Last movie you watched......

OK, I went back and read some of the criticisms in this thread, and I can certainly see where people would either really love or really loathe this film. Personally, I can sympathize with Portman's character, the search for elusive perfection, trying to find away to tolerate myself while pleasing others, etc. I thought her character was done extremely well. Lots of layers. Great relationships between her and her mother and Toma.

I didn't find the film terribly disturbing, but then again, the last movie I watched before this was Requiem, and that was far more disturbing of a total engrossing mindfuck than Black Swan. (Or even Cannibal Holocaust.) I respect the hell out of Reqiuem. It was a phenomenal film. I just hated its guts because it made me want to jump off a bridge afterward.

I don't begrudge anybody who didn't like Black Swan. I can see both sides of this one. I personally loved the acting and the storytelling and how it came to a crescendo with the end of the show. I didn't care if Nina lived or died. Just that she nailed the performance. And nothing really mattered after that...

 

I am Number 4. Didn't hold my attention. Not bad not good.

The Dilemma. Love vince vaughn, but this had points where it could have been a better flick for what it was. But really questioned the "do I tell or not" aspect of friendship and the consequences of it.

 

Saw Tranformers 3 in 3-D IMAX last night.

As you can imagine, the plot is a mess, but I wanted to see it because so much if it was filmed in Chicago and we saw a little bit of the filming.

The girl who replaced Megan Fox is incredible (looking).

 

Really? To me she looked like one of those girls on one of those MSNBC specials about forced prostitution in Eastern Europe.

 

Meh. Doesn't do it for me. I like my actresses to actually serve a point in the movie (Unless it's a porn or anything starring Jennifer Love Hewitt). She was so useless in this movie that unless she broke into the theater and started blowing me, she was a waste of my eye-space.

Say what you will about Megan Fox but she didn't have a 30-second spot in the middle of mass chaos in downtown Chicago where she struck a pose.

Absolutely the worst part of the flick and it wasn't even close.

 

Finally saw 'The Stoning of Soraya M.'
We are now arguing in my house about which was sadder, 'The Stoning of Soraya M.' or 'The Wind that Shakes the Barley.'

 

Worse than her chat with Megatron? 'Cause that was pretty dang ridiculous.

If only John Turturro and Alan Tudyk's characters were the central focus.

 

Watched another library-borrowed title I'd never heard of. "Dear Frankie," an early film for Gerard Butler and Emily Mortimer (if you've ever seen the hilarious "Formula 51" - called "The 51st State" here in the states - with Samuel L. Jackson, she was Robert Carlisle's ex and assassin). Good flick.

She's mom of a deaf kid, who thinks his dad is on a ship traveling the world. He thinks this because he writes letters to his "Da" and Mom intercepts them, writes back to him. In reality, his father is an abusive asshole who Mom left years ago. Anyway, because Mom made the name of the ship up, it comes as a bit of a surprise that a ship with that name is soon to dock nearby and the kid expects to see his dad. Mom hires Butler to pose as dad. Doesn't go where you think it's going to go. Thumbs up.

 

Exactly. A desperate attempt to make her relevant to the movie, but that was stupid. So was the outcome of Optimus Prime's final battle with Megatron.

 

This was an incredible doc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_of_Forgotten_Dreams
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110427/REVIEWS/110429983

 

At least that was relevant (if really, really stupid). Her posing in the middle of downtown Chicago with perfect hair and perfect makeup ... moments after falling out of a skyscraper mind you ... really made me roll my eyes.

If it weren't for the racist robots and the decepticon testicles in the second movie, that 30-second clip might have been the worst in the trilogy.