What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[funneman]

Hollywood Hotel 1937

A real spoof of Hollywood.

I must have watched the spoof of GWTW a dozen times.

Great!

 

[Edward]

Chaned across a British film last night on television. Straightheads was made some time in the last couple of years, and starred Danny Dyer and Gillian Anderson. Bearing strong similarities to Straw Dogs (and with a tiny echo of I Spit on Your Grave, I believe), the two named actors play a couple who while driving through the countryside are attacked by locals - he is beaten half to death, losing sight in one eye, while she is raped. It them becomes a revenge story when she inherits her estranged father's house, his old army rifle, and discovers that by some strange coincidence her rapist lives less than a mile away. Overall, a quite well done film, worth a look. I didn't care for the sex scenes myself - I'm sure it could have done without those, though I do see an argument that artistically those depictions of consensual behaviour contrasted with the violation of the rape scene. The rape was rather better depicted in my (admittedly prudish) opinion - left to suggestion rather that seen outright. Gillian Anderson is indeed a beautiful woman, but I didn't feel the need to see her breasts so flagrantly displayed. [huh] Where the film does score over Straw Dogs is that it clearly portrayed the rape as a violent and abusive act. The Dogs rape is ambiguous - there's a hint of it almost being something that the victim welcomes, which veers uncomfortably into territory that can be interpreted as rather misogynistic. Character development is sublte rather than limited; as each in turn find their confidence failing, and seek to pull off the revenger's path, there are shades of both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, albeit that perhaps the viewer has more sympathy here given the motivation is revenge for a heinous attack as opposed to opportunistic self-advancement. Overall, though, Straightheads is an interesting film, if not for the faint of heart.

 

[LadyStardust]

Some Like It Hot, on the big screen. I'd never seen it before, and I loved it! Not at all over-rated, not dated, and a whole bunch of fun. The comedy was spectacular, and I also loved George Raft in his role, as well as the other mobsters. What a fantastic movie!

 

[KY Gentleman]

I just watched "Vantage Point". It was okay, a lot of action, car chases toward the end of the movie were quite good. I thought Dennis Quaid did a good job.

 

[Edward]

Some Like It Hot, on the big screen. I'd never seen it before, and I loved it! Not at all over-rated, not dated, and a whole bunch of fun. The comedy was spectacular, and I also loved George Raft in his role, as well as the other mobsters. What a fantastic movie!

One of my absolute favourite period films. I've always wanted to go to a costume party with a girl dressed as Marylin and another guy and I dressed as Curtis and Lemmon.... just got to find the right costume bits.

A show I'd quite like to see transferred to the stage - if done sensitively (not some awful jukebox musical "featuring the songs of Madonna" or whatever), it could really work well.

I'd love to be able to go back in time and watch it on release just to get a full sense of how daring it must have been. Sure, panto and vaudeville were around back then so stage cross-dressing wouldn't have been new, but the idea of two guys dressing as women, sharing women's quarters and so on - surely back in the 50s that would still have been considered very risque?

 

[Beowulf67]

Chaned across a British film last night on television. Straightheads was made some time in the last couple of years, and starred Danny Dyer and Gillian Anderson...... Overall, though, Straightheads is an interesting film, if not for the faint of heart.

This sounded interesting so I looked it up. It's known as "Closure" in the US. I ordered a copy and am looking foward to seeing it.

 

[TessTrueheart]

I just watched The Last seduction again. I really like Linda Fiorentino in this one, where did she go?
And last week I watched Body Heat.

 

[John in Covina]

The name's Bond, James Bond.

Now that the Home Theater is up and working. (Although not quite dialed in yet, but looks pretty darn good already.)

I watched 'Thunderball' which was released in 1965. I recall seeing it with my older brother Chris and I would have been 7 or 8 when I saw it. It was and still is to me a superb Bond film. Very exciting and intriguing with great danger to our hero and truly killer women in more ways than one. The tropical local of Nassau, the underwater scenes and the luscious music made for a sophiscated movie oozing exotic themes.

The Oppo player upsampled the pix and it was really popping off the Panasonic plasma while the Yamaha RXV663 handled the work up of the surround sound in DTS really well. I was jazzed!

Thunderball has an excitement level and theme that on a higher level than the previous Bond films of Dr No, From Russia With Love and even Goldfinger, all of which are great films in their own right. FRWL is another personal favorite better to me than Dr. No which is an excellent introduction to Bond and even Goldfinger. FRWL is more grtty in a detective spy sort of way, hard nosed.

 

[DetroitFalcons]

I watched "The Dreamers" again on IFC last night. What can I say, I have thing for Eva Green.

The other choice was Hellboy on FX.

 

[Feraud]

Beerfest!
Great fun from the guys who made Super Troopers.

 

[Cricket]

I loved the Bettie movie. The special features on the DVD were amazing as well.
My hubby and I rented "Lonely Hearts" yesterday. I really enjoyed it. My husband started the movie while I was out having cocktails with my friends. He said he immediately turned it off and waited until I got home.
He said, "it looked like your kind of movie."
And it was...great music, beautiful classic fashion and a twisted story.

 

[freebird]

Everything's Ducky with Mickey Rooney and Buddy Hackett, about two navy men and a talking duck.

 

[Smithy]

Saturday Night Fever. It was just on the telly here. Can't say I was terribly impressed but disco never really was my thing.

 

[Alucard73]

Watching Guys and Dolls with Brando and Sinatra now. That show should be required viewing in Fedora 101. It has everything and is a great primer in styles, colors, and the clothes the go with. It has everything. I even named one of my children after Sky Masterson.

 

[Spiffy]

A show I'd quite like to see transferred to the stage - if done sensitively (not some awful jukebox musical "featuring the songs of Madonna" or whatever), it could really work well.

Some Like it Hot was made into a musical, Sugar. My old high school performed it a few years ago and the stage version is just as amusing as the original. The only flaw I could see was that the 'gangster' storyline got kind of pushed to the side in between the two romantic plots and the musical numbers.
In my opinion, it was worth it. The musical numbers are great!

 

[pretty faythe]

The new Journey to the Center of the Earth. Loved it, loved it, loved it! And I'm not just saying that cuz I am a huge Brendan Fraser fan.totally awesome movie, and I want one of those birds!

 

[lizylou]

The last movie I saw was 2 nights ago. It was on television, Shanghi Nights! Not a bad movie, considering we are stationed in England and have the Armed Forces Network AFN. Sky TV is just to costly when the military provides a few channels for nothing. Guess thats the security blanket coming out in me!

 

[BegintheBeguine]

Whe hubby was stationed in Iraq until February, he said the AFN ran public service announcements almost endlessly so he never waited to see what movie was on.
The last movie I saw was Kansas City Confidential. Hats on guys, overly lined lips on the girl. It was good, I recommend it.

 

[lizylou]

They definitly like to do that!:eusa_doh:

 

[shortbow]

I saw Miller's Crossing last nite, which I hunted up because it was given raves in another thread. Decent enough, I guess, but they really (as usual) screwed up the guns and the gun fights. My favourite is when Finney's rivals send assassins and he fights them off with a Thompson. He must have gotten 500 rnds out of a 50 rnd drum mag, and zero recoil. Bet lots of folks would like to have one like that. 2 stars out of five.

On a five star note, couple of nites ago I saw A Song Is Born with Danny Kay and Virginia Mayo. Not to be missed for jazz fans. A fabulous flick I'd like to own. Also illustrates the cool racial integration in the music scene that took the rest of us thirty more years. 1948. A hepcats dream movie with a dreamy dame.