The Last Movie You Watched

[Gawdzilla Sama]

It's a good fighting movie. And a very heavy social messaging movie. Boss Lady liked it, as did I.

[Angrboda]

The last movie I watched was Central Intelligence with Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart. The story revolves around Johnson being a CIA agent caught up in some nasty shit, and Kevin, playing an accountant, becoming embroiled in it. It was okay for two hours of mindless drivel. My opinion might be influenced by the fact that I love watching Dwayne Johnson.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The last movie I watched was Central Intelligence with Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart.  The story revolves around Johnson being a CIA agent caught up in some nasty shit, and Kevin, playing an accountant, becoming embroiled in it.  It was okay for two hours of mindless drivel.  My opinion might be influenced by the fact that I love watching Dwayne Johnson.

"He clearly likes hitting the gym."

"It's a big arm, don't fight it."

[Sal]

A resident had her television on, as it is most nights since she doesn't sleep much, and I saw Matt Damon as a half cyber being. I have never heard of or seen this movie before.

Let's look it up to see what it is:

Elysium

In the year 2154, the very wealthy live on a man-made space station while the rest of the population resides on a ruined Earth. A man takes on a mission that could bring equality to the polarized worlds.

Should I watch it?

It's meh, IMO. Casual, at best. It has the same director as for "District 9", Neill Blomkamp and the A.I. sci-fi "Chappie" as well.

[downbeatplumb]

The last film I watched was the new Borat film.

Rudy Guliani does not come out of it looking good.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

The last film I watched was the new Borat film.

Rudy Guliani does not come out of it looking good.

So, it’s a documentary, then?

Boru

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Watched ‘Fiddler On The Roof’ for the teenth time recently. Nothing about it not to love, especially Topol’s voice - sounds like thunder gobbling out of a barrel.

Boru

[Sal]

Adaptation (2002) - 9/10

A masterpiece written for the screen of the book "The Orchid Thief" by Susan Orlean, by Charlie Kaufman.

It has a profound quote near the ending of the movie, but I think I will spoiler it along with my thoughts on the movie. If you haven't watched the movie, go do that before, because I think the quote will ruin the experience if you intend to watch it, so:

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Hide-ception. Last chance to watch it before you spoil the movie for yourself, in case you haven't watched it ...

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I wasn't kidding.

Donald Kaufman: I loved Sarah, Charles. It was mine, that love. I owned it. Even Sarah didn't have the right to take it away. I can love whoever I want.
Charlie Kaufman: But she thought you were pathetic.
Donald Kaufman: That was her business, not mine. You are what you love, not what loves you. That's what I decided a long time ago.

The central theme of the movie, from what I gathered in its meta-narrative, is about disappointment and basically unfinished business. That Charlie Kaufman took some liberties, mostly in the 2nd half of the movie, diverging from the source material in the book, just made the movie considerably more deep.

Also, all the self-referential stuff in the movie is quite funny, without becoming trite. Think about it, the screenwriter, in an almost schizoid fashion, wrote himself into the movie that he, himself, was trying to adapt to the silver screen. I found that layered approach quite funny, and he just ran with it and made up an entire fictitious identical twin brother to match.

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[Rev. Rye]

This week in the Deep Hurting Project: 30 Nights of Paranormal Activity with the Devil Inside The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. So, a few months ago, I watched  Disaster Movie, the worst movie I had ever seen up to that point. And a few years after that movie, Craig Moss tried his hand at the same comedy style, with far worse results: While Seltzerberg at least succeeded enough at making lowest-common denominator shit that their films usually made back their budget, I don't think Craig Moss' versions ever did. And, just to see how well the audiences reacted to it, I checked the Rotten Tomatoes' versions: DM had 21%. 30NoPAwtGItHwtDT? 12%. Somewhere, there's a Disaster Movie fan mocking this movie. And, now that I'm resorting to Amazon Prime for this movie, and because Kit suggested this be the comedy movie I watch for this cycle [Since it is October, and since Halloween's all but cancelled this year, I may as well watch two horror movies for the Project instead of one this week.]

• So, fun fact that just screams "this is gonna suck," this movie starts with what looks like an unskippable YouTube ad of a groom on his wedding night ejaculating Skittles onto his bride.
  
• Things that just exist in the first 5 minutes: Storage Wars, Adele, The Artist, Subway's $5 Footlong,
  
• Wait, why did the cast of The Artist get murdered in 1989?
  
• Mario is apparently a doctor.
  
• All attention-seeking narcissists meet the man of their dreams through The Bachelor? Dahlia Dippolita'd have something to- Is she fucking him missionary style... with him lying on the table with his legs in the air? Seriously, an absurd overreliance on sex jokes are one of the only things separating you from Seltzerberg, so at least get the basic mechanics right!
  
  
  
• And she's apparently in the Klan, and he's working for the baddies from Resident Evil.
  
• I'm going to go out on a limb and say Neil Patrick Harris isn't that effeminate.
  
• Jesus God, fucking in your baby's cradle? What is wrong with these people?
  
• Fucking the pool heaters? Well, at least he's using his dick and not his ass, so we don't have to see him needing to eat his way to freedom.
  
• So, there's a ghost version of Jigglypuff drawing on the husband's face. I say Jigglypuff because I'm 99% certain Jigglypuff once scribbled cat makeup on one of the humans who fell asleep during its song on Pokemon.
  
• Um, you do know  Scientology isn't into crucifixion, right?
  
• Why did the whole film of The Artist have to be silent? Because it's an homage to the  era and since very few films get away with that
  
• So, why is Abraham Lincoln here? And why is he chopping a tree indoors? Is this just because Spielberg made that movie around the same time as this movie? Or is it the Vampire Hunter version?
  
• And the gay houseboy's dating advice to the daughter is to date rape him? You know, maybe shit like this is part of the reason it took so goddam long for gay people to get accepted.
  
• So, a llama just spontaneously appears in the living room and then vanishes in a puff of purple smoke?
  
• NO NO NO! You're not going to remind me of the Bratz movie with the live-in Mariachi Band! That was far more insane and watchable than this horseshit, even if it is technically bad enough to qualify for the Project.
  
• You know, if they couldn't afford to pay for "Unchained Melody," why should I have expected a proper recording of Swan Lake?
  
• So, a dog licking the fingers of his master shot in pitch blackness? What's the appeal? Or did an undercover cop ask her for bestiality porn and she's just fucking with him?
  
• So, why does marijuana smoke show from inside the ghost's lungs, but not the not-Coke he drank?
  
• Well, at least the Ouija movie was made after this, so they didn't parody two DHP-worthy movies.
  
• Why is there no logic in the footprints? From what look like emu footprints to baby-sized human to regular human?
  
• Please tell me Dean Winters didn't appear in this movie. Fortunately, looking at the IMDb cast listing, the only name I recognised was French Stewart.
  
• This rare species never turns down an oppurtunity for a good ass-humping. Maybe that's why it's rare.
  
• You know, the sad thing is I think LBJ might have been a better candidate for the "sexy president." He at  least had Jumbo.
  
• And Felipe's a ghost now. Why the fuck not?
  
• I'm sure the baby monologue and the party are supposed to reference something, but the closest thing I can think of is maybe Project X, with the tasing?
  
• Honey Badger don't care. Honey badger don't give a shit. It just wheels into your bedroom whenever it wants because it's clearly an RC vehicle. 
  
• Um, that picture of Roosevelt was clearly taken at Yalta, so why would Hitler's ghost be there if the Yalta Conference took place before he died?
  
• Well, at least Liz has nothing to do with Lis Salander, since there's nothing more than a surface resemblance between the two. Like the resemblance between the Lion King and Kimba the White Lion.
  
• You know, if you're going to chain your wife to the bed, at least have the courtesy to have the chains touch her.
  
• And of course the ghost is actually Bane. And the fuck is Effie Trinket doing here?
  
• This is the worst axe kiling I've ever seen in a movie. It looks like the villains are just holding the axes in an awkward manner and not getting cut by them.
  
• So, the pool cleaner is now a sex robot dog? 
  
• And the big twist: they're aware of how shit this movie is. To be fair, it's at least less shit than Disaster Movie, but that's only because Seltzerberg set the bar that fucking low.
  

Of course, next week will be a shoo-in: Rock: It's Your Decision.

[Sal]

Anomalisa (2015) - 6/10

Interesting concept, but it could've been executed better. I wonder what my voice sounds like to random people.