for six months and then one slow sunday put it on.

i have read the book. jolly good read.

the last movie i think i actually watched all the way through was Mama Mia

...I'll get my coat

Not really a movie, but... I've been Netflixing STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION... started at the beginning of season two and am all the way up to the beginning of season 4. Just last night, I watched the two-part episode BEST OF BOTH WORLDS, where Picard is kidnapped by the Borg.

coughjesushadkidscough.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. I'm nuts about the actress Victoria Hamilton. She is just so good. And criminally unknown among the great unwashed.

Here she is in a brief snippet from a film I haven't seen (yet), Before You Go. The prudish among you (hahaha, they all f***ed off long ago) are warned that the F-word occurs twice...

the jungle book (the disney animated one)
loving watching disney movies lately

I just watched a Norwegian spoof horror movie called "Dead Snow". It was very gruesome and very funny in parts, but I did really enjoy it. Watched it with subtitles, as that is the ONLY way to watch non-English films. Some of the best over-the-top-ridiculous-blood-spilling-orgy-of-violence sequences I have ever seen!

Mark

In that same spirit, I watched an awful early 70s horror flick called FROGS, rife with killer frogs and reptiles and equally deadly overacting.

I also saw, once again, a favorite documentary of mine: MARCH POINT. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbZR0ttpIcM...feature=channel. Beautifully done film. You really fall in love with the three kids.

Got to watching Turner Classic Movies yesterday and they showed the original The Blob.

Beware of the blob, it creeps
and leaps and glides and slides
Across the floor
Right through the door
And all around the wall
A splotch, a blotch
Be careful of the blob

Hard to believe Burt Bacharach wrote both the music and lyrics!

Didn't Hal David write the lyrics?

I thought so too, but when I looked it up it said Burt Bacharach wrote them.

We're both wrong. It was a David, but brother Mack instead of Hal (read about it here)...

We`re not the ones who are wrong. It was the information we looked up on the Internet that was wrong!!
So technically neither of us are at fault.

Wow, Rh, your logic can't be faulted! I shall sleep easy tonight... :-)

I`m a Star Trek fan so it`s all of that Vulcan philosophy and logic I learned from Mr. Spock.
Live long and prosper.

I love that song!

I just finished watching UP.