What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[Fading Fast]

I think I felt as you did when I first watched it; but then I watched it a few more times and it's grown on me. Sometimes I have to do that with films - watch it more than once to really decide how I feel about it. I remember the first time I watched Casablanca. I was singularly unimpressed. I didn't know what all the fuss was about. Granted, I watched it when I was in high school, but still. So years later, I watched it a couple of times and finally "got" it.

Definitely. "Gone With the Wind" did not work for me until at least the third viewing. Even "Double Indemnity" took a few watchings 'till I really "got it." Same with "Citizen Kane." To be fair, part of the problem is that I had heard that these were such great movies, that my expectations were set too high. Then, after being disappointed, when I watched these same movies later with low expectations, I started to get it.

 

[AmateisGal]

Definitely. "Gone With the Wind" did not work for me until at least the third viewing. Even "Double Indemnity" took a few watchings 'till I really "got it." Same with "Citizen Kane." To be fair, part of the problem is that I had heard that these were such great movies, that my expectations were set to high. Then, after being disappointed, when I watched these same movies later with low expectations, I started to get it.

Yes, exactly. I'd heard so much hype about Casablanca that I was expecting to be blown away the first time I watched it. And when I wasn't, I was like, What is all the fuss about? It's funny how some films are like that.

 

[AmateisGal]

Some movie with Melissa McCarthy and Jason Statham. Clever/Funny enough intro. Some enjoyable parts throughout, but overall it could have been much better.

Spy! I love that movie!

 

[AmateisGal]

I liked it. I look forward to watching it again. I have enjoyed the Captain America movies more than any of the other series of superhero movies.

Curious to hear what you think of the change Marvel did on the comic book with Captain America. I have a thread on it in the Observation Lounge.

 

[Stearmen]

By the way, the last line in that article is wrong. Armstrong and Aldrin placed the flag too close to the Lunar Module, and the force from the ascent stage lifting off knocked the flag down. After 47 years, it's probably buried under layers of moon dust.

That means it's in better shape then the other five flags! It is speculated, that after 40 years of intense UV rays, they are now just white flags.

 

[SurfGent]

How about, A face in the crowd 1957. Elia Kazan master piece. I remember when I 1st saw it I was astonished, kinda like when I 1st saw Who's afraid of Virginia wolf. When I was younger I always pictured this 1950s America as so innocent and wholesome. Surely they didn't have these kinds of problems then. Then I got older and realized life can be, and always been bad at times

 

[Lean'n'mean]

' Bullitt ' (1968)
'The Killers ' (1964)
'Quatermass & the pit' (1967)

 

[Bolero]

"Public Enemy" wit Jonny Depp, Christin Bale...A serious hat movie...

"Killer Elite" Clive Owen, Robert Di Nero, Jason Strathem, very strong,good plot involving SAS, ME Amen, London

 

[Touchofevil]

Curious to hear what you think of the change Marvel did on the comic book with Captain America. I have a thread on it in the Observation Lounge.

Hate the idea. It is another lame gimmick to stimulate sales through shock value. Might as well print twenty different covers with holograms and drawn by twenty different artists for each issue; a popular gimmick in the nineties.

 

[Stearmen]

Captain Nemo and The Underwater City (1970) Lucky for me, the hole movie did not record!

 

[Fading Fast]

"We are Marshall," probably the third time I've seen it - enjoy it every time.

 

[Bushman]

"The Great Escape" Such a great, fun movie.

 

[AmateisGal]

Kelly's Heroes.

"There you go with them negative waves! Have a little faith, baby. Have a little faith!" - Oddball.

 

[Stearmen]

Captain Nemo and The Underwater City (1970) Lucky for me, the hole movie did not record!

I just noticed, I wrote hole instead of Whole! If that's not a Freudian Slip, I don't know what is.

 

[Benzadmiral]

Tried an Australian film, Strangerland (2015), with Nicole Kidman and Joseph Fiennes as a troubled couple in modern east Australia whose kids, a ca. 12-year-old boy and his sister, a nubile teen girl who apparently likes to dally with her teachers, go missing in the middle of a heat wave. "Tried," I say, because -- confirmed Nicole fan though I am -- I had no interest in the characters or their predicament.

 

[Worf]

"Amy" - I had lot's of arguments on another forum (music) about Ms. Winehouse's future, she was still alive at the time. I thought she was talented but not as much as Sharon Jones, who was to me a "true" soul singer. Other's at the time argued that Amy's ceiling was "unlimited" and hence she was the better talent. I countered that all the talent in the world won't help you in the grave, which to me at the time was clearly where she was headed. I take no pleasure in being right. This documentary is amazing with lot's of childhood and early career footage. Hers is the classic rise and fall of a TALENTED pop idol. The demons, addictions, poor choices in men, terrible or weak parenting all lead to the inevitable death by drugs/alcohol. As Spock once said.... "wanting a thing and having a thing are not always the same..."

Worf

 

[Stearmen]

Canon City (1948) An account of the 1947 escape by twelve prisoners from the Colorado Maximum Security Prison. Not very good, I only watched it since I spent a short time in Old Max, (where's Jame's when I need him, he would have a good crack on that one,) as you probably guessed, it was a school field trip. The actual prison warden had a couple of scenes, not the big tough guy you would expect! And a fun cameo of a young DeForest Kelly, no, he did not say, "I'm a Doctor!"

 

[Fading Fast]

Two more episodes of "The Night Manager," only one more to go . Whatever awards they have for TV shows, this one should win some of them (from a guy who hasn't watched an award show in thirty or more years and would rather stare at a blank screen than watch one now).

 

[Touchofevil]

Finally got around to watching Star Wars:The Force Awakens. Like it a lot. One of the best movies I have seen in a long time. It was an event. Wow!

 

[Worf]

Finally got around to watching Star Wars:The Force Awakens. Like it a lot. One of the best movies I have seen in a long time. It was an event. Wow!

Wow.... didn't see THAT coming.

Worf