What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[Miss Golightly]

I watched the Spanish horror film "Rec" last night - one of the most enjoyable and terrifying horror films I have seen.

 

[Kermez]

Get Smart

 

[BellyTank]

Unfortunately, I saw "Along Came Polly"...

At least I discovered that Philip Seymour Hoffman is versatile.
I also discovered a new word.

And laugh..?
I almost did.


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[Smithy]

Miss Golightly,

If you are after another Spanish horror/thriller watch "Los Sin Nombre". I found it very good if rather disturbing.


BT,

I know where you are coming from, not one of cinema's greatest moments.

 

[Miss Golightly]

Miss Golightly,

If you are after another Spanish horror/thriller watch "Los Sin Nombre". I found it very good if rather disturbing.

Thanks for the recommendation Smithy! I've been watching any French or Spanish horror movies that I can get my hands on of late - they're far superior to what's being churned out of Hollywood at present.

 

[puretxnxt]

Spent my sick day yesterday having a little movie marathon .I saw "sexo,pudor y lagrimas", "Bachelor Mother" ,"Pan's Labyrinth" and "Like water for chocolate".

 

[Brinybay]

3 stinkers in a row, not even sure how a couple of them got in my Netflix que.

Landscapes in the Mist - Slooow, disconnected, art-house nonsense. I tortured myself to watch it to completion because I wanted to see what ultimately happened to the kids, who ran away from home (in Greece) to find their father who they believe lives in Germany, but they don't know where or what he looks like. Waste of time. I'm giving away the ending because it deserves to be "spoiled". The sneak into Germany and run up to a tree that emerges from the fog. That's it. Serious.

Raging Bull - Not so much a "stinker", but it just didn't float my boat. I'll give it three stars for being a period piece and good acting by Robert Deniro and Joe Peschi, but I have a hard time enjoying a movie where the main character is totally unlikable, all the way up to the end. I'm not a boxing fan anyway.

Boogie Nights - I'm going to have to start printing out a copy of my Netflix que to make sure they're sending me the right ones because this is another one that mystifies me as to how it got in my que. I read the descriptions and member reviews before I add a movie to my que.

It's about the porn industry in the 1970s. Burt Reynolds plays the part of a porn director who recruits a supposedly well-endowed 17yo dishwasher who works in a night club kitchen. Hey, I'm no prude, but the absolute decadence portrayed in the movie disgusted me. Hard to believe they have their own version of "Academy Awards" for that kind of filth. I turned it off and sent it back.

 

[Creeping Past]

Detour (1945), with Ann Savage and Tom Neal. It's a story about lost love and loads of luck...all of it bad. Neal's character, Al, is the unluckiest piano player ever.

This is a great story, if a bit of a shaggy dog one, and well worth watching.

 

[Feraud]

Detour (1945), with Ann Savage and Tom Neal. It's a story about lost love and loads of luck...all of it bad. Neal's character, Al, is the unluckiest piano player ever.

This is a great story, if a bit of a shaggy dog one, and well worth watching.

The fickle finger of fate strikes.. Detour is fine noir.

 

[KY Gentleman]

3 stinkers in a row, not even sure how a couple of them got in my Netflix que.

Raging Bull - Not so much a "stinker", but it just didn't float my boat. I'll give it three stars for being a period piece and good acting by Robert Deniro and Joe Peschi, but I have a hard time enjoying a movie where the main character is totally unlikable, all the way up to the end. I'm not a boxing fan anyway.

I can understand your first "stinker" and then "Boogie Nights", Although "Boogie Nights" was interesting to me as it had references to some actual events. The movie "Wonderland" was a movie based on real events that had a lot of similarities to "Boogie Nights". Both movies were basically about the same guy. (John Holmes).

But if you didn't like "Raging Bull" I would ask you to try it again some other time and appreciate the real life drama of Jake LaMotta. It is a film most people like even if they aren't boxing fans.
I respect your opinion but I'd hate to think you might miss a great movie thats the true story of a fascinating person. (In my opinion).

 

[carter]

I may have to rent this one when it's available.

The Appaloosa at the Regent Highland Park Cinema this evening. I thought it was good but not great. Viggo Mortenson as Everett Hitch was spot on. Ed Harris (virgil Cole) directing Ed Harris wasn't such a good idea IMHO. The character never quite jelled. Harris directed by someone other than himself would have turned in a more even and nuanced performance. Renee Zellweger was just OK in another uneven performance. Jeremy Irons was simply miscast and turned-in another formulaic performance.

This film has received a lot of positive press but isn't playing on many screens. It won't be out there long. It's a good film but not nearly as good as other recent films in the genre such as Open Range and The Departed. If you're a fan of westerns, you'll be entertained.

 

[Molly O'Star]

I saw Changeling last night. It was heartwrenching and almost difficult to watch, but I coveted every scrap of fabric - every coat, glove, hat, every piece of furniture and decor and hairstyle. It was visually excellent; Clint Eastwood makes a good movie.

 

[Brinybay]

I can understand your first "stinker" and then "Boogie Nights", Although "Boogie Nights" was interesting to me as it had references to some actual events. The movie "Wonderland" was a movie based on real events that had a lot of similarities to "Boogie Nights". Both movies were basically about the same guy. (John Holmes).

But if you didn't like "Raging Bull" I would ask you to try it again some other time and appreciate the real life drama of Jake LaMotta. It is a film most people like even if they aren't boxing fans.
I respect your opinion but I'd hate to think you might miss a great movie thats the true story of a fascinating person. (In my opinion).

I did watch the entire movie (Raging Bull). To each his own, and although I still give it 3 out of 5 stars, I didn't come away with any respect for this guy at all. He may have been a good fighter, but as a person he was a total ar$e. I was appalled at the way he treated women and others who were close to him.

Boogie Nights? No thanks. It may be based on actual people and events, and I'm not so naive to think those kind things don't happen, but the disgusting degeneracy of the porn biz was just too much for me. But that's just me, I want to be entertained, not revolted.

 

[Marzipan]

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit...

I was having a hard time reconciling Peck's Italian wartime affair and then when Jones acts so courageous and he explains what it was like then, how he thought he was going to be killed, his despair... and the way she forgave him. I just tore up. Incredibly human.

 

[Kermez]

Shoot 'Em Up

Shoot 'Em Up

 

[carter]

Synecdoche, New York (2008), at the Angelika in Dallas. Philip Seymour Hoffman and an extremely talented supporting cast explore the mundane in layer upon layer of theatricality mixed with reality as years pass, edges blur, and the two become intertwined. Don't see this if you're tired or need action to keep you interested. You'll either love it or hate it.

 

[KY Gentleman]

I just finished "The Way of the Gun". Ryan Phillipe, Benicio Del Toro, James Caan and Juliette Lewis (2000). It was good rental material, several plot twists and some interesting gun fight scenes.

 

[carebear]

I just finished "The Way of the Gun". Ryan Phillipe, Benicio Del Toro, James Caan and Juliette Lewis (2000). It was good rental material, several plot twists and some interesting gun fight scenes.

IIRC, the Director's brother(?) was a SEAL and trained the actors on gunhandling and tactics and helped correograph the gunfights.

 

[carebear]

Okay, Suspiria (it's on TCM) just made the list of dumb, not scary, horror films.


Spoilers follow, highlight to read.

The girl has latched herself into a room and the Killer is trying to lift the metal latch with a straight razor, or perhaps just scare her into doing what she did, which I wouldn't say was a logical prediction.

She could, in perfect safety, lean all of her weight on the latch preventing even King Kong from lifting it with a razor. But she doesn't do that.

There are numerous heavy, yet liftable, wooden boxes in the room, she could swing one at the razor the killer is so conveniently leaving undefended, which, being a brittle kind of steel, would then snap or become so bent as to make it impossible for the killer to withdraw. But she doesn't do that either.

She chooses instead to jump out of a window, into a lit area, landing in razor wire. She then thrashes around trapping herself and causing herself damage and pain, until, well, it doesn't matter.

I happen to have fallen into a pit full of razor wire I couldn't even see (late at night in the back of nowhere) and managed to not move around (because it hurt), not get myself further tangled (because I'm not an idiot) and then gain my feet, disentangle myself and climb out to treat my wounds.

Why do horror writers feel the need to make people so dumb/incompetent? Apparently it knows no political boundaries.

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[John in Covina]

"Barton Fink"

Coen Brothers supposedly wrote this while working on "Miller's Crossing."

Strange as heck film, down right weird but like watching a train wreck in slow motion, tuff to turn away from.

What was in the box?