What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[Touchofevil]

Miller's Crossing by the Coens. A great period piece and I love the pace of the film.

An under appreciated film. A lot of entertaining characters and great cinematography.

 

[Formeruser012523]

Hot Fuzz . . . 'cause I needed a good laugh. Again.

 

[Touchofevil]

Hot Fuzz . . . 'cause I needed a good laugh. Again.

Yarp!

Indeed.

 

[Kirk H.]

I watched the Cheap Detective with Peter Faulkner the other night because I needed a laugh too. That and Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid are two of my favorite comedies that deal with the classic films. Tonight I watched The Big Sleep on DVD. One of my favorite Film Noir films.

 

[MisterCairo]

Yarp!

Indeed.

Hard to believe:

 

[Worf]

Hard to believe:

Now THAT's surprising. Not as surprising as realizing that "Little Finger" from GoT was in "The Wire" many moons ago... who knew?

Worf

 

[Touchofevil]

Hard to believe:

Game of Thrones?

 

[Doctor Strange]

The Good Dinosaur...

Pretty much a B-picture coming from Pixar, I expect better from them. More kid-oriented than their usual fare, it feels more like a Disney film than a Pixar film, and features lots of classic Disney tropes (runt of the litter protagonist, same-sex parent killed, cross-species sidekick, etc.) Bizarre use of the classic western-movie farmers vs. ranchers trope... with different dinosaur species.

This is not to say it wasn't entertaining and doesn't have endless simply gorgeous images. And their handling of emotion remains peerless: I got teary at the climax. Walt Disney would have loved this movie!

 

[green papaya]

Lawrence of Arabia starring Peter O'Toole, Anthony Quinn

 

[Touchofevil]

Dark Passage on TCM. Another one of those movies which I have on dvd, but must always stop and watch when it is on.

 

[MisterCairo]

"Up" with girls for movie night.

 

[Julian Shellhammer]

The other night, Zootopia. Sort of Lethal Weapon meets Animaniacs. We laughed a lot.
Last night, Age of Adeline. Very well done; Missus really liked it.

 

[Touchofevil]

Dirty Harry

 

[Fading Fast]

Dark Passage on TCM. Another one of those movies which I have on dvd, but must always stop and watch when it is on.

DVDs have proven in retrospect to be a good way for me to turn my money into pieces of plastic that sit in a bin in a closet. I almost never use them, but watch the movies I own on DVD on TCM, etc. when they come on. Yup buying those DVDs was a smart move for me.

 

[Fading Fast]

...Last night, Age of Adeline. Very well done; Missus really liked it.

While flawed, I like it a lot too, but it seemed to come and go in a flash with very little attention in general, or even here at FL where I thought it would get some more discussion than it did.

 

[Zombie_61]

San Andreas (2015). If you've ever seen an Irwin Allen disaster movie, you've already seen this movie. Except Allen's special effects were more believable than this CGI fest.

 

[Fading Fast]

"The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel -" I'm two thirds through and have two thoughts:

1) This reminds me of what sequels used to be - poor iterations of the first movie attempting to cash in versus saying / creating something new and interesting. So far, the story is basically the same with less interesting subplots and a forced-in role for Richard Gere that even his solid acting skills can't make believable. Like old-style sequels, the freshness, the quirkiness and the charm of the off-beat original is gone and, instead, everything feels artificial and calculated.

2) I assume this played well with Lizzie's audience as it has both Judi Dench and Maggie Smith which I believe drive her (and I'm paraphrasing) white, middle-class, bourgeois customers' butts right into the seats.

 

[1mach1]

Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957)

 

[Rumor Control]

Dinner at Eight (1933)

 

[Fading Fast]

Dinner at Eight (1933)

Excellent one. Has held up incredibly well. I saw it in the last month or two and was very impressed. There's some real grit in that movie.