What was the last movie you saw?
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Well it all depends where you go. It seems like there is less accent out west. The east coast is a whole different world. Usually the big cities have less accents it seems. This is a MASSIVE country! Takes a long time to get anywhere in it
JunkMonkey
Lord High Vizier of Nowt
North Manchester or south Manchester?
Tonight Number One Daughter (aged 12) decided that for her turn in the weekly family bigscreen and pizza movie night we were all going to watch The Fifth Element. I had forgotten how funny it was. It's the wife's turn next week.
Tonight Number One Daughter (aged 12) decided that for her turn in the weekly family bigscreen and pizza movie night we were all going to watch The Fifth Element. I had forgotten how funny it was. It's the wife's turn next week.
Out Of The Furnace (2013) It looked good enough and had a pretty decent soundtrack but as movies go, this did very little for me. Some pretty stupid editing/writing decisions meant that one of the prime character development moments for the main protagonist was glossed over and rushed through. I don't know if this was a writing choice or editorial decision to leave most of the scene on the proverbial cutting room floor but, either way, it left me pretty disconnected and uncaring about the character.
What we have here is a 'revenge movie' filmed by the numbers. A shame because it's got a pretty decent cast (Woody Harrelson, Christian Bale, Zoe Saldana, Willem Dafoe & Forest Whitaker).
What we have here is a 'revenge movie' filmed by the numbers. A shame because it's got a pretty decent cast (Woody Harrelson, Christian Bale, Zoe Saldana, Willem Dafoe & Forest Whitaker).
Starbeast
Benevolent Galactic Cowboy
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
For me, this is the best movie of the year (so far)! Exceptional comic book enterainment!
For me, this is the best movie of the year (so far)! Exceptional comic book enterainment!
Murder By Death (1976)
Amusing murder mystery comedy with a stellar cast you just don't see these days (Truman Capote, Peter Falk, David Niven, Peter Sellers, Alec Guinness, Maggie Smith, James Coco, Elsa Lanchester & Eileen Brennan)
Amusing murder mystery comedy with a stellar cast you just don't see these days (Truman Capote, Peter Falk, David Niven, Peter Sellers, Alec Guinness, Maggie Smith, James Coco, Elsa Lanchester & Eileen Brennan)
Victoria Silverwolf
Vegetarian Werewolf
Endless Night (1972)
Odd little psychodrama based on a novel by Agatha Christie, but don't expect a traditional whodunit. About two-thirds of this movie is a quirky love story, as a ne'er-do-well British fellow wins the heart of an American heiress. We're reminded that we're watching something darker than that with a few weird touches here and there, as well as a moody score by the great Bernard Herrmann. (The heiress also sings this poem by William Blake, which gives the novel its title.)
Every night and every morn,
Some to misery are born,
Every morn and every night,
Some are born to sweet delight.
Some are born to sweet delight,
Some are born to endless night.
The movie begins with the fellow narrating his story to somebody unseen, in a manner which suggests that he has been traumatized by some terrible event. We see psychedelic images of the heiress through his eyes, but she doesn't have a face. As the story progresses, we are introduced to various colorful characters -- an architect dying from an unspecified disease, who builds the couple their super-futuristic dream home (including one-way picture windows and a swimming pool in the living room); the local crazy cat lady/psychic, who murmurs dark warnings; relatives of the heiress; the German tutor/Best Friend Forever of the heiress; the family lawyer; the local doctor; and so on.
About an hour into the movie, it suddenly turns into a crime drama. Somebody dies (natural causes or murder?) and certain characters turn out to be different than we thought. You may see the plot twists coming, and you may find them implausible; but the weirdness of it all may keep you watching. Be warned that the young man is a very unreliable narrator indeed. At least one character may not even be real (it's never made entirely clear), a certain important flashback is shown in two quite different ways, and some of the things we see must be hallucinations. (Either that, or else the movie makes another sudden change and turns into a ghost story.)
Odd little psychodrama based on a novel by Agatha Christie, but don't expect a traditional whodunit. About two-thirds of this movie is a quirky love story, as a ne'er-do-well British fellow wins the heart of an American heiress. We're reminded that we're watching something darker than that with a few weird touches here and there, as well as a moody score by the great Bernard Herrmann. (The heiress also sings this poem by William Blake, which gives the novel its title.)
Every night and every morn,
Some to misery are born,
Every morn and every night,
Some are born to sweet delight.
Some are born to sweet delight,
Some are born to endless night.
The movie begins with the fellow narrating his story to somebody unseen, in a manner which suggests that he has been traumatized by some terrible event. We see psychedelic images of the heiress through his eyes, but she doesn't have a face. As the story progresses, we are introduced to various colorful characters -- an architect dying from an unspecified disease, who builds the couple their super-futuristic dream home (including one-way picture windows and a swimming pool in the living room); the local crazy cat lady/psychic, who murmurs dark warnings; relatives of the heiress; the German tutor/Best Friend Forever of the heiress; the family lawyer; the local doctor; and so on.
About an hour into the movie, it suddenly turns into a crime drama. Somebody dies (natural causes or murder?) and certain characters turn out to be different than we thought. You may see the plot twists coming, and you may find them implausible; but the weirdness of it all may keep you watching. Be warned that the young man is a very unreliable narrator indeed. At least one character may not even be real (it's never made entirely clear), a certain important flashback is shown in two quite different ways, and some of the things we see must be hallucinations. (Either that, or else the movie makes another sudden change and turns into a ghost story.)
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Murder By Death (1976)
Amusing murder mystery comedy with a stellar cast you just don't see these days (Truman Capote, Peter Falk, David Niven, Peter Sellers, Alec Guinness, Maggie Smith, James Coco, Elsa Lanchester & Eileen Brennan)
Agreed. A highly entertaining spoof.
Maleficent
Well done. Ms. Jolie doesn't do anything half-baked. And Sharlto Copley seems to be falling into the "designated villain" roles. Well worth seeing.
Jack Reacher
I haven't read any of the Lee Child books, but this was a pretty good thriller. Some may find that Tom Cruise overplayed his role, but the overall flow of the film was captivating. And Robert Duvall's small role was a gem. He even validated the one-eyed path to "retaining one's night vision" that I learned in boot camp in the Viet Nam era.
dask
dark and stormy knight
SAVING MISTER BANKS. Wasn't sure how they could pull this off but they did. Really enjoyed it.
Beyond The Door (1974)
A film that can only be described as a poor man's Exorcist and extremely mediocre at that.
Avoid. There are far more interesting things that can be done in the 97 minutes it takes to watch this.
A film that can only be described as a poor man's Exorcist and extremely mediocre at that.
Avoid. There are far more interesting things that can be done in the 97 minutes it takes to watch this.
In the Blood - surprised me by being a very watchable whodunnit and whydunnit instead of an excuse for wall-to-wall MMA-style mayhem.
I Frankenstein - the last effort from the Underworld team delights with effects and action, but lacks seriously in cohesion. I like this sort of stuff a lot, but this one came up hollow.
The Machine - While I vaguely get the links to Blade Runner being touted, they do this film a disservice. This is a thumper of a dystopian future film with some stunning camerawork, a sustained atmosphere of awry and discomfort throughout the early sections, and some storming acting to back decent characterisation. The scope of the film is sensibly restricted to allow it's budget to be put foreground use rather than futuristic vista rendering. For me, there are a couple of moments of sublime cinematic beauty as well.
Lone Survivor - Films about this sort of event are never going to be cheerful, but this one cuts it's cloth to fit and does not attempt to sugar-coat the scope of the clusterf*ck. Recommended if this sort of topic is one you feel the need to watch.
I Frankenstein - the last effort from the Underworld team delights with effects and action, but lacks seriously in cohesion. I like this sort of stuff a lot, but this one came up hollow.
The Machine - While I vaguely get the links to Blade Runner being touted, they do this film a disservice. This is a thumper of a dystopian future film with some stunning camerawork, a sustained atmosphere of awry and discomfort throughout the early sections, and some storming acting to back decent characterisation. The scope of the film is sensibly restricted to allow it's budget to be put foreground use rather than futuristic vista rendering. For me, there are a couple of moments of sublime cinematic beauty as well.
Lone Survivor - Films about this sort of event are never going to be cheerful, but this one cuts it's cloth to fit and does not attempt to sugar-coat the scope of the clusterf*ck. Recommended if this sort of topic is one you feel the need to watch.
biodroid
A.D.D.
Vampire Academy, very bad movie. The new Robocop, it was OK, not nearly as good as the original. It took the first half just to get to see Robocop
Hunger Games. I enjoyed it way more than I thought I would, but it's probably best not to question things. (I've not read the books, so I'm going to content myself with thinking that all my questions are answered there).
I saw it too last night for the first time, and I have to say that I enjoyed it far more than I thought I was going to as well.
It was also not as Battle Royale as I thought it would be, which probably helped a lot (I like Battle Royale, so if HG was a blatant rip off I was ready to rip it apart.)
JunkMonkey
Lord High Vizier of Nowt
I've never actually read the book. Something I should remedy in the future methinks.
Victoria Silverwolf
Vegetarian Werewolf
Teenagers Battle the Thing (1958)
Sounds like a spoof of 50's monster movies, but it's the real thing. Ultra-low budget black-and-white quickie, apparently never released in theaters, runs less than an hour. A teacher and some students go digging for artifacts somewhere out West. They find a Stone Age tool (sure looks like just a rock to me) so the males go climb a huge boulder while the two females wait below. The guys find a big rock, pry it up, and find the opening to a big cave. They go inside and find a "mummy" (dead guy covered with solidified mud or some such.) (The opening narration prepared us for the fact that this is an ancient "ape man" of some kind.) Somehow they haul it out of there and drag it off in a pickup truck to some building or other. It comes to life, menaces some folks, the teacher and the students and the local cop wait for it, it shows up, they throw gasoline on it and set it on fire. The end. Laughably awful monster suit, in the style of Larry Buchanan.
Curse of Bigfoot (1976)
Some guy in a cheap monster suit stalks a woman and her dog very slowly. Just as the attack is about to happen, we find out that we've been watching a movie-within-the-movie. Some students (high school or college), apparently taking a class in Monsters, listen to a teacher talk about Yeti/Bigfoot. This leads to a lot of stock footage of snowy mountains, forestry workers shoving big logs around, etc. We also get a fictional sequence of a couple of guys getting attacked by Bigfoot. (All we see is the big foot.) Back to the classroom. After some chatter (the whole class laughs hysterically when one student says that griffins ate everything of their victims except the shoes), the teacher introduces a guest speaker, who actually encountered Bigfoot. The guy comes in and explains that the incident was so horrifying that three of the folks involved spent the rest of their lives in mental institutions. We then go into flashback mode and find out . . . the rest of the movie is our old friend Teenagers Battle the Thing, but this time it's in color. It must have been filmed that way, then printed in black-and-white. I guess they printed it in color years later and added half an hour of introductory padding. I didn't bother watching this thing again, but flipping through it convinces me that they just slapped the old movie at the end of the new footage; we never do go back to the classroom. Both versions are awful, but Teenagers Battle the Thing has a certain 50's charm which is lost in the color version. It also has the not inconsiderable virtue of being only two-thirds as long as Curse of Bigfoot.
Sounds like a spoof of 50's monster movies, but it's the real thing. Ultra-low budget black-and-white quickie, apparently never released in theaters, runs less than an hour. A teacher and some students go digging for artifacts somewhere out West. They find a Stone Age tool (sure looks like just a rock to me) so the males go climb a huge boulder while the two females wait below. The guys find a big rock, pry it up, and find the opening to a big cave. They go inside and find a "mummy" (dead guy covered with solidified mud or some such.) (The opening narration prepared us for the fact that this is an ancient "ape man" of some kind.) Somehow they haul it out of there and drag it off in a pickup truck to some building or other. It comes to life, menaces some folks, the teacher and the students and the local cop wait for it, it shows up, they throw gasoline on it and set it on fire. The end. Laughably awful monster suit, in the style of Larry Buchanan.
Curse of Bigfoot (1976)
Some guy in a cheap monster suit stalks a woman and her dog very slowly. Just as the attack is about to happen, we find out that we've been watching a movie-within-the-movie. Some students (high school or college), apparently taking a class in Monsters, listen to a teacher talk about Yeti/Bigfoot. This leads to a lot of stock footage of snowy mountains, forestry workers shoving big logs around, etc. We also get a fictional sequence of a couple of guys getting attacked by Bigfoot. (All we see is the big foot.) Back to the classroom. After some chatter (the whole class laughs hysterically when one student says that griffins ate everything of their victims except the shoes), the teacher introduces a guest speaker, who actually encountered Bigfoot. The guy comes in and explains that the incident was so horrifying that three of the folks involved spent the rest of their lives in mental institutions. We then go into flashback mode and find out . . . the rest of the movie is our old friend Teenagers Battle the Thing, but this time it's in color. It must have been filmed that way, then printed in black-and-white. I guess they printed it in color years later and added half an hour of introductory padding. I didn't bother watching this thing again, but flipping through it convinces me that they just slapped the old movie at the end of the new footage; we never do go back to the classroom. Both versions are awful, but Teenagers Battle the Thing has a certain 50's charm which is lost in the color version. It also has the not inconsiderable virtue of being only two-thirds as long as Curse of Bigfoot.
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