The last movie you saw Thread

[Primula Baggins]

Male rights activists. I wouldn't want an innocent angiogram to be ticked off.

Oh, right, the guys who believe that men have no rights if women have any. It's not just a zero-sum game; it's binary.

[yovargas]

MAD MAX: YAAASSSSSSS


A general comment, I am confused that movie earned a R-rating in the US. It contains very little gore, no sex, no nudity, and almost no cursing. Lots of people die but no more violently than your typical action movie. I don't get it.

[Teremia]

I saw WOMAN IN GOLD today (with my amazing 92yo father-in-law)--about Marie Altmann's attempts to get the Klimt paintings stolen from her family by the Nazis back from Austria. The heroine is played by Helen Mirren. Who is perfect. Oh my heavens, I worship at the feet of Helen Mirren!

[Frelga]

So apparently in the Mad Max movie, all those trucks were really constructed and working. Including this one



The PA system was working, the guitar could actually both play and shoot flames, and the guy was actually playing at 70mph. I think I'll see this at some point, if just for that. Getting a bit tired of the CGI everything.

That Insane ‘Mad Max’ Flame-Throwing Guitar Is No CGI Trick — Here’s How They Actually Made It

[yovargas]

The Guitar Guy was my favorite insanity in the whole insane thing.

was there a concern that a bungee-jumping flame-thrower guitar playing blind mutant in a red onesie riding a car made of amps might be one element too much?

[Frelga]

Yeah, and the reply was, basically, "No, why?"

[River]

Saw the Avengers. I agree with the NPR review I heard weeks ago: sloppy story-telling, great one-liners, and so big and loud you really don't/can't care about the sloppy story-telling. That said, I feel like I would've had a better handle on the plot if I were more diligent with the rest of the Marvel movies. Apparently, if you haven't been following Captain America it's hard to keep track of this one. But I was entertained and that's the point of that sort of movie.

[yovargas]

That said, I feel like I would've had a better handle on the plot if I were more diligent with the rest of the Marvel movies.

I've watched all these silly movies and as I said before, I was pretty confused for a lot of this. The story was just a mess.

[Primula Baggins]

I am old and behind the times, and I only now just saw the Tom Cruise SF movie Oblivion, and I have to say I enjoyed it very much. It got very mixed reviews and, well, Cruise, meh, and so I let it go by me; but a longtime friend with no particular SF experience told me how she and her husband watched it TEN TIMES over a weekend to make sure they'd figured it all out, and that it was absorbing and excellent.

So I watched it while Mr. Prim was out of town, as my Secret Indulgence (he stops movies to complain or observe or speculate, which I figured would drive me nutz with this one).

And it really is excellent, intelligent science fiction, if I'm any judge. Visually great, excellent effects, very good acting including Mr. Cruise. And although I didn't need ten or even two viewings to follow it (the twists were excellent, but they were always in my mental universe of possibilities), it was a really fun and, in the end, satisfying ride. It was well made (some of the visuals were astonishing, and the characters were sympathetic and involving). And it was filmed SF that actually calls for the same skills as good written SF: gathering the clues as the incluing occurs, forming a guess, seeing whether it's borne out.

My advantage over my friend is that I'm a professional <blows dust off knuckles>; otherwise she's much smarter and more sophisticated than me. But, in any case, I liked this film a lot, and I recommend it.

[Frelga]

I saw the first Avengers with only the first 2 Iron Man movies for background, and it was fun. Seeing Thor and the Captain America movies certainly clarified a lot. Including relatively minor points, like the irony of Steve Rogers saying that they got their orders when he was breaking rules left and right in his own movie. Or the much bigger character points of him basically having died two weeks before and losing everything he knew and loved, or Tony's father having spent more time searching for Steve's body than with his own son. Without that background, they just look like two donkey pits.

Saw Furious 7 today. Basically, Tom and Jerry with cars, but very entertaining. The tagline for this movie should have been "Wait, why? Oh, never mind."

[Lalaith]

Prim, I saw that one a while ago and thought it was pretty good, too. I'm not a big Tom Cruise fan, but this was all right. (I liked the one that was the sci-fi Groundhog Day better. What was the name of that? )

I think if I decide I want to have some brain candy San Andreas might not be bad, but I think I'll see Spy first.

Has anyone seen Pitch Perfect 2? Any good? I liked the first one quite a bit.

[Alatar]

Edge of Tomorrow is the film you're thinking of Lali.

[Primula Baggins]

I'm going to check out Edge of Tomorrow (although the title makes me snicker because it sounds like the title of daytime soap opera to me). I remember it got some excellent reviews when it came out, and again I let it go by because it was a Tom Cruise movie.

I'm hearing very good things about Pitch Perfect 2, Lali—some reviewers saying it's better than the first, which they liked a lot.

[Voronwë the Faithful]

On a slightly different note, watched Still Alice with Beth. Pretty intense film. Julianne Moore certainly deserved her Oscar!

[Primula Baggins]

I can't watch that.

[Frelga]

Why are so many recent female-centric movies about women going away, one way or another?

I took advantage of me boys going to a baseball game to watch What's Your Number. Would be hard to explain why I'm watching it, when clearly the point of the movie was to show as much Chris Evans as legally possible. It was actually quite watchable even apart from that, with Evans being warm and charming, plus cameos from Bilbo, Spock, Falcon and Star-lord.

Plus, this happened

[Voronwë the Faithful]

I can't watch that.

It was not my choice, believe me.

[Primula Baggins]

No, certainly not.

[Lalaith]

What's it about?

And, yes, Al, that was it! Let me know what you think, Prim.

[Primula Baggins]

From what I've read, it's about an intelligent woman in her fifties, an academic, who is diagnosed with Alzheimer's. And what happens.