Thread: Review the last film you watched

Originally Posted by Butterfly

A Beautiful Mind

The true story about the famous Mathematician Nash who won a Nobel Prize in 1994 for his work in the early 50s when he was a graduate at Princeton

Movie is mostly boring, but being a true story, you can view this as a biodocumentary about his schizo life. Apparently he was seeing people who didn't exist and thought he was a spy on a mission to save the world. Makes you wonder sometimes what is reality and not reality.

I enjoyed this film, and thought that Russel' Crowe's performance was excellent. The film is based on a very good book/biography by Sylvia Nasar. The true story of his mental health problems isn't so 'obvious' as that shown in the film - One of his sons who was also a mathematician suffers/suffered the same problems, whilst another son who was apparently 'looked down upon' for lack of intellectual prowess did not.

'Madness' for want of a better word is frightening - If we lose ourselves, what else do we have?

Spiderman 3.

Was hoping the movie would shed some light as to where Peter Parker gets his Spidey suits made, and how he could afford them. He's only a pizza delivery boy who struggles with the rent. The photos for the Daily Bugle are only a little extra pocket money, yet the costume is made from expensive ice-skate-suit style lycra with 3 dimensional urathane webbing, and he would need a load of replacements because at the end of each movie his head mask is all split and full of burn holes, still, he sees fit to keep it on regardless instead of just pulling it off to make life easier.

About the suit:

One suit alone is about 4,000 US dollars, so where does he get them? And does the company keep his identity secret?

The 3rd movie did however reveal the police radio in his bedroom so we now know how he knows when a crime is in progress.

In addition to the suit mystery, the black goo from outer space is never really explained and how the Sandman can accuire a mass of gigantic proportions with no apparent sand about to utilize for this, then return to a man sixed mass and start crying isn't explained either.

Surely a person with a mollecular structure of sand would not be able to breathe, talk or run, let alone rob a bank, and if all the above were possible then surely the man in question would show a bit more surprise if it did happen to him.

Still, not bad.

the movie was too long and mostly boring

The black suit is cool though and less gay than the red suit

BORAT: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.

In the Phillipines, you buy a DVD at the market and the cover will have Will Smith in In Persuit Of Happyness for example and you turn to the back to find you have an additional 11 movies on the same disc which could range from a good quality Hannibal Rising to a cinema camcorder quality Mr Beans Holiday to a non existent Sleepy Hollow which has been replaced by Speed to a perfect quality Life Of Brian and The Hills Have Eyes - you get the general idea, its a lucky dip but there's always a prize.

Anyway, the cover was The Astronaut Farmer starring Billy Bob Thornton and it also featured 300 and The Queen as well as Borat so I thought why not?

I hadn't intended to see Borat, I hated it just knowing it had been done and had every sympathy with the understandably pissed off people of Khazakstan.*

So during a night of insomnia I gave it a watch, remembering the afternoon I wasted watching Ali G - The Movie in Singapore and it being the only movie I have ever walked out on.

Borat was as offensive as I had expected, and I still feel a tad of understanding for those khazakstanis (though the residents of the Romanian village used for filming claim to be bigger victims) - anyhow, it was very funny indeed and I didn't know there were only 2 actors in the film, the other parts being real people - Americans who were portrayed maybe not as they wished but as their individual attitudes shockingly and frightfully were, which I can now see was the point of the film, and it did highlight American stupidity in a way which was soberingly shocking once the laughter had stopped.

I don't want any respected American TD members to think I am bashing here, I am aware that the interviews were selectivly chosen to portray the worst, and of course most Americans, (those who ARE good ambassadors to the flag) will agree with me that the film took more piss out of Uncle Sam than it did Khazakstan.

Sacha Baron Cohen's sheer bravery and audacity is worth his Golden Globe, not to mention the nude, hotel room scene which I am not going to divulge to those who have yet to see it.

I'm surprised to find myself saying that this is worth a watch after all and I can't rate this as a 'normal' film, it's not a normal film and should be seen on that basis alone. I expected the same immaturity as Jackass but there's more to this than toilet humour and pranks.

*I worked with a couple of Khazaks at the circus in Pattaya and a member of this forum has a Khazak wife and they are nice, normal people.

Robots.

Featuring the voices of Robin Williams (in top form) and Ewan Mac Gregor Robots was a state of the art animated film. One of the good ones where the kids are enthralled and there is enough adult subtleties to keep us laughing as well.

Had all the ingredients of a great movie - Triumph of good over evil, underdogs winning, love, comedy and quirky characters.

The good thing about these types of movies is that they are not restricted by real actors in any way, Their imaginations can run wild. Great animation and just picking up what everyday bits the robots were made of was a treat.

10/10

Gummo (1997)

It was a strange movie showing the lifestyles of VERY rural folk (white trash) living in Ohio, USA. If you're a cat lover I'd say stay far away from this movie! A lot of horrible images of cats being killed, or mutilated after being killed!

I would say it kept my attention, because of the editing, cinematography & strange narrative style.

So I would give it 2.75/4 stars.

Kudos to the director for daring to be so ugly.