Last Movie You Watched

[Cato]

One of our favorites: from 44 years ago, which means Diane Lane is 58 years old!





I remember some critics "schimpfing" about Laurence Olivier's French accent, but...really?!

We went to see it after Roger Ebert recommended it on his television show.  He was right: it was wonderful!

Great score by Georges Delerue, with help from Vivaldi.      Delerue won an Oscar for the score.  😇

[Karl Henning]

With Anthony Quinn!  Yes, very interesting look at people on the margins of Italian society after World War II.

Both touching and discomfiting in a way I haven't much experienced outside of some Dostoyevsky and Twain's Mysterious Stranger. An astonishing film.

[relm1]

The Rocketeer (1991)

Excellent fun movie with good story, lots of great action, and a FANTASTIC score by James Horner!
 

[hopefullytrusting]

Eagerly awaiting the arrival of this:



Some clips from The Prophecy 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY54XjLoT5I

[SonicMan46]

Last four or five nights, an eclectic assortment of films, all streamers (the last two purchased as Amazon HDs replacing old physical discs):

Marshall (2017) - synopsis and cast below; Boseman's death at age 43 years from colon cancer was a great lost to the acting world (IMHO).

Hidalgo (2004) - summary and cast below - I love this film but much is likely not true; Frank Hopkins apparently was quite a 'BS Artist', both discussed in the Wiki and his bio links, if interested.

Aliens (1986) - story and cast last quote; also own the first film Alien but in UHD - disappointed the sequel was not being offered in that format?  Not much to say about both of these sci-fi classics - don't watch often but still jump in my seat -     Dave

Marshall is a 2017 American biographical legal drama film directed by Reginald Hudlin and written by Michael and Jacob Koskoff; starring Chadwick Boseman as Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Supreme Court Justice, and focuses on one of the first cases of his career, the State of Connecticut v. Joseph Spell. It also stars Josh Gad, Kate Hudson, Dan Stevens, Sterling K. Brown, and James Cromwell. (Source)

Hidalgo is a 2004 epic biographical western film based on the legend of the American distance rider Frank Hopkins and his mustang Hidalgo. It recounts Hopkins' racing his horse in Arabia in 1891 against Bedouins riding pure-blooded Arabian horses. The movie was written by John Fusco and directed by Joe Johnston. It stars Viggo Mortensen, Zuleikha Robinson, and Omar Sharif. (Source)

Aliens is a 1986 science fiction action film written and directed by James Cameron. It is the sequel to the 1979 science fiction horror film Alien, and the second film in the Alien franchise. Set in the far future, it stars Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley, the sole survivor of an alien attack on her ship. When communications are lost with a human colony on the moon where her crew first saw the alien creatures, Ripley agrees to return to the site with a unit of Colonial Marines to investigate. Michael Biehn, Paul Reiser, Lance Henriksen, and Carrie Henn are featured in supporting roles. (Source)

   

[Karl Henning]

Aliens (1986) - story and cast last quote; also own the first film Alien but in UHD - disappointed the sequel was not being offered in that format?  Not much to say about both of these sci-fi classics - don't watch often but still jump in my seat -     Dave

Indeed! I saw both the Ridley Scott and Jas Cameron instalments the respective seasons they opened. While I, too, need to be in the right frame of mind, they've become atypical favorites of mine.

TD: this will make @LKB smile, I watched Star Trek I again last night. Waxes even better each time.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Indeed! I saw both the Ridley Scott and Jas Cameron instalments the respective seasons they opened. While I, too, need to be in the right frame of mind, they've become atypical favorites of mine.

TD: this will make @LKB smile, I watched Star Trek I again last night. Waxes even better each time.

The Aliens trilogy is a favorite of mine!  Haven't watched it in ages.  Years ago, I bought it on VHS.

Just thought of Ripley cleaning up Newt's face...precious and priceless.

PD

[hopefullytrusting]

Eagerly awaiting the arrival of this:



Some clips from The Prophecy 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY54XjLoT5I

Watching this, right here, right now.

[hopefullytrusting]

Watching this, right here, right now.

Cannot believe I overlooked this series - it is very fun - Walken, as always, is a scene stealer, but everyone is so well cast. (I'll watch the two non-Walken films over this weekend.)

[Karl Henning]

Last night, Tron. What fun, I keep forgetting that Wendy Carlos did the music. Apart, of course, from the song by Journey ....

[AnotherSpin]

[Karl Henning]

My Man Godfrey and Love Among the Ruins. Only the second time for each.

[SonicMan46]

My Man Godfrey and Love Among the Ruins. Only the second time for each.

My Man Godrey (1936) - a favorite and viewed often over the decades!  However, I've never seen Love Among the Ruins, a 1975 TV movie w/ Hepburn and Olivier - seems available on You Tube only so uncertain of the quality but may give the movie a try?  Any other ways to watch?  Dave

[ando]

Before those I'd recommend the film I watched last night, which was actually a third viewing:



Sarah Snook should have swept the awards and got every role she wanted after this. At least she eventually hit paydirt as Shiv in Succession.

Pity the rest of the writer/directors' filmography is horror. Based on this they could have been a much less silly Christopher Nolan, with a better feel for the timey-wimey.

It does have one big continuity error, not necessarily a plot hole, but I'm willing to shrug it off each time.

This is the first time I've learned its based on - and seems pretty faithful to - a Robert Heinlein story called "All You Zombies" (it's not about zombies), which I'll now have to track down.

YouTube just added Predestination to their free movie rotation. No excuse not to watch it I guess. 

[Cato]

My Man Godfrey and Love Among the Ruins. Only the second time for each.

My Man Godrey (1936) - a favorite and viewed often over the decades! 

One of our favorites also, but anything with William Powell is guaranteed to be worthwhile.

[Karl Henning]

One of our favorites also, but anything with William Powell is guaranteed to be worthwhile.

Tonight: Life With Father (947)

[Karl Henning]

How 'Airplane!' Changed Comedy Forever

[Karl Henning]

Tonight: Life With Father (947)

Sometimes the pacing is stodgy. I cannot help feeling that with editing it could be a brilliant comedy....

[Karl Henning]

Sometimes the pacing is stodgy. I cannot help feeling that with editing it could be a brilliant comedy....

"Have mercy, I say!"

[SonicMan46]

Tonight: Life With Father (947)

We watched that film a month ago and enjoyed!

Last night, Love Among the Ruins on YouTube - loved the more elderly Hepburn and Olivier together, and the video quality was acceptable, similar to SD. Dave