Last Movie You Watched - 2020

Oh, I love Moon Zero Two - so bad its good! A Hammer movie made on the cheap, but basically Westerns in space. And the gorgeous Catherine von Schell, before she was in Space 1999.

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Yes. But Bruce is being Bruce, which I coped with - I quite like Die Hard, for example, as a no-brain movie. I guess that this shows that Chris Tucker can act, though - because his version of Prince in this movie is REALLY annoying!!
 
I watched The Gentlemen, the latest movie from Guy Ritchie - going back to what he does well, gangster movies. This was quite good, definitely his best since Lock, Stock and Snatch.
 
Westy said:
I watched The Gentlemen, the latest movie from Guy Ritchie - going back to what he does well, gangster movies. This was quite good, definitely his best since Lock, Stock and Snatch.
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I watched last week, but had to turn it off after 30 min. Too tired. Going to watch again from the beginning soon.

There's a lot to watch all of a sudden. I had forgtotten about season 3 of Westworld (missed the first three episodes), haven't yet seen this week's Better Call Saul, am about to start season 3 of Ozark, David Lynch's The Elephant Man is out in 4K, and then there is The Gentlemen. Oh, and Harrison Ford in The Call of the Wild.
 
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David Lynch's The Elephant Man is out in 4K,
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Random fact: I once saw Joseph Merrick's skeleton and the model cathedral he made, as I had a friend who worked in the hospital where his body was donated to science. Don't think it is on general view. Very sad.
 
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Random fact: I once saw Joseph Merrick's skeleton and the model cathedral he made, as I had a friend who worked in the hospital where his body was donated to science. Don't think it is on general view. Very sad.
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Probably for the best Joseph Merrick's skeleton is not on general view in the age of selfies.
 
Promethus never seen it before. I lasted just shy of an hour before turning it off. I didn't believe a word of it. I nearly turned off at the five minute mark when our archaeologist dated the cave paintings she had just discovered within seconds. And I'm just so fed up of people doing stupid stupid things just to keep the plot going especially when they are supposed to be intelligent scientists. Dumb movie. And an expensive dumb movie which somehow makes it worse.
 
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And I'm just so fed up of people doing stupid stupid things just to keep the plot going especially when they are supposed to be intelligent scientists.
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You just summed up the plot to the sequel Alien: Covenant as well. Supposedly intelligent people doing incredibly stupid things.
 
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I liked Prometheus: but in my opinion Alien: Covenant (I think I've already mentioned when I watched it before) was exactly what Av said.
 
I liked Prometheus too, much more than Covenant (also I didn't like the lead much in Covenant, but I thought Noomi Rapace was quite good). Actually I'd probably rate it the third best of the movie franchise.
 
Watched Contagion (2011) last night, which seemed somewhat appropriate. Apart from Jude Law being rather annoying, it is well done - and just what the idiots ignoring lockdown need to see, perhaps.

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Hobbit said:
I liked Prometheus: but in my opinion Alien: Covenant (I think I've already mentioned when I watched it before) was exactly what Av said.
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One stupid thing I can cope with. Every movie is entitled to one moment when a character acts stupidly to drive the plot - the movie is more than likely to get away with it if people are telling the person he's being stupid as he's doing it. But ANY film that has a team of scientists - including biologists! - arrive on an alien planet, realise the atmosphere in their locality has more than enough oxygen for them to breath, then IMMEDIATELY take off their helmets is just asking for a kicking.
 
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Well, I watched the David Bowie film, The Man Who Fell to Earth on Friday. I can’t say I recommend it. However, I saw it sober, and I think it was intended to been seen while one’s consciousness is significantly altered. I think David Bowie does a fairly good job of portraying the alien who comes to Earth to obtain water for his family, and the dying desert planet they live on.

the rest of the movie consists of various scenes and sequences that don’t really tie together enough to be called a plot. The special effects were sparse, and not very good. I was particularly appalled by the conveyance that is used to bring the alien to Earth. It looks like a duck blind with sails mounted on a monorail track, it isn’t really a spacecraft as it never leaves. Maybe it was a teleporter?

Candy Clark does a decent performance as a simple country girl who falls for the exotic Bowie. The overall theme seems to be that our world and the people in it corrupt the alien and and destroy everything he brings. I should also warn that it is very nearly pornographic, there are excessive sex scenes involving Rip Thorn and his young students, as well as between Bowie and Clark.

Unless you are a fan of 1970’s art films, or have a burning desire to see David Bowie nude, I would not watch this one.
 
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It's one that is definitely of a time, isn't it? The issues you mentioned were intended to keep it edgy, I suspect. It was an art movie, which I guess was the appeal for Bowie. (Cheap, strange.) Mind you, considering the amount of drugs he was hoovering up at the time, I'm amazed he could stand up and say a line! I can see why he was chosen, though. It plays on that androgynous alien that Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane (recently retired) used. But it has dated admittedly.
 
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Unless you are a fan of 1970’s art films, or have a burning desire to see David Bowie nude, I would not watch this one.
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Internet rumour has it that this is actually a movie about Elon Musk.

But Nic Roeg's movies are very much an acquired taste.

As for movies in general, I watched the Odd Thomas movie last night, which is decent but not brilliant. Good setup, decent story, but a bit predictable.
 
Edward M. Grant said:
As for movies in general, I watched the Odd Thomas movie last night, which is decent but not brilliant. Good setup, decent story, but a bit predictable.
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Agreed. But it is faithful to the book, if I remember right, which also matches your description in my opinion - decent but not brilliant. It didn't do well at the box office.

The movie is perhaps going to be best remembered for being a movie with Anton Yelchin in, who died not long afterwards in some bizarre motor accident.
 
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