What was the last movie you saw?

[2DaveWixon]

Ant-Man -- A surprisingly entertaining flick built on an absurd premise. ! I especially liked the cameo by Thomas the Tank Engine.

I think I went to this one a half-dozen times before it left the theaters...maybe I just needed to fall into a carefree and uncritical world, or something serious like that; but I came out smiling every time!

 

[Vince W]

I think I went to this one a half-dozen times before it left the theaters...maybe I just needed to fall into a carefree and uncritical world, or something serious like that; but I came out smiling every time!

Same for me. I still think it's Marvel's best effort to date.

 

[Allegra]

Watched again - this time on YT - the 2002's Polish film Chopin: Desire for Love. I bought the DVD a few years ago and liked it very much at that time. This time I enjoyed it even more. There are a few fictional details which I don't like as Chopin is a God to me, but the main storyline is quite close to the historical facts. The best things are the superb acting and music - both Chopin's and George Sand's actors got the characters personalities right; and through out the film the music could not have been chosen better from various Chopin's compositions to suit the scenes and moods. Just beautiful. At the end when the misty Polish landscape and the beginning of the 2nd concerto's slow movement rolled on, it's hard to hold tears back!

In comparison Impromptus (Hugh Grant as Chopin!) is more like a film makers' silly impromptu. There is another b&w old old film about Chopin on YT which I couldn't stand to watch because the actor has the air of Elvis Presley.

 

[Vaz]

Gus Van Sants' Gerry starring Casey Affleck and Matt Damon.

I love this film. It's beautiful, and for some reason has always creeped me out. Waiting for the inevitable doom of the characters always makes my guts twist.

Summary: Damon & Affleck are outdoor types who go walking on a familiar trail and get lost. The quest to find their way out of a barren landscape stretches the bonds of their friendship.

 

[Starbeast]

Yeah, Beasty, loved Midnight Meat Train. It was the first time I saw Bradley Cooper do some real acting. And stone faced Vinny was great. You really don't have to talk to make an impression.

That's for sure.

By the way, I forgot to mention that the 2000 TV movie about the 3 Stooges, was filmed in Australia.

For my sins, after a long day and just wanting to watch something brainless, I threw Barb Wire into the DVD player.

That was a mistake. I think it was a measure of just how knackered I was that I was some 25 minutes into it that I realised it was a tragically awful remake of Casablanca.

A horrible remake of Casablanca?! I never would have guessed what that film was about, I haven't seen it . It's one of those movies that made my, NEVER WATCH list. I'm so glad you survived that one, JunkMonkey.

Fair warning, don't ever see: The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015) - Curiosity almost destroyed my brain. I liked the 2004 movie, I had a good laugh at that one. But the sequel............................shockingly bad.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Cheerleaders Beach Party (1978)

Sex comedy which is neither erotic nor funny. Hardly any plot. Four college cheerleaders do various things (hardly any of them sexual) to keep members of the football team from transferring to another school. Written by porn director Chuck Vincent, but barely rates a soft PG. Very poorly filmed, with some scenes so dark you can't see a thing. Dumbest scene: The cheerleaders pretending to be ghosts by wearing filmy translucent sheets and speaking in "spooky" voices. This actually succeeds in scaring the football players.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Charade (1963) -- Nearly perfect balance of suspense, romance, and comedy; a formula which has been tried many times with much less success. Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant are a charming couple. (As usual, Hepburn's leading man is a quarter century too old for her; but let's ignore that.) James Coburn, Ned Glass, and George Kennedy are scary, eccentric bad guys; Walter Matthau is in fine form as a CIA bureaucrat. The clever, witty screenplay is from the same talented writer who adapted The Taking of Pelham One Two Three and other thrillers. Most movies of this kind make the mistake of making the comedy and romance more important than the suspense; in this one, the plot is genuinely tense and scary. Highly recommended.

 

[Randy M.]

Charade is one of my favorite Cary Grant movies even though it's late in his career. A homage to Hitchcock, it combines everything you mention with a fine score by Henry Mancini, the theme song one of my favorites from his work. Hepburn and Grant mesh amazingly well; she was, in a way, one of the major bridges between old Hollywood of Bogart, Cooper, Grant, Peck, Holden, Astaire, Fonda, Lancaster and the newer Hollywood of Alan Arkin, George Peppard, Peter O'Toole, Anthony Perkins, James Garner, Connery that arose in the 1960s. Given how her career only began in the early 1950s, it's surprising she got to work with so many stars from the '30s and 40's.

A bit more on-topic ...

Session 9 (2001) -- A crew wins the bid to clean out Danvers State Mental Institution, a huge, rambling building from the 1800s closed fifteen years earlier after a scandal. Each of the cleaners has issues and their issues magnify while in the building, something stemming from the murders committed by one of the inmates seeming to infest the Institution and affect them. Starring David Caruso, Peter Mullan, with Josh Lucas shortly before he became a leading man, this is one of the better supernatural thrillers I've watched lately. Funny that, roughly, between 1999 and 2001 there were so many solid, effective ghost/horror movies like The Others, The Blair Witch Project, and The Sixth Sense that relied more on misdirection and implication than on special effects.


Randy M.

 

[REBerg]

Dead Pool Everything I expected from an R-rated superhero movie and more. I was surprised to see the Marvel Universe poke fun at itself, all the way through the expected but unexpected after-credits bonus. Good as it was, though, I thought the first Kick-Ass was better.

 

[J Riff]

Well, the Charade theme is a fave here too, been playing it for years.
Marvel/Schmarvel, its all junk here. ) The roomie watches them all and goes Hur, huhhr, but I found the comix more engaging.. up till I wuz 14.
Need more suggestions. Running out of stuff. Watced Rango, a weird animated chameleon-in-the-old-west flick...(?) and it was perty alrite podner. Some stupid animal jokes about various bodily functions of aminals in the desert... but okay.

 

[Starbeast]

War of the Insects - (1968 - A.K.A. - Genocide) A totally uninteresting movie, with a poorly written script. I was hoping for a giant insect movie (maybe a guy in a rubber suit smashing buildings, or big puppet bugs jumping on people), but this train-wreck was a pitiful sci-fi flick choked full of (who cares) sub-plots. Out of a Ten Star rating system, I give this one, a negative five.

The X From Outer Space (1967) - An, "OK", giant monster movie that has a nice look to it, with potential to be a better film then what it was. However, for me, the strangest thing about this story, is that the characters are more concerned about a new scientific discovery that they didn't know was dangerous, and afterwards, they all agreed it should have been left alone in the first place. Was that they had great opportunities to make contact with an alien who was flying a UFO around them constantly during their space mission, but they all chose to ignore it because it couldn't be real.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Cold Sweat (1970) -- Modest but fairly entertaining action flick based on Ride the Nightmare, a 1959 novel by Richard Matheson. Charles Bronson stars as a guy who leads a pretty good life as the captain of a charter boat in the south of France. He's married (to Liv Ullman, of all people) and has a preteen stepdaughter. Then his past catches up with him, in the form of some guys who broke out of a military prison with him years ago. One of them killed a cop, so Bronson drove off in the getaway car without them. Now they want him to use his boat to in a narcotics smuggling scheme, with the wife and stepdaughter as assurance that he doesn't double-cross them.

Good stuff: Nice use of location, with some striking scenery. One hell of a car chase. Some suspenseful scenes not involving Bronson (see below.)

Not-so-good stuff: James Mason, as one of the bad guys, sounds really weird with a Deep South accent. Bronson is obviously a lot tougher than the bad guys, so there's not a lot of suspense as he dispatches of them. Jill Ireland has a goofy role as the hippie girlfriend of Mason.

 

[Rodders]

I watched Star Trek Beyond last night. I thought it was the most original one so far.

 

[J Riff]

Bandits (200?)- a duo of bank robbers take a woman hostage and she becomes an outlaw. They rob banks and that sort of thing; not bad as clever heist flicks go.

 

[J-Sun]

Much like my last post on this thread: The Force Awakens, viewing #5. This was because I rewatched the original trilogy and followed it up with the sequel, all in the course of a few days, to see how that worked. I wish I had something profound to say about the four together, but I don't much. Probably the main thing that struck more forcefully (npi) was how much the originals homaged themselves. Everybody knows how "borrowed" the first one was from elsewhere, and then the double-Death Star destructions are also widely commented on but it even goes down to little things like R2-D2 being et by the swamp thing on Dagobah being a replay of Luke being pulled under in the trash compactor scene and so on. Another thing I noticed was hilarious. I've seen the original movie a billion times over umpty-ump years and if I ever noticed it before or have ever heard anyone else mention it, I've forgotten it but I noticed a stormtrooper hit his head on a low hanging doorway - the extra-funny part is where he puts his hand to his mask and rubs his "nose." (I guess when the helmet banged up, it must have shoved part of it into his nose.) Anyway - one odd thing was that, while I've long considered the second and third movies to sort of be two halves of one movie and for that movie to be a step down from the first, Jedi actually was less thrilling than usual. The Tatooine stuff, which was always a long prologue but interesting for eons felt like a really loooong prologue and the best part of the movie is the Skywalker/Vader/Emperor+Fleet/Star Destroyers/Death Star battle combo but even it was less thrilling. Still, good stuff. And I really do feel that the new movie fits. As I said before, the second and third movies of this trilogy need to reverse the original trilogy and do less homage and be better than the first of this trilogy, but it's off to a good start.

So that's probably it for Star Wars for awhile. Next up, view #2 of The Martian - it's been almost exactly 11 months since I saw it once in the theater.

 

[dask]

Cold Sweat (1970) -- Modest but fairly entertaining action flick based on Ride the Nightmare, a 1959 novel by Richard Matheson. Charles Bronson stars as a guy who leads a pretty good life as the captain of a charter boat in the south of France. He's married (to Liv Ullman, of all people) and has a preteen stepdaughter. Then his past catches up with him, in the form of some guys who broke out of a military prison with him years ago. One of them killed a cop, so Bronson drove off in the getaway car without them. Now they want him to use his boat to in a narcotics smuggling scheme, with the wife and stepdaughter as assurance that he doesn't double-cross them.

Good stuff: Nice use of location, with some striking scenery. One hell of a car chase. Some suspenseful scenes not involving Bronson (see below.)

Not-so-good stuff: James Mason, as one of the bad guys, sounds really weird with a Deep South accent. Bronson is obviously a lot tougher than the bad guys, so there's not a lot of suspense as he dispatches of them. Jill Ireland has a goofy role as the hippie girlfriend of Mason.

Kinda went to all his stuff back then but don't remember this one. Have to check the video store for rental.

 

[JunkMonkey]

So that's probably it for Star Wars for awhile. Next up, view #2 of The Martian - it's been almost exactly 11 months since I saw it once in the theater.

I think you would have to bang me on the head with a doorway several times before I would even contemplate watching four Star Wars films on the trot like that.

Bucket of Blood with daughter Number One who is discovering a love of old B&W 'horror' - her analysis? "It's The Little Shop of Horrors with beatniks!"

 

[Vince W]

For the Love of Spock. The documentary made by Leonard Nimoy's son, Adam. The first hour is very interesting as it mostly focuses on Nimoy and Star Trek. The second hour is less interesting as it becomes more about Adam and his strained relationship with his father. It was interesting to see, but I doubt I'd ever watch it again.

However, straight after the documentary the cinema showed Wrath of Khan! It's still the best Star Trek film and well worth seeing in the cinema again. Now that was a great way to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Star Trek.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Kinda went to all his stuff back then but don't remember this one. Have to check the video store for rental.

Available on-line here if you prefer.

Cold Sweat : Terrence Young, director : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Bucket of Blood with daughter Number One who is discovering a love of old B&W 'horror' - her analysis? "It's The Little Shop of Horrors with beatniks!"

That's a perfect description. Smart daughter.