Last Movie You Watched.

[GBL]

Watched Edge of Tomorrow last night.  I thought it was a cool story, something different..

I'm a sucker for sci-fi/alien flicks though

[blatboom]

thought Mud was really good. beautifully shot

[VDB]

X-Men: First Class



Was not digging it much at first but it improved as it went on. Hard to argue with JLaw in the Mystique getup.

[blatboom]

^ really loved it. the future Sentinals were no fucking joke

[mehead]

[VDB]

^ really loved it. the future Sentinals were no fucking joke

I believe that's the latest one (Days of Future Past).

[blatboom]

^ really loved it. the future Sentinals were no fucking joke

I believe that's the latest one (Days of Future Past).

derp

[PIE-GUY]

Boyhood



Unemployed Dave went to an afternoon movie... what's it to ya!?!?!

I feel this is Linklater's finest film to date by a mile. It's impressive. It made me very nostalgic for my boyhood. A moving and touching story of a kid growing up in Texas told brilliantly by an insanely great filmmaker with near perfect casting.

See this film. Seriously. See this film.   

[natronzero]

Boyhood



Unemployed Dave went to an afternoon movie... what's it to ya!?!?!

I feel this is Linklater's finest film to date by a mile. It's impressive. It made me very nostalgic for my boyhood. A moving and touching story of a kid growing up in Texas told brilliantly by an insanely great filmmaker with near perfect casting.

See this film. Seriously. See this film.

Wife and I just got back from this ourselves.
Man. Aside from being an astonishing cinematic achievement technically and conceptually, it's touching and clever and funny, and pretty much perfectly written and acted.
I also think no one's ever captured living in/growing up in Texas as authentically as Linklater.
I was amazed. Highly recommended.

[PIE-GUY]

Also, did you feel right at home every time they ate and bowled at Dart Bowl?

[natronzero]

Yes! Absolutely.
I've gotta say too, a week away from moving away and feeling relatively disenchanted with my hometown for the last year or two, the whole Austin sequence about 3/4 through the movie made me feel a little sentimental. Big Bend at the end too...

[cactusfan]

Boyhood



Unemployed Dave went to an afternoon movie... what's it to ya!?!?!

I feel this is Linklater's finest film to date by a mile. It's impressive. It made me very nostalgic for my boyhood. A moving and touching story of a kid growing up in Texas told brilliantly by an insanely great filmmaker with near perfect casting.

See this film. Seriously. See this film.

Wife and I just got back from this ourselves.
Man. Aside from being an astonishing cinematic achievement technically and conceptually, it's touching and clever and funny, and pretty much perfectly written and acted.
I also think no one's ever captured living in/growing up in Texas as authentically as Linklater.
I was amazed. Highly recommended.

i didn't even grow up in Texas, and still thought this was pretty amazing.
definitely a movie to see. never been anything quite like it.
i wrote up a piece on it here:

www.standbyformindcontrol.com/2014/07/boyhood-in-which-time-is-the-star/

[phil]

Finally got around to seeing Django this weekend...kinda kicking myself for not checking it out sooner, that movie had me glued to the TV

[Mr. Natural]

BOYZ N THE HOOD (1991)



I saw this once when it came out - I was the same age as most of the characters, late teens - and dug it, but hadn't seen it since. I wasn't sure if it would age well. Since it's a move about, well, boyz, and made by a man, I figured the female characters would be few, stereotypical, and one-dimensional with little to no depth.
After rewatching it, I was pleasantly surprised. There were several lady characters, many (though certainly not all) with their own lives outside of the boyz. Dough Boy's misogyny gets called out 3 times throughout the film. I remembered Lawrence Fishburne's talk about gentrification and how stark that one line hit me when I first saw it - "'Cuz they want us to kill ourselves."
I also really liked how through the first half, it constantly came back to safe sex - how the pill isn't enough and you really gotta put that jimmy-hat to use. 
Plus, the code-switching [to me, as a white viewer, at least] is interesting.
And that last scene in DoughBoy & Ricky's house freaked me out. I was nervously looking around my living room, even though everybody else in the house was asleep in bed.

Now I want to watch FRESH again, too. That one's great.

[Buffalo Budd]

^^^Loved that movie, can't believe that was 23 years ago.
Old man'd.