Did You Watch Any Movies this Weekend?

[Raffi Ella]

I saw The Grand Budapest Hotel, Far Out Isn't Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story and Ginger & Rosa.



I liked TGBH, it's different, charming and funny verging on slapstick but more surreal comedy than anything else. The cast was great, I wasn't expecting to see so many big names. It got a little tedious at around the middle end part but I'm glad I watched it, cool movie.


Ginger & Rosa was a real downer. It's the kind of movie I usually love(60's, politics) but this one just missed the mark somehow. Elle Fanning's mess of a dye job distracted me the whole time, and just I don't know. The story was too specific and depressing, and not enough fashion or history or scenery to draw me in. I don't know if I've seen Elle Fanning in anything before, it may just be that she's not a very good actress. I don't know, I just didn't like the movie at all.


The Tomi Ungerer Story was really great, very interesting all around. I think a lot of DUers might like it a lot.



Did you see anything over the weekend?

[Xyzse]

1. 100 Foot Journey.

About an Indian family who moved to France, and the one chef who learned how to cook to get a star.

[Raffi Ella]

5. I had to look it up-

I've seen the commercial/trailer for that, it sounds like a good movie. Did you like it?

[Xyzse]

24. It's cute. I like it.

Well, then again, I tend to like movies about food, dancing and action.

[avebury]

31. I loved loved loved that movie!

It made me want to hop a plane to France. Great story, Great cast. Great chemistry between the characters.

[Raffi Ella]

44. !

That's what attracted me to it, that it was set it in France. It looks great, I'll have to watch it soon~

[orleans]

2. last night

i watched french kiss, ten things i hate about you & the wedding singer
the night before i watched you've got mail & in and out

some of my comfort movies

[Raffi Ella]

6. I've seen all those except for 'In and Out'.

If you're feeling down, I hope they made you feel better this weekend.

[orleans]

36. ok...let's see how we match up on this then...

last night i watched "dave" and "housesitter"
tonight i'm watching sleepless in seattle

(you should see in & out if you like kevin kline--i love kevin kline and he's wonderful as usual)

[Raffi Ella]

45. I do like Kevin Kline-

I've only see Sleepless in Seattle outta those. Great movie.

[betsuni]

19. I love "In & Out"!

So funny and so many good actors in one movie.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

29. Here's the problem with "In & Out"

It reinforces stereotypes. It says that if a man likes musicals and has other interests that aren't macho, then of course he's gay but doesn't know it yet.

That's just nonsense. It's as stupid as saying that a girl who likes sports is a lesbian and doesn't know it.

I wonder how many boys who are straight but happen to like the arts and not like sports were beaten up by knuckle-draggers who saw the movie.

There's nothing wrong with being gay, of course, but don't we have enough boys who think they have to be interested only in sports and gaming to be considered really masculine?

Here's the ending I would have liked to see:

He turns out to be straight, he chides the students and the community for stereotyping, he marries his fiancee, and she is the happiest woman in town because he doesn't grumble when she wants him to go to the opera with her.

[UTUSN]

32. Stereotypes: I didn't like how Chealsy "interviewed" Josh GROBAN

and pretty much "accused" him of being Gay.

[orleans]

41. oh lydia--

in & out is a comedy
and while the ending you would have liked is really hysterical (i laughed out loud when i read it to a friend of mine who happens to be a gay film critic) i'm not sure how it would have come off on the big screen

while i understand what you're saying i think the the writer, paul rudnick, did a great job with this movie. (and to quote a line from the film: "and he's gay.&quot

[orleans]

35. agree. n/t

[CBGLuthier]

3. I watched (again) The Butcher Boy

Still a great if offbeat movie. Also finally watched Diabolique. Had a neat twist that fifty years of movie watching made obvious from the beginning but still a great movie.

[Raffi Ella]

7. I haven't seen either of those.

I'll have to check them out.

[bikebloke]

4. Saturday Night

The Railway Man
Jeune & Jolie (Young & Beautiful)

[Raffi Ella]

8. I saw Jeune & Jolie a while ago.

Gorgeous movie, I liked it a lot.

[NightWatcher]

9. We've been binge watching Criminal Minds for a while now

And I'm convinced that half my neighbors are active serial killers. I've profiled them all...

[Raffi Ella]

14. ha

Just don't let them see you peeking at them through the window while you profile them, cuz that would make you the weird one.

[LoveMyCali]

54. I've become somewhat obsessed with this show right now

I've been binge watching it on Netflix.

It's just not the same without Mandy Patinkin.

[WinkyDink]

10. No, but you just reminded me I forgot about "LA Confidential" on since 5!

[Raffi Ella]

15. I never saw that.

The last one I watched on TV was the Dead Poets Society, I'd never seen it before, omg did I cry.

[WinkyDink]

23. LAC has Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, David Strathaim, and Kim Basinger. Rough, but

brilliant film.

[Raffi Ella]

25. I'll have to check it out.

[delete_bush]

42. LA Confidential is absolutely one of my

all time favorites. I saw it on the big screen when it first came out (1997) and watched it again several times in the next decade. There are so many elements to this film - one that struck me is that growing up in the Midwest and having moved to SoCal in the mid '80's, one of the first things I noticed was a difference in the natural "daylight". Hard to discern, but it just seemed a little faded. This came through to me in the film, the cinematography IMHO captured this.

Fast forward to last year. I was on a return flight from Europe and flying business class. It's 11pm and I'm all stretched out in one of those wonderful "pods", just had a reasonably good meal considering it's an airplane, and the wine was flowing. This particular flight - and I've not experienced this on any others - had an AMAZING list of films from which to choose, hundreds of them, to the point where I was fantasizing that the plane would somehow be diverted for 24 hours and I could spend my time watching movies. I mean they had Casablanca, GWTW, Chinatown, and many more of the same quality.

But I chose to watch again LA Confidential and was once again blown away. I followed this with American Graffiti and I have to say that although the trip was fantastic, this really put it over the edge.

[lovemydog]

56. Agree - L.A. Confidential is a modern film noir classic.

I love film noir & can watch any of the old ones.

[elleng]

11. Saw Budapest Hotel some time ago,

and as I don't enjoy slapstick, I didn't enjoy the movie.

Saw 100 Foot Journey, and liked it a lot.

Saw 12 Years a Slave (on TV, after seeing it before,) and tho can't say 'enjoyed' it, its a fine movie.

Saw Saving Mr. Banks, and liked it.

[Raffi Ella]

16. Yeah, I'm nota big fan of slapstick either.

12 years, yeah. Excellent movie, hard to watch but still. I haven't seen Mr. Banks- I seem to remember there being some controversy surrounding that movie...

[elleng]

21. Didn't follow any controversy,

but Banks was on DirecTV so I watched it. Can't NOT watch that cast.

[CBGLuthier]

51. The controversy is that it is nothing more than Disney propaganda.

P.L. Travers despised what Disney did with her book so much that she left it in her will that no american could ever again make a version of Mary Poppins. She hated animation and she hated the songs.

[Raffi Ella]

63. I thought it was just that he was a sexist pig. or something to that effect.

Ok. I don't know enough to comment one way or another really, but I do know that Mary Poppins is a great American Classic. I'm surprised to hear she hated it.

Good to know.

[shenmue]

12. A creepy Korean horror film called "Apt" (Apartment)

It was good. A little iffy toward the end.

[Raffi Ella]

17. oooh. I've seen a few Korean scary movies- they are reaally creepy.

I'm not a huge fan of horror movies, I just don't have a lotta tolerance for the scary, lol. I've had ' A Tale of Two Sisters' in my To Watch Folder forever. I don't know if I'll ever watch it.

[femmocrat]

13. "Walk the Line" (Johnny Cash story)

Last edited Mon Sep 8, 2014, 07:36 PM - Edit history (1)

I recorded "12 Years a Slave" for future viewing. I read the book and the movie appears to accurately depict it, from what I've seen.

I enjoyed "The Grand Budapest Hotel". I thought it was cute and funny. My friend hated it and walked out of the theater! LOL

[Raffi Ella]

18. haha!

I can see someone walking out, mad. It did get a little eye roll inducing during the middle but the two lead characters were really great. And just the whole look of the movie was cool. Yeah it was pointless but whatever, it's unique. I liked it.

[betsuni]

20. "Six Degrees of Separation"

Haven't seen it for years, forgot how good it was and I love the interior of the NYC apartment.

[Raffi Ella]

26. You sold me with the part about the interior of the NYC apt.

[TorchTheWitch]

22. Lost in Austen

Seen it before, but it's hilarious. You really need to know the story of Pride and Prejudice to really understand or really appreciate it.

[Raffi Ella]

27. I just happen to *love* Pride & Prejudice~

I will definitely be watching that ASAP.

[TorchTheWitch]

40. I laughed my head off

The more the girl tries to make everything work out like the Pride and Pejudice story the more she bungles it up. Just seeing her trying to fit into that world is hilarious. Not to mention just her coming to grips with there being a magic door through her bathroom that goes into that world.

Enjoy. I've watched it several times, and it's just as funny each time.

On Edit: oooo! someone put the whole thing on YouTube...

[Raffi Ella]

43. YAY!

How fun, this will make up for the waste of time that was Ginger & Rosa. Thank you!

[Raffi Ella]

57. That was so fun! and funny, I loved it. I didn't want it to end.

I would watch another three hours of Elizabeth's side of the story in modern day! Anyway, thanks again, that was really great.

[TorchTheWitch]

66. Thought you'd enjoy that

I've often wished that the story kept going. It also would have been great to show Elizabeth trying to get on in modern London. Now you'll be checking your bathtub all the time and disappointed that you don't have a magic wall, too.

[underpants]

28. The NEW Spider-man movies 1&2.

#1 was really good. Better than the old #1 with Tobey Maguire in my opinion.

#2 got as muddled up as the old #1 in my opinion

[sakabatou]

38. I agree, #2 wasn't good

[Lydia Leftcoast]

30. I finished watching the latest season of the British detective series "Vera"

on Acorn TV.

It's a fine example of British TV using non-glamorous, flawed main characters. Vera (played by Brenda Blethyn of "Secrets and Lies&quot is late middle-aged and frumpy, drinks too much, and is kind of a loner. I cannot imagine an American series with kind of a lead character.

[Raffi Ella]

48. I do love good British TV!

I haven't heard of 'Vera', I'll have to check it out.

[Generic Brad]

33. I did not!

I was out fishing until the last light of the day during the entire weekend. Fishing the Mississippi, one of the great rivers of the world, beats watching movies. This weekend when it gets colder I will do some movie binge watching.

[Raffi Ella]

46. Nice!

I don't fish but I do love the outdoors so, I can appreciate your reasoning there. I've been trying to enjoy every minute of these last days of warmth too, but I was under threat of thunder storms all weekend so! I took the opportunity to knock some movies off my list.

[UTUSN]

34. Dish had a bonus HBO weekend, saw "Behind the Candelabera"

Forget Lee and THORSON, what Matt DAMON had to put up with from Michael DOUGLAS!1

[Raffi Ella]

47. HA!

I meant to watch that, forgot all about it.

[valerief]

52. Watched that, too. It was fun. nt

[sakabatou]

37. Captain America: Winter Soldier

[Raffi Ella]

60. I hardly ever watch movies like that but,

I'm always surprised how entertained I am when I do. The last one I saw in that genre was Battle Los Angeles, the special effects were amazing.

[Initech]

62. Just got the Blu-Ray last night. Along with the first season of Agents Of Shield.

Love all the Marvel movies. Can't wait for the Blu-Ray of Guardians Of The Galaxy.

[sakabatou]

64. The ones in the CU are pretty good

The ones outside can be hit or miss.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

39. Hindenburg (2011 made for TV)

Conspiracy theory plot about what caused the crash and burn of the zeppelin in May, 1937. Interesting story line and characters. Some of the acting is cartoonish/wooden but, it held my interest. Decent special effects.

Stars: Stacy Keach and Greta Sacchi.

[Raffi Ella]

49. Conspiracies always catch my interest.

I probably woulda watched that too if I came across it on TV.

[Ino]

50. Flawless

with Philip Seymour Hoffman & Robert DeNiro

[Raffi Ella]

58. I saw that on TV late one night, great movie.

I almost flipped to something else, I didn't get it at first but as I watched I realized how good the story was, how good the acting was. Great film. I'm gonna miss Phillip Seymour Hoffman...

[valerief]

53. The Big Cube. 1969. Lana Turner, George Chakiris, Richard Egan.

From the So Bad It's Good category. Watched it on Warner Archives. A real train wreck of a film.

Lana Turner going mad. Acid trips. Dialogue like this:

Johnny Allen: [Putting his arm around her] Do you know you really turn me on?
Girl sketching model: [Disinterested] Since when?
Johnny Allen: Since now. I belong to 'The Now Generation.'

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064088/

[Raffi Ella]

59. I saw that one!

Yeah, so bad they're good is right. It's like going back in time watching those kinds of movies. Good stuff.

[lovemydog]

55. Archer, a rude & hilarious cartoon James Bond parody.

Watched the first five episodes & now I'm hooked. It's smartly written and makes me laugh out loud.

[Initech]

61. It's quite possibly the best animated show on television.

Wait until you get to the third and fourth seasons. Some real classic episodes there.

"Hey did I tell you guys I got a goat?"

[lovemydog]

65. Looking forward.

Next disc is in the mail from netflix. I love how the receptionist keeps changing her name. ROFLMAO.