Last Movie You Watched

[hopefullytrusting]

Rewatched: Trust
Hal is a master of dialogue, and the ending dialogue of this film might be some of my favorite ever. Also, an awesome OST, I am finding more and more that the OST is super important to me.

[relm1]

I saw Heretic last week.  Pretty good and nice job by Hugh Grant who is usually more likeable than sinister.  Interestingly, be comes across as quite sinister without ever raising his voice. 

[SonicMan46]

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad - classic Ray Harryhausen stop action film, rated number 3 in his filmography HERE - synopsis and cast below - characters include several cyclops, dragon, giant roc, a fighting skeleton and a few others. The young attractive Kathryn Grant (before Bing Crosby) for the romantic lead.  First of Ray's three 'Sinbad' movies - recommended if your into this genre - his top two films for most including me are Jason and the Argonauts and Clash of the Titans.  Dave

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad is a 1958 American Technicolor fantasy adventure film directed by Nathan H. Juran and starring Kerwin Mathews, Kathryn Grant, Torin Thatcher, Richard Eyer, and Alec Mango. It was the first of three Sinbad feature films from Columbia, the later two from the 1970s being The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973) and Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977). All three Sinbad films were conceptualized by Ray Harryhausen using Dynamation, the full color widescreen stop-motion animation technique that he created. While similarly named, the film does not follow the storyline of the tale "The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor" but instead has more in common with the Third and Fifth voyages of Sinbad. (Source)

 

[Karl Henning]

I did enjoy that!

[pjme]

Quite impressive, dark, depressing and cruel film.

"Talking just causes witnesses."

"Seventeen-year-old Ree lives with her brother, sister and ailing mother, whom she cares for, in the rugged Ozark Mountains. When she learns that her criminal father has given up their house as security to escape his prison sentence and has subsequently disappeared, she decides to go find him. At the risk of her own life, Ree begins a quest through lies and threats from distant relatives to uncover the truth behind her father's secrets."

Crystal meth, weapons, sheer stupid violence and the skimpiest dose of love combined in a stark, strong film. A very bleak picture of the stranglehold of poverty (caused by) crime...

[DavidW]

Rewatched it last night. Unforgiven is a brilliant movie, that demonstrates how the violence of killing a man, especially in cold blood, wounds the soul. It makes what would classically be the antagonist the protagonist. It is interesting how despite the sadism of Hackman's character he is what by action should be seen as the good guy. But the movie makes us root for the guy that murders people for money. It is also nihilistic in showing that despite 11 years of good behavior, amoralistic violence was still in the nature of the protagonistic. He is just built differently from the other characters. The movie shows that the most successful shooters are not blindingly fast. They are just so lacking in compassion that they can coldly take aim and end another man's life.

Utterly brilliant deconstruction of the Western.

[SimonNZ]

[Karl Henning]

Heavy Metal, and the featurette, Imagining Heavy Metal. Least surprising remark by one of the interviewees: "I took a date to the movie and she stopped returning my calls afterward.

[Karl Henning]

Heavy Metal, and the featurette, Imagining Heavy Metal. Least surprising remark by one of the interviewees: "I took a date to the movie and she stopped returning my calls afterward.

Also: "I wouldn't let my kids watch this movie."

[Mandryka]

Does anyone know it? I mean -- what's it about, drugs or sex?

[AnotherSpin]

Does anyone know it? I mean -- what's it about, drugs or sex?

Fron IMDB: "One morning, a young man wakes to find that a small, disgusting creature has attached itself to the base of his brain stem. The creature gives him a euphoric state of happiness but demands human victims in return."

and some trivia:

"During the fellatio scene, the crew walked out on the production refusing to take part."

[Mandryka]

...





Elmer rewards his host person with his juice, which gives them an addictive pleasure. In return the host leads Elmer to his victims -- he eats their brains.

The pleasure which results from a dose of Elmer juice is orgasmic, and life changing



For me this is more than just a fun film. It is semantically interesting because it seems to be about something, but what? Drugs or sex? The answer is not in the film, it is in the viewer.

[Cato]

Rewatched it last night. Unforgiven is a brilliant movie, that demonstrates how the violence of killing a man, especially in cold blood, wounds the soul. It makes what would classically be the antagonist the protagonist. It is interesting how despite the sadism of Hackman's character he is what by action should be seen as the good guy. But the movie makes us root for the guy that murders people for money. It is also nihilistic in showing that despite 11 years of good behavior, amoralistic violence was still in the nature of the protagonistic. He is just built differently from the other characters. The movie shows that the most successful shooters are not blindingly fast. They are just so lacking in compassion that they can coldly take aim and end another man's life.

Utterly brilliant deconstruction of the Western.

I recall an interview with Clint Eastwood, who said the movie "is about a bad man, who went good, at least for a while."

Recently we caught a British domestic drama about writer Roald Dahl and his wife, actress Patricia Neal, in the early 1960's.




To Olivia was generally well acted, except for one scene, in which the Patricia Neal character is supposed to be rehearsing a scene for the movie Hud, with Paul Newman.

At first, she feels that she did not handle the lines right, had not embodied the character properly, and after some insights are offered to her about herself, she tries the scene again, and everyone is thrilled.

Except...we discerned nothing different between the two attempts!  Perhaps we missed something subtle (?).

Anyway, it was worth our time: and Hugh Bonneville is almost unrecognizable, except for his voice!

[Cato]

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad - classic Ray Harryhausen stop action film, rated number 3 in his filmography HERE - synopsis and cast below - characters include several cyclops, dragon, giant roc, a fighting skeleton and a few others. The young attractive Kathryn Grant (before Bing Crosby) for the romantic lead.  First of Ray's three 'Sinbad' movies - recommended if your into this genre - his top two films for most including me are Jason and the Argonauts and Clash of the Titans.  Dave

 

Kerwin Matthews never made it to the top in Hollywood, but here, one sees that he had talent: he makes the viewer think that he really is Sinbad!  He sells everything quite well!

Not unlike John Astin's manic performances as Gomez Addams in The Addams Family television show.

[AnotherSpin]

[..]
For me this is more than just a fun film. It is semantically interesting because it seems to be about something, but what? Drugs or sex? The answer is not in the film, it is in the viewer.

As always.

[DavidW]

A couple of nights ago I rewatched Ad Astra. It is a neat near-future SF movie where we have colonized the solar system. But that is a vehicle for the main plot of the movie: a character turned stoic, turning off his feelings, to repress the childhood trauma of his Father abandoning him. As he goes to find his Father, he also allows himself to feel again, deal with the trauma, and move on. When I first saw it in the theater just the week after opening weekend, the theater was nearly empty. A pity, it is a really good movie IMO.

[Karl Henning]

Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Six bucks and my right nut says I may just watch this every Thanksgiving for the rest of my life.

[Karl Henning]

To Rome With Love. Funny, I realize just now that's Jesse Eisenberg from Zombieland.

[Karl Henning]

To Rome With Love. Funny, I realize just now that's Jesse Eisenberg from Zombieland.

"Someone dead?"
"No, but it's early."

[Kalevala]

Currently watching Gosford Park which I haven't seen before.  Lots of big name actors, writers and directors in it. 

K