What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[1967Cougar390]

This past weekend was movie time for my wife and myself. We watched Mr. Blanding Builds his Dream House staring Carry Grant and Myrna Loy. It’s a wonderful comedy that anyone whose ever built a home can relate to. The cinematography is great and the outdoor shots are perfect. The on screen chemistry between Grant and Loy are spot on. Myrna Loy is just gorgeous, she exemplifies classic Hollywood. It’s a great feel good movie that reminds me of the movie Funny Farm staring Chevy Chase.

Steven

 

[Fading Fast]

This past weekend was movie time for my wife and myself. We watched Mr. Blanding Builds his Dream House staring Carry Grant and Myrna Loy. It’s a wonderful comedy that anyone whose ever built a home can relate to. The cinematography is great and the outdoor shots are perfect. The on screen chemistry between Grant and Loy are spot on. Myrna Loy is just gorgeous, she exemplifies classic Hollywood. It’s a great feel good movie that reminds me of the movie Funny Farm staring Chevy Chase.

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Steven

I'm with you on all that you said and, I'd add, the early scene in the overcrowded NYC apartment is very true to life as I have been in those apartments (many friends over the years have tried to stay in NYC as they've added kids even though they were clearly outgrowing their apartments).

 

[Doctor Strange]

A couple of recent items for an upcoming discussion with my film group: Hold The Dark and You Were Never Really Here. Both are dark, violent, depressing, and totally unbelievable - not my taste at all. I'm sick of stories with murdering psychos as the protagonists.

And now for something completely different: For just one week, this year's charming Pixar short Bao - about a Chinese dumpling that comes to life - is free to view on YouTube:

I've been underwhelmed by Pixar's feature output for years, but this heartwarming tale of family and Chinese food is a delightful seven minutes, with more real heart than the majority of overwrought holiday "content" we're inundated with this month.

 

[Benzadmiral]

For the nth time, The Apartment. It was on, I stopped. A nice little story. A nice cast. Nice cinematography. A nice diversion.

I had fun a couple of years ago with a short Man from U.N.C.L.E. fanfic, featuring Bud (Jack Lemmon's character) and Fran (Shirley MacLaine) in 1964, now married and with a small child, innocently caught up in a Solo-and-Illya adventure -- because Bud's new boss is trying to have him killed: https://tinyurl.com/y9ovoj5h

 

[Benzadmiral]

It was a cold and rainy weekend so I was able to watch some great classic movies on TCM. The Maltese Falcon was super, I’m not sure how I’ve missed viewing it in the past. Humphrey Bogart portrayed Sam Spade wonderfully, his quick witted humor and stories that kept him one step ahead of the bad guys as well as the police made me smile and laugh.

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The artist used Bogart's Roy Earle from High Sierra the year before, instead of something from Falcon itself.

 

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The artist used Bogart's Roy Earle from High Sierra the year before, instead of something from Falcon itself.

It's jarring isn't it?

 

[belfastboy]

Watched "Roma" as soon as it came out on Netflix. Lets just say I was underwhelmed. I think part of the disappointment is the movie is soooo hyped that, as often the case, the actuality is underwhelming. It is an okay movie but just okay not the masterpiece the critics are calling it. I googled "Roma, negative reviews" and received zero hits so I take it there are zero negative reviews out there. I find that weird.

 

[belfastboy]

Part two; The next night we watched "The Rider" another movie that shows up in many of the Best of 2018 lists. This movie is a marvel and while I am loathe to call anything a masterpiece this movie is so compelling I am calling it a "must see." After you watch the movie then google the back story as it is as compelling as the movie itself.

 

[Benzadmiral]

It's jarring isn't it?

To us, yes, but we can DuckDuckGo up images from the two films at any time. An average moviegoer in 1941 heading into the Rialto to see the latest Bogart picture wouldn't think anything of the portrait on the one-sheet while going in. Coming out, if he looked at the one-sheet again, he might or might not remember High Sierra, which was then a year old, or he might wonder if he missed a scene in Falcon where Bogart is wielding twin .45s. It wouldn't jar him the same way.

 

[Fading Fast]

To us, yes, but we can DuckDuckGo up images from the two films at any time. An average moviegoer in 1941 heading into the Rialto to see the latest Bogart picture wouldn't think anything of the portrait on the one-sheet while going in. Coming out, if he looked at the one-sheet again, he might or might not remember High Sierra, which was then a year old, or he might wonder if he missed a scene in Falcon where Bogart is wielding twin .45s. It wouldn't jar him the same way.

Agreed. Another funny thing is that for thirty or so years, I thought Bogart had an odd haircut in "High Sierra" as, on my mediocre TVs over those years, it looked as if the sides of his head were shaved real close and I assumed it reflected his time as a prisoner. Then, a few years ago, we bought a really good HD TV and, lo and behold, we could see that they had died the sides of his head grey (I guess to age him or to show that a hard life had aged him). Funny, it changed my perspective on his character in that movie a bit.

 

[Bushman]

And now for something completely different: For just one week, this year's charming Pixar short Bao - about a Chinese dumpling that comes to life - is free to view on YouTube:

I've been underwhelmed by Pixar's feature output for years, but this heartwarming tale of family and Chinese food is a delightful seven minutes, with more real heart than the majority of overwrought holiday "content" we're inundated with this month.

I saw this one pop up in my YouTube suggestions, but declined to view it as the design of the child in the thumbnail frightens me a bit.

 

[LizzieMaine]

We're running "Can You Ever Forgive Me?," with Melissa McCarthy as Lee Israel, one-time biographer of literary/pop culture figures of the Era who fell on hard times in the 90s and fell into a new career as a literary forger -- specializing in spicy letters from Era celebrities. Israel was actually a very fine writer who couldn't handle the scroungy paycheck-to-paycheck life of someone who specializes in writing about the forgotten and the once-great, and the movie, based on her own tell-all book about her experiences, captures the essence of her "F--- you" personality.

Some of this picture, though, hits a bit too close to home for me, as it probably will to anyone who's tried to scratch out a living as a small-time writer. I ended up rooting for her in spite of myself, which I guess is the point of the story.

 

[Worf]

A couple of recent items for an upcoming discussion with my film group: Hold The Dark and You Were Never Really Here. Both are dark, violent, depressing, and totally unbelievable - not my taste at all. I'm sick of stories with murdering psychos as the protagonists.

And now for something completely different: For just one week, this year's charming Pixar short Bao - about a Chinese dumpling that comes to life - is free to view on YouTube:

I've been underwhelmed by Pixar's feature output for years, but this heartwarming tale of family and Chinese food is a delightful seven minutes, with more real heart than the majority of overwrought holiday "content" we're inundated with this month.

I also saw this but some time ago in the movies. Can't remember the last time I had a cartoon with my feature... It moved me.

Worf

 

[MissMittens]

We just watched the Office Set, with Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn starring as an efficiency engineer and a TV research department head respectively.

Was a cute movie, with one seemingly unscripted moment where Tracy lampoons himself causing Hepburn to laugh uncontrollably.

Reccomend

 

[Seb Lucas]

The Last Jedi - I'm not a Star Wars fan so I am not invested in this series but was mildly curious. For me the plotting was awkward, there were a cutie pie touches that grated and the bad guy was a wasted opportunity. Yoda as CGI simply doesn't work.

Lightsaber duels and The Force, spaceship dog fights and contrived looking aliens are pretty much cliches these days. Nevertheless the tone did reasonably match some of the others I've seen and for a kid's movie it wasn't the worst I've seen.

 

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We just watched the Office Set, with Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn starring as an efficiency engineer and a TV research department head respectively.

Was a cute movie, with one seemingly unscripted moment where Tracy lampoons himself causing Hepburn to laugh uncontrollably.

Reccomend

In a way, it's my favorite Tracy-Hepburn movie because they are middle aged (nice to see a love story in that group), (as you note) the fun they are having seems genuine and there is hardly a boring scene in it and some really good ones - like the roof deck lunch one or the dinner at her apartment. It is pure escapism at its best.

 

[1967Cougar390]

The artist used Bogart's Roy Earle from High Sierra the year before, instead of something from Falcon itself.

It's jarring isn't it?

I just learned something new. I thought that Bogarts image was from the scene where he took Elijah Cook Jr.’s guns in the hallway with the ole “pull the overcoat down over the henchmen’s arms trick”.

Steven

 

[Fading Fast]

The Catcher Was a Spy (2018)

• This is the type of movie I complain isn't made anymore - a solid story-driven movie, with skilled actors (but not necessarily marquee stars) that keeps you engaged without special effects, unnecessary and exaggerated violence or an unbelievable dues ex machina

• Based on the true story of professional baseball player Morris (Moe) Berg - an enigmatic figure, Princeton graduate, polyglot (i.e., not your average ball player) - who is recruited by the OSS in WWII to potentially assassinate the German physicist Werner Heisenberg - putatively leading Germany's nuclear bomb effort. I'm sure liberties were taken, but at a high level, I believe the story is accurate

• Paul Rudd, while not looking like a Major League catcher, delivers a nuanced performance as Moe Berg, a highly intelligent man who keeps the world at arms length but is willing to risk his life for his country; however, you also believe he's doing it simply for the challenge and excitement. Jeff Daniels and Tom Wilkinson also bring their A-game with Paul Giamatti owning every scene he's in as an OSS scientific advisor acting as the moral compass challenging the government's win-at-all-cost instinct

• The dialogue is crisp and smart, the pace quick but not frantic and the tension comes from characters you care about and a story that did the work to build to its climax (really, anti-climax, I'll say no more). Add in beautiful cinematography, a few well-earned and organic-to-the-story action scenes and wonderful period details and the movie reminds me of a well-done Warner Brothers WWII-era spy drama (think "Watch on the Rhine") - just the type of movie I wish they made more of today

 

[Zombie_61]

The Last Jedi...Yoda as CGI simply doesn't work...

The blue "force ghost" glow was added in post-production, but for The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson had a Yoda puppet painstakingly re-created to look (for the most part) as he did in The Empire Strikes Back and Frank Oz worked with three other puppeteers on set to bring him to life for the movie.

 

[Seb Lucas]

The blue "force ghost" glow was added in post-production, but for The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson had a Yoda puppet painstakingly re-created to look (for the most part) as he did in The Empire Strikes Back and Frank Oz worked with three other puppeteers on set to bring him to life for the movie.

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Good to hear I'm wrong on this and they went old school. Had another look. Still mostly looks like CG to me but it must be the blue glow.