Last Film You Watched

[fish]

... Emma accent slips here and there ...

Somehow I don't think Ian was watching her accent.

[Ian]

Can't say I noticed. Sounded fine to me; besides, we don't want her lovely voice to change too much.

[Santi]

Miao miao



Japanese films I like very much but there are many movies that I do not understand, because I don't understand their customs and ways of doing movies. Like this.

[fish]

...Japanese films...

One of my favourites is "Kamikaze Girls".
There's a topic on here somewhere.

Great film.
So cute I bought the DVD.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-I80pLoRNk

[Santi]

ok, thanks,
downloading Kamikaze Girls.

and Confessions (of the same director)?????

[fish]

... Confessions (of the same director)?????

Don't know that one.
I'll have to do some research.

[Ian]

Home Alone 2. Alright, but not as good as the original and essentially a sillier remake in a different setting. It gets by largely on Culkin's charm.

[Santi]

Home Alone 2 and 1 is good, yes. I prefer 2

[Ian]

Saw Throw Momma From the Train last night. Billy Crystal is a writing teacher suffering writer's block after his ex-wife makes a fortune by stealing his first novel. Danny DeVito is one of his students, a rather sad schlub who fantasises about knocking off his nightmarishly domineering mother. After seeing Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train, DeVito decides he and Crystal can knock off each other's nemeses while giving themselves the perfect alibi. There's one just tiny flaw in the plan... Crystal doesn't know anything about it! Used to watch this regularly in the 90s but haven't seen it for a long, long time, so I was pleased to find it still holds up extremely well as a smart, entertaining and genuinely funny black comedy. Hugely enjoyable.
"One little murder and suddenly I'm Jack the Ripper!"

[Santi]

Fish Tank,
is a very special film for me.

I said it many times.

[Santi]

I caught the film by chance.
As FA.

[Ian]

Saw The White Buffalo last night. The legendary "Wild" Bill Hickock returns to his old stomping grounds in the Wild West in order to slay an enormous killer white buffalo that has been terrorising the locals and haunting him in his nightmares. Charles Bronson stars in this weird but reasonably entertaining and atmospheric 70s flick that merges the traditional Western with a pseudo-monster movie. I have very vague memories of seeing this as a kid, but I couldn't really remember it at all. Not bad.

[Santi]

The Hobbit and…


I hate hobbits!!!!!

[Ian]

The Lord of the Rings ones were enough for me...

Saw The Last Stand last night, first time since the cinema. Big Arnie is the Sheriff of a sleepy little town on the US-Mexico border, where nothing ever happens... until he finds a drug baron that has escaped FBI custody intends to flee to Mexico via his town, and that some of his "associates" are already there... The Last Stand marked Arnie's big comeback after a 10 year absence from the screen, and while not up there with his absolute best movies, it remains a very welcome return and a highly entertaining oldskool action throwback. Great fun.

[Ian]

Bad Words. Jason Bateman is a foul-mouthed slacker who uses a loophole in the rules to become a competitor at the US Spelling Bee... at the age of 40. This was that rarest of things - a modern comedy that was actually funny! I rather enjoyed that.