What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[John in Covina]

I too am thinking of giving Quantum of Solace a second chance. I was terribly disappointed when we saw it in the theater. All action - no substance, but I want to give it a second viewing. I loved Casino Royale and I adore Daniel Craig as Bond.

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If your syustem can take it, watch Casino Royal and then immediately pop in QOS as a simple continuation strategy.

 

[KY Gentleman]

I watched that one last month...you need to see The Outsiders when you can...
....also gonna watch Cinderella Man this week, too....
Rob

I like "The Outsiders" and while I haven't seen it lately I'll make a note to watch it again soon. It is a good one. I watched "Clay Pigeons" this afternoon. Its an old Vince Vaughn flick and very good.

 

[Bugsy]

"Revolutionary Road" Good acting but drags in places.

 

[chanteuseCarey]

Just finished watching "You Were Never Lovelier"

starring Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth, with our 12 and 14yo kids and two 14yo friends of dd. Great film, the ladies' costumes by Irene and those fabulous 40's hairdos and hats were to die for!

 

[BinkieBaumont]

Hope And Glory

Watched "Hope and Glory a 1980s film set in "Mock Tudor semi detatched" outer suburbs of London during the second world war, the trials and tribulation of a Lower middle class family, rather touching.

 

[Dixon Cannon]

Lives Of Others (English title)

Excellent look inside East Germany and life in a authoritarian society. Find it. Watch it. Learn it.

-dixon 'comrade' cannon

 

[just_me]

Think Fast, Mr. Moto with Peter Lorre.

 

[Miss Golightly]

Yesterday I watched A Star is Born with Judy Garland - good movie with a great performance from Judy - maybe too many musical numbers though.

Later on I had the misfortune to watch Eden Lake - a pretty sordid movie - if it had been made in the 80's I imagine it would have been deemed a Video Nasty. Rarely do movies give me nightmares but this one did. There was nothing vaguely entertaining about this movie - it was just crass, violent and depressing.

 

[Howard Hughes]

ROAD TO SINGAPORE.............

...........BOB & BING, (AND MISS LAMOUR, OF COURSE)........ YOU CAN'T JAM ON A YAM.
PRICELESS.

HH

 

[LizzieMaine]

We've just finished a weekend run of the Oscar-nominated short subjects. If these are playing in your town, do yourself a favor and go see them: proof positive that you don't need an overinflated budget and a three-hour running time to produce a quality film. Certain of today's directors please take note.

Especially recommended: the Live-Action Oscar winner, "Toyland."

 

[carter]

Body of Lies. Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe are a good pairing in this film.

 

[Ethan Bentley]

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If your syustem can take it, watch Casino Royal and then immediately pop in QOS as a simple continuation strategy.

John, I like you're thinking. I might just do that.
Also spot on, Dr. No, From Russia With Love, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty's Secret service, Diamonds Are Forever all involve SPECTRE.
Unfortunately due to some legal wrangles, I'll doubt we'll ever see any of them anytime soon. Shame, because I wanted to see Patrick Stewart as Blofeld .

AmateisGal, I know what you mean about the apprehension but after the dismal "Die Another Day" I thought that it was risky but i might just "do for James Bond what Batman Begins did for Batman". Thankfully that was the case.

Now I am off to watch the film "Laura".

 

[Spiffy]

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day.
It was wonderful!! There were beautiful apartments and lovely clothes and Amy Adams was cute and bubbly and Lee Pace was dashing and played the piano and they BOTH sang!

Sorry. It's my last midterm and I'm kind of spastic from procrastinating. But this movie made it all better...I literally laughed out loud and I'm the sort of snobby filmgoer that NEVER does that.

 

[WH1]

Fathers Little Dividend (1951) with Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennet and Elizabeth Taylor kind of Father of the Bride 2. Tracy wears some excellent single breasted, peak lapel suits in this one.

The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954) with Van Johnson, Elizabeth Taylor, Walter Pigeon (one of the great voices) Donna Reed, Eva Gabor and a very young Roger Moore.

 

[CopperNY]

"It Happened One Night" on TCM. watched with the wife. first time, i think, we'd both seen it all the way through. loved the commentary on how the stars weren't interested in the project and then the film ended up sweeping the Oscars.

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day.
It was wonderful!! There were beautiful apartments and lovely clothes and Amy Adams was cute and bubbly and Lee Pace was dashing and played the piano and they BOTH sang!

+1! what a great little movie. should have gotten a lot more attention.

 

[Edward]

Unfortunately due to some legal wrangles, I'll doubt we'll ever see any of them anytime soon. Shame, because I wanted to see Patrick Stewart as Blofeld .

Oh, momma, that'd be good..... If they ever wanted a somewhat younger, Blofeld, I'd be up for it....

The other weekend, after months of meaning to get around to it, I finally picked up Casablanca. A very basic DVD release (the film itself and not much else), but - and I confess this with some trepidation - I'd never actually seen it before. Well, my my. all those years of avoiding it as it had been sold to me as a "romantic" movie wasted. (I hate soppy romantic films... not least for their contrived, unrealistic crappy happy endings. notting Hill could have been twice the film itg was had they not sold out by having them end up together...). One of the sharpest scripts I've ever heard - I laughed out loud when Claude Rains said "I like to think that you killed a man, but that's probably just the romantic in me." Superb stuff. I am, of course, now gonig to bully all my friends who haven't seen it into doing so.... lol

 

[Mike1939]

Manpower (1941) Directed by Raoul Walsh, Starring Edward G. Robinson, George Raft, Marlene Dietrich, Alan Hale, Frank McHugh. A real working mans classic with the boys portraying a power line repair crew and Dietrich as the no good dame that gets between them. The George Raft fight scene in the clip joint is the same shown in the movie Bugsy from the 1990's. Anyway It's a good one, put me in the mood for They Drive by Night (1940).

 

[Feraud]

Manpower (1941) Directed by Raoul Walsh, Starring Edward G. Robinson, George Raft, Marlene Dietrich, Alan Hale, Frank McHugh. A real working mans classic with the boys portraying a power line repair crew and Dietrich as the no good dame that gets between them. The George Raft fight scene in the clip joint is the same shown in the movie Bugsy from the 1990's. Anyway It's a good one, put me in the mood for They Drive by Night (1940).

I've never seen this one and it sounds excellent.
Netflix doesn't carry it!

 

[carebear]

Edward,

So what other movies have you been avoiding?

Maybe we can convert you on those as well.

Fantastic Blofeld BTW, you are FL's own man of a thousand faces.

 

[Hondo]

"It Happened One Night" on TCM. watched with the wife. first time, i think, we'd both seen it all the way through. loved the commentary on how the stars weren't interested in the project and then the film ended up sweeping the Oscars. +1! what a great little movie. should have gotten a lot more attention.

I watch this one as often as I can, Got to get the DVD.
I enjoy the bus scene when they all sing "The Man on The Flying Trapese"
many versions out there, one of the first is below.
It was a popular song in early 20th century.
Great movie, never tire of it

THE MAN ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE
(George Leybourne)

Once I was happy, but now I'm forlorn
Like an old coat that is tattered and torn;
Left on this world to fret and to mourn,
Betrayed by a maid in her teens.

The girl that I loved she was handsome;
I tried all I knew her to please
But I could not please her one quarter so well
As the man upon the trapeze.

He'd fly through the air with the greatest of ease,
That daring young man on the flying trapeze.
His movements were graceful, all girls he could please
And my love he purloined away.

This young man by name was Signor Bona Slang,
Tall, big and handsome, as well made as Chang.
Where'er he appeared the hall loudly rang
With ovation from all people there.

He'd smile from the bar on the people below
And one night he smiled on my love.
She wink'd back at him and she shouted "Bravo,"
As he hung by his nose up above.

Her father and mother were both on my side
And very hard tried to make her my bride;
Her father he sighed, and her mother she cried,
To see her throw herself away.

'Twas all no avail, she went there every night,
And would throw him bouquets on the stage,
Which caused him to meet her; how he ran me down,
To tell you would take a whole page.

One night I as usual went to her dear home,
Found there her father and mother alone.
I asked for my love, and soon they made known,
To my horror that she'd run away.

She'd packed up her box and eloped in the night
With him, with the greatest of ease;
From two stories high he had lowered her down
To the ground on his flying trapeze@e.

Some months after this I went to the Hall;
Was greatly surprised to see on the wall
A bill in red letters, which did my heart gall,
That she was appearing with him.

He'd taught her gymnastics and dressed her in tights,
To help him live at his ease,
And made her assume a masculine name,
And now she goes on the trapeze.

She'd fly through the air with the greatest of ease,
You'd think her the man young man on the flying trapeze.
Her movements were graceful, all girls she could please,
And that was the end of my love.