What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[Miss Golightly]

Klute - I have been looking forward to seeing this movie for years (any time it was on tv here was at something like 2.45am) so I finally got to watch it last night and it was a bit of a disappointment - not that suspensful and the cinematography was so dark we nearly needed night vision goggles to figure out what was going on.

 

[Fletch]

The Human Comedy (1943)

William Saroyan never caught on that he could have bored a hole in himself and let the sap out. His only film story (gosh, I wonder why) has to be one of the speechiest, preachiest stories ever put on screen, at least where the principals didn't wear robes and sandals. Mickey Rooney is his usual winning self, but the poor guy has to confront yet another Life Lesson about every 90 seconds.

 

[Doctor Strange]

Fletch, I watched it for the first time last night too. Even granting that the film came out at the darkest hour of the war, when messages about HUMANITY weren't out of place, it was jaw-droppingly overdone. From the ghostly father's sledgehammer narration to the sequence where the couple drive by the festival with those groups of people of each old-country heritage folk-dancing in their native costumes ("... but they're all AMERICANS!"), it was pretty hard to take.

This is allegedly the film that Louis B. Mayer was most proud of... and it's clear why: it's nearly the most idealized, sappy-sentimental image of small town life ever put on film (like It's A Wonderful Life... minus that film's cynical underbelly that helps elevate it to greatness). But it's certainly worth seeing once for curiosity's sake, at least as a home front piece.

And I will say that it featured an interestingly restrained, mature performance by Mickey Rooney - an actor that I usually can't stand. Plus it's a hoot to see some very young future stars in the supporting roles - Donna Reed, Van Johnson, Robert Mitchum, etc.

 

[Akubra Man]

Watched "The Thin Man" and "Life With Father". I had never seen either and enjoyed them both quite a lot. William Powell really has a large screen presence.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Previewing a second-run of "The Social Network." Gad. Is this what modern college kids are actually like???

 

[martinsantos]

A german silent one, 8mm, with English subtitles, "Variety" (1924).

One of the very best films I ever sew, silent or soundie.

Martin

 

[HepKitty]

It Happened on 5th Avenue 1947... very funny, and oh the irony!

 

[rue]

Polar Express. I wasn't impressed. The beginning was good and the ending was better, but the middle...

 

[Wally_Hood]

The Bourne Identity

 

[AtomicEraTom]

White Christmas

 

[CopperNY]

"Cast A Deadly Spell".

Lovecraftian influenced film noir set in a 1948 where magic is commonplace. Fred Ward and Julianne Moore. costuming was generic, but adequate.

enjoyed it very much. fans of Jim Butcher's "Harry Dresden" series would be pleased.

 

[Tomasso]

Miracle on 34th Street. Can the shoulders on the adults :eeek: get any bigger and can little Natalie Wood get any cuter.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

I watched Miracle on 34th Street today and am watching A Christmas Story right now.

 

[Doctor Strange]

An Education - well done, but it didn't quite live up to its reputation for me.

 

[B.J. Hedberg]

Watched National Lampoons Christmas Vacation and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade last night at the family get-together; a bit of an odd combination.

 

[Wally_Hood]

Like several others, Miracle on 34th Street. Depleted audience due to this weird flu thing in circulation, and teenage indifference to our grown up need for sappy sentimentality. For us hardcore viewers, it's alway great.

 

[Anthony K]

A Christmas Story (quite a few times since last night, thanks TBS, though I get annoyed by the commercial breaks so I keep putting my dvd in and watching it).

 

[deadpandiva]

Spirited Away, Remember The Night, It Happend on 5th Avenue, The Man Who Came To Dinner

 

[Widebrim]

A Christmas Carol (1938), with Reginald Owen, Gene, Kathleen, and (in a small role) June Lockhart. The 1951 version with Alastair Sim is generally considered to be better, but I like the MGM gloss version just as well.

 

[tbrunke]

"My Favorite Brunette" with Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour, a funny flick and Bing Crosby has a bit part at the end of the movie.