What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[1mach1]

Iron Man (2008)

Been 9 years since I saw it. Still enjoyable.

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[Fading Fast]

Our almost annual viewing of 1944's "The Uninvited," still my favorite Golden Era ghost movie.

Saved "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" for tonight.

 

[MisterCairo]

Halloween II. I had bought this before the first, by accident, about two years ago and just yesterday tore off the wrapper.

I starts right from the end of the first which we thought was cool. 1981 substituting for 1978 - the costumers and hair stylists got it just right!

Fun fact - Dana Carvey's big screen debut. He played "Assistant".

 

[AmateisGal]

The Ghost Breakers with Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard. Fun!

Tonight I'm watching It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! and Arsenic and Old Lace.

 

[Bushman]

Poltergeist. Still a family favorite.

 

[Julian Shellhammer]

The Ghost Breakers with Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard. Fun!

Tonight I'm watching It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! and Arsenic and Old Lace.

Excellent choices, all the way around~

 

[Zombie_61]

TCM is airing a mini-marathon of "haunted house" movies for Halloween, so we've watched The Haunting (1963), House on Haunted Hill (1959), and just started The Cat and the Canary (1939). Up next is William Castle's The Old Dark House (1963), which I've never seen and, to be honest, am not expecting much from. But that's okay because earlier today I recorded James Whale's The Old Dark House (1932) and Victor Halperin's White Zombie (1932) to make up for it.

 

[Julian Shellhammer]

Paree, Paree (1934) with Bob Hope and Dorothy Stone. A "Broadway Brevity," it was a short with a great deal of singing and dancing, with Hope a young man who takes a bet that he can woo a lady without letting on he's rich. The choreography and camera work seemed primitive even by 1934 standards. Still, where there's Hope, there's laughs.

 

[Worf]

"Taste the Blood of Dracula" - Some say that only the first Hammer Dracula is superior, I don't feel that way. Slow, tedious and kinda stupid if you ask me. And the final "battle" wasn't much of one. Lee's Dracula is only entertaining when he has a great adversary... in this one he did not. They really could've used Cushing's Dr. Van Helsing in this one.

Worf

 

[LizzieMaine]

We've got a screening tonite of "Saturday Night Fever." Gawd what an obnoxious movie it is. GET A HAIRCUT AND A JOB!

 

[Fading Fast]

We've got a screening tonite of "Saturday Night Fever." Gawd what an obnoxious movie it is. GET A HAIRCUT AND A JOB!

Also, a much darker movie than its public persona has become over time (similar to "Breakfast at Tiffany's" which is not a "light" "rom-com").

 

[Zombie_61]

We've got a screening tonite of "Saturday Night Fever." Gawd what an obnoxious movie it is. GET A HAIRCUT AND A JOB!

I've never seen it, and I hope I never do.

 

[Worf]

We've got a screening tonite of "Saturday Night Fever." Gawd what an obnoxious movie it is. GET A HAIRCUT AND A JOB!

More than any other recent movie of "critical" and financial acclaim this one has aged the worst. When you make a movie based on a fad you're bound to go wrong. And this one is just flat out painful to watch. Luckily for me I missed most of the Disco era due to military service.

Worf

 

[LizzieMaine]

And Travolta isn't even all that good of an actor in it. Sure, he's got dance moves, but one dimension does not a worthwhile performance make. Besides, as far as sweat-hogs are concerned, I always preferred Epstein.

 

[Trenchfriend]

I've never seen it, and I hope I never do.

I got still my VHS-cassette. A movie, initiated by fashion-industry.

 

[Fading Fast]

And Travolta isn't even all that good of an actor in it. Sure, he's got dance moves, but one dimension does not a worthwhile performance make. Besides, as far as sweat-hogs are concerned, I always preferred Epstein.

He is an example of one who started as a "star" with modest acting talents and, subsequently - as the hyper-stardom faded - developed into a real actor as he showed in "Pulp Fiction."

 

[scottyrocks]

This morning, The Priest's Wife was on. Loren is just breathtaking, as always.

 

[Benzadmiral]

Also, a much darker movie than its public persona has become over time (similar to "Breakfast at Tiffany's" which is not a "light" "rom-com").

That's a good part of why Fever holds up, to me. There is a dark streak in Travolta's Tony the dancer-wannabe. It's not like he lives in an upper-class suburb with manicured lawns, where all the teenagers drive 16th-birthday-gift BMWs to school. He's a lot grittier, and his friends are too.

The film is not so much about the "fad" of disco. It's about what people did for entertainment at that time and place. (People love to sneer at disco music, but I guarantee that most of 'em, had they been 22 in 1977, would have been out there on that dance floor gyrating with the opposite sex like everybody else.) A story about a young man from a working-class family, who has a job in a paint store and competes in swing music contests in 1938, could be a comedy about a fad, if you cast Mickey Rooney; or it could be a drama, if you cast John Garfield. Fever is the latter.

I don't care for most movie musicals. "Where's the music coming from?" But Fever solves that, just as Cabaret and King Creole do, by confining the music scenes to clubs.

 

[Fading Fast]

That's a good part of why Fever holds up, to me. There is a dark streak in Travolta's Tony the dancer-wannabe. It's not like he lives in an upper-class suburb with manicured lawns, where all the teenagers drive 16th-birthday-gift BMWs to school. He's a lot grittier, and his friends are too.

The film is not so much about the "fad" of disco. It's about what people did for entertainment at that time and place. (People love to sneer at disco music, but I guarantee that most of 'em, had they been 22 in 1977, would have been out there on that dance floor gyrating with the opposite sex like everybody else.) A story about a young man from a working-class family, who has a job in a paint store and competes in swing music contests in 1938, could be a comedy about a fad, if you cast Mickey Rooney; or it could be a drama, if you cast John Garfield. Fever is the latter.

I don't care for most movie musicals. "Where's the music coming from?" But Fever solves that, just as Cabaret and King Creole do, by confining the music scenes to clubs.

Smart call on how casting Rooney versus Garfield completely changes a movie.

Also, in the "much darker than their reputation" category is "Where the Boys Are," which is normally referenced as the first "beach movie." Maybe, but it is also much darker than the genre became.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Except by the end of the picture Garfield would have organized the waiters at the dance hall and led them all on a picket line.