Last movie you watched......

I saw it coming too. Doesn't mean I didn't wish it had turned out differently.

Just watched Dakota Skye. Goddamn did I love that movie. And I think I'm officially in love with Ian Nelson.

 

The 8 year old next door loaned me "Despicable Me". Loved it. Steve Carell rocks my world, even in animation.

 

What an awful film. Saw this in the theater whenever it came out, and some guy dragged his too-young sister to it. All of 10 - and even she saw through it. Halfway through she said to her brother "this is really dumb and annoying." And it was.

 

DVR - Breathless (Godard, 1960)

Same film it was before, but I've changed, so it's different.

 

I believe the girl called it a celluloid dump.

 

Finally saw "The Wrestler" after getting it from Netflix. I can see why Rourke got the Oscar nom.
I liked it, but it was really a bleak movie. The climax especially, but it really couldn't have ended any other way.

 

I think this is a pretty good example of the cynicism in Hollywood, how they overcome the dearth of original ideas by milking proven money-making elements. You had Denzel, you had a movie set in the NYC subway system, you had the lingering mystique of a pretty good thriller made decades ago ... hey, because we can't think of anything better, let's remake something, with all kinds of unnecessary camera effects and bullshit! And go straight to the bank!

 

John Travolta is no Robert Shaw ... and let's just leave it at that.

 

I don't want to start a thread on this, but does anyone have any hopes for the Arthur remake? I think Helen Mirren can step into the Gielgud role just fine, and having someone who's a lot more down to earth than Liza Minnelli as the new woman will help. But Russell Brand seems kinda tall for the Arthur role. It worked with Dudley Moore because he was about the height of a kid. In the trailer, it seems Brand does a good channeling of Moore's voice. In a world of smartphones, I don't know if Arthur's toys will be as compelling as they were in the first one.

 

I can take Brand in small doses, and it won't be his fault if this doesn't meet expectations.

My problem with this is that they're obviously going to downplay the original's swimming-in-money, let's-drink-the-best-and-chase-tail premise and sink to hitting the big-kid-with-toys theme, hard. That's just dumbing down, a reflection of the times we live in and the primary reason I won't be rushing to see the thing . . . especially since I loved the original, despite the presence of Liza.

 

Still wonderful and great. A business-changer, with a lot of illegitimate offspring . . . an obvious inspiration for, among other things . . . Bonnie and Clyde.

 

See above, re: Pelham 1 2 3.

The original was great. Do we really need this?