Last Movie You Watched - 2020

I forgot about the Abel Ferrara one -haven't see that either. Yeah 78 is good -not as good as original. IMO.
MMV you know. ;)
 
Very pleased it worked for you, blailock. It still holds up on repeated showings, I think.

I have grown to like the Donald Sutherland version as well, but as a few of you have said, IMO it doesn't quite have the menace of the black and white version - but it does have Leonard Nimoy! (Which might have been the reason why I first watched it...)

Re-read the book a few years ago - liked that, too!
 
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Very pleased it worked for you, blailock. It still holds up on repeated showings, I think.
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Re-read the book a few years ago - liked that, too!
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It does indeed. The films improved the ending which I thought very weak in the book.

(Have I expounded my theory that the 1978 version was a sequel rather than a remake because of the cameo of McCarthy's "You're next! Your next!" character? - if not I have now.)

Tonight I watched I, Tonya which left me less than overwhelmed.
 
I've never seen the 1956 film, and since I am struggling to find anything recent to watch (both movies & tv), I am going to watch the 1956 black & white version sometime this week and will be rewatching the 1978 version as well to see if JunkMonkey's thesis holds up.
 
Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn (2020)
Watched it last night. Expected it to be a bad guilty pleasure. It had a few great images, including the Harley Quinn persona. Also the hyena. Other than that it was pretty much a waste. Regretted spending the time. The fight scenes were of the "My GOD, women can fight!!!" sort. And they were seemingly endless Regretted the time, but I know that the hype had gotten to me so I would have watched it eventually.
 
Hobbit said:
Very pleased it worked for you, blailock. It still holds up on repeated showings, I think.

I have grown to like the Donald Sutherland version as well, but as a few of you have said, IMO it doesn't quite have the menace of the black and white version - but it does have Leonard Nimoy! (Which might have been the reason why I first watched it...)
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Have seen the movie twice. Both times at somewhere around three in the morning after watching half a dozen other films at a Sci-Fi marathon film festival (an experience unto itself - see the thread Marathons

When corona goes away, go yo one if you can, it's a unique experience to watch films that way. Have been to 40+ of them. They have their own group of fans. Similar in some ways to con groupies. I mean where else would you get to watch Alita Battle Angel, Aliens, Edge of Tomorrow and 12 Monkeys (also Wasp Woman, it ain't all gravy) without leaving a theatre?

Saw both invasion films (at the Boston Marathon?) a few hours apart. The Nimoy is far more polished. The original , a great terror film, particularly for its period.
 
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Well, with I Tonya and Birds of Prey, we've got some sort of Margot Robbie fest going on...
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When corona goes away, go yo one if you can, it's a unique experience to watch films that way.
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Well - perhaps that's something for another thread: "Pogo's Film Fest"!! (5 movies - dare you take the challenge!) But it might be an idea whilst we're still in semi-lockdown.
 
I'd fall asleep during such an event guaranteed. But then I admit I am no longer a real movie fan, just as I have never been a typically well-read sf fan.
 
The 1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers was indeed very good. I'm now watching the 1978 version and Kevin McCarthy just made his cameo at the intersection! And Leonard Nimoy about defensively trying to escape from uncomfortable feelings and emotions! Great stuff! ;)
 
An evening of extremes. First up - a musical! (And I am not a huge fan of musicals!!) But I felt like watching this one, that I saw parts of when I worked in the cinema.

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When it was released it bombed horribly - often played to near empty cinemas. But I quite liked the soundtrack - Gil Evans jazz, The Style Council, and Bowie.

It was OK - not an unmitigated disaster, looks great, if a little uneven. Bowie was great, though not in it a lot.

And then for contrast - Saturday night horror!

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As modern horror movies go, this was OK - again, not the worst I've ever seen, and not the worst in this series. Lots of jump scares, although not that scary. But good fun.
 
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100% score on the Tomatometer. Multiple award wins and nominations.

Really good - Korean film makers are often good at making engaging films like this about ordinary people living ordinary lives.

I found suitable English subtitles over at opensubtitles.org.
 
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This weekend I saw East Side Sushi which is a multi-award-winning and heart-warming film. It features Juana (Diana Elizabeth Torres) who is a single Mexican-American mother who lives with her young daughter and widowed father in East Oakland, CA. She has kitchen skills from a variety of jobs, and one day she sees a ”help wanted” sign in the window of a traditional sushi restaurant. She gets a job there, and her ambition and cultures eventually lead to conflict. Because of course, Mexican-American women cannot be sushi chefs! A really good film, worthy of the many awards it received. It has a 95% score on the Tomatometer.
 
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