What Movies Have You Seen Lately?

[Madeleine]

Took my Mum to see Les Mis. She said it was the best film she'd ever seen.

I thought it was very good, but too long!!

Was everyone in the cinema crying? According, to the media , audiences are practically inconsolable

[Nefret]

I really only cried at the end.

[sweetpotatoboy]

Was everyone in the cinema crying? According, to the media , audiences are practically inconsolable

To be honest, we went in the middle of the day and there was hardly anybody there. My Mum got a bit sniffly, I think. I didn't well up but it was certainly moving at points. Mum said why did it have to be all so sad; I said the clue was in the title...

(The only films I remember crying at are Children of a Lesser God, Dead Poets' Society and ET!!)

[Madeleine]

Thanks SPB. Not for nothing is it nicknamed The Glums! A family friend always used to go and see the stage show when she felt she needed cheering up!

[sweetpotatoboy]

Not a movie (we don't appear to have a generic TV thread) but I just finished watching the first season of the Israeli original series of "In Treatment". I've seen bits of the American version and other international versions and they all appear to be almost verbatim translations of the Israeli original, though I imagine cultural references have had to be adapted.

45 half-hour episodes is a bit of a slog but it was superb and really gruelling. For those who've seen it, I think you'll know what I mean. My only gripe is that I kind of wished we'd stayed entirely in the clinic and not occasionally seen the patients and the therapist in outside scenes. For me, it reduced the powerful impact, but only moderately.

[fljustice]

Woman in Black with Daniel Radcliffe. Way too many shots with the camera slowly pushing into closeups of Daniel's face and the requisite scary music whenever the Woman in Black showed up. Not as scary as it could have been.

[Nefret]

North and South with Richard Armitage. It was even better the third time.

[princess garnet]

The Hobbit

[Nefret]

Stardust (great movie)

[fljustice]

Game Change, an HBO movie about the 2008 election and McCain's choice of Sarah Palin for his vice-presidential running mate. No matter what your politics, Ed Harris as John McCain and Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin were brilliant!