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What was the last movie you watched?

Saw Anchorman 2 a couple of days ago, it won't win any awards, but I enjoyed it. The thing that made me laugh the most might have been the part where the guy had the fried chicken restaurant where the "chicken" was actually "chicken of the caves." :D
 
The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug

I know this film has been getting mixed reviews and after seeing it myself, I'm convinced that most of the ones bashing it are probably only doing so because they think it's the cool thing to do whether or not they actually feel that way about it (I hate people like that). From an objective standpoint, everything I felt was weak about the first film is vastly better here. I think this is because the first few chapters of the book which formed the basis for Part 1 just don't have much exciting going on (which is why at least half the film was based on material from the Appendices or invented outright for the film), but now that we're into the more interesting, exciting, actiony parts of the book, I can better judge how it is as an adaptation. On that, I give the film high marks because all the iconic sequences are there and all are extremely well done, especially Smaug himself who is every bit as awesome as I imagine when reading the book. As well, there isn't nearly as much extra plot material in this one and what is there is pulled off much better than before. I give the film four stars out of five and am genuinely excited to see the finale next year.
 
Well, I recorded it on DVR a few weeks ago, but I finally got to see Toy Story 3. I missed it when it was released and I've been wanting to see it ever since.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go hug all my old toys and cry.
 
The Wolf of Wall Street, which anyone who likes Scorsese films like Goodfellas and Casino should definitely see. I found the weird, almost quasi-fascist culture of the firm that Jordan Belfort (Leonardo Di Caprio's character) starts to be interesting (even though I find the idea working somewhere like that rather nightmarish).
 
Hobbit 2: I read an article (long ago) that discussed the lack of women characters in Tolkien's works. Yes, there are women, but they are very peripheral. This was attributed to Tolkien being a product of Victorian England where women were mostly seen doing "Woman" things in the background but not participating at all in the activities of men. Especially of wealthy upper-class men. This is dealt with in a humorous way in the "Club" in the movie "Around The World In 80 Days" and is inherrent in the story "My Fair Lady."
Tolkien knew he was far out of his depth with attempting to portray women and writing dialog for women was almost certainly beyond him. Therefore there were no significant women characters.

I think after allowing the two Hobbit movies to digest some in my mind that the added action and characters is good to enrich the story and the screenplay. Now let's see how the last flick of this series goes.

Christmas Day, waiting for our family dinner to be ready, I found "My Friend Bernard" on NetFlix. Timing was just exactly right and I watched the entire movie with subtitles. With all the noise of adults and small children the subtitles were nice. I found the movie to be distressful and unsettling. It is a dream sequence but although much of the action flows like a bad dream, it is not made clear that it really is a dream until the end. For me, all the problems were like my own soft nightmares. My escapes are in waking up and realizing that the troubles were a dream and being relieved that it is not real and that I have escaped all of it. In "MY Friend Bernard" there is that 'happy ending' that feels so unrealistically tacked-on. The ending sequence does wrap everything up nicely to a happy conclusion, but I do not like that it is so out of character with the first 2/3 or 3/4 of the flick. And the final scene indicates that maybe it really was a visit to other worlds or dimensions or whatever. Not at all cool for me. I do not like those worlds and as a piece of art, the change from every new element becoming another problem to it all flowing together doesn't work.
 
I understand how you feel about the ending. Mom used to watch a show called Saving Grace about a cynical, immoral, world-weary cop who finds herself encountering not a guardian angel perse, but an angel trying to guide her to do the right thing. Throughout the entire series, Grace resists this and remains a cynic, but in the final episode she does a complete 180. I hated that ending because it was contrived and completely out of character. If a happy ending would be out of place and go against everything the story is about, then writers shouldn't do it, but too often they do because they're afraid the audience will complain otherwise. It's annoying.
 
"Blackfish" on Netflix. Blackfish Official Film Site
A movie that surprised me by how good it is.
It is the story of a Sea World Killer Whale that has killed several people, and an examination of whether psychological damage caused to the whale by the conditions in which he lived may have contributed to these events.
 
I just saw the movie "Hours" which was the last movie Paul Walker filmed to completion. I thought it was good and gave us good insights into what the Hurricane Katrina survivors went through.
 
My family just went to see the Hobbit without inviting me. This wouldn't be a big deal, except that it's my brother's last night in town, and therefor would have been my last chance to see him for a while.
 
Arashi, how do the Smurf movies compare to the recent Alvin And The Chipmunks? I saw the first one of that series and thought it was average, not great but not terrible either. Is The Smurfs better or worse?
 
Revenge of the Nerds (last night) and Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla (this morning)-------starting the new year with the classics. :rolleyes:2
 
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