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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

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...My weakness is for slow paced movies...or as we joke I love movies where NOTHING happens and it takes forever for that nothing to unfold so I loved the languid pace of it all.
If you haven't seen it yet, you might like The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007). At 2 hours and 40 minutes it's "languid pace" makes it feel much longer, but it features excellent performances and it's one of the most beautifully photographed movies I've ever seen.
 

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Seconded! Fantastic photography by Roger Deakins (with soft-focus lenses producing effects like late 1800s photos in some shots), great performances, and a really interesting take on the story. But that second act just drags on for too long.
 
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If you haven't seen it yet, you might like The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007). At 2 hours and 40 minutes it's "languid pace" makes it feel much longer, but it features excellent performances and it's one of the most beautifully photographed movies I've ever seen.
Yes, I loved it. Another Casey Affleck movie that I almost turned off after 10 minutes as it was toooo sloooow even for me was Ghost. My friend wanted to hang in there for a bit longer and I got hooked. It was the best performance by an actor in a white sheet perhaps ever! And I loved the movie and it really touched me emotionally. Go figure!
 
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Bohemian Rhapsody
It was entertaining enough. I wish it was more factual than it was, but that rarely will happens. As with most movies that we have seen in the past few years, we felt that we see better programs on Netflix, Amazon, AMC, FX, and HBO.
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Yes, I loved it. Another Casey Affleck movie that I almost turned off after 10 minutes as it was toooo sloooow even for me was Ghost. My friend wanted to hang in there for a bit longer and I got hooked. It was the best performance by an actor in a white sheet perhaps ever! And I loved the movie and it really touched me emotionally. Go figure!

I enjoyed it as it chose thoughtfulness over the cheap tricks that many ghost movies use. And it has the best ghost costume ever:
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If you haven't seen it yet, you might like The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007). At 2 hours and 40 minutes it's "languid pace" makes it feel much longer, but it features excellent performances and it's one of the most beautifully photographed movies I've ever seen.
One of the most beautifully filmed movies I have ever seen. A really nice cast of actors. It is definitely worth a watch.
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The Lego Batman Movie. My girls and I saw it in the theatre, then got the Blu-ray. My wife had never seen it (she saw the original Lego movie with us) and insisted she never would, even though Batman (Will Arnett) is the best part of the first one.

She really enjoyed it after all!
 

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If you haven't seen it yet, you might like The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007). At 2 hours and 40 minutes it's "languid pace" makes it feel much longer, but it features excellent performances and it's one of the most beautifully photographed movies I've ever seen.

Speaking of beautifully photographed films, Open Range (2003) always makes me feel like I'm right there, and not watching from a removed distance. It's a great film to look at, as well as watch.
 
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"Anna and the King of Siam" 1946
  • Solid movie if you can accept Rex Harrison slipping in and out of accent (I don't have any truck with all the modern umbrage over which ethnicity plays which ethnicity, but whoever plays whomever needs to do it well and convincingly)
  • For example, Lee J. Cobb - a solid character actor - is horribly miscast as the King's advisor - he looks like a Brooklyn hood trying to play a thoughtful, reserved, Oriental spiritual advisor / it's painful to watch
  • MGM spent an insane amount of money on sets, but they still look like sets - the movie needed real location shots
  • Cut thirty minute out of it and the movie gets much better

"The Silencers" 1966
  • First Matt Helm movie and too campy for my taste, but maybe it felt fresh at the time
  • For the day, they were not shy at throwing one after another very, very, very scantily clad woman in a scene
  • Basically, a mid-1960's (pre Hippies) middle-aged male fantasy movie
 

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"The Silencers" 1966
  • First Matt Helm movie and too campy for my taste, but maybe it felt fresh at the time
  • For the day, they were not shy at throwing one after another very, very, very scantily clad woman in a scene
  • Basically, a mid-1960's (pre Hippies) middle-aged male fantasy movie
The Matt Helm movies could rank among the worst movies ever made. But, yes, they are fun to watch, even if only for the middle-aged male fantasy reason.
 
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Speaking of beautifully photographed films, Open Range (2003) always makes me feel like I'm right there, and not watching from a removed distance. It's a great film to look at, as well as watch.

My favorite Western of the past two or three decades.

The Matt Helm movies could rank among the worst movies ever made. But, yes, they are fun to watch, even if only for the middle-aged male fantasy reason.

You saw what I thought of it, but I guess it must have done okay at the box office as they made four of them.
 

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Ugh, those Matt Helm movies are truly painful. As sixties James Bond knockoffs go, I'll take the wittier Derek Flint movies over them anytime.

Agreed that Lee J. Cobb was indeed a very poor choice for the Kralahome in Anna and the King of Siam. Rex Harrison is far from perfect too... but compared to his embarrassing performance as Saladin in the godawful King Richard and the Crusaders, he's an acceptable and charismatic king. Honestly, the best thing about that movie is that it gave Rodgers & Hammerstein the impetus to write The King and I. (They found the original Margaret Langdon pseudo-novel too episodic to adapt, whereas the film's screenplay provided the architecture for the show's book.)
 
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Ugh, those Matt Helm movies are truly painful. As sixties James Bond knockoffs go, I'll take the wittier Derek Flint movies over them anytime.

Agreed that Lee J. Cobb was indeed a very poor choice for the Kralahome in Anna and the King of Siam. Rex Harrison is far from perfect too... but compared to his embarrassing performance as Saladin in the godawful King Richard and the Crusaders, he's an acceptable and charismatic king. Honestly, the best thing about that movie is that it gave Rodgers & Hammerstein the impetus to write The King and I. (They found the original Margaret Langdon pseudo-novel too episodic to adapt, whereas the film's screenplay provided the architecture for the show's book.)

I think I like the movie and I think I like Rex Harrisons flawed but enthusiastic performance, but the entire effort is a bit of a mess.

I saw it when it came out in the late '90s, but I remember liking Jodie Foster's version, but don't remember much about it anymore.

I've seen bits and piece of the Yul Brynner version, but will now look to see it and Foster's version from start to finish next time they're on.
 

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My favorite Western of the past two or three decades.



You saw what I thought of it, but I guess it must have done okay at the box office as they made four of them.

I think the '60s hit a heyday of tongue-in-cheek adventure/action. Nothing illustrates this better than the Adam West Batman TV show. Huge hit for a couple of years.

And like Matt Helm, quite a few beautiful women in tight outfits. Yvonne Craig can still knock me over with a feather (or one of her patented dancer's swift kicks). haha
 
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Yep...multiple viewings!

Note:
Towards the end Bogie bumps his cup with Malones
and it's left in the scene.

Had that been me... I probably would've dropped the cup
with my mouth wide open in happy disbelief... when she
closed and locked the door to the shop as she looked at me
with those gorgeous eyes. ;)

Aaaah!! Comprehending girls signals!

"... for the rest of the afternoooon."

"Nooner"?! :cool::D

I think, I should better listen to the word-endings on ladies talking...
 
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I think the '60s hit a heyday of tongue-in-cheek adventure/action. Nothing illustrates this better than the Adam West Batman TV show. Huge hit for a couple of years.

And like Matt Helm, quite a few beautiful women in tight outfits. Yvonne Craig can still knock me over with a feather (or one of her patented dancer's swift kicks). haha

Craig was super cute, seemed talented enough and popped up as a guess star in just about every TV show there was in the '60s, but still, her career never really took off.
 

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Every time I watch it - which has been a ridiculous number of times - I pick up something new, see a new angle of looking at it, catch some fresh nuance, etc. As you note - it's a classic for a reason.


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''Oh, monsieur, you are a man. If someone loved you very much, so that your happiness was the only thing that she wanted in the world, but she did a bad thing to make certain of it, could you forgive her?" - Annina asking Rick a question.

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Joy Page

I did a stint, (less that year) as a butler for Jack Warner back in the mid 70s.
While living at the estate, I met Joy Page. She was Mrs. Warner
s daughter.
During our conversation, I noticed something familiar about her face but
could not recall when I had seen those eyes before. She was older, slightly
heavier but nevertheless, attractive lady.
It was years later that I noticed those melancholic eyes in Casablanca.
Checking further, I found out who I had been talking to.
She was a quiet person, almost shy yet was comfortable talking with me.

Btw

One of my duties was to insure that the staff
was performing their assigned
tasks plus checking the silverware.
Being fluent in other languages helped

to get this job.

I was able to relay madame's (Mrs. Warner) specific
instructions to the staff which was
huge.
And believe me...she demanded her orders be followed explicitly.
Sometimes I screwed up but she forgave me.

Female staff didn't fare as well.

I enjoyed dishes that were prepared for Mrs. Warner by cooks who
came from all parts of the world.
Since I was not required to do manual labor,

I started putting on weight, but thanks to tennis I kept my weight in check.

The “Colonel" (he liked to be called that) kept his Oscars in one room.
I got to handle them, looking at the mirror, pretending I was the recipient.

The Oscars were heavy and underneath was

something embedded that would trigger an alarm if moved from their location.

This was the first instance in my getting close to observe many oil paintings from World Master oil painters which before, I had only seen in my
local library books.
I was in another world... literally.
 
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Speaking of beautifully photographed films, Open Range (2003) always makes me feel like I'm right there, and not watching from a removed distance. It's a great film to look at, as well as watch.
Open Range is one of my favorite "recent" westerns, but the ending is a bit muddled; it's as if they had three endings in mind, filmed them all, then couldn't decide which one to use so they threw 'em all in. Other than that, I think it's a solid movie.
 

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Open Range is one of my favorite "recent" westerns, but the ending is a bit muddled; it's as if they had three endings in mind, filmed them all, then couldn't decide which one to use so they threw 'em all in. Other that, I think it's a solid movie.

Western movie endings.
I can't understand why the cowboy hero professes his love and although she feels
the same. The hero gets on his horse and
rides away into the sunset!
The End. :mad:

My ending:
Towards the end, I'd tell the babe I have the hots for her, grabbed her and put her
behind me on the saddle as she holds on
tight as we ride into the sunset together.
The End. :)
 

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