What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

1967Cougar390 said:

This past weekend was movie time for my wife and myself. We watched Mr. Blanding Builds his Dream House staring Carry Grant and Myrna Loy. It’s a wonderful comedy that anyone whose ever built a home can relate to. The cinematography is great and the outdoor shots are perfect. The on screen chemistry between Grant and Loy are spot on. Myrna Loy is just gorgeous, she exemplifies classic Hollywood. It’s a great feel good movie that reminds me of the movie Funny Farm staring Chevy Chase.

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Touchofevil said:

For the nth time, The Apartment. It was on, I stopped. A nice little story. A nice cast. Nice cinematography. A nice diversion.

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1967Cougar390 said:

It was a cold and rainy weekend so I was able to watch some great classic movies on TCM. The Maltese Falcon was super, I’m not sure how I’ve missed viewing it in the past. Humphrey Bogart portrayed Sam Spade wonderfully, his quick witted humor and stories that kept him one step ahead of the bad guys as well as the police made me smile and laugh.

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Benzadmiral said:

The artist used Bogart's Roy Earle from High Sierra the year before, instead of something from Falcon itself.

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Fading Fast said:

It's jarring isn't it?

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Benzadmiral said:

To us, yes, but we can DuckDuckGo up images from the two films at any time. An average moviegoer in 1941 heading into the Rialto to see the latest Bogart picture wouldn't think anything of the portrait on the one-sheet while going in. Coming out, if he looked at the one-sheet again, he might or might not remember High Sierra, which was then a year old, or he might wonder if he missed a scene in Falcon where Bogart is wielding twin .45s. It wouldn't jar him the same way.

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Doctor Strange said:

And now for something completely different: For just one week, this year's charming Pixar short Bao - about a Chinese dumpling that comes to life - is free to view on YouTube:

I've been underwhelmed by Pixar's feature output for years, but this heartwarming tale of family and Chinese food is a delightful seven minutes, with more real heart than the majority of overwrought holiday "content" we're inundated with this month.

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Doctor Strange said:

A couple of recent items for an upcoming discussion with my film group: Hold The Dark and You Were Never Really Here. Both are dark, violent, depressing, and totally unbelievable - not my taste at all. I'm sick of stories with murdering psychos as the protagonists.

And now for something completely different: For just one week, this year's charming Pixar short Bao - about a Chinese dumpling that comes to life - is free to view on YouTube:

I've been underwhelmed by Pixar's feature output for years, but this heartwarming tale of family and Chinese food is a delightful seven minutes, with more real heart than the majority of overwrought holiday "content" we're inundated with this month.

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MissMittens said:

We just watched the Office Set, with Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn starring as an efficiency engineer and a TV research department head respectively.

Was a cute movie, with one seemingly unscripted moment where Tracy lampoons himself causing Hepburn to laugh uncontrollably.

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Benzadmiral said:

The artist used Bogart's Roy Earle from High Sierra the year before, instead of something from Falcon itself.

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Fading Fast said:

It's jarring isn't it?

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• This is the type of movie I complain isn't made anymore - a solid story-driven movie, with skilled actors (but not necessarily marquee stars) that keeps you engaged without special effects, unnecessary and exaggerated violence or an unbelievable dues ex machina

• Based on the true story of professional baseball player Morris (Moe) Berg - an enigmatic figure, Princeton graduate, polyglot (i.e., not your average ball player) - who is recruited by the OSS in WWII to potentially assassinate the German physicist Werner Heisenberg - putatively leading Germany's nuclear bomb effort. I'm sure liberties were taken, but at a high level, I believe the story is accurate

• Paul Rudd, while not looking like a Major League catcher, delivers a nuanced performance as Moe Berg, a highly intelligent man who keeps the world at arms length but is willing to risk his life for his country; however, you also believe he's doing it simply for the challenge and excitement. Jeff Daniels and Tom Wilkinson also bring their A-game with Paul Giamatti owning every scene he's in as an OSS scientific advisor acting as the moral compass challenging the government's win-at-all-cost instinct

• The dialogue is crisp and smart, the pace quick but not frantic and the tension comes from characters you care about and a story that did the work to build to its climax (really, anti-climax, I'll say no more). Add in beautiful cinematography, a few well-earned and organic-to-the-story action scenes and wonderful period details and the movie reminds me of a well-done Warner Brothers WWII-era spy drama (think "Watch on the Rhine") - just the type of movie I wish they made more of today

Seb Lucas said:

The Last Jedi...Yoda as CGI simply doesn't work...

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Zombie_61 said:

The blue "force ghost" glow was added in post-production, but for The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson had a Yoda puppet painstakingly re-created to look (for the most part) as he did in The Empire Strikes Back and Frank Oz worked with three other puppeteers on set to bring him to life for the movie.

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