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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

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I Was a Communist for the FBI with Frank Lovejoy. Grim, tough, to the point: the perfect story for an actor like Lovejoy.

Advance to the Rear, from 1964, with Melvyn Douglas, Glenn Ford, and a host of others. I don't know what to make of this film, a sort of mixture of slapstick, farce, and Warner Brothers-style cartoon sound effects dubbed in.
 
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"Sweepings" a 1933 movie staring Lionel Barrymore as the founder of a huge Chicago department store who wants his children to take over for him, but through lack of interest, ability or dissolute behavior, none of them do. Worse for him, several of them lead wanton lives in ways that embarrass him public and crush him privately.

While this this is, overall, just a basic 1930s movies, it is engaging after a slow first third, but has some surprisingly modern elements. Barrymore's character is pretty lenient and forgiving of his adult children's failings. In what feels like a seen out of a modern movie, Barrymore is disappointed but basically supportive of the one son who tries to live up to father's expectations, but simply doesn't have the ability. When that son asks to work in window dressings, Barrymore is clearly unhappy, but not angry or derisive toward his son. And latter, when he is dressing his children down, he makes a point to distinguish this child as the one he "has nothing against."
 
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dh66 said:
'Curucu, Beast of the Amazon' (1956)
Shrunken heads, witchdoctors, and general He-Manly behavior.
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Aww, nuts. I got busy yesterday and forgot to record that one.

Edit: I saw Avengers: Age of Ultron today. Almost as good as The Avengers (2012) in my opinion, but not quite. I enjoyed it, and I think anyone who likes the movies being produced by Marvel Studios will as well, but I think part of the problem might be that I've seen too many of these CGI fests lately and they're all beginning to look the same and follow the same pattern--big opening action sequence, a character moment or two, a little plot development, some humor, another action sequence, another character moment, a little more plot development, more humor, lather, rinse, repeat for 2.5 hours. Maybe I just need to watch TCM a little more often to cleanse my palate. lol
 
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Zombie_61 said:
Aww, nuts. I got busy yesterday and forgot to record that one.

Edit: I saw Avengers: Age of Ultron today. Almost as good as The Avengers (2012) in my opinion, but not quite. I enjoyed it, and I think anyone who likes the movies being produced by Marvel Studios will as well, but I think part of the problem might be that I've seen too many of these CGI fests lately and they're all beginning to look the same and follow the same pattern--big opening action sequence, a character moment or two, a little plot development, some humor, another action sequence, another character moment, a little more plot development, more humor, lather, rinse, repeat for 2.5 hours. Maybe I just need to watch TCM a little more often to cleanse my palate. lol
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See bolded above. This is why I have opted out of action adventure movies altogether: they all seem like cut-and-pasted version of each other. The recent "Batman" movies are the only exception - those movies were brilliantly done, philosophically nuanced and the action advanced the story (which stood on its own without the action - the best tribute one could give the movie).
 
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"The Horror of Spider Island" (1960)
A group of "dancers" on their way to work in a club in Singapore crash in the ocean and wind up stranded on a desert island. Their manager is bitten by a radioactive spider, but does NOT turn into a superhero. Thank goodness for some good old fashioned quicksand.

How come nobody ever gets the quicksand treatment in movies anymore?
 
Edward

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AmateisGal said:
Doing better and back at work. Thanks. :)

Yeah, I think the role of "Superman" stereotyped him forever, just like Matt LeBlanc's role as Joey from "Friends" did for him. I tried watching LeBlanc in a serious role and I kept waiting for him to grin and say, "How YOU doin'."
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Habe you seen "Episodes"? Incredibly sharp BBC sitcom about a couple who wrote a hit British sitcom and are in the US working as consultants for the US production company that bought the rights to remake. Leblanc plays a version of himself, the US counterpart to Richard Griffiths in the (fictional) original. It's not always a flattering version of him. It's a tour de force, and really made me think he can actually act, as distinct from that Friends tripe.
 
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Probably because people have learned that you can't "sink" in quicksand in real life the way people do in the movies; it's about as life threatening as a mud puddle.
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Ha! True......although also in real life, spandex doesn't really make people seem so superhero-ly, but it hasn't stemmed the tide in movies, so even though your theory seems sound enough........
 
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