mega thread Last Movie You Watched?

[PsychedelicPony 440]

Kiki's Delivery Service, so much nostalgia

[Buttonmash1973 1,026]

 

Teaching Mrs. Tingle

 

The Exorcist blend with teen Comedy.

 

7/10

Edited June 6, 2014 by Ulrik Raben

[DubWolf 17,262]

The last movie I watched was Forrest Gump.... such a great movie...still a better love story than Twilight.... *metaphorical tear*.

[Bronychan1214 150]

The iron giant. Such a good movie

[Noire Panzer 3,526]

The Blood Live Action movie  

[Buttonmash1973 1,026]

Rio 2

 

Best movie of 2014 so far.

 

10/10

[Washougal_Otaku 1,020]

An anime movie called "Summer Wars."

[SCS 7,537]

This post may contain spoilers for Her (2013) and RoboCop (2014).
 
The two movies I have seen the most recently are Her and the new RoboCop movie. Both were thought-provoking in different ways, albeit the former greatly more so than the latter. I will therefore address the latter first. Overall, both were enjoyable movies in very different ways. Her was more of a thought-provoking movie while RoboCop was more entertaining.
 
While much of the RoboCop movie focused on the action, it still had some thought-provoking elements regarding law enforcement, the nature of humanity and to what extent robotics should be applied in our lives. 
 
One thing I find interesting is that the new RoboCop movie was rated PG-13 for "intense sequences of action including frenetic gun violence throughout, brief strong language, sensuality and some drug material." Her was rated R for "language, sexual content, and brief graphic nudity." I just can't help but feel that there is a major flaw in the rating system when a movie like Her gets a higher rating than a movie like RoboCop. In RoboCop, people were murdered constantly the entire movie. The only reason why they avoided an R rating was that they kept the blood/gore to a minimum, but it still had more gore than most PG-13 movies I've seen. Then, Her is rated R because people say fuck a few times, a naked person is shown for a few seconds, and there's some (very censored) sexuality. Really? How is watching people be shot constantly for two hours more appropriate for children than some sexuality? Sexuality results in life, violence destroys life.

Also, I found it funny how RoboCop censored an instance of the word fuck. I mean, yeah, people were shot and blown up the whole movie, but that's totally cool for a 13 year old to see as long as they don't have to hear any naughty language. 
 
Her did have a lot of mature content, so I'm not saying it shouldn't have been rated R. I just think it's problematic how easily a movie can get an R rating for some vulgar language and sexuality while movies like RoboCop can be incredibly violent yet manage to scrape by with a PG-13 rating.
 
But, I digress.
 
The movie Her was absolutely fascinating. It is quite possibly one of the best movies I've ever seen, and I don't say that lightly. I watch a ton of movies, and I only ever end up considering a handful of them as being among my favorites.
 
The basic premise of the movie involved a human male falling in love with a sentient "female" artificial intelligence. This AI was initially designed to be as humanlike as possible, yet it was able to continuously self-evolve at a rate far greater than humans do. 
 
There have been plenty of tales regarding the hypothetical possibility of a sentient AI becoming evil and malicious, so it was interesting to see a story about an AI having quite the opposite intentions toward a human. 
 
One of the reasons why the movie is so fascinating is that it forces you to question conventionality. It forces you to expand your thoughts about what exactly it means to be human, or even more fundamental concepts such as what exactly it means to be alive, or what exactly it means to exist. 
 
This movie has stuck with me in a way most others haven't. One reason why this is a case is probably all the feels associated with something like this. The AI in that movie would be what I'd consider a dream girl. Someone who loves you, someone who cares about you, someone who is legitimately interested in who you are and what you do. I have often wished for a connection with someone like that in life, but the fact of the matter is that this is not how romance works.
 
I'm starting to realize that the approach I take to romance is pretty one-dimensional. I often focus on what kind of satisfaction, love, happiness, acceptance, validation, and so on I can "get" out of the other person. This simply doesn't work. If everyone is looking to find someone to give them love, who is actually going to give the love? 
 
True romance should involve harmony and balance. A symbiosis, if you will. Both parties mutually benefit each other but yet don't rely on each other for their own happiness. True happiness and peace has to come from within. You have to be able to stand on your own two legs before you can effectively share your life with someone else, because trying to fill an empty void within yourself with anyone's love but your own is trying to fill up outer space with a cup of water. It simply will not work.
 
This is something I've been slowly realizing for some time, but the Her movie has helped me to realize that even more so. If I had an AI right now to tell me how awesome I was, it'd probably feel great at first, but it just wouldn't make me feel fulfilled in the long run. No matter how often the AI told me I was awesome, I would never believe it if I didn't believe I was awesome. This is due to the fact that, at the end of the day, your own thoughts about yourself override what anyone else thinks of you.
 
Sure, what happened between the AI and the protagonist in Her was beautiful. But wishing for something like that in my life to find fulfillment? Fuck that. I don't know if I'll ever find a romantic partner, and at this point that fact really doesn't bother me. If I do, that'll be wonderful, but if I don't, I'll be happy and fulfilled in life anyway because I do not give anyone else the power to determine whether or not I am happy and fulfilled.
 
In conclusion, it will be interesting to see whether or not AIs like the one in Her will ever exist in our world. If they ever did, it would be interesting to see whether or not others, and myself, personally, would ever be interested in developing a romantic relationship with one. Hypothetically it could work, because the most important aspect of a romantic relationship is who people are on a mental/spiritual level, not what they look like. At the same time, I don't know if I could be truly happy in a relationship without the physical connection and intimacy. Not just sex, but just being there with the person in a physical sense of the word. Being in a relationship with an AI wouldn't be like an online/long-distance relationship, where you would know you would be able to be with that person at some point. Unless AIs had some kind of robotic bodies available to them, you would never be able to have that physical intimacy with them. 
 
I'm sure there are people who wouldn't be bothered by that, and that's awesome. However, I think I would be.

[Buttonmash1973 1,026]

Fra den gamle købmandsgaard 1951

 

Filmed at the now closed railroads not so long from where my Family lives here in Denmark.

 

Ran in the Cinema from December 1951 until summer 1952.

 

Some good old fashioned fun.

 

8/10

Edited June 7, 2014 by Ulrik Raben

[Nulln 755]

The last movie I watched in theaters was Maleficent.  Awesome movie, everyone should watch it.  like right now 

Last movie on tv I watched was Up.  I guess technically my son was watching it, but I was in here too.

[TheSupremeLeaderOfChaos 1,206]

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone! Ah, nostalgia!

[Evil_Derpy 64]

MST3K the movie in fact I am still watching it 

[SparklingSquirrels 21,341]

I watched The Monuments Men last week. I thought it was a bit better than most people say it is, but it still didn't keep my interest that much.

 

It had a good premise though: "You can wipe out an entire generation, you can burn their homes to the ground and somehow they'll still find their way back. But if you destroy their history, you destroy their achievements and it's as if they never existed."

Edited June 7, 2014 by SparklingSwirls

[Khaoios 1,970]

G.I. Joe Retaliation.........i watched it b/c Bruce Willis is badass.

[Moonbacon 384]

The Last Exorcism 2 

 

 

It was pretty fun to see my 6 year old cousin start screaming over it though.

[GrauWitz 1,010]

I watched Goldfinger earlier today. Hands down, best James Bond movie

[PoniesPlease 365]

Django Unchained. 

 

Motherbucker.

[Guest]

Edge of Tomorrow. It's really good.

[Evil_Derpy 64]

Battleship 

3/10 yeah it sucked

[Ac3xAssasin 453]

The Book Thief

 

I for one thought it was a great movie.  

[Thundershy 144]

Lone Survivor.  It was really good.  There was a lot of artistic license in it I'm sure, but you feel like you're there with them the way it was done.

[Buttonmash1973 1,026]

The Blair Witch Project

 

Good old fashioned handheld camera movie.

[LightningCharm 40]

Space Jam.  Because my sister decided to go on a '90s nostalgia trip.  It's still the best Looney Tunes movie ever.

[LightningGearV3.01 52]

Just got back from watching Edge of tomorrow. Ending was a little unsatisfying, but it was still incredible nevertheless. Its the first movie I have seen in a while that DOESN'T commit the usual movie cliche sins. 

[Sunshower Raindrops 3,227]

A riffing on Battleship