What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[Stearmen]

I thought some of you might like to know, TCM is showing "The First of the Few" tonight! It's the story of R.J. Mitchell, and the development of the Spitfire.

 

[Zombie_61]

Berwyn?

 

[dh66]

Berwyn?

Yep. [emoji6]

 

[Zombie_61]

These days It Came From Outer Space seems to be one of those 1950s sci-fi movies that people either really like or really don't. I'm in the "like" camp, but watching it every great once in a while is enough for me.

 

[dh66]

These days It Came From Outer Space seems to be one of those 1950s sci-fi movies that people either really like or really don't. I'm in the "like" camp, but watching it every great once in a while is enough for me.

I think that pretty well sums it up for me, too. Definitely a notable film: story by Ray Bradbury, first 3D movie, and one that's influence can be seen on many more sci fi movies that followed over the ensuing decades, but not one I can just watch over and over.

 

[PeterB]

It Came from Outer Space is a good film. Effects do not look as good today as they did when it was released, but still a good film. The last film that I watched was Hell Drivers, late 50s with Stanley Baker, about British truck drivers. Last one before that was Sapphire, 1959, with Nigel Patrick. I try to avoid watching anything made after 1960, apart from films that take place in historical periods.

 

[Worf]

I know I would’ve enjoyed it more if I had seen this one when I was a kid !

I love and still love the film. But I cut my teeth on reprints of "Pulps" in the 70's. "Doc Savage", "The Shadow" etc... reading these guys made Sky Captain feel like a home coming and that WunderWeapon P-40 Jude Law was kiting about in was/is worth the price of admission.

Worf

 

[Touchofevil]

Some of Brannigan on TCM.

 

[greatestescaper]

The wife and I had a night of Tarantino, starting with "Pulp Fiction", followed by "Reservoir Dogs".

 

[Babydoll]

Hotel Transylvania, for our Halloween loving girl. She adored it!

 

[Touchofevil]

Gilda this morning on TCM.

 

[Fading Fast]

Gilda this morning on TCM.

Some stars have a body of work where they repeatedly hit their high note; for others, it happens just once or twice. IMHO, Rita Hayworth hit her high note once, in "Gilda," but she really, really hit it in that movie.

 

[Benzadmiral]

A Matter of Life and Death (American title Stairway to Heaven), with David Niven, Kim Hunter, and Raymond Massey. An RAF bomber pilot (Niven) bails out of his burning plane sans parachute. He should die -- but the heavenly messenger sent to retrieve his soul misses him in the North Sea fog, and he lives. Heaven's bookkeeping is off by one and they want him to give up the girl (Kim Hunter) he's fallen in love with, and report to Heaven without any fuss. His retort: "You made the mistake, not me!" And he has to undergo a hearing to see if he's to be allowed to live. Unfortunately, the prosecutor (Massey) is a Revolutionary War casualty who utterly hates the British!

It's very neat in the way the directors use color for our world, yet black-and-white for Heaven; and also how the script walks the line between "Is Niven's character hallucinating, or is he really experiencing all this?" It's sort of like the neat fantasy novellas the old Unknown magazine in the 1940s used to run.

 

[KILO NOVEMBER]

Bridge of Spies

 

[tonyb]

Bridge of Spies

And?

Enquiring minds wish to know.

 

[rocketeer]

A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT
Strange Vampire movie from my world wide collection of the weird

Another Halloween idea?

 

[Touchofevil]

John Wick and Resident Evil

 

[Wally_Hood]

Arsenic and Old Lace, for our periodic movie night with our friends. Completely over the top, and completely hilarious

 

[Touchofevil]

Once again, 3 Days of the Condor because it is that good.

 

[Worf]

A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT
Strange Vampire movie from my world wide collection of the weird

Another Halloween idea?

Yeah, I reviewed this some months ago. I liked it a lot. Loved the '57 T-Bird as well, despite the fact that it being in the possession of a kid with that level of income in that 3rd world hell hole is Science Fiction at best.

Worf