What was the last movie you saw?

[Mon0Zer0]

I prefer my sci-fi to be closer to reality; and the setting of a dirty, run-down space tug and it's motley crew of everyday working folk in space encountering extra terrestrial life is (for me) a far more realistic prospect than many other space based movies where everything is white and new and clean and crewed with the cream of humanity (and usually male).

It's a shame Scott forgot this for Prometheus.

 

[Mon0Zer0]

Tomb Raider (2018) - 45 mins in until we get our first Tomb. A distinctly more serious take than Angelie Jolie's 2001 movie. It pays homage to Indie in the cinematography, but lacks a charismatic protagonist or a gripping storyline. It's too bogged down with being an origin story, opening on a good 20 mins of angsty teenager with tacked on bike chase. I missed the silliness of the 2001 movie, to be honest.

 

[KGeo777]

The Prince Charles Cinema is showing the Cinema cut of Alien in a double bill with Aliens at the end of September. I'll be booking tickets as I was too young to see it at the cinema.

That's interesting! I wonder where they get the prints. Is it digital projection? I heard that Disney had stopped retro screenings of FOX films in 2019. If they allowed it again--makes one wonder if they knew there would be a hiatus on film screenings in 2020.
I assume it doesn't matter if it is 35mm or digital these days with regards to screening permission.
We have a company in my region which specializes in outdoor cinema showings--they set up a screen in a park or on the side of a building.

 

[KGeo777]

BUCK ROGERS IN THE 25TH CENTURY 1979 extended fan edit-- - I saw the theatrical film when it came out and watched the series. The second season was quite a change-big mistake giving it a Star Trek-style mission in space. The pilot does feel very tv cheap. There's a few decent matte painting shots though. It was also shot in tv-format so it's more like a square than letter box. Compared to the Battlestar Galactica pilot movie, this is far superior. The story works better--the cast is smaller but they work much better. Too bad it was not treated like a feature film.

 

[Rodders]

Buck Rogers is very much a product of it's time. It didn't age at all well, but is ripe for a remake.

The Thunderfighters area great design and they remain my favourite Star Fighters. (Interesting factoid that everyone knows. The Thunderfigher was actually an unused Ralph McQuarrie design for the BSG fighters.)

Colonel Wilma Deering was lovely and i still crush on her.

 

[paranoid marvin]

The House of Flying Arrows

A documentary movie about darts, the players and it's evolution over the last 40 years.The best bit was probably some of the legends of the game (Bristow, Bobby George, Bob Anderson ) sitting round a table getting sloshed as they reminisced about their time in the game. In fact it's a bit of a shame that there wasn't more of the movie about them, as the clips of classic matches was awesome. It was also nice to have a section dedicated to Sid Waddell, a legend of the game. One annoying thing though was the idea to have much playing throughout most of the talking , which meant that you couldn't fully understand everything being said.

One only for darts fans, but a worthwhile 90 minutes of my time.

 

[JunkMonkey]

The Martian - for the second time with Daughter Number 2 who hadn't seen it before. I really like this film. It's one of those rare films in which people do the right things, solve problems, don't act like dicks, and accept the consequences of their actions. There's no back story to any of these characters that has to be settled between them (no divorced couples overcoming their antipathy to save the day and possibly rekindle.... no-one was responsible for the death of anyone's children/wife/pet hamster years before.... no older men met a younger woman and fell into instant dislike each of other only slowly come to.... the film didn't end with two heterosexual men having a fist fight....) Ok, some of the things they had to 'science the sh*t out of' were far fetched and I can't quite believe Nasa would send so much duct tape to Mars but on the whole an entertaining grown up movie which was a lot funnier than I remember. Also one of those rare films where the lead's body double was cast to make the actor less buff and attractive than they really are.

 

[paranoid marvin]

The Martian - for the second time with Daughter Number 2 who hadn't seen it before. I really like this film. It's one of those rare films in which people do the right things, solve problems, don't act like dicks, and accept the consequences of their actions. There's no back story to any of these characters that has to be settled between them (no divorced couples overcoming their antipathy to save the day and possibly rekindle.... no-one was responsible for the death of anyone's children/wife/pet hamster years before.... no older men met a younger woman and fell into instant dislike each of other only slowly come to.... the film didn't end with two heterosexual men having a fist fight....) Ok, some of the things they had to 'science the sh*t out of' were far fetched and I can't quite believe Nasa would send so much duct tape to Mars but on the whole an entertaining grown up movie which was a lot funnier than I remember. Also one of those rare films where the lead's body double was cast to make the actor less buff and attractive than they really are.

Yes , there's really nothing not to like about this movie. Matt Damon is perfectly cast in his role as well.

 

[JunkMonkey]

I think my biggest quibble with it was that I'm pretty sure you can't see the Westminster Palace clock Tower (Big Ben) from Trafalgar Square but it's been a long time since I was there. Maybe you can.

 

[BAYLOR]

I didn't know they went to the White House.
I think they should do Weekend at Bernie's set in the White House.


INVASION OF THE NEPTUNE MEN 1961 --An early Sonny Chiba film with some decent SPFX. The story is kind of out there with a prominent role for a group of kids.


THE TERROR BENEATH THE SEA 1966 Sonny Chiba is a reporter in this one -- involving a plot to establish a one world government conspiracy starting with an ocean base where they turn humans into aquatic cyborgs. Holds your attention despite some terrible facial acting from a Navy submarine crew.

Both very entertaining films

 

[KGeo777]

Colonel Wilma Deering was lovely and i still crush on her.

The second season was a shocker for many changes including her hair. She was not blonde and the hair dye was damaging (as Emilia Clarke found out).
The "Space Vampire" episode is the one that I remember most fondly.

They should not have switched to a space voyage format. I read Gil Gerard was not happy with all the quips he was given. He wanted it to be more serious.
I did like Crichton the robot.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

I have deliberately been avoiding discussing this, but what the heck . . .

At home, a while back, we watched a trio of Elvis Presley movies, for reasons too weird to explain. (Suffice to say that it involved The Brady Bunch . . .)

Harum Scarum (1965)

Silly adventure/comedy/musical, with the King getting mixed up in palace intrigue in an imaginary Middle Eastern nation. Somebody must have flipped through an encyclopedia article on Islam, because reference is made to Ramadan in what is otherwise a cartoon version of the region. You have to accept that the character played by Elvis is not only a popular singer (i.e., himself) but also so deadly at hand-to-hand combat that a band of assassins kidnap him in order to force him to kill a king; they couldn't do it themselves?

Speedway (1968)

Elvis is a race car driver and Nancy Sinatra is an IRS agent after the taxes on his earnings (which were messed up by his manager, Bill Bixby.) Not much to say about this one, except for the fact that it features two different restaurant/nightclubs with automobile themes (i.e., you sit down to eat in fake cars.)

The Trouble with Girls (and How to Get into It) (1969)

Wildly misleading title for a truly odd Elvis movie. He does some singing, but not much, really. It's set in the 1920's. The King plays the boss of a traveling Chautauqua company. (Pretty much a wandering entertainment/education thing.) Multiple subplots wander around all over the place. These include a labor leader trying to form the company workers into a union; a couple of little kids trying to win a talent competition; a cheating gambler; and, strangely for this kind of film, a murder. Vincent Price and John Carradine show up very briefly as, respectively, a lecturer on morality and a Shakespearean monologist.

 

[Vince W]

Dredd (2012). Such a great representation of the character. Superb acting from the entire cast. I think if it had retained more of the look from the comic then American audiences might have been more inclined to see the film in the cinema to make it the success it should have been.

 

[Rodders]

I very much enjoyed Dredd and am eternally gutted that it didn't do well at the box office. I'm bored with MCU and DC Superheroes.

 

[Vince W]

Same here, Rodders. MCU and DC are bland and predictable.

 

[Don]

Viva Las Vegas was recently watched in its entirety for the first time. I thoroughly enjoyed everything in it.

 

[Jeffbert]

RIDE 'EM COWBOY (1942) A & C go West and end up in a rodeo. I found myself frequently clicking to 30 second advance button during the songs.



THE MARK OF ZORRO (1940) O.K., so I just ran Ben M's before and after comments, and the sword fight between Zorro & Sherlock Holmes. Best scene of all. Seen the film too many times to count. Someday, I will read the book!

 

[KGeo777]

THE MARK OF ZORRO (1940) O.K., so I just ran Ben M's before and after comments, and the sword fight between Zorro & Sherlock Holmes. Best scene of all. Seen the film too many times to count. Someday, I will read the book!

I had a little hobby going of watching every Zorro movie made from the first Douglas Fairbanks through to the 70s.

The Mark of the Zorro 1940 is the last one I watched (although I have seen some from later).
The first story is pretty close to the Fairbanks movie--even the description of him as small of stature. It took a while to get used to Fairbanks as he reminded me of William Devane but his gymnastics can't be beat.

The sequel Don Q-Son of Zorro is very loosely connected to the first movie.

The Bold Caballero 1936 --it takes a while to get used to the guy playing him although when masked he gives a Batman kind of vibe and his mask is close to the first book illustration of him. It is also notable for the love interest guessing his identity--when the supposedly foppish Don Diego Vega saves her from a charging bull she immediately says: "wait a minute-you aren't a fop--what are you hiding?"

Zorro Rides Again 1937 - the serial -about his grandson---has an interesting portrait of Zorro on a wall - he looks more like Superman or Doc Savage with a mustache.

Zorro's Fighting Legion 1939 -- is the most superheroic of them--in fact this is what inspired Batman and Robin because Zorro has a legion of assistants and they dress similar to Robin (especially the modern Neal Adams-inspired costume with the black on the outside and the yellow on the inside).

There are too many Zorro movies to watch if one includes Mexico and Spain which made a lot. One I want to check out has Zorro in prison for 20 years like the 1998 movie but he is rescued by his daughters.

Excluding the tv version with Frank Langella which I may have seen first (or the Disney one), there's the Alain Delon version I have yet to see.

I watched Zorro the Gay Blade in a drive-in.

Villain: "I see your sword is as sharp as your tongue."

Zorro: "And yours as dull as your wit!"

 

[alexvss]

The Housemaid, the Korean one from 2010. A young maid gets involved with her married boss after she starts working for a rich family, and when they find out, she'll get a taste of how weird and crazy the super rich can be.

Although the first thing that comes to mind when you see this movie while swiping Amazon Prime is The Handmaiden (2016), it has nothing to do it. It's more like a mix between Parasite (2019) and Ready or Not (2019), with a pinch of erotic. I really liked some frames here, and there are some scenes that are, uh, "spicy". "Eat the rich" seems to be another Korean obsession, and this movie just won't stop throwing that concept at your face. But the ending is not nearly as satisfying as in Ready or Not.

Youn Yuh-jung, who won the Oscar for playing the grandmother from Minari (2020), is also in the movie. She plays an older maid, destroyed after dedicating her life working for those weird rich people.

If you already watched the Korean modern classics, this one is definitely worth it.

 

[BAYLOR]

Space Battleship Yamato 2010 live action film.