What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[Stormy]

"The Pianist"

 

[Worf]

"I Frankenstein" = I bored!

Worf

 

[Doctor Strange]

Into The Woods. I liked it a lot. It's about as good a movie adaptation as you could hope for of this tricky, complicated, a-lot-on-its-mind musical. The entire cast is very good, with Emily Blunt being the standout for me as the Baker's Wife. (And Chris Pine - who I really don't like as Captain Kirk - finds amusing new levels of Shatnerian bombast as Cinderella's Prince.) Some darker aspects of the second act of have been toned down (after all, this is a Disney release), but it's still sufficiently dark. Face it: the second act of this show, clever as it is, has always been somewhat problematical.

Anyway, it should work especially well as an introduction to Into The Woods for folks who don't know the play, which is about the best thing that you can say about a film adaptation.

 

[LizzieMaine]

It may be my deteriorating vision catching up with me, but I read the above as "Into the Wild," and found myself thinking I wouldn't mind seeing that done as a musical.

Meanwhile, we have wrapped up a two-day screening of "Don't Look Now." If there was one thing that truly wasn't missing from my 2014, it was a long lingering gauze-focused look at Donald Sutherland's naked backside. However, it was shown on *real film,* and anything that gives me a break from the bland flatness of Digital Cinema is a good thing.

 

[Blackthorn]

"The Pianist"

One of my favorites.

 

[Fading Fast]

"Young Man with Ideas" a 1952 Glenn Ford vehicle in which he plays a young married with children lawyer whose career has stalled and his wife his pushing him to advance. To try to advance, the family moves from Montana to California where he has to take the bar exam again. Out there, as they struggle with money, Ford meets two women (one played by the, IMHO, extremely underrated Nina Foch) which creates added tension. I won't give any more of the plot away (as most of what I wrote is set up in the first half hour or so).

It's an overall enjoyable movie that, as many movies do, falls apart a little bit at the end, but not enough to undo the overall enjoyment of it. In addition to being a pretty good story, decently acted, the time-travel is awesome. Ford moves from a small family home in Montana to a California bungalow - so you get to see a lot of day-to-day 1952 house shots. Also the cars and clothes are interesting. Additionally, you can see some early Mid-Century Modern architecture which is fun, as is all the pre-war architecture (mainly California style).

It's a good, basic TCM offering - nothing to go out of your way to see, but one worth watching if it happens to come on.

 

[Bushman]

Brighton Rock. Man, Attenborough was young in this one!

 

[1mach1]

"I Frankenstein" = I bored!

Worf

Yeah, that blew.

 

[1mach1]

The Skeleton Twins (2014)

 

[Worf]

"The Nanny" - British affair from Hammer Studios with Betty Davis doing her late career "crazed old woman" routine. Worth watching on New Years Day.

"Horse Feathers" - Groucho says that Huxley College is failing cause it has a lousy football team. So he goes downtown to a speak easy to buy some players. Student athletics have sure come a long way since the 1930's!

Worf

 

[Touchofevil]

The Odd Couple on TCM.

 

[DesertDan]

The History of the Eagles Pt 1 & 2 - An excellent documentary film about one of the most significant rock bands of the last half century. Great music, miserable bunch of people.

Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train A'comin - Another very good documentary. I think it did a good job of humanizing Hendrix and telling his story without tearing down his genius and monolithic influence on the art of electric guitar and rock music.

 

[Wally_Hood]

Is anyone else seeing only two acronyms? [huh]

Leapin' lizards, you're right - I goofed. And me, a highly-trained acronymologist...

 

[Wally_Hood]

Young Man With a Horn, dir. Michael Curtiz, with Kirk Douglas, Loren Bacall, and Doris Day.

 

[ChiTownScion]

Unbroken and The Imitation Game. Enjoyed both of them.

 

[Bushman]

A River Runs Through It. I love this film and I don't know why I don't watch it more often.

 

[jamespowers]

 

[Worf]

^^^^^ I was having a decent evening till I saw that!!!!! I've all Eisner's collected work. His contribution to modern graphic arts is immeasurable.... His finest creation was "The Spirit". Thank God he never lived to see the monstrosity pictured above!

Worf

 

[jamespowers]

^^^^^ I was having a decent evening till I saw that!!!!! I've all Eisner's collected work. His contribution to modern graphic arts is immeasurable.... His finest creation was "The Spirit". Thank God he never lived to see the monstrosity pictured above!

Worf

Yeah, Sam Jackson is pretty lousy in it. I like the rest though.

 

[Panadora]

Saw this the other day :eusa_clap

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