What was the last movie you saw?

KGeo777 said:
DOC SAVAGE: THE MAN OF BRONZE - 1975 - Ruined by stupid comedy inserts imposed by the studio but I wonder if the original conception would have worked. George Pal had not done any action hero films from what I recall--the Time Machine had some action but not that much--and despite the excellent casting, Ron Ely has little physical stunts to do--especially when they get to the Latin American setting. Basically they just sit around and talk. It feels antiquated--like a low budget 1950s film script dusted off for filming in the 70s. It needed more of a James Bond action element and I wonder if Pal or the director would have even considered that. Without better stunts and visuals I think it would have done mediocre box office.
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I remember seeing the posters when this was in the cinema. I was too young to see it myself. Probably glimpsed when I was taken by my father to see a classic like The 12 Tasks of Asterix, or Where the North Wind Blows.
 
Hell Bent for Leather - which would be a hell of a good name for a gay porn movie but is in fact a workmanlike Audie Murphy cowboy movie. I've never seen an Audie Murphy cowboy film before. It was very predictable. The scenery was nice.
 
JunkMonkey said:
Hell Bent for Leather - which would be a hell of a good name for a gay porn movie but is in fact a workmanlike Audie Murphy cowboy movie. I've never seen an Audie Murphy cowboy film before. It was very predictable. The scenery was nice.
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As I recall, the quality varied, but Murphy was fairly likeable as an actor.
 
GUNMEN OF THE RIO GRANDE 1966 - Guy Madison spaghetti western about Wyatt Earp. Some of the lighting and camera set ups reminds one of Leone but otherwise it is a very traditional kind of western. There's a guy who appears in this (and a million other euro westerns). Fernando Sancho--who kind of resembles a Mexican Richard Boone. He is always playing the bandito.
 
Idiocracy (2006): two unexceptional people wake up five hundred years into the future, to find that mankind has bred itself into stupidity. Satirical shenanigans follow as they struggle to come to terms with the crass, idiotic world that awaits them.

I found this to be fairly amusing although, ironically, its central premise was rather over-stated (it could do without the voice-over). It's odd watching this after Legally Blonde, whose apparently vapid heroine is actually pretty intelligent and nice, given that everyone in Idiocracy's future is a dirty, gormless redneck/chav/gangsta (middle-class idiots are possible, you know. I've met some). The comedy feels both perceptive and unkind, especially the idea that stupid people produce huge numbers of useless children - there's something a bit snobbish and almost eugenic about it, somehow. An entertaining and sometimes accurate satire, but one whose premise and politics leave a slightly sour taste.
 
Toby Frost said:
Idiocracy (2006): ... The comedy feels both perceptive and unkind, especially the idea that stupid people produce huge numbers of useless children - there's something a bit snobbish and almost eugenic about it, somehow. An entertaining and sometimes accurate satire, but one whose premise and politics leave a slightly sour taste.
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See also, Kornbluth, C. M. ("The Little Black Bag", "The Marching Morons", etc.)
 
Idaho Transfer (1973)

Offbeat, very low budget time travel film directed by Peter Fonda and starring Keith Carradine and a bunch of unknowns. Folks go back and forth between the present and a future after an unspecified disaster. There's a Twilight Zone style twist ending. Good use of Idaho landscapes; lava fields and the like. Difficult to follow at times. More interesting than really good.
 
Never heard of that, Victoria but it does sound pretty interesting.
 
AMUCK 1972- Story about a woman who goes to Venice to investigate the disappearance of a lesbian friend.
As a story it was ok-the ending was kind of weird and at times I wondered if there was a joke intention to the film but the gothic atmosphere in this is very strong right from the opening sequence with Barbara "can I break the world record for taking my clothes off in a film" Bouchet traveling through Venice--and you see more rural scenery than I have usually seen in stories set in Venice. The plot of the woman venturing into a spooky estate with sinister aristocratic characters feels 18th century, and the monstrous fisherman (who looks like the failed mutant offspring of Liam Neeson and Stanley Baker) fits into that too.


Bouchet's character seems easily manipulated for much of the film but we follow her into interesting situations like being trapped in the wine cellar and having to find a way out as well as the wild grass chase. I have not seen a sequence of someone trapped in quicksand handled in such a way as this--you really feel she is trapped and it is very hard to get her out.

As for the famous lesbian scene between here and Rosalba Neri (who always looks like she has the world by its private parts--she has a totally confident expression all the time) --it is handled so artistically--the use of slow motion works very well for it. Also provides a good anatomy lesson for artists. This the best role I have seen her in since Lady Frankenstein. She gets to revisit that through her manipulations of the fisherman.

One surprise was how the fisherman became more of a Karloff monster or Chaney Lennie due to the memory of the finger would he has--that felt like a Universal Gothic touch.

The shot I really liked was when they are reading the letter and you see the buildings of Venice in the water and Farley Granger says a line about Venice reflected in the water like a painting and that is exactly what it was like.
 
Mascarade (2022) French film. Didn’t actually care for it much. I saw this as part of the Auckland French film festival. Maybe I’ll see something more to my taste at the festival this w/e.
 
KGeo777 said:
AMUCK 1972- Story about a woman who goes to Venice to investigate the disappearance of a lesbian friend.
As a story it was ok-the ending was kind of weird and at times I wondered if there was a joke intention to the film but the gothic atmosphere in this is very strong right from the opening sequence with Barbara "can I break the world record for taking my clothes off in a film" Bouchet traveling through Venice--and you see more rural scenery than I have usually seen in stories set in Venice. The plot of the woman venturing into a spooky estate with sinister aristocratic characters feels 18th century, and the monstrous fisherman (who looks like the failed mutant offspring of Liam Neeson and Stanley Baker) fits into that too.


Bouchet's character seems easily manipulated for much of the film but we follow her into interesting situations like being trapped in the wine cellar and having to find a way out as well as the wild grass chase. I have not seen a sequence of someone trapped in quicksand handled in such a way as this--you really feel she is trapped and it is very hard to get her out.

As for the famous lesbian scene between here and Rosalba Neri (who always looks like she has the world by its private parts--she has a totally confident expression all the time) --it is handled so artistically--the use of slow motion works very well for it. Also provides a good anatomy lesson for artists. This the best role I have seen her in since Lady Frankenstein. She gets to revisit that through her manipulations of the fisherman.

One surprise was how the fisherman became more of a Karloff monster or Chaney Lennie due to the memory of the finger would he has--that felt like a Universal Gothic touch.

The shot I really liked was when they are reading the letter and you see the buildings of Venice in the water and Farley Granger says a line about Venice reflected in the water like a painting and that is exactly what it was like.
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I'll have to go looking for this. I've seen enough of Bouchet to think she could act but didn't get many good parts because the producers/directors only wanted to get her undressed. But this sounds interesting.
 
Randy M. said:
I'll have to go looking for this. I've seen enough of Bouchet to think she could act but didn't get many good parts because the producers/directors only wanted to get her undressed. But this sounds interesting.
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Have you see Cry of the Prostitute?
What she has to endure in that one...
 
Toby Frost said:
Idiocracy (2006): two unexceptional people wake up five hundred years into the future, to find that mankind has bred itself into stupidity. Satirical shenanigans follow as they struggle to come to terms with the crass, idiotic world that awaits them.

I found this to be fairly amusing although, ironically, its central premise was rather over-stated (it could do without the voice-over). It's odd watching this after Legally Blonde, whose apparently vapid heroine is actually pretty intelligent and nice, given that everyone in Idiocracy's future is a dirty, gormless redneck/chav/gangsta (middle-class idiots are possible, you know. I've met some). The comedy feels both perceptive and unkind, especially the idea that stupid people produce huge numbers of useless children - there's something a bit snobbish and almost eugenic about it, somehow. An entertaining and sometimes accurate satire, but one whose premise and politics leave a slightly sour taste.
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Based (kind of) on a Kuttner C. M. Kornbluth (I'm glad I factchecked myself there) story The Marching Morons.
 
LITTLE CIGARS- 1973 Came across this in a list of movies released this week--it is about a gangster's mistress who joins up with midget thieves to go on a crime spree. Feels like a Bogart movie if he was under five feet. As a Samuel Arkoff production don't expect it to be a sensitive examination of those of short stature but the movie does center on them and it was diverting enough as a tall tale.

Sorry, couldn't help it.
 
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