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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

KY Gentleman

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Hey Bama Mike, I'm a new member too! This will be my first post in the Lounge. I just watched "My Darling Clementine" with Henry Fonda. It's a 1946 western with a lot of great hats!
 
BegintheBeguine said:
The Bourne Ultimatum. Was good.
Really? I liked the original novels, but they lost me when they completely hosed up the storyline by killing Marie in Supremacy. I thought that when they cut out Bourne's "other half" David Webb, Marie, and their archnemesis Carlos, that pretty much killed it right there...

Then again, when I first read them I was tearing Bourne/Webb's mind apart for an assignment one of my psych profs gave me, so I believe I have a better understanding of the original character than the screenwriter, especially with having a similar "two lives in one mind" effect.
 

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Where the Sidewalk Ends with Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney. Very well done noir, and had me wondering the entire time how it would end. I certainly didn't have this one figured out.
 

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Diamondback said:
Really? I liked the original novels, but they lost me when they completely hosed up the storyline by killing Marie in Supremacy. I thought that when they cut out Bourne's "other half" David Webb, Marie, and their archnemesis Carlos, that pretty much killed it right there...

I watched The Bourne Ultimatum over the weekend, too. I love the Bourne movies, but I watched the first and second movie before I read the book. And now I can't figure out why they killed off Marie in the second movie and deviated so much from the books. Drives me nuts. Still, great plot and action in the movies and I hope to buy the trilogy.
 

BegintheBeguine

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Diamondback said:
Really? I liked the original novels, but they lost me when they completely hosed up the storyline by killing Marie in Supremacy. I thought that when they cut out Bourne's "other half" David Webb, Marie, and their archnemesis Carlos, that pretty much killed it right there...

Then again, when I first read them I was tearing Bourne/Webb's mind apart for an assignment one of my psych profs gave me, so I believe I have a better understanding of the original character than the screenwriter, especially with having a similar "two lives in one mind" effect.
Yeah, I haven't read the series, being more of a Travis McGee girl. My brother called and told me The Bourne Ultimatum was as good as one of our favorites French Connection 2 (yes, 2) and I wouldn't say it was anywhere near as good as that but an enjoyable way to spend a Sunday afternoon with a guy friend who doesn't like fims noir. I did watch The Bourne Identity right before so I'd have some idea but I hadn't borrowed The Bourne Supremacy yet but I was able to follow along.
 

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Just watched French Connection 1 - one of my all time faves and it is great to watch the frosty cold vintage NYC winter scenes (bummed that we couldn't get a slice of pizza whilst watching the part where Popeye is freezing outside the cushy French Restaurant-everything is closed today!!). Lots of great hats besides Popeye's porkpie.

I guess I could see the appeal of the sequel. Never hit me like the first one but it has its strengths - Hackman certainly did a great job in a very different film with the same character.

Also watched Shaft today - amazing clothes and some wicked lids, especially the Police Lt. and all the Mobsters.

Now suffreing through The Peace Killers, which imho skirts a very fine line betwixt "so bad it's good" and just plain BAD. Basically a pathetic "C" movie which stars some no-names and some decent supporting character actors (most notably Albert Popwell, who made a side career playing alongside Clint Eastwood), which I gather was made to capitalize on the Billy Jack phenomenon....
 

BegintheBeguine

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Everything's open here! Well, most everything. I just had a slice of yummy pizza, so hot and oozing. Anyway, the sequel was the only version I'd seen for years and years although I read the book The French Connection in my 20s.
Last movie I watched was The Crowd, silent classic with a Christmas scene. There's a thread on the movie somewhere around here, I think.
 

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BegintheBeguine said:
Everything's open here! Well, most everything. I just had a slice of yummy pizza, so hot and oozing. .


Dang! go on, rub it in!:D

The wife just made us a lovely dinner of salmon with baked potato and peas. so all is right....or rather it was right, until I popped a vhs of Blacula in....hoo, boy! It's really scary but in all the wrong ways. It certainly started off promisingly enough (tres campy) but ka-boom, all downhill from there.......
 

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I watched the first 3/4 of Perfume a couple days ago. I didn't like it at all. It isn't nothing but a guy sniiffing stuff. [huh] It is not interesting to watch someone going around smelling the air, or his hands, or dead bodies, or anything.
 

pgoat

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That sounds like this flick: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_(film)

I think there may have been some interesting moments, and I am sure someone who knows math (personally, like Bart Simpson, I know of it) might have more there to chew on, but overall I remember the viewing experience to be rather akin to watching paint dry, only worse, like watching paint dry whilst sitting in the dentist's chair........basically an hour and a half of this odd and unlikable guy working on theories in his mundane apartment......


No sir; I didn't like it
 

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Saturday - The Fountainhead starring Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, and Raymond Massey,

Sunday - Chinatown starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunnaway (1974), and The Two Jakes starring Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, and Meg Tilly (1990).

Anyone think there will ever be a third to wrap-up the family Trammel saga?
 

sweetfrancaise

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Miss Brill said:
I watched the first 3/4 of Perfume a couple days ago. I didn't like it at all. It isn't nothing but a guy sniiffing stuff. [huh] It is not interesting to watch someone going around smelling the air, or his hands, or dead bodies, or anything.

I was amazed by that film...not by the character as much, although I was fascinated by his psychosis and how it changed his world, but by the sensory images throughout the movie. I've rarely sat through a film that could make me feel the images so soundly. Ah well, different strokes...!
 

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Miss Brill said:
I watched the first 3/4 of Perfume a couple days ago. I didn't like it at all. It isn't nothing but a guy sniiffing stuff. [huh] It is not interesting to watch someone going around smelling the air, or his hands, or dead bodies, or anything.

I never bothered to see it, because I liked the book a great deal, and didn't want to ruin it by seeing the movie!
 

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