What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[Worf]

I saw the last hour or so of "Snow Piercer". Kinda wish I'd seen the first half, because it ended with me thinking "what the hell was that?".

I thoroughly enjoyed the film. Not everyone's cuppa tea but I found it to be good, thought provoking Sci Fi. I recommended it when I reviewed it.

Worf

 

[Edward]

I love Tiffany's, but I mourn the original ending. IF only they'd had the drive to make the film true to the book in that regard, it would have been so much better. I hate it when Hollywood sells out a great book by shoe-horning in a conventional "happy" ending. Read the book, you'll see how much better it would have been. George Peppard was great, though - he nailed exactly the sort of superficial hypocrite that 'Fred' turns out to be.

FWIW, several years ago they brought Breakfast at Tiffanys to the stage in London. Capote's estate allowed it to go ahead subject to the film's mistakes being corrected: it was set in the late forties, and clung to the book like a limpit. It was great.

The best thing in the film was Moon River, which I adore. I heard it performed only a couple of weeks ago, at a cabaret, by a young lady playing a saw.

 

[Fading Fast]

I love Tiffany's, but I mourn the original ending. IF only they'd had the drive to make the film true to the book in that regard, it would have been so much better. I hate it when Hollywood sells out a great book by shoe-horning in a conventional "happy" ending. Read the book, you'll see how much better it would have been. George Peppard was great, though - he nailed exactly the sort of superficial hypocrite that 'Fred' turns out to be.

FWIW, several years ago they brought Breakfast at Tiffanys to the stage in London. Capote's estate allowed it to go ahead subject to the film's mistakes being corrected: it was set in the late forties, and clung to the book like a limpit. It was great.

The best thing in the film was Moon River, which I adore. I heard it performed only a couple of weeks ago, at a cabaret, by a young lady playing a saw.

Agreed, "Moon River" fully captures the vibe, the underlying sadness of the movie. And, yes, I've read it and agree, another Hollywood stupid ending snapped onto better original material.

But as I've aged, I've mellowed (as I don't want to become an old cranky man) and I try to enjoy the good and acknowledge, but not get wrapped up in, the bad things that Hollywood does to stories. What's funny is that two of the greatest Hollywood movies of all time - "Casablanca" and "Gone With the Wind -" do not have happy "boy and girl get together" endings, but still, Hollywood rarely has the guts to do that.

 

[Edward]

This is why Casablanca must never be remade: it would have a "happy" ending, and probably star Ashton Kutcher.

 

[Touchofevil]

As have I, and for the same reason. That and "To Catch a Thief" are so beautifully filmed, that you can watch them just for the settings, scenery, clothes, homes, cars, etc. Oh and Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and Grace Kelly aren't bad to look at either.

Those are many of the reasons I watch them over and over again. Rear Window is another movie I enjoy for the same reasons.

 

[Touchofevil]

30 Days of Night

 

[Stearmen]

This is why Casablanca must never be remade: it would have a "happy" ending, and probably star Ashton Kutcher.

I don't know, some how, I can picture Jon Cryer in Peter Lorre's role! [video=youtube;1I4NOPnyUjs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1I4NOPnyUjs[/video]

 

[cm289]

Watched Manhattan Melodrama this afternoon. Again. [emoji4]


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[Zombie_61]

30 Days of Night

I got that beat. Last night it was Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things (1972). Directed by Bob Clark (Porky's, A Christmas Story, listed in the titles as Benjamin Clark), a company of oddball actors takes a trip to an island with their obnoxious and condescending director, where he performs a phony baloney midnight ritual to raise the dead buried in the island's cemetery as a prank just to get a reaction from the actors. Of course, as plots go with low-budget movies like this, it turns out the baloney wasn't so phony, the dead actually rise from their graves, and the director and actors soon find themselves barricaded in a small cottage trying to not get eaten by the recently reanimated undead.

Opinions vary wildly about whether this is a "good" or a "bad" zombie movie (modern cannibal zombies, that is, not the Haitian Voodoo kind), but I have a bit of a soft spot for this one because it was the first zombie movie I had ever seen, in a theater, when I was 10 or 11 years old, and it scared the Shinola out of me. That was the only time I can remember being scared by a movie, and viewed again as an adult I find the thought of being scared by this movie laughable, so it must have made some kind of impact on me in 1972.

 

[AmateisGal]

This is why Casablanca must never be remade: it would have a "happy" ending, and probably star Ashton Kutcher.

The very though of Kutcher playing the role of Rick makes me want to vomit. BLECH.

 

[AmateisGal]

Tommy Boy.

"The bees! The bees! Your firearms are useless against them!"

 

[Big J]

Shanghai.

Love the fashion, the locations, and the femme fetale.
Cussack was surprisingly good.

 

[AmateisGal]

From Russia with Love

And now, The Grass if Greener with Deborah Kerr and Cary Grant.

 

[Wally_Hood]

Doughboys from 1930 with Buster Keaton, Sally Eilers, Cliff Edwards, and Edward Brophy. Keaton as Elmer accidentally enlists in the Army (just watch how that happens, it's kind of wacky), where he goes to France and is ordered around by Edward Brophy whose character is Sergeant Brophy. Fellow doughboy Cliff Edwards is called Cliff from time to time. Although a talkie, with lots a wisecracks, there's a lot of Buster's sight gags and physical humor.

 

[Wally_Hood]

This is why Casablanca must never be remade: it would have a "happy" ending, and probably star Ashton Kutcher.

The scary part is that you are probably not too far off the mark...

 

[Touchofevil]

I got that beat. Last night it was Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things (1972). Directed by Bob Clark (Porky's, A Christmas Story, listed in the titles as Benjamin Clark), a company of oddball actors takes a trip to an island with their obnoxious and condescending director, where he performs a phony baloney midnight ritual to raise the dead buried in the island's cemetery as a prank just to get a reaction from the actors. Of course, as plots go with low-budget movies like this, it turns out the baloney wasn't so phony, the dead actually rise from their graves, and the director and actors soon find themselves barricaded in a small cottage trying to not get eaten by the recently reanimated undead.

Opinions vary wildly about whether this is a "good" or a "bad" zombie movie (modern cannibal zombies, that is, not the Haitian Voodoo kind), but I have a bit of a soft spot for this one because it was the first zombie movie I had ever seen, in a theater, when I was 10 or 11 years old, and it scared the Shinola out of me. That was the only time I can remember being scared by a movie, and viewed again as an adult I find the thought of being scared by this movie laughable, so it must have made some kind of impact on me in 1972.

But 30 Days of Night is good.

 

[Touchofevil]

From Russia with Love

And now, The Grass if Greener with Deborah Kerr and Cary Grant.

FRwL is really good.

 

[Stearmen]

Snake and Mongoose. A good movie. Probably hard for most to understand that moment in time and how it made millions of us happy! It was a grate moment in history!

 

[AmateisGal]

FRwL is really good.

One of the best!

 

[Zombie_61]

But 30 Days of Night is good.

It is? I must have missed that part when I watched it.