I like the film, but the ending doesn't make any sense to me.
SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER the woman had stabbed him earlier with the scissors when he was choking her with the fur her husband had bought for her. It was a scisorrs stab wound in the guy, which took a long time to bleed through. So he did not die until a few hours later
Rate the Last Movie You Saw - 9.5/10 - I laughed and laughed and laughed. Probably the greatest message board thread of all time, and certainly the best thing RRPower every created (admittedly not an impressive title), though there is perhaps a bit too much Jenkins for my taste. At 470 pages though, it's quite a sit, bring a sack lunch.
SPOILERS CONTINUEYeah, I got that. But why didn't he seek medical attention? I call bogus! He went back to the newsroom instead so that he could make a statement or something with his death? Double bogus! And what was with his final speech, anyway? He's the guy that's been priming the pump of exploitative journalism. So now he's going to shame members of the industry? Triple bogus!SPOILERS END
Drive - 8/10 - I might want to chew this over a bit before engaging in any sort of analysis.
Moneyball (2011) - 9/10. The story of Billy Beane and the 2002 Oakland A's. Typical of Aaron Sorkin, matters are oversimplifed; then, oversimplifications in hand, tendentious points are made about the Way Things Are. In this particular account, Beane is apparently a kind of baseball Galileo who brings a heretical new model of the game before a scandalized MLB priesthood (though no recantation is required, and Beane is even vindicated within a single season). Still, this is a good story, with interesting characters, told well. It should be a model for future movies on sports subjects (provided one could cut out all the cutesy stuff with the daughter).
Sunset Boulevard (1950) 9.4/10I generally don't like when movies give away the ending in the first scene. And I wish that Max explained a bit more about being her first husband, and coming back to be her servant. Those are my only 2 complaints on a spectacular film.
The League of Gentlemen - 8/10 - Jack Hawkins assembles a crack team of ex-servicemen for a complex bank heist. A cracking good crime film with suprisingly subversive and edgy content for its time: besides some vicious social commentary and black Ealing-esque humor, there's a lot of undisguised sex talk, Kieron Moore's character is openly gay and Jack Hawkins utters an uncensored profanity. Definitely worth a look.