What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[Formeruser012523]

Watching the end of a Hammer horror "The Devil's Bride." Silly, scary, funny, and creepy all at the same time. And made even better by Christopher Lee. lol

 

[jamespowers]

 

[Fading Fast]

Just saw "Walk Don't Run," the last Cary Grant movie. Only two reasons to watch it: Cary Grant and Samantha Eggar (a breath of fresh air in a 1960s populated by over-processed women with too-much hair spray, too-much war paint and too-much bodaciousness) - nice to see a simple, aquiline and understated beauty. Oh, and good time travel to Japan in the 1960s.

 

[Gregg Axley]

Watching the end of a Hammer horror "The Devil's Bride." Silly, scary, funny, and creepy all at the same time. And made even better by Christopher Lee. lol

I've got a collection of Hammer Horror films.
Being that time of the year, I'll break out a few of them tonight and tomorrow.
I want to say Vincent Price couldn't work with either Peter Cushing or Christopher Lee in some of the Hammer films, because he was
contractually obligated to AIP.
While he wanted to, he couldn't be loaned out.
Dracula Prince Of Darkness is good, but Horror Of Dracula is better. Also The Mummy from 1959 with Peter Cushing costarring.
Rasputin The Mad Monk is okay, it gives Lee a different character that shows more emotion than Dracula or the Mummy.
Night Creatures with a young Oliver Reed is also good.

 

[Wally_Hood]

Last night, Into the Storm, about Winston Churchill, and part of Judgement at Nuremburg

...and for about a week I've been trying to get through MST3K's take on Bride of the Monster.

Which just reminded me that I'd seen Bride of the Monster with live dialog and sound effects by the L.A. Comedy Connection, way back in the late seventies or early eighties.

 

[Gregg Axley]

Now you did it Mae.
I'm watching The Horror Of Dracula.
Yes Hammer employed nice looking women to play the victim, or sometimes the lead.
But they were also known for the bright colors they used in some films, as well as the opulent sets.
Christopher Lee as Dracula, does it get any better?
Lugosi had a menacing stare, but there was something about Lee's portrayal of the character that I just can't explain.

 

[Zombie_61]

...Christopher Lee as Dracula, does it get any better?
Lugosi had a menacing stare, but there was something about Lee's portrayal of the character that I just can't explain.

Lugosi's Dracula was always in control of himself; even when he moved in to bite his victims it was slow and deliberate. Lee's Dracula was, at times, far more feral--one moment the perfect gentleman, the next barely a step above a vicious wild animal.

 

[celestial]

Lee? Lugosi? Pfft...

 

[Fading Fast]

Last night, Into the Storm, about Winston Churchill, and part of Judgement at Nuremburg

...and for about a week I've been trying to get through MST3K's take on Bride of the Monster.

Which just reminded me that I'd seen Bride of the Monster with live dialog and sound effects by the L.A. Comedy Connection, way back in the late seventies or early eighties.

"Into the Storm" is really well done and "Judgement at Nuremburg" is movie making at its best. Maximilian Schell does an incredible job as the German defence attorney - I didn't want to grant the German's any points, but had to admit he made some. And, as he does with every role, Spencer Tracey becomes the judge. Watching him spar with Marlene Dietrich, as the wife of a former German General, is incredible as the writer and director have combined to take the broad geopolitical philosophies and arguments of WWII and personalize them into this romance and tête-à-tête that climaxes with a brutal final comment from Tracey to Dietrich (no spoiler here, you have to watch it to enjoy it).

 

[KILO NOVEMBER]

I saw "Gravity" the day it opening at the up-scale multi-plex (they have a wine bar) near my house. The visual effects were great! The tension was well-maintained, and Sandra Bullock still looks wonderful at 49! (OK, I'm not so young myself, in fact, if I had tried to date her when I was single, i would have been arrested, but I don't strip down to my underwear and appear 25 feet tall in high-def.)

 

[Gregg Axley]

Lee? Lugosi? Pfft...

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I thought about this movie the other day.
I really miss Nielson.

 

[Two Types]

Once Upon A Time In The West - splendid.

 

[Virginia Creeper]

I finally got around to watching Django Unchained last night. It was definitely not one of Tarantino's stronger offerings, regardless of how absolutely delightful Christoph Waltz is.

 

[Worf]

"The Devil's Bride" - B - Christopher Lee in a rare "good guy" role for a change and French Duke out to save the son of a WWI buddy who's fallen in with Satanists between the war. Real good Hammer movie and one I'd not seen. GREAT between war Iron on display everywhere... Bentlys, Morgans, a Bugatti or 2 and even a yellow Rolls Royce! Those rides alone were worth the price of admission!

Worf

 

[Gregg Axley]

That's a pretty good one.

Billy The Kid Vs Dracula, off TCM.
Not the greatest, but not bad.
The companion to this is next, Jesse James Meets Frankenstien's Daughter.
Oh sure she's not for talking on a date, honestly she just grunts and groans.

 

[DavidJones]

Just finished watching the Russian Gangster movie, "Alien Girl".

 

[jamespowers]

Oh sure she's not for talking on a date, honestly she just grunts and groans.

What's wrong with that.

 

[jamespowers]

 

[Formeruser012523]

I've got a collection of Hammer Horror films.
Being that time of the year, I'll break out a few of them tonight and tomorrow.
I want to say Vincent Price couldn't work with either Peter Cushing or Christopher Lee in some of the Hammer films, because he was
contractually obligated to AIP.
While he wanted to, he couldn't be loaned out.
Dracula Prince Of Darkness is good, but Horror Of Dracula is better. Also The Mummy from 1959 with Peter Cushing costarring.
Rasputin The Mad Monk is okay, it gives Lee a different character that shows more emotion than Dracula or the Mummy.
Night Creatures with a young Oliver Reed is also good.

I'll watch for those. All of October, TCM is devoting Saturday mornings to Hammer movies. Excited to see a young Christopher Lee.

Lee? Lugosi? Pfft...

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:rofl:
That man was great in anything he did, I think.

"The Devil's Bride" - B - Christopher Lee in a rare "good guy" role for a change and French Duke out to save the son of a WWI buddy who's fallen in with Satanists between the war. Real good Hammer movie and one I'd not seen. GREAT between war Iron on display everywhere... Bentlys, Morgans, a Bugatti or 2 and even a yellow Rolls Royce! Those rides alone were worth the price of admission!

Worf

I was wondering what half those cars were. Beautiful!

 

[Gregg Axley]

Thanks Mae, I'll make a note of it and DVR them.
Yes I probably have each one they'll play, but they will be in HD.
Can't beat that. :eusa_clap

Tonight it's Dracula from 1931 with a menacing Lugosi in the cape.