Last movie you watched......

Richard Roeper eviscerates "Movie 43":

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130123/REVIEWS/130129973

 

Finally got around to seeing Zero Dark Thirty today. Intense movie, very well done. I thought it was very good. But I don't think it's Oscar worthy. Felt like Hurt Locker was the better of the two films. I'm a bit surprised that ZDT is considered such a frontrunner for the Oscar and same for Chastain. She was good but I didn't think her performance was such a standout. Also, why all the outcry about the "torture" scenes? They were pretty gritty but certainly nothing that was over the top. There's violence in movies that have been much worse.

I've now seen 8 of the Oscar nominees and I'd rank like so:
1. Argo
2. Silver Linings Playbook
3. Life of Pi
4. Django
5. Zero Dark Thirty
6. Lincoln
7. Beasts of the Southern Wild
8. Les Mis

 

Chief Jay Strongbow was also of Italian heritage.

 

Firestorm - the last film by the great Howie Long. Yet even with Bradshaw's work in Cannonball Run II, Hooper and Failure to Launch, Jimmy Johnson in Funny People and Jay Glazer in The Longest Yard and The Game Plan, I think Fox's pregame oevre still falls short of CBS's set of Marino in Ace Ventura and Holy Man, Esiason's turn in The Game Plan and Cowher in Dark Knight Rises and The Waterboy

 

Wahoo McDaniel was apparently a real Native American. Born in Oklahoma but grew up in Midland, Texas, where his Little League Baseball coach was George H. W. Bush.

 

That was going to be my question. They didn't just foreshadow it. They actually had Alfred describe the entire scene!

 

I'm guessing here but I'd bet the poster was referring to Miranda Tate revealing her true identity.

 

I thought for sure that Miranda Tate was going to turn out to be the daughter of Larry Tate.

 

Correct.

 

When McDaniel played for The Jets and made a tackle the announcer would say "tackle made by guess how and the fans would should out "Wahoo"

His career came to an end with The Jets when on a night before a Broncos game he was overserved and backed his car into a police car.

 

"Zero Dark Thirty" on Saturday night with the wife. We both really liked it. It's our favorite Oscar-nominated movie we've seen this year. It's also the only Oscar-nominated movie we've seen this year. Having a 4-year-old has seriously curtailed our movie-going.

 

Saw Hansel and Gretel this weekend. It was amusing, though if having medieval characters speaking modern dialogue bothers you, you won't like this.