Last Movie You Watched

[Karl Henning]

Any William Holden (1918-1981) fans?  Last few nights, I've watched the two films below - at the bottom, a list of his 15 Best Movies (link there) - watched the first two also recently; own the top 10 and several more (some not on that list that I enjoy):

Sunset Boulevard (1950) - summary and cast below; 11 Oscar nominations; ratings: 4*/4*, Maltin and 4*/4*, Roger Ebert (his REVIEW) - don't watch often but a MUST if never seen.

The Wild Bunch (1969) - synopsis and cast below; often in the top 10 of 'Best Westerns' - another 4*/4* Ebert REVIEW - highly recommended.  Dave

   

The only ones we own are Sabrina and Sunset Blvd.

[SonicMan46]

The only ones we own are Sabrina and Sunset Blvd.

Hi Karl, along w/ Sabrina, some of my other Holden favorites are shown below, the last three did not make the list given, and several are from his 'early' days (own all of those too, either as physical discs or Amazon HD streamers).  Dave

[Karl Henning]

Great movie with Patrick McGoohan and other classic actors (e.g. Sir Michael Hordern )from the British movie world of the 1950's and 1960's.

Originally released in theaters in Great Britain, it was shown in the U.S. on Walt Disney's Sunday television show c. 1964 over three weeks.

There is a claim that the theatrical release was a 90-minute version of the longer, three-part series.

I have the longer, television version: excellent musical score and performances all around!

Found it in the Minuteman Library Network. Superior Disney!

[LKB]

Great movie with Patrick McGoohan and other classic actors (e.g. Sir Michael Hordern )from the British movie world of the 1950's and 1960's.

Originally released in theaters in Great Britain, it was shown in the U.S. on Walt Disney's Sunday television show c. 1964 over three weeks.

There is a claim that the theatrical release was a 90-minute version of the longer, three-part series.

I have the longer, television version: excellent musical score and performances all around!

I watched the original Disney premiere broadcast as a lad, and that mask Mcgoohan wore was enough to generate my very first nightmare. 

[Karl Henning]

Any opinions on the 1951 Quo Vadis? Bosley Crowther wrote a blistering review in the New York Times, but that might be snobbery, of course.

[Daverz]

M3GAN, a fun little horror-comedy



Sisu, an over-the-top revenge fantasy with evil Nazis in Finland with plenty of cartoonish ultra-violence.

[JBS]

Any opinions on the 1951 Quo Vadis? Bosley Crowther wrote a blistering review in the New York Times, but that might be snobbery, of course.

It's been decades since I saw it (as a teen I think). I remember it being a toga and swords big screen thing like Ben-Hur. It impressed me enough that I read the novel afterwards.
But I now remember nothing of either film or book beyond having seen/read them.

[Karl Henning]

It's been decades since I saw it (as a teen I think). I remember it being a toga and swords big screen thing like Ben-Hur. It impressed me enough that I read the novel afterwards.
But I now remember nothing of either film or book beyond having seen/read them.

Thanks!

[Karl Henning]

Denzel Washington, Christopher Walken, Giancarlo Giannini in Man on Fire.

[Karl Henning]

Denzel Washington, Christopher Walken, Giancarlo Giannini in Man on Fire.

On one plane, it's like they wanted to do John Wick one  better.

[relm1]

I have tickets to see India Jones 5 this weekend.

[Karl Henning]

I have tickets to see India Jones 5 this weekend.

I await your report. 

[pjme]

Any opinions on the 1951 Quo Vadis? Bosley Crowther wrote a blistering review in the New York Times, but that might be snobbery, of course.

Biblical über-kitsch at its American silly best.... that one can like, of course! I do - in small doses.

See also: King of kings, The story of Ruth, David and Bathsheba, Esther and the King....

What inspires Bosley Crowther?

[Karl Henning]

On one plane, it's like they wanted to do John Wick one  better.

With the added benefit of no sequel.

[Karl Henning]

Biblical über-kitsch at its American silly best.... that one can like, of course! I do - in small doses.

See also: King of kings, The story of Ruth, David and Bathsheba, Esther and the King....

What inspires Bosley Crowther?

Thanks! I have the suspicion that I've disagreed with Bosley on other titles. 

[pjme]

I'd never heard of Bosley Crowther.

From Wiki:

Bosley Crowther of The New York Times wrote in a mixed review, "Here is a staggering combination of cinema brilliance and sheer banality, of visual excitement and verbal boredom, of historical pretentiousness and sex." Crowther thought that even Cecil B. DeMille's The Sign of the Cross "had nothing to match the horrendous and morbid spectacles of human brutality and destruction that Director Mervyn LeRoy has got in this. But within and around these visual triumph and rich imagistic displays is tediously twined a hackneyed romance that threatens to set your teeth on edge."[22] Variety wrote that the film was "right up there with Birth of a Nation and Gone With the Wind for box-office performance. It has size, scope, splash, and dash, giving for the first time in a long while credence to the now-clichéd 'super-colossal' term. This is a super-spectacle in all its meaning."[23] Edwin Schallert of the Los Angeles Times declared it "one of the most tremendous if not the greatest pictures ever made ... Its pictorial lavishness has never been equaled in any other production."[24] Richard L. Coe of The Washington Post called it "a fabulously entertaining movie. Though the expansive, expensive film from the celebrated novel runs over three hours on the Palace screen, you won't believe you've been there nearly that long."[25] Harrison's Reports declared, "For sheer opulence, massiveness of sets, size of cast, and beauty of Technicolor photography, no picture ever produced matches 'Quo Vadis'. It is a super-collosal [sic] spectacle in every sense of the meaning, and on that score alone it is worth a premium price of admission."[26] The Monthly Film Bulletin was negative, writing that the film "demonstrates how inordinately boring the convention of size and spectacle can be, when divorced from taste, feeling, and, to a surprising extent, creative talent. The film is unimaginatively directed, at a very slow pace in keeping with the general larger than life proportions, and its technical qualities are not impressive."[27]
The film holds a score of 83% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 18 reviews, with an average rating of 6.40/10.[28]

In the same Wiki article on Quo vadis, this made me laugh!

The music score by Miklós Rózsa[31] is notable for its historical authenticity. Since no Ancient Roman music had survived, Rózsa incorporated a number of fragments of Ancient Greek and Jewish melodies such as the Seikilos epitaph, the Hymn to Nemesis and Hymn to the Sun by Mesomedes[32] into his own choral-orchestral score

[Karl Henning]

The music score by Miklós Rózsa[31] is notable for its historical authenticity. Since no Ancient Roman music had survived, Rózsa incorporated a number of fragments of Ancient Greek and Jewish melodies such as the Seikilos epitaph, the Hymn to Nemesis and Hymn to the Sun by Mesomedes[32] into his own choral-orchestral score.

That is worth a chuckle! And of course, that paragraph notwithstanding, the Rózsa score must be worth a listen.

[DavidW]

I have tickets to see India Jones 5 this weekend.

The only thing the video missed is the obligatory 30 minutes of commercials and trailers.

[Ganondorf]

I have tickets to see India Jones 5 this weekend.

I'm going to see it too, on Saturday.

[SonicMan46]

Any opinions on the 1951 Quo Vadis? Bosley Crowther wrote a blistering review in the New York Times, but that might be snobbery, of course.

Boy, so many films made from the silent era to the present about Rome, Biblical times, and pre- or post-Jesus' era - for those interested, gander over this Wiki List - over many decades, I've seen dozens of these films but surprisingly after looking at my 800+ movie database, I own just the 3 below that would fit the Wiki categories.

Quo Vadis (1951) - 83%, Rotten Tomatoes; 7.1/10, IMDB; 3*/4*, Maltin; score by Miklós Rózsa, and Ustinov great as Nero (Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor - Source) - just checked Amazon Prime Video - a $10 purchase for a HD streamer - get me up to an even 4 'Roman-Bible' epics?     Dave

Ben Hur (1959)
Spartacus (1960)
Ten Commandments (1956)