Last Movie You Watched

[steve ridgway]

I watched The Adjustment Bureau (George Nolfi, 2011) on TV. I knew nothing about it. Looked like another political thriller at first, but soon turned out to be a sci-fi romance. Interesting ideas and concepts about free will and authoritarian control, althou handled in rather simplistic way. This felt a movie Steven Spielberg could have directed, and maybe get a little more out of it, but as it is it was a nice movie. At least it wasn't the kind of ADHD visual noise crap many newer movies tend to be...

Yes, I enjoyed that one. It was a different twist on the story of someone discovering a conspiracy against them.

[vers la flamme]

The Irishman

I didn't dislike this the way many others seem to have. But it is unusually slow moving for a Scorsese film, and has plenty of scenes that could have been easily trimmed down or cut out altogether for a more manageable running time.

Funny, I opened this thread to post just this film, Scorcese's The Irishman. I've just watched it for the third time. I absolutely love this movie. It's one of Scorcese's greatest achievements in my book. There are so many iconic scenes, so many moments of absolutely crushing emotion. Personally, I wouldn't excise a single scene from the film. It's three and a half hours and does not outstay its welcome for a moment. The final hour of the film, in particular, is perfect, but I don't think it would work nearly as well if anything was trimmed from the middle. A masterpiece.

[SimonNZ]

Interesting. I'll probably rewatch it at some point in the future and hopefully I'll be of your view then.

last night:

[SimonNZ]

At the cinema today:



Absolutely superb. Amazingly captured and photographed cross-section of daily life from all levels of the population in Gaza. Avoids all of the standard doco-cliches for this sort of subject.


The was also an interesting trailer before it for a Romanian documentary called The Collective about health-care fraud exposed after a night-club fire.

[DavidW]

I watched the Snyder cut of the Justice League.  Better than the Whedon cut.  Way too long and ponderous.  And the last half hour is just an advertisement for a movie that will most likely never happen.  But it was neat that Zac Snyder finally got to see the film that he made see the light of day.

[Karl Henning]

Arsenic and Old Lace, which is always a spirit-raiser.

[SonicMan46]

Arsenic and Old Lace, which is always a spirit-raiser.

Hi Karl - have not watched that film in a while - own on DVD (probably bought on release 20 or so years ago) - no BD that I've seen and available for purchase on Amazon Prime Video in only SD - would be curious what condition the original material might be?  Dave

[Christo]

[greg]

Hell Fest


Was in the mood for something like this and it delivered. Not anything amazing, but good fun and lots of fascinating scenery to look at when showing decorative shots of the theme park.



(not to be confused with Hellfest, the heavy metal festival that takes place in France)

[drogulus]

     After unimaginable torture I found the Criterion Channel app in the Google Play store on my Sony TV. Now I have to decide whether I want to pay for another service.

[André]

Through a Glass Darkly. Powerful - and, needless to say, totally bleak. It has been decades since I last saw it. Sven Nykvist's first collaboration with Bergman. His trademark natural lighting shots illuminate the film.

[SimonNZ]

I would have thought there was a rule in marketing about not putting big gnarly spiders on the covers of things.

(Even knowing it relates to a key scene in the first film)

[milk]

See this. Don't find out about it. Watch it cold. Trust me.

[George]

See this. Don't find out about it. Watch it cold. Trust me.

Yeah. It was great!

[aligreto]

The Snowtown Murders





This is a gritty and hard hitting, factually based account of an Australian serial killer who was specific about his type of victims. Not all easy viewing but then neither is Life.

[Madiel]

The Snowtown Murders





This is a gritty and hard hitting, factually based account of an Australian serial killer who was specific about his type of victims. Not all easy viewing but then neither is Life.

Don't need a fictionalised account, it was in the news quite enough at the time!

[milk]

This has all the annoying features of a Spielberg movie. Still, there's more here, something better. It's still worth the price of admission even when it inevitably causes frustration. Maybe Kubrick is the key.

[aligreto]

Solitary Man





This film is ostensibly about an ageing, previously wealthy but now down on his luck philanderer but there is just a bit more to it than that. There is good character analysis throughout the film. It was very enjoyable.

[vers la flamme]

Through a Glass Darkly. Powerful - and, needless to say, totally bleak. It has been decades since I last saw it. Sven Nykvist's first collaboration with Bergman. His trademark natural lighting shots illuminate the film.

Saw this trilogy in high school and loved it. I'd love to watch it all again, but it might be hard to convince my girlfriend to watch it with me.

[aligreto]

Wakefield





This is a serious film about a man who has a nervous breakdown one evening as he arrives home after work but I also found it to be quite amusing. He ends up living in the attic of his garage which overlooks his large house. He is reported missing by his wife but he observes his wife and children from the garage window. He ends up going feral to feed himself and the amusement in the film is the thoughts that come into his mind and the things that happen to him. Worth a watch if you are in the mood for something quirky.