Last movie you watched......

Earthquake '74 - Can't believe I never saw this whole movie before. Regardless of the absurdity of some situations, it's highly entertaining. I mean, who wouldn't laugh at a drunk Walter Matthau dancing around in a pimp outfit? And Victoria Principal and Geneviève Bujold are mouth-watering cheesecake through all the carnage. Matte paintings blow CGI out of the water.

 

"Easy A." Plenty of laughs, and the parallels to "Scarlett Letter" were inspired, too.

Normally I don't like movies with lots of "emote into the camera" scenes, but Emma Stone made it work.

And spelling a certain vulgar word with peas was hilarious.

 

What did you think of the relationship between Stone's character and her parents?

 

Megamind and Season of the Witch.

A couple of two star movies. Megamind was funny, but ... I don't know I just can't put my finger on it.

Season of the Witch, with Nic Cage, was good. A good B movie. It was not quite what I epxected, but watchable.

 

Finally saw 127 Hours on HBO. Been putting that one off for obvious reasons. I thought Franco was tremendous. Incredibly moving and inspiring. And while the 'saw it off scene' was gruesome, I thought it would be much worse. (Still looked away during most of it.)

 

I just came back from seeing Ides of March. I haven't read the book, but it felt like a story that would play much better in a book. For me it didn't live up to its cast.

 

I think they were trying to poke fun at the "laid back, California parents" stereotype there. Obviously, most parents would freak out a lot more when Olive announces not to believe certain rumors that are going around.

The pot-smoking, quasi-nudist parents in the beginning of the movie were funny, too.

 

I posted a few pages ago on this thread that I was wondering if they were gunning for an exaggerated representation of how teens and their parents get along these days. I think that parents and teens are chums way more than they used to be. I think that today's teens would recognize those parents more than they would the strict disciplinarians or clueless dorks that we grew up with in the movies (and at home). I suspect what seemed out of place to a lot of us in "Easy A" - a teen-parent relationship that casual - probably barely registered with the target teen audience.

 

It was a play, not a book. Clooney's character actually doesn't appear in the play at all.

 

I hope it's not "based on a true story" or JR will be here to yell at you for mentioning that.

 

Misread that in the credits. Still think it would've been better as a book.

 

Not really sure what that has to do with anything, but no, to the best of my knowledge, Farragut North is not based on a true story.