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What was the last movie you watched?

The Robocop remake, which I mainly saw because I got a free pass to see it from buying a Blu-Ray copy of the original. The remake doesn't hold an LED Christmas tree light to the original, let alone a candle, but I couldn't quite bring myself to hate it, and there were a few pretty good moments here and there.
 
"Gravity"

Interesting commentary on the exposure of "space junk" orbiting our planet.
 
RoboCop looks like a huge bust. Awful joke of a movie.

I watched a documentary called Of Two Minds about people living with bi polar disorder. It was quite sad but incredibly well done. I loved it.
One girl Miya hung herself. Her sister and mom said how horrible it was when they found out she killed herself. It was terribly sad.
 
I watched Children of Men for the second time last night. It's funny...Gravity won all the same Oscars that I think Children of Men deserved, which was partly why I was so happy that Gravity wound up with them--it felt like belated recognition (as often happens in the film world, I suppose).
 
Yesterday, I watched an old Canadian B-movie called 984: Prisoner Of The Future. It was surprisingly good, with a relatively complex story that reminded me somewhat of 1984. I also detected some influence from THX 1138. If you should ever happen to stumble across this one, I'd say it's worth your time.

I also recently saw Godzilla VS Biollante, which was the first film I'd seen from the more modern, post 1970s Godzilla series. It was interesting in that it seemed like they were trying to get away from the cheesiness of the original line of films and do something more ambitious with the material. I'll definitely be watching more of that series to get myself pumped up for the new film coming out in May.
 
"John Carter". It was like watching a very bad version of "Dune". Didn't care much for the special effects at all. And the plot was difficult to follow without occasionally nodding off. No wonder it was a box office disaster.
 
Judge said:
"John Carter". It was like watching a very bad version of "Dune". Didn't care much for the special effects at all. And the plot was difficult to follow without occasionally nodding off. No wonder it was a box office disaster.
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To each his own, I guess. I loved John Carter. It reminded me very much of the adventure films Disney used to make years ago. I understand it's not for everyone, but I thought it deserved to do better than it did. Disney seems to have bad luck with that as The Lone Ranger was also a terrifically entertaining film that didn't deserve to flop as badly as it did. Oh well.
 
dudeman said:
To each his own, I guess. I loved John Carter. It reminded me very much of the adventure films Disney used to make years ago. I understand it's not for everyone, but I thought it deserved to do better than it did. Disney seems to have bad luck with that as The Lone Ranger was also a terrifically entertaining film that didn't deserve to flop as badly as it did. Oh well.
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It did rather poorly on Rotten Tomatoes as well.

Interesting, I didn't get any sense of nostalgia on this one. I loved those old Disney films myself. Oh well...indeed. But then I have high hopes for the upcoming JJ Abrams Star Wars films. ;)
 
I enjoyed John Carter too, having read the Edgar Rice Burroughs books that it's based on might help. There had been several attempts to make them into a movie as far back as the 1930s. The movie we got has its problems, but I thought it was enjoyable for what it was.
 
"Twelve Years A Slave"

Devastating, grim account of a New York man abducted, sent south and sold into slavery in 1841.

This picture just recently won the Oscar for Best Picture.
 
"The Invention of Lying" - the Ricky Gevais thing about a world where people are only capable of telling the truth as bluntly as possible. That appeals to me - I wish life was actually like that. It would make things so much easier.
 
"Inception" with Leonardo however-you-spell-his-last-name and Ellen Page. A really confusing movie into the first five minutes but I quickly picked it up ... Heck I even wrote a comedy sketch about the movie :P
 
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