Last Movie You Watched

[George]

TD: The Man Who Knew Too Much.

I read this as being "The Man Who Wasn't There," one of my very favorite movies. Have you seen it?

[Karl Henning]

I read this as being "The Man Who Wasn't There," one of my very favorite movies. Have you seen it?

Coen Brothers? Yes. I need to watch it again.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

"I'm not one for this terrible Be-Bop."

Sounds like maybe a catch phrase (?) from the movie.  I haven't watched it before.  Did you enjoy it overall, Karl?

PD

[George]

Coen Brothers?

Yes!

[Karl Henning]

Sounds like maybe a catch phrase (?) from the movie.  I haven't watched it before.  Did you enjoy it overall, Karl?

PD

Love it!

[Karl Henning]

Sounds like maybe a catch phrase (?) from the movie.  I haven't watched it before.  Did you enjoy it overall, Karl?

PD

I'd forgotten the joke at the end.

[Karl Henning]

Just the second time: Woody Allen's Small Time Crooks.

[Karl Henning]

Just the second time: Woody Allen's Small Time Crooks.

Even when he's "riffing," it's solid work. I'm kicking myself for not recognizing Elaine May! And I had no idea that George Grizzard was in the cast, but then, I'm not sure I'd seen him in anything after his two Twilight Zone episodes, when he was still a young man.

[relm1]

Yesterday, I saw Annihilation (2018).  Very good Lovecraftian sci-fi horror.



SPOILERS AHEAD!
A very fine retro style sci-fi horror film that is dark, tense, and cerebral.  It made me think of what a proper update of HG Wells' War of the Worlds would be like.  Doing much of what Spielberg's 2005 remake of that film did but here much smarter.  An alien invasion is taking place but rather than the alien having superior technology, here all earth life is just inconsequential.  In War of the Worlds, the technologically superior invaders are ultimately destroyed by a very silly method of a virus.  Something anyone who travels understands if you go to a new country, you'll likely get sick being exposed to germs you have no immunity to but somehow superior intellect aliens don't already know that.  Of course, when HG Wells wrote the original, virology wasn't understood, so it made sense at that time.  Spielberg updated much of the story but left the viral doom intact making the film feel very anticlimactic as if it was a giant set up with an ex-machina ending.  Here, the scenario is modernized and flipped.  The invaders are indifferent to earth life as they begin a planetwide annihilation of all life by merging/stretching all DNA.  I think that is an interesting flip from virus to genetics.  The mutations grow in horror and strangeness and the film ends very inconclusively as its clear some of the genetic mutation in the leads remains in place.  This would be a very good invasion method for an advanced alien life that wants to continue surviving regardless of what life exists on the doomed world they are conquering.  Some might have trouble with the films slow pace but I don't have issues with sprawling stories that linger on mystery and the unknown as well as this one did.

[Cato]

One of my favorite movies: Time Limit, a court-martial drama based on Korean War experiences.

Richard Widmark and Richard Basehart with a good number of great character actors (e.g. Martin Balsam and Rip Torn).

[Karl Henning]

Coen Brothers? Yes. I need to watch it again.

And, here goes (The Man Who Wasn't There) I remember liking it, yet (and this is not unique for me with films noirs) I smile at how little detail I remember of it. 

[Karl Henning]

One of my favorite movies: Time Limit, a court-martial drama based on Korean War experiences.

Richard Widmark and Richard Basehart with a good number of great character actors (e.g. Martin Balsam and Rip Torn).

Yes, very good!

[Karl Henning]

And, here goes (The Man Who Wasn't There) I remember liking it, yet (and this is not unique for me with films noirs) I smile at how little detail I remember of it.

It's very likely I used this line the first time I watched it, but I'll repeat myself: The barber gets the Chair.

[Cato]

One of my favorite movies: Time Limit, a court-martial drama based on Korean War experiences.

Richard Widmark and Richard Basehart with a good number of great character actors (e.g. Martin Balsam and Rip Torn).

Yes, very good!

I should mention that Richard Widmark asked his friend Karl Malden to direct the movie, which he did.

It was Karl Malden's only directing credit.  Too bad, for the movie is well done!

[SonicMan46]

Finding Neverland (2004) - synopsis and main cast below; again, a film to watch with kids but adults can certainly enjoy, especially with Depp's Oscar nominated performance; reviews: 3+*, Maltin; 83%, Rotten Tomatoes; and 7.7/10, IMDB - highly recommended.  Dave

Finding Neverland is a 2004 biographical fantasy film directed by Marc Forster and written by David Magee, based on the 1998 play The Man Who Was Peter Pan by Allan Knee. The film is about playwright J. M. Barrie and his relationship with a family who inspired him to create Peter Pan. The film earned seven nominations at the 77th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Actor for Johnny Depp, and won for Best Original Score. The film was the inspiration for the stage musical of the same name in 2012. (Source)

 

[drogulus]

     I watched Mission to Mars, a 2000 scifi flick from shlockmeister deluxe Brian De Palma. He does his thing with a party and a disco in space. For better or worse there are no Uzis, cocaine or chainsaws. The score is by Ennio Morricone. The film is better than you might think. Also, Don Cheadle is plusgood all the time.

[Cato]

I watched Mission to Mars, a 2000 scifi flick from shlockmeister deluxe Brian De Palma. He does his thing with a party and a disco in space. For better or worse there are no Uzis, cocaine or chainsaws. The score is by Ennio Morricone. The film is better than you might think. Also, Don Cheadle is plusgood all the time.

True!  De Palma was hired after the first director (I could not discover who it was) was fired or quit.  The script was already etched in stone as was the cast.  De Palma felt he needed more funds to do things properly, but that was not possible.


A similar affair happened to De Palma in Denmark with a movie called Domino: the production upset him so much that he said he would never film a movie in Denmark again.

Still, some people saw merit in the movie:

https://www.vulture.com/2019/06/movie-review-brian-de-palmas-domino.html

[DavidW]

I watched Mission to Mars, a 2000 scifi flick from shlockmeister deluxe Brian De Palma. He does his thing with a party and a disco in space. For better or worse there are no Uzis, cocaine or chainsaws. The score is by Ennio Morricone. The film is better than you might think. Also, Don Cheadle is plusgood all the time.

If I vaguely recall, that was the good one and Red Planet was the other one released that year and it was stupid.

[drogulus]

If I vaguely recall, that was the good one and Red Planet was the other one released that year and it was stupid.

    Yes, I don't think I'll bother with that one.

    De Palma made one film that stands out for me in the drugs/guns/party/disco vein, Carlitos Way, featuring Sean Penn in his best role evah!

[Karl Henning]

In memoriam Dabney Coleman: The Man With One Red Shoe. A very young Tom Hanks, Lori Singer, Chas Durning, Jim Belushi & Carrie Fisher.