Last Movie You Watched

[Karl Henning]

Wm Wyler's Wuthering Heights.

I learn that, while I had for some time assumed that I had seen a Wuthering Heights (and the assumption is of such vintage that this must be the pertinent version) the fact is that I was mistaken and that this was my very first viewing.

[Karl Henning]

Revisiting Dune, Part 2.

[relm1]

To @relm1 here's a cool scene from Big Trouble in Little China where the gang is trying to escape and they still have one more elemental being to deal with called Lightning:

That looks and sounds so '80's.  But I do love Carpenter/Russell so must check this one out.

[Karl Henning]

About time I watch this:
Ice Station Zebra

[Cato]

I learn that, while I had for some time assumed that I had seen a Wuthering Heights (and the assumption is of such vintage that this must be the pertinent version) the fact is that I was mistaken and that this was my very first viewing.

Interesting story, told by Laurence Olivier himself, about how he almost got fired by Samuel Goldwyn.

Olivier had not gone very far in Hollywood, but this role was supposed to lift him out of obscurity.

William Wyler showed the "rushes" to Goldwyn, scenes in which Olivier used a lithping accent and did other somewhat eccentric things.

Goldwyn had an absolute fit, and told Wyler: "Willy, that actor is the worst I've ever seen!  Where did you get him?  If that actor don't get better, I shut down the picture!"

Apparently, Olivier improved! 

About time I watch this:

Ice Station Zebra

Fun fact:

During his dotage, tycoon Howard Hughes supposedly became obsessed with Ice Station Zebra and watched it at least once a day!

Anyway, Patrick McGoohan steals your attention every time he is on the screen!

[Number Six]

Jurassic World Rebirth

Not good.

Terrible script, silly monsters, a sleepwalking/mailing-it-in cast (ScarJo is particularly disappointing). . .ugh.

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Jurassic World Rebirth

Not good.

Terrible script, silly monsters, a sleepwalking/mailing-it-in cast (ScarJo is particularly disappointing). . .ugh.

Didn't even know this franchise was still around. I guess it's kind of like Jaws. Some companies just won't let a franchise die while it still has some dignity left.

[Karl Henning]

About time I watch this:
Ice Station Zebra

Curiously, both this and the 1970 Wuthering Heights were scored by Michel Legrand. His work for the latter highly redolent of Rimsky-Korsakov.

[Karl Henning]

Wm Wyler's Wuthering Heights.

And now, the 1970 version with Timothy Dalton. Separated by 41 years, the two productions make an interesting study in how very different two movies based on the same source can be. Not having read the source novel, I am unprepared to adjudicate. I can say I enjoyed both of them and enjoyed the respective cast of each. Heathcliff and Catherine are both very flawed characters. My impression is that the later film (possibly not to its discredit) shaded both characters a hair bit darker.

[Madiel]

Working Girl. Still quite fun after a couple of decades.

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

And now, the 1970 version with Timothy Dalton. Separated by 41 years, the two productions make an interesting study in how very different two movies based on the same source can be. Not having read the source novel, I am unprepared to adjudicate. I can say I enjoyed both of them and enjoyed the respective cast of each. Heathcliff and Catherine are both very flawed characters. My impression is that the later film (possibly not to its discredit) shaded both characters a hair bit darker.

Timothy Dalton was an underrated James Bond!

[SonicMan46]

Timothy Dalton was an underrated James Bond!

Own at least a half dozen+ Bond films but the one I usually pick to watch is below - love the cello girl -     Dave

 

[SonicMan46]

A few days late, but watched the film below on the night of July 4:

Born on the Fourth of July (1989) - synopsis below; based on the autobiography of a paralyzed Vietnam War veteran, Ron Kovic (1946- ).  The film received 8 Oscar nominations and won two - Cruise lost Best Actor but did get the Golden Globe award for the same nomination (which he returned - see link if interested).  Dave

Born on the Fourth of July is an American epic biographical anti-war drama film that is based on the 1976 autobiography of Ron Kovic. Directed by Oliver Stone, and written by Stone and Kovic, it stars Tom Cruise, Kyra Sedgwick, Willem Dafoe et al. The film depicts the life of Kovic (Cruise) over a 20-year period, detailing his childhood, his military service and paralysis during the Vietnam War, and his transition to anti-war activism. It is the second installment in Stone's trilogy of films about the Vietnam War, following Platoon (1986) and preceding Heaven & Earth (1993). (Source)

 

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Own at least a half dozen+ Bond films but the one I usually pick to watch is below - love the cello girl -     Dave

 

That's a good one! Maryam d'Abo is a babe!

[Karl Henning]

Timothy Dalton was an underrated James Bond!

Agreed! I was greatly disappointed that his tenure was so brief. 

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Agreed! I was greatly disappointed that his tenure was so brief.

Me, too! I think he only did two films. A shame. He was just getting warmed up.

[Iota]

Madres Paralelas (Parallel Mothers), written and directed by Almodóvar, and starring Penélope Cruz and Milena Smit, is essentially a film about the relationship that evolves between two women who both give birth on the same day in the same Madrid hospital room, but which touches tellingly on many wider subjects, including the intensely emotive one of Franco's dictatorship and its aftermath.
Cruz, who plays one of the mothers, inhabits the character superbly and carries you with her through all the fluctuations and challenges of her affecting and demanding journey. Smit, the other (much younger) mother, is also excellent and the chemistry between her and Cruz creates a powerful emotional framework for the whole film. I found Smit's mother (Aitana Sánchez-Gijón) memorable too. Highly recommended.

[Karl Henning]

Fun fact:

During his dotage, tycoon Howard Hughes supposedly became obsessed with Ice Station Zebra and watched it at least once a day!

I am likely to watch it again soon, but then, I am apt to do so with an artifact new to me. I do not fear it becoming a daily obsession.

Anyway, Patrick McGoohan steals your attention every time he is on the screen!

I find him truly magnetic. It strikes me as fairly generous of Rock Hudson, who (I have the impression) was the more established "star," to be thus generous with the "upstart." My feeling on this initial viewing is that the tension between the two characters is a matter of the two actors acting, and not a para-textual ego-battle.

[DavidW]

Didn't even know this franchise was still around. I guess it's kind of like Jaws. Some companies just won't let a franchise die while it still has some dignity left.

On Jaws: The Revenge: "I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific." - Michael Caine.

[Karl Henning]

On Jaws: The Revenge: "I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific." - Michael Caine.

Yes!