What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[Miss Golightly]

Harry Brown - I love a good vigilante movie and this didn't disappoint. The movie is quite gritty (the language and some of the scenes are quite brutal) but great performances all round (although Emily Mortimers character needed to be fleshed out a bit more) - from the shocking opening scene to the denouement the movie doesn't lose pace - a great performance from Michael Caine too.

 

[Slim Portly]

Doctor Strange, I agree on all counts.

 

[Smithy]

"A River Runs Through It" for the umpteenth time. One of my favourite flicks. Being a fly fisherman myself it just hits the spot.

 

[Silver Dollar]

Last night, I replayed Twelve O'Clock High. It's full of great B17 footage.

 

[Widebrim]

it's just that Basil Rathbone was the definitive Holmes for so many years.

Agreed, but what have you seen lately with Shemp?

 

[Widebrim]

I found a DVD of the Coen brother's 'The Man Who Wasn't There' at a thrift store recently and watched it last night. It's a b/w Coen-noir film set in 1949-50. Not too bad....... [huh]

Yeah, I've got it on VHS. (When did new releases stop being made on VHS, 2001?) It is shot well, although the b/w contrasts are too slick in my opinion, and the script/performances are pretty good. But where'd that UFO come from??[huh]

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

Agreed, but what have you seen lately with Shemp?

"The Bank Dick" with W.C. Fields, in which Shemp played the bar tender.

 

[Joie DeVive]

The Shop Around the Corner.
I had never seen it, and someone on here recommended it. Thanks! It was marvelous!

 

[Slim Portly]

The Shop Around the Corner.
I had never seen it, and someone on here recommended it. Thanks! It was marvelous!

One of my all-time favorites.

 

[Miss Golightly]

Frozen River - very, very good.

 

[Tiller]

Harry Brown - I love a good vigilante movie and this didn't disappoint. The movie is quite gritty (the language and some of the scenes are quite brutal) but great performances all round (although Emily Mortimers character needed to be fleshed out a bit more) - from the shocking opening scene to the denouement the movie doesn't lose pace - a great performance from Michael Caine too.

I wish this was showing in more theaters here in the States. It looks like a great movie.

Then again I like the whole "older generation showing the young punks what real war is" theme .

 

[Cricket]

We started The Gathering Storm last night after work. I am very interested in it. But we will have to start it over tonight. After covering tornado news for a week, it didn't take long for us to start snoozing on the couch.
It wasn't the movie though I assure you. It looks promising for a Churchill bio.

 

[Edward]

We started The Gathering Storm last night after work. I am very interested in it. But we will have to start it over tonight. After covering tornado news for a week, it didn't take long for us to start snoozing on the couch.
It wasn't the movie though I assure you. It looks promising for a Churchill bio.

See also Into the Storm, a 2009 follow up, with Churchill played by Brendan Gleeson. Gleeson, an Irish character actor, turns in an outstanding performance - as expected (among other things, he was in 28 Days Later, In Bruges, and played Michael Collins on TV in The Treaty, an in-depth and wonderfully historically accurate take on the 1921 treaty negotiations between the leadership of the self-proclaimed Irish Republic and the British Government). I'm something of a fan of Gleeson, and not Churchill, so it was the former that got me to tune in to this. It certainly doesn't sugarcoat Churchill, nor does it peddle the 'Churchill Myth' any, but it is an interesting take on his mindset in later years, looking back on his terms in office.

 

[Wally_Hood]

The Shop Around the Corner.
I had never seen it, and someone on here recommended it. Thanks! It was marvelous!

For an enjoyable analysis of TSATC, listen to the Filmspotting podcast, wherein they discuss it pretty thoroughly. Google the name, it's the only one out there. On the site, scroll down through the shows 'til it shows up.

 

[Smithy]

We started The Gathering Storm

Albert Finney's greatest performance. His portrayal of Churchill is one of the best performances I have ever seen from an actor. Absolutely brilliant.

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Thirteen Days (2000), with Kevin Costner, about JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis of '62...pretty neat.
Rob

 

[Cricket]

See also Into the Storm, a 2009 follow up, with Churchill played by Brendan Gleeson. Gleeson, an Irish character actor, turns in an outstanding performance - as expected (among other things, he was in 28 Days Later, In Bruges, and played Michael Collins on TV in The Treaty, an in-depth and wonderfully historically accurate take on the 1921 treaty negotiations between the leadership of the self-proclaimed Irish Republic and the British Government). I'm something of a fan of Gleeson, and not Churchill, so it was the former that got me to tune in to this. It certainly doesn't sugarcoat Churchill, nor does it peddle the 'Churchill Myth' any, but it is an interesting take on his mindset in later years, looking back on his terms in office.

I will also try to find this one. And the fact that it doesn't sugarcoat him should be interesting. I really enjoy bio flicks that show true character and not some romantic or mythical version of someone.

 

[Cricket]

Albert Finney's greatest performance. His portrayal of Churchill is one of the best performances I have ever seen from an actor. Absolutely brilliant.

Although I have only seen the very beginning of it, I am so far very impressed with him. I actually just started really paying attention to this actor, and I love him in what I have seen so far.

Thanks to Miller's Crossing, everytime I hear Danny Boy I think about this man. Wonderful!

 

[Miss Golightly]

The Road - I had read the novel so there were no big surprises in the movie - the cinematography was excellent but for me the relationship between the son and father did not ring true (the kid calling his Dad "Papa" in the book and in the movie for some reason jarred with me) - for me the father/son relationship that was in The Champ between John Voight and Ricky Schroder was infinitely more touching and real but I felt in The Road that the boy was just going through the motions. I also couldn't help thinking that if Haley Joel Osment was still a young boy that he would have been fantastic in the role. The film stayed true to the book and was well done but I can't say that it was a "masterpiece" as stated in the blurb on the DVD cover.

 

[Doctor Strange]

I don't know about it being Albert Finney's finest performance - the man has done some really outstanding work over the years: The Entertainer, Tom Jones, Two for the Road, Scrooge, Miller's Crossing, Washington Square, Erin Brockovich, Big Fish, Amazing Grace...