Last Movie You Watched

[Cato]

I must be completely out of the loop, because I never knew Carrie had been redone even once.

I didn't know that either!

K

As you can imagine, you did not really miss anything, except for more examples of Hollywood's creative bankruptcy!

If you want to revisit Brian De Palma's original, check out the final sequence: as Amy Irving is walking in slow motion, watch the traffic in the background!          

Yes, watch the traffic in the background!   😇

[Karl Henning]

Back in 2007, I saw Grindhouse as two short films. I didn't know that there were full-length cuts. I finally saw one of them last night on Tubi. As it was 18 years between viewings, I can't comment on which is the better version!

found that kind of a tough watch.

[Karl Henning]

found that kind of a tough watch.

Maybe in part because I was fresh out of rehab and still emotionally tender. If it's on Tubi, I may try it again.

[Karl Henning]

Minority Report. Is it very peculiar that this is a feel-good movie for me? No doubt the precogs have already seen this. 

[Cato]

Minority Report. Is it very peculiar that this is a feel-good movie for me? No doubt the precogs have already seen this.

No, probably it is cathartic, and thus you feel better!

Great dramas will always do that, hence the continuation of drama as a popular experience: Shakespeare, Eugene O'Neill, and many others.  Some of my favorite books and movies have some (or even a good number of) tragic scenes: Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain and Doctor Faustus, Herman Hesse's Narziss und Goldmund, Herman Melville's Moby Dick, Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim, and many others.

For movies: (just at random) Shadow of a Doubt, The Mask of Dimitrios, Strangers on a Train, The Searchers, Dark of the Sun, The Spitfire Grill.

Books and movies: Marcel Pagnon's Jean de Florette and Manon of the Springs.

Speaking of drama and mystery: Arrival from 2016 intrigued us last night.

At first I thought: "Okay, another 'aliens have landed' movie,' you will need to do something different to interest me!"

I saw that the main character was a Linguist, which was different enough to interest me!

And the story was indeed somewhat different from what one might expect!  Usually the aliens have already learned Earth's languages...because they are advanced aliens with supraluminal technology!  But not in this scenario!

[Karl Henning]

This Sporting Life....

Intresting. That phrase always puts me in mind of a song by Godley and Creme:

[ritter]

Intresting. That phrase always puts me in mind of a song by Godley and Creme:

Thanks for the comment. Didn't know that song (actually, had never heard of Godley and Crème  ).

Good day to you, Karl!

[VonStupp]

Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)
Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, Matthew MacFadyen

While Ryan Reynolds' shtick is generally not for me, I know what I am getting into with Deadpool, for better or for worse.

How great to see Hugh Jackman back at it, though! I could probably say the same for appearances by Jennifer Garner as Elektra and Wesley Snipes as Blade, although they are more cameos, with their Marvel characters brought back from film obscurity.
VS

[AnotherSpin]

I didn't expect it to affect me so deeply.

[Number Six]

Didn't Zimmer do the theme for The Avengers? If he'd never done another thing in his career, his value would be assured in my eyes.

[Number Six]

I didn't expect it to affect me so deeply.

the-assessment

That one came and went fast from the cinema. Is it out now on digital?

ETA: I answered my own question. It is indeed.

Olsen and Vikander are two monster talents, so I look forward to seeing it.

[71 dB]

I just saw an article that Carrie will be remade a fifth time!

Filmmakers to studio bosses: "We would like to produce another remake of Carrie. Do you greenlight it?"
Studio bosses: "Yes! Carrie on with the project!"

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Pino Donaggio => Brian De Palma/John Williams/Fury => discussion about Carrie remakes and the negative creativity of Hollywood today.    We are probably three steps from discussion about how general relativity and quantum physics could be made compatible!

[VonStupp]

Didn't Zimmer do the theme for The Avengers? If he'd never done another thing in his career, his value would be assured in my eyes.

I believe it was Alan Silvestri, although perhaps he scored the film and the theme came from elsewhere?

Of course, Laurie Johnson created the 60s theme to The Avengers.
VS

[Karl Henning]

I believe it was Alan Silvestri, although perhaps he scored the film and the theme came from elsewhere?

Of course, Laurie Johnson created the 60s theme to The Avengers.
VS

Testify!

[Karl Henning]

As Good as It Gets (1997) - short summary below - Hunt and Nicolson Oscar winners (7 Oscar nominations - lost the 'Best Picture' & Kinnear for Best Supporting Actor, probably both a close call?).  Highly recommended - Ebert Review 3*/4* - I would add another 1/2* at least.  Dave

 

Love this!

[Number Six]

I believe it was Alan Silvestri, although perhaps he scored the film and the theme came from elsewhere?

Of course, Laurie Johnson created the 60s theme to The Avengers.
VS

No, you're right. It was Silvestri.

So never mind, Zimmer, you're on your own. 

[Karl Henning]

Ralph Bakshi's Wizards. With Mark Hamill voicing a fairy king.

[Karl Henning]

The Killers (1964)

[relm1]

Six Days, Seven Nights (1998)


Entertaining but nothing particularly memorable.  You'll forget all about it after its brief 90 minute runtime.  I always thought Harrison Ford was funny in his interviews with late night hosts.  He has a wide range but is typecast as the tough rogue hero guy.  So here is a film by Ivan Reitman who's made some of the best comic films of the 1980's like Stripes, Ghostbusters, Kindergarten Cop, etc.  He tends to make films that are reliably humorous and generally have some heart but with shallow depth. 

Harrison Ford looks great and I realized he was 56 during the making of this film.  Still would have been great at another Indiana Jones at that point.  His costar is Anne Heche who was 29 at the time and becomes his love interest.  That's nearly half Harrison Ford's age - she could have been his daughter - but while watching they still seemed believable as a couple.  She looked great here. 

Interesting trivia, I notice there is a confrontation with Temuera Morrison who would play Boba Fett in a few years.  That means this is another time Han Solo and Boba Fett would confront each other, neither of them realizing it yet since the Star Wars prequels were still years away from being made.  Another trivia, Ford is famously known as a pilot and does the flying scenes himself since he plays a pilot.  For him to fly in the film and fly the other actors for scenes, he had to get certified as a stunt pilot for the insurance company to insure him.

Overall, entertaining but forgettable.

[SonicMan46]

O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) - any Coen brothers fans here?    Now I've seen virtually all of their films but own just four, including 'O Brother....' which is our favorite to watch together - love the traditional music performers in the movie, especially the harmony of Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, & Gilian Welch singing as the sirens (left pic below).  Dave

O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a satirical comedy-drama musical film written, produced, co-edited, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. It stars George Clooney, John Turturro, and Tim Blake Nelson, with Charles Durning, Michael Badalucco, John Goodman and Holly Hunter in supporting roles. (Source)