What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[Julian Shellhammer]

Black Sea (2014)
Stumbled across this on HBO.
Submarines.
WW II Russian gold.
Modern day salvage team.
Conflict.
Worth a watch.

Inspired by your clean, concise, almost poetic encapsulation, here's a haiku-

Submarines, salvage,
Russian gold under the sea.
Touch of Evil, "Watch."

 

[Stearmen]

I'm watching "Bridget Jones's Diary", since 20:15 o'clock.

German synchro, bah. And seemingly typical mainstream girls-comedy movie.

 

[Stearmen]

Mara Maru (1952) Errol Flynn

 

[Tiki Tom]

Watched Florence Foster Jenkins starring Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant. Set in New York City in 1944. I thought Grant stole the show. At first I thought his character was a gold digger. Only gradually does the truth come out and Grant plays it believably and sympathetically. The movie is unsettling and haunting at some level. Why was it necessary to make this movie? To remind us that, to varying degrees, we all live in fantasy worlds of our own making? As a jab at middle-brow pretentions? As an uncomfortable reminder that it is the smug little cruelties that really hurt? Anyway. Well done movie about a rather odd subject matter. (All true, btw. I googled Florence Foster Jenkins and the film seems to stick to the facts of her life fairly closely.)

 

[Zombie_61]

Black Sea (2014)
Stumbled across this on HBO.
Submarines.
WW II Russian gold.
Modern day salvage team.
Conflict.
Worth a watch.

Well, I watched Black Sea. Submarines? Check. WWII Russian gold? Check. Modern day salvage team? Check. Conflict? Boy, that's an understatement.

 

[MisterCairo]

Scrooged.

 

[LizzieMaine]

We're in the middle of a two-week run of Loving, a dramatization of the case of Richard and Mildred Loving, the interracial couple from Virginia who figured in the 1967 Supreme Court ruling that ended all state "anti-miscegenation" laws in the US. Well done all around, revealing the Lovings as two very ordinary people who weren't out to make any particular sweeping point -- they just wanted to live together as man and wife in the state where they were born. The most entertaining portrayal in the picture is that of the Loving's ACLU lawyer, Bernard S. Cohen -- who was the greenest of greenhorns when he took the case, and comes across as an overeager, overenthusiastic but well-meaning goof who nonetheless carries the case to victory. Considering that Cohen himself is listed in the "Acknowledgements" section of the credit crawl, it's evident that he has a sense of humor about his callow younger self.

Period detail is very well observed, with the only significant gaffe I noticed being the presence of a zip code sign on the front of a post office in a scene taking place in 1958. Fix it in CGI, kids.

 

[Bushman]

"The Roaring Twenties" starring Cagney and Bogart. Definitely enjoyed this one.

 

[Touchofevil]

Well, I watched Black Sea. Submarines? Check. WWII Russian gold? Check. Modern day salvage team? Check. Conflict? Boy, that's an understatement.

Plenty of physical conflict during the last third of the movie. Of course what constitutes "plenty" depends on the viewer.

 

[Touchofevil]

Passengers

 

[Touchofevil]

The Thin Man on TCM, again.
I could not help myself.

A night of Thin Man tonight.
Or is it Men?

 

[Doctor Strange]

The Hateful Eight. I generally dislike (or at least, have some problems with) Tarantino's films, but I liked this one.

 

[Worf]

Watched Florence Foster Jenkins starring Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant. Set in New York City in 1944. I thought Grant stole the show. At first I thought his character was a gold digger. Only gradually does the truth come out and Grant plays it believably and sympathetically. The movie is unsettling and haunting at some level. Why was it necessary to make this movie? To remind us that, to varying degrees, we all live in fantasy worlds of our own making? As a jab at middle-brow pretentions? As an uncomfortable reminder that it is the smug little cruelties that really hurt? Anyway. Well done movie about a rather odd subject matter. (All true, btw. I googled Florence Foster Jenkins and the film seems to stick to the facts of her life fairly closely.)

If you've the stomach for it, watch the French version "Margeritte" and the Documentary on the same woman. Puddin' did the trifecta earlier this year. I only watched FFJ. It was a good film.

Worf

 

[AmateisGal]

Miracle on 34th Street (1947). Such a wonderful film.

 

[Fading Fast]

Miracle on 34th Street (1947). Such a wonderful film.

We watched half of it onThursday and will finish it up when back from the relatives for Christmas. The scenes of the parade are great little time capsules.

Also, I'm pretty sure the apartment scenes were shot in real NYC apartments lining the parade route. I've been in some of those and they are incredibly accurate - also, they didn't have CGI then to create the effect.

 

[AmateisGal]

We watched half of it onThursday and will finish it up when back from the relatives for Christmas. The scenes of the parade are great little time capsules.

Also, I'm pretty sure the apartment scenes were shot in real NYC apartments lining the parade route. I've been in some of those and they are incredibly accurate - also, they didn't have CGI then to create the effect.

If I had an apartment like those they featured, I might be able to live in NYC.

 

[MisterCairo]

Home Alone.

 

[Lean'n'mean]

'The Grey' (2012)..........I have seen it a few times before & found it ridiculous, the animatronic black wolf, stolen from a 70's werewolf movie is just hilarious, especially the liquid pouring out of it's nostrils, a la ' Alien' ......................the scenery though is sometimes stunning.

 

[Touchofevil]

Well, I watched Black Sea. Submarines? Check. WWII Russian gold? Check. Modern day salvage team? Check. Conflict? Boy, that's an understatement.

Oops! I read "understatement" as "overstatement" when I responded. Darn Angry Orchards.

 

[Bigger Don]

The Thin Man on TCM, again.
I could not help myself.

A night of Thin Man tonight.
Or is it Men?

Been there, did that!