What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[DesertDan]

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

One of my favorite movies.

 

[Gregg Axley]

Black Caesar with Fred Williamson.

 

[Stray Cat]

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

Oki-doki..
I live, far, far away - an dI must admit: I've never seen this one.
As of this moment, it's on the top of my "to watch" list.

Hopefully, I'll like it. :thumb:

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

No God, No Master - an interesting little flick about a Bureau of Investigation bomb expert (David Strathairn) investigating anarchists mailing bombs to the rich and powerful in 1919. Living amidst Italian immigrants, he's disgusted as innocents are rounded up for deportation; a secondary plot features Sacco and Vanzetti (depicted as adorable naïfs not guilty of any wrongdoing). Strathairn sells it beautifully, as usual, and the film is well-intentioned but really low-budget: it's got the least convincing depiction of 1919 downtown NYC I've ever seen: broad, leafy streets and miniscule "crowds". Turns out it was shot in Milwaukee!

David Strathairn was also in Eight Men Out (1988) about the 1919 Black Sox scandal where he played Sox pitcher Eddie Cicotte.

 

[Doctor Strange]

He was also in Good Night and Good Luck, Lincoln, L.A. Confidential, A League of their Own, The Notorious Bettie Page... and those are just his set-in-the-past roles. He's been in many, many other interesting films. He's been one of my favorite character-actors-who-sometimes-play-lead-roles ever since I first encountered him, in the great forgotten 80s TV series The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd.

 

[1mach1]

Oki-doki..
I live, far, far away - an dI must admit: I've never seen this one.
As of this moment, it's on the top of my "to watch" list.

Hopefully, I'll like it. :thumb:

Be ready.

 

[dh66]

Be ready.

As in.....have a few strong drinks close at hand.

 

[1mach1]

As in.....have a few strong drinks close at hand.

What Dale said.

 

[Doctor Strange]

The most interesting thing about Buckaroo Banzai - which is no masterpiece, just a bizarre, fun little flick - is that its makers were so certain that they were creating a successful franchise. There's a "Buckaroo Banzai will return" statement in the closing credits that's a real act of hubris for such a this-is-way-too-strange-to-ever-be-mainstream film.

Remember: Wherever you go, there you are.

 

[DesertDan]

Buckaroo Banzai was directed by W.D. Richter who also co-wrote Big Trouble In Little China.

 

[dh66]

Buckaroo Banzai was directed by W.D. Richter who also co-wrote Big Trouble In Little China.

Yet another 80s masterpiece, chock full o' WTF.

 

[vintage68]

Went to see "Fury" yesterday. Enjoyed it. Just a straight action/buddies flick.

 

[Stearmen]

David Strathairn was also in Eight Men Out (1988) about the 1919 Black Sox scandal where he played Sox pitcher Eddie Cicotte.

I have that recorded, just need the time to watch it!

 

[Stearmen]

The most interesting thing about Buckaroo Banzai - which is no masterpiece, just a bizarre, fun little flick - is that its makers were so certain that they were creating a successful franchise. There's a "Buckaroo Banzai will return" statement in the closing credits that's a real act of hubris for such a this-is-way-too-strange-to-ever-be-mainstream film.

Remember: Wherever you go, there you are.

No, this was the best part of the movie!

 

[Zombie_61]

Jaws. Again. Last night at a local theater that holds special screenings of "classic" movies on Monday nights two or three times a month. It's nice to have the opportunity to see these movies on the big screen again (or for the first time in some cases), but all they're really doing is projecting the Blu-Ray version of the movies they've selected so there's no chance of seeing any "rare" movies.

The theater opened for business in 1931 as the Wardman Theater. In the 1950s it became part of the Bruen theater chain, and in the 1970s was owned and operated by Pacific Theaters, Century Theaters, and from 1977 to 1987 was part of the Pussycat Theaters chain (adult movies). Like many others in the area, the building was damaged on October 1, 1987, when the Whittier Narrows earthquake struck southern California, and Starlight Cinemas took the opportunity to turn it into an eight-screen multiplex and re-open it as the Whittier Village Cinemas. It is now the last remaining movie theater in a city that once had four walk-in movie theaters and one drive-in movie theater. I've been going to this theater since the mid-1960s, and even saw Jaws there in 1975 when the price of admission was 54¢. I much preferred it when it was a single-screen theater, but I can easily understand that it could not have remained a viable business in today's "business model" of single-viewing admissions and much smaller multiplex theaters.

 

[Fading Fast]

Zombie_61 - how does the shark look today on the big screen - scary or cheesy? And love that you saw it at the same theatre when it first came out.

 

[Worf]

"Isle of The Dead" - Val Lewton produces this fine, odd little gem of a picture about war, plague and superstiton on a Greek Isle during the country's war of independence. Karloff at his usual best.

"Return of The Vampire" - Vampire pic made by Paramount during the war. Lugosi and his pet Werewolf are resurrected by a bomb during the blitz and begins his bloody reign all over.

TCM is a wonderful ting!

 

[Stray Cat]

Be ready.

As in.....have a few strong drinks close at hand.

Oh, so it's a "shot after you spot.." movie?! Great.
Haven't seen one of those since... since the last time we watched "Flash Gordon" ound: :rolf:

 

[dh66]

Oh, so it's a "shot after you spot.." movie?! Great.
Haven't seen one of those since... since the last time we watched "Flash Gordon" ound: :rolf:

Nooo......it's more of a "several shots before you get started" movie.

 

[Stray Cat]

Nooo......it's more of a "several shots before you get started" movie.

Oh?!
One must come prepared. :bounce: