Last Movie You Watched

[Ghost of Baron Scarpia]

I don't have a  horse in the race. As far as imparting a story/telling a tale is concerned, it works. Anything further (despite appeals to popularity/authority) is ultimately subjective. With that in mind, to my own taste it veers between the astute and the trite.
Note: a fairly recent remastering resulted in a bastardisation of the original palette employed by William Hoch. Terrible. And the resulting online attempts to cover up what amounted to a fuck up were amusing.

What did they do, make the colors too bright and lurid?

[LKB]

Apollo 11 at our local independent theater - just released documentary on the 50th year anniversary of the first moon landing - only archival footage used (from the quote below), some extremely detailed other footage from the era - highly recommended documentary worth seeing.  Dave

     

Thanks for the recommendation. I have vivid memories of watching the coverage of the landing and subsequent EVA, and this is right up my alley.

About to turn blue,

LKB

[NikF4]

What did they do, make the colors too bright and lurid?

In certain scenes/titles, yes.

Stuff: But it was more about the reaction of fanboys/manchildren. Hoch wasn't just the cinematographer, because previous to that his career was as a research physicist with a role in developing (no pun intended) both single and three strip Technicolour. While no one is above questioning, someone with his academic qualifications and practical experience you don't readily fuck with. But when the usual automatic plaudits were handed out online (notably on a site hosted by a wedding photographer) about how 'wonderful' the restoration/remastering was, people who worked on the original gig and were still alive, compounded by those who actually know what they're talking about had the temerity to point out 'It never looked that way in the first place'. It was more about the reaction of consumers than anything else.

e: it's far, far, far from John Ford and Hollywood, but when I was 16 years old my full-time job was as a studio assistant on shooting stuff like the Great Universal mail order *catalogue - and so I consider myself one of those who 'know what they're talking about' when it comes to pro stuff. No excuses.

*including the lingerie section.   

[Karl Henning]

Most interesting, thanks!

[Ken B]

Thanks for the recommendation. I have vivid memories of watching the coverage of the landing and subsequent EVA, and this is right up my alley.

About to turn blue,

LKB

Sobering to think that men walking on the moon is distant history, that more time separates us from the first moon landing than separated it from the crash of 1929, or the talkies, or the start of prohibition.

[Ciaccona]

You're welcome.    And if you haven't seen it before, maybe check out Binoche in Certified Copy/Copie conforme ? - and if the banality of a bickering couple gets too much, watch it with the sound down and enjoy the way it looks - it's beautiful, in part down to lacking the whole contrived 'look at how tasteful and discerning I am' BS. 

Thanks I haven't seen that one - I'll try to check it out at some stage.

[LKB]

Sobering to think that men walking on the moon is distant history, that more time separates us from the first moon landing than separated it from the crash of 1929, or the talkies, or the start of prohibition.

I've always been disappointed that the US expended lives, treasure and effort in order to reach the Moon, and then stopped cold after only six missions.

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LKB

[Karl Henning]

Again: The Trouble With Harry

[Ken B]

Again: The Trouble With Harry

The Blu Ray? The restoration is remarkable, and makes it a very different (and much, much better) movie than the one I saw on VHS.

[Karl Henning]

The Blu Ray? The restoration is remarkable,

Aye.

[Karl Henning]

Star Trek II & III, The Wrath of Khan, The Search for Spock.

The music for the re-fusion ritual is especially beautiful

[LKB]

Star Trek II & III, The Wrath of Khan, The Search for Spock.

The music for the re-fusion ritual is especially beautiful

I always thought Reliant should have been upholstered in rich Corinthian leather.

Despite being a Trekker for over fifty years, I've only seen the third one once. Perhaps it's time to revisit the film...

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LKB

[listener]

I wouldn't inflict this on a stranger but for someone with a interest in the subject a two-disc set of 1) curiosities, sideshow acts and such from 1896 to 1916 for use as attractions in showings by travelling presemters  and 2) local interest films from Trier, Saarbrücken and Luxembourg shot by theatre owners who realized that people would come to see themselves on screen even as part of a crowd.
The second disc has a selection of commentary languages including Trier/Luxemburgisch.

[Karl Henning]

Blazing Saddles

[SimonNZ]

I'm afraid I didn't like this anywhere near as much as some others here seem to have.

The slow pace didn't bother me, it just ultimately felt empty or slight despite hints at greater possibilities

[Daverz]

Damsel

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Slow and a slight.  The Jarmusch influence is pretty heavy.  I was mostly amused, but I also looked at the clock several times.

The Quake

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Follow-on to The Wave.  Disaster seems to follow a geologist every where he goes.  They reference an Oslo quake from 100 years ago, so I googled it.  There was a 5.4 magnitude quake in Oslo in 1904.  5.4!   

Level 16

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Derivative, but fairly well-done low-budget, YA sci-fi.

The Lez Bomb

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I suggest passing.

Wonder Woman

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Finally caught up with this one.  Fast paced and mostly charming.

[Draško]

Mostly crap, but it's fitting, so was the band.

[lisa needs braces]

"The 9th film by Quentin Tarantino" the trailer announces.

The sheer arrogance and self-regard!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Scf8nIJCvs4

I will be there opening day, of course.

[TheGSMoeller]

A few of the movies I watched recently, and no, A Fantastic Woman is not the sequel to A Serious Man.



 

[SonicMan46]

Mary Poppins Returns (2018) w/ Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and others - streamed in our hotel room on a large HDTV during a recent spring trip to Florida - of course, the ratings where 'mixed' but being a fan of the original 1964 film w/ Julie Andrews (which I own on BD), we wanted to view the 'sequel' - enjoyed; music was sub-par for us - probably would do a 3 1/2*/5* rating on Amazon.

In the Line of Fire (1993) w/ Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich, and Rene Russo (also own on BD) - I have a LOT of Eastwood in my DVD/BD collection - kind of divide his career into the Westerns, Dirty Harrys, and the Others, which I would include this one among many additional films - ratings: 7.2/10, IMDB; 96%, Rotten Tomatoes; and 3.5/4, Roger Ebert - I would agree and likely would do a 4*/5* on Amazon.  Dave