Last Movie You Watched

[Ken B]

The Right Stuff

Must be at least the third time. Still 10/10.

[SonicMan46]

Hoosiers

 

I know - but it is one of my favorites.  30th anniversary is a good enough reason, not that I need one.

Hi San Atone - no reason to apologize (if that what was meant) - I own the film on BD (inserted above) - my son went to Indiana University in Bloomington and now lives in Indianapolis w/ his Indiana wife - we go there annually - I enjoy the film, too - Dave

[George]

With my sweetheart tonight.

[Karl Henning]

Saturday, I watched Chimes at Midnight again.

[Jaakko Keskinen]

More accurately, I didn't watch this completely. When it came from TV, I endured the first 20 minutes or so before switching the channel because, for some reason, I found it extremely dull. Then when I switched the channel back again about 30 minutes later it was like watching a completely different movie. It was very enjoyable. Strange.

[Karl Henning]

With my sweetheart tonight.

Evergreen

[SimonNZ]

at the cinema today:

I, Daniel Blake (Ken Loach, dir.)

Can't remember the last time I thought the Cannes jury got it exactly right with their choice of Palme d'Or - but this time they really did. A masterpiece.

[GioCar]

^^^
All right, I oughta see it 

[Overtones]

It's not bad but it does feel like a wasted chance.
The acting is great from everyone (even though I cannot stand Kidman any more - it has always been hard for me). Visually, it is very well crafted.
The story is interesting but too often the movie tells/shows too much more than it ought. It loses the power of allusiveness, which for me is key to art.

I have the suspicion that it could be a deliberate choice aimed to reflect the logorrhea of the main character, but even if this was the case, I think it would be a bad idea.

[Karl Henning]

Revisited Dead Again last night.  I hadn't seen it since watching it together with the missus, who took Frankie's demise hard (I do need to be careful of what I watch with her).  I won't say "I had forgotten just how good it is,"  but it was almost like watching it again for the first time.

[Karl Henning]

The acting is great from everyone (even though I cannot stand Kidman any more - it has always been hard for me).

The artistic threshold for females actors who are Propelled Unto Greatness (Julia Roberts?) has become curiously lower over the years.

[Overtones]

The artistic threshold for females actors who are Propelled Unto Greatness (Julia Roberts?) has become curiously lower over the years.

Well I never liked her (my English vocabulary fails here but I'd say "overdrawn") style of acting, but now it is merely a problem of appearance. I do not know if it is botox or what other surgery technique, but here face is now ludicrous especially when it's supposed to portray a woman in the 1920s.

[mc ukrneal]

The artistic threshold for females actors who are Propelled Unto Greatness (Julia Roberts?) has become curiously lower over the years.

What do you mean? I think there have been some years with few good roles, but there have been some fantastic roles that have helped numerous actresses attain/maintain stardom. I am thinking Viola Davis (perhaps older than you want), Dakota Fanning, Keira Knightley, Natalie Portman, Brie Larson, Emma Stone, etc.

[Drasko]

Caught it on TV the other night, at first was certain I've seen it before but probably mistook it for something else. Not bad, enjoyable, if somewhat stage-like with bit of scenery chewing included.

[Karl Henning]

(No, I haven't watched it, but . . .)

Don't lower your standards: 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' is a huge disappointment

[Ken B]

(No, I haven't watched it, but . . .)

Don't lower your standards: 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' is a huge disappointment

"Lower your standards" and "Star Wars series" are like "bacon" and "eggs".

[SonicMan46]

 

Caught it on TV the other night, at first was certain I've seen it before but probably mistook it for something else. Not bad, enjoyable, if somewhat stage-like with bit of scenery chewing included.

Enjoy that earlier film of Fonda & Redford - also really like The Electric Horseman, which I use to have on VHS tape - wish a good BD would come out, some of the western scenery is just spectacular!  Dave

[Karl Henning]

"Lower your standards" and "Star Wars series" are like "bacon" and "eggs".

It may be a bonafide masterpiece . . . .

[Ken B]

It may be a bonafide masterpiece . . . .

Loweryourstandardsstarwarsretread.

[Karl Henning]

Watching Dead Again again the other night, I was impressed all anew with Patrick Doyle's score.  Neither John Williams nor Jerry Goldsmith have anything on him in terms of the quality of the work, and Doyle enjoys the advantage of discovering his own material

I was thinking the other day, too, of the complaint some have lodged against Branagh's Hamlet, that Doyle's music accompanying the soliloquys (e.g.) is somehow "anti-theatrical";  but there is music artfully underpinning Gielgud's exquisite soliloquy in Chimes at Midnight, too.  No, I don't believe either Doyle or Branagh owe anything like an apology, there.