Last movie you watched......

I watched it last week, too. Caved and bought it.

Saw "Gravity" over the weekend. I liked it, but not as much as many did. It must have been really good on the big screen, though

 

Watched The Conjuring last night. Suspenseful horror flick that doesn't resort to gore for shock appeal. I enjoyed it and was surprised to read that the families involved in the "true story" both endorsed the film.
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Caught the end of "The Gauntlet" the other day. That ending has got to be one of the most preposterous scenes ever put to film.
The bus is rolling down a city street with cops on either side blazing away with all manner of guns, and none of the bullets passes through the bus and hits a cop on the other side? Really? Every one of those cops should've been dead.
Even giving them that, the bus makes it to city hall without losing tire pressure from one of the hundreds of rounds of ammo that hit it. Clint Eastwood then climbs out of the bus and is not gunned down by the trigger-happy cops!?
AND the police commissioner and DA are killed without a cop lifting a finger or saying a word!?! And, to put a bow on the whole thing, Eastwood is simply allowed to walk into the courthouse ... to a trial being prosecuted by the now-dead DA, to testify against the now-dead police commissioner, in a court that was shown to be in adjournment for the day.
The head, it aches with the stupidity.

 

Saw The Way, Way, Back. - An interesting movie which I first thought was set in the early '80s, but wasn't - probably should have been. Pretty derivative of Meatballs and the Ice Storm, but the performance was good.

We're the Millers - still don't know how they got Aniston in the movie (I'm guessing she got her full fee plus points), but grateful they did. Predictable stuff though.

 

Smaug was much better than the Journey. I remember a lot of people bitching at Jackson for the way FOTR dragged on and how much better Towers was over it.

 

Both hobbit movies were terrible, though.
To the say the second was better than the first is liking saying it's better to get a prostate exam than kicked in the testes.

 

I didn't find either one to be "terrible" actually. But I'm a big fanboy on the subject matter.

And not the last movie I watched BUT

If you've ever seen the Japanese cult horror classic Audition ... well, it's getting an American remake.

 

I loved/love 'The Hobbit. That's why I am so angered by what Jackson's doing.

As for 'Audition,' that is one of, and possibly the most, disturbing movies I have ever seen.

I will not watch an Americanized version.

 

I love the Lord of the Rings movies and, while they're maybe not as good as the Lord of the Rings movies, that bar was set very high, The Hobbit films are still very good and enjoyable.

 

Different strokes, I guess.

I am sure I'll watch the rest of the hobbit movies on DirecTV. We're two in so he's got like another 15 to come.
I already pay for the DirecTV, so I watch stuff even if I suspect/am convinced it will be bad.

 

I'll probably end up watching it but yeah, it was quite disturbing.

 

Cooley High, 1975.
A funky fun African-American version of American Graffiti.
Remarkable how in -any- Chicago movie, the city itself emerges as a central character.