What was the last movie you saw at the theaters?

I saw The Fellowship of the Ring today at the Embassy Theater here in Wellington. They had the place rennovated for the Return of the King premiere- so these seats are incredible. Leather, reclining, and all the footroom you could ever ask for. Sound system was incredible, too.

Lucky thing, that sounds great

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X-Men The Last Stand.

Was very dissapointed with it.
I thought the CGI was inconsistent and various characters were'nt used as well as they could have been.

The only thing that slightly saved the movie was Beast.

Hard Candy. I thought it was pretty good, although totally unscary, and a bit too much fun/too ridiculous to have the desired impact. And the bulldog clip (I think that's subtle enough) was a great disappointment. 3/5.

X-Men: The Last stand. And I actually thought it was the best of the 3. The first one of the trilogy that showcased the mutants powers, and how they could be used in various combat situations. However, having said that, they totally screwed up the Juggernaughts character royaly.

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-The Collection-

the lake house...good time travel story but a bit contrived..i guessed the whole thing right from the beginning...and i cried...

but i did enjoy it

and i do recommend it

Last film I watched was X3 was a bit sleepy when i watched it but still loved it

Hard Candy ..... not as 'hard' as i expected, very tame; the main 'shock' scene was a disappointment though it was still impressive how the two actors held the screen for the whole film. Interesting changing of empathy between characters though it was perhaps a bit to subtle and open ended to give much back at the end.

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Mission Impossible 3......... really enjoyed it though Abrahams seemed to be making a feature length Alias episode, a lot of similarities. Also the film seemed to be compromised of, conceptually, less than thrilling and almost unoriginal set pieces opposed to a flowing narrative but it did have some excellent direction making thrilling action scenes, with minimal use of CG. Hoffman makes a good villian, havn't seen Capote but liked him getting a good role along with Simon Pegg who i gave a silent cheer for. The plot was quite twisty though i found the twists obvious, perhaps from being an Alias fan and the ending was nicely ambigious and not the cop out i've heard people say. One of the better summer action films.

War of the World's (2005)

Spoiler

Still rather irritated by his mechanic friend who fixed up the van to not have an inkling of a clue of the chaos that surrounded him nor that flaming tree behind him. He deserved to be fried.

Cars
The Lake House
Nacho Libre

last movie just saw click tonight.. pretty good

Silent Hill.

Despite a heartening return to screen for the classic 70's theme "Christians are all cop-baking hypocrites" this movie left me fidgeting. Maybe it's because I haven't played the game, but the whole concept seemed inherently ridiculous, I found myself more interested in the suprisingly high-quality CGI, sets and make-up than the plot.

If anyone's seen this, did you get a Hiroshima vibe off the whole movie? Or am I just breathing too much into this sludge?

Cars. Took my little brothers to see it on Saturday. 3/4. On the one hand, these kids movies are always constructed out of ready made templates, and this one has: city-slicker finding himself in a small town, washed up sports star finds meaning in passing on his gift. Done well here, as it has been so many times before, but overall pretty thin stuff. On the other hand, these things look amazing, though I was a little disappointed by the climax this time around. The robots rail-sequence beats any of the movement I've seen here, Finding Nemo was a bit more adventurous with the "camera" and finally Monsters, Inc. marks the high point with its "doors" sequence.

Don't really have time or energy to do reviews, but these are the movies I've seen theatrically the past week and a half or so...

An Inconvenient Truth, A-
49 Up, A
Nacho Libre, D+
Eight Below*, D+
Point Blank (1967), A
The Big Buy: Tom Delay's Stolen Congress, B


*OK, this one wasn't in the theatre, it was on a commercial airline. Thanks a lot, United.

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King Kong--I watched this one alone. I commend this film primarily for it's impressive CGIs.

The Lost City (2006 – Andy Garcia)

Wow. This is a terrible movie. It is all very earnest, but it is just plain badly made, almost to the point of incompetence. Andy Garcia directs and stars in the story of a Havana family during the Cuban Revolution of the late 1950s. Garcia plays the owner of a successful high-class nightclub. His father (Tomas Milian) is a university professor and his uncle (Richard Bradford) owns a large tobacco plantation. His younger brothers both become involved with the growing underground to depose Batista, one (Nestor Carbonell) aligns himself with a group looking to restore the old democratic Constitution while the other (Enrique Murciano) is a Castro rebel. The only woman who gets any focus is one of the brother's wives, played by the stunning Inés Sastre, who Garcia has always had a thing for. Like the country itself, the family is torn apart by the Revolution – death and betrayal, promise distorted by Communism, art and independent thought outlawed, love obscured by politics, who will stay and who will flee in exile, yadda-yadda. Unfortunately it isn't handled as competently as even the average Soap Opera, and it is wrapped up in obvious metaphors with strained and embrassing supposedly poetic asides. There is zero flow, no character development of any kind, the acting is all over the place and usually in discord, and the flick lacks even basic exposition and coherence from scene to scene. I'm sure there is an honest love of the culture and people driving the project, but it's such a shoddy movie that the politics just dangle flatly above cardboard characters meandering from moment to random moment. The cinematography, costumes and recreation of Cuba are pleasant enough to look at, but the narrative, characters and acting are a frippin' mess.

Garcia called in some favors from his friends for this, his directorial debut, and he gets a couple big names for cameo roles including Bill Murray as a sometimes amusing but ultimately awkward and unnecessary Fool to Garcia's Lear and Dustin Hoffman shows up for two brief scenes as gangster Meyer Lansky. But as with every other character in the movie, whether they're around for two scenes or forty, they're not grounded to anything else going on. It plays like a bunch of scene studies in an acting class. Some scenes and pairings are better than others, but all still need a lot of work and it all needed to be brought together under one strong vision. Garcia the director can't pull this off. At all. It also goes on and on and on. At an interminable 143 minutes you'll be wanting to face a death squad yourself just to be done with it already.

Earnestness and history dressed up in nice clothes with some recognizable actors does not automatically make for a compelling movie. In the end The Lost City is hardly even watchable.

GRADE: D-

i intend to see Alibi and American Dreamz... but which one i'm gonna watch friday night is still undecided...

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Click-Very entertaining and funny.

okay then, that'll be Alibi, thanx Holden!