Last Movie You Watched

[Nostromo]

This was very well done, but also quite gory and violent.

[DavidW]

I really liked this movie. It got me to reread the novel. Most movies turn the creature into a stupid brute. However, rereading the novel I have to say that Victor Frankenstein is more sympathetic and the creature is not a noble savage. He ends up going on a homicidal rampage. Still, pretty good movie.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Rental Family. Wonderful movie about connection and loneliness. No big action or graphic effect. It's a character and story-driven movie.
I personally prefer this movie to Godzilla Minus One.

[AnotherSpin]

This was very well done, but also quite gory and violent.

For some reason I came away from this film feeling I'd expected more than I actually got.

Frankenstein plays out less as a tale of monsters and gore, and more as a sad story of people failing to see past appearances. Victor, puffed up with ambition, cobbles together a being but never recognises the bond between them, while the creature, judged only by his looks, is left to suffer rejection and loneliness.

Their clash comes from both holding too tightly to surface roles. Victor as the master of life, the creature as the unwanted outsider, without realising they're cut from the same cloth. The real horror isn't the stitched body, it's the blindness that keeps them apart, a reminder of how much pain comes when we mistake outward differences for deeper truth.

Yet the cinematography is superb, and Mia Goth is nothing short of magnificent. She further confirms that she is not merely a horror actress but a rare virtuoso who plays the genre itself as one might a Stradivarius, with fearless precision, unsettling grace, and a wicked, intoxicating command that leaves one breathless.

And I must say, Alexandre Desplat's score was a pleasure to hear.

[brewski]

Bullitt (1968, dir. Peter Yates). A perennial fave. And though the car chase gets all the attention, I really like the editing in the last half hour, with Steve McQueen pursuing a suspect through the San Francisco airport.

[Karl Henning]

Bullitt (1968, dir. Peter Yates). A perennial fave. And though the car chase gets all the attention, I really like the editing in the last half hour, with Steve McQueen pursuing a suspect through the San Francisco airport.

Time I watched this,  really. Back when the MFA's Special Exhibit was Ralph Lauren's car collection, Bullitt was one of the DVDs on sale at the Gift Shop.

[brewski]

Time I watched this,  really. Back when the MFA's Special Exhibit was Ralph Lauren's car collection, Bullitt was one of the DVDs on sale at the Gift Shop.

It's quite entertaining. PS, I just found this article on the Mustang used in the film, which is sensational. If nothing else, whatever happened to dark green as a color choice? As a non-car owner, I don't really care, but today's car world is a bit dull.

[Karl Henning]

It's quite entertaining. PS, I just found this article on the Mustang used in the film, which is sensational. If nothing else, whatever happened to dark green as a color choice? As a non-car owner, I don't really care, but today's car world is a bit dull.

Our first car as a family was a dark green Dodge Intrepid. It was one handsome set of wheels.