What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[Lady Day]

And Kevin Spacey sang his own Bobby Darin.

I mean they went through the detail of giving Phenix brown contact lenses, they could of at least done a mix.

LD

 

[A.R. McVintage]

The Apartment. Just one of many Billy Wilder masterpieces.

 

[KY Gentleman]

Winchester '73 Great cowboy flick

 

[Quigley Brown]

Biopics go both ways on this. Sissy Spacek did her own singing as Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter, to deserved great acclaim and an Academy Award. Jessica Lange lip-synched the very distinctive-sounding Patsy Cline in Sweet Dreams, and got less acclaim (although it's still a darn good performance, and earned Lange an Oscar nomination). Angela Bassett lip-synched Tina Turner in What's Love Got to Do With It: another Oscar nomination, but not a win.

I really didn't care for 'Ray' since Jamie Foxx lip-synched the singing.

 

[jake_fink]

Biopics go both ways on this. Sissy Spacek did her own singing as Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter, to deserved great acclaim and an Academy Award. Jessica Lange lip-synched the very distinctive-sounding Patsy Cline in Sweet Dreams, and got less acclaim (although it's still a darn good performance, and earned Lange an Oscar nomination). Angela Bassett lip-synched Tina Turner in What's Love Got to Do With It: another Oscar nomination, but not a win.

David Carradine neither looked nor sang like Woody Gutherie but he was brilliant in the brilliant Bound For Glory, which I just watched again this week.... thanks Uncle Ted!

 

[Feraud]

Thats next on my Netflix!!

Was it good!?

LD

It was great! The movie got me off my butt and to the MOMA to see the Helvetica exhibit.

Went to see There Will Be Blood and it was a fantastic film.

 

[geoff_icp]

I just watched "The Country Girl". Bing Crobsy does an amazing performance, as does William Holden. And Princess Grace... I can't get enough of her!!

 

[KY Gentleman]

I recorded The Blues Brothers last night off of cable, I am enjoying the exploits of Jake and Elwood right now.....

 

[Marlowe P.]

Blade Runner 25th

Just saw Blade Runner on the big screen. Like "The Long Goodbye" it does an excellant job of incorparating vintage looks (and themes, of course) into modern or ultra-modern contexts. Plus it is just the coolest movie ever.

 

[Jovan]

Weren't the cleaned up prints spectacular looking? Seriously now, what ever happened to ILM's model shops? You simply cannot produce effects like that anymore with all CGI. There's a time and place for it and it's not for "stunt doubles," ships exploding, and landscapes for sure.

 

[deadpandiva]

Snow Cake- It was very good and I am proud of myself for watching a modern movie. Of course I'd watch anything to see Alan Rickman.

 

[Patrick Murtha]

I watched United 93 this weekend (for the first time). Very well done, but it put me in such a strange place emotionally. I hadn't really re-visited 9/11 in years, but I took this opportunity to also look at a lot of clips on YouTube, and between the movie and the videos, it all came flooding back.

As it happened, I had taken off from work that day, and had slept in; I lived in Chicago at the time, and had planned a special trip to a Cubs game in the afternoon. I got a call waking me up after the second plane hit (around 8:00 AM Central Time), from a friend telling me to turn on my television immediately. I was riveted and appalled for the rest of the day, all the more so because I grew up in northern New Jersey a stone's throw from (and within sight of) Manhattan.

I think that, for my generation collectively (I was born in 1958), it was the most significant day of our lives.

 

[dhermann1]

Based on a recommendation from my girlfriend's sister, we went to "The Savages" Saturday night. AAAAARRRGGGHHHH!!!! If this is what we have to look forward to in old age, let's all just kill ourselves now. Can't remember when I've hated a movie so thoroughly. GREAT acting by Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman, as well as Philip Bosco. Everybody in the world seems to think this flick is great, but it just made me want to smash something.
Speaking of "Wings" on TCM the other night (GREAT!) did anyone else stay up for the fim that followed it? It was "Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans". It got the "other" best movie for 1927. A ravishingly gorgeous masterpiece of a film. Some call it the greatest silent film ever made. It has a wonderful performance by Janet Gaynor. Catch it next time they show it.
Finally, to make up for "The Savages", we watched a DVD that I got for $1 last year, called "The Dancing Pirate". It's a black and white copy of the first Technicolor musical. Pretty lame, too much dumb plot, not enough music. But it does have Frank Morgan, and a leading man named Charles Collins, who was clearly never any threat to Fred Astaire, but still a good dancer. It was cute, with some good musical numbers. Definitely worth a dollar.

 

[Kilted_Surveyor]

Bull Durham and The Natural....

I play on a mens 38 and older baseball team and our practices started on Sunday. So as tradition goes, my lovely bride and I always watch these movies the night before my first practice!

 

[Doctor Strange]

Re The Savages

Our Sunday morning film club - who never announce what they are showing in advance - ran The Savages back before it was released, but my sister and I decided immediately on arrival that we (ourselves and our eightysomething parents) shouldn't see it. I'm sure the performances were great, but it's just WAY too close to home with what our family is going through right NOW, and it was bound to be incredibly painful and awkward for all us... Actually, this particular film was a pretty poor choice for the mature-to-elderly crowd in this particular audience.

(We then we missed the next two films - Juno and Persepolis, dammit! - because we had snowstorms on those Sunday mornings [not bad enough for them to cancel the showings, mind you, but bad enough for those of us coming from up in Putnam county to not want to drive]. After a decade, we quit the film club in disgust!)

Sunrise, on the other hand, is a delight. Beautiful, moving, timeless, classic.

 

[Feraud]

Bull Durham and The Natural....

I play on a mens 38 and older baseball team and our practices started on Sunday. So as tradition goes, my lovely bride and I always watch these movies the night before my first practice!

You might want to add The Rookiehttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265662/ to that list.

 

[Badluck Brody]

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I just watched Charlotte Gray with Cate Blanchett.

 

[Patrick Murtha]

Speaking of "Wings" on TCM the other night (GREAT!) did anyone else stay up for the fim that followed it? It was "Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans". It got the "other" best movie for 1927. A ravishingly gorgeous masterpiece of a film. Some call it the greatest silent film ever made. It has a wonderful performance by Janet Gaynor. Catch it next time they show it.

Sunrise is magnificent. You should also check out King Vidor's 1927 silent masterpiece The Crowd when the opportunity arises (not on DVD yet, unfortunately, but it probably shows up on TCM occasionally).

 

[Badluck Brody]

Ken Burns

Just watched the 1st disk of The War.... Well done!

 

[deadpandiva]

David Carradine neither looked nor sang like Woody Gutherie but he was brilliant in the brilliant Bound For Glory, which I just watched again this week.... thanks Uncle Ted!

I really want to see this movie. I do love Woody Gutherie.