[Starwars]

Recently I've been trying to acquire old favourite movies of mine on DVDs, in particular versions that come with an audio commentary by the director. So I've been watching Apocalypse Now (redux), with Coppolas commentary. It gives some fun insight and I've always really liked listening to Coppola doing commentaries.
His career is really interesting, especially in the sense that he did these big productions. The Godfathers, Apocalypse Now, Bram Stokers Dracula... Got tired of doing them, and has now retreated back into doing smaller and more personal films. I think I would probably count him as my favourite director even though I don't really adore all of his work.
I'm eagerly awaiting his next film called Tetro which I think will be out later this year.

[thomasc]

I watch Silverado again and again.

[Gambler]

I haven't seen anything even moderately good since The Dark Knight. Even before that I haven't seen anything moderately good for a very long time. And I'm not speaking about new movies, or great movies. I'm just speaking about good movies that have some meaning, produced whenever.

I've seen a lot of older science fiction recently (this year). The Day the Earth Stood Still, Andromeda Strain, Forbidden Planet. They are more or less watchable, but still rather shallow, and highly overrated. Silent Running was the only one with traces of meaning and good dialog, but considering the forum we're on, you'll probably dislike it. It takes place on a space station where people dumped (for preservation) the last forests of Earth. It kind of asks the question, what would you do if the society tried to destroy something you considered a fundamental human value. There is an interesting scene where the main character (in a way, a ranger or gardener of the last forest) tries to explain the point of nature to his shipmates. Nature meaning the live natural world, plants, animals and so on.

The last truly good movie I've seen was probably Kin-Dza-Dza. Also an old science fiction film, but this one belongs to the genre not only because of the setting, but by the very nature of its content. Brilliant satire that rivals The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy (the book, not the movie). One of it's main themes is dynamics of a society that is both technologically advanced and culturally deprived. The complex absurdity of its rituals. The grotesque, meaningless and limited aspirations of its people. Kind of makes you think of the world you live in and where it is headed. The movie is even more relevant now than it was at the time of production.

Stylistically, one interesting thing about it is that the film is completely void of the usual sci-fi cheese. It mocks the futuristic-Utopian imagery, which pretty much replaced the true meaning of science fiction nowadays.

[sureideas]

I just watched Memoirs of a Geisha. I hate how movies are so limited to only 3 hours... it skipped so much stuff and lost a lot of its appeal and story... the acting and directing wasn't bad but just for some reason, i couldn't appreciate what Chiyo-chan/Saiyuri was going through.

[One Wolf]

Starwars, you might want to watch "Hearts of Darkness", a documentary shot by Coppola's wife about the making of "Apocalypse Now".  Interesting stuff.

I recently rewatched "Event Horizon" with my girlfriend.  Good stuff.

[MaximB]

A few days ago I've watched "The Inhabited Island" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inhabited_Island
Which is a Russian movie (watched it in original Russian ofc) , it's the first part of a 2 parts movie mini series based on a 1971 novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky of the same Russian name, published in English as Prisoners of Power.

You can read about the plot in the wiki page. but shortly the settings is in the future year 2157 when a space pilot crashed on unfamiliar world.
It's quite interesting to see the "new world" but the main hero sucked in many ways...
Although on his original "earth" planet they had no wars in many years he is a martial art expert and his body is immune to bullets (but not his head), he practically cures like a superman.
He is also very knowledgeable compare to the stupid brain washed people that live in the planet he crashed on.
Those people believe that they live inside the planet, meaning the sky is the core of the planet, and if they dig for oil for example they would dig trough outside - very interesting idea , so therefore those people don't believe that it's possible to travel to different world as they can't get out.
Very strange thought even for stupid people, they didn't explain the "stars" part by their "revolutionary" theory.
This movie somehow reminds me of "idiocracy" movie which is illogically stupid, in that movie they had the knowledge to build a super destruction heavy 4x4 car, but they didn't think of building a wider tunnel for that car to pass trough ?!

Anyways I do advice to see that movie, it's fun to watch and they have a very hot actress
Seeing movies about "new world" is cool and interesting, even if sometimes those worlds look stupid to us.

   

[Anonxeuix]

Watchmen. I love it.

I also watched Drag Me to Hell at the cinema and god was it a steaming pile of shit. T'least I spent 2 hours in the aircondition and the movie only cost me 3EUR.

[Gregorus Prime]

The Day the Earth Stood Still... highly overrated.

Blasphemy. It's a classic flick.

I recently watched Groundhog Day again myself. I love that film so much, partially because it shows what you can do with the speculative fiction genre very well.

[Resch]

Watchmen. I love it.

Same. I didn't suspect it to be that good, one of the best movies I've seen in a while.

[Gambler]

Blasphemy.

It is meant to be. I see no point in restating something everyone believes in anyway.

I recently watched Groundhog Day again myself. I love that film so much, partially because it shows what you can do with the speculative fiction genre very well.

Uh, are you speaking about the Groundhog Day with Bill Murray?

I watched it recently too - the first time I haveve seen in completely. It's a surprisingly good movie. I take it as a commentary about the cyclic nature of people's daily lives. All those small decisions, experiences and single-serve acquaintances - all reset by the sound of the alarm clock the next day. Which will be roughly the same as the one before, unless people do something about it.

There is also an interesting aspect of the transformation the main character goes through. I'm not speaking about the beginning and the ending points (cynic to a much nicer person), but about the stages in between.

[Anonxeuix]

Watchmen. I love it.

Same. I didn't suspect it to be that good, one of the best movies I've seen in a while.

Yeah I thought it would be a flop, just another comic superhero movie.

But I was surprised. Nice twist, good story, entertaining characters, blue naked guys...

[Gregorus Prime]

Personally I thought the Watchmen movie was a terrible adaptation that missed the point almost entirely, but I guess that's just me.

Don't bother asking me to go into it in any great amount of detail. I'm burned out on that from all the Internet arguing when it was released. Suffice it to say that the pacing sucked and they changed too many important details despite their efforts to cram as much of the series into the film as possible.

[Anonxeuix]

Oh, I never read the comics. Never heard of them until I watched the movie.

[Cloaked Figure]

The last movie I watched that I really liked was The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Yea I know total dork, right? Before that it was Dark Knight, and Taken. They were pretty good.

I also watched Revenge of the Fallen a few days ago, which was horrible. It's only saving grace was Megan Fox, and I'm not talking about her acting.

[Bluebottle]

Watched 'A Touch of Evil' recently, both as part of my Noir season, and my Orson Welles season. That has to be the most convincing Mexican acting I've ever seen, from Charlton Heston. Method acting at its finest. 
Otherwise though, it was amazing. Need more films like that.

Got Orson Welles Macbeth at the same time, too. I've yet to get round to watching that, though. For some reason I've not been watching quite so many films, of late.

Speaking of commentaries, I read something recently about the Hot Fuzz director's commentary featuring Edgar Wright and Quentin Tarantino simply talking about movies they like for pretty much the whole of the film. Must really check out if that's true.