What was the last movie you watched?

[Geese]

Ghost World (2001) Enid (Thora Birch) and her best friend (Rebecca) paths divulge after high school. During the summer, Enid reads a Dating Ad of a lonely man who felt he saw a connection with an attractive blond he met at an airport. She makes a prank call on him pretending to be the striking blond and tells him to meet her at a 50's diner. When Seymour (Steve Buscemi) arrives, the woman never shows up. He leaves hostile and heartbroken. Enid regrets making that prank call.

She realizes that even if this guy is a lonely loser, he's still human and what she did was cruel so she makes an attempt to track him down and connect with him. She finds he's into reggae, jazz, ragtime, and blues while she herself likes 60's Indian pop music and 1977 punk rock. While people find Enid to be disconnected from most people, she's strives to be her own person. She doesn't fit in with the high school crowd with its bandwagon, herd mentality. And she sees how pretentious and full of it her classmates really are, such as Melora the would-be actress and Margaret the feminist who keeps droning about this same subject over and over again in her art class.

I can watch Ghost World again and again and never get bored with it. It's the minor things Thora does, such as slowly tilting her head when she notices Norman ride the bus to Parts Unknown or the despondent look in her eyes when Rebecca is a barista at the coffee shop, telling Enid how she likes to poison her customers who are creeps and weirdos and Enid tells her but these are our people--you can tell this friendship is slowly disintegrating.

 

[Crash]

 

[Grievous 3D]

The Prestige (2006)

My personal favorite Christopher Nolan film with an absolutely
incredible cast which includes Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale,
Michael Caine, Andy Serkis, Scarlett Johansson & best of all...
David Bowie as "Tech Legend" Nikola Tesla.

Some of my favorite films are built around personal rivalries
& the conflict & elements of obsession on display here are
fantastic.

I can't praise it highly enough.

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

 

[Deadmanforever97]

Awesome job Marvel

 

[Crash]

 

[Deadmanforever97]

Back when they were good at animated films

 

[Geese]

Gentlemen's Agreement (1947) Skylar Greene (Gregory Peck) and his son move to New York where he gets a job as a freelance journalist. His boss Menefee wants him to do a story on Anti-Semitism for Smith's Weekly. Skylar uses a pseudonym Phillip Greenberg and sends in job applications and reservations to businesses like Flume Inn. When he gets no response with his Jewish name but does get it with his Christian real name, the connection is obvious that businesses, restaurants, hotels, don't want to do business with a Jew. A memorable scene is Greene telling his home doctor he wants his mother to see a specialist regarding her heart condition. The doctor recommends Mason Van Dyke and James Kent but Greene tells him his newsletter recommends J. Abrams. The doctor makes a remark that J.Abrams isn't like one of those Jewish doctors who strings patients along for more appointments so they can charge additional money.

A very powerful performance by Dorothy McGuire who plays Greene's love interest and was in constant conflict with Greene. Although Kathy (McGuire) is indignant when housing agencies won't rent a house to a Jew or golf clubs don't allow Jews into their club, she doesn't speak up. This makes Greene upset with her: She's a smart enough person to know the evil that's going in front of her but she refuses to speak up.

 

[Crash]

 

[Geese]

The Karate Kid (2010) Dre Parker (Jaden Smith) and his mother leave Detroit and move to Beijing, China because his mom's job is now there. In China, 12-year old Dre meets Meiying a young girl who plays the violin but also has to put up with a bully Cheng, who's also competing for her affection. Dre and Cheng get into a fight in the playground and, predictably, the kung-fu student Cheng wins easily. Cheng is a star pupil of Master Li's Fighting Dragons and Li is a vicious instructor who teaches his students to show no mercy to their opponents.

Dre meets a maintenance man in his apartment Mr. Han (Jackie Chan) who teaches him kung fu. Dre enters the kung fu tournament. It becomes predictable fare after that as the training sequences feels like it's taken from Rocky II and the viewer knows exactly what happens in the tournament when Dre and Cheng advance to the finals (it reeks of the finals between Frank Dux and Bolo Yeung in Bloodsport). I was watching the opening credits and noticed the producers were Jaden's parents Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith. Maybe this remake of the 80's classic was to boost Jaden Smith's young acting career.

Issues with the predictability aside, Jackie Chan was the strength of this movie. He gave a very tearful performance as a man who's still guilt ridden over a car crash which left his ten-year old son dead.

 

[Crash]

 

[Grievous 3D]

Superbad (2007)

Well...after 12 years of not caring & ignoring the film...
I finally watched Superbad...& it was actually really funny.

McLovin FTW!

 

[Crash]

Superbad (2007)

Well...after 12 years of not caring & ignoring the film...
I finally watched Superbad...& it was actually really funny.

McLovin FTW!

I forgot that movie existed.

 

[Grievous 3D]

The Crawling Eye AKA The Trollenberg Terror (1958)

A legendary film (mainly because it was featured on the very
first "proper" episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000) &
while it isn't as good as other 1950's science fiction monster
& alien flicks...it still has a certain "charm" to it that I like.

I mean I wouldn't recommend it because I'm just a fanboy
of these kind of films...

+ My Top 10 Favorite Science Fiction Films From the 1950's +

But there are worse films you could watch I guess.

Also...this song...




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[Vampire Quinn]

From the creator of the Final Destination Franchise: The Final Wish-

 

[Crash]