Last Movie You Watched

Pohjolas Daughter · May 15, 2024, 04:11:05 PM

Quote from: Karl Henning on May 15, 2024, 03:57:16 PMHappy to take your suggestion under earnest advisement. I see that @Brian brought the hammer down. Please do not misread this as defiance ... TD: The Man Who Knew Too Much.

It's all good.

PD

Karl Henning · May 15, 2024, 04:34:41 PM

Quote from: Karl Henning on May 15, 2024, 03:57:16 PMHappy to take your suggestion under earnest advisement. I see that @Brian brought the hammer down. Please do not misread this as defiance ... TD: The Man Who Knew Too Much.

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

George · May 15, 2024, 05:05:32 PM

Quote from: Karl Henning on May 15, 2024, 03:57:16 PMTD: 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 · May 15, 2024, 05:07:41 PM

Quote from: George on May 15, 2024, 05:05:32 PMI 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 · May 15, 2024, 05:11:00 PM

Quote from: Karl Henning on May 15, 2024, 04:34:41 PM"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 · May 15, 2024, 05:18:22 PM

Quote from: Karl Henning on May 15, 2024, 05:07:41 PMCoen Brothers?

Yes!

Karl Henning · May 15, 2024, 05:52:15 PM

Quote from: Pohjolas Daughter on May 15, 2024, 05:11:00 PMSounds 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 · May 15, 2024, 06:39:33 PM

Quote from: Pohjolas Daughter on May 15, 2024, 05:11:00 PMSounds 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 · May 15, 2024, 07:03:14 PM

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

Karl Henning · May 16, 2024, 05:23:25 AM

Quote from: Karl Henning on May 15, 2024, 07:03:14 PMJust 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 · May 16, 2024, 05:27:05 AM

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

SPOILERS AHEAD!
This film was very good retro style sci-fi horror, 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 · May 16, 2024, 04:34:45 PM

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 · May 16, 2024, 06:02:28 PM

Quote from: Karl Henning on May 15, 2024, 05:07:41 PMCoen 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 · May 16, 2024, 08:00:25 PM

Quote from: Cato on May 16, 2024, 04:34:45 PMOne 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 · May 16, 2024, 08:01:48 PM

Quote from: Karl Henning on May 16, 2024, 06:02:28 PMAnd, 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 · Reply #36815 - Re: Last Movie You Watched

Quote from: Cato on May 16, 2024, 04:34:45 PMOne 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).

Quote from: Karl Henning on May 16, 2024, 08:00:25 PMYes, 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!