Last Movie You Watched

[Karl Henning]

I love 8½. I watched it a few times, but I never had a sense that it was more than two hours long. I need to rewatch it again.

It wears its scale well.

[André]

Kon Ichikawa, 1956 (b&w). Music by Akira Ifukube. Japan's entry for Best Film in a Foreign Language (1957). Largely viewed by film critics as one of the best anti war movies ever made, its filmic language is in stark contrast with the stylized, emotionally repressed view common from japanese cinema of the time (Mizoguchi, Kurosawa, Ozu). Characters have strong emotions that are vividly, unabashedly portrayed. The symbolist element is still very much present, especially through the role of music as a common language: the soldier with the harp answering the company of soldiers' amateur chorale and the two parrots from the same nest that are taught to repeat conflicting messages. The boldness of its humanistic message was favourably received. Ichikawa remade the film in colour 30 years later and it was a huge success. Big recommendation.

[aligreto]

Head Full of Honey:





This is the tender story of the relationship between a ten year old girl and her grandfather whose wife has just died and he is now developing Alzheimer's disease.

[Karl Henning]

About time I watched this, really: The Fly (1958)

[SonicMan46]

About time I watched this, really: The Fly (1958)

Seen it years ago - not in my collection (vs. so many other great '50s Si-Fis) - now, I don't remember any of the sequels but you'll have to then decide on watching those too -    Dave

[Karl Henning]

About time I watched this, really: The Fly (1958)

I thought I recognized David Hedison's voice: Felix Leiter!

[Cato]

I thought I recognized David Hedison's voice: Felix Leiter!

You were maybe too young for this show when it was on:

https://www.youtube.com/v/39u2y-wYgPQ

It started off decently, but as the years went by, the studio kept going cheap, where plots were driven by "which scenes from our movie library can we splice in to save money?"

[Karl Henning]

You were maybe too young for this show when it was on:

https://www.youtube.com/v/39u2y-wYgPQ

It started off decently, but as the years went by, the studio kept going cheap, where plots were driven by "which scenes from our movie library can we splice in to save money?"

Dim recollection. Not sure I saw much of it.

Seen it years ago - not in my collection (vs. so many other great '50s Si-Fis) - now, I don't remember any of the sequels but you'll have to then decide on watching those too -    Dave

Dave, I saw the Cronenberg remake, probably the year it was released. Intense, horrific, creepy, arguably a brilliant achievement, Geena Davis and Jeff Goldblum do a superb job. Not sure I could bear to watch it again .... was never interested in The Fly II.
Great trailer for the 1958 movie:

https://www.youtube.com/v/Hdv4QA-O1bg

[JBS]

Dim recollection. Not sure I saw much of it.

Same here. Although dim memory is not a sure sign of how much we watched it. I have no memories of watching either Daniel Boone or the Original Star Trek series as a little kid, but I must have had enough interest in them to prompt my mother to buy a Daniel Boone lunchbox and a ST uniform pajama set which became my favorite PJs, worn until they were impossibly too small for my growing body.

Merchandising TV shows must be about as old as TV shows.

[Karl Henning]

Same here. Although dim memory is not a sure sign of how much we watched it. I have no memories of watching either Daniel Boone or the Original Star Trek series as a little kid, but I must have had enough interest in them to prompt my mother to buy a Daniel Boone lunchbox and a ST uniform pajama set which became my favorite PJs, worn until they were impossibly too small for my growing body.

Merchandising TV shows must be about as old as TV shows.

Lunchboxes. Hadn't thought about them in an age!

Now, another "at last" viewing: Forbidden Planet

[VonStupp]

The Big White (2005)
Robin Williams, Holly Hunter,
Giovanni Ribisi, Woody Harrelson

A dark, dark crime comedy, with a snowy backdrop similar to A Simple Plan (1998) and Fargo.

This one might not be as good as those two thrillers, but upon watching, I realized how much I miss Robin Williams, especially in his dark, quiet roles.

VS

[Karl Henning]

The Big White (2005)
Robin Williams, Holly Hunter,
Giovanni Ribisi, Woody Harrelson

A dark, dark crime comedy, with a snowy backdrop similar to A Simple Plan (1998) and Fargo.

This one might not be as good as those two thrillers, but I realized how much I miss Robin Williams, especially in his dark, quiet roles.

VS

Interesting!

[Sergeant Rock]

Lunchboxes. Hadn't thought about them in an age!

Now, another "at last" viewing: Forbidden Planet

Wow! ...you really are late to the Planet's party    I saw this in a small theater in Rittman Ohio in 1956 (a time when even small towns still had a movie theater). Entrance fee was a quarter.

Sarge

[Karl Henning]

Wow! ...you really are late to the Planet's party    I saw this in a small theater in Rittman Ohio in 1956 (a time when even small towns still had a movie theater). Entrance fee was a quarter.

Sarge

Those were the days.

[SonicMan46]

Wow! ...you really are late to the Planet's party    I saw this in a small theater in Rittman Ohio in 1956 (a time when even small towns still had a movie theater). Entrance fee was a quarter.

Sarge

Hey Sarge - sounds like me growing up in Toledo, Ohio at that same time - we walked to the Avalon Theater on Monroe Street about every Saturday afternoon (same admission fee, and for another quarter a combo popcorn and soda!).  Now own the BD below -   Dave

P.S. still love seeing Anne Francis in those outfits! 
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[Sergeant Rock]

Hey Sarge - sounds like me growing up in Toledo, Ohio at that same time - we walked to the Avalon Theater on Monroe Street about every Saturday afternoon (same admission fee, and for another quarter a combo popcorn and soda!).  Now own the BD below -   Dave

I walked to the theater too (about half a mile from my house). There was no we though: my parents weren't interested in sci-fi and my four sisters were too young to attend. So I went by myself. I was seven ...a typical small town, free range kid of the 50s. As Karl said, those were the days.

Sarge

[Madiel]

I'm about halfway through Million Dollar Baby.

Unfortunately I already know where it's going, but thought I would watch anyway because Clint Eastwood is a pretty good filmmaker.

[SimonNZ]

Would easily make my list of Top 10 Least Deserving Best Picture Winners

[LKB]

I walked to the theater too (about half a mile from my house). There was no we though: my parents weren't interested in sci-fi and my four sisters were too young to attend. So I went by myself. I was seven ...a typical small town, free range kid of the 50s. As Karl said, those were the days.

Sarge

Wow! ...you really are late to the Planet's party    I saw this in a small theater in Rittman Ohio in 1956 (a time when even small towns still had a movie theater). Entrance fee was a quarter.

Sarge

And so it was in the mid-60's, if you happened to be an Air Force brat. My dad flew the B-52, mostly Chrome Dome but also a few TDY's and some special assignments in SEA ( Vietnam ).

The base theater children's admission was a quarter, though we were always given more so we could hit the snack bar. I saw some excellent films there, and a few crappy ones as well...

[VonStupp]

The Oath (2018)

Synopsis: The US subversively offers its citizens to sign an oath of loyalty to its president, overseen by a new 'Citizens Protection Unit' government watchdog organization keeping tabs of who signs The Oath.

This film covers the round-the-clock, outspoken obsession with political news, the anger, anxiety, and fears that come from it and the political divide, and the taking of political opinion as right or wrong. Set over the US Thanksgiving week, it also showcases the stressors of visiting family and differing political ideology across the family unit.

Since I have a rather a-political personality, I appreciate that neither side of the political spectrum comes out looking good in this movie, even if Trump-Era politics are obviously being satirized.