Last Movie You Watched

[steve ridgway]

Ender's Game. An interesting story of space warfare that had become so much like a video game that it was most effectively fought by children. Harrison Ford also has a major role.

[mc ukrneal]

Ender's Game. An interesting story of space warfare that had become so much like a video game that it was most effectively fought by children. Harrison Ford also has a major role.

If you like the idea of it, the book is better done. Though, it starts to get a bit preachy at the very end and I put down the second book because of that. Still, the first was a fun read and it's not too long.

[steve ridgway]

If you like the idea of it, the book is better done. Though, it starts to get a bit preachy at the very end and I put down the second book because of that. Still, the first was a fun read and it's not too long.

Thanks. The film did touch on ethical questions but the end justifies the means when you're facing extermination.

[André]

Nah, Miyazaki worship is quite common in my generation. Most of those numbers are from childhood when those were two of the only DVDs we had.

Ok, I get it  . My kids watched some films dozens of time. They would play with their Lego, not paying attention to the film but saying the lines every now and then.

[drogulus]

I don't believe in a 'general audience', people are always more & more individual than just general.

     It's an observation. People have different tastes and interests. Not everyone wants to see a film that concentrates so much on technical details. I'm not attacking individuality, I'm describing a form it commonly takes. General audience considerations are not "everyone is the same", it's more like what most people have in common, and why popular taste is often quite different from your own.

[Christo]

Advertized as a 'comedy', in reality an American tragedy - and certainly not a bad movie:

[Florestan]

    it's more like what most people have in common

When it comes to movies, what do most people have in common?

[drogulus]

     I scoped out the Aussie version of the 4K restoration of The War Of The Worlds and compared it to the full 4K streaming version. I think the Aussie Blu Ray (Imprint) is a little better for color. The Criterion version should look very much like the Aussie.

The release is sourced from the new 4K master that the folks at Criterion also worked with to produce this upcoming North American release. However, there is one small -- but perhaps important -- discrepancy between the two releases. On the Criterion release, a small color adjustment was made in the very beginning of the film to have Mars look red(ish), while on this release Mars still looks blue(ish), as it appears on the master that was finalized at Paramount Pictures. (You can see the difference if you compare screencapture #26 with the corresponding screencapture from our review of the North American release). The rest is basically the same -- delineation, clarity, density levels and fluidity appear identical. On my system I just could not see any meaningful discrepancies to report in our review, which is why below I am reposting my comments on the 4K restoration from our review of the Criterion release.

When it comes to movies, what do most people have in common?

     They like movies that are designed to appeal to as many people as possible, so there seems to be a close connection between what studio marketers think people will like and what people actually do like. The best way to think of it is there are different markets for films intended for a wide appeal and those for niche audiences.  Some films manage to appeal to the center and the fringe. An example would be Parasite.

[drogulus]

     The three parter The Salisbury Poisonings might count as a movie, or TV. It's quite absorbing and is apparently quite accurate.

[Carlo Gesualdo]

Hercules the one rate 7 as it  so crappy it's good to watch,  perhaps I'm strange  but  I appreciate good and real real bad movie for there quality...

Now you're thinking  what so great about a movie like Hercules well itt's so kitsch it's cool because it's so bad and so wrong, I'm odd I guess.

a good new movie I  listen lately was Christian Bale  super movie rate 3 The prodigy about a magician, that was cool, even if it's been made in the past The Theme, Christian Bale is such an actor and a prestigious one.

He choose his movie I never seen him in  stupid movie so far?
He would be super in a movie on Gesualdo , like a super production well written story please we Gesualdo fan need such movie whiteout Christian Bale this movie would not be possible, he would make a formidable Gesualdo I'm pretty sure, the mockumantory document done by Werner Herzog does not s*ck but it's not a real movie after all darn please heral;d this idea, and put Harvey Keitel Hhas his uncle all great actor in the movie make it big think big. Hell yes!!!

[ritter]

Last night, Luigi Zampa 's Anni dificilli (Difficult Years) from 1948.

The ultimately tragic (but peppered with lots of humour) story of a Sicilian small town civil servant's  stance towards fascism. His being forced to join the Fascist Party (against his better judgement and his political views) turns against him in the end, and all but destroys his family in the process.

The scene in which the local party bigwigs summon the general manager of the opera house in the middle of a performance of Bellini's Norma, shocked by the anti roman choruses sung by the druids, to ask whether the work has been approved by the censors, is hilarious.

Beautiful acting by Umberto Spadaro as the grumpy, but also weak and good-hearted lead character, and Massimo Girotti as his son (whose life is also destroyed by the circumstances) isn't bad either.

A great testament to the flourishing of Italian cinema in the immediate post-WW2 period.

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Two Thousand Maniacs! (Herschell Gordon Lewis, 1964)

Surprisingly enjoyable "gore" movie. Someone commented well saying this is bad movie making at it's best.

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The Forbidden Photos Of A Lady Above Suspicion (Luciano Ercoli, 1970)

This is a "melodrama giallo", less violent than later giallo movies. Good solid plot. Great music by Ennio Morricone. Otherwise a bit awkward flick  as Italian movies tend to be for some reason (same cinematic tricks like sudden dramatic zooming applied to almost every scene no matter if it's called for or not, amateurish mixing of soundtrack etc.).

[Madiel]

In a Better World



Danish winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. Pretty good, though I'm not sure it's that good. Though one particular scene did make me cry a bit.

It really, really annoys me when people create English language titles that are not even close to being a translation of the original. The movie is actually called "The Revenge". What would have been wrong with that as a title? Especially when it makes far more sense for the content and themes of the film.

[aligreto]

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A guy gets caught up in a high level, high stakes Russian roulette type gambling setup where there can be only one winner.

[André]

In a Better World



Danish winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. Pretty good, though I'm not sure it's that good. Though one particular scene did make me cry a bit.

It really, really annoys me when people create English language titles that are not even close to being a translation of the original. The movie is actually called "The Revenge". What would have been wrong with that as a title? Especially when it makes far more sense for the content and themes of the film.

Re: film titles. An intriguing issue indeed. I think it may be a legal/monetary issue. A 2016 film has that title (The Revenge).


https://www.klemchuk.com/ip-law-trends/trademark-copyright-mpaa-when-can-you-protect-movies-titles

[Madiel]

Re: film titles. An intriguing issue indeed. I think it may be a legal/monetary issue. A 2016 film has that title (The Revenge).


https://www.klemchuk.com/ip-law-trends/trademark-copyright-mpaa-when-can-you-protect-movies-titles

The Danish film was made in 2010.

[steve ridgway]

Re: film titles. An intriguing issue indeed. I think it may be a legal/monetary issue. A 2016 film has that title (The Revenge).

I used to get confused as a child by the continual references to TC in the cartoon Boss Cat but it turns out Top Cat was renamed to prevent the BBC inadvertently advertising a brand of cat food popular in Britain at the time .

[Florestan]

In a Better World



Danish winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. Pretty good, though I'm not sure it's that good. Though one particular scene did make me cry a bit.

It really, really annoys me when people create English language titles that are not even close to being a translation of the original. The movie is actually called "The Revenge". What would have been wrong with that as a title? Especially when it makes far more sense for the content and themes of the film.

In 1980s Romania they changed even the titles of well-known movies. For instance, The Three Musketeers was renamed Love and Honor and The Guns of Navarone became The Coastal Battery. I kid you not.

[Madiel]

In 1980s Romania they changed even the titles of well-known movies. For instance, The Three Musketeers was renamed Love and Honor and The Guns of Navarone became The Coastal Battery. I kid you not.

There are far more bizarre ones than that out there. Australian television had a comedy-game show called Show Me the Movie where they highlighted the more absurd ones, getting the contestants to guess which one of 4 ridiculously unlikely titles had been used for a film when translated for a given country. The answer was often the one that seemed furthest away from the original.

[Florestan]

There are far more bizarre ones than that out there. Australian television had a comedy-game show called Show Me the Movie where they highlighted the more absurd ones, getting the contestants to guess which one of 4 ridiculously unlikely titles had been used for a film when translated for a given country. The answer was often the one that seemed furthest away from the original.