What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[Fading Fast]

Galaxy Quest - very funny glad I missed it first time round cos I needed it to cheer me up last night

It's stupid but I enjoy it every time I see it.

 

[Otter]

It's stupid but I enjoy it every time I see it.

I still use the line "This episode was badly written !" At appropriate moments when watching other films.

 

[belfastboy]

We are on extended holidays on our motorhome equipped with a TV and DVD . Purchased "Citizen Cane" and was pumped to watch on a cold and rainy night. Opened the package to discover in my haste had bought a VHS tape instead. Damn not even sure I can watch it when I get home.

 

[DesertDan]

Dreamscape

Fun movie from the 1980's, it's far better than it had any right to be but with a cast like it has they could have read from the phonebook and it still would be good.

 

[Zombie_61]

Galaxy Quest - very funny glad I missed it first time round cos I needed it to cheer me up last night

In some circles Galaxy Quest has become the standard to which all other genre parodies/homages are measured simply because it pokes fun at Star Trek (both the series and the phenomenon it has become), but does so with reverence, appreciation, and affection, rather than being mean-spirited. The last movie I can recall doing that so successfully was Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein.

 

[green papaya]

BADLANDS (1973) starring Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek

An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.

 

[MisterCairo]

Atomic Blonde. Man, what a fun ride! And the 80s soundtrack had me dancing in my seat! This I will get on blu-ray. Another $5 CAD Thursday night out (turns out Wednesday and Thursday are the "cheap" days, otherwise it is $7.50).

Next up at the base theatre: Logan Lucky.

 

[Touchofevil]

The movie's grown on me over the years.

It is a nice little flick.

 

[Touchofevil]

Atomic Blonde. Man, what a fun ride! And the 80s soundtrack had me dancing in my seat! This I will get on blu-ray. Another $5 CAD Thursday night out (turns out Wednesday and Thursday are the "cheap" days, otherwise it is $7.50).

Next up at the base theatre: Logan Lucky.

It didn't do so well at the box office, but I too would like to see Logan Lucky. It looks to be a fun cast and movie.

 

[MisterCairo]

Help!

 

[Zombie_61]

Help!

I need somebody.

Help!

Not just anybody.

Help!

You know I need someone.

Help!

 

[Fading Fast]

"It Could Happen to You" 1954 staring Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon and Peter Lawford

• Holliday's voice is like nails on a chalkboard to me, but she is talented and ran some lines of high-speed dialogue like Cagney

• Lemmon played the same bumbling good guy the girl is suppose to marry - after the heartthrob proves to be a jerk - in many movies for at least a decade

• Lawford, who I've always been ambivalent about, came across as outright creepy in this one and that wasn't quite what he was going for

• The movie is okay (silly plot, silly "message"), but the Fedora Lounge / NYC time-travel is fantastic

"Now and Forever" 1934 staring Gary Cooper, Carole Lombard and Shirley Temple

• Shirley Temple is a fantastic child actress - she's six here and commands the screen - I just have no interest in child stars and the "cute" thing - they all annoy me after a bit

• That said, this is more Cooper's movie with both Lombard and Temple playing major second roles

• Cooper's voice, mien, posture (even the way he walks) speaks integrity which is why it's awkward to see him play a high-society con man as he does here - it all feels off or wrong, but he gives it a really good effort

• Same with Lombard, she plays a "party" girl, but not really as both the role and her mien speak "I'm better than this:" hence, the movie stumbles along with two of the three leads playing too far against type

• Cooper wears a suit almost as well as (just a smidge below) Cary Grant - and that is saying a lot

• And you really only watch this not believable story in a not interesting way for the stars - miscast as they are - as they still keep you watching

 

[scotrace]

mother! It's a love or hate film. I'm in the former group.

 

[Benzadmiral]

BADLANDS (1973) starring Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek

An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.

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There's a novel written by Lawrence Block under the pen name of Paul Kavanagh, Not Comin' Home to You, which is based on the career of the same real-life pair of murderers, Charles Starkweather and Caril Fugate. I'd always been under the impression that Badlands followed the publication of the book, but Wikipedia says the novel came out in '74. Anyway, like most of Block's serious work, it's tremendously readable.

 

[BlueTrain]

Watched Kansas City Confidential again, for the I-can't-rememberth time. John Payne gets to cover all the emotional bases (regular joe framed, bitter against the system, driven to find out who pulled the job that dragged him into the crime, tough guy when the going gets tough), and Preston Foster is solid, but the co-stars, wow-- Neville Brand, Jack Elam, Lee Van Cleef. Great noir combined with heist film.

That's one of my favorite movies, too. My favorite scenes include the very first one (I think it was) when the man (Foster) is watching the bank from the building across the street and checking off the times, then later in the same room, meeting the men he hired. The other scenes are in the diner where Payne's character is with the man with the limp and later meets an informer who tells him about someone who left town.

It's sort of a noir film but I think The Killing (1956) and The Asphalt Jungle (1950) are better and much more "noir-ish." Both star Sterling Hayden and the plots of both involve a major heist that doesn't quite work out as planned.

 

[MisterCairo]

Logan Lucky at last night's $5 CAD base theatre. A really fun film, and Dwight Yoakum is unrecognizable! I had to look him up on IMDB to see who he played - my jaw is still on the floor...

 

[bookster1uk]

While I can't say I was the least enthralled with the film, other than the extreme pleasure of getting to see Colin Firth play James Bond, it was amusing to get fitted for a Bookster suit right upstairs from the still Kingsman badged Huntsman shop on Savile Row. Bookster is still a good deal and very accommodating. They aren't located in London but do borrow facilities occasionally.

We carry out fitting appointments in Chicago, New York and Montreal too...but Savile Row is a great habitat for us! We still specialise in detailed 'remote' fittings too

 

[Otter]

Hidden Figures, loved the line "At NASA we all pee the same colour."

 

[vitanola]

Four Sons


"Mutterchen!"


Still gets me.

 

[Fading Fast]

"Youngblood Hawk" 1964

• They should have waited a decade or so and made it into a TV miniseries (when that was all the rage) as there are too many characters, too many sub-plots and just too much going on to boil it down to a two-plus hour movie and make it anything more than a surface-skate of the book

• And a shout-out to Doctor Strange who corrected me in another post when I said - prior to seeing it - that "Youngblood Hawk" was a big-budget movie as, having now seen it, it wasn't. As DS noted, it basically stared a bunch of TV actors who, like most TV actors, can't quite carry a movie the way many of them can a TV show

• But the B&W cinematography was outstanding

"Smilin' Through" 1932 staring Leslie Howard, Norma Shearer and Fredric March

• A good Shearer performance where she didn't overly gesture and emote (too much) as, IMHO, she never fully understood that "the talkies" need less outsized movements and emotions than plays or silent films

• The story of an elderly and wealthy uncle whose fiancee was murdered forty years ago on their wedding day by a jealous suited, but who now learns that his adult niece - who he raised - has fallen in love with the long-lost son of his fiancee's murderer is a bit much, but if you go with it, it does kinda work in an overly romanticized way

• But the real fun is Howard and Shearer and the time travel to '32 England