What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[jamespowers]

Caught that this afternoon as well. Every "Chinese" actor of that era pressed into playing at Japanese... except Key Luke. Not very believable but entertaining.

Worf

But they did Charlie's number 2 son Tommy.

http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/10510/Across-the-Pacific-Original-Trailer-.html

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Just got back from the cinema where I saw Anchorman 2.

 

[jamespowers]

Just got back from the cinema where I saw Anchorman 2.

I feel sorry for you.

 

[Fading Fast]

Last night I pulled out a classic . . . CASABLANCA. A great flick, with a great cast - Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, and Dooley Wilson. . . I choke up every time Rick allows the Bulgarians to win at Roulette, and when Paul Henreid leads the patrons at Rick's in "La Marseillaise" . . .

And Ingrid Bergman is Stunning.

I am embarrassed too that the singing of "La Marseillaise" gets to me every time. I'm ready to grab a gun and go free France - I am not proud of how easily that movie manipulates my emotions.

 

[scottyrocks]

Last night, I watched (again) a 2012 movie that I had never heard of, considering the cast of big stars. It's called Cloud Atlas.

The official synopsis describes the film as: 'An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.'

I've been doing research on it for days now.

 

[Doctor Strange]

Cloud Atlas is definitely an ambitious film, but it didn't really work for me. The whole thing was awfully contrived, and having the key actors play so many different parts came across more as a stunt than blinding brilliance. But I still give it credit for trying something so unusual.

 

[Worf]

I am embarrassed too that the singing of "La Marseillaise" gets to me every time. I'm ready to grab a gun and go free France - I am not proud of how easily that movie manipulates my emotions.

You my friend... are NOT alone! The only other scene that matches it for pure "power" is the "g'wan to get religion" scene in "Sgt. York". Both send chills down my spine!

Worf

 

[2jakes]

You my friend... are NOT alone! The only other scene that matches it for pure "power" is the "g'wan to get religion" scene in "Sgt. York". Both send chills down my spine!

Worf

Sorry ...& hope you don't mind.... these also give me a "good feeling" or something ....

Shane....with Alan Ladd....

Last scene towards the end of the movie....Alan Ladd telling little Joey to take care of his folks....

& little Joey calling out to Shane as he rides off into the sunset ...


The Searchers...with John Wayne...

Again , the last scene as the Duke watches the family go inside the cabin while the song plays as the Duke
walks away & the door closes....

For me...it don't get better than this....:eusa_clap

 

[Gregg Axley]

Better Off Dead (1985).
My wife has never seen this.
Really?
Then I've got Once Upon A Time In America (1984?).
Great Deniro flick, ala The Godfather Part II, with flashbacks of immigrants and mob activity of the 30's.

 

[Zombie_61]

Last night, I watched (again) a 2012 movie that I had never heard of, considering the cast of big stars. It's called Cloud Atlas.

The official synopsis describes the film as: 'An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.'

I've been doing research on it for days now.

First and foremost, it's a fanciful yet somewhat simplified story about reincarnation. Take the characters Tom Hanks plays, for example. In this incarnation, he's a murderous ship's doctor; in the next, he's the manager of a seedy flophouse; in the next, he's a nuclear scientist trying to do the right thing in a difficult situation; in the next, he's a gangster/author; and so on. In it's own way, it illustrates that the same soul can (and usually will) have very different experiences in each incarnation, and that no soul is simply "good" or "evil" but that the choices made and/or actions taken during each incarnation have repercussions both good and bad.

Cloud Atlas is definitely an ambitious film, but it didn't really work for me. The whole thing was awfully contrived, and having the key actors play so many different parts came across more as a stunt than blinding brilliance. But I still give it credit for trying something so unusual.

To expand on what I wrote above, they had the key actors playing the different parts in each vignette in order to make it easier for the audience to recognize they were playing the same "soul" in each different incarnation (for the most part).

I thought it was a brilliant movie, and maybe the best I've seen in terms of non-linear storytelling, but it does make you do a bit of work--in order to fully understand what's going on, you really have to pay attention; it's definitely not a "popcorn movie".

 

[Wally_Hood]

Been busy with the visiting relatives: watched It's a Wonderful Life, Elf (again) and A Christmas Story. Last night it was Frozen at the local bijou-plex. The bait and switch Mickey Mouse cartoon at the beginning, apparently one from the dawn of the sound era that tumbles into color and cgi, was hilarious. It reminded me of that Bugs Bunny- Daffy Duck cartoon Duck Amuck where increasing surreal and bizarre things happen.

 

[Wally_Hood]

Knowing some of the "darker side" of Mr. Disney... how does one reconcile that with this?

Worf

Having read Eliot's Hollywood's Dark Prince I realize that Disney was subject to all sorts of human shortcomings, which may have been aggravated by his success and upbringing. In the film, he is characterized by someone who is a mixture of Midwestern culture and media empire CEO. Did he lie, cheat, and deceive to get the rights to Mary Poppins? I've heard so. The film seems to be less about WED and more about Helen Goff (P. L. Travers), how she became what she became, and how her childhood was written into a fantasy that was re-written into another fantasy. The book(s) may have been therapeutic for the author, and the revisionist personal history she created may have been threatened by a Disney verison of it.

 

[Wally_Hood]

Been watching quite a few movies today:

A Christmas Story 2
Miracle on 34th St.
The Santa Clause
Watching the Santa Clause 2, now.

Huh?

 

[Wally_Hood]

"A Christmas Carol" - TNT Style - Well I don't know really what grade to give it. The original was cut or stretched to fill 2 commercial filled hours. The whole thing seemed dis-jointed. Patrick Stewart was "ok" the special effects were good for 1999 but key scenes... like Scrooge mourning at his sister's death bed were GONE! I was kinda disappointed.

Hey Doc your assessment of Disney is a great one. I don't ask people to forget the good that people do, I just don't want them to whitewash the bad in the process... No one, not even me, is all one thing or another. But enough of that... Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone. Happy Binge Watching!!!!

And remember...

"You'll shoot your eye out kid!"

Worf

If I'm not mistaken, the sister's death bed scene in not in the book. If they were trying to stay faithful to the original story, the scene would be left out. The Alastair Sim version, which I enjoy very much, includes quite a lot of additions to the plot of the book*, including the aforementioned scene.

I have not seen the Patrick Stewart version, and only parts of the George C. Scott version.

*which is why the film was titled Scrooge when released in 1951, with a qualifier that it was based on ACC.

 

[jamespowers]

http://youtu.be/Ae1XDaiMvMw

 

[2jakes]

 

[Two Types]

Le Corbeau (1943) & Bande a Part (1964) - a splendidly lazy Sunday afternoon of drinking coffee, eating Xmas cake and watching old French films.

 

[dh66]

Last night I watched "The Black Cat" from 1934, with Karloff and Lugosi sharing the bill.

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[Zombie_61]

Last night I watched "The Black Cat" from 1934, with Karloff and Lugosi sharing the bill.

"Supernatural? Perhaps. Baloney? Perhaps not." lol Great movie, but David Manners isn't exactly the most masculine choice for a leading man. :eusa_doh:

 

[Smithy]

"Oceans 11" (1960) - good fun. Sinatra, Martin, Davis Jr, etc, etc.

and "Doors Open" - the film adaptation of Ian Rankin's (of the Inspector Rebus novels fame) book about a fine art heist. It's not going to win any Oscars but I liked it.