What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[Wally_Hood]

The Velvet Touch (1948) with Rosalind Russell, Claire Trevor, and a host of others. Sort of a cross between a noir and All About Eve in its depiction of Broadway theatre folk. Interestingly, an all-male group sings over the opening and closing credits a semi-romantic song in the style of the "I Married Joan" theme song.

 

[Tomasso]

I'm watching Juno.....It's a good flick....

 

[Lady Day]

The Station Agent. A charming little indie flick.

Love that movie. Such a great friendship story.

LD

 

[Fletch]

1941

What a fun pic that was. Stupid yes, but gloriously so.
And the model work is some of the best I've ever seen - and all models, no CGI.

Too bad it can't ever be remade. I dunno, maybe it can. Denis Leary could play Bill Kelso - I dunno who else could.

 

[Wally_Hood]

Kronos (1957) with Jeff Morrow, a bunch of unrecognizables, and Morris Ankrum in the Morris Ankrum role (general, scientist, corporate head). Bad aliens drop thing into ocean off Mexico. Thing gets huge by eating our energy. I saw this a couple of times as kid in the 60's when local stations KHJ channel 9 and KTLA channel 5 ran this in the afternoons. Being young and totally into the big threat posed by the semi-cubular "energy vampire," I only last night got the sort of scientific rationale for all that was going on. Good effort by the film-makers to try and make the story believable.

Lots of cutaways to documentary footage of V2 style missles drawn by tractors, jet fighter-bombers, and a-bomb explosions. I also neglected to notice in the 60s that there were basically four lab workers in sprawling complex the size of a Boeing plant.

The characters got to wear jump suits with "Labcentral" embroided across the back in cool script, a la "Dodgers."

 

[C44Antelope]

Three Texas Steers - One of the "3 Mesquiteers" movies from Republic. Stars John Wayne as Stony Brook. If you've overlooked this gem this long - just keep overlooking it. It's definitely NOT the Searchers, Stagecoach, Red River - etc.

 

[CopperNY]

some Bond: "You Only Live Twice" (1967).

on the big screen, at the recently resotred Capitol Theater in Rome,NY.

for Halloween they had the silent "Phantom of the Opera" with live accompaniment on the 1920's Moller organ.

 

[Dixon Cannon]

'Harry Brown' with Michael Caine. Very inspiring - I'm going to be Harry Brown when I grow up!!

 

[VitaminG]

Robin Hood. I'd heard mixed reviews of it. I really enjoyed it.

 

[Miss Golightly]

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

 

[LocktownDog]

Karakter

Dutch language film revolving around a young man's miserable life in th 1920's. Great sets and clothing. Really fantastic story. Highly recommended.

 

[THe Conductor]

The Pursuit of Happyness

 

[Photoss]

The Ghost and the Darkness.
Pretty good! Kinda surprised me, it popped up on netflix and I thought: "Hmm, why not, I'm not doing anything currently..."

 

[CopperNY]

The Ghost and the Darkness.
Pretty good! Kinda surprised me, it popped up on netflix and I thought: "Hmm, why not, I'm not doing anything currently..."

definitely a quality "sleeper". i've watched it probably ten times, and would see it again.

where i think it gets it's power is that there is no need for "made up" monsters, when nature can be just as relentless.

 

[CharlieB]

IKE - Count Down to D-Day

 

[CopperNY]

"I Sell The Dead"

if you're in the mood for a Dickensian/Irish/graverobbing/horror/comedy/zombie film, i can -highly- recommend it.

 

[Miss Golightly]

The Eye 2

 

[cotillion]

I finally watched Le Cerce Rouge, absolutely great flick.

 

[Doctor Strange]

On cable, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus - another mega-bizarre Terry Gilliam film, but I liked it enough to watch it twice. It's kind of a mess, and not everything in it works, but it's certainly interesting.

Ironically, I thought that Heath Ledger's (final) performance was just about the weakest thing in it - Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell were all more interesting in their interpretations of the same role. Nice work by Christopher Plummer, Tom Waits, the adorable Lily Cole, and Andrew Garfield (and you know: based on his performance here, he seems a pretty good choice for Spider-Man... not that I have any desire to see a rebooted Spider-Man series!)

 

[Dan'l]

Irvin Berlin's White Christmas. Yes, an early start to Christmas.

I think Holiday Inn is a little better.