What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[Blackthorn]

N.B Lizzie, I'm not sure how you really feel about the characters in Noah Baumbach's films.

:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[Fading Fast]

"School Ties" a 1992 movie about a New England Prep School in the 1950s that takes in a Jewish boy to be their quarterback so that they can win the championship. It's a well-done version of several movies like this - outsider in the old-boys' school and the pressures on the outsider, the prejudices of the establishment and what happens when it all gets thrown together. For that alone it is worth seeing, but what is also impressive (at a meaningfully less-significant level) is the incredible style of the movie.

The clothes, cars, architecture and period sets are an amazing time travel to an overly perfect version (it could not have been that beautiful - was it?) of that world. For our community, the eye-candy of '50s cars, Ivy clothes, classic architecture - from diners to leafy quads - is incredible.

 

[Touchofevil]

I watched David Lynch's 'Lost Highway'
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BD

It has been a long time since I watched it, but I do remember being somewhat disappointed.

 

[Touchofevil]

Finally got around to looking at the last Hobbit movie. Glad I'm done with all that now.

Kind of felt the same way too.

 

[Renault]

Three Godfathers

God bless John Ford!

 

[1mach1]

Mad Max (1979)

 

[Touchofevil]

Three Godfathers

God bless John Ford!

And TCM, I would expect.

 

[Renault]

Yup. Recorded it!

 

[Stearmen]

"The Wind and The Lion" (1975) on DVD. Good action movie.

A good movie!

 

[vmtrevino2]

This is my selection for tonight

 

[Touchofevil]

Mad Max (1979)

I sw it at a drive-in and was horrified throughout by the graphic violence and yet enjoyed it on some level.

 

[Blackthorn]

This is my selection for tonight

One of my all time favorites. I recently bought the DVD.

 

[dh66]

'Revenge of the Creature'
The 1955 sequel to 'Creature from the Black Lagoon'. The monster terrorizes Florida in typical 50s fashion. I liked it better than the first one.

 

[Wally_Hood]

Avengers: Age of Ultron Liked it a lot~

 

[Zombie_61]

...'Greystoke-the Legend of Tarzan' was,of course, far better than 'Tarzan, the Ape Man', but that's not really saying much. I grew up with the old Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan movies on Saturday morning t.v., so for better or for worse, that's my subconscious benchmark. The 80s revival versions were a bit like watching Johnny Depp nail the coffin shut on poor Jay Silverheels. (Maybe not quite that bad)...

I've read all of Burroughs' Tarzan novels (24 of them, I think), and a novel titled Tarzan: The Lost Adventure which was an unfinished manuscript at the time of Burroughs' death that was completed by author Joe R. Lansdale and published in 1995. Those novels are my benchmark, and as much as I enjoy some of the movies none of them hold a candle to Burroughs' stories in my opinion.

...I think part of my enjoyment of 'John Carter' was that there were no bigger boots to fill. It was my first time to see it visualized. There was nothing for it to live up to.

As much as I enjoyed Burroughs' Tarzan novels, I've never read any of his John Carter novels so I had no basis for comparison when I saw the movie. If Disney hadn't sabotaged it with their ineffective marketing, I think John Carter could have become a lucrative franchise for them.

Mad Max (1979)

My condolences. It's truly one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

'Revenge of the Creature'
The 1955 sequel to 'Creature from the Black Lagoon'. The monster terrorizes Florida in typical 50s fashion. I liked it better than the first one.

I prefer Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954), but Revenge has a lot going for it.

On a semi-related note, I'm starting to come around to Svengoolie's schtick.

 

[dh66]

I prefer Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954), but Revenge has a lot going for it.

On a semi-related note, I'm starting to come around to Svengoolie's schtick.

Well.....the first one is a better movie.

But the sequel is just so all over the place that I find it more enjoyable. Whereas the original has the element of suspense, and is just generally a timeless classic in the genre, the second has a bug eyed monster, throngs of panicked people running everywhere, hot jazz, cool cars, and a feisty canine sidekick who is so cool they let him into SeaWorld unsupervised.


As for Svengoolie.......I enjoy him, but much in the way I enjoy a corndog at the State Fair after drinking too much draft beer and there's nothing much else to eat. It's all there is so you just have to go with it. At least it's not funnel cake.

 

[Zombie_61]

Well.....the first one is a better movie.

But the sequel is just so all over the place that I find it more enjoyable. Whereas the original has the element of suspense, and is just generally a timeless classic in the genre, the second has a bug eyed monster, throngs of panicked people running everywhere, hot jazz, cool cars, and a feisty canine sidekick who is so cool they let him into SeaWorld unsupervised.

Not to mention air bubbles inexplicably coming out of the top of the Creature's head. :suspicious:

While watching it last night, I noticed something I hadn't noticed before. In the scene when the Creature is revived from it's coma and tries to escape from the holding tank, I noticed Ricou Browning (who played the Creature in the water/swimming scenes) hit himself on the top of the head with his left hand a few times. lol I assume this was his way of adjusting the mask in order to see better, but within the context of the movie it seemed a little odd.

As for Svengoolie.......I enjoy him, but much in the way I enjoy a corndog at the State Fair after drinking too much draft beer and there's nothing much else to eat. It's all there is so you just have to go with it. At least it's not funnel cake.

Oh, most definitely. When I wrote "starting to come around" above, I'd equate that to changing course by only a degree or two. While I originally found his act annoying, I now find myself occasionally chuckling at a joke or two. I think it's safe to say I won't be sporting any of his tee shirts any time soon, but I can at least tolerate him once a week now.

 

[Big J]

Just took my girls to see the new Cinderella movie.
It was good, but when I asked them why they knew the 'Bi-pidy-bopidy-do' song, they were conversely shocked that I didn't know it!

 

[cw3pa]

"Beau Geste" (1939) on DVD last night. Good movie. Sgt Markoff (Brian Donlevy) is the person you love to hate.

 

[cw3pa]

A good movie!

Nothing like some good old fashioned gunboat diplomacy.