What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[Touchofevil]

Finally got around to watching The Hobbit last night.

 

[DavidJones]

Escape from Zahrain. (Yul Brenner, and Jack Weston)

 

[HoosierDaddy]

Finally watched Casino Royale. Possibly my favorite Bond movie.
Craig is good...and now very likely my favorite 007. Never thought there would be anyone as good as Connery.
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[DavidJones]

I have to agree Daniel Craig has been the best actor portraying James Bond since Sean Connery IMHO.

 

[Worf]

Finally watched Casino Royale. Possibly my favorite Bond movie.
Craig is good...and now very likely my favorite 007. Never thought there would be anyone as good as Connery.
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Craig brought back "menace" to Bond. Connery always made me believe he had a "license to kill". In "Doctor No" he shoots the guy in his room stone cold dead without blinking an eye. None of the rest of the Bonds ever made me feel I couldn't take em in a fair fight till Daniel Craig came along. I would never dream of tussling with either Connery nor Craig... ever! They'd eat me alive. Brosnan, Dalton and especially Moore... pheh... no fear, no time no way. Craig's a bad man.... a REALLY bad man!

Worf

 

[vintageTink]

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.

 

[Fading Fast]

Craig brought back "menace" to Bond. Connery always made me believe he had a "license to kill". In "Doctor No" he shoots the guy in his room stone cold dead without blinking an eye. None of the rest of the Bonds ever made me feel I couldn't take em in a fair fight till Daniel Craig came along. I would never dream of tussling with either Connery nor Craig... ever! They'd eat me alive. Brosnan, Dalton and especially Moore... pheh... no fear, no time no way. Craig's a bad man.... a REALLY bad man!

Worf

What's interesting - as I agree with the above, Connery and Craig are the only real Bonds - is that the best Craig Bond movie, so far, is "Casino Royale." While Craig is great in the two subsequent Bond movies he made, the movies themselves are only okay and not anywhere near as good as "Casino Royale." And the interesting part is that the only one that is based on an original Ian Fleming novel is "Casino Royale." There's a tightness and verisimilitude to the Fleming-novel-based movie; whereas, the other two felt, IMHO, like generic action adventure movies that had Bond in it. I hope they can find a team of writers (the first problem there is that it will be a team) to turn out better story lines for the future Bond movies.

Small aside: there is a new major Bond novel out, "Solo" - sanctioned by Fleming's estate - written by William Boyd. I've read several Boyd books and he can write a tight thriller, but the early reviews have not been good. The last major Bond novel out, "Devil May Care" was written by Sebastian Faulks - also a strong writer - but it felt forced and flat. It appears hard for even very talented writers to capture the je ne said quoi that Fleming put into his plots and characters.

 

[Touchofevil]

Finally watched Casino Royale. Possibly my favorite Bond movie.
Craig is good...and now very likely my favorite 007. Never thought there would be anyone as good as Connery.
HD

Watched the first fifteen minutes of it on Syfy last night. Saw it in the theatre when it came out and was wowed by the first fifteen or so minutes. From the start the tone was set that Bond is back in force. After that movie, I felt that finally there was a Bond somewhere close in stature to Connery's Bond.

 

[Worf]

"End of Watch" - B-Minus - Good cop buddy film but on a more serious tip than others. This film feels more like an update of "The New Centurians" than anything else. You ride along with two cops and their respectice families as they deal with the changing face of crime in South Central LA. Strong performances by all the leads and a crackling good script written by someone who seems to know the language by heart.

Worf

 

[HoosierDaddy]

Watched the first fifteen minutes of it on Syfy last night. Saw it in the theatre when it came out and was wowed by the first fifteen or so minutes. From the start the tone was set that Bond is back in force. After that movie, I felt that finally there was a Bond somewhere close in stature to Connery's Bond.

Not so sure Craig eludes quite the 'elegance' as Connery seemed to portray along with the flip side of brutishness..but his rugged convincing strutting confidence brings something that has been lacking in the role for some time for me.
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[jamespowers]

Not so sure Craig eludes quite the 'elegance' as Connery seemed to portray along with the flip side of brutishness..but his rugged convincing strutting confidence brings something that has been lacking in the role for some time for me.
HD

Well put. Exactly what I thought of it.

 

[jamespowers]

 

[Fading Fast]

Well put. Exactly what I thought of it.

agreed.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

The Dark Knight Rises.

 

[jamespowers]

The Dark Knight Rises.

With your username, I would expect no less.

 

[Feraud]

Toxic Hot Seat-

Chemical flame retardants are everywhere. Our furniture. Our homes. Our bodies. But do they work as promised? And are they making us sick?

The three chemical companies producing flame retardants would prefer that we not ask these questions, and they've spent millions of dollars on lobbyists, publicists and influencers to ensure that we don't. It might remind you of the Big Tobacco cover-up. Which makes sense, since Big Tobacco has had a hand in this, too.

Set against the backdrop of the award-winning 2012 Chicago Tribune investigative series "Playing With Fire," TOXIC HOT SEAT threads together an intricate story of manipulation that details how Big Tobacco skillfully convinced fire safety officials to back a standard that, in effect, requires all furniture to be filled with toxic flame retardants. The film continues to untangle how the chemical companies obscure the risks to public health and misrepresent chemical safety data by paying "experts" to alarm legislators and the public about the deadly risk of removing chemical flame retardants from our homes.

Through the personal stories of a cancer-surviving firefighter, a renowned chemist whose work helped remove fire retardants from kid's pajamas in the 1970s, and a brave and determined young Maine legislator and mom, TOXIC HOT SEAT reveals the courage of brave citizens willing to fight for the truth against a shadowy nexus of money and politics.

http://www.toxichotseatmovie.com/
This is a must see documentary.

 

[HeyMoe]

Wait Until Dark (1967) Audrey Hepburn

 

[jamespowers]

Toxic Hot Seat-
http://www.toxichotseatmovie.com/
This is a must see documentary.

Dos this explain spontaneous combustion?

 

[Touchofevil]

Not so sure Craig eludes quite the 'elegance' as Connery seemed to portray along with the flip side of brutishness..but his rugged convincing strutting confidence brings something that has been lacking in the role for some time for me.
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Part of what might have made Connery the best Bond might be the time period in which the movies were made as well as the era in which he grew up. When I first heard that a remake of Casino Royale was in the works, I thought and hoped that it would take place in the same period of time as Connery's Bond. I understand why they didn't, but It would sure be nice if they did.

 

[Wally_Hood]

Last night, Lost Continent with Cesar Romero, the MST3K version.
Just now, Old Acquaintance with Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins.