What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[hatguy1]

...for the lack of a P-61 Blackwidow.

Are there any of those in museums anywhere even? A very cool airplane. Remember building a model of that back in muh youth.

 

[Worf]

The original Paul Muni 'Scarface'

A film which I guess most gangster films, old and modern take a little piece of.
Great car chases and shoot em up scenes by the bucket load.

Paul Muni is perhaps THE most underrated actor of the Golden Era of Hollywood. He could immerse himself and lose all semblance of normalcy. Whatever the role Cary Grant was Grant, Bogie was Bogie, Jimmy Stewart was ALWAYS Jimmy Stewart etc... they were actors playing a part. With Muni... I've NO idea what he's like outside of character... The greatest compliment I can give an actor.

Worf

 

[Feraud]

"The Edge of Tomorrow" - Thoroughly enjoyed this one. Funny as hell, and I think they meant it to be. Generic aliens from fill in the blank but that's a small quibble. "Groundhog Day" with plenty of guns explosions and violence. The idea of a human reset button was cool, but I think the physics were pure fantasy. Still to see Tom Cruise (that CAN'T be his real name) killed over and over again in gruesome and gory ways was fun as hell. I also loved the way he screamed like a little girl while getting squashed, mangled, beaten, shot to the head (over and over) and otherwise "blowed up real good". It was a hoot!!

Worf

We enjoyed it too. I had given up on Cruise in a sci-fi story after the awful Oblivion.

I watched this a couple of nights ago as well. Not great, but not horrible either. Besides, I find Emily Blunt to be very easy on the eyes. :love: By the way, his full name is Thomas Cruise Mapother IV.

Last night it was Sahara (1943) with Humphrey Bogart as tank crew commander Sgt. Joe Gunn and a motley crew of American, British, French, Sudanese, and Italian troops making their way across the Sahara desert in, and on, a battered tank that they can barely manage to keep running. Bogart may have had the "lead" role, but it's really more of an ensemble piece with a cast that includes Bruce Bennett, J. Carrol Naish, and Lloyd Bridges. Good stuff!

Emily Blunt is definitely easy on the eyes.

Sahara is good one. I will watch it anytime it's on TCM.

 

[Stearmen]

Are there any of those in museums anywhere even? A very cool airplane. Remember building a model of that back in muh youth.

There are three on static display in Museums, and one that is getting close to flying again. http://www.maam.org/p61.html

 

[Stearmen]

Pants On Fire. A bit different, kind of a comedy.

 

[Wally_Hood]

I watched this a couple of nights ago as well. Not great, but not horrible either. Besides, I find Emily Blunt to be very easy on the eyes. :love: By the way, his full name is Thomas Cruise Mapother IV.

Last night it was Sahara (1943) with Humphrey Bogart as tank crew commander Sgt. Joe Gunn and a motley crew of American, British, French, Sudanese, and Italian troops making their way across the Sahara desert in, and on, a battered tank that they can barely manage to keep running. Bogart may have had the "lead" role, but it's really more of an ensemble piece with a cast that includes Bruce Bennett, J. Carrol Naish, and Lloyd Bridges. Good stuff!

Sahara is a very cool movie. Very much an Allied propaganda film (multiple ethnicities unite against nazism), but a product of the Hollywood system at its peak.

 

[Wally_Hood]

Watched Tombstone last night. May not be historically accurate, but sure is fun to watch.

Tombstone is very much fun to watch. The whole "Skin that smokewagon and go to work" sequence is solid gold.

 

[Zombie_61]

Sahara is a very cool movie. Very much an Allied propaganda film (multiple ethnicities unite against nazism), but a product of the Hollywood system at its peak.

Apart from it being a good, solid movie, one of the things I appreciated about it was the way they had the allied troops working together against a common enemy without the usual "beat the audience over the head with American patriotism" evident in so many movies of the era.

Keeping with the "tank crew" theme, I watched Fury (2014) on Blu-Ray last night.

 

[Trapped in T-wilight Zone]

I have very eclectic tastes in movies. I truly enjoy a lot of silent era movies, but do not watch them often as they take almost undivided attention. That "flaw" is also their strength. You must stare at the movie to read the conversation cards and pick up all the other acting cues, and end up so personally involved that you become a part of the movie. Unfortunately, I have very little time that can be given undivided.
I like a lot of other types, musicals, classics, war and action, comedies, all throughout the '30s through the '70s. And I need to make a special mention for an old favorite, a lot of the B grade sci-fi and monster movies of the '50s and '60s or before.
Sadly, the SWMBO does not like to see much of this stuff. But there are some movies that she does like occasionally. In the last few nights we have watched "Yours, Mine, And Ours" staring Lucile Ball in a serious (somewhat) role. We also watched "The Egg And I" staring Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert (1947). Both movies I have seen several times before, yet both of them are so full of "gotta make you chuckle" moments that the entire show is well enjoyed.
I wish I could get her to watch "Tobor the Great", or better yet, Edward G Robinson in "Little Caesar".

 

[Fading Fast]

Paul Muni is perhaps THE most underrated actor of the Golden Era of Hollywood. He could immerse himself and lose all semblance of normalcy. Whatever the role Cary Grant was Grant, Bogie was Bogie, Jimmy Stewart was ALWAYS Jimmy Stewart etc... they were actors playing a part. With Muni... I've NO idea what he's like outside of character... The greatest compliment I can give an actor.

Worf

+1, and I'd add that Spencer Tracey could lose himself in a role (not quite like Muni, but Tracey did suffer from being famous, so it is harder for us to see it, but to me, he is an actor not a star). On the female side, Katherine Hepburn was always herself (doing a wonderful job, but it was HER), Barbara Stanwyck was the opposite, she got lost in the role and became the character.

 

[Wally_Hood]

Lawrence of Arabia, the restored version with the intermission music and the exit music. It took me about a week and half to work through it.

 

[cw3pa]

Watched "The Third Man" awhile back and still have "The Harry Lime Theme" stuck in my head. I'm getting to hate zithers.

 

[1mach1]

The Judge (2014)

 

[EmergencyIan]

+1, and I'd add that Spencer Tracey could lose himself in a role (not quite like Muni, but Tracey did suffer from being famous, so it is harder for us to see it, but to me, he is an actor not a star). On the female side, Katherine Hepburn was always herself (doing a wonderful job, but it was HER), Barbara Stanwyck was the opposite, she got lost in the role and became the character.

It may just be me, but I find Barbara Stanwyck to be very sexy in some of her roles. In roles where I don't think it's intentional, at all. But, what do I know?...

- Ian

 

[Wally_Hood]

The Last Mile from 1959 with Mickey Rooney. The polar extreme from Andy Hardy, with Rooney playing "Killer" Mears, who is biding his time on death row. The guards are insensitive beasts, and trouble erupts. Harsh, bitter, and raw.

 

[LizzieMaine]

The Last Mile from 1959 with Mickey Rooney. The polar extreme from Andy Hardy, with Rooney playing "Killer" Mears, who is biding his time on death row. The guards are insensitive beasts, and trouble erupts. Harsh, bitter, and raw.

Is that a remake of the 1931 version with Preston Foster? If so, Mickey Rooney is a pretty gutsy casting choice.

 

[Gregg Axley]

Dark Power (1985) with Lash Larue.
The Rifftrax version of course...which makes it much better.
Not as funny as Alien Outlaw, with close to the same cast.

 

[dh66]

Thunder Road (1958)

 

[Gregg Axley]

Great choice DH!

 

[1mach1]

Hot Rod Hullabaloo (1966)