Last Movie You Watched

[SimonNZ]

My Week With Marilyn

Light as a feather, but perfectly charming. In no way challenging, but not insulting either.

[André]

Bobby, the story of the people who were shot along with Robert Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel. Or so the script says. It's difficult to ascertain if these are real or fictional characters. By and with Emilio Estevez and a multi-star cast. Well-meaning but a bit simplistic. A good tv movie.

[Daverz]

Bobby, the story of the people who were shot along with Robert Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel. Or so the script says. It's difficult to ascertain if these are real or fictional characters. By and with Emilio Estevez and a multi-star cast. Well-meaning but a bit simplistic. A good tv movie.

Does it deal with the girl in the polka-dot dress?  I just learned about one on the last Fargo (season 2, episode 1).

[André]

I...don't know. What's a polka dot dress?    Une robe de point de polka    ?

[NikF]

I...don't know. What's a polka dot dress?    Une robe de point de polka    ?

[SimonNZ]

Does it deal with the girl in the polka-dot dress?  I just learned about one on the last Fargo (season 2, episode 1).

I seem to recall the documentary RFK Must Die being a good overview of all the players in the conspiracy theories, looking at every bit of amateur footage filmed or photographed before, during and after, their subsequent interviews, and retracing the steps of many present, and everyone involved in proving the guilt of Sirhan Sirhan. Though in typical conspiracy theory style they treat everyone as guilty until proven inocent - though they way they build up cases of evil intent from random passers by captured on film is fascinating and revealing (so long as you don't get pulled in) and says much about a wider need for closure and to make sense where none can be found.

[listener]

from my Shaw Brothers collection
THE FANTASTIC MAGIC BABY   1975  dir. Chang Cheh
weird, weird to someone not immersed in The Journey to the West.
If you can get used to the artificial,  theatrical settings for a Western in RED GARTERS you'll get accustomed to the treatment of the famous Chinese saga here. 
The Monkey King and Goddess of Mercy battle and defeat the child god Hung Hai-erh then point him down the road to righteousness.
presentation note:  Magic Baby plays for 62 min. and is supplemented by a Peking Opera performance of The Spotted Golden Leopard running 26 min.  It's very much worth watching to see how much of the opera traditions have been incorporated into the film.

[SimonNZ]

Trishna

Michael Winterbottoms's third adaptation of a Thomas Hardy novel, but by far the least successful. Never one to use the same method twice when dealing with his on going preoccupations he deviates from the straightforward filming of Jude (Jude The Obscure) and the largely faithful but reset in a different time and place The Claim (The Mayor Of Casterbridge), and we here get a much looser adaptation that takes greater liberties with the source novel (Tess Of The D'Urbervilles), usually to its detriment.

Most misguided is the merging of the Angel and Alec characters into one, leading to odd and unbelievable character development that not even the usually superb Riz Ahmed can make work. And the issues attempted regarding the different perceptions of the same events by the two leads and their differing class experiences requires a stronger actress to convey than Freida Pinto, who has only two facial expressions: one for happy, one for sad.

The various and varying locations around India are beautifully shot, from poor town to affluent resort to labyrinthine metropolis, with detail carefully observed, but can't save what quickly becomes a dragging and frustrating watch.

[listener]

CROWS ZERO  Japan 2007   dir. Takasji Miike
set in a high school where almost all the students are alpha males belonging to gangs intent on beating up each other until one and its leader is top, then they graduate and the cycle starts again.
Reality is challenged as the actors are all in their mid-20's and meticulously coiffed, possibly from rock groups.  A famous manga is the source for the script.
Maybe like a Peckinpah version of Blackboard Jungle?  Some nice post-photography colour effects, almost edited well enough to keep the large cast straight in the viewer's mind.
Quite violent and improbable if you are hoping for some insight into Japanese education.
For a specialized audience.

[Todd]

Good Kill.  Ethan Hawke plays a former fighter pilot relegated to drone pilot duty in Las Vegas.  The CIA, in the voice of Peter Coyote, ends up taking control of his unit for looser rules of engagement kills, and the movie explores the damage done to Hawke's character as he drowns his sorrows in drink, has his marriage dissolve, and commiserates with a young and fortuitously gorgeous female copilot played by Zoe Kravitz.  The topic is ripe for a good or great movie, but this isn't really it.  The dialogue is too obvious and heavy-handed, the secondary characters too simplistic, and the impact on the ground overseas isn't really pursued.  And the final drone strike, which relates to a few earlier scenes, is not handled well at all. 

[North Star]

Lacombe, Lucien (1974)

Dir. Louis Malle
Script by Malle & Patrick Modiano

Pierre Blaise      ...   Lucien Lacombe
Aurore Clément   ...   France Horn
Holger Löwenadler   ...   Albert Horn

What would a frustrated teenager in occupied France do if he couldn't join the resistance? Of course he would start working for the German police. Yet another excellent take on WWII. Superb performance from Blaise in particular as the frustrated teenager.

[Drasko]

[lisa needs braces]

Good Kill.  Ethan Hawke plays a former fighter pilot relegated to drone pilot duty in Las Vegas.  The CIA, in the voice of Peter Coyote, ends up taking control of his unit for looser rules of engagement kills, and the movie explores the damage done to Hawke's character as he drowns his sorrows in drink, has his marriage dissolve, and commiserates with a young and fortuitously gorgeous female copilot played by Zoe Kravitz.  The topic is ripe for a good or great movie, but this isn't really it.  The dialogue is too obvious and heavy-handed, the secondary characters too simplistic, and the impact on the ground overseas isn't really pursued.  And the final drone strike, which relates to a few earlier scenes, is not handled well at all.

The images you link to never display. True for both chrome and microsoft edge browser.

[Todd]

The images you link to never display. True for both chrome and microsoft edge browser.

Works fine in IE on a Windows 10 box.  I generally don't check for browser compatibility when posting images.

[lisa needs braces]

Your images aren't displaying on explorer too. It isn't a very technical endeavor to post images correctly...

[Todd]

Your images aren't displaying on explorer too. It isn't a very technical endeavor to post images correctly...

Sure isn't I see it, so I'm done.  If you really want to see the picture, you can google it. 

[lisa needs braces]

Sure isn't.  I see it, so I'm done.  If you really want to see the picture, you can google it.

Cool beans. I was just trying to help out a fellow forum member who seemed to having technical issues.

[André]

("The Bandit"). A very good movie, loaded with sociological-political subcurrents. Much debated at and since its release. I didn't know it had re-appeared on DVD.

Thanks !

[lisa needs braces]

Todd, it could just be the case that imdb prohibits image leaching. 

[mc ukrneal]

I use Explorer and Opera and can't see them either. I wonder if I can on my kindle - will check later...