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

[JoeinAR 1,949]

I was able to find the 1988 remake of the Blob on blu at Walmart. A bit pricy at $13.00 for a 30 year old b movie but I want it.

[Koray Savas 2,251]

5 hours ago, publicist said:

And it's his only movie where it is worth the bother.

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

Congo

[Brundlefly 2,385]

Blame yourself.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

This is pure Kafka!

[Matt C 452]

Chain of Desire

 

The premise of the movie sounds good on paper, but the execution is botched. There are some pretty good names here -- Linda Fiorentino, Malcolm McDowell, Seymour Cassel -- but it comes off like a softcore porno meets 1990s Lifetime movie-of-the-week. The title itself is a play on the AIDS crisis in the 1980s-1990s and the optics date this movie badly. I have to say, some scenes made me laugh -- like Kevin Conroy having sex with a horny married woman on a wet paint canvas (and their clothes stay on).

[Kasey Kockroach 2,343]

Paddington

 

[Holko 9,499]

The Producers (1967)

Some aspects are quite dated (first 22 minutes inside a single room, what are we in, a classical theatre? some casual objectification and crossdressing jokes, but nothing offputting) and the script could be more efficient, but still really, really funny! The leads are a hoot, the ideas themselves are fun, and I've never actually seen the whole Springtime for Hitler sequence or even the whole song, which is pure gold.

 

Prisoner of Azkaban

If we do get the score, I refreshed my memory on what to look forward to. If not, at least I just heard them in-film.

It cuts out a great amount of backstory and characterbuilding, but otherwise the Shrieking Shack would've been 30 minutes long. It's a necessary evil for a flowing movie, and everything crucial to the plot is still there, it's astonishingly well streamlined. Of course its use of visuals is great when compared to the rest of the series. But the most important is overall it manages to capture the spirit and themes of the book: a tad introspective episode of Harry confronting the shadows of his past and some of his own, and ultimately being able to find the good within and channel it. Featuring the most Dumbledore-y cinematic portrayal of Dumbledore in the third act.

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

14 hours ago, Stefancos said:

This is pure Kafka!

 

Who's Kafka?! Tell me!

[Disco Stu 15,495]

I haven't watched any of these movies very recently, but I just wanted to call attention to this particular weekend in American movie theaters.  What a set of choices!

 

June 23-25, 1989

 

[Quintus 5,399]

At that time I was living in Bournemouth with my Dad, after the two of us drove down there since my Mum decided she'd had enough of being married to him. I saw Batman down there, with my Aunt who we stayed with in her house. A memorable year for me. 

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

I choose K-9.

[publicist 4,643]

10 minutes ago, Quintus said:

A memorable year for me. 

 

What can i say, it was the year the wall came down. Which meant Batman just had opened in West Berlin which i entered for the first time on November 12. But then i blew the only D-Mark i had on Big Macs, mars bars, a Sony Walkman and an inflatable island with a palm tree on top. So no Batman (or anything else) for me in 1989.

[Disco Stu 15,495]

Ah yes, 1989.  George Bush Sr. was sworn in as President, I got potty-trained.  Memorable year!

[publicist 4,643]

You had pottys!?

[Disco Stu 15,495]

Of course!  We shared an outhouse with the neighbors!

[publicist 4,643]

The privileged white american male.

[The Illustrious Jerry 3,356]

Country folk, no doubt. Tranquil?

[Sweeping Strings 2,346]

17 hours ago, Disco Stu said:

I haven't watched any of these movies very recently, but I just wanted to call attention to this particular weekend in American movie theaters.  What a set of choices!

 

June 23-25, 1989

 

Remember one of the reasons cited by EON for Licence To Kill's below-par performance at the US box-office that summer was the competition from the likes of Batman, Indy and Lethal Weapon 2 (released in July).     

[JoeinAR 1,949]

18 hours ago, Disco Stu said:

I haven't watched any of these movies very recently, but I just wanted to call attention to this particular weekend in American movie theaters.  What a set of choices!

 

June 23-25, 1989

 

As Drax would say its okay but this is way better...

 

[Jay 37,322]

On 11/10/2018 at 11:34 AM, Quintus said:

has anyone seen Bridge to Terabithia? I watched it recently with my two, it's such a wonderfully Spielbergian kids movie, with the quality almost to match his greatest successes in the genre.

 

I saw it in the theaters when it came out and liked it a lot!

[Jay 37,322]

21 hours ago, Disco Stu said:

I haven't watched any of these movies very recently, but I just wanted to call attention to this particular weekend in American movie theaters.  What a set of choices!

 

June 23-25, 1989

 

 

I fondly remember that summer (I was 9).  I hugely regret going out with friends to see Honey I Shrunk the Kids instead of Last Crusade, which I never saw until on VHS later.

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

The spring of 1998. Titanic, Lost in Space, Godzilla...

[JoeinAR 1,949]

Honey was more fun at the time but has not aged well.

12 minutes ago, Horner's Dynamic Range said:

The spring of 1998. Titanic, Lost in Space, Godzilla...

Titanic is awesome.

[John 2,032]

Anyone else think Avatar is much better than Titanic?

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

Fuck no.

 

Avatar has Sigourney in a denim shirt smoking, I'll give it that. But it cannot surpass the majesty of Titanic.

[Not Mr. Big 4,639]

2 hours ago, John said:

Anyone else think Avatar is much better than Titanic?

Yes!  

[A24 4,326]

Cameron is never going to top T2.

[publicist 4,643]

or 'Piranhas 2'

[Kasey Kockroach 2,343]

11 minutes ago, publicist said:

or 'Piranhas 2'

Now you’re speakin’ my language!

[Brundlefly 2,385]

5 hours ago, John said:

Anyone else think Avatar is much better than Titanic?

The movie Titanic is much better than the movie Avatar.

The scores are both not that good, although Titanic is definitely the inferior one.

[Not Mr. Big 4,639]

Avatar is a cinematic milestone and the score is a masterpiece.

[Disco Stu 15,495]

I think this is somewhat of a generational divide.

 

But also, I came out of Avatar in 2009 thinking it sucked and Cameron had lost it.  I stand by that position.

[Not Mr. Big 4,639]

Just now, Disco Stu said:

I think this is somewhat of a generational divide.

 

But also, I came out of Avatar in 2009 thinking it sucked and Cameron had lost it.  I stand by that position.

I'm with you.  I saw Avatar in theaters and thought it fucking sucked.  Now I fucking love it.

[A24 4,326]

8 minutes ago, Disco Stu said:

I think this is somewhat of a generational divide.

 

But also, I came out of Avatar in 2009 thinking it sucked and Cameron had lost it.  I stand by that position.

 

Piranha 2 sucked too. And so the circle is complete.

[SteveMc 2,674]

Titanic is much better.  Avatar represents a kind of filmmaking that makes me rather queasy.

I have only heard fragments of Horner's score, though.  Never really sparked my interest to hear more.  

[Brundlefly 2,385]

2 hours ago, Not Mr. Big said:

I'm with you.  I saw Avatar in theaters and thought it fucking sucked.  Now I fucking love it.

That's normally the course of your appreciation of masterpieces with difficult access.

 

Avatar is no masterpiece with difficult access.

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

Avatar is a white guilt movie.

[JoeinAR 1,949]

12 hours ago, Brundlefly said:

The movie Titanic is much better than the movie Avatar.

The scores are both not that good, although Titanic is definitely the inferior one.

Early onset Alzheimer's

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

Masters of the Universe

 

 

Cannon presents one of the most superb movies ever. It's better than Star Wars. It was the late 80s and even those brats in Ghostbusters II knew that He-Man was the shit. While Frank Langella steals the movie as Lord Skeletor, there is a fantastic cast of additional memorable characters with mucho awkward dialogue from Dolph, Evil-Lyn outclassing everyone and a midget alien that sounds like the purple dragon at EPCOT. Bill Conti's rousing score is better than most.

[John 2,032]

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1967)

 

I really, really liked this. Fine performances, starkly beautiful camerawork, an epic scope; I feel it has a lot in common with visual epics like Lawrence of Arabia and 2001. However, I felt the film ran a bit too long at times, as if it could've used a bit of trimming in some places. And I'm the type of person who likes my movies lengthy!

 

The score is absolutely magnificent. I really need to look into more of Morricone's work.

 

**** and 1/2 out of *****

[A24 4,326]

Koray will love you.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Its a great film!

[bollemanneke 3,338]

Raising Helen.

 

Meh, it was all right, I guess. Definitely liked the first half better, then lost interest and went back to relishing the newly announced Harry Potter soundtrack collection. Predictable movie, but tonight this was all I needed.

John Debney's score was very nice, as was most of the music, but there was some very bad dialogue editing going on as well.

[Brundlefly 2,385]

Brazil

 

"My complication has a little complication."

[Chen G. 3,944]

5 hours ago, John said:

However, I felt the film ran a bit too long at times, as if it could've used a bit of trimming in some places.

 

Was it the latest, extended cut? The one that's just pushing three hours? Because that's definitely a tad too long.

 

The American cut of the film is (mostly) much better.

 

Its not a studio cut, though: the "extended" cut was indeed Leone's cut for European audiences. Reproducing it in English did mean some rather egregious dubbing had to take place, which also hurts the film.

 

Otherwise, I find it excellent, not unlike you. There's no doubt in my mind that it was designed to be - as you pointed out - the western genre's equivalent of the historical epics of the era  - and I probably like it more than most of the era's output in the latter genre.

[Nick1Ø66 4,689]

Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

Miller's Crossing (1990)

 

Miller's Crossing is better.

[John 2,032]

3 hours ago, Chen G. said:

Was it the latest, extended cut? The one that's just pushing three hours? Because that's definitely a tad too long.

 

Yes, it was the three hour version.

[JoeinAR 1,949]

The Day the Earth Stood Still. Its truly a masterpiece. The acting is phenomenal by the two leads and Jaffe. Too bad it's genre Limited it's accessibility to Serious acting Awards.

[Brundlefly 2,385]

11 hours ago, Saint Nicholas MLXVI said:

Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

Miller's Crossing (1990)

 

Miller's Crossing is better.

That is the wrongest thing that anyone has ever said! You're an evil person and from now on your worst enemy is "Brundlefly"!