Last movie you watched

[erilaz]

Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate (幕末太陽傳 Bakumatsu taiyōden, 1957) — Tied with Kurosawa's Rashōmon for the fifth best Japanese film of all time in a 1999 Kinema Junpō critics' poll, it's a wacky comedy set in a Shinagawa brothel in 1862.

[Bakajo Nono]

Turtles Can Fly 2004.

Amazing movie about Kurdish refugee children along the border of Turkey and Iraq two weeks before the American invasion, who collect American mines and sell them. It stabs your heart repeatedly until you lose all faith in anything and find no reason to live on this planet anymore. Does a great job of showing the human toll on innocent lives a war has. None of the children are professional actors but they. are. AMAZING.

Fun fact, this film influenced Gundam 00. Soran is based off the main character Satellite and is named after the child who plays him.

[erilaz]

^ It really is a heartbreaking film. Have you seen Grave of the Fireflies (火垂るの墓)? It's another excellent film that will depress the hell out of you, for similar reasons.

[questorminator]

Turtles Can Fly 2004.

Amazing movie about Kurdish refugee children along the border of Turkey and Iraq two weeks before the American invasion, who collect American mines and sell them. It stabs your heart repeatedly until you lose all faith in anything and find no reason to live on this planet anymore. Does a great job of showing the human toll on innocent lives a war has. None of the children are professional actors but they. are. AMAZING.

Fun fact, this film influenced Gundam 00. Soran is based off the main character Satellite and is named after the child who plays him.

Wow. I didn't know that. And I called myself a Gundam fan.

I guess that partly explains Soran's demeanor in the first season. He doesn't rate highly among Gundam pilots in my eyes but I liked most Gundam series and I loved 00's mecha designs as well as the attempt at a real-world setting.

[Bakajo Nono]

^ It really is a heartbreaking film. Have you seen Grave of the Fireflies (火垂るの墓)? It's another excellent film that will depress the hell out of you, for similar reasons.

Yep, also broke my heart. I need to watch that again actually.

[erilaz]

Frankenweenie (2012) — It was fun, but I still prefer the original live-action short.

So when I got home, it was time for a repeat viewing of the brilliant 1984 version, plus Burton's earlier animated short, Vincent.

[erilaz]

I celebrated John Lennon's birthday by watching a DVD of Magical Mystery Tour (1967). It's a chaotic jumble of music and improvisation and was the Beatles' first critical failure. I've seen it about twenty times.

[esm]

Frostbiten (2006)

This movie is awesome. It started out as a horror film and then into a (rather outdated) stereotypical teen film, and then then it turns into hilarious madness. Seriously, just watch it for the scene with the garden gnomes toward the end. If this were an English-language film, I'm sure that scene would be a real classic.

Oh, and it's a vampire movie set in some town in the very north of Sweden, so there was no daylight throughout the entire movie (which was obviously set during the winter). No awkwardness of not being able to be out in the sunlight. Brilliant.

[PureLight]

Seven Psychopaths (totes like, last week people. 2012 for the people FROM THE FUTURE.)

Kinda had it's head up it's own ass but I loveeedddd it. Sam Rockwell is a star and had me laughing so much that my friend thought something was wrong with me. Super-meta which...wore thin after a bit but still enjoyable.

[Celedam]

I watched The Hunger Games on Blu-ray. Never read the books, although I knew the basic plot points.

My feelings are very well summed up by this…

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