What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

Feraud · Feb 1, 2016

Doctor Strange said:
That said, I liked it much better than the utterly brainless Mad Max: Fury Road. That that nearly plotless, characterless, intelligence-free action movie has been loaded with Oscar noms and topped ten-best lists just utterly mystifies me.

It's good to hear from another viewer who found Fury Road as unentertaining and pointless and as I did. I don't know when the hype for this garbage began but I suspect there were some very hard working guerrilla marketers earning their keep on this one! A good friend and I had many conversations on this disappointing mess of a film.

The wife and I recently watched a very good character driven film starring Geoffrey Rush from 2013 called The Best Offerhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt1924396/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_9. Rush plays an eccentric auctioneer who becomes obsessed with a very reclusive art and antique collector. There were a couple of decent plot directions in the film. It is currently showing on Netflix.

Benzadmiral · Feb 1, 2016

The Enemy Below, a 1950s WWII U.S. destroyer vs. German sub thriller w/ Robert Mitchum and Curt Jurgens. Years ago I saw it on late night TV. Since then my memory of it has been clouded by people saying the famous Star Trek episode "Balance of Terror" (BoT), the one that introduced the Romulans, was based on Enemy. It may have inspired TV writer Paul Schneider, sure; both feature ship commanders on opposite sides, trying to outthink the other. But the events in BoT, such as wreckage pushed out of the damaged Romulan ship to make it appear the ship has been destroyed, are not all in EB. In other words, the Star Trek episode was not a complete steal from the earlier film. (Though wasn't there another WWII ship-vs.sub movie in which the destroyer ducks into a fog bank? BoT used that, making it a comet's tail.)

Shorter story: Enemy is more exciting than I recalled.

AmateisGal · Feb 1, 2016

The Book Thief. I love this movie.

Worf · Feb 1, 2016

Benzadmiral said:
The Enemy Below, a 1950s WWII U.S. destroyer vs. German sub thriller w/ Robert Mitchum and Curt Jurgens. Years ago I saw it on late night TV. Since then my memory of it has been clouded by people saying the famous Star Trek episode "Balance of Terror" (BoT), the one that introduced the Romulans, was based on Enemy. It may have inspired TV writer Paul Schneider, sure; both feature ship commanders on opposite sides, trying to outthink the other. But the events in BoT, such as wreckage pushed out of the damaged Romulan ship to make it appear the ship has been destroyed, are not all in EB. In other words, the Star Trek episode was not a complete steal from the earlier film. (Though wasn't there another WWII ship-vs.sub movie in which the destroyer ducks into a fog bank? BoT used that, making it a comet's tail.)

Shorter story: Enemy is more exciting than I recalled.

I watched TEB last month on Netflix. I'd never seen it from the beginning. Made before Mitchum became "the great stone face". He does a great job in it as does Jurgens. The record playing scene gets me every time.....

Worf

Worf · Feb 1, 2016

AmateisGal said:
The Book Thief. I love this movie.

Wow that is one movie I could NEVER get into. Not moved, not engaged, not enlightened and NOT impressed! A truly formulaic WWII home front melo-drama.

Worf

AmateisGal · Feb 1, 2016

Worf said:
Wow that is one movie I could NEVER get into. Not moved, not engaged, not enlightened and NOT impressed! A truly formulaic WWII home front melo-drama.

Worf

Really? Have you read the book? I read the book before I watched the movie. I concede that the book is better (they usually are) but I enjoyed the movie, too.

Stearmen · Feb 2, 2016

Cool Running. I know it is not very close to the actual event, but, it did bring back memories of the 1988 Olympics. It is probably hard to understand the fervor caused by the Jamaicans that year, if you were not born yet! Millions of us, who had not watched a game in years tuned in to watch the four man bobsled races. It was a lot of fun, and even though we all knew deep down they would not win, we were all pulling for them. Shame we don't have something like that this year.

Zombie_61 · Feb 2, 2016

Feraud said:
It's good to hear from another viewer who found Fury Road as unentertaining and pointless and as I did...

There are at least three of us then. I watched it just to see what all the fuss was about. I can understand why fans of the franchise liked it, but I'm not among them and don't particularly care for post-apocalyptic movies of it's type. When it ended I didn't feel it was so bad that I'd wasted my time watching it, but I don't feel the need to ever watch it again.

AmateisGal · Feb 3, 2016

Stearmen said:
Cool Running. I know it is not very close to the actual event, but, it did bring back memories of the 1988 Olympics. It is probably hard to understand the fervor caused by the Jamaicans that year, if you were not born yet! Millions of us, who had not watched a game in years tuned in to watch the four man bobsled races. It was a lot of fun, and even though we all knew deep down they would not win, we were all pulling for them. Shame we don't have something like that this year.

I love this movie so much.

green papaya · Feb 3, 2016

Ive been watching old classics lately like the movie REAR WINDOW

Directed by the Master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window is an edge-of-your-seat classic starring two of Hollywood’s most popular stars, with actor James Stewart

James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Raymond Burr, Wendall Corey, Thelma Ritter.

vmtrevino2 · Feb 4, 2016

Watching "True Grit" (1969)

"Set 'em up Joe"

dh66 · Feb 4, 2016

'Monsters vs. Aliens'
One of the more sufferable of the movies my kids have, plus it features a strong female lead character who gets herself right over her schmucky boyfriend who treats her like crap. I'm happy for my little girls to watch stuff like that.

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Stearmen · Feb 4, 2016

District 9 (2009)

Kirk H. · Feb 4, 2016

The Two Jakes

Kirk H. · Feb 4, 2016

Just watched Bridge of Spies with Tom Hanks on DVD. Was hoping to catch it in the theater, but work and life schedule did not allow that to happen. Great flick.

AmateisGal · Feb 4, 2016

Madame Bovary (1949) until TCM got all wonky and it didn't play right (my other channels were fine). Anyway, I had never watched this movie before or read the book.

MisterCairo · Feb 6, 2016

Sicario, with Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin and Benicio del Toro. Directed by Canadian Denis Villeneuve, it was incredible. We'd heard a lot about it, all good, and grabbed the bluray, no regrets!

Bushman · Feb 7, 2016

The Finest Hour. A good movie, but not a great one. Belief has to be suspended once or twice, but it's a fun ride nonetheless.

DanielJones · Feb 7, 2016

Blazing Saddles. I was in desperate need of a good laugh.

Cheers!

Dan

Kirk H. · Feb 7, 2016

Candy gram for Mongo...... I love that movie

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