What movies have you seen recently?

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As a huge fan of the book, the reaction that people have to this movie always interests me. When I first saw it, I thought it was a home run, both as a film and as an adaptation. But the more I hear from people who've never read Philip K. Dick, I'm starting to think it's a failure as an adaptation. Granted, his stuff is pretty bizarre and convoluted, but I've never heard of anyone reading the book and reacting with the sort of confusion that I've seen from Dick newcomers who watch the film.

Yeah I read the book first too. I read it when I heard they were going to make a movie out of it, and when I finished I thought 'how the bloody hell could you make that into a movie?' But I think Linklater did a really good job. I think the rotoscoping technique was a really good idea - makes you 'detached' from reality. I think the first couple of times I watched it, I missed a couple of key things - but the last time I watched it, it seemed to make more sense. Plus how good was Robert Downey Jr in it?

Downey steals every scene he's in no matter what movie it is. Perfect casting for that character. I did notice some flaws in the film the second time I watched it. The ending doesn't feel nearly as tragic as it should because Keanu Reeves simply isn't a good enough actor to convey how utterly destroyed Bob Arctor's brain has become through drug use, since he seems nearly braindead from the beginning like he usually does in films.

As for the book, it makes more sense than the film simply because there's more explanation that spells everything out for the reader, but it's not exactly Dick's most accessible book to begin with. I once recommended it to someone and he gave up after a few chapters, but he reacted much better to Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Ubik.

I saw Drive Angry a few days ago with Nicolos Cage. The plot was weak but it was filled with lots of action.

I loved the movie Drive Angry.

I was just about to post that I saw it yesterday! My thoughts on the movie were pretty much the same too.

I saw the last Harry Potter film. It was a great way to end the series.

Midnight (well 12:30) showing of potter. Now what should I watch?

Early this morning, I just watched Godzilla, Mothra, And King Ghiddra. That last name, I'm not sure about with the spelling.
Like almost most Japanese monster movies, the story and dialogue were nothing short of ridiculous, and the voice overs probably could have qualified it to have been a comedy. But the important point here is, the movie's makers had decided that after the first Godzilla movie, all the others never happened, and that Godzilla had been dormant for 5o years. The other monsters are prophetic Protector monsters coming back to life to save the Japanese homeland. All these monsters though, are filled with the spirits of all those killed in WWI I's Pacific Theater - including those innocent non-Japanese who were killed by the Japaneses armed forces.
So, as the first Godzilla movie was set apart by a social message of the horrors of the atom bomb, this movie called for Japan to recognize it's not always pretty past.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

The last Harry Potter. It was beautiful, what else can I say?

Plenty of the Godzilla movies are reboots that ignore every movie except the first. From 1999 to 2002, there were four in a row.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2

Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven

Last Year at Marienbad

Why do I even bother posting these? No one has ever heard of them.

Perhaps you just want to post regardless? If nobody has heard of them yet then effectually you are making recommendations for new movies.


Most recently I've watched Law Abiding Citizen:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX6kVRsdXW4[/youtube]

Kind of hard to see them when I live in the U S OF A.

I took my son to see Super 8. It was actually pretty good.