Last Movie You Watched

[Philo]

One of the greatest, if not the greatest, endings of any movie ever: Thelma & Louise



Crying right now - the music, the scene, everything - pitch perfect.

[Madiel]

One of the greatest, if not the greatest, endings of any movie ever: Thelma & Louise



Crying right now - the music, the scene, everything - pitch perfect.

Also notable in my world for leading to the generation of the Tori Amos song "Me and a Gun".

[Philo]

There is a chance I will get to teach a film class in the future, so I've been thinking of what film I would focus on, and after a considerable thought process this is the film I landed upon: Swing Kids (1993)



First, it starts my favorite character actor (Frank Whaley), and another character actor I adore (Robert Sean Leonard), plus it has Batman, which I imagine is pretty much the only film my students might know Bale from, whom I also love, but more importantly - this is easily one of the strangest subculture revivals ever - the Swing Revival, so there is a lot of material to dig into.

[71 dB]

THE PRODUCERS (Mel Brooks, 1968) Blu-ray

I jumped on this because I was able to get it cheap and it is marketed as "one of the funniest movies ever made." The good news is this movie is FULL of humour and silly things. The bad news is only 10-20 % of the silliness is to my liking. The result is a movie that I found somewhat funny. That said, I don't regret getting this. I don't have much movies like this in my collection and who knows, it is possible the movie might grow on me. 3/5 to my taste.

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I found it funny when Max Bialystock stated "This is kismet!" because I didn't know kismet is a word in English language meaning fate. In Finland we have a very popular and yummy chocolate bar called Kismet manufactured by Fazer, but I didn't know the name actually means something!

[Karl Henning]

THE PRODUCERS (Mel Brooks, 1968) Blu-ray

I jumped on this because I was able to get it cheap and it is marketed as "one of the funniest movies ever made." The good news is this movie is FULL of humour and silly things. The bad news is only 10-20 % of the silliness is to my liking. The result is a movie that I found somewhat funny. That said, I don't regret getting this. I don't have much movies like this in my collection and who knows, it is possible the movie might grow on me. 3/5 to my taste.

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I found it funny when Max Bialystock stated "This is kismet!" because I didn't know kismet is a word in English language meaning fate. In Finland we have a very popular and yummy chocolate bar called Kismet manufactured by Fazer, but I didn't know the name actually means something!

The Producers is fun. Still early, so not anywhere near as solid as his later classics, but good fun. 

[Philo]

Far and away, the most important film I have ever watched, and I sincerely doubt any will ever approach it:

The Spook who sat by the Door



No movie has ever helped clarify myself, until this one. This one forced me to focus, still does - a clarion call, a ringing endorsement, the celestial curia (to quote Bell) - I just want to be free.

[brewski]

The Cornshukker (1997, dir. Brando Snider). For those who admire David Lynch and other auteurs, an entertaining sci-fi (?) hour about an odd, pale man who likes corn and lives in a decrepit country shack.

Megalopolis (2024, dir. Francis Ford Coppola). Kind of an expensive train wreck, starring Adam Driver as a Caesar-like urban planning visionary. Many in the bizarrely-assembled cast seem slightly amused that they are in this movie in the first place. I certainly was.