What was the last movie you saw?

[JunkMonkey]

@JunkMonkey "Blue Humor" is far more than simply risque or smutty. Evidently your sensitivities are offended by jokes about sex or race?

My sensitivities are not offended by jokes about sex or race - with the possible exception or rape 'jokes' which do seem crop up a lot in Blazing Saddles at least. Rape isn't funny. I don't think there are things you shouldn't make jokes about. That is one of the functions of humour. It allows us to think the unthinkable. But I have never heard a rape 'joke' that is at all funny. Ever.

There may be someone out there at this very minute jotting it down. The great thing about humour and why I like to write it is that you know INSTANTLY if you're right. If it works. With drama people tell you it was deep and meaningful interesting or though provoking, how do you know? how can you tell what's going on in their heads? I've acted. I know when an audience is interested. I know when they are bored. You don't know why.
With comedy you know.

Actor: "Yadayadayada!"

Audience: Helpless laughter.

They have no choice. They can't fake it. The audience never fakes it in comedy*.

If that is the case then your not exactly a fan of "Blue Humor" just the dirty verity. Attilla the Hung is funny though -- perhaps he could be played by Dong Johnson. (but I question the actress's cognitive ability in taking so long to pick up on a GLARING pun)

She was only 14.

I still find Brooks funny and I am sure that many would put him as one of the all-time screen writers. Humor and Art, however, is entirely subjective and we all like what we like.

I have no quibbles with your still finding him funny. Some people still think Norman Wisdom is funny, and Arthur Askey, (they're wrong) and Martin and Lewis, Rowen and Martin's Laugh-in, Howdy Doody etc. but they are in a shrinking minority. Some comedy does survive the ravages of time (mostly physical which is why people like Keaton have endured) but most of it fades. Brooks will be slip into historical obscurity like Richard and Willie, Frank Randle, Olson and Johnson, and Mr Pastry, Wilson Kepple and Betty and a million and one others.




*and that's a line that's going in my journal.

 

[JunkMonkey]

to get this thread vaguely back on topic the last film I watched was:

Hellish Flesh (aka Inferno Carnal 1977) - my first, and I hope not last, Brazilian 'horror' film. Disjointed, cheap, shoddy and bewilderingly hypnotic it felt like a film edited together by Kenneth Anger from out-takes from several different Jess Franco films. This is a film that seriously made NO sense whatsoever.

 

[Old_Man_Steve2016]

Saw Star Trek: Beyond today with the wife. We both felt it was better than the second movie, but the villain was almost a composite of the villains of the first and second movie in that

Spoiler

The villain was a disgruntled starfleet employee with a murder boner, only this time it was a human posing as an alien. The movie never went into why he became an alien.

The next theatrical movie we'll see will be Ghostbusters. We get that out here in Korea on Friday.

 

[Dulahan]

@JunkMonkey To each their own I suppose.

 

[Bick]

I saw Kubo and the Two Strings at the weekend. Good.

 

[2DaveWixon]

Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse, I was doubled over with laughter.

Ahhh, an example of how tastes vary -- I hated that movie. Never cracked a smile.
I can't explain the difference between us...but don't take it personally.

 

[REBerg]

Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse, I was doubled over with laughter.

Same here.

Spoiler

Especially the zombie sing-along and the Cloris Leachman character.

 

[Judderman]

Jason Bourne. Another very entertaining Bourne movie. It is not as good as the Bourne Ultimatum and there is some element of repetition through the series. The storyline isn't anything amazing either though we find out more on Jason's mysterious background. But I just love this series. I thought the first three were amongst the best ever film trilogies and this is a worthy addition.
Compared to James Bond films, Mission Impossible and various other action films with a hero this just seems so much more believable and compelling. Ok his skills at noticing when people are following or looking at him are a bit too good but otherwise the action scenes in Bourne films always work so well. They rarely have an absurd way to end, they have solid looking fighting, not too much magically avoiding bullets etc and they keep you glued to the screen. IT is always great to see how he will evade the surveillance when he is meeting someone. Though the last car chase scene is a bit nuts hollywood style. The earlier one set in Greece is great.

 

[Dulahan]

I thought Zombie Guide was terrible. I am getting kinda burned out on the whole Zombie Genre -- I feel like it has been kicked into OVER LOAD

But in the Zombie Genre there was a decent enough mini-series I watched not too long ago called "Dead Set". It takes place during a fictional season of "Big Brother" where the reality TV contestants have no idea that a Zombie outbreak has been let loose outside. I am not sure if I liked it as much as I found the concept very original.

 

[JunkMonkey]

Raised by Wolves a 'Butchers Brothers Film'. I lasted ten minutes before yanking out of the player.

The Libertine - Loved it! Acting, and dialogue, and wit, and sex. And great little bit of focus pulling that knocked my socks off. And music by Michael Nyman. (I'll watch anything with a Michael Nyman score at least once.)

 

[Hilarious Joke]

Sausage Party. Nuts! But points for using kids movie tropes and techniques to do an adult comedy. So nuts!

 

[Starbeast]

Witch (2016) This ain't no Harry Potter witch tale. This creepy flick displays the way these evil people were known in the olden days. I'm not a Harry Potter fan, nor do I like this movie. Very disturbing.

 

[Dulahan]

Witch (2016) This ain't no Harry Potter witch tale. This creepy flick displays the way these evil people were known in the olden days. I'm not a Harry Potter fan, nor do I like this movie. Very disturbing.

Have that movie on my list. It looked like good fun. You didn't like it? Was the acting bad or plot convoluted? Or did you just not care for the topic?

 

[Starbeast]

Have that movie on my list. It looked like good fun. You didn't like it? Was the acting bad or plot convoluted? Or did you just not care for the topic?

Hi Dulahan

The movie was a very good production and had excellent acting. But it was a little too real for me.

 

[Dulahan]

@Starbeast Cool, I will check it out.

 

[JunkMonkey]

Wild Tales - Another of my I'll watch anything released on the Artificial Eye Label project (if it costs less than £3 in a charity shop - I'm not made of money!) I've found some good stuff that i would never have otherwise seen.

But this one - Meh!

Billed as 'Six Deadly Stories of Revenge' I was left cold by the whole thing. Partially, I suspect, because there wasn't a single character in the show that invoked any sympathy. They were all total ****ing arseholes and I wanted them all to just go away.

Ah well, can't win them all.

 

[REBerg]

Fantastic Four (2015)
Works as an origins flick. Not much else.

 

[Starbeast]

Sorcerer (1977) Finally, after decades of waiting, I was able to see the wide screen version of this magnificent film by William Friedkin. I'm so happy that this movie was rescued, remastered and restored to it's original ratio aspect, then copied onto Blu-ray. Great picture and sound quality was a fantastic treat to behold after so many years. Spectacular acting highlight this flick along with the incredible haunting music score from Tangerine Dream playing in the background.

I get so enchanted by those old trucks in the movie, and I still chuckle at the scene with actor Roy Scheider as he is being served at a bar, breakfast, and the manager wipes off the utensils on his dirty shirt before giving it to Roy.

 

[Droflet]

Ah, yes, the remake of Wages of Fear. Both great films but I preferred the original.

 

[Starbeast]

Ah, yes, the remake of Wages of Fear. Both great films but I preferred the original.

I like both versions too. But I prefer Sorcerer.