Last movie you watched......

http://www.boxoffice.com/statistics/alltime_numbers/weekend/data/1

Holy shit. Second all-time biggest opening weekend, only behind Avengers, at $175 million US. Add in the more than $500 million made overseas, and this sumbitch has made nearly $700 million worldwide in barely two weeks.

And to think pundits had said no one goes to the movies anymore. Sure, the ticket prices are as high as they've ever been, but you still gotta put asses in seats.

 

"Hitchcock."

Not bad, but way too reminiscent of "My Week With Marilyn."

 

Agreed. The scene where the gust of air blows up Anthony Hopkins' skirt was nauseating.

 

Mud. great flick by a soon-to-be-great director jeff nichols.

 

I would argue that he's already there.

 

IM3 over the weekend. Enjoyed it. First was better. For me -- and I don't this qualifies as a spoiler -- it was just better when there was only one good-guy suit. Once they're in mass production, it loses some cachet for me. Not being all that familiar with the comics, I have no idea what the twist was and I don't feel like I missed anything for not knowing. I was surprised at how many people stuck around through the end of the credits.

Watched Compliance on demand. Hard to believe anyone would be that gullible on the phone, but it was still pretty intense.

Rewatched Zero Dark Thirty and it was just as good the second time around.

 

Just watched Valley Girl for the first time in a few years. One of the most awesome rock soundtracks. In retrospect, Deborah Foreman just didn't have the chops to maintain an acting career, Nic Cage was merely aight,and a lot of the symbolism was ball-peen hammer quality, but it was a movie where the whole was much more than the sum of the parts. The gal's father (Frederic Forrest) stole the show. I do wonder if Johnny (Are You Queer?) would be released nowadays.

 

I suppose studios know what they're doing with the pricing, but there are some movies that are a waste of a modern movie theater and better watched at home, let alone worth $10 to see.
I still like seeing a big budget popcorn movie this time of year though - if only to take me back to the days of waiting outside in a long line in the summer sun hoping to get in to see Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jaws or ET.

 

I feel the same. I have to be really, really excited to see something to shell out even matinee prices. Otherwise, I rent a lot. And that's okay. Renting is fine, especially for quiet movies. Because I'm the asshole who doesn't mind telling you to shut the fuck up if you talk during a movie. I almost got my ass kicked by a teenager once for telling him to pipe the fuck down. But in my defense, he was built like a linebacker.

 

Watched Moonrise Kingdom today. A great movie. So well shot, nice story that is sentimental without being sappy.
Figure I'll be watching it again and again to catch everything that is going on in each frame.

 

I did this when I went to see Oblivion a couple weeks ago. Told them it was not their living room.

There are large subject-matter movies -- Like Jurassic Park or The Avengers -- that almost require being seen on the big screen. Everything else I watch at home. And with TVs now being the size and quality they are, the everything else category is expanding, at least for me.

 

I saw Pain and Gain... For the most part, I liked it. The ending was pretty dark and strange, but it is based on a true story...