What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[Bushman]

Lawrence of Arabia (1962) starring Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif, with a supporting cast of Alec Guinness and Anthony Quinn. This is the second time I've seen this one, and the first for my mother, which was very surprising considering her addiction to TCM. Still a masterly crafted film.

 

[MisterCairo]

Lawrence of Arabia (1962) starring Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif, with a supporting cast of Alec Guinness and Anthony Quinn. This is the second time I've seen this, one and the first for my mother, which was very surprising considering her addiction to TCM. Still a masterly crafted film.

I have the Anniversary blu-ray boxed set, but yet to view it. Looking for a quiet night to let it roll over me again.

"NO PRISONERS! NO PRISONERS!"

 

[Worf]

Wolves, with the fella from Game of Thrones and Aquaman as the main bad guy. Orphan werewolf finds his real family, trouble ensues. IT's no American Werewolf in London, but fun enough. If you liked The Lost Boys, this has something of the same feel if less overtly comic - and with lycanthorpes, not vampires.

Watched this last we thought it was great.... Thanks for the recommendation. We sincerely hope they make a sequel!

Worf

 

[belfastboy]

"My Name is Nobody" a second generation spaghetti western with Henry Fonda.....what can I say....so bad it was good??? Terribly weird movie that somehow was compelling enough to keep us around for 2 hours.....and I wasn't drinking whisky either.

 

[Trenchfriend]

 

[Edward]

Watched this last we thought it was great.... Thanks for the recommendation. We sincerely hope they make a sequel!

Worf

I think it could support one. Either that, or some sort of series where the young couple work as a sort of cross between the A Team and the Increible Hulk. The other one I'd recommend if you like werewolf pictures and have seen it (actually, a trilogy) is Ginger Snaps (really a Canadian coming of age tale with some interesting things to say about how society views the female sex).

 

[MisterCairo]

is Ginger Snaps (really a Canadian coming of age tale with some interesting things to say about how society views the female sex).

We have the trilogy. Ginger Snaps was on a list of "100 Movies You Need to See Before You Die That You Have Never Heard of" by Canadian film reviewer Geoff Pevere. My wife and I saw it early in our engagement.

The character Brigitte actor Emily Perkins is also known to Supernatural fans as superfan Becky Rosen, who has an incredibly heavy crush on the character Sam Winchester (she was also one of the children in the group of seven in the 1990 tv miniseries IT, filmed in British Columbia).

Becky (caressing Sam's chest): "You're so... FIRM"!

Sam: "Becky, can you stop touching me"?

Becky: "No."

 

[Edward]

We have the trilogy. Ginger Snaps was on a list of "100 Movies You Need to See Before You Die That You Have Never Heard of" by Canadian film reviewer Geoff Pevere. My wife and I saw it early in our engagement.

The character Brigitte actor Emily Perkins is also known to Supernatural fans as superfan Becky Rosen, who has an incredibly heavy crush on the character Sam Winchester (she was also one of the children in the group of seven in the 1990 tv miniseries IT, filmed in British Columbia).

Becky (caressing Sam's chest): "You're so... FIRM"!

Sam: "Becky, can you stop touching me"?

Becky: "No."

That I didn't know - Supernatural has never quite made it onto my watch list.

 

[MisterCairo]

That I didn't know - Supernatural has never quite made it onto my watch list.

My wife and I had never heard of it until my then 14 year old nephew, visiting our cottage, showed us the first three episodes in 2010. It had already been on five seasons by then.

We got caught up using the Canadian service Zip.ca, which, like early Netflix, sent you a DVD or two once per week through the mail. Once we caught up, we have been avid fans since. This is season 15, and the final one. Waiting for the last two episodes ever, delayed for some reason...

 

[Edward]

My wife and I had never heard of it until my then 14 year old nephew, visiting our cottage, showed us the first three episodes in 2010. It had already been on five seasons by then.

We got caught up using the Canadian service Zip.ca, which, like early Netflix, sent you a DVD or two once per week through the mail. Once we caught up, we have been avid fans since. This is season 15, and the final one. Waiting for the last two episodes ever, delayed for some reason...

Have they been hit by the Covid? WE've been gagging for the next series of Line of Duty, but they had to halt filming it in Belfast a few months ago due to the lockdown. WE're now getting to the point where the knock on of all the shows that couldn't be filmed duringl ockdown is really starting to kick in.

 

[Fading Fast]

Gun Crazy from 1950 with Peggy Cummins and John Dall

"Some guys are born smart about women and some guys are born dumb. You were born dumb." - Berry Kroeger warning John Dall in Gun Crazy

And with that early quote, the theme of Gun Crazy is defined better than any "sophisticated" analysis could ever provide.

John Dall plays a somewhat lost but decent young man who, from an early age, loved guns, but after killing a baby chick with a BB gun as a child, was repelled by killing of any kind. Peggy Cummins, on the other hand, whom Dall meets when she is a twenty-year-old sharp-shooter performer in a carnival, loves guns and, as we'll learn, loves killing.

When 6'1" tall Dall meets 5'1" Cummins, pretty and all woman, we know immediately that height won't determine who has the upper hand in this relationship. And while everything about her physically reads sex, her defining feature is her mind because, well, she's psychotic - she's turned on by killing.

She's a femme fatale in every way. She wants more out of life - money, things, adventure - and she wants them now and without long-term struggle or effort. She not only has all but no empathy for others, she takes pleasure in killing them.

She knows her sexuality is her ticket and she uses it relentlessly on Dall to push him to do things he doesn't want to do. After they meet, they soon leave the carnival and embark on a crime spree - he's resistant, but she gets her way - that foreshadows a Tarrantino-directed effort of robbing, shooting, murder and mayhem.

This is a B-movie (a second-tier effort from the studio to be shown with a prestige A-picture) rising above its station. The leads' relationship is complex and real - your heart breaks as you know Dall could have lived a good, normal life had he met the right woman, but Cummins just keeps driving him further into a (short) life of crime. Despite that, you do get it; these two have a connection that keeps them together.

And proving its B-movie bona fides, the action is nonstop and violent, but the movie becomes more than its appellation as almost every scene by director Joseph H. Lewis is thoughtfully shot. A bank robbery scene - filmed entirely from the back of the getaway car - is an example of less being more. While the robbery takes place off camera, we watch Cummings, the getaway driver, desperately trying to calmly deal with a policeman who happens by while Dall is inside robbing the bank.

All this is good stuff, but the crux of the movie is Cummins who kills from some inner need. And like many a femme fatale, she seems to enjoy the getting more than the got, as she's more alive stealing, running, shooting and killing than she is wrapped in a fur trying to enjoy a "normal" night out.

Meanwhile Dall is simply trapped; he's in love with a crazy woman. The rest of the movie is just more killing, chasing, robing, running and, finally, a desperate trip back to Dall's hometown before the necessary ending.

And in the end, we know we were given the key to this outstanding movie at the beginning - Dall, sadly and fatally, wasn't smart about women, this one ⇩, right here.

 

[MisterCairo]

Have they been hit by the Covid? WE've been gagging for the next series of Line of Duty, but they had to halt filming it in Belfast a few months ago due to the lockdown.

Yes, Supernatural (like so many shows) is filmed in and around Vancouver BC. I gather they are slowly getting back to action, but part of the delay now is the border. "Essential" workers can continue to cross, and entertainment is not high on the list.

 

[belfastboy]

Have they been hit by the Covid? WE've been gagging for the next series of Line of Duty, but they had to halt filming it in Belfast a few months ago due to the lockdown. WE're now getting to the point where the knock on of all the shows that couldn't be filmed duringl ockdown is really starting to kick in.

Yes, if the gap is too great my wife and I lose the thread and have to loop back to remind ourselves.

 

[belfastboy]

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Gun Crazy from 1950 with Peggy Cummins and John Dall

"Some guys are born smart about women and some guys are born dumb. You were born dumb." - Berry Kroeger warning John Dall in Gun Crazy

And with that early quote, the theme of Gun Crazy is defined better than any "sophisticated" analysis could ever provide.

John Dall plays a somewhat lost but decent young man who, from an early age, loved guns, but after killing a baby chick with a BB gun as a child, was repelled by killing of any kind. Peggy Cummins, on the other hand, whom Dall meets when she is a twenty-year-old sharp-shooter performer in a carnival, loves guns and, as we'll learn, loves killing.

When 6'1" tall Dall meets 5'1" Cummins, pretty and all woman, we know immediately that height won't determine who has the upper hand in this relationship. And while everything about her physically reads sex, her defining feature is her mind because, well, she's psychotic - she's turned on by killing.

She's a femme fatale in every way. She wants more out of life - money, things, adventure - and she wants them now and without long-term struggle or effort. She not only has all but no empathy for others, she takes pleasure in killing them.

She knows her sexuality is her ticket and she uses it relentlessly on Dall to push him to do things he doesn't want to do. After they meet, they soon leave the carnival and embark on a crime spree - he's resistant, but she gets her way - that foreshadows a Tarrantino-directed effort of robbing, shooting, murder and mayhem.

This is a B-movie (a second-tier effort from the studio to be shown with a prestige A-picture) rising above its station. The leads' relationship is complex and real - your heart breaks as you know Dall could have lived a good, normal life had he met the right woman, but Cummins just keeps driving him further into a (short) life of crime. Despite that, you do get it; these two have a connection that keeps them together.

And proving its B-movie bona fides, the action is nonstop and violent, but the movie becomes more than its appellation as almost every scene by director Joseph H. Lewis is thoughtfully shot. A bank robbery scene - filmed entirely from the back of the getaway car - is an example of less being more. While the robbery takes place off camera, we watch Cummings, the getaway driver, desperately trying to calmly deal with a policeman who happens by while Dall is inside robbing the bank.

All this is good stuff, but the crux of the movie is Cummins who kills from some inner need. And like many a femme fatale, she seems to enjoy the getting more than the got, as she's more alive stealing, running, shooting and killing than she is wrapped in a fur trying to enjoy a "normal" night out.

Meanwhile Dall is simply trapped; he's in love with a crazy woman. The rest of the movie is just more killing, chasing, robing, running and, finally, a desperate trip back to Dall's hometown before the necessary ending.

And in the end, we know we were given the key to this outstanding movie at the beginning - Dall, sadly and fatally, wasn't smart about women, this one ⇩, right here.

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As my wife would say...."Damn, that bra needs to be designated a lethal weapon"

 

[Fading Fast]

As my wife would say...."Damn, that bra needs to be designated a lethal weapon"

She packs quite a lot of body into her 5'1" frame.

And your wife is spot on - her looks destroyed one man's life.

 

[Edward]

Yes, Supernatural (like so many shows) is filmed in and around Vancouver BC. I gather they are slowly getting back to action, but part of the delay now is the border. "Essential" workers can continue to cross, and entertainment is not high on the list.

Which is understandable, of course - albeit that there's a certain irony in those who provided the creative entertainment that has gotten most people through lockdown being bracketed as "non-essential".

 

[steve u]

Yakuza Demon (2003) and Graveyard of honor (2002)
Director: Takashi Miike
Miike makes some great gangster movies

 

[MisterCairo]

Yes, if the gap is too great my wife and I lose the thread and have to loop back to remind ourselves.

I am in that exact position with Line of Duty and Marcella. I need to go back and watch at least the last three episodes or so of the last season I watched.

Is there any word on any new Jack Taylor or Shetland episodes coming or planned for at least? I love both shows.

 

[belfastboy]

I am in that exact position with Line of Duty and Marcella. I need to go back and watch at least the last three episodes or so of the last season I watched.

Is there any word on any new Jack Taylor or Shetland episodes coming or planned for at least? I love both shows.

We have never watched any of the JTaylor but we love Shetland.....mostly because we get to see a part of the world we have yet to wander and not sure we will ever make it there.

 

[Worf]

Ha!!!! All you folks jonesin' and gripin' about your fave show being "struck down" by the hoogee googee. You should be happy! You've all the time in the world now to learn a hobby! Learn that foreign language you've let languish since High School!

'Ou et le sal de bain?"

Take up woodworking.... Practice swimming in the bath tub... you know good stuff!

The ever helpful Worf