What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[jamespowers]

No, what I'm saying is a lot of elderly upper-middle-class white women like to see an elderly upper-middle-class white woman on screen. Bonus points if she's British, because that reminds them of watching Masterpiece Theatre in the '70s.

How long has she been wearing the menopausal helmet hair? Geez, it looks bad on her. :doh:

 

[basbol13]

What I assume you are saying is that upper class WHITE women relate to Dench since she typifies what and how they think, dress and relate in real life. In a way I can see how people not of the upper class have the tendency to perceive UCWW as elitists. And it's all because Dench has a difficult time choosing good parts. Now that's a good one. Personally I think any Anglophile would rather view Brideshead Revisited with Oxford trained Diana Quick, an underrated actress not well known in the US. List her credentials against Dench and compare the Aristocratic parts she's played against Dench's then decide.

 

[basbol13]

I agree the hair has to go, and I can't understand why she hasn't? I mean now a days it's easier to remove toupees since they use a kind of velcro to keep them attached. It's made it easier than changing discs in a DVD player.

 

[Big J]

Ouch! So much hate for Dame Judy Dench! There's nothing wrong with being a well-spoken middle-aged middle-class white woman, and why shouldn't some people identify with that image and want to see it or aspire to it?
There are much greater 'symbols of oppression' out there to rail against if that's your thing. Try Bono for a start- when he's as poor as I am from giving, then I'll take his class war rants seriously.

 

[AmateisGal]

Ouch! So much hate for Dame Judy Dench! There's nothing wrong with being a well-spoken middle-aged middle-class white woman, and why shouldn't some people identify with that image and want to see it or aspire to it?
There are much greater 'symbols of oppression' out there to rail against if that's your thing. Try Bono for a start- when he's as poor as I am from giving, then I'll take his class war rants seriously.

:eusa_clap:eusa_clap:eusa_clap

 

[Zombie_61]

The Heat with Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy. Ugh. Well, I had heard it was really funny; but it wasn't. It was only mildly funny.

I like Sandra Bullock when she's not stuck with yet another "America's sweetheart" role. I also like Melissa McCarthy. And I thought they worked well together, but overall The Heat was just a disappointing, lackluster, "buddy cop" movie without the usual macho action sequences or the humor.

 

[dh66]

'Cult of the Cobra' (1955).....probably as far removed from the cult of Judy Dench as you can get.

 

[Babydoll]

"American Sniper". I didn't know the story, but hubby wanted to watch it. The ending was like a punch to the gut for me.

 

[Big J]

"American Sniper". I didn't know the story, but hubby wanted to watch it. The ending was like a punch to the gut for me.

Don't worry, it's not a true story.

 

[Babydoll]

But Hubby had a 19 year old cousin killed in Fallujah, which is a true story.

 

[Big J]

But Hubby had a 19 year old cousin killed in Fallujah, which is a true story.

I'm sorry for your loss.
The film is a far cry from Chris Kyle's book, and the book makes it pretty clear he was suffering from mental illness, so it should all be taken with a pinch of salt IMHO. If the book is 100% true, then by his own admission he committed crimes. I'm ashamed if this is the best 'hero story' we got out of the war on terror (I'm embarrassed if we need a 'hero story' so much that we'll even accept this unreliable and morally dubious one).

But maybe Chris Kyle's story (that may be false, and maybe immoral if true) really is the best 'hero story' they could find, because, after all;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Hx-jA2m_hY

I spend half my working life trying to stop nazis and fascists from 'beautifying' and whitewashing their 70 year old war crimes, so I think we need to make sure that we are spotless when we tell ourselves who we are. We need to be honest, because that makes us better.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Ouch! So much hate for Dame Judy Dench! There's nothing wrong with being a well-spoken middle-aged middle-class white woman, and why shouldn't some people identify with that image and want to see it or aspire to it?
There are much greater 'symbols of oppression' out there to rail against if that's your thing. Try Bono for a start- when he's as poor as I am from giving, then I'll take his class war rants seriously.

All I'm talking about here is why her movies are popular in my town. We're a town demographically dominated by elderly upper middle class white women, so they're going to come to Judi Dench movies. And Maggie Smith movies. For some reason, though, they don't like Juliette Binoche movies -- probably because she's not elderly and is French.

"Acting ability" doesn't enter into it for our EUMCWWs. They don't like complex, challenging scripts or anything that threatens their cozy Garden Club view of the world. These are the same people who passive-aggressively complain to me because the Metropolitan Opera schedules things like "The Nose" instead of the fiftieth rerun of "La Traviata." They like a nice, big, fat, simple story, preferably featuiring actors who don't make them think too much. They also like to throw their trash on the floor and plug up my toilets, which I then have to spend extra hours snaking out, but we won't get into that. Such incidents always make me shudder when I see a Dench-Smith opus on the upcoming schedule.

If there's a single person in the world who's more irrelevant to me in any way than Bono, I can't imagine who it would be. I know that he exists, but that's the limit of it.

Oh, and the last movie I saw was a Joe McDoakes short about allergies. George O'Hanlon was an unsung comic genius.

 

[Worf]

'Cult of the Cobra' (1955).....probably as far removed from the cult of Judy Dench as you can get.

Ah I thought it was a better than average early 60's "B" movie. That snake though was from hunger....

Worf

 

[Worf]

"John Wick" - A WAY better than average action flick that I enjoyed a great deal. As my daddy would've said "helluva good shoot em up!" Dad loved westerns and the "Untochables" TV show. That movie was right up his alley.

Worf

 

[jamespowers]

'Cult of the Cobra' (1955).....probably as far removed from the cult of Judy Dench as you can get.

I saw that with some friends on Svengoolie last night. Way, way far from Dench:

 

[jamespowers]

There are much greater 'symbols of oppression' out there to rail against if that's your thing. Try Bono for a start- when he's as poor as I am from giving, then I'll take his class war rants seriously.

Bono is just a stupid H.I.P.P.I.E. He is all front and a real do nothing hypocrite. :doh:

 

[2jakes]

Tarzan and His Mate - 1934 - Johnny Weismuller - Maureen Sullivan. (pre-code ?)

I need to set the A/C unit to cooler mode,
especially during the river scenes...

 

[Fading Fast]

Tarzan and His Mate - 1934 - Johnny Weismuller - Maureen Sullivan. (pre-code ?)

I need to set the A/C unit to cooler mode,
especially during the river scenes...

Definitely, positive pre-code and, if memory serves, in the scene you are alluding to, it was a body double for Ms. Sullivan.

 

[AmateisGal]

Desperate Journey with Ronald Reagan and Errol Flynn. A really great film.

 

[Zombie_61]

Continuing from TCM's tribute to Christopher Lee:

Horror of Dracula (1958). Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing star as Count Dracula and Dr. van Helsing (respectively) in this fairly standard version of the story based on Bram Stoker's novel. Bela Lugosi may have set the standard for what most people think of when they hear the name "Dracula" (slicked-back hair, tuxedo, Hungarian/Romanian accent), but I think Lee is closer (physically, at least) to what Stoker had in mind.

Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966). Presumed dead for a decade, Dracula (Lee) is resurrected and preys on two British couples traveling through Europe after they ignore warnings to avoid "The Castle".

Dracula Has Risen From the Grave (1968). TCM's synopsis for this movie pretty much says it all: "The vampire Count bites a tavern waitress and a Monsignor's niece, then falls on something sharp." lol

I can't say I've ever been a fan of the "Hammer Horror" movies, and these did nothing to change my opinion. I'm happy to have seen them, but don't feel the need to watch any of them again any time soon.