What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[Touchofevil]

Under the Yum Yum Tree on TCM. Jack Lemmon!

 

[Harp]

... his ONLY claim to fame was gettin' his royal arse beat in by THE Bruce Lee.

Worf

Lee was fantastic as Kato in The Green Hornet.:eusa_clap Jeet Kune Do is his legacy.

 

[Bushman]

Rushmore. It's a quirky little film about a juvenile delinquent. It's got Bill Murray and Brian Cox, and it's REALLY funny.

 

[Doctor Strange]

That's a great little flick. Directed by Wes Anderson, back before his films became entirely precious little wind-up toys populated with completely unbelievable characters (Moonrise Kingdom, The Grand Budapest Hotel).

 

[Bushman]

Nonetheless, the film is distinctly Wes Andersons style. The first thing I noticed watching it was how it strikingly reminded me of The Grand Budapest Hotel.

 

[Doctor Strange]

Yes, of course. His style is very distinctive and was nearly fully formed right from the start.

I like many of his films. There are a couple that I like very much. I just feel that his more recent ones have become overdone, overproduced, overdesigned, over... something. For me, that is. I think it's great for him to continue to be as distinctive and quirky as possible... But personally, for me, there's been a sense of diminishing returns as his productions get bigger and farther removed from reality.

 

[Wally_Hood]

Alexander Nevsky

 

[dh66]

'The Lion King'.....hakuna matata

 

[Touchofevil]

Black Hawk Down

 

[regius]

Steve McQueen's Enemy of the People, such an impactful movie. The theme is not new but this rendition, perhaps due to Arthor Miller's adaptation, was just so powerful. Steve McQueen's underrated movie.

 

[Formeruser012523]

The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies...SOOOO overproduced & bloated with the battle scene. Felt I was watching a video game. Think I'll go back to the book to remind myself why I loved it in the first place.

 

[Worf]

Alexander Nevsky

Love this movie... quite prophetic as well. I had the hots for "The Shield Maiden". War was different then... you had to "bring it... to get it". None of this long range crap bombs and drones stuff... not even any arrows to speak of. Rugged.

Worf

 

[up196]

The Imitation Game

 

[Stearmen]

Belle de Jour. What can you say, the French never let you sit back and veg out while watching their movies! Of course, it didn't hurt that it stared a very beautiful Catherine Deneuve.

 

[Fading Fast]

Belle de Jour. What can you say, the French never let you sit back and veg out while watching their movies! Of course, it didn't hurt that it stared a very beautiful Catherine Deneuve.

Yes, all the typical French existential angst and Sarte's the-world-is-meaningless view are there and would normally make this one depressing movie, but Deneuve glows so radiantly that one can't be depressed watching it.

 

[esteban68]

Pimpernel Smith, made in 1941 partly as propaganda and based on Orczy's novel about The Scarlet Pimpernel....directed and led by Leslie Howard....a pretty decent film with some excellent clothing mainly British including a few scenes in evening attire, and quite a few in 'outdoor' sporting clothing with cricket jumpers a plenty!

 

[Zombie_61]

The Corpse Vanishes (1942). Dr. George Lorenz (Bela Lugosi) kills brides, steals their bodies, extracts some sort of glandular fluid from them, and injects it into his elderly wife to keep her young and alive. Naturally, he employs a hulking mute (Frank Moran) and a dwarf (Angelo Rossitto) to help him.

Bowery at Midnight (1942). Professor of Criminology Frederick Brenner (Bela Lugosi) moonlights as Karl Wagner, owner/operator of a soup kitchen and criminal mastermind who uses the transients who frequent the soup kitchen to carry out his illegal plans, then "disposes" of them once they've served their purpose. His set-up is undone when student Richard Dennison (John Archer) discovers his dual identities. Oh, and there's also some nonsense about "Doc" Brooks (Lew Kelly) restoring some semblance of life to the aforementioned transients and keeping them hidden in the sub-basement below the soup kitchen.

Both of the above are "B" movies produced by Monogram Pictures, and feature Lugosi during the decline of his career. With run-times of 64 and 61 minutes (respectively), neither movie will waste much of your time. But, realistically, movies like these will likely only be interesting to die-hard Lugosi fans or people who like movies that are so bad they're good; I probably wouldn't have watched them myself if I hadn't stumbled across them on TCM in the middle of the night. lol

 

[dh66]

The Corpse Vanishes (1942). Dr. George Lorenz (Bela Lugosi) kills brides, steals their bodies, extracts some sort of glandular fluid from them, and injects it into his elderly wife to keep her young and alive. Naturally, he employs a hulking mute (Frank Moran) and a dwarf (Angelo Rossitto) to help him.

Bowery at Midnight (1942). Professor of Criminology Frederick Brenner (Bela Lugosi) moonlights as Karl Wagner, owner/operator of a soup kitchen and criminal mastermind who uses the transients who frequent the soup kitchen to carry out his illegal plans, then "disposes" of them once they've served their purpose. His set-up is undone when student Richard Dennison (John Archer) discovers his dual identities. Oh, and there's also some nonsense about "Doc" Brooks (Lew Kelly) restoring some semblance of life to the aforementioned transients and keeping them hidden in the sub-basement below the soup kitchen.

Both of the above are "B" movies produced by Monogram Pictures, and feature Lugosi during the decline of his career. With run-times of 64 and 61 minutes (respectively), neither movie will waste much of your time. But, realistically, movies like these will likely only be interesting to die-hard Lugosi fans or people who like movies that are so bad they're good; I probably wouldn't have watched them myself if I hadn't stumbled across them on TCM in the middle of the night. lol

Lugosi could chew the scenery like few others. You gotta love him.

I think I have 'The Corpse Vanishes' on the DVD, maybe I need to hunt that out and give it a watch soon.

 

[Harp]

The Imitation Game

Yes, all the typical French existential angst and Sarte's the-world-is-meaningless view are there and would normally make this one depressing movie, but Deneuve glows so radiantly that one can't be depressed watching it.

I have Andrew Hodges' Turing bio, Alan Turing: The Enigma, as preface to the film.
First encountered Turing back in school days and always considered him prophetic in his calculus.
___________

Sartre's distinction as requisite for self-awareness fits the bill with Catherine. I missed this flick back in college but will make amends.

 

[Worf]

Pimpernel Smith, made in 1941 partly as propaganda and based on Orczy's novel about The Scarlet Pimpernel....directed and led by Leslie Howard....a pretty decent film with some excellent clothing mainly British including a few scenes in evening attire, and quite a few in 'outdoor' sporting clothing with cricket jumpers a plenty!

IIRC Howard played "The Scarlet Pimpernel" in an earlier film. He just substituted Nazis for French revolutionaries this time. I liked it.

Worf