What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[Vera Godfrey]

My recent fave is the HPLHS's new movie "The Whisper In Darkness".
http://www.cthulhulives.org/Whisperer/index.html

I may have to get this! Thanks for the link.

I watched There's No Business Like Show Business this afternoon

 

[AmateisGal]

Casino Royale (again) with Daniel Craig. Still one of the best Bond movies, IMO. Really looking forward to the next installment, which they are filming now.

 

[DanielJones]

The other night it was Lost Horizon (1937) with Ronald Coleman and Sam Jaffe (a.k.a. Gunga Din). Other than the fact that there is some missing footage and they replaced it with production stills, it was a rather good film. Thought it would make a fantastic remake in the near future, even as a period film of that era. Im thinking of George Clooney at first but then again there are some really fantastic English actors that can fit the role that Ronald Coleman did. I'm just pondering who might be perfect for that image. I know that a remake was done in the early 70's that was a musical, but I think that can be forgotten.

The english actors that come to mind for that role could be Jason Isaacs, Damian Lewis, Jude Law. Possibly Toby Stevens as the brother.

Cheers!

Dan

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

The other night it was Lost Horizon (1937) with Ronald Coleman and Sam Jaffe (a.k.a. Gunga Din). Other than the fact that there is some missing footage and they replaced it with production stills, it was a rather good film.

The english actors that come to mind for that role could be Jason Isaacs, Damian Lewis, Jude Law. Possibly Toby Stevens as the brother.

Cheers!
Dan

Colin Firth?

 

[Edward]

Starship Troopers - a hilarious satire on modern warfare, propaganda and jingoism. Only improves with time.

 

[Caroline H]

Last night Mr. H and I watched "Dangerous Female" (1931). It was the first film adaptation of The Maltese Falcon, starring Ricardo Cortez and Bebe Daniels. The acting is good, the costumes and especially the sets are gorgeous and it moves along at a brisk pace with nothing uneccessary to detract from the story. We really enjoyed it!

 

[Worf]

Welp, saw "Red Tails" in the theatre... see my review in the WWII forum. I rented and watched "Troll Hunter" a thoroughly enjoyable "Blair Witch" send up from Norway about how Trolls exist and are managed to keep em from eating the livestock and citizenry. I give it a B-minus. myself. You could do a lot worse.

Worf

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

The Red Baron,...really a good world war 1 flick I think.

 

[Wally_Hood]

A Matter of Life and Death (1946) with David Niven, Kim Hunter, Roger Livesey, and Marius Goring, another gem from the Powell-Pressburger team (aka, The Archers). If you haven't seen it, it takes a few minutes to buy into the style and premise, but it takes off pretty quickly. Visually amazing, with the contrasting color and black and white scenes. I won't spoil it with a synopsis, but catch it if you can. Goring as Conductor 71 pretty much steals the show, in my opinion.

 

[Dan Rodemsky]

The Artist. I took my daughter. She's 21 and loved it. Word must have gone out to the old folks homes. We were there only ones there not on Medicare. There has been a lot said/written about it. I wanted to see it when it came out but it wasn't playing nearby. Now with the Golden Globe win and Oscar nomination it is in more theaters. Go see it!:eusa_clap

 

[1961MJS]

Starship Troopers - a hilarious satire on modern warfare, propaganda and jingoism. Only improves with time.

Hi Edward, the Starship Trooper's series (more than 1 of them right?) are about the closest to Old style Nazi Propaganda films I've ever seen. I've seen a few of ole Adolph's speeches, and I wanted to start marchin' and I don't even have a clue what the old boy was saying.

I watched Big Jake with Maureen O'Hara and John Wayne last night. It's a lot better without the 10 minutes of movie and 7 of commercials on late night TV.

Later

 

[AmateisGal]

Swiss Family Robinson. Gosh I love that movie.

 

[Mr Vim]

I saw the Grey last night, the Liam Neeson survival movie.

I thought it was fairly good, with only a few exceptions. The biggest being the artistic license the film takes with the wolves. I think there are a lot of ways the film could have shown the animals behaving more realistically and also the sounds they made were sometimes very clearly not wolves... I heard a lion at one point... no joke.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

Currently watching Forrest Gump.

 

[Wally_Hood]

...aaaaannnd, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, with all those guys from the other one. Saw it with the family this evening. Liked the inclusion of Colonel Moran, the battle of intellects between Holmes and Moriarty, and the slightly non-canonical approach to the canonical Reichenbach Falls denouement.

 

[Shangas]

I watched "The Pianist" last night. The true story of a Polish-Jewish concert pianist (Wladyslaw Szpilman) who survived the Warsaw Ghetto and the Holocaust, hiding out in the safehouses provided to him by the Polish Resistence, while his city collapses around him.

Wladyslaw Szpilman was one of only a handful of Jews who survived in Warsaw during the War. From a population of tens of thousands, they were reduced to less than ten.

 

[Dixie_Amazon]

Constantine

 

[AtomicEraTom]

Father of the Bride (1950)

 

[Widebrim]

I just saw "The Black Cat" (1934) with Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff in my Horror Films class and absolutely loved it! Karloff's Art Deco fortress is pure eye candy.

That is one of my favorite Lugosi films! What a plot! And for once, and only once, Bela gets equal billing with Boris...

Just saw Appointment With Danger (1951), with Alan Ladd, Phyllis Calvert, Jack Webb, Harry Morgan, and Jan Sterling. Dedicated to U.S. postal inspectors, the film was better than I thought it would be, with Ladd as a postal cop infiltrating a gang which is planning to rob the U.S. mail. Jan Sterling was great as the gang leader's lazy, bop-loving moll, and it was very enjoyable to see Webb and Morgan as bad guys.

 

[Caroline H]

"Funny Face" (1957) with our 8 year old daughter. This was her 2nd Audrey Hepburn film. She enjoyed the dancing in this one and was fascinated by the fact that Audrey Hepburn had taken ballet since she does too. (she's already seen and loved "Roman Holiday" and she is turning into quite a fan!) I love it! Just think of all the awful things an 8 year old could prefer and ours likes Audrey, Lucille Ball and old black & white western tv shows! lol