Movie What's the last movie you saw? (7)

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Cuzz09 said:
I think I watch Dirty Dancing and Grease min once a year.

My GFs fave movies.

They're actually not bad

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Both were regular rotations when I was little (if my older sister didn't have Dirty Dancing on vhs rotation - it was on FTA regularly enough). Ditto with Grease - used to watch it a lot on a Friday or Saturday night (usually on FTA either at the same time as Hey Hey it's Saturday or on straight after when Channel 9 had the rights to it).


I also hadn't seen Grease (in full) for donkey's years until I purchased the 40th anniversary 4K in March last year. I think with both, having watched them frequently when growing up (not as often as Superman, Rambo, Robocop, Terminator 1/2, BTTF Trilogy etc) they were burned into my memory thus I could afford to go many years without watching them. And in the case of Grease I get the biggest nostalgic kick from it as it takes me back to those Saturday night's watching it at my grandmother's house - very happy times :). Plus the movie still kicks arse and it's just a really good time.

There are still a few "gems" that I haven't watched in years that I would if/when I think of them. For example, The Goonies is yet another film that I did watch when I was little.... hadn't seen it in full (again lol) for 15-20 years. But watched it recently. I don't have EVERY movie on repeat over and over and over and over :p
 

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9th of Sep- Chunking Express , watched plenty of gun films and definitely my favourite WKW film and an incredible cinema experience. The shot selection, colour palette and use of editing all absolute top tier. And then you add in the performances, the soundtrack, the themes and the emotional weight.

Letterboxd- Top Film Reviews+ Best Film Information and ratings.
 
Finished Immaculate.

It’s a b (maybe c grade) almost grindhouse cheesy horror movie that tries to go the full prestige high concept horror for the last 15 minutes? Just a lot of weird choices.

The very very very final scene (which I think is a one shot) is pretty brutal and horrifying but nothing in the build up to it is worthy of it. Feel for Sweeney a bit because i suspect she though it would be more of that last 4-5 minutes and not the preceding 75-80
 
Sister Act (1992)

We came across this movie on Disney+ and, not having seen it in many years, thought we'd rewatch it. Whoopi gives a decent performance with a black street style and, though not a great voice, can hold a tune pretty well. But the real strength of this film was the casting. Such a terrific ensemble cast that made this film the success it was back in the day. Harvey Keitel reprises his mobster role, and the ladies who played the nuns brought great spirit and fun to the movie. Maggie Smith as the Mother Superior added a great counterpoint to Whoppee's character in the film. However, the plot is fairly basic and implausible and more like something you'd see in a crappy TV series. But, the plot was only ever a vehicle to present the singing nuns turning pop classics into gospel tunes, and there's no doubt that was great. The film isn't overly religious either, which is odd considering it's about nuns in a catholic convent. 7/10 (Good family fun)
 
LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND

very slow and overly dramatic at first and kind of hard to work out what was going on
Probably deliberate by the director to convey the confusion and unwillingness to accept reality when events like this occur

Once it got going it was thought provoking but very Hollywood.
Definitely makes you think and not that far fetched from reality

7.2/10
 
phantom13 said:
He’s got a Netflix film from 2018 that has Jeffrey Wright, Alexander Skaarsgard, Riley Keough and James Badge Dale that I’ve literally never heard of. Alien Romulus is lined up next but Hold The Dark (apparently that’s what it’s called) is now on the list too
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its a ****ing weird one
 
Watched "woman of the hour" on Netflix. Quite enjoyed it as Anna Kendricks directorial debut. Based on a true story.

It jumped around a little but made sense in the end.

Then watched "The dating game" episode it was based on. Cringey As fk.
also creepy as considering how close she was to being murdered
 
Finished the slog through the Hobbit/LOTR double trilogy with Return of the King

Again well made and filmed and the actors and action was on point

But gee they were terribly long - especially the last one

I can put them away for 20 years and go again

But for those still watching the prequel tv - I know the purists have all turned away ( snortle) - I can now see the dot points the tv series was reaching for
 

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Threads (1984)

Saw a bit of chat on social media how the BBC broadcast this for its 40th anniversary. It has not been shown often on tv or cinemas.

The opening voiceover says: "In an urban society, everything connects. Each person's needs are fed by the skills of many others. Our lives are woven together in a fabric. But the connections that make society strong also make it vulnerable."

This broadly sums up the whole movie. And after watching it one has to really cherish society and all the work that many generations have put in to give us what we have. We really don't want to **** that up

Basic synopsis of the movie: the nuclear war we all fear - happens. Intertitles spell out in numbers that indicate this is a large scale worldwide thing (US and USSR mainly); but this movie focuses on Sheffield in the UK, where a nuke was dropped not too far away. And whilst the bureaucrats in Sheffield have plans for such an occasion, once those plans stop working - we really have no plan.

There are two main ways I looked at this movie - 1, at the macro level, it shows the sheer scale of what could happen and how it would change the world, and whilst I feel this is indeed possible, so far we haven't been quite this stupid. 2, on the micro level, it depicts trauma and suffering in a pretty harrowing way that would be all too real at different times and places in this world. Who cares about the plight of the world when you are sick in hospital without medicine, anaesthetic and they drop another bomb nearby?


Stylistically, this is a disaster movie with a difference. It is very, very bleak. It has some realistically confronting scenes, interspersed with devastating still shots. Taking the emotion out of it when watching the second half, I figured what I saw was what life/society would have been like (in some respects) a long, long time ago. What seems horrible now was likely normal then. Hence my initial comment about cherishing society.

But what really sets it apart from anything else I've seen is that most disaster movies have some theme of human spirit, courage against adversity and all that sort of thing. Threads has almost none.

Don't know if it is a masterpiece but it is very very good and different to most other things you'll watch, that makes it a five star one for me.

The final scene
is one of the best metaphors I've seen in cinema too. A (r*ped) young woman gives birth to a dead, mutated baby. A reminder that 'we' produced this.

Five stars.
 
Camera (2024)

The tale of a non-verbal 9 year old boy, befriended by the local repair man (Beau Bridges) who helps him with his interest in photography. There's a locals vs developers subplot.

Some of the scenes were a bit clunky and there were a few unresolved plot points. But it's beautifully shot and very wholesome.

6/10
 
It seems the most acclaimed movies out at the moment are animated films, which probably ties into some of the "where are the good movies at the moment?" feeling as above. So I watched two of them.

The Wild Robot - not sure I see what all the fuss is about. It was pleasant but I felt this was very much a film for kids (which is fine in and of itself, but I'm not sure why it's being talked about more than that). Very sentimental, very much studio fare. I did appreciate that it seemed a couple of times to break narrative structures that I would've expected it to go, so I guess it wasn't as formulaic as I think of it being. In all, not for me.

Look Back - I've never been much of an anime head (there's some I've loved, of course, but I've never been an obsessive) and going to this I felt like I stuck out like a sore thumb in this crowd. But I mostly enjoyed it! The movie breezes by (it's just short an hour long) and I thought there was an organic beauty to the animation, which really switched between styles a fair bit but looked impressive in each of them. It follows two high school girls who become drawn to one another through a joint love of animation, albeit with two distinctive styles, and their coming together to work on a manga. There were people sobbing when the film ended, which brought me back to my feeling like a square in a round hole because I was emotionally unaffected, but I did appreciate its message of encouragement to pursue creative passions, something that has been whirling around my head a lot of late.
 
The Critic.

Gandalf plays a ruthless bastard set on becoming a name remembered throughout history, albeit as a scribe commenting on the theatre of the day.

Set in pre war London when Nazi Germany was in its formative years, McKellan pulls off a great performance and carried the film. The problem for me was that I had a care factor of zero for every character involved. Probably due to a lack of character development in the script when I think about it.

Interesting film, not particularly enjoyable.
 
kickazz said:
Threads (1984)

Saw a bit of chat on social media how the BBC broadcast this for its 40th anniversary. It has not been shown often on tv or cinemas.

The opening voiceover says: "In an urban society, everything connects. Each person's needs are fed by the skills of many others. Our lives are woven together in a fabric. But the connections that make society strong also make it vulnerable."

This broadly sums up the whole movie. And after watching it one has to really cherish society and all the work that many generations have put in to give us what we have. We really don't want to **** that up

Basic synopsis of the movie: the nuclear war we all fear - happens. Intertitles spell out in numbers that indicate this is a large scale worldwide thing (US and USSR mainly); but this movie focuses on Sheffield in the UK, where a nuke was dropped not too far away. And whilst the bureaucrats in Sheffield have plans for such an occasion, once those plans stop working - we really have no plan.

There are two main ways I looked at this movie - 1, at the macro level, it shows the sheer scale of what could happen and how it would change the world, and whilst I feel this is indeed possible, so far we haven't been quite this stupid. 2, on the micro level, it depicts trauma and suffering in a pretty harrowing way that would be all too real at different times and places in this world. Who cares about the plight of the world when you are sick in hospital without medicine, anaesthetic and they drop another bomb nearby?


Stylistically, this is a disaster movie with a difference. It is very, very bleak. It has some realistically confronting scenes, interspersed with devastating still shots. Taking the emotion out of it when watching the second half, I figured what I saw was what life/society would have been like (in some respects) a long, long time ago. What seems horrible now was likely normal then. Hence my initial comment about cherishing society.

But what really sets it apart from anything else I've seen is that most disaster movies have some theme of human spirit, courage against adversity and all that sort of thing. Threads has almost none.

Don't know if it is a masterpiece but it is very very good and different to most other things you'll watch, that makes it a five star one for me.

The final scene
is one of the best metaphors I've seen in cinema too. A (r*ped) young woman gives birth to a dead, mutated baby. A reminder that 'we' produced this.

Five stars.
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What service? Or YouTube ?!
 
kickazz said:
Threads (1984)

Saw a bit of chat on social media how the BBC broadcast this for its 40th anniversary. It has not been shown often on tv or cinemas.

The opening voiceover says: "In an urban society, everything connects. Each person's needs are fed by the skills of many others. Our lives are woven together in a fabric. But the connections that make society strong also make it vulnerable."

This broadly sums up the whole movie. And after watching it one has to really cherish society and all the work that many generations have put in to give us what we have. We really don't want to **** that up

Basic synopsis of the movie: the nuclear war we all fear - happens. Intertitles spell out in numbers that indicate this is a large scale worldwide thing (US and USSR mainly); but this movie focuses on Sheffield in the UK, where a nuke was dropped not too far away. And whilst the bureaucrats in Sheffield have plans for such an occasion, once those plans stop working - we really have no plan.

There are two main ways I looked at this movie - 1, at the macro level, it shows the sheer scale of what could happen and how it would change the world, and whilst I feel this is indeed possible, so far we haven't been quite this stupid. 2, on the micro level, it depicts trauma and suffering in a pretty harrowing way that would be all too real at different times and places in this world. Who cares about the plight of the world when you are sick in hospital without medicine, anaesthetic and they drop another bomb nearby?


Stylistically, this is a disaster movie with a difference. It is very, very bleak. It has some realistically confronting scenes, interspersed with devastating still shots. Taking the emotion out of it when watching the second half, I figured what I saw was what life/society would have been like (in some respects) a long, long time ago. What seems horrible now was likely normal then. Hence my initial comment about cherishing society.

But what really sets it apart from anything else I've seen is that most disaster movies have some theme of human spirit, courage against adversity and all that sort of thing. Threads has almost none.

Don't know if it is a masterpiece but it is very very good and different to most other things you'll watch, that makes it a five star one for me.

The final scene
is one of the best metaphors I've seen in cinema too. A (r*ped) young woman gives birth to a dead, mutated baby. A reminder that 'we' produced this.

Five stars.
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I remember when this played on TV here, it was on Channel 9 and, due the to the power of the piece, it screened without ads. Mike Willesee introduced it, explaining that there were scenes that many would find distressing.

I watched it again a year or two back and it is still bloody distressing.
 
Grogg said:
The Critic.

Gandalf plays a ruthless bastard set on becoming a name remembered throughout history, albeit as a scribe commenting on the theatre of the day.

Set in pre war London when Nazi Germany was in its formative years, McKellan pulls off a great performance and carried the film. The problem for me was that I had a care factor of zero for every character involved. Probably due to a lack of character development in the script when I think about it.

Interesting film, not particularly enjoyable.
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I really enjoyed the novel from a few years back but I have not heard good things about the film. A pity, as there is a good film in there.
 
Continuing with the John Ford Discography and 21st Century LOTE films watch -

The Grapes of Wrath (1940) -

Knocked out the one John Ford film I had on the watchlist prior to the fantastic suggestions by spinynorman . The reason for hesitancy being an aversion to seeing adaptations of books I love. Whilst this won't be remembered as fondly as the book it more than stands up on own two feet. Oh yeah, the plot. A highly charismatic Henry Fonda and his extended family are driven out of Dust Bowl era Oklahoma and seek a new life in California aboard their jalopy. It's a miracle this was made in the early days of the American Red Scare considering it sympathetically delves into the struggles of the poor and their fight for better pay/conditions. I guess the more optimistic ending was a minimum requirement. This was a great insight for the time that doesn't deify the family who are regular Joe's/Jane's trying to make the best of it (in fact the biggest swing and miss is a scene where they secretly drug the Grandfather to come along when he refuses, not sure that passes the modern morality lens especially when he dies in the next scene after a travel montage!)

8/10 (but read the book if debating between the two).

Train to Busan (2016) -

Succumbed to the Halloween period trope of watching horror. Thankfully this is a rock solid entry into the zombie apocalypse genre and surprisingly shares some similarities to tGoW themes (how power is not used to better the lives of the less fortunate for instance). Some decent set pieces and character study's elevate some pretty stock standard fare and kept me mostly engaged. Costumes and makeup is impressive and the gore is tame for the genre (this film would be a good entry point for those interested). 6/10.
 
Ocha905 said:
Continuing with the John Ford Discography and 21st Century LOTE films watch -

The Grapes of Wrath (1940) -

Knocked out the one John Ford film I had on the watchlist prior to the fantastic suggestions by spinynorman . The reason for hesitancy being an aversion to seeing adaptations of books I love. Whilst this won't be remembered as fondly as the book it more than stands up on own two feet. Oh yeah, the plot. A highly charismatic Henry Fonda and his extended family are driven out of Dust Bowl era Oklahoma and seek a new life in California aboard their jalopy. It's a miracle this was made in the early days of the American Red Scare considering it sympathetically delves into the struggles of the poor and their fight for better pay/conditions. I guess the more optimistic ending was a minimum requirement. This was a great insight for the time that doesn't deify the family who are regular Joe's/Jane's trying to make the best of it (in fact the biggest swing and miss is a scene where they secretly drug the Grandfather to come along when he refuses, not sure that passes the modern morality lens especially when he dies in the next scene after a travel montage!)

8/10 (but read the book if debating between the two).

Train to Busan (2016) -

Succumbed to the Halloween period trope of watching horror. Thankfully this is a rock solid entry into the zombie apocalypse genre and surprisingly shares some similarities to tGoW themes (how power is not used to better the lives of the less fortunate for instance). Some decent set pieces and character study's elevate some pretty stock standard fare and kept me mostly engaged. Costumes and makeup is impressive and the gore is tame for the genre (this film would be a good entry point for those interested). 6/10.
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Grapes is Wrath is superb screen storytelling.

Watched Train to Busan with my daughter several years ago. Due to the father-daughter relationship it was quite affecting and we were both a little emotional towards the end. Unfortunately it did seem to go off the rails (NPI) in the final act, but up to then it was very effective.
 

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