What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[Tomasso]

Strangers on a Train

At the Wallcast:

 

[Antje]

Dutch movie, de marathon, supercool, i can watch it all the time never boring

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[jamespowers]

 

[1mach1]

^ That was a good one.

 

[Fading Fast]

Strangers on a Train

At the Wallcast:

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Very good movie. Where is this Wallcast?

 

[Tomasso]

Very good movie. Where is this Wallcast?

http://www.mbculture.com/Scroll.aspx?id=81

 

[Worf]

"Went The Day Well" - Never seen it before. Decent piece of propaganda made during the war about a pre-invasion German force that takes over a small British village dressed as British Soldiers... Of course the populace eventually rises up to fight the invaders. Propaganda but fun in that, being made during the war, it discusses an invasion of England in 1942 that was repulsed and the eventual downfall of Hitler even though the question was very much in doubt at the time the movies was filmed. Worth seeing at least once. This was a TCM premiere so I doubt its been seen much over here.

Worf

 

[Fading Fast]

"Went The Day Well" - Never seen it before. Decent piece of propaganda made during the war about a pre-invasion German force that takes over a small British village dressed as British Soldiers... Of course the populace eventually rises up to fight the invaders. Propaganda but fun in that, being made during the war, it discusses an invasion of England in 1942 that was repulsed and the eventual downfall of Hitler even though the question was very much in doubt at the time the movies was filmed. Worth seeing at least once. This was a TCM premiere so I doubt its been seen much over here.

Worf

I saw it for the first time in the last year or so - would have said on TCM (but if you just saw the premiere, then I must have seen it elsewhere - just don't remember where) - and your review is spot on. It was a bit clunky in its propaganda and acting in general, but oddly compelling too, not so much as a pure movie, but as a curiosity. You hit on the key points - not only an alternative history story - but in real time - kinda like a film version of the famous "Keep Calm and Carry On" poster. As if the British Government was coaching its people what to do when / if it happened (as there was a strong belief in '42 that the German invasion was coming.). Also, a bit of an echo with "Mrs Miniver" when she discovers the downed airman. If I remember, the black and white film was insanely crisp (like most of those British films from that era).

 

[Fading Fast]

http://www.mbculture.com/Scroll.aspx?id=81

Thank you - you saw the two best offerings in April as I remember you posting about "Breakfast at Tiffany's" also.

 

[Tomasso]

Thank you - you saw the two best offerings in April as I remember you posting about "Breakfast at Tiffany's" also.

Yeah, I usually go to see the old flicks that I've never seen on a big screen. Rain-outs have hit me hard this season with the cancellations of To Catch a Thief and Lawrence of Arabia.

 

[Fading Fast]

Yeah, I usually go to see the old flicks that I've never seen on a big screen. Rain-outs have hit me hard this season with the cancellations of To Catch a Thief and Lawrence of Arabia.

Painful as not only are those two incredibly great movies, but I've seen both on a big screen and they become different and better movies than the ones we got to know on TV. "To Catch a Thief" is possibly the most beautiful movie made - clothes, setting, stars.

 

[Worf]

I saw it for the first time in the last year or so - would have said on TCM (but if you just saw the premiere, then I must have seen it elsewhere - just don't remember where) - and your review is spot on. It was a bit clunky in its propaganda and acting in general, but oddly compelling too, not so much as a pure movie, but as a curiosity. You hit on the key points - not only an alternative history story - but in real time - kinda like a film version of the famous "Keep Calm and Carry On" poster. As if the British Government was coaching its people what to do when / if it happened (as there was a strong belief in '42 that the German invasion was coming.). Also, a bit of an echo with "Mrs Miniver" when she discovers the downed airman. If I remember, the black and white film was insanely crisp (like most of those British films from that era).

I agree completely with your take as well. The similarities with Mrs. Miniver are obvious but this films a lot more "cold blooded". There are Nazi's and there are "BAD Nazi's", these guys were obviously the latter. When you start off by shootin' the Vicar in the back in cold blood... there ain't much place to go from there but down. When Robert Osborne says "being shown here for the first time" though I tend to believe him. It might've been shown on Public Television... I doubt if it was on BBC America. Not violent enough for "MeTv" or TV Land. Curious I wonder who DID show it.

Worf

 

[jamespowers]

^ That was a good one.

And a sequel is on the way I see.

 

[jamespowers]

 

[Fading Fast]

I agree completely with your take as well. The similarities with Mrs. Miniver are obvious but this films a lot more "cold blooded". There are Nazi's and there are "BAD Nazi's", these guys were obviously the latter. When you start off by shootin' the Vicar in the back in cold blood... there ain't much place to go from there but down. When Robert Osborne says "being shown here for the first time" though I tend to believe him. It might've been shown on Public Television... I doubt if it was on BBC America. Not violent enough for "MeTv" or TV Land. Curious I wonder who DID show it.

Worf

I asked my girlfriend and she didn't remember either, but we are all in agreement that TCM and Robert Osborne have too much integrity for there to be any doubt it was a premiere when you saw it. (In one of those funny things that happens, Robert Osborne lives in an apartment house named the Osborn and it is a turn of the century gem of an apartment house here in NYC.) I checked, we didn't get it from Netflix, so unless my memory kicks in, I simply don't know. If I had to guess, I'd say PBS as the local PBS runs that type of movie on Saturday night occasionally - but that's a guess.

 

[Fading Fast]

From memory when it came out - it was all but unwatchable.

 

[jamespowers]

From memory when it came out - it was all but unwatchable.

lol lol It was ok to me. De Niro was hilarious!

 

[cw3pa]

"The Stranger". With Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson and Loretta Young.

 

[Zombie_61]

Grown Ups 2. The first 30 minutes are pretty bad, but if you can get past that it gets worse. :eusa_doh:

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Man of Steel