What movie did you see recently?

Oldboy. The original, not the remake. Unique film. I've been planning to watch it for a long time.

I don't think it would be ruined by spoiling, but going into the plot would do that so I won't for people who care. Just suffice it to say there's a mind-shattering twist in it.

There's also one of the strangest and most impressive fight scenes I've ever seen in it. The tragic hero beats the shit out of basically a dozen dudes, but the scene is brutal and pathetic.

It's mainly just a really good psychological thriller, though.
 
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The other day I watched Pink Flamingos for the first time.
Oh man, that was amazing. So horrifying and tasteless, but utterly enjoyable. I think Dr. Strangelove has some competition in terms of my favorite movie.
All I'm going to say is that when a chicken gets killed during the filming of a sex scene you know you're in for one interesting film.
 
Well, I watched Man of Steel.
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I liked it. Action scenes were good, liked how Lois figured out who Supes was, the guy who played Zod was gloriously hammy and, above all else, the seriousness story made it so much fun to take the piss out of. Never going to replace the 70's classic but it wasn't horrible.
 
Finally got around to watching The Last King of Scotland. Christ, that was depressing. I mean, really great film, but it's pretty harrowing. It also seriously subverts the standard Hollywood "white guy comes into foreign culture and shows them how it's done" story model, which pleased me.

That being said, there were one or two bits where it departed from historical accuracy in ways that I found a bit dubious. I appreciate that any movie is inevitably going to depart from the truth in the name of entertainment, but for some reason I found this one a bit creepy. I think because, trying not to give too much away, it involves the fictional protagonist directly in the death of a real person.
 
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High Society (1956)

If you enjoy the great jazz/swing singers of the early 20th century (30s-50s) you'll like the flick. Great music.

 
I watched Paper Towns recently, which was a piece of shit, honestly.
The whole entire story is basically "oh, i love this manic pixie dream girl! she's so spontaneous and adventurous! even though she probably doesn't give a shit about me since we stopped talking since the 4th grade". The buzz around this movie/book is that this MPDG has a personality and feelings and isn't just a worthless slut for the MC to fall in love with, but the movie fails to give this love interest girl any development besides a throwaway thing during the beginning where she finds something traumatic.
I hear the book was better at handling this, though the movie turned me off from the book completely. That and it was super pretentious, along with the shit dialogue. I think I'll keep hate-watching John Green book movies.
I would actually recommend watching The Spectacular Now instead of this film; better as a coming of age teen movie, better characters and a good story that deals with serious shit like alcoholism and parental abandonment, instead of "oh jeez, gotta chase after this girl!! lol"

3/10
 
The Love God, with Don Knotts. He plays a guy whose failing birdwatching magazine is bought by someone who wants to turn it into a porno magazine. He gets arrested, is acquitted, and the guys behind the magazine try and turn him into a Hugh Hefner-type to keep the magazine going.

Just the very idea of the movie is hilarious - Don Knotts being the sexiest man alive. A lot of the gags work, and the acting is pretty good as well. It's really of its time - it just screams late 60s - and yet it's sorta timeless.

I've also seen Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, an undisputed classic (and fie on anyone who'll admit to enjoying the Tim Burton version), and plan to watch Ghost World at some point.
 
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Recently saw Shaun the Sheep. Pretty fun movie. It was nice seeing something from Aardman again.
 
Pieta by Korean director Ki-duk Kim. This is a film with impeccable accolades and won the Golden Lion in Venice. But I don't like this film at all, to say why would require spoiling the plot twist. The film has no relatable characters; the relationship between the psychopathic protagonist and the strange woman who claims to be his mother changes suddenly and unaccountably from repulsion to dependence; even the protagonist's victims react in baffling ways (one young man voluntarily cuts off his hand so he can file an insurance claim -- he's a dad to be so he needs cash pronto you know). Director Kim's trademark animal cruelty is on display, rather pointlessly, and there are scenes that would give @Marjan Šiklić a boner. But the thing that got me most is that

it is one of those elaborate, Rube-Goldbergesque "vengeance" film that Korea is obsessed with. Reviewers talks at length about its psychological complexity, but vengeance-turn-affection is a really ancient theme, and making the theme more twisted and pathological does not make it "deep".
 
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Roger Rabbit said:
I just rewatched UHF. Still underrated.
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Funnily enough, I watched that one last Thursday. It's one of the funniest comedies of its era. Lord knows it shouldn't have been as big a bomb as it was...

I would honestly watch Wheel of Fish or Raul's Wild Kingdom. Non-ironically.
 
I saw The Man from UNCLE this weekend. It was a lot of fun. I'd say it has more style than substance to it, but it has a hell of a lot of style. Also, all the outfits were really sweet.
 
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Rin said:
I saw The Man from UNCLE this weekend. It was a lot of fun. I'd say it has more style than substance to it, but it has a hell of a lot of style. Also, all the outfits were really sweet.
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I agree, I wish it had a better ending but other wise it was a pretty sleek film.
 
Clue.

Still the very finest movie based on a board game.
 
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