What was the last movie you saw?

[AE35Unit]

The Fifth Element - Wikipedia

Can't believe this film is 20 years old!

Loved it first time round in the cinema back in 1997, and on repeat viewings on dvd. But watched it again last night, and found it rather on the long side and rather shallow!

Still great fun for all that.

3/5

Multipass....
Great fun film

 

[Starbeast]

Excellent film. Very entertaining.

Not bad. Surprisingly, pretty good.​

 

[Jeffbert]

TCM ran a few scifi films the other night:

Scanners (1981) (WIKIPEDIA), which I had seen long ago, but had forgotten everything except one rather explosive scene.

Coma (1978) (WIKIPEDIA), interesting and even frightening idea that

Spoiler

hospital surgery patients are selected for cannibalization of their parts!

TCM was running A STARS BEHIND BARS theme Tuesday nights in January hosted by Ben M & featuring the Shawshank director. The two discussed the films, a few similarities as well as differences, etc. So, I watched Brubaker (1980) (WIKIPEDIA), which opened with the star being a prisoner new to this prison,

Spoiler

and seeing things that he expected he, as warden would not see. So, he eventually reveals himself as the new warden, who now knowing of the things that really do occur there was able to 'reform' the prison (In a CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT and also in 1001 ARABIAN NIGHTS, The king/ruler & his adviser/Vizier/The Boss don commoners' clothes and go out among the people to see things as others would see them).

So, anyway, the civilian politicians that run the prison -err- that hired Brubaker, among them, the guy who played the Mayor in JAWS, all regard the prison as a money-maker, and could not care less about anything else. so, in the end, they ruin Brubaker's attempts to reform the prison, he resigns, and brutality resumes.

 

[J Riff]

Captain Phillips is a hijack/piracy thriller, kidnap type action flick. Pirates board a huge cargo ship off the coast of Somalia, and all goes well for them until a US Navy gunboat shows up. But, what fate will befall the Captain?

 

[RX-79G]

Captain Phillips is a hijack/piracy thriller, kidnap type action flick. Pirates board a huge cargo ship off the coast of Somalia, and all goes well for them until a US Navy gunboat shows up. But, what fate will befall the Captain?

Given that it is a well known true story, what fate indeed?

 

[J Riff]

True as Hollywooded, close enough, maybe. I can't believe the Somalis would actually be so offensively dim. They had it in the bag, and then folded like a cheap tent.

 

[J Riff]

SpiderMan Strikes Back. 70s Spidey, the music makes it all seem like a 60s Batman episode... not much FX.. and the last lines is all I remember .. something about 'how do you know I'm not Spiderman if you haven't seen me wearing tights?' "Well if you'll put some on..." Something like that.

 

[2DaveWixon]

Saw John Wick 2 this afternoon. (the "2" means it's the second John Wick movie...)
Aside from those movies which featured environmental catastrophes (e.g., 2012) or atomic warfare, this might have been the most violent movie I've ever seen -- I lost track of how many people (almost all bad guys) got shot, knifed, run over...
John Wick is a sort of super assassin. In the first movie he tried to retire, and he's still trying here. But he's forced to go to Rome to assassinate a woman who has just become the leader of some sort of world-wide crime syndicate. He does, and then the fun starts, starting with a running gun battle in the catacombs...
Production values were superb in this one, I'll give it that. But Wick (like Batman, he has bulletproof clothing) is apparently more like Superman than Batman -- he can take incredible punishment. It's kind of weird: he spends a lot of time wandering around in public, but no one seems to notice that his face is all cut up or he's leaving bloody handprints.
One more thing I'll acknowledge as a "plus" or sorts: they must have put in an incredible amount of time choreographing the fight scenes (and there were a LOT of them!)
This one is not really violence-porn, I guess -- but it comes close!
The most offensive thing about the movie, though, is that it features and/or assumes that there is a world underlying our normal world, in which the superrich and super-violent coexist, living in incredible luxury while they, between them, control the planet...

 

[GCJ]

Arrival

To be fair, the movie pretty much did what it said on the tin. For me, it visited linguistics in a way that no other sci-fi movie would dare. On the flip-side of the bravery coin, would you readily ascend into a metallic egg-shaped levitating alien vessel on a hired hydraulic lift platform in the middle of a random field?

I'm hedging no.

 

[J Riff]

Nice 1st post GCJ. I dint take to it either.
Dave, I watched JohnWick too, and I agree, that annoying world of super-rich crazy people with lots of cars and expensive booze, and plenty time to run about playing with guns and bombs. I can only get out on weekends for that sort of thing, and it's just so tiring...

 

[clovis-man]

Snagged a blu-ray copy of The Magnetic Monster (1953). Excellent transfer, by the way. Some good reliable character acting by Richard Carlson (who's always good in this kind of tale) and King Donovan (from the 1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers). Actually a fairly taut story about a radioactive menace that uses a lot of stock footage from an earlier European movie. In order to meld some of the scenes involving the "deltatron", it was necessary for Richard Carlson to put on different hats and coats for no obvious reason otherwise. Enjoyable for nostalgia buffs like me.

 

[GCJ]

Nice 1st post GCJ. I dint take to it either.
Dave, I watched JohnWick too, and I agree, that annoying world of super-rich crazy people with lots of cars and expensive booze, and plenty time to run about playing with guns and bombs. I can only get out on weekends for that sort of thing, and it's just so tiring...

I thought the concept of Arrival was okay, but it was definitely let down by a few things. On the levitating ship front, the concept is difficult to comprehend other than taking it at the face value of the story.

Could a ship, or any object, cope with the never-ending calculations and corrections required to follow the rotation of the Earth to absolute perfection as it hovered there imperceptibly still?

I did enjoy the film though. Probably a six out of ten for me.

 

[Lucien21]

Saw John Wick Chapter 2 I thought it was a lot of fun.

 

[RX-79G]

Could a ship, or any object, cope with the never-ending calculations and corrections required to follow the rotation of the Earth to absolute perfection as it hovered there imperceptibly still?

I would say "yes", that should be very simple, but what makes you think that is the way it is hovering?

 

[Almeris]

John Wick Chapter 2 and Star Wars Rogue one.

 

[J Riff]

True Lies, speaking of airplanes hovering around downtown and blasting whole floors full of terrorists to bits.

 

[Allegra]

Ida - a Polish film, winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2015. It is black and white, quiet, but powerful.

 

[Boneman]

Ghost - saw the musical at the theatre and that whetted my appetite to drag out the DVD. It stands the test of time, and Demi Moore is the best actress I've seen at producing tears. Whoopi Goldberg still steals the movie...

 

[AE35Unit]

Ghost - saw the musical at the theatre and that whetted my appetite to drag out the DVD. It stands the test of time, and Demi Moore is the best actress I've seen at producing tears. Whoopi Goldberg still steals the movie...

Whoopi is the best part of that film. She is so good in it

 

[Steve Harrison]

I saw HACKSAW RIDGE and while the film is almost old fashioned (in a 1960s war movie way), the battle scenes are the most harrowing and horrific I've ever seen. Amazing and excellent movie based pretty accurately on a true story, but not for the faint-hearted!