Last Movie You Watched

[Kalevala]

Great fun, indeed.

Glad that you enjoyed it!   

K

[Karl Henning]

Glad that you enjoyed it! 

K

I especially enjoyed Jn Malkovich in an upbeat comic character. I tend to remember the thoroughly bad experience his character in Burn After Reading suffers.

[T. D.]

I once saw this on video, but may watch an enhanced cinema restoration on half-price Wednesday 


I'm a qualified fan of the director: very much enjoy some of his films*, but there have been others I couldn't connect with or didn't want to see.

*The Dead Zone is particularly good and (while not exactly PG-rated) eschews the over-the-top creepiness that is sometimes found in Cronenberg's work.

[Karl Henning]

I once saw this on video, but may watch an enhanced cinema restoration on half-price Wednesday 


I'm a qualified fan of the director: very much enjoy some of his films*, but there have been others I couldn't connect with or didn't want to see.

*The Dead Zone is particularly good and (while not exactly PG-rated) eschews the over-the-top creepiness that is sometimes found in Cronenberg's work.

I'm still not sure I want to try Dead Ringers again.

[T. D.]

I'm still not sure I want to try Dead Ringers again.

I hear you...Enjoyed it once, when I didn't know what to expect. Not eager to revisit.

[Karl Henning]

Again:
Blade Runner 2049. As rich as the original. A great slowburn.

[Cato]

Last night, The Singing Detective, which reignited Robert Downey Jr.'s career after a year in a rehabilitation clinic.

An odd movie, which keeps you guessing (Is this a hallucination or not?) about things, and has some funny, satirical moments.


I did not know that the movie derives from a British television mini-series in the 1980's with Michael Gambon.




Also recently, The Accountant, which deals with an autistic genius who, despite his intelligence, ends up laundering money for the worst and deepest parts of the underworld.        

If you accept the premise that autism prevents or inhibits moral behavior, or even distinguishing right from wrong), then it is an entertaining ride!

[VonStupp]

This is not a Marvel movie. Sony hasn't produced that many Spider-verse movies. It is just that the ones they made are stinkers. There are the Venom movies, Madame Web, and Kraven, and I think that is it. The Tom Holland movies are not under the Sony umbrella, but the Disney one.

I thought Marvel Studios, Sony, and Disney all have their hands in the pot when it came to Spider-Man. Personally, I can't keep up with who owns what amid the back-room dealings, so I won't pretend to know. For me, the Marvel movies really fell off the cliff, with few exceptions.

At some point, supply is determined to exceed demand.

I think we are well beyond that point. Now, I serve the role of dutiful father and husband to those who like to watch such things. My superhero movie exhaustion reared its head long ago, but if I am going to watch them, I might as well keep an open mind and expectations low.
VS

[Karl Henning]

Again:
Blade Runner 2049. As rich as the original. A great slowburn.

And now: back to Ridley Scott's original!

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

This month, thanks to the Philadelphia Film Society, revisiting two of my favorites on the big screen: The Leopard (1963) and Rocco and His Brothers (1960). Both have fabulous scores by Nino Rota.

A brief appreciation on The Leopard, about 6 minutes:

The trailer for the 4K restoration of Rocco:

Great movies!

[brewski]

Great movies!

Yes! At 3 hours each, they are long hauls, but worth it.

[Papy Oli]

Darkest Hour


A mesmerising performance by Gary Oldman as Churchill in an otherwise ok movie.

[DavidW]

I thought Marvel Studios, Sony, and Disney all have their hands in the pot when it came to Spider-Man.

Disney owns Marvel, which currently has rights to Spider-Man, but Sony still has rights to the other characters in the Spiderverse. That means that Sony can make movies with recurring Spider-Man characters, except the titular character himself. So they are oddly making movies about some of his villains, but then making them into the protagonists??

[DavidW]

I watched The Da Vinci Code, a terribly stupid movie. The worst part was that the clever insight to solve the last puzzle was associating Newton with apples, which a child could do. I didn't read or watch this when it was new, and I don't know why it was so popular.

[Cato]

I watched The Da Vinci Code, a terribly stupid movie. The worst part was that the clever insight to solve the last puzzle was associating Newton with apples, which a child could do. I didn't read or watch this when it was new, and I don't know why it was so popular.

When the book came out, I skimmed through it and thought of what an obviously frustrated literary agent wrote to me over 40 years ago:

"Thank you for letting me read your book: it is highly original with unique characters and great style, which is why it will never be published."

Yes, a stupid book, but I suspect that much of what is published is stupid, which says nothing good about the continually dwindling number of people still buying and reading books.

Apparently Alfred Hitchcock's "rule" that mediocre books can be made into great movies did not apply in this case.

Perhaps the book is too mediocre to be salvaged through a movie!

Anyway...we revisited this excellent movie about the autistic animal husbandry expert Temple Grandin:



Temple Grandin came out in 2010 as a television movie: Claire Danes was most excellent in her portrayal.

[Karl Henning]

Haven't watched this in a while: Clint Eastwood's Bird.

[krummholz]

I watched The Da Vinci Code, a terribly stupid movie. The worst part was that the clever insight to solve the last puzzle was associating Newton with apples, which a child could do. I didn't read or watch this when it was new, and I don't know why it was so popular.

Interesting little factoid: the late Umberto Eco, in reference to Dan Brown and specifically to The Da Vinci Code, remarked that Brown was "one of my creatures", i.e. a character in Eco's own novel Foucault's Pendulum.

[Kalevala]

I thought Marvel Studios, Sony, and Disney all have their hands in the pot when it came to Spider-Man. Personally, I can't keep up with who owns what amid the back-room dealings, so I won't pretend to know. For me, the Marvel movies really fell off the cliff, with few exceptions.


I think we are well beyond that point. Now, I serve the role of dutiful father and husband to those who like to watch such things. My superhero movie exhaustion reared its head long ago, but if I am going to watch them, I might as well keep an open mind and expectations low.
VS

What a good (and patient) daddy!

Tangential thoughts:  perhaps try and get them back into the kitchen/grilling and/or wear out the young ones with outdoor activities?  😇

K

[Iota]

Last night, The Singing Detective, which reignited Robert Downey Jr.'s career after a year in a rehabilitation clinic.

An odd movie, which keeps you guessing (Is this a hallucination or not?) about things, and has some funny, satirical moments.

Interesting, haven't seen the movie, but I should check it out.

I did not know that the movie derives from a British television mini-series in the 1980's with Michael Gambon.

A series which, like many things written for tv by Dennis Potter, was brilliant. Also one of the first things that made me sit up and pay attention to Michael Gambon.