Last Movie You Watched

[aligreto]

The Killing of a Sacred Deer:





This is one of the strangest films that I have ever seen. It is about the heavy influence that a boy has on a doctor's family [there is a backstory here] and the ultimate choice the doctor has to make as a result. The dialogue is very contrived, strained and unnatural to add to the surreal nature of the situation, I suppose.

[SonicMan46]

Another BD replacement for an old DVD:

National Velvet (1944) w/ an adolescent Elizabeth Taylor, Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp, and others - short synopsis below and excellent restoration review HERE - considered one of the best 'horse films'; Rooney reprised a similar role in the Black Stallion (1979), another excellent horse adventure.  Taylor did most of her own riding in the making of National Velvet and took a nasty fall - more 'facts' HERE - highly recommended.  Dave

National Velvet is an American Technicolor sports film directed by Clarence Brown and based on the 1935 novel of the same name by Enid Bagnold. It stars Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp, Angela Lansbury, Anne Revere, Reginald Owen, and an adolescent Elizabeth Taylor. In 2003, National Velvet was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." (Source)

 

[aligreto]

Don't Look Up:





If this film does nothing else it depicts the delusions that many people on this planet have in terms of reality. The total dominance that the media, social media, politicians and various other influencers have on many people is very well investigated here. This film is to be commended for what it portrays and a lot of what it portrays is already here in the now and humanity is the worst for it. It is disturbing and tragic on so many intellectual levels. Don't look up if you want to ignore and not acknowledge the problem! It is definitely worth watching.

[George]

This movie was a beautiful, hilarious love letter to a very, very special man.   

[SonicMan46]

Another new streaming BD replacement, i.e. the 4K UHD Amazon version of the film below:

Wall Street (1987) w/ Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, and others in the short synopsis below - much more at the link - Douglas won his second Oscar for his role as Gekko - the 4K version looked great on my HDTV - what seemed so dated was the innumerable computers on Gekko's desks and in the stock exchange, all with OLD CRT monitors w/ only green text-based graphics of yesteryear, so archaic -    Dave

Wall Street is a 1987 American drama film, directed and co-written by Oliver Stone, which stars Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Daryl Hannah, and Martin Sheen. The film tells the story of Bud Fox (C. Sheen), a young stockbroker who becomes involved with Gordon Gekko (Douglas), a wealthy, unscrupulous corporate raider. (Source)

 

[Iota]

Don't Look Up:





If this film does nothing else it depicts the delusions that many people on this planet have in terms of reality. The total dominance that the media, social media, politicians and various other influencers have on many people is very well investigated here. This film is to be commended for what it portrays and a lot of what it portrays is already here in the now and humanity is the worst for it. It is disturbing and tragic on so many intellectual levels. Don't look up if you want to ignore and not acknowledge the problem! It is definitely worth watching.

I agree it's definitely worth watching. Many critics seemed to have the knives out for it (often along it's-a-puffed-out,-patronising-TED-talk lines), but, whatever their complaints of its lack of intellectual substance/credibility, which certainly didn't strike me at the time, there were all sorts of things I enjoyed about it.

Meryl Streep as the amoral US President, and Mark Rylance as a sinister, uber-powerful Tech entrepreneur were both excellent I thought. Some of the CGI in the last stages of the film was also rather imaginative/moving, and all in all, it felt an important story well put together.

[Madiel]

Wah-Wah



Richard E. Grant wrote and directed what is pretty much an autobiography. Good actors involved but it's not entirely convincing as a story, rather too much like a collection of remembered scenes without a clear theme or purpose. There's a sort of coming-of-age story in there.

[SimonNZ]

I read Richard E Grant's book on the troubled production of that film. Which, like his earlier book With Nails, is remarkably candid.

[Madiel]

I read Richard E Grant's book on the troubled production of that film. Which, like his earlier book With Nails, is remarkably candid.

I've actually read better things about the book than about the film!

I mean the film's not terrible, it's quite watchable. It just feels like something didn't quite gel.

[Karl Henning]

Good Will Hunting. The title still puzzles me, and I cannot stand the pop song they play for the closing credits, but I enjoyed the movie very much.

[George]

Watching with my girlfriend later tonight. Her first time. 

[Karl Henning]

Watching with my girlfriend later tonight. Her first time. 

You know, for a few seconds I wondered why there was a rabbit illustrated....

[LKB]

I'm still wondering, having never seen the film.

[SonicMan46]

Watching with my girlfriend later tonight. Her first time. 

Hi George - enjoy - decided to buy Amazon's 4K UHD streamer of the first Matrix, don't much care for the sequels - looked outstanding on my 4K HDTV - you may get even more spectacular results w/ the physical disc, but might be a hard A:B comparison?  Dave

[SonicMan46]

Well, I had to address my Spiderman & Batman physical disc collection, own all BDs, 4 of the Spider and 5 of the Bat - at my age, I'm just not going to watch these films; so after looking at several 'the best in the series' (and there were discrepancies), I decided to cull down to only 4 (2 of each as shown below); plus, went w/ Amazon & Apple 4K UHD streaming versions, which clears up a LOT of storage - watched the 2 Spider-Man films a few nights ago, both just excellent - will view the Batman films soon!  Dave

[George]

Hi George - enjoy - decided to buy Amazon's 4K UHD streamer of the first Matrix, don't much care for the sequels - looked outstanding on my 4K HDTV - you may get even more spectacular results w/ the physical disc, but might be a hard A:B comparison?  Dave

Thanks, Dave. She and I are going to watch the latest sequel, despite mixed (at best) reviews.

The Dark Knight is SO GOOD. I watch that one regularly.

[Karl Henning]

Thanks, Dave. She and I are going to watch the latest sequel, despite mixed (at best) reviews.

I learnt yesterday that my PT watched it. He more or less enjoyed it.

[George]

I learnt yesterday that my PT watched it. He more or less enjoyed it.

PT = physical therapist?

[Karl Henning]

Aye.

[George]

Aye.

Sorry to hear. Hope all is well.