What Is The Last Film You Watched? (Older Films)

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Perhaps. I havent seen the film in decades now. But it stood out at the time. Like the money suddenly ran out.

[A24 4,327]

We all laughed at the emerging chewing gum platforms.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Surprising actually Cameron would allow such an effect.

[A24 4,327]

I support the idea of doing something different but a giant stepped on chewing gum?

 

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

I forgot to mention I'm thankful that broad from Blade Runner fell off a horse before she could play Vicki Vale and that she wasn't cast as Selina Kyle in the sequel.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

I've chatted to her briefly through her YouTube channel. She's silly as a cut snake.

[Naïve Old Fart 9,508]

3 hours ago, Disco Stu said:

Ghostbusters 2 effects are pretty great for what they were, but yeah The Abyss clearly got the most resources.

 

We have a winner, and it's fat-ass, by a nose!

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

2 hours ago, Godzilla said:

She's silly as a cut snake.

 

Thats the only time in all these years I read anything you wrote with an Aussie accent in mind!

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

Crikey!

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

Ghostbusters 2 has awesome effects.

[Disco Stu 15,495]

Munich

 

My second time seeing this great movie.  Spielberg suspense sequences par excellence.  The mounting paranoia and sense of despair/pointlessness is gripping.

 

I last saw it in 2006 and this viewing was amused to note that Michael Lonsdale, most famous as the villain in Moonraker, plays the father of Mathieu Amalric, who played the villain in Quantum of Solace a few years after this movie came out.

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

I agree with the pointlessness part.

[Disco Stu 15,495]

You would.

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

Oh, I'm sorry. Really. I am.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

I'm sorry! You know I thought you were Richard Pryor!

[Quintus 5,399]

4 hours ago, Selina Kyle said:

Oh, I'm sorry. Really. I am.

 

Nobody cares if you're sorry or you're not tbh. Titanic is waiting. 

[Kasey Kockroach 2,344]

Are "Edward Scissorhands" and "The Boy Who Could Fly" pretty much the same movie, or am I just being needlessly cynical? 

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

The Fast and the Furious

 

After all the hype surrounding these movies, I thought I'd give the first one a go. And I'm disappointed. There is no humour in this movie at all. It's all flash and no self-awareness. The characters all take themselves too seriously when they should be wise cracking about how ridiculous all this is. When Paul Walker hands Vin Diesel his keys at the end, he should have said something like "drive carefully". I would have loved that. The movie stinks.

[BloodBoal 7,538]

The first four are all pretty much like that.

 

They stopped taking themselves seriously from the 5th movie onwards, and those later ones are more enjoyable as a result. Knowing you, you'd get a kick out of them (if you can make it this far ).

[A24 4,327]

Who knew BloodBoal is a Sjonnie?!

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

29 minutes ago, BloodBoal said:

The first four are all pretty much like that.

 

They stopped taking themselves seriously from the 5th movie onwards, and those later ones are more enjoyable as a result. Knowing you, you'd get a kick out of them (if you can make it this far ).

 

Yeah I taped them all from a marathon on Foxtel, so I'm persevering through the early ones until I get to the later ones, which everyone tells me are way better.

[Disco Stu 15,495]

Paths of Glory

 

Kubrick's first great film and Kirk Douglas' finest performance.  I must admit on this rewatch I found the generals a mite too close to being caricatures of evil.  To me it could've been more chilling to see how evil actions can be performed through perfectly ordinary bureaucracy and chain of command.  But it's only a minor complaint, the film is nigh on perfect.  The actors who play the outrageously condemned are especially great (love that young Turkel! But Meeker is the standout)

[Koray Savas 2,251]

Good film, the camerawork is stunning. Kubrick the photographer is really evident throughout his early work. 

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

2 Fast 2 Furious

 

Now this is more like it. Funnier, stupider and more ridiculous, and everyone looks like they're having a good time. Could this be the best one because it doesn't have brooding Vin Diesel in it? Paul Walker had better chemistry with Tyrese Gibson than he did with Diesel. Felt like a cop buddy flick and Miami Vice.

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

I never really understood the appeal of those movies. Okay, I get it at face value. Hunky guys, cool cars, hot babes. Great. So, what else you got?

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

The fact that these characters take themselves so damn seriously is reflective of their target audience, which mainly includes young guys out to have their fragile masculinity validated at every turn, and these dudes tend to be very serious people who exist only for their cars.

[A24 4,327]

4 hours ago, Selina Kyle said:

I never really understood the appeal of those movies.

 

Me neither. Me and the kid checked out one of them later ones but we couldn't take more than 15 minutes of it.

 

6 hours ago, Disco Stu said:

Paths of Glory

 

Kubrick's first great film 

 

Somehow it felt more like a Spielberg movie to me. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if Paths Of Glory is very high on Spielberg's list of favorite Kubrick movies.

[Naïve Old Fart 9,508]

3 hours ago, Selina Kyle said:

I never really understood the appeal of those movies. Okay, I get it at face value. Hunky guys, cool cars, hot babes. Great. So, what else you got?

 

 

Helen Mirren!!!!!!!!! 

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

When does she show up?

[Koray Savas 2,251]

8

[Naïve Old Fart 9,508]

What Koray said.

[publicist 4,643]

3 hours ago, Alexcremers said:

Somehow it felt more like a Spielberg movie to me. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if Paths Of Glory is very high on Spielberg's list of favorite Kubrick movies.

 

It is flat-out great - and surprisingly lean, too! (a problem with Kubrick's later pictures, imho)

[Quintus 5,399]

It's a moral question movie. Alex doesn't like those. Stick it at the back of the queue behind 12 Angry Men and To Kill a Mocking Bird. Visually boring movies for lesser minds. 

[A24 4,327]

52 minutes ago, publicist said:

 

It is flat-out great - and surprisingly lean, too! (a problem with Kubrick's later pictures, imho)

 

Yeah, but to you everything that isn't forwarding the plot is fat.

 

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

2 hours ago, Koray Savas said:

8

 

I have a long way to go. I'd like to watch all of these as fast as possible so I can watch Part VIII: Dom Takes Manhattan at the cinema.

[publicist 4,643]

1 hour ago, Alexcremers said:

Yeah, but to you everything that isn't forwarding the plot is fat.

 

Often, yes.

1 hour ago, Quintus said:

It's a moral question movie. Alex doesn't like those. Stick it at the back of the queue behind 12 Angry Men and To Kill a Mocking Bird. Visually boring movies for lesser minds. 

 

Needs more acid rain!

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

12 Angry Men has a very impressive and effective visual style actually.

[publicist 4,643]

And in the hands of lesser artists it could have easily gone to shit.

[Quintus 5,399]

Brilliant film, I need to watch it again. 

 

Or Judgement at Nuremberg vs 12 Angry Men. Which do you think is better! 

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

3 minutes ago, publicist said:

And in the hands of lesser artists it could have easily gone to shit.

 

Have you seen the Friedkin remake? It's supposed to be decent.

[Disco Stu 15,495]

One of my favorite things about Paths of Glory is how straightforward and clean it is in its storytelling.  I love the decadence and self-indulgence of later Kubrick, but it's also great to see him tell a story in this way too.

[publicist 4,643]

18 minutes ago, Quintus said:

Brilliant film, I need to watch it again. 

 

Or Judgement at Nuremberg vs 12 Angry Men. Which do you think is better! 

 

12AM..no contest. 'Nuremberg' is rather uneven, ranging from brilliant to goofy/didactic (with special celebrity concentration camp victims!).

18 minutes ago, Stefancos said:

Have you seen the Friedkin remake? It's supposed to be decent.

 

Scott and Lemmon are especially great, but again, the old cast remains unsurpassed-

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Nuremburg has Shatner though! 

 

[Quintus 5,399]

3 minutes ago, publicist said:

 

12AM..no contest. 'Nuremberg' is rather uneven, ranging from brilliant to goofy/didactic (with special celebrity concentration camp victims!).

 

To be honest, it was Maximilian Schell who carried that film for me, I was blown away by him. 

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

So was Spencer Tracy apparently.

[Naïve Old Fart 9,508]

1 hour ago, Stefancos said:

12 Angry Men has a very impressive and effective visual style actually.

 

I've always enjoyed Lumet's down-to-earth style.

DOG DAY AFTERNOON is a film of  great humanity, and NETWORK is devastating, from start to finish. Pure cinematic acid!

[A24 4,327]

Ah, the American New Wave ... Even more than Bonnie & Clyde, Dog Day Afternoon made or learned us to care for the bank robbers. 

[Quintus 5,399]

18 minutes ago, Richard said:

Pure cinematic acid!

 

Any rain in there tho? 

[publicist 4,643]

1 hour ago, Stefancos said:

So was Spencer Tracy apparently.

 

I faintly remember that the other actors found him (=Schell) to be a real prick - but the performance is, rightly so, the demonic essence of the german dogmatist. If you watch those movies today it's really funny because everyone is so outrageously larger than life.