What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[Horace Debussy Jones]

Killing Them Softly,..with Brad Pitt. Pretty good gangster film actually.

 

[Atticus Finch]

Fury. I just left the theater. Whew!

AF

 

[Horace Debussy Jones]

I GOTTA see that!

 

[Stearmen]

Quadrophenia was on last night. Cracking film.... still prefer the rockers, though.

Like they say, "there's nothing wrong with riding a scooter, as long as your friends don't see you doing it!"

 

[Doctor Strange]

No God, No Master - an interesting little flick about a Bureau of Investigation bomb expert (David Strathairn) investigating anarchists mailing bombs to the rich and powerful in 1919. Living amidst Italian immigrants, he's disgusted as innocents are rounded up for deportation; a secondary plot features Sacco and Vanzetti (depicted as adorable naïfs not guilty of any wrongdoing). Strathairn sells it beautifully, as usual, and the film is well-intentioned but really low-budget: it's got the least convincing depiction of 1919 downtown NYC I've ever seen: broad, leafy streets and miniscule "crowds". Turns out it was shot in Milwaukee!

 

[Doctor Damage]

"Marlowe" starring James Garner. A good film overall, although in the first half Garner/Marlowe seems to be driving the story, while in the second half the character is along as a passenger, but that probably has more to do with the original novel than the production. I think this film, along with "The Big Sleep" 1978, demonstrate that hard-boiled detective stories can be set in the modern day without any changes. I'm not so sure Holmes can be, but that's a separate topic.

 

[1mach1]

Fury. I just left the theater. Whew!

AF

Whew good, or Whew bad?

 

[1mach1]

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

[video=youtube;xe3dRw7ovhY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe3dRw7ovhY[/video]

 

[dh66]

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

[video=youtube;xe3dRw7ovhY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe3dRw7ovhY[/video]

Good choice.

30 years later, it still makes you go WTF???

 

[Greyryder]

Good choice.

30 years later, it still makes you go WTF???

I still want to know why that watermelon was there....

:lol:

 

[Atticus Finch]

Whew good, or Whew bad?

Good. Graphic. Gritty. Intense.

AF

 

[1mach1]

I still want to know why that watermelon was there....

:lol:

 

[1mach1]

Good choice.

30 years later, it still makes you go WTF???

Yes, yes it does!

 

[rjb1]

I have enjoyed B-B from the first time I saw it. After numerous viewings I still wonder what they were thinking as they were making it. (Especially Jeff Goldblum)

 

[dh66]

Goldblum serves up a big ol' helping of awesome in those furry chaps and western duds.

This is one of the movies that, to me at least, defines the decade.

 

[vintage68]

Watched Road to Perdition last night. I've seen it several times but the girlfriend had not. She loved it.

 

[Fading Fast]

Watched Road to Perdition last night. I've seen it several times but the girlfriend had not. She loved it.

A very, very good movie that seems to fly under there radar: Good story, outstanding acting, wonderful period clothes and sets.

 

[Gregg Axley]

No God, No Master - an interesting little flick about a Bureau of Investigation bomb expert (David Strathairn) investigating anarchists mailing bombs to the rich and powerful in 1919. Living amidst Italian immigrants, he's disgusted as innocents are rounded up for deportation; a secondary plot features Sacco and Vanzetti (depicted as adorable naïfs not guilty of any wrongdoing). Strathairn sells it beautifully, as usual, and the film is well-intentioned but really low-budget: it's got the least convincing depiction of 1919 downtown NYC I've ever seen: broad, leafy streets and miniscule "crowds". Turns out it was shot in Milwaukee!

I have that in my Que.
Of course I haven't seen it yet.

 

[Mr. Godfrey]

The Artist

And I loved this scene

 

[Fading Fast]

"In a Lonely Place" on TCM. I've seen this a few times over the last few decades and always feel the same - it's okay. The story is okay (by the book noir / many version of it out there), the acting is good, the black and white cinematography is very good, but somehow the result is only okay at best. As I try and do when watching a movie again, I focus on something new - a character, the scenery, or something. This time I paid attention to Gloria Grahame's character.

She came across - IMHO - as too aloof, as someone playing a part not absorbed in it. She was far from bad, just not fully convincing. Separately, whoever styled here clothes, hit a home-run. The, mainly, simple colors, few patterns, long skirts and high collars - all well tailored - were very powerful and attractive in a not-va va voom way.

Maybe it is too expensive to do or maybe women don't like the look anymore, but the using of the same material for coats, jackets, skirts or slacks with the liner for the coat or jacket matching the blouse (sometimes) all as one complete outfit - which (based on my movie watching) seemed to be big in the 50s - is an impressive look. To be effective - as it was in this movie - the material has to be nearly patternless and not a loud color - since there will be a lot of it - but it creates a powerful whole.