Last movie you watched?

[Bloonan]

The Simpsons Movie DVD. It is amazing how funny it was watching this movie again, especially because I couldn't remember the whole movie from one thearter viewing. One of the funniest movies I ever saw, that's for sure.

[jekylljuice]

I watched all three of the shorter Wallace and Gromit films on UKTV Gold this afternoon, ie: A Grand Day Out, The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave. A funderful experience.

I managed to resist the urge to watch Raymond Briggs' the Snowman this year, which definitely saved me a lot of emotional grief and a box of Kleenex. Don't get me wrong, I love that cartoon and its beautiful, utterly haunting tone and style dearly, but its notoriously brutal conclusion just rips out my heart and splatters it across the room every time.

[frankie_fan]

The Simpsons Movie DVD. Got it for Christmas today! I still love it!

[Ridureyu]

AvP2 and Water Horse, both of which I liked.

[Mr. Marshmallow]

Toys

It's a slightly older Christmas movie that everyone has either forgotten, ignored, or never heard of. It stars Robin Williams, Joan Cusack, and Michael Gambon (the new Dumbledore). This movie has been in my Christmas childhood as far back as I can remember and still to this day, I absolutely love this movie.

I think Williams does a great job as always and the music is fan-freaking-tastic. Hans Zimmer, infamous "Pirates of the Caribbean" scorer provided the music in this movie. I am so going to buy the soundtrack now. Oh, and as always last night on Christmas eve, as per tradition in our family, we watched "The Muppet Christmas" carol .

[Partymember]

Live Free or Die Hard

what a great movie! This franchise is awesome, but i'd have to say this is the best one since the original.

Yippie Kay-ay!

[GrimTheLost]

I watched Sweeney Todd a few days ago and it was wonderful. Depp does an amazing job as ever. It was nice to see him as something other that Jack. And Tim Burton did a phenomenal job making it. The blood was beautiful.

[Mr. Marshmallow]

Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem

After having my hopes of a great crossover battle thoroughly squashed, crapped on, and ruined by the horrible first movie, the red band trailer of this movie gave me high hopes that I would finally get the incredible brawl I had been hoping for. And low and behold, it did and THEN SOME! This movie was an absolute blast.

While the first movie DID provide a great 1 on 1 initial fight between the 2 space baddies, this movie truly made the alien creatures the star of the show and focused more on them then the humans. The humans are average, nothing special outside of one kinda cute couple, but the stars are the alien monsters.

You really get a sense of watching things through the monsters POV, following the Predator as he hunts the endless horde of Aliens. The action is fierce and dark, there's some sick scenes in this movie and some vicious deaths at the hands of (majority of the victims) the Aliens. Once they get to the town the action never stops.

That's the best part, they are in the SUBURBS. You see them in diners, restaurants, hospitals, public homes, they are really in your face. You even get some great interaction with the Predator himself, and the super cool Hybrid from the first movie (about 80% Alien and 20% Predator).

This is a great science fiction movie, anyone who has even the SLIGHTEST interest in sci-fi will love this. Its the AVP movie they should have done first, and while they do connect it directly to the first movie, you don't really need to see the first one to catch up. This is a great, violent, action packed movie.

[jekylljuice]

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

I was up ultra-early this morning, and this delightful movie happened to be on, so I watched it. As with everything in the Studio Ghibli catalogue (which this technically does pre-date, but still gets to wear the badge of all the same, thanks primarily to the input of Mr. Miyazaki), this is intricate, engaging and darlingly-animated, my only nitpick being levelled at a selection of the background music, which has a slightly more timely and stock feel to it than most SG scores and occasionally feels a bit intrusive (I take it that stock music was all they could afford at the time). But that's small potatoes.

I'm actually quite curious to see the original, heavily-editted English dub they did in the 80s (entitled Warriors of the Wind), if only to see if it's really as hideous as I'm led to believe.

One final observation, and I have my friend Dave to thank for pointing this out the first time we watched this - because Nausicaa's trousers are exactly the same colour as her skin, it frequently gives off the illusion that she isn't wearing anything down there at all.

[Medikor]

I seen the last bit of Pirates 3 and now I need to see the whole thing.