What was the last movie you saw at the theaters?

I went to go see Star Trek.

Saw the Cannes Film Festival, Golden Camera winner Samson and Delilah



What can I say, such a powerful movie, I laughed, cried, at times I couldn't look there was hardly any dialogue but it didn't need it well worth its award

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Saw It's All Gone Pete Tong, it was alright, kinda different and thus interesting, but towards the end I think a tiny part of me (not my weiner :P ) wanted for it to be over, I'd just seen Dogtown and Z Boys right before though, so maybe I needed a break.

The Wrestler

Woot - cannot wait to see that! Need a good laugh!

Last movie - Star Trek - excellent - and I have not even seen one ep of Star Trek or any movies! Just loved it.

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Slumdog Millionaire

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Terminator Salvation.

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Terminator Salvation - I'm sure if you go over to the reviews section you can read my thoughts on the movie. They arent good.

it was some time back with bolt as i remember

land of the lost(i keep wanting to say "the lost world"). good. last week was "the hangover". hilarious. that makes 3 in a month. woo for me.

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The last movie I saw at a theatre was "Race to Witch Mountain" I enjoyed it very much.

Damn that movie - just watched it! BURST out crying - like open weaping and sobbing and the movie had hardly started!!

Lovely movie - very different and very enjoyable.

Star Trek and it was pretty sweet
wish Up was coming to Australia sooner than october

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ONCE UPON A
TIME IN AMERICA
Sergio Leone, 1984

I've always viewed Once Upon a Time in America as being a strange sort of curiosity when it came to gangster films. Directed by a man who had never even made a gangster film before, clocking in at almost four hours long (a prospect so obviously alienating to people that two different employees at the place I saw it actually said to me, "Now you know this movie is about 4 hours long, right?") and not to mention its graphic and confronting content. With America, Sergio Leone drags out a very strange film, one that is at once so brutal yet so oddly beautiful and operatic.

The film is about "Noodles" (Robert De Niro), a Jewish-American gangster and his life. The film traces his rise and fall - from his origin as a street punk in 1920s Brooklyn through to becoming a successful racketeer during the Prohibition era, right before going into exile, returning to New York in the 1960s. Of course, there's a lot more to it than that, but you get the idea, it's just about your typical gangster storyline.

But of course there's more to the film than that. The whole film takes place in largely non-chronological order (and of course there's the theory that large chunks of the film are merely fantasy that never actually happened). The film does have an oddly fantastic feel to it - the constant jumping between time periods, the emphasis on visuals, the elegaic score by none other than the legendary Ennio Morricone. It lends a certain beauty and charm to what is otherwise a harsh, violent account of a handful of hoods trying to make it to the top.

Of course, the film isn't perfect. My main problems with the film extend to some of the acting and most of the dialogue. I expect as much from a visual-oriented director like Leone - when it's not driving the plot along, the dialogue is often cringe-inducing (especially when put into the mouths of the child actors, who are pretty poor). It all seems very stilted and hard to appreciate, but America was never going for great words. It was going for what words would be unable to communicate, and it achieved that well.

Once Upon a Time in America is a tough film for many reasons, but it's rewarding for those who can take its flaws in stride. It's one of a kind, an epic tale of disagreeable men making their way in an even more disagreeable world at whatever cost, all wrapped up in that undescribable feeling that what you're watching isn't your average violent crime movie (or even like the other "not your average crime movie" movies such as The Godfather, which also maintains an operatic feel yet in such a distinctly different manner to America). A truly rare piece of cinema.

GRADE: A-

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City of God (2003)

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AWAY WE GO
2009 - Sam Mendes

Very well made and satisfying Road Movie about thirtysomething couple Burt and Veronica, played by "The Office"'s John Krasinski and "SNL"'s Maya Rudolph, who are unmarried and expecting their first child in a few months. After learning Burt's parents (Jeff Daniels & Catherine O'Hara) are suddenly moving far away, they realize they have no reason to stay in their small, cold Connecticut town anymore and can choose the setting for this next very important phase of their lives. They set out on the road, first to Arizona, then Wisconsin, Montreal and Miami, touching base with friends and family and getting a glimpse at some very different families before they start their own. There are some very funny moments interacting with the strange hosts along the way, especially Maggie Gyllenhaal and Josh Hamilton's militantly New Agey couple, and the biggest laugh for me was a dark non sequitur out of the mouth of a precocious random child in a hotel lobby.

But while there are some big laughs to be had, the strength of the flick is the relationship between Rudolph & Krasinski, which is touched with humor but also some real heart and a kind of honest subtlety refreshing in the climate of formulaic RomComs Hollywood too often cranks out. But even separating it from the crap, which isn't a very high bar to set it against, comparing it to the films in recent years bearing Judd Apatow's brand name or Todd Phillips' new hit The Hangover, most of which I enjoy a Hell of a lot, it's nice to have a smart, witty comedy for adults that also sets the crudity aside and gets laughs in a different tone.

I haven't been much of a fan of director Sam Mendes to date, including his multiple Oscar-winning debut American Beauty which I found to be woefully overrated, but I really enjoyed this one. The script is the first effort from real-life married literary darlings Dave Eggers & Vendela Vida, and their sensibility is given a warm adaptation without the same kind of overwhelming visual style that has marked Mendes' previous features (American Beauty, Road to Perdition, Jarhead, Revolutionary Road). The supporting cast also includes Allison Janney and Jim Gaffigan, Chris Messina and Melanie Lynskey, Paul Schneider and Carmen Ejogo, all of which do fine work in the one or two scenes they get on the trip.

GRADE: B+

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Terminator Salvation... and I'm glad I didn't have to pay to see it...

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Star Trek, I liked it.

Greets
Spikez

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