Last Movie You Watched

[aligreto]

The Train





An old WWII thriller which held my interest throughout.

The version that I watched was black and white....

[milk]

Watched this tonight: I was surprised by how bad this movie is, considering the accolades it has received. This thing had a very mediocre script filled with bromides about family, east vs. west, culture, etc.  There are no difficult ideas and I think it's quite easy to imbibe this on an Airplane (although it serves well as a soporific too if you have a long flight), although I toughed it out in my living room. I'd describe it as predigested. The acting reminded me of soap opera acting; probably the worst thing I can say about this and any movie is that the actors very much seemed like they were acting. However, it may all be down to a lazy director. There are a lot of scenes in this where everyone is locked into a dramatic moment in the cheapest way. Ok, not my cup of tea and I thought I was going to like it.

[drogulus]

Watched this tonight: I was surprised by how bad this movie is, considering the accolades it has received. This thing had a very mediocre script filled with bromides about family, east vs. west, culture, etc.  There are no difficult ideas and I think it's quite easy to imbibe this on an Airplane (although it serves well as a soporific too if you have a long flight), although I toughed it out in my living room. I'd describe it as predigested. The acting reminded me of soap opera acting; probably the worst thing I can say about this and any movie is that the actors very much seemed like they were acting. However, it may all be down to a lazy director. There are a lot of scenes in this where everyone is locked into a dramatic moment in the cheapest way. Ok, not my cup of tea and I thought I was going to like it.

     I mildly liked it. I wished the granddaughter didn't always slouch so much. The movie earned points with some people for depicting a situation many families have faced, not a usual movie problem.

[Ken B]

     I mildly liked it. I wished the granddaughter didn't always slouch so much. The movie earned points with some people for depicting a situation many families have faced, not a usual movie problem.

I liked it ok but I agree about Awkwafina, I really did not like her at all. I think that posture is part of her schtick: I saw it in a cartoon of her.

[milk]

I liked it ok but I agree about Awkwafina, I really did not like her at all. I think that posture is part of her schtick: I saw it in a cartoon of her.

Everything in this movie was trying, trying hard, to do something people imagine a movie should do. So, I guess her purpose was to just exist and were were supposed to relate to her. I predict she will get a nomination for something. I don't want to be harsh. Good for her I guess. The previous night I watched this:

Not a perfect movie by any means but much (much much) better.

[greg]

Eh, it was okay. But seems like there was a much larger story in mind, and a movie really wasn't enough.

[Todd]

The much anticipated Breaking Bad movie El Camino.  The movie follows everyone's second favorite bona fide piece of shit meth cook Jessie Pinkman and his attempt to get out of Albuquerque after being freed from the white supremacists who had been holding him hostage as a meth cook slave.  Picking up right where the show left off, it plays like an extended episode of the sub-par last season and nothing more.  It's slow, boring, and pointless.  The cameos are mediocre, including the one meant to pull at the heart strings.  Probably the highlight is the now dead Robert Forster as a relocation specialist.  But for the fact that it will make money for the producers, it didn't need to be made.

[aligreto]

Mall Cop





Lighthearted, mindless fun - the kind one needs sometimes. I does have some funny moments to it.

[Cato]

Quote from: snyprrr on May 14, 2013, 05:20:34 AM

 
  btw- no one has commented on that fact that Krenek's FACE is arid!!!!!!!Yoww!!!! His face looks like Sibelius's 4th!!

Last night, while watching the movie below, I started thinking about 1/4 of the way through that it could be considered a visual representation of the Gorecki Symphony III.

(Do people listen to that work much any more?)



Do not go in expecting Star Wars or a Steven Spielberg epic.  Ad Astra deals with the loneliness of outer space exploration and its effects on the mind, along with how such planned expeditions to faraway planets might impact families.  There are some "Action Scenes," but much of the movie is more contemplative, similar to Gravity, which showed how the massive silence of outer space can catalyze an introspective journey through the soul.

There is also a theme about whether "following orders" issued by a government must be obeyed.

 

[greg]

Saw today. Definitely recommended for anyone who might be considering watching it.

[Daverz]

Breaking Bad: El Camino.  Picks up where Breaking Bad left off, following Jesse Pinkman.  Recommended for BB fans.

[Karl Henning]

In the past two days: The Sublime, and the Non-Sublime...

Kozintsev's King Lear and Superman Returns.

[LKB]

Apollo 11

I saw this in the theatre early this year and was very impressed by the archival 65mm film, which apparently had never been seen  outside of NASA over the last fifty years.

I wasn't expecting the same experience from the bluray, particularly as l had to view it on a so-so laptop played from an external drive.

I should have had higher expectations. Even on barely - adequate equipment, watching this film on bluray is riveting. The large - format footage is unbelievably beautiful, a banquet for the eyes. And one shot in particular, which had to have been taken from a high - altitude aircraft, leaves me amazed: The third stage re- igniting for the TLI, at an altitude of over one hundred miles.

Anyone interested in large format presentations or the Apollo program should have this in their library.

Boosting,

LKB

[Karl Henning]

Apollo 11

I saw this in the theatre early this year and was very impressed by the archival 65mm film, which apparently had never been seen  outside of NASA over the last fifty years.

I wasn't expecting the same experience from the bluray, particularly as l had to view it on a so-so laptop played from an external drive.

I should have had higher expectations. Even on barely - adequate equipment, watching this film on bluray is riveting. The large - format footage is unbelievably beautiful, a banquet for the eyes. And one shot in particular, which had to have been taken from a high - altitude aircraft, leaves me amazed: The third stage re- igniting for the TLI, at an altitude of over one hundred miles.

Anyone interested in large format presentations or the Apollo program should have this in their library.

Boosting,

LKB

Cool as a space suit

[mc ukrneal]

Black Panther
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Very disappointed. I felt it was a rehash of lots of other movies/shows including Wonder Woman, James Bond, etc. I liked some of the strong characters, but thought most of their performances were wasted.

Spider Man: Into the Spidey Verse
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This is a film with a superb idea and is quite cohesive in terms of style. It's quite good in how it uses the other characters to help the main character grow. That said, I felt the heart of the movie was quite stereotypical and not much different from dozens of other coming of age stories. Still, the idea is so clever that it makes the film one of the better superhero movies out there.

[Madiel]

A couple of nights ago, Logan.



Every bit as good as I'd been led to believe, but also a very, very tough film to watch. The violence is unflinching.

Afterwards I saw that at least a few reviewers had described it as more like a Western than a superhero movie, and I think that's accurate.

[aligreto]

Black Rock





This film depicts three women friends on a camping trip to an island. There is an issue between two of them and the third woman has surreptitiously arranged the trip. They unexpectedly meet three men on a hunting trip. A situation develops and things soon get out of hand. There is some violence involved but it is relevant to the story. Worth a watch.

[SonicMan46]

Recently returned from Indianapolis to visit our son and DIL, and our 'new' 5+ month old grand dog - watched, went to, and watched more recent additions to my BD collection on return home, for a total of about 9 movies!  Here's a listing while in Indy: Aladdin (Will Smith), Bumblebee, Judy (in a theater), Lion King (new animated film), Stan & Ollie, and Toy Story 4; on return home: Electric Horseman, John Wick 3, and Set-Up, The - will just discuss the ones below.

Judy (2019) w/ Renee Zellweger as Judy Garland - a dramatic bioptic about her 1969 London concerts (she died that year at age 47 years) - plenty of flashbacks to her MGM days and the making of the Wizard of Oz; Renee does well although here voice which is quite good does not match that of Garland; prefer the Judy Davis bioptic Me and My Shadows (shown below) made for TV from 2001 - ratings: 83%, Rotten Tomatoes & 3.7/5, Amazon - 3 1/2* would be my rating.

John Wick: Chapter 3 (2019) w/ Keanu Reeves as the super-assassin w/ a price tag on his head (short synopsis below) - franchise dating from 2014 (and I'm sure there will be a fourth!) - had to watch this 2+ hour of endless killings (usually a few shots to the head) over two nights - not sure that I understand the ratings: 90%, Rotten Tomatoes and 4.1/5, Amazon - I'd do 3* at best and liked the first two films somewhat better - watch at your own risk and try to count the innumerable bounty hunters killed!

Electric Horseman, The (1979) w/ Robert Redford, Jane Fonda; Sydney Pollack, director - just added to my BD collection; a favorite since the VHS days (despite some mixed reviews) - when the DVD was released, the opening & closing Willie Nelson (also in the film) songs were replaced w/ generic music tracks, so I refused to buy - well this 'new' BD release restores this misguided logic - so watched a few nights ago after many years and still loved.

Set-Up, The (1949) w/ Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias; Robert Wise, director - yet another boxing movie w/ a film noir atmosphere - Ryan is excellent (and was a boxing champion in college, I believe); second synopsis below - rating number 8 of 25 HERE, although there are plenty of other boxing film lists!  This film gets lost in the genre, so if a fan of boxing pics and not yet seen, then highly recommended.  Dave

   

 

In this third installment of the adrenaline-fueled action franchise, super-assassin John Wick (Reeves) returns with a $14 million price tag on his head and an army of bounty-hunting killers on his trail. After killing a member of the shadowy international assassin's guild, the High Table, John Wick is excommunicado, but the world's most ruthless hit men and women await his every turn.

8. "The Set-Up" (1949) - The same year as the more famous Kirk Douglas boxing picture "Champion," Robert Wise directed this condensed, unsung, and much more compelling story. Robert Ryan stars as Stoker, a man "always one punch away" from winning, but he's been on such a cooler of late, his own manager Tiny (George Tobias) assures the local gangsters that he'll go down in the second round of his next match without even prepping Stoker for it. Things get complicated and incredibly intense when our downtrodden fighter becomes determined to beat his next opponent, no matter what. What makes "The Set-Up" such a fantastic boxing film is that it manages to be both about the action in the ring and an emotional portrayal of a loving relationship, all in a super-economical 72 minutes. Here we have one of the most rounded and grounded boxing stories, told in incredibly effective, ridiculously immersive, real time. Whether it's inside the sweat-stained locker rooms, ringside with managers chewing their faces off, or in the zoo-like atmosphere of a fight-frenzied general public, Wise's camera pans, zooms, glides, and cuts its way around the milieu in splendidly efficient fashion. Milton Krasner's cinematography (that bagged him an award in Cannes) glosses the entire picture in stunning film noir aesthetics, while Ryan's central performance is nuanced and far ahead of its time.

[Karl Henning]

Welcome home, Dave!

I may possibly content myself simply with the first John Wick. Which I owe in part to our George.

[SonicMan46]

Welcome home, Dave!

I may possibly content myself simply with the first John Wick. Which I owe in part to our George.

Hi Karl - below a pleasant break in Wick 3 from gun shots to heads, i.e. knives and axes mainly -    Dave

https://youtu.be/v00zKyXbfD4