Last Movie You Watched (2017)

Crimes and Misdemeanors, Annie Hall and Hannah and Her Sisters are three of our fave films and not just of Woody 's flicks neither.
 
Magnolia is great. I'm looking forward to watching it with my daughter on our Watch Everything in This List project. (Or at least the version in the 2014 edition of the book.)

"the 'comedy' was not funny."

Having had a major falling out with my wife after remarking, "Well that was piece of s**t!" after watching Waititi's Eagle vs Shark (when it turned out to be one of her favourite films of the last 20 years) I doubt if I shall bother.

Last night I watched What Waits Below - a 1984 British film, about the US army and a bunch of anthropologists encountering albino underground-dwelling 'Lemurians' (aliens?) which was shot in America, and somehow managed to look Italian. Despite the endless plodding around very well-lit, unexplored caves, and a superb piece of sustained padding in which the cheapest actor with a speaking part wanders off alone to a horrible fate. There was something oddly watchable about this movie. It was routine pulp movie making but from time to time there were glimmers of a better, eerier movie trying to get out. (Moments often sent crashing back to earth by Timothy Bottoms as the over-zealous American General in Charge villain turning every line up to eleven after the second or third word.)
 
Rogue One - I think I actually made my kids jump with my cry of, "Oh for Christ's sake!" when R2 and 3PO managed to get themselves shoe-horned into the script. Though if truth be told (and why shouldn't it?) any hopes I had of anything new, or interesting had vanished long before. They finally died when the:

"He doesn't like you."
"I'm sorry."
"I don't like you, either."

guy from "A New Hope" bumps into our heroine on a street half a galaxy away from where he turns up a few days later to bump into Luke Skywalker. (And how DID he and his pal avoided being vaporised with the rest of the city when the Death Star zaps it a few pages of script later?)

So, Rogue One, same crap different box. I got fed up with counting the number of times our hero of the moment gets themselves into a hopeless situation only to be saved by a well aimed laser bolt heralding the sudden arrival of an off-screen rescuer. And I spent a lot of my time wondering why Star Wars universe space ships have to do that rotating 180 degrees thing as they land - AND when they take off. (Maybe it's something to do with winding up the elastic band that powers the motors, who knows.) And I just loved the way everyone helpfully tells each other stuff which is happening on screen in case we don't get it - "That Star Cruiser is disabled!"

My 8 year old enjoyed it.

I hope he grows out of Star Wars soon so I don't have to watch any more of this boring drivel.
 
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JunkMonkey said:
"He doesn't like you."
"I'm sorry."
"I don't like you, either."

guy from "A New Hope" bumps into our heroine on a street half a galaxy away from where he turns up a few days later to bump into Luke Skywalker. (And how DID he and his pal avoided being vaporised with the rest of the city when the Death Star zaps it a few pages of script later?)
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I had not thought of it that way.
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JunkMonkey said:
And I just loved the way everyone helpfully tells each other stuff which is happening on screen in case we don't get it - "That Star Cruiser is disabled!"
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:rolleyes:
 
JunkMonkey said:
It may have been Hannah and her Sisters. Whatever it was, I remember sitting totally bemused by what the hell the audience (who were obviously fans to a man) were laughing at.
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There you go - one of my favourite films of all time. It's just so brilliantly neurotic.

I just watched John Carpenter's They Live. Quite bizarrely put together late 80's SF movie with one of the oddest scripts I think I've sat through.

"I'm here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum!"

I enjoyed it though, especially the soundtrack.
 
They Live is a much underrated Carpenter film. Probably due to Roddy Piper's use in the lead, but he actually ad-libed that bubblegum line, so he wasn't as thick as people'd like to think.
 
We watched the BluRay of Passengers, which my wife had not seen before. Not bad, but all through the thing I kept trying to remember ( out-loud) where they borrowed the plot.
The hook of an old pulp story was that something had gone wrong on a long interstellar expedition and so one person at a time was awake and, before he died of old age, had to awaken another to take over. It was a serial deal.Naturally, the awakened one would hate his waker.
Must have been in an old (early '60s) Galaxy or Fantastic or Amazing Stories, maybe Worlds of If.
Who wrote it? I can't recall.
Passengers, imo, needed a bit more narrative and would have been well served by simply adapting this tale.
 
  1. Fantastic Four Rise of the Silver Surfer - after threatening my Number Two Daughter with this for a couple of weeks since we watched the 2005 and 2015 interations of the Fantastic Four origin movies I finally got round to inflicting it on her. Her comment? "....people paid money to see that?!"
  2. Foxy Brown - I sort of managed to convince myself - but no one else in my family - that the Pam Greer boxset I bought the other day was for research purposes. I'm writing a comic strip about a 1970s soul sista superheroine. But to be honest I just find Pam Greer as sexy as hell.
And that story rings bells wi' me, Carl. Ponder... ponder....
 
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Justice League. I am very, very pleased. Great action, likeable cast of characters, my man does well and it is a story about love and friendship conquering evil after titanic battles. I love these.
 
allanon said:
Justice League. I am very, very pleased. Great action, likeable cast of characters, my man does well and it is a story about love and friendship conquering evil after titanic battles. I love these.
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First positive review I've seen, allanon. Let's hope it continues....
 
The Time Traveller's Wife, although I only managed 40 mins because severe schmaltz happened.
 
We saw Justice League last evening. Modestly entertaining; something to do before the burgers 'n brew at Red Robin. Not in the 'League' with Superman vs Batman, which I really liked( the extended version) or Man of Steel.
Not enough people (H. sap) in this one.
This Year in Film: so far, so-so.
1)Logan
2)It
 
Marvel's The Punisher season 1.
First two episodes were good. Seriously violent. Slowly unfolding, no idea were this is going. At least it kept my attention, which could not be said of any Marvel Netflix series other than Daredevil season 1 and Jessica Jones season 1. I have a good feeling about this.
 
The 2003 Fullmetal Alchemist anime. Liked it more than the remake. Very powerful and melancholic story - loved it...
 
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Marvel's The Punisher season 1.
First two episodes were good. Seriously violent. Slowly unfolding, no idea were this is going. At least it kept my attention, which could not be said of any Marvel Netflix series other than Daredevil season 1 and Jessica Jones season 1. I have a good feeling about this.
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Update: Once again not enough plot for 13 episodes. I need a third binge sitting to finish, but don't feel like it. Not recommended.
 
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Update: Once again not enough plot for 13 episodes. I need a third binge sitting to finish, but don't feel like it. Not recommended.
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Its rating on IMDB is currently a crushing 9.1 so most people are enjoying it. Liked the first five myself. That said, I could see things getting old...13 is definitely quite a few more than I was expecting based on the first 5.
 
Watched Logan Lucky last night - a heist movie (at a speedway) by a group who aren't too bright - funny in parts, entertaining enough overall.
 
Watching The Terminator and Terminator 2 back-to-back tonight. Have to walk the dog before finishing with T2. I think I prefer the 1984 original so far.
 
I had not seen the 3D version of Jupiter Ascending until yesterday. Wow! Like some films, the standard, 2D version looked flat and stylized, but the TV 3D was glorious. Just a romp, of course, but the scene with the swarms of bees was killer with depth added.
 
Jurassic World. I don't often venture into CGI blockbuster territory, and this film was a good reminder why. Visually, quite impressive - though not appreciably better than what was achieved 25 years ago in the original - but with a story as hollow as an empty protoceratops egg. The thing that always gets me about time-critical action films is that the plot nearly always seems to progress when the characters decide to take a break from their panic for a moment of ill-advised contemplation or romance. For example: one moment the two main adult characters are tearing across the grassy plains in a jeep searching for the girl's missing nephews who are in danger from an escaped genetically modified massive dinosaur (a dinosaur that kills for pleasure, no less), and the next they've stopped to stroke a dying diplodocus on the head and then waste even more precious minutes discussing the girl's clothing (which she adjusts to show some cleavage). I know it's a story that relies on tension but inane character decisions like that throughout the film add up to a great big ball of frustration, at least for me :D
 
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