Last Movie You Watched

[Harry]

A good Year, and that is a absolute stunning movie......

[SonicMan46]

Well, checking back through the pages of this thread, I've not posted some 'oldies' from yesteryear since the end of October!    Actually, I've 'burned' only about two dozen DVDs off the TCM channel since that time, so slowing down - seems that I already have most of the ones of interest to me! 

Below is a list of 8 films selected from the last couple of dozen (ratings are from LM = Leonard Maltin; VH = Videohound; but had to look at Amazon & the IMDB for some listings):

Anna Karenina (1935) w/ Greta Garbo & Fredric March - 4* LM & 3+# VH - well known story of the dying courtesan w/ TB - amazing how beautiful Greta looked to the very end!

Blackboard Jungle (1955) w/ Glenn Ford & Anne Francis - 3+* LM & 3+# VH - inner city school, JDs, and the usual (somewhat dated) 50s approach; but w/ a young Vic Morrow & Sidney Poitier - still packs a punch!

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940) w/ Edward G. Robinson & Ruth Gordon - 7.4/10 IMDB & 5* Amazon - one of EG's best; excellent bio on Dr. Paul Ehrlich search for stains (TB) & treatment of syphilis.

Front Page, The (1931) w/ Adolph Menjou & Pat O'Brien - 3+* LM & 3+# VH - two stars are a battling editor & reporter - still works well and worth watching!

Nothing Sacred (1937) w/ Carole Lombard & Fredric March - 7.3/10 IMDB & 9/10 Rotten Tomatoes - screwball satire of a supposedly 'dying' girl in NYC - early Technicolor; I really love Lombard in about anything!

Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962) w/ Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, & Mickey Rooney - 3* LM & 3# VH - all excellent performances; Jack Palance did a TV production in the '50s which I've not seen recently?

Spellbound (1945) w/ Ingrid Bergman & Gregory Peck - 3+* LM & 3+# VH - Hitchcock, director; extremely attractive pair of stars together in their youth; and Miklos Rozsa score - spellbinding - 

Three Godfathers (1949) w/ John Wayne & Harry Carey, Jr. - 3* LM & 3* VH - re-make of the 1936 film; both good, but Wayne lives in the end (John Ford, director) - did Wayne ever 'die' in a Ford movie? - 

[The new erato]

This thread is just what I needed, increasing DVD wishlists in addition to the ever increasing CD wishlists.

[Kullervo]

Noticed some favorable reviews from the members here so I thought I'd give this a spin. I liked how it touched on all the classic tenets of the film noir (the heavy atmosphere, the femme fatale, the concept of fate) while managing to avoid the pitfalls of making a modern "noir" that so many fall into.

[MISHUGINA]

call me cheap, but those two back-to-back movies kicked arse.  Ridiculously over-the-top and brilliant, especially the fake trailers.

[KevinP]

Red-Headed Woman from this collection of some of the steamier pre-code Hollywood movies:

[karlhenning]

Blade Runner, Final Cut

A beauty, and worth the wait.

[longears]

And has the VO about not knowing how long they'll have together been retained?

P.S.  Thanks for the kind words, Karl, and Bill, too.  Made me feel warm and fuzzy inside, like a pre-Eisner Disney flick.

And Corey...are you old enough to be watching Body Heat?     One of Kasdan's finest, methinks.

[Harry]

Both films at one go.
I found "Dead Man's Chest" the best of the three.

[The Emperor]

American Gangster, alright.

[Drasko]

[Bogey]

Charlie Wilson's War (2007)



It was great to see great actors being just that.  Highly recommended.

[Haffner]

On a side note, anyone else here remember this show in the 70's on PBS:

with these two guys before they got a bit famous (for better or for worse):

I recall being 12 years old and really loving this show!

[KevinP]

I remember Sneak Previews. I think we in Chicago had it a while before other PBS stations picked it up. I remember thinking it was such a simple idea that I couldn't understand why no one else had thought about before.

[Kullervo]

Despite the Armageddon-like premise and a cast of non-entities, this managed to be very engaging up until the end. Just be sure to suspend your incredulity.

[AnthonyAthletic]

I am Legend

Well I won't mince words but Shite seems appropriate.

How many times can Will Smith save the day?  

Why do film makers continue to change the original books, when making these movies.  So the Legend was 'His Legacy and the cure, prosperity and humanity lives and starts over'....load of crap.

I am Legend, he is the Legend; the last human hunting the vampiristic human breed, the whole point missed.  Neville is tormented by night, a killer by day, Robert Neville has to die, he is the scurge of the new evolution, humanity has transformed and moved on....he is the alien...he must die, so they/we can live....and does, great novella....really poor movie. 

Where was the infiltration, the double cross?  The whole element of one man becoming a wrecking machine by day and listening to Shostakovich and Mozart by night...not present.

Why not call the movie "Slightly Based on I am Legend"

[orbital]

Not exactly scary except for one scene near the beginning which startled me. I liked some of the motion shots quite a lot, the scenery in general was exceptional too. The plot was a little thin though, the suspense could have been carried on a bit longer for a better overall effect.

[The new erato]

I've never seen an Altman movie I didn'tlike. This is no exception. Warm and funny.

[KevinP]

[Shrunk]

Clueless

Do I dare admit this?  This might be my all-time favourite movie.  Of all the Jane Austen adaptations out there, this one, while far from being the most faithful, comes closest to retaining the author's wit and social observation.

The screenplay is so sharp, everytime I watch it I'm cracked up by some piece of dialogue I hadn't noticed before.  This time it was:

Dionne:  Did you write that yourself?

Cher:  Dude!  It's a totally famous quote.

Dionne:  From where?

Cher:  Cliff's notes.