Last movie you watched......

Watched "The King's Speech" last night. I liked it and I understand why it won Best Picture (and Firth won Best Actor), but it didn't totally wow me.

That said I did like how the younger Queen Mum was played by Bonham-Carter, her devotion to her husband, and I didn't see it coming when the truth came out about Logue's professional qualifications.

I also had a "Hey, that's..." moment when I saw in the credits that Anthony Andrews, who had a lot of visible movie and TV roles in the '80s, played the resigning prime minister Baldwin.

 

Sure.

 

"It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the Ludwig Van."

One of my all-time favorite films, disturbing as it is.

 

Love Actually. It was a movie this female companion of mine wanted to watch, but I've seen plenty of worse chick flicks.

 

Best thing about it: you only need to see it once.

 

Trash Black Stallion all you want, but Seabiscuit was a very good movie made out of a terrific book. It was a much better movie than Secretariat, which suffered from the Disney Touch of Convenient Implausibility.

Disney also needs to learn how to spell the names of characters correctly. The offenses within Secretariat in that area spoke volumes.

 

That's a goddamn woman right there, buddy.

 

I wasn't terribly impressed with her ... that is, until the party in India.

That scene on the Burj Khalifa was incredibly well done, to the point where I'm interested to see the DVD to find out exactly how they did it. It quite honestly looked like they just had Tom Cruise on wires hanging off the side of a building 130 stories up. I doubt they did it that way, but damn, if they used CGI there for anything other than the sandstorm in the distance, they did a helluva job with it.

The movie was decent. Better than MI, or MI2 (I didn't bother to see the third because the first two were such dreck). My only quibbles were the CGI for the first major explosion and what the deal was with the mask reveal. That didn't make much sense.

But overall I definitely entertained, though not blown away, by the movie.

 

Pern, MI3 was actually pretty solid. And this is coming from a guy who LOVED the new one and DESPISED the first two for the exact reasons you mentioned.

 

My friend who I saw MI4 with said the exact same thing. He said that in terms of quality, they go in reverse order with 4 being the best and 1 being the worst.

 

I think the second MI is the absolute worst. Didn't mind the first one so much but I enjoyed 3 and 4 quite a bit with 4 being my favorite.

To the poster above asking about Tom Cruise and that scene, check this out, really incredible...

 

That's damn cool YouTube clip. I wish they had panned the camera down to see where the ground was. That could have been 20 feet up or 1,020 feet up.