What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[Old Rogue]

Over the weekend I watched Test Pilot, made in 1938 starring Errol Flynn.

 

[Old Rogue]

The Penguins of Madagascar. Funny and cute.

The Penguins are my very favorite characters from the Madagascar movies. Absolutely hilarious!

 

[AmateisGal]

The Penguins are my very favorite characters from the Madagascar movies. Absolutely hilarious!

They are definitely the stars of the show!

 

[Babydoll]

We loved Penguins. First theater movie for the little one.

 

[cw3pa]

"A Slight Case of Murder" (1938) Plenty of well known mugs in this one.
"Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with forclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law who is a state trooper, and four hard-to-explain corpses."

 

[Fading Fast]

Red seaweed extract.

Thank you, saved me the effort of Googling it.

 

[Trapped in T-wilight Zone]

An eight-hour-long safety training presentation for the local carageenan factory which rented us out from 7 am to 5pm. And that's just the first half -- the second eight hours is Thursday. It's like an industrial film by Erich von Stroheim.

I watched an about four and a half hour version of "Greed" many years ago. I wasn't sure whether the people that cut about eighty percent of the movie out were to blame for it? Or if Erich von Stroheim made it bad. The scene framing and photography was incredible (as are a few other EvS movies I have seen). But the story line did not flow well at all (I cannot even remember the story???). Then, and now, part of me would like to see the movie as EvS made it just so I can see it and his vision of it.
I do sometimes wonder? If some of his longest movies might not have been his own artist's vision of his own best parody?
Me. Just wondering.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Stroheim's original idea was to film the original novel, page by page, omitting nothing -- Irving Thalberg didn't think that was what movie audiences in 1924 were interested in seeing, in an era when the average American feature ran a little over an hour.

There's a quasi-reconstruction of "Greed" out there, using Ken Burns-style panning of stills to fill in the deleted scenes. Some prefer it to the release cut, others think it's bloated and draggy.

"Greed" wasn't the only epic-length film gutted by MGM. Four years after "Greed" they bought the American distribution rights to Abel Gance's "Napoleon," and cut the six-hour French version down to about ninety minutes. It suffered greatly in the translation.

 

[Stanley Doble]

Watched Grand Budapest Hotel last night and was impressed and amused. Set in eastern europe in 1932. Definite vintage feel in spots and very funny. Don't know if anyone else has seen it or commented ?

 

[Bushman]

Watched Grand Budapest Hotel last night and was impressed and amused. Set in eastern europe in 1932. Definite vintage feel in spots and very funny. Don't know if anyone else has seen it or commented ?

I've seen it. I loved it, one of my favorite movies of 2014.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Frozen
the housemates wanted to see it.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

There's a quasi-reconstruction of "Greed" out there, using Ken Burns-style panning of stills to fill in the deleted scenes. Some prefer it to the release cut, others think it's bloated and draggy.

Here it is. I do love the score of this "restored" version.

[video=youtube;ZOPIvsoSkvY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOPIvsoSkvY[/video]

Part Two
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX1cKuc5O_0

Part Three
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBRiAYY39ys

Part Four
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f-JmYIsLsI

Stroheim's original idea was to film the original novel, page by page, omitting nothing -- Irving Thalberg didn't think that was what movie audiences in 1924 were interested in seeing, in an era when the average American feature ran a little over an hour.

I think von Stroheim had anticipated the miniseries by some fifty years.

 

[Stearmen]

Monkey Bone. A bit different Brendan Fraser, somewhat funny.

 

[Stearmen]

Men Must Fight (1933) About a world war in 1940, they got it about right. They also had bombers that could wipe out New York with three bombs! Plus, TV, and a video phone, not bad.

 

[rocketeer]

Hooray for Bollywood!
Mr India, featuring Sridevi singing Hawa Hawai.
Anyone else into Bolliwood/Indian film?

 

[Fading Fast]

Men Must Fight (1933) About a world war in 1940, they got it about right. They also had bombers that could wipe out New York with three bombs! Plus, TV, and a video phone, not bad.

I was watching this for 15 minutes on TCM yesterday morning and, then, hit record and returned to work. I was very impressed with the short amount of the film I saw - it seemed to be anticipating the peace-in-out-time vs. Churchill's argument for immediately confronting Hitler that was to come several years later. I will watch the end and come back.

 

[cw3pa]

"Brother Orchid" (1940) with Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sothern & Ralph Bellamy.
"Retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk."

 

[Hat Dandy]

We rewatched "Groundhog Day" with Bill Murray. The kids seemed to like it.

 

[Worf]

Men Must Fight (1933) About a world war in 1940, they got it about right. They also had bombers that could wipe out New York with three bombs! Plus, TV, and a video phone, not bad.

This sounds GREAT!!!! Where can I catch this chestnut?

Worf

 

[Stearmen]

This sounds GREAT!!!! Where can I catch this chestnut?

Worf

It was on TCM.