Last Movie You Watched - 2020

The restored 2 hr and 46 min version of Once Upon a Time in the West on Netflix. I believe this is the first time I’ve watched it all the way through. Great flick and iconic performances.
 
I did not know about the restored version but I did see it back when it was first released back in 1986.... hell of a performance by Henry Fonda.

I Recall... what a shock when Fonda shot and killed the young boy!

off to watch it tonight thanks for the tip.
 
Raule said:
The restored 2 hr and 46 min version of Once Upon a Time in the West on Netflix.
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Got it on Bluray: scrubs up well!

Here I watched 1917. Very good. The youngest, who's currently studying in Film Production, but home now for the foreseeable future, was also mightily impressed.

Sudden thought: We get Disney+ launch here on the 24th (Tuesday.) With everyone at home, isn't it a perfect time to launch it? :)
 
Disney+ is now running in Europe. The Rocketeer is awesome in HD! :D
 
Enjoyed "Onward" far more than I thought I would the 12 year old neighbors young girl totally loved it even if she had to sit 10 feet away from me and I could not provide the normal popcorn and homemade lemonade... it has the expected amazing Pixar production values and tugs at the heart strings at the right spots in the show.
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Hobbit said:
Am I right in thinking that this is being streamed in the US rather than at cinemas, Windy?
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Yes, they saw that theaters were being shut more and more and they released it for sale at the normal $19.95 download or streamed price last Friday just 2 weeks after it came out In the theaters.
it will go out included in Disney+ on I think April the 4th but I like to buy the Pixar films to get the extras which most of the time are not available with the streaming subscription services.
 
Windshadow said:
I like to buy the Pixar films to get the extras which most of the time are not available with the streaming subscription services
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Yes: still looking through our Disney+ options here. Some of the Pixar shorts are here, but I guess they still want DVD/Bluray to be attractive so don't include all the extras.
 
I came home from traumatic shopping expedition today with a desperate need to watch a film. My local town is weirdly empty. It was like 4 am in full sunshine. It was liking walking through all those post apoc movies I grew up with, and have haunted me since I was a kid. On The Beach, Virus, The Quiet Earth, The World the Flesh and the Devil, the TV series Survivors... It was deeply disturbing. I came home wanting to retreat into childhood. I had a desperate urge to cuddle up on the sofa and watch something safe and reassuring like a Lex Barker Tarzan film or a Randolph Scott western.

I ended up curled up on the sofa watching a 1960s Italian SF film The Giant of Metropolis - a weird mashup of Maciste/Hercules muscleman movie, seriously groovy Italian SF costume and set design, and a plot that (in the English dubbed version at least) wanders all over the place, changes direction every three minutes for no reason, and is just plain incomprehensible. Fever dream stuff. Not sure if it helped.

 
JunkMonkey said:
I came home from traumatic shopping expedition today with a desperate need to watch a film. My local town is weirdly empty. It was like 4 am in full sunshine. It was liking walking through all those post apoc movies I grew up with, and have haunted me since I was a kid. On The Beach, Virus, The Quiet Earth, The World the Flesh and the Devil, the TV series Survivors... It was deeply disturbing. I came home wanting to retreat into childhood. I had a desperate urge to cuddle up on the sofa and watch something safe and reassuring like a Lex Barker Tarzan film or a Randolph Scott western.
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@JunkMonkey Don't be silly. That's heaven you're describing. After 45 years in hell, no amount of complaining by neurotypical TrashGibbons is going to make me feel guilty about enjoying that part of our current predicament. ;)
 
LOL! I get you. I'm not a social person by any means and having fewer people around was, in a way, less stressful but that relief was replaced by other confusions. Not being able to buy staples for one thing. And when I could find what I needed on the shelves I couldn't buy enough. I have three kids, my 80 year old mother and my wife (an NHS keyworker) to buy for as well as myself. I shop once a week. I normally buy what would now be considered socially unacceptable 'panic-buying', 'stockpiling' amounts. A loaf of bread lasts us a day. I usually buy rice in 10kg sacks. I buy a dozen packets of any one pasta at a time. I can't do that now. All the rules I knew are all messed up. It's weird when crossing the road to avoid someone is seen as a polite thing to do, and inviting them in for a coffee is considered a threat. It was very stressful. On the other hand, my normal anxiety-driven bulk-buying shopping habits did lead me to discovering yesterday another 32 toilet rolls that I didn't know I had. I haven't bought toilet paper for at least a year and I've STILL got six months' supply in my cupboards.
 
Here I rewatched David Cronenberg's The Dead Zone (1983) starring Christopher Walken. I first saw it to review for my University newspaper and then once with the ex-wife when it came out on VHS. So it must be about 30 years since I saw it last.

I did like the TV series in the 90's, but it sort've fizzled out.

It holds up remarkably well.

I'm quite surprised how Martin Sheen can be a President I loved in the West Wing, but be a complete b*stard President in this one. That's acting for you!
 
We watched Ocean's Eleven last night (a re-watch from when it first came out in 2001) - good enough for light entertainment value.

Hobbit said:
Here I rewatched David Cronenberg's The Dead Zone (1983) starring Christopher Walken.
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I always remember this as my copy of the Dead Zone has Walken on the cover, but from memory yeah the movie was quite good.
 
Westy said:
I always remember this as my copy of the Dead Zone has Walken on the cover,
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Mine too.

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It was the first or second Stephen King I ever read - I always mix the two up. The other book was Firestarter... then I had a mad splurge of anything by King I could get my hands on...

And now I'm thinking that I may not have seen the Firestarter movie... or if I did, I can't remember!!
 
Last night I watched;

Watch Jumanji: The Next Level (Bonus Content) | Prime Video

In Jumanji:The Next Level, the gang is back (Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Kevin Hart and Karen Gillan) but the game has changed.
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I did not expect much from it but I was pleasantly surprised, it was not the quick buck sequel that I was prepared for. Of course, it was not the total surprise that the last film was but it was well crafted and once again seeing the avatar actors channel the personas of the players was just fun... Dwayne Johnson and Awkwafina, in particular, stand out when they embody Danny DeVito.

an 8 out of 10 for me.
 
Always felt though that it didn't need to be named Jumanji.
 
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I just watched Man from Earth which was the final work of SF writer Jerome Bixby, who reportedly completed the screenplay on his deathbed. The concept is that “John Oldman,” a departing university professor (played by David Lee Smith) is questioned by other faculty members an a surprise going away party. He decides to share with them that he moves on every ten years or so. When further questioned, he decides to share his whole story. He claims to be a 14,000 year old Cro-Magnon man, who stopped aging when he was 35. He has learned to move on when his lack of visible aging would call attention to himself, and has lived in many places and done many things since the Stone Age. The whole movie takes place in or outside of Mr. Oldman’s living room, and is entirely composed of dialog. In spite of this, there are some great ideas in this film.

The story of the immortal living among regular mortals is a well established one. Vampire tales are a common example. However, this movie reminded me of the story Grotto of the Dancing Deer by Clifford D. Simak. In this story, an archaeologist discovers an ancient cave paintings, and meets a man he comes to realize is the immortal painter.

This 2007 film has become somewhat more widely known due to it being widely shared via the Internet. It is a pretty interesting film which overcomes its low budget with intelligent concepts and good acting.
 
OK. It was with mixed feelings that I rewatched Judge Dredd (1995).

For the record: I really didn't like this movie when I saw it in 1995. And whilst there's a lot I still didn't like (Rob Schneider's character, mainly) there was a lot I found I actually quite liked with distance.

The script is still BAD. Huge plot holes, inconsistencies, awful characters.... and Stallone playing the lead wrong.
Rob Schneider still encapsulated one of my most hated of tropes, the comedy sidekick.

BUT

It looks good (for 1995, anyway) - a refreshing lack of CGI. The elements they have kept from the comics - Mega City 1, the Cursed Earth, the ABC Warriors are good.

Max von Sydow & Diane Lane - both good.
The ABC Warrior robot... brilliant. Still think they need a movie of their own.

So - a slight revision. 25 years on, it is not a complete disaster, although a good example of what can go wrong in a movie if you let it.

I love Karl Urban's remake, though clearly on a much smaller budget. Am hopeful for the future series, if it is ever finished.
 
I managed to not watch a movie tonight. I was going to. I had every intention of watching a film but ended up getting so frustrated with my folder filing system (DVDs and BluRays + art in ring-binders - takes up a LOT less space than keeping them in their cases) that I spent most of the night making labels for all the folders' spines using posters of films that start with the relevant letter as the art.
Which meant I spent a lot of time at thewronsideoftheart.com which is one of my all time favourite places on the web and somewhere I've been meaning to share with you guys for ages. Have fun. There's some seriously groovy stuff here:

Poster for Moon Zero Two (1969, UK) - Wrong Side of the Art

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