Last movie you watched......

I thought it was a unique and interesting film to watch, but I wouldn't rank it in my Top 100, and I can definitely see how some other people both love and hate it. I feel similarly about Scarface.

 

Watched Gandolfini's final film tonight - Enough Said. A movie more about how much of a mess Julia Louis-Dreyfus' character is, Gandolfini's character was so likeable and the movie was funny and endearing. A nice "date movie", which ultimately it was for us as we decided to stay in with the snow and ice on the roads Friday night in St. Louis. (And I made lasagna from scratch for the first time ever in my life.)

 

Philomena - Holy shit, a best picture nominee that clocks in at around 100 minutes. For that alone, I'd put it near the top of the pile. But in any sense, it's well done. Coogan outshines Dench.

Nebraska - I think this is mildly funny and touching, but there's a lot here that just stands around and does nothing. Will Forte is the best thing in this even though it's a Bruce Dern vehicle. June Squibb is pretty damn good too.

 

I want to see 'Philomena.'
It played about 45 minutes away, but we didn't get out to see it.

 

I'm going to check those out. And the sci-fi flick is Christopher Nolan's "Interstellar." From what vague details I've read, it's close in premise to "Contact" in that it's about space travel via wormholes, or something. I'm in, because there's not a Nolan movie I don't love.

 

Watched Bottle Shock last night and loved it.

 

Good movie that not a lot of people know about. I saw it on an airplane awhile back and was pleasantly surprised because it was a film that I had not heard of at the time.

 

Of all the crazy stuff in that movie, it was Tommy Lee Jones' performance that got to me the most. Cannot explain why, but he made me uncomfortable, squirm and agitated all at the same time.

So, I guess I've got to give Jones, as an actor, thumbs up for what he brought to the role.

 

Great film -- especially on second/third watch.

Stone's work was never quite the same, though. Since then, he's made 8 feature films and a shitload of material on Castro, and I think Any Given Sunday, flawed as that is, might be the best of them.

 

It's been on my list of movies to watch for a while and I finally just bought it on Amazon for like $3. I had heard good things about it, but was still surprised at how good it was. Really enjoyable.

 

"American Hustle." Very much liked it but wasn't as utterly blown away as most seem to have been. The ending wasn't surprising at all.

Didn't get the whole ice fishing thing. The first story he started to tell didn't end where he picked it up later in the film. I was sitting there thinking, "Wait, I don't remember a blizzard. Wasn't it October?" Maybe I missed that part.

Like "The Butler," it was an odd movie to watch outside of America. I felt like I was the only one who understood it.

It will be interesting to see if Christian Bale winds up looking like his character a few years down the road.

Since I don't get the chance to see many movies, I thought about making it a double feature with The Wolf of Wall Street, but couldn't bear the thought of sitting down for five hours. Hollywood really needs some editors.

 

I got a last-minute invitation to a screening of "12 Years a Slave" with neighbors. I wish I'd turned them down... or walked out during the opening montage.

I'm ashamed to be a relatively well-off Caucasian American... and I don't want to go anywhere near the Mason-Dixon Line for quite some time. I know all this bad stuff happened, and the fact that there's absolutely nothing I can do to make any of that better... I just can't wrap my brain around it right now.