Last Movie You Watched

[George]

Finished the third season of TPB.  Good, good stuff.

Told ya! 

[Todd]

Told ya!

I'm just glad I bought the cheeseburger locker edition so I can watch at my leisure.

[Sergeant Rock]

Despite its 7.0 rating at IMDB this is a bad film. No expense was wasted on a script. The main character, played by Chris Mitchum, son of Robert Mitchum, has about six lines of dialogue total even though he's in 90% of the scenes. The film begins with a six-year-old blond boy witnessing a murder and is immediately followed by a scene in which a twenty-six-year-old blond man commits two murders. No explanation of the characters or their motivations. Eventually we're told, and expected to believe, that this man is on a revenge spree, hunting down the crime bosses who killed his father. How he manages to do that (killing and kidnapping people in New York, Spain, Portugal and France) defies belief. In point of fact, he fails in the end...which is rather refreshing 

The film does have one very good reason to watch it...and even re-watch it: Olivia Hussey:








Sarge

[Cato]

Sarge

For those too young here to know it, Olivia Hussey was Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's movie version of Shakespeare's play.

[DavidW]

For those too young here to know it, Olivia Hussey was Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's movie version of Shakespeare's play.

I immediately recognized her from that role from the pic Sarge posted even though I saw Romeo and Juliet in 9th grade!   It had this one classic scene... 

[Cato]

I immediately recognized her from that role from the pic Sarge posted even though I saw Romeo and Juliet in 9th grade!   It had this one classic scene... 

I discovered that Olivia Hussey is an Argentinian!

One last comment on the movie Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: director Spike Lee has complained about a plot device in recent years which he calls the "Magic Negro," wherein an Afro-American (e.g. Morgan Freeman) plays some sort of mystical spirit guide who helps a white character find fulfillment.

Let us simply say that Mr. Lee would not like Extremely Loud at all!

[lisa needs braces]

I immediately recognized her from that role from the pic Sarge posted even though I saw Romeo and Juliet in 9th grade!   It had this one classic scene... 

And to think, she was only 15 at the time!

[ibanezmonster]

I immediately recognized her from that role from the pic Sarge posted even though I saw Romeo and Juliet in 9th grade!   It had this one classic scene... 

Me, too, in my 9th grade English class. That scene, or at least those few seconds, were the best part of the movie... well, the only part I was interested in, at least.

[Lethevich]

For those too young here to know it, Olivia Hussey was Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's movie version of Shakespeare's play.

The only time a film with boobs in would ever be considered acceptable for playing to high school English students

[Cato]

The only time a film with boobs in would ever be considered acceptable for playing to high school English students

There are many boobs in any high-school English class!  0:)    Eventually they - in general - do become somewhat brighter.

[Todd]

Modestly entertaining.  Corey Stoll as Ernest Hemingway was the best part.

[drogulus]

Modestly entertaining.  Corey Stoll as Ernest Hemingway was the best part.

     My reaction was a bit mixed. Woody Allen has the worst case of art cult snobbery ever to appear in mass audience films, yet he has the sense to make fun of the trait in his characters (Michael Sheen). Basically I'm through with Allen. He panders to his audience with cheap uplift. A real industrial strength snob like me doesn't think a thin application of art knowledge is good for you, or even that art is good for you. Children benefit from it because it opens channels of the mind and mental performance improves.  The funny thing is that Allen is a genuine practitioner with the attitudes of a cultural tourist getting his art ticket punched. I'm sick of it.

[DavidW]

One last comment on the movie Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: director Spike Lee has complained about a plot device in recent years which he calls the "Magic Negro," wherein an Afro-American (e.g. Morgan Freeman) plays some sort of mystical spirit guide who helps a white character find fulfillment.

Yeah they're either magic, wise, comic relief or token.

[val]

FRITZ LANG:         Die Nibelungen:  Kriemhilds Rache

This 2nd part impressed me even more than the first. In fact, it impressed me very deeply, more than any Tragedy I saw in cinema. Except perhaps Kurosawa's "Ran".

[Karl Henning]

. . . The funny thing is that Allen is a genuine practitioner with the attitudes of a cultural tourist getting his art ticket punched.

Nicely turned phrase, BTW.

[Karl Henning]

Now there is a classic for the ages!     Great fun stuff!

Last night, aye, some more Upsidaisium on Rocky & Bullwinkle.

[DavidW]

Eventually they - in general - do become somewhat brighter.

Wishful thinking!

[Cato]

There are many boobs in any high-school English class!  0:)    Eventually they - in general - do become somewhat brighter.

Wishful thinking!

Well, note all the careful hedging in that statement!   

Sometimes I quote the restaurant manager in Ferris Bueller: "I weep for the future!"  0:)

[Bulldog]

Modestly entertaining.  Corey Stoll as Ernest Hemingway was the best part.

I'll agree with that.  For me, Owen Wilson was a very weak link in the movie. 

[drogulus]

I'll agree with that.  For me, Owen Wilson was a very weak link in the movie. 

     I thought he was a fine Woody surrogate. Like the Wood Man himself, he has a surface shallowness that obscures a deeper shallowness. If only we knew.....

    Nah, that's unfair to Wilson. He did play a shallow character with hidden depths in The Minus Man.