'The Worlds Fastest Indian', a feel good film for blokes. Watched it on the flight back from Japan.
My all time favorite is still 'Last Orders' with Bob Hoskins, Micheal Caine, Tom Courtney and Ray Winstone.

The Life of Brian.

For the 6th time I think. Classic stuff.

Recent viewings

The Royal Tenenbaums (good soundtrack too).
The Life Aquatic
King of Comeday

300

You saw that ezorisu?

Looks interesting all back screens or whatever they call it right? (Then again wasn't Captain Only Thing Going For It Is A Jolie Is In It Or Whatever It Was Called Tomorrow the same?)

The new Rocky movie.

And went back to see all the others as well (though a few are probably best left forgotten!)

2Pints,

It opened in the States last Friday, saw it on Saturday. A couple of my otaku friends scored some sneak-preview tickets to see it the previous Monday, and they were quite impressed, so I had to check it out. It was more "artsy" than "Sky Captain..." with a lot of the imagery looking like paintings. I'll have to get a look at the Frank Miller graphic novel that the movie was based on to see how much of that imagery was borrowed from the original artwork. It was visually stunning to say the least.

Babel was great.

I downloaded all this years Oscars nominated films.

The Departed was also really awesome, although at times quite confusing. I never thought I would see the day that Matt Damon and Leo DiCaprio star in the same movie (cos they look so similar) but in this one they are not only together but also play very similar roles. Well actually that is probably why they were cast, because the 2 characters are so similar and the actors look similar. Jack Nicholson was OK in it but I think its not the Brando's Godfather type performance that the director maybe intended to be.

I haven't seen it yet, but I bought tix for spiderman 3 yesterday!
oyako pair ticket for 2,000 yen with a cool little pressie for the kids. 5/5 it will begin showing.

I enjoyed The Departure. Not generally keen on Jack Nicholson myself (whats the big deal with him)>

Borat Naughty. Funny.

Good Night and Good Luck.

Looking forward to another Clooney one as well - The Good German.

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This movie is an homage not only to the vocabulary of film noir , but also to its social and political genesis. Film Noir developed after World War II and was an outgrowth of both the cynicism that was generated by WW II because it turned out to need another war to be the war to end all wars.... and because of the enormous evil that World War II revealed in contradistinction to the sunny idealism of the American Project.

Film Noir of the 40's and 50's was a reaction to WW II, but those films themselves were always crime stories about naive men dragged into terrible circumstances through the lure of seductive, dangerous women. But they were never about the war itself or anything to do with the war itself. WWII movies were patriotic paeans to heroism like 30 Seconds over Tokyo or the common man like A Walk in the Sun or home front heroism like Mrs. Mininver. Indeed only Casablanca itself, as exemplified early on by Rick's character was suffused with some of the cynicism that we see in film noir, but the reason Casablance is beloved is because the cynicism melts away in the the understanding that there is something greater than one's own preservation.

What is wonderful about the Good German is that it is a Film Noir film about the War itself and also about war in general...then and now. The film and its concerns are not dated or meaningless, but very much of the moment.

The film also pays visual homage to other movies of the era, from the warm hearted cynicism of Billy Wilder's A Foreign Affair with Jean Arthur as the parochial Congressperson (like in this film) and Marlene Dietrich as the dangerous vamp with a dark past. Roberto Rossellini's Germany:Year Zero, shot in postwar Berlin, shows how fear, deprivation and terror destroy the soul as ell as the body.

The Congressman is not just a boob but a participant in the propagation of evil and the Good American General of Beau Bridges is anything but good. Indeed, as we know now Americans protected Nazis who could help us in terms of confronting the next evil--Communism and Russia. And the story they tell about the V-2 rocket is true. The Germans and Werner van Braun used up the lives and caused the deaths of Jewish and other POW's slave labor to create and launch them and we, in terms of the American occupation and the incipient CIA aka the OSS, helped mass murderers to safety.

Even the lawyer Teitel, the man researching the Nuremberg Trials, whose sole purpose is to pursue Justice, can be compromised. Tobey Maguire was chosen to play the vicious, venal Tully because to most American audiences he, as Peter Parker, typifies the best of America. He is meant to be jarring to the audience. Lena, indeed is the vamp, but unlike old film noir like Out of the Past, she doesn't lead Jake on, Jake misleads himself about her. She is just a desperate woman struggling to survive.

Some would say this is a movie about moral ambiguities, but I think it's not that ambiguous. The filmmakers have cast judgment on some of our post war behavior and found it wanting.

The only romanticism in this movie is in the style, a valentine to the look of old movies; there is no romanticism in its view of America at war.

Clooney has been doing some good movies recently. What was the other one he did can't remember the title ("Syriana", I think) - that was good too.

A few I have seen recently that I enjoyed are Volver (Penelope Cruz) and the very interesting Red Road.

My male friend told me "Farce Of The Penguins" was good, but I'll just take his word for it!

Thanks Ezorisu

Clerks 2 made me laugh.

I thought Night at the Museum was yawn.

the new jack black/tenacious d movie "pick of destiny" is freakin sweet if you're into oddball/kooky/stoner humour.
i've met some people who hated it, but i put that down to the fact that they are squares.
i'll have to check out clerks 2. i thought jay and silent bob strike back was a comedic masterpiece. kevin smith is good!

i also saw hot fuzz the other night, and laughed til it hurt. another thumbs up for english humour. funny on lots of levels, and they don't ram predictable jokes down your throat like US comedies do.

Recently seen the Austin Powers movies again. So funny, can watch them so many times. Felicity Shagwell, what a babe.

They are very funny. If one is one when I'm flicking through the channels I often watch it (for the xxxth time).

Highly expectant of Borat - but I actually thought it was boring and only sometimes funny.