Last Movie You Watched

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Not sure. What do you think?

TD: Fist of Fury (1972)

I personally see some influence on the action scene on the sea.

[Karl Henning]

I personally see some influence on the action scene on the sea.

Interesting!

[DavidW]

I watched Sinners a couple of days ago ...



It's a much better that average zombie movie featuring some nice Blues music and racial issues dealt with very well -- but all said & do, it's still a zombie movie.  I rate it 7.5/10 on the IMBD scale

I think you meant vampire, not zombie.

[DavidW]

I have been watching these on Blu-ray this week:


CONJURING 4: THE LAST RITES (Michael Chaves, 2025)
Better than the third Conjuring movie, but not as good as the first two. 3.5 / 5


WEAPONS (Zach Cregger, 2025)
Hyped as one of the best horror movies of last year. It is good. 4 / 5


TRON (Steven Lisberger, 1982)
Only now did I see this movie. I love the visual look of it. 4 / 5

I agree with these reviews!

[Karl Henning]

The Sound of Music (1965) and, 60 years later, Nazis are still relevant: Nuremberg (2025) I was perhaps 16 when I saw the former at the Rivoli Theatre in my hometown. There is much that I did not remember at all. And, of course, benefiting from all my subsequent experience, I was majorly tickled to see Richard Haydn. Gawd, Christopher Plummer was a young sprout! Even though part of my musical mind rolled eyebrows a couple of times, I enjoyed it through and through. The new movie is v. good, with Russell Crowe starring in The Hermann Göring Show. The drama is an Army psychologist over-awed by a pathological narcissist, a doctor who ultimately concludes that very little separates the Nazis from some Americans. 

[Karl Henning]

My experience is itself mildly comedic.
Comedy of Terrors (1963) Vincent Price, Peter Lorre (his final film released before his death,  Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone and Joe E. Brown. Screenplay by Twilight Zone veteran Richard Matheson. (For all these reasons appealing to me.) I found a copy on Amazon, but it proved no good for US machines. Tonight I watched a copy available through the Minuteman Library System. And tonight it dawned on me: it's a Kino Lorber release, so why don't I check their site. And, ka-ching!
Also, following up on Nuremberg from last night, we watched Valkyrie, which the artists in my life enjoyed as much as I.

[Cato]

My experience is itself mildly comedic.

Comedy of Terrors (1963) ...

...we watched Valkyrie, which the artists in my life enjoyed as much as I.

Comedy of Terrors RAWKS! 

Yes, Valkyrie was an excellent depiction of the "Generals' Plot" to assassinate Hitler.

Before there was Un Secreto de Esperanza there was Trick. Before Trick there was Hackers. Before Hackers there was Newsies.



I still know all the songs, and I still cry in all the same places. I don't care what anyone says; I will always love it. This is the first movie that I obsessively watched.

My daughter (12) at the time loved Newsies also.  As I recall critics did not like it very much, but I thought it was fun and energetic!


Recently, we have not seen much because of the chaos from another house-remodeling job in the Winter, but we have squeezed these in:

Clockwise (1985)

Just a very funny and very wild ride with John Cleese, for whom the movie must have been written, as it fits his pompous yet manic style perfectly.

He plays a micro-managing Headmaster, who is obsessive about punctuality: "The key to knowing who we are, is to know where we are, and WHEN we are!"

Watch for a late 30-something Penelope Wilton as his ex-girlfriend.



A quite different movie...from Poland, with excellent dubbing into English:

Forgotten Love (in Polish, however, the title translates as The Quack)

Based upon a 1930's novel, the story shows the class consciousness and the divide between the upper-class and peasants (and everyone else) at that time.  A fairly famous surgeon is attacked, suffers amnesia, and ends up wandering the Polish countryside doing medical procedures, although he does not understand how he has such abilities.

Excellent movie!  Found on Netflix!

[Karl Henning]

Godzilla (1954)

[KevinP]

Godzilla (1954)

As is often the case, a great movie bastardised by its own franchisisation.

[KevinP]

Marty Supreme

Great acting. Engaging dialogue. But the skeleton of the story was yet another The Hustler/Queen's Gambit retread. The meat added to that skeleton was good at least.

[Karl Henning]

As is often the case, a great movie bastardised by its own franchisisation.

Curiosity overcame an ancient and lazy prejudice, and I checked out the 7-disc Criterion edition. I find the original very touching, which was a warm surprise. The returns did diminish, matching expectations.

[Karl Henning]

Comedy of Terrors RAWKS! 

I think I learnt of it first via the Richard Matheson, Storyteller featurette. I think I recall an early title for Comedy of Terrors being Graveside Story. And yes,  Comedy of Terrors is every bit as much fun as I had expected. I need to find Clockwise at the Library.

[Karl Henning]

Also, following up on Nuremberg from last night, we watched Valkyrie, which the artists in my life enjoyed as much as I.

The ladies have been game to continue on this theme, so we watched Conspiracy (2008) Ken Branagh, Stanley Tucci, Colin Firth & al. last night. One bureaucrat's experience was TFW you realize that the Führer's "personal assurance" was BS. Tonight we'll watch Schindler's List.

[KevinP]

Curiosity overcame an ancient and lazy prejudice, and I checked out the 7-disc Criterion edition. I find the original very touching, which was a warm surprise. The returns did diminish, matching expectations.

I have the single-disc Criterion. Watched it once when it came out and again last year. The others, barring CGI-era ones, I saw when I was a kid.

The first one is really about something. It has a story to tell, and it's a pretty grim one: a horror movie for the nuclear age. The rest, so far as I can recall, were just 'further adventures of...'-type stories.

[Madiel]

Clockwise (1985)

Just a very funny and very wild ride with John Cleese, for whom the movie must have been written, as it fits his pompous yet manic style perfectly.

He plays a micro-managing Headmaster, who is obsessive about punctuality: "The key to knowing who we are, is to know where we are, and WHEN we are!"

Watch for a late 30-something Penelope Wilton as his ex-girlfriend.

Clockwise is a total hoot.

But the Wikipedia page does spend some time explaining how the writer says he didn't have any notion of casting, and complains that nobody believes he didn't specifically intend it for Cleese. 

[Karl Henning]

I have the single-disc Criterion.

I recently fetched that singleton in, hence the re-watch.

[Madiel]

The Sound of Music (1965) and, 60 years later, Nazis are still relevant:

I recently saw a meme which said that growing up watching The Sound of Music and Cabaret had led the person to believe the rise of fascism would have more show tunes.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

I have the single-disc Criterion. Watched it once when it came out and again last year. The others, barring CGI-era ones, I saw when I was a kid.

The first one is really about something. It has a story to tell, and it's a pretty grim one: a horror movie for the nuclear age. The rest, so far as I can recall, were just 'further adventures of...'-type stories.

Today, a great majority of people consider either the first Godzilla or Godzilla Minus One the best of series. Arguably (and distantly), Shin-Godzilla would be third best.

[Daverz]

Today, a great majority of people consider either the first Godzilla or Godzilla Minus One the best of series. Arguably (and distantly), Shin-Godzilla would be third best.

8-year old me didn't make these distinctions.  I would watch any Japanese monster movie.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

8-year old me didn't make these distinctions.  I would watch any Japanese monster movie.

I personally like Mechagodzilla!