Last Movie You Watched - 2020

[Windshadow]

Must admit that I've not seen it in a L O N G time, but keep meaning to rewatch. I just remember it as 1970s-bonkers. Bit like Excalibur when it came around a few years later - another one I liked and perhaps due a rewatch.

Bonkers it is but fun bonkers in that the plot would be very hard to take seriously I would recommend it

 

[Hobbit]

Yup.... am quite tempted...

 

[ArthurFrayn]

It is totally a fun film we all enjoyed it I last saw it 10 or so years ago. if it was a modern film think of how much fun the DVD extras would be

There's a director's commentary on the DVD release, which is worth listening to, if you have any inclination. Boorman admits that the film could use a bit of editing...
*smokespotsmokespoteverybodysmokespot*

 

[JunkMonkey]

According to Boorman's autobiography, Adventures of a Suburban Boy, Connery wasn't his first choice. Burt Reynolds accepted the role but had to pull out. Richard Harris didn't bother to turn up to the meeting - so Boorman tried Connery who "was finding it hard to forge a career beyond [Bond]".

He makes no mention of the costume/s.

Killraven, as drawn by P Craig Russell, was my first comic book crush. (Even before I fell for Barry Smith's Conan, Kirby's Big Bertha, and Frank Thorne's Sonja - I was a strange child). Killraven was the first mainstream American comic to have interracial snogging within its pages. I'm still short a couple of earlier Amazing Adventures to complete my collection. One day....

 

[ArthurFrayn]

I have a few from my kid comics days -I was pleasantly surprised when it was released in an Essential format. A number of artists I like I first came across in that. Like P Craig Russell...
On the aside -I love Frank Thorne on anything!
And I love Boorman. Deliverance, Zardoz and Point Blank are all favs...

 

[ArthurFrayn]

Watched The Lighthouse last night - psychological horror(?) film from last year, by the guy who directed The Witch, which I haven’t seen yet.
Effective, brooding, disturbing and grim. Perhaps too intense with brutality and gore for some. Great performances by the two leads. A little slow, perhaps. Worth a watch, if you've had the temptation. The DVD I had featured some interesting behind the scenes stuff. They built the lighthouse for the film!

 

[Hobbit]

Watched it at the beginning of the lockdown.... which seems like an age ago. Still not sure about Pattinson as an actor and probably too intense for me. Long and slow and weird.

I can see that some will love it... too depressing for me, I think.

 

[Westy]

Watched The Lighthouse last night - psychological horror(?) film from last year, by the guy who directed The Witch, which I haven’t seen yet.
Effective, brooding, disturbing and grim.

I watched it a while ago - agree with all this! A very intense and unusual movie, I had to keep watching to the end. But yes it wouldn't be for everyone. I saw The Witch as well but thought it was average, can't remember a lot of it now to be honest.

 

[Hobbit]

I saw The Witch as well but thought it was average, can't remember a lot of it now to be honest.

Good point. It was OK, if I remember right. I might have preferred it to The Lighthouse, but there's little I actually remember of it. Was very creepy at the beginning.

 

[RaccoonTear]

In response to Hobbt: Bit like Excalibur when it came around a few years later - another one I liked and perhaps due a rewatch.

I mostly avoided letting my children watch violent movies when they were little, but when my youngest was four he saw Excalibur. He fell in love. He watched that film repeatedly. For the next year or so he went by the name of Lancelot at home and at school.

 

[Hobbit]

I saw it at the pictures RT - 1981? Looked terrific on the big screen, but Nicolson's Merlin was... different. Watched it a couple of times years later when it became available on VCR. I'd be interested to see it on Bluray, I think.

 

[ArthurFrayn]

I saw it at the pictures RT - 1981? Looked terrific on the big screen, but Nicolson's Merlin was... different. Watched it a couple of times years later when it became available on VCR. I'd be interested to see it on Bluray, I think.

I'm not sure why I get why everyone loves that thing to bits. First of all, it's so the Arthurian legends -post Star Wars. Everybody in shiny armor like they were Cylons. Second, it's so didactic -"you and the land are one"
I much prefer gritter takes like Bresson's Lancelot of the Lake...

 

[Prairie_Dog]

Yesterday evening I decided to watch the Freddy Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody on HBOMax. I’m glad I did, because it turned out to be a pretty good film. Rami Malek went all out to portray the iconic Mercury, and it shows in the film. The story begins the night that the band (originally called Smile) meets Mercury right after their lead signer quits, and ends with the historic performance at the Live Aid concert (pictured above). It shows the good times and the down times, and the soundtrack is spectacular!

While Rami is the center of attention, the other band members are not just set pieces. Gwilym Lee plays a very convincing Bryan May, and gets the hair just right. Ben Hardy plays Queen’s drummer Roger Turner with emotion. Interestingly enough, the film was directed by Graham King and Queen manager Jim Beach.

 

[Hobbit]

Thought Malek was good, but the other members of Queen as good as and they tend to have been overshadowed a bit.

I enjoyed it a lot - more than Rocketman, which I watched recently, I think. It's not the entire truth, I gather, but it is entertaining.

Interestingly enough, the film was directed by Graham King and Queen manager Jim Beach.

Not quite - though that it what it may have said in the credits. I understand most of it was directed by Bryan Singer (he of XMen fame) but when he got into trouble for matters outside of the movie, he was quietly removed. Dexter Fletcher finished the movie, on the understanding that he would direct Rocketman next - which he did. Wikipedia explains the whens and whys. (LINK)

But good entertainment. I understand the DVD/Bluray release has the whole of the Live Aid set re-enacted.

 

[Prairie_Dog]

Not quite - though that it what it may have said in the credits. I understand most of it was directed by Bryan Singer (he of XMen fame) but when he got into trouble for matters outside of the movie, he was quietly removed.

I had read somewhere about the Singer drama and replacement, there’s lots of that to go around in Hollywood!

What I had thought interesting though is the crediting of Jim Beach, the former manager of Queen as a director. Presumably, this gives some factual credibility to the movie? While it is clearly a adaptation of the facts, aren’t all bio-pics?

I saw Rocketman as well, and thought it was pretty interesting. One thing I definitely took away from that movie is a clear understanding of why Elton John needed to get sober!

 

[Hobbit]

I had read somewhere about the Singer drama and replacement, there’s lots of that to go around in Hollywood!

I'm quite intrigued to think what Sasha Baron Cohen would have done with Freddie's part. It would have been different, I think.

What I had thought interesting though is the crediting of Jim Beach, the former manager of Queen as a director. Presumably, this gives some factual credibility to the movie? While it is clearly a adaptation of the facts, aren’t all bio-pics?

Yes, on both counts.

BH had a troubled production, so I'm pleased to see it do so well. Don't get me wrong - I enjoyed both, but in the end I think I enjoyed Bohemian Rhapsody more.

 

[blailock]

For Independence Day here in the US, I watched Independence Day and Jaws.
Yesterday, I watched Dracula A.D. 1972. I expected this to be terrible from what I had read, but I thought it was pretty good. I liked seeing Dracula and Van Helsing (kind of) being in more modern times.

 

[Hobbit]

Yesterday, I watched Dracula A.D. 1972. I expected this to be terrible from what I had read, but I thought it was pretty good. I liked seeing Dracula and Van Helsing (kind of) being in more modern times.

One of those that is "so bad its good!" (JM: have you seen this one?) I remember it for having Caroline Munro in it, but also Stephanie Beecham...

Here I watched Tora Tora! Tora!, an evenhanded telling of the attack on Pearl Harbour that knocks all those more modern film versions into a cocked hat - looks good in HD too! - and The Thomas Crown Affair (1968?), starring Steve McQueen - a classy heist movie. More style than plot, though it does look very cool.

 

[JunkMonkey]

Dracula 1972 has (so far) escaped me - probably one of the few Caroline Munro films I haven't seen.

 

[Windshadow]

After putting this info into another thread I was induced to it out its DVD and I was glad to watch it had forgotten what a fine science fiction film for its day it is.
Barry Longyear is known for Enemy Mine which was made into a major film project starring Dennis Quaid and Lou Gossett, Jr. It is the story of a human combat pilot, incomplete in himself, taught to be a human by the sworn enemy with which he is stranded, an alien who leaves with the human its most important possession: it's future. it is a touching story well told with fine performances driving the naritive

The book of "Enemy Mine" is the winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards for best novella (1980). Other versions available are expansions of this version. so seek out the version with this cover

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