What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[John in Covina]

fftopic: Did you know they are making a Ghostbusters 3 and 4?

I guess it's still a maybe.

 

[Almost Vintage]

I guess it's still a maybe.

http://www.popeater.com/2011/04/01/bill-murray-ghostbusters-3/

 

[rue]

Please no one shoot me, but I finally saw Gone With the Wind. It was wonderful, and I have no excuse as to why it took me so long to watch the film.

Only because you liked it.... I won't shoot you

http://www.popeater.com/2011/04/01/bill-murray-ghostbusters-3/

Ashton Kutcher? Really?? ugh.

 

[John in Covina]

http://www.popeater.com/2011/04/01/bill-murray-ghostbusters-3/

Yay!

 

[Almost Vintage]

I had the same thought! lol!

 

[Blackthorn]

Please no one shoot me, but I finally saw Gone With the Wind. It was wonderful, and I have no excuse as to why it took me so long to watch the film.

Yeah, GWTW is a great one.

 

[Blackthorn]

Gilda, with Rita Hayworth. And some guys. With Rita around, the guys are only background fluff.

 

[Wally_Hood]

So you didn't like it?



I'm about to read the book, which I never have , so I'll let you know

I do have a question.... is Daisy supposed to be that annoying or is it just Mia Farrow that played her? Both times I watched it I kept thinking.... run away from her Jay... just run.[/QUOTE]

Having not seen any film adaptation of The Great Gatsby, I cannot speak to the Farrow presentation of the Daisy character. But in the book she is self-absorbed, shallow, and tied emotionally to Tom, despite the awkward relation with Jay. At least for me, in the book she is not quirky or needy or brittle, but obsessed with the opportunity her social station affords her to indulge in fun. That might be difficult to deliver in a film performance.

 

[Neophyte]

A Clockwork Orange, me droogs.

 

[rue]

Having not seen any film adaptation of The Great Gatsby, I cannot speak to the Farrow presentation of the Daisy character. But in the book she is self-absorbed, shallow, and tied emotionally to Tom, despite the awkward relation with Jay. At least for me, in the book she is not quirky or needy or brittle, but obsessed with the opportunity her social station affords her to indulge in fun. That might be difficult to deliver in a film performance.

Well it certainly gives me greater hope for the book, which I've heard is much better. In the film she's needy, overdramatic and an airhead so it was hard to understand why Jay was attracted to her. All that running around screaming with her arms flapping about made me wish someone would slap her lol
Don't get me wrong, I really like the movie, but she was a pill.

 

[AmateisGal]

The Fighter. Christian Bale deserved the Oscar. He has such an ability to transform himself into the character he's playing...

 

[Wally_Hood]

Well it certainly gives me greater hope for the book, which I've heard is much better. In the film she's needy, overdramatic and an airhead so it was hard to understand why Jay was attracted to her. All that running around screaming with her arms flapping about made me wish someone would slap her lol
Don't get me wrong, I really like the movie, but she was a pill.

In the book she's not that wacky. You want to be more sympathetic and see her as tragic, but she's very much a part of her moneyed world. I have read the book twice in thirty years, about that far apart from the first reading to the most recent; both times I was completely taken in by Fitzgerald's writing. Hope you like it. Any more of this and we'll be shipped over to the Whatcha Readin'? thread...

 

[rue]

In the book she's not that wacky. You want to be more sympathetic and see her as tragic, but she's very much a part of her moneyed world. I have read the book twice in thirty years, about that far apart from the first reading to the most recent; both times I was completely taken in by Fitzgerald's writing. Hope you like it. Any more of this and we'll be shipped over to the Whatcha Readin'? thread...

I understand what you are saying on both accounts


As for being back on topic....
I watched Desk Set tonight for the second time after not having seen it for at least fifteen years and I have to say that although it's a cute movie, it says a lot about what was to come.

 

[Blackthorn]

Murder My Sweet

 

[Isis]

A Song Is Born with Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo.

 

[Edward]

So you didn't like it?



I'm about to read the book, which I never have , so I'll let you know

I do have a question.... is Daisy supposed to be that annoying or is it just Mia Farrow that played her? Both times I watched it I kept thinking.... run away from her Jay... just run.

Daisy is, if anything, even more vile and contemptible a person than Catherine Earnshaw - hard as it may be to believe such a creature is possible, eve in fiction.

Do read the book - it is quite possibly the finest novel in the English language.

Last movie I saw?

Sucker Punch.

Good movie. Look beyond the ueber-nerd "hot chicks with automatic weapons" movie. It's about sacrifice. How far are you willing to go to obtain your goals?

I love the ending.

 

[Dan'l]

Midnight Manhunt (1945)

Another good mystery movie.

 

[Black Dahlia]

The Illustrated Man (1969)
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[John in Covina]

Murder My Sweet

Great film! If you get a chance you need to watch the Mitchum version Farewell My Lovely which is also a fine film.

 

[Tiller]

I'm a bit surprised that people are enjoying Sucker Punch, I have heard nothing but negative comments about it. One reviewer said something along that line that it is a degrading movie towards women, and that the main character only shows she has any power when she begins stripping in front of men, and starts her seduction dance, and outside of this all the women are shown to be weak and abused creatures, well then men in this world exist only to rape said abused women.

I was under the impression that it was an escapist film made for teenage boys who play a lot of video games. lol But if you gentleman enjoyed it, perhaps I will have to watch it someday.