Last Movie You Watched

[hopefullytrusting]

Well, that led me in a completely direction: Last Exmas



Already have my bundle of tissues because I am pretty sure this movie is going to make me cry tears of all types.

[hopefullytrusting]

Ending the night with: Suicide Room

[hopefullytrusting]

Okay, one more: The Vanishing - 1988 - Dutch

[Madiel]

Okay, one more: The Vanishing - 1988 - Dutch

Now THAT is a creepy movie.

Which the American remake changed, because, you know... the powers that be have decided that Americans don't like that kind of resolution.

[hopefullytrusting]

Now THAT is a creepy movie.

Which the American remake changed, because, you know... the powers that be have decided that Americans don't like that kind of resolution.

Agreed, it is a very creepy movie, and the ending was terrifying.

I had to look up the USA remake, and W.T.F. - that ending is insane, but I will admit I would love to see that team rewrite The 400 Blows, lol.

[Number Six]

Eden (2025)

A bit slow starting, but if you can get past the first 30 minutes then it's riveting. Fantastic cast and setting/cinemtography. Not an easy watch - Ana de Armas is particularly infuriating. She deserves an Oscar nom for a brilliant performance. Everyone's superb, though.

[hopefullytrusting]

KRD's Brief Reviews:

Last Exmas:
This movie was exactly what I was looking for. A movie for a hopeless romantic, and it ends hopelessly romantic.

Lez Bomb:
This movie was fun, but the ending requires humans to act in an unhuman fashion, but it was still fun, but not comfort food.

Suicide Room:
This movie was serious, but the ending became a bit discombobulated. I really enjoyed how seamless the video game features were integrate into the cinematic elements. I also love how it focused on a very contemporary issue - how easy it is to get lost in the online world to such a degree that you lose all connection with reality.

Spoorloos aka The Vanishing:
As has already been mentioned, this movie is terrifying, and its ending is easily one of the most terrifying ever. To be honest, it made getting to sleep a little difficult last night, lol, so, tonight - only light things, lol.

[Karl Henning]

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.
A trip. Once is probably enough. 

[SimonNZ]

4th or 5th viewing.

A wikipedia answer I sought during the film:


"According to a 1975 edition of The Mariner's Mirror, the term "pea coat" originated from the Dutch or West Frisian word pijjekker or pijjakker, in which pij referred to the type of cloth used, a coarse kind of twilled blue cloth with a nap on one side. Jakker designates a man's short, heavy coat.

Another theory, favoured by the US Navy, is that the heavy topcoat worn in cold, miserable weather by seafaring men was once tailored from "pilot cloth" — a heavy, coarse, stout kind of twilled blue cloth with the nap on one side. This was sometimes called P-cloth from the initial letter of pilot, and the garment made from it was called a P-jacket — later a pea coat. The term has been used since 1723 to denote coats made from that cloth."

[Karl Henning]

Once is probably enough. [for Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.

I'll likely stand by that, yet I was sufficiently curious to listen to the Commentary (Weird Al himself and director/co-writer Appel.)

[Madiel]

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith



I decided to watch what's considered a landmark Australian film, partly because indigenous-centred stories were (and are?) pretty uncommon. It's an adaptation of a historical novel, which itself is fairly closely based on real events in the year 1900.

Unfortunately, watching the film was a joyless experience. For one thing the story is a grimy miserable one, with scarcely a character that has redeeming features - and one character that does come across as 'good' also feels like a mouthpiece rather than a real person.

But also, the film itself shows its age stylistically, and at times it's a bit disjointed and clunky, and the sound of the dialogue is sometimes quite poor - whether that's original or just that the surviving prints have deteriorated, I don't know, but there were scenes where I struggled to understand what was being said.

The film wasn't much of a success here but it brought director Fred Schepisi international attention - in his own view, it got him an opportunity to direct in the USA because Americans saw it as a Western, which does make sense. And I get that the film/novel is important, because it's an early example of people talking about how abysmally indigenous Australians were treated. But as a viewing experience decades later: ugh.

[hopefullytrusting]

Like all Chris Cooper movies, you might not start out watching the movie for him, but by the end of it he's easily the best or most memorable part of the film - this one is no different: The Company Men



The entire cast is pretty standout, except for Costner, who they cast as an everyman, but he is never that - not even in the Field of Dreams did I buy him as an everyman - Harrison Ford - that's an everyman, and Affleck, whose accent I don't believe, even though I don't think he is speaking in an accent, but he is no Bud Fox, and this is no satire, this is no deconstruction. Cooper's character should be the fulcrum point, but it isn't - instead, the lesson the movie tries to sell us on is the same one that Jurassic Park did - if we just get it right, next time it will be different, but it won't because that which undergrids it all is fundamentally poisonous, toxic, it cannot help but kill what it consumes.

For me, Cooper's character is the perfect metaphor of this movie - first the focal point, then forgotten, then revised - it is depressing.

The movie is very well made, but it's overall lesson is one that I find soul-crushing and misses the point, and it misses the point by so much that it veers into the territory that I cannot recommend this movie. Seriously, the ending of the movie is infuriating, lol.