Last Seen Movie - The Latest Movie You Have Seen; ratings

[Hustler]

Blue Valentine 9/10 What a movie! Intense, provocative, with brilliant performances! It was an unforgivable mistake that Ryan Gosling was not nominated this year.

[anonymous1980]

A Star Is Born (George Cukor) - 10/10

Judy Garland should've won the Oscar for this. Now, I have not seen The Country Girl but I can't imagine Grace Kelly topping this particular performance. I was blown away, completely blown away.



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[Sabin]

I think Another Year is rather wonderful. It started out as an irritating trifle of a film but ultimately reveals a very powerful thesis of how we weigh the value of others. It's my favorite Leigh since...well, I need to see Vera Drake again. But of recent viewings, easily my favorite since Topsy-Turvy and the only reasonable choice for Best Original Screenplay given the nominees.

[Uri]

Another Year (Mike Leigh, 2010) 2/10

It was such an incredible chore to sit through this film and watch unappealing characters talk about nothing. I'm surprised nobody slaps the incredibly annoying character played by Lesley Manville each time she appears with her tics and mannerisms. I'm glad, for once, the Academy saw sense and did not nominate this performance.

I said pretty much the same thing in another thread.

I used to like Lesley Manville, but after this I can't stand watching her in anything as those tics seem to come up even when they don't. Case in point: a Midsomer Murders episode in which she stars along with Geraldine James who wipes up the floor with her.

I have the same problem with Sally Hawkins after Happy-Go-Lucky even though I kind of liked her in Made in Dagenham.

Are people finally realizing that Emperor Leigh has no clothes? Hope so. I detest that fuck.

"People"? I ain't "people."

[Damien]

Somewhere (Sophia Coppola, 2010) 1/10

Insufferable crap, easily the worst movie ever made about Hollywood (and there have been some pretty bad ones before) with a brooding, yelling, crying Stephen Dorff acting his guts out for what? Only to end up "nowhere", not "somewhere". Coppola's direction here is the equivalent of her acting in Godfather III: embarrassing.

I'm not quite as low on this film as you are, but this is another recent one that is really making me turn against these listless, plotless movies that seem to be popping up a lot lately. (Or maybe I'm just growing less tolerant for them.) Yes, Sofia Coppola has a good eye, and crafts some interesting visuals. Yes, she captures some lovely, human moments between father and daughter. But good god, who cares when it's such a snoozapalooza?

Also, (SPOILER ALERT) I find it very difficult to sympathize with a movie where the main character's central struggle involves working up the courage to move himself out of the Chateau Marmont. What a hard life this poor, privileged actor must lead!

The bare-bones narrative of Somewhere is not a problem, the shortcoming is that Coppola conveys the emptiness of Dorff's character's life by emptiness: long, dull repetitive sequences -- an endless POV sequence of Stephen Dorff watching two house call pole dancers; a tedious and long figure skating exhibition by Elle Fanning; people playing Wii while we watch bored. Banality abounds. Inertia as a stylistic choice.

[Damien]

Another Year (Mike Leigh, 2010) 2/10

It was such an incredible chore to sit through this film and watch unappealing characters talk about nothing. I'm surprised nobody slaps the incredibly annoying character played by Lesley Manville each time she appears with her tics and mannerisms. I'm glad, for once, the Academy saw sense and did not nominate this performance.

I said pretty much the same thing in another thread.

I used to like Lesley Manville, but after this I can't stand watching her in anything as those tics seem to come up even when they don't. Case in point: a Midsomer Murders episode in which she stars along with Geraldine James who wipes up the floor with her.

I have the same problem with Sally Hawkins after Happy-Go-Lucky even though I kind of liked her in Made in Dagenham.

Are people finally realizing that Emperor Leigh has no clothes? Hope so. I detest that fuck.



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[OscarGuy]

I liked Somewhere well enough, but I don't really think the film is about Hollywood per se. Yes, it's about a depressed actor forced to take care of a daughter he only saw occasionally. His issue is how to cope with being a star while being a good father. He knows that the life of an actor is not the life for a young child. Its the tough decision he must make to send his daughter away despite their tender bonding moments that causes him to struggle. On the one hand, his depression has improved since being with his daughter. On the other, can he really justify taking her with him to various international destinations so he can do his job while she has little in the way of age-appropriate companionship, education and so forth.

While I wasn't a fan of the lugubrious pace of the film, I can appreciate it for what it is. How often is life really excitement followed by excitement. The slow, plodding nature of life is adequately represented, though I don't love having to watch it on the big screen (saw it on screener, so that made things easier).

I think the reason to watch this is for the performances. I think both Elle Fanning and Stephen Dorff. While this isn't Elle's best performance, it is Stephen's by a long shot. He has the melancholy down pretty well. I think it's a fairly well detailed and watchable.

But those are my thoughts on it.

[The Original BJ]

Somewhere (Sophia Coppola, 2010) 1/10

Insufferable crap, easily the worst movie ever made about Hollywood (and there have been some pretty bad ones before) with a brooding, yelling, crying Stephen Dorff acting his guts out for what? Only to end up "nowhere", not "somewhere". Coppola's direction here is the equivalent of her acting in Godfather III: embarrassing.

I'm not quite as low on this film as you are, but this is another recent one that is really making me turn against these listless, plotless movies that seem to be popping up a lot lately. (Or maybe I'm just growing less tolerant for them.) Yes, Sofia Coppola has a good eye, and crafts some interesting visuals. Yes, she captures some lovely, human moments between father and daughter. But good god, who cares when it's such a snoozapalooza?

Also, (SPOILER ALERT) I find it very difficult to sympathize with a movie where the main character's central struggle involves working up the courage to move himself out of the Chateau Marmont. What a hard life this poor, privileged actor must lead!

[Reza]

I have the same problem with Sally Hawkins after Happy-Go-Lucky even though I kind of liked her in Made in Dagenham.

My DVD copy of Dagenham was defective so never got around to seeing it. If Hawkins is anything like Manville then I'm glad the DVD was defective. Don't think I can handle more tics so soon.



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[Big Magilla]

Another Year (Mike Leigh, 2010) 2/10

It was such an incredible chore to sit through this film and watch unappealing characters talk about nothing. I'm surprised nobody slaps the incredibly annoying character played by Lesley Manville each time she appears with her tics and mannerisms. I'm glad, for once, the Academy saw sense and did not nominate this performance.

I said pretty much the same thing in another thread.

I used to like Lesley Manville, but after this I can't stand watching her in anything as those tics seem to come up even when they don't. Case in point: a Midsomer Murders episode in which she stars along with Geraldine James who wipes up the floor with her.

I have the same problem with Sally Hawkins after Happy-Go-Lucky even though I kind of liked her in Made in Dagenham.



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[Reza]

Another Year (Mike Leigh, 2010) 2/10

It was such an incredible chore to sit through this film and watch unappealing characters talk about nothing. I'm surprised nobody slaps the incredibly annoying character played by Lesley Manville each time she appears with her tics and mannerisms. I'm glad, for once, the Academy saw sense and did not nominate this performance.

[Big Magilla]

Somewhere (Sophia Coppola, 2010) 1/10

Insufferable crap, easily the worst movie ever made about Hollywood (and there have been some pretty bad ones before) with a brooding, yelling, crying Stephen Dorff acting his guts out for what? Only to end up "nowhere", not "somewhere". Coppola's direction here is the equivalent of her acting in Godfather III: embarrassing.

Casino Jack (George Hickenlooper, 2010) 7/10

Extremely engaging comedy about the shameless lobbyist Jack Abramoff and the Republicans in Congress during the Bush administration. He went to prison, but it's clear just about everyone else here from Bush to McCain should have gone with him.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (David Yates, 2010) 7/10

I think this is probably the first Harry Potter movie I stayed awake through. For the first time I'm actually looking forward to the next one.

So Goes My Love (Frank Ryan, 1946) 6/10

Episodic family comedy with Myrna Loy, Don Ameche and Bobby Driscoll in the Life With Father vein and a very pleasant time waster.

New Morals for Old (Charles Brbin, 1932) 6/10

I don't know quite what to make of this pre-Code "shocker" in which the daughter becomes the kept woman of a married man causing the father to suffer a fatal stroke and the son goes off to Paris to find himself as an artist causing his mother to suffer a broken heart and die upon his return, only to have both the daughter and son turn out exactly like their parents with the daughter marrying her now divorced lover and the son moving back into the family home and taking over the family business.

Robert Young is the son, Margaret Perry the daughter and Lewis Stone and Laura Hope Crews the parents. Myrna Loy is amusing in her one scene as Young's Parisian neighbor while Elizabeth Patterson is appropriately annoying as the aunt neither the son nor daughter can stand until the end when she is looked upon as an old dear. It's from a play by John Van Druten (Old Acquantance; I Am a Camera).

[Hustler]

How funny. The lower case title fooled me. I completely forgot about this one.

Lol!

[Big Magilla]

How funny. The lower case title fooled me. I completely forgot about this one.



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[Bog]

Just go with it

So predictable and boring it doesn't even warrant the mention of its title?

Correct....however that is the title



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