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What's the last movie you saw? Doesn't matter if it was at home or at a theater.
Last one I saw was Captain Philips. I thought it a pretty good movie, especially since it was based on real events.
Last night I had a very lazy night due to vertigo and just veged out in front of the TV... thankfully it's not 3D cos that most likely would have upset the apple cart.
Anyway, I first watched Homefront with Jason Statham, and while I enjoyed it I don't feel it was one of his better movies, though that may have been due to script limitations or the director/producer, etc. Yeah, probably a 6 out of 10.
Next I watched The Last Legion with Colin Firth and Ben Kingsley. Now that was a terrific movie and definitely a 9.99999 out of 10. It is about a legionaire who is assigned to protect the boy Romulus, who became the last Caesar just as the Goths over-ran Rome and sacked the city. The boy decides that he will follow the advice of his protector and they travel to Britannia with a handful of loyalists to find the last legion in the hope of retaking Rome, but for various reasons this does not occur and they end up settling there instead. I'm a bit of a history buff so I truly enjoyed it, but it is a more than worthwhile film even if you're not one.
Then I watched Byzantium, which is about two women who are hiding a dark secret as they settle in an English seaside town. For the storyline and plot I give this an 8 or 9 out of 10. The acting is quite good and the various twists and turns make it a great supernatural thriller.
Not sure what I'll watch tonight, what with so much choice available on Foxtel, but whatever, I'll report back here with my findings.
Watched Prometheus again tonight, but before that I saw Parker, with Jason Statham as a career crim hell bent on getting revenge for being double crossed and left for dead by his accomplices in a robbery. Yeah, pretty good... worth and 8 out of 10.
Godzilla. At the theater last weekend. My son (all of 8 years old) had been so eager to watch it but he ended up in my lap half the time, though he couldn't take his eyes off the screen for even a second and even forgot to eat his popcorn! Beats me why these kids love evil monsters and villainous dragons of all sorts; now he is looking forward to next month's How To Train Your Dragon 2 release. Phew! And I get the privilege of watching all these movies with him 
Watched Ride Along over the weekend. Didn't really care for it. I generally like Ice Cube but he tried too hard here, and the other guy simply wasn't funny at all.
The new Star Trek, again. There's a post in yahoo news saying J.J. Adams won't be doing the next one. Some other guy will and the post says this dude will ruin it even more.
Sadly, there's a lot of crap movies coming out of Hollywood in recent times... some bordering on the ridiculous, others just plain stupid, and much of the remainder not worth attending to find out. It's like they're pumping them out for the sake of releasing something... anything, be it good or bad. It used to be that 3 in 20 movies were bad/not worth bothering with... now it's 3 in 20 movies that are passable - if not good - and the rest is just abysmal, to say the least. Unortunately, directors/producers these days rely on special effects [CGI] and forget about the human element, plot and storyline, and until somebody rectifies that we're gonna get more and more crap served up to us.
BTW, my nephew went to see 'Ride Along'... reckoned it was crap and walked out before it was halfway through. He said that he hoped it was just a slow start and that it would get better... but never did.
Watched the remake of Total Recall last night. It was alright but I prefer the original... 6 out of 10.
wow, really? can you elaborate?
I watched Red 2 last night, three nights ago it was Philomena.
the Hobbit - Desolation of Smaug on the day it came out in Kona! Loved almost every second (hated the spiders).
The Birdcage....it always makes me laugh!!
It's not a movie, but lately I've been watching a TV series called Orphan Black. It's about a woman who discovers she is one of several clones and who is constantly on the run from an evil corporation which wants to conduct tests/experiments to discover how she could conceive when the others cannot.
The actress, Tatiana Maslany, plays 7 clones who look identical yet have very individual personalities and even nationalities. To say this actress is talented is an understatement. She is extremely talented and can pull off several accents quite convincingly. 9.9 out of 10 and well worth a look if you're into sci-fi thrillers.
Rented The Monuments Men over the weekend. Wasn't too bad. Had a good story.
I watched it last weekend too. Torrented it, LOL. And i actually thoght it was terrible. It had good premise, but not the story IMO. The screenplay made the movie totally disjointed, for the lack of better words. I wanted originally to go and see it at cinema, cause the trailer looked fairly good and it had awesome cast, but glad i did not. George Clooney needs to stick to acting i say.
The next day i saw American Gangster with Denzel Washington, that one was surely better. But bit too long and with somewhat weird and anticlimatic ending.
@Starkers> for sure original Total Recall was better. I only remember 3 things from this new one> Jessica Biel, Colin Farrel playing Beethoven on piano (these are the good/beutiful things) and then camera looking every 5 seconds into some kind of lightsource with lens flares and bokeh and shit. Terrible cinematography.
X men days of futures past.
It had a bad title, bad plot, numerous GAPING plot holes, the music was bad, and the audience was partly obnoxious but lucky distracted me from the terrible movie. A friend of mine I saw it which happens to like almost everything so it was still five stars in his (ignorant) eyes. Thank god its the last one in the series...
At least I got to see my wife Jennifer Lawrence even if she was blue....but still hot.
three stars.
DARCA.
I don't know about BEST superhero movie but if you like X-men without being a total comic book purist you will probably like it. It was my favorite X-men film, lots of good action and acting just good enough to make you care about what is going on. Assuming you're already somewhat of an X-men fan anyways.
X-men comics are full of time travel/alternate dimension none-sense and this always creates plot holes. You can either try not to think about it too hard and enjoy it on that level or just stop paying attention to the whole franchise.
And it is not the last one if you watched all the credits.
We rented Non-Stop with Liam Neeson last night. It was actually real good and I recommend giving it a watch.
Sometimes it doesn't need to be new movies that you watched. In the last week I watched Undertaking Betty (Plots with a View) and Noises Off. If you need some good laughs these two should do it for you. 
Yeah, I like Liam Neeson as well. As yet I haven't seen The A-team with him in it, but I've liked everything else I've seen him in... especially Nell with Jodie Foster, which I saw recently. A top movie, that! He was good in Darkman as well.
The Most recent... Can Heironymous Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness.
Don't believe me? Well Google it, then. 
Went and saw Edge of Tomorrow the other day, absolutely fantastic! Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt at their best! 
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