What movies did you watch this holiday weekend, and can you recommend them?

And thank you to the programmers who seemed to have fixed the Just For You feature!

I saw The Interview, which was crude and juvenile.
I also saw Into The Woods. I liked the Broadway version better, but it was okay.
Today I hope to see Unbroken.

I saw MockingJay. It was ok if you go into it knowing it is only a precursor to the next one in the series. As a stand-alone pic it is not very satisfying.

Do you ever watch the short videos onVimeo? . I just watched “Rhinos” (17 min) and “Russian Roulette” (3 min) . Nice.

I finally got around to Interstellar. I highly recommend it,

I have a date to see Unbroken this weekend.

“Wild” was great and I also enjoyed “The Theory of Everything.”

Interstellar was beast! It was an action-packed emotional roller coaster.

Ahem…Night At the Museum 3…<shuffles off, mildly embarrassed>

Here is the link to Russian Roulette .
And the link to Rhinos .
Enjoy!

And they’re free!

I saw “Wild” and found that Reese Witherspoon delivered a believable performance in a gnarlier than usual role. I also saw Mark Wahlberg’s “The Gambler.” It’s gotten lukewarm reviews by the pros and audience viewers, but I give it a much higher rating. I thought Wahlberg was outstanding, and I found the abundance of interesting characters in this dark film very entertaining.

@picante Saw “Wild” last night and really liked it and her performance.

I saw 300 Rise of an Empire. It was okay, and Artemisia was a great villain. Kinda reminded me of Etain from Centurion, but more of a bitch. It was nice and violent, but man I get tired of all those CG special effects. Blood hardly looks like blood at all. :/ I miss man made special effects.

Oh, and badass naval battles. Guess we couldn’t have those without CG…

I saw “Begin Again”, liked that quite a bit. I also watched “Paddington”. The story was predictable, of course, but the movie was incredibly well done!

You asked about movies, but I’m recommending two streaming series I binge-watched last week and the week before: Mozart in the Jungle on Amazon Prime and Black Mirror on Netflix streaming. Both are fantastic.

@Pachy Thanks for the tips!

“Dark Skies”. An alien suspense horror film, akin to “Signs”, except better, in my opinion despite having predictable tropes and clichés. Spoilers: The aliens win.
Slightly recommended.

“Space Pirate Captain Harlock”. A japanese 3D animated movie about a space pirate trying to collapse the universe and causing a 2nd Big Bang. (He is the protagonist).
Solid recommendation.

“Galaxy Quest”. Washed up actors of an old Sci-Fi TV series get abducted by Aliens who thought the TV-series were “Historical Documents” and who have recreated the fictional spaceship as actually working technology.
A true classic and a must see, especially for true Star Trek fans.

Nothing new, but I watched these on Netflix:

Neighbors
Silver Linings Playbook

I wouldn’t recommend either. The first was juvenile and stupid; the second was weird as hell.

I saw The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies. I liked it but I felt it ended quite abruptly. The end was a little odd but then it’s really a series of prequels so I can understand why.

I saw The Water Diviner yesterday. It was good. A different but quite sensitive take on the Gallipoli story.

I have a whole list of films I want to see over the coming weeks.

I watched Calvary . Best film I’ve seen this year, it left me speechless.

@Earthbound_Misfit Maybe you can use one of the 5 endings from the last Lord Of The Rings movie.

@Adagio That film looks like it could be fascinating. Was it in the theater or on one of the movie channels?

@Adagio Iwanted to see that but it was in very limited release here. I’ll look for it.

I have watched How To Train Your Dragon 2, which I got on DVD from my dad for Christmas, twice. I love it!

I went to the cinema to see Paddington Bear on Christmas Eve and I would definitely recommend that. It was the perfect Christmas Eve film!

@janbb Calvary is excellent. I saw it a few months ago. Well worth watching.

I’m going to see The Imitation Game on Saturday. I’d go to the cinema every day if I could. Sadly, my husband doesn’t have such film viewing stamina.

@Earthbound_Misfit I’ll go with you.

Excellent @janbb, you’re on. I have a list :D

I just saw it – it’s excellent. :) Enjoy!

@rojo I watched it on DVD but it was showing in cinemas in NZ 2014

Today we saw Unbroken. It was good, but only half as good as the book.