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

[Tallguy 3,365]

32 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

...except that they would have never have found The Ark of the Covenant, because Belloq's staff was too long.

The film needed Indy, and the medallion, to find the correct location of the Well of the Souls.

 

No, because they would have had the actual headpiece rather than just Toht's burn. They would have had both sides and the correct translation.

 

(I haven't watched any movies. We just finished the 4th season of Leverage.)

[Naïve Old Fart 9,496]

3 hours ago, Tallguy said:

No, because they would have had the actual headpiece rather than just Toht's burn. They would have had both sides and the correct translation.

In that case, why isn't the film called NAZI SCUM AND THE RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK? Eh? Eh?!

[Koray Savas 2,251]

Game Night

 

Sharply written dark comedy with a good ensemble cast. Jesse Plemons is superb in every scene he’s in. The long, albeit stitched together, oner in the mansion was a nice bit of flair for a comedy. The establishing shots using miniatures also set a unique mood. 

[Jay 37,287]

Here's a fun fact for you: Those weren't miniatures, those where real normal locations!  They used a filming technique called Tilt Shift Photography to make it look like that.  Here's some more info:

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieDetails/comments/90w0uu/game_night_uses_the_tilt_shift_effect_to_make_the/

https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/818zi6/we_are_the_directors_of_game_night_john_francis/

 

And yes, fun movie that was much better than could have been expected.  Jesse Plemons absolutely killed it.

[Tallguy 3,365]

30 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

In that case, why isn't the film called NAZI SCUM AND THE RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK? Eh? Eh?!

 

This weird movie where Indy is irrelevant to the plot? Maybe it should be called that. 

 

But in Raiders of the Lost Ark the character of Indiana Jones is integral to the story. No matter what the lady from Jeopardy would have you believe. 

[Marian Schedenig 8,172]

4 hours ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

...except that they would have never have found The Ark of the Covenant, because Belloq's staff was too long.

The film needed Indy, and the medallion, to find the correct location of the Well of the Souls.

 

Aside from the fact that they might have found it themselves without Indy's intervention - so what? Only difference would have been no top men working on it in the end.

 

Basically, his main contribution was fighting the Nazis in Nepal, and that would only have helped if he'd stopped right there. After that, the rest was making things even worse than before and trying (and failing) to fix them again.

[Tom Guernsey 2,280]

8 hours ago, Sweeping Strings said:

Can't say I've seen those. Isn't Dracula : Dead And Loving It also regarded as not being one of Mel Brooks' better efforts? 
  

At the risk of slightly off topic, it should be said that whatever the merits of the film (I think I’ve seen it but don’t recall much if I did…) but Hummie Mann’s score is terrific. 

[JoeinAR 1,949]

Several of us are going to see Carrie on its 45 Anniversary. As old as I am I was not old enough to see Carrie in the theatre without my parents.  I have never seen it on the big screen. Grest movie with a great score.

[Bespin 8,478]

Tonight I watch The Invisible Man (1933).

 

I expect incredible special effects.

[Tallguy 3,365]

37 minutes ago, Bespin said:

I expect incredible special effects.

 

Can't tell if you're being sarcastic. But they are certainly clever. It's more of a magic trick than "Oh! That looks totally real!" Corridor Crew (YouTube) did an episode on it a few weeks ago.

 

It's almost amazing that they even attempted it.

[Romão 2,274]

3 hours ago, Tom Guernsey said:

At the risk of slightly off topic, it should be said that whatever the merits of the film (I think I’ve seen it but don’t recall much if I did…) but Hummie Mann’s score is terrific. 

 

Indeed. I hope it sees a release soon. 

 

The movies made me laugh a lot, too

 

"MIna...you are in the closet"

[Koray Savas 2,251]

4 hours ago, Jay said:

Here's a fun fact for you: Those weren't miniatures, those where real normal locations!  They used a filming technique called Tilt Shift Photography to make it look like that.  Here's some more info:

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieDetails/comments/90w0uu/game_night_uses_the_tilt_shift_effect_to_make_the/

https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/818zi6/we_are_the_directors_of_game_night_john_francis/

 

And yes, fun movie that was much better than could have been expected.  Jesse Plemons absolutely killed it.

Neat! Thanks for sharing. 
 

1 hour ago, Romão said:

 

Indeed. I hope it sees a release soon. 

 

The movies made me laugh a lot, too

 

"MIna...you are in the closet"

Shout Factory is finally releasing the film on blu-ray this November. Maybe that opens up some doors for a score release.

[Bespin 8,478]

4 hours ago, JoeinAR said:

Several of us are going to see Carrie on its 45 Anniversary. As old as I am I was not old enough to see Carrie in the theatre without my parents.  I have never seen it on the big screen. Grest movie with a great score.

 

[Romão 2,274]

2 hours ago, Tallguy said:

 

 Corridor Crew (YouTube) did an episode on it a few weeks ago.

 

 

Got a link for that video? I looked for it on their channel, but didn't seem to find it

[Tallguy 3,365]

22 minutes ago, Romão said:

 

Got a link for that video? I looked for it on their channel, but didn't seem to find it

 

That actually was kind of a pain to find. Wow, two months ago. It's been a fast summer.

 

 

[Romão 2,274]

Thank you for that

[Naïve Old Fart 9,496]

10 hours ago, Bespin said:

Tonight I watch The Invisible Man (1933).

 

I expect incredible special effects.

For 1933, they were groundbreaking.

Claude Rains is fantastic...although, on the whole, he rather wished he stayed in Tunbridge Wells 

[Bespin 8,478]

Great Special Effects indeed! But, for me, it's a little less "terrific" than a Monster like Frankenstein or Dracula.

 

After all he's just invisible and very cranked.

[Sweeping Strings 2,344]

Anyone else remember the mid-70s TV Invisible Man with David McCallum? 

[A24 4,326]

Of course, I was there when it happened. But it leaned towards the watch of Gemini Man (which allowed for 15 minutes of invisibility) with Ben Murphy.

 

[Naïve Old Fart 9,496]

2 hours ago, Sweeping Strings said:

Anyone else remember the mid-70s TV Invisible Man with David McCallum? 

I do. I also remember some nonsense called SAPPHIRE AND STEEL.

 

 

1 hour ago, AC1 said:

Of course, I was there when it happened. But it leaned towards the watch of Gemini Man (which allowed for 15 minutes of invisibility) with Ben Murphy.

 

This was also good.

[JoeinAR 1,949]

10 hours ago, Bespin said:

Great Special Effects indeed! But, for me, it's a little less "terrific" than a Monster like Frankenstein or Dracula.

 

After all he's just invisible and very cranked.

i totally believe he is gay

[Bespin 8,478]

Ok, so that's creepy.

[Sweeping Strings 2,344]

18 hours ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

I do. I also remember some nonsense called SAPPHIRE AND STEEL.

 

 

This was also good.

Ah yes, with Joanna Lumley. Basically ITV looking at the success of Doctor Who with envy and thinking 'Oh we'll have a bit of that, thank you very much' (see also The Tomorrow People and then from the DW initial revival era, Primeval). 

[Naïve Old Fart 9,496]

I enjoyed early episodes of THE TOMORROW PEOPLE, but I never got into PRIMEVAL.

Growing up, I was more into SPACE:1999, BLAKE'S 7, SURVIVORS, THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS, ITV's superior adaptation of CHOCKY, and THE CHANGES, a show that scared the living shit out of me when I first saw it!

Honestly, I tried to use the loo afterwards, but I couldn't, because it was all on the lounge carpet.

Does anybody remember a dreadful Aussie show, called PHOENIX 5? Awful.

Although they weren't very good, I also watched TERRAHAWKS, and SPACE PRECINCT.

[Sweeping Strings 2,344]

Your mention of Terrahawks has made Star Fleet pop into my head. Music by Brian May! 
 

 

[A24 4,326]

19 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

I enjoyed early episodes of THE TOMORROW PEOPLE, but I never got into PRIMEVAL.

Growing up, I was more into SPACE:1999, BLAKE'S 7, SURVIVORS, THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS, ITV's superior adaptation of CHOCKY, and THE CHANGES, a show that scared the living shit out of me when I first saw it!

Honestly, I tried to use the loo afterwards, but I couldn't, because it was all on the lounge carpet.

Does anybody remember a dreadful Aussie show, called PHOENIX 5? Awful.

Although they weren't very good, I also watched TERRAHAWKS, and SPACE PRECINCT.

 

Of the ones you mentioned here, only Blake's 7 and Space 1999 are known in the Low Countries. Of course, there was also Doctor Who.

 

[Naïve Old Fart 9,496]

On 25/09/2021 at 12:07 PM, Sweeping Strings said:

Your mention of Terrahawks has made Star Fleet pop into my head. Music by Brian May! 
 

 

Ah, yes! I'd forgotten all about STAR FLEET.

The Brian May mini-album is not bad. The track Blues Breakers is great.

[Kasey Kockroach 2,343]

The Brood

 

Spoiler

Amidst my anxiety whilst witnessing this film's terrifying last third, I anticipated we'd end on the daughter becoming another killer like the other children and murder her father in the car. Relieved we ended on a more ominous note than anything overt, and the fact that I expected such in the form of a jumpscare probably says a fair bit about what kind of horror movies I usually watch.

A compellingly uncomfortable watch, right from the opening scene. I have little to no experience with Cronenberg beyond The Fly (as a movie with goopy bug monster is inherently going to appeal to me more from the get-go), and I hope to remedy that now.

[Matt C 452]

Carrie (1976)

 

I know horror fans put this on a pedestal, but it’s pretty schlocky. Spacek’s performance is terrific and she sells the repression, rage and angst as King described in his novel. Same with Piper Laurie as her religious fanatic mother.
 

But the piece de resistance— the prom sequence— is unintentionally funny, like Friday the 13th. Brian de Palma tries to wow with these split screen effects and watching Carrie’s tormentors get their just desserts. It didn’t age well.

 

Spacek’s performance is what really makes the film memorable. She sells it big time, even if the director botched the climatic scene.

[Sweeping Strings 2,344]

Its 45th anniversary seems a curious reason for the cinema re-release ... 40th or 50th I would kinda get, but 45th?  

[Matt C 452]

28 Days Later

 

It's chilling in places, the character building actually works for the most part, but the shoddy camerawork and messy climax really work against it. And while I like to pick on Anthony Dod Mantle here, the digital video aesthetic gives it a certain documentary look (especially in the first 15 minutes) that is unnerving.

[Bespin 8,478]

I tried to watch The Bride of Frankenstein yesterday, And I've stopped it at this scene:

 

 

So already, 2nd film... they went from a pretty serious and creepy movie to a spoof.

[GerateWohl 4,330]

On 27/09/2021 at 3:08 AM, Matt C said:

Carrie (1976)

 

I know horror fans put this on a pedestal, but it’s pretty schlocky. Spacek’s performance is terrific and she sells the repression, rage and angst as King described in his novel. Same with Piper Laurie as her religious fanatic mother.
 

But the piece de resistance— the prom sequence— is unintentionally funny, like Friday the 13th. Brian de Palma tries to wow with these split screen effects and watching Carrie’s tormentors get their just desserts. It didn’t age well.

 

Spacek’s performance is what really makes the film memorable. She sells it big time, even if the director botched the climatic scene.

I have seen the movie just once. But it did not really work for me as a horror movie. Because nothing like horror happens in the movie until the very end.So, 80-90% of the movie is just some kind of psycho drama and horror comes into play at about the last 15 minutes?

I watched it on video at a time where I used to watch a lot of horror movie. And I was used to something creepy happening at least every half hour or 20 minutes. So, for me Carrie was not a bad movie, but just mislabled.

 

[JoeinAR 1,949]

I guess you missed all the little moments of creepiness. The fact that the movie ooens when Carrie is having her first period is something no movie had ever shown, nor has it shown since. Not even the remakes go there. 

 

Brilliant film with superb acting.

56 minutes ago, Bespin said:

I tried to watch The Bride of Frankenstein yesterday, And I've stopped it at this scene:

 

 

So already, 2nd film... they went from a pretty serious and creepy movie to a spoof.

Don't let yourself stop. The ending is superb. Its inssne

[Tallguy 3,365]

Didn't James Whale say that both Frankenstein films to him were comedies? Or was that just Ian McKellen?

[Koray Savas 2,251]

1 hour ago, Bespin said:

I tried to watch The Bride of Frankenstein yesterday, And I've stopped it at this scene:

 

 

So already, 2nd film... they went from a pretty serious and creepy movie to a spoof.

The special effects in that scene are awesome. 

[Tallguy 3,365]

It took years (and a more adult understanding of time) before I realized that Pretorius wasn't played by Peter Cushing.

[Naïve Old Fart 9,496]

It's the type of role that he could have played, easily.

Ernest Thesiger plays it to deranged perfection.

[JoeinAR 1,949]

We belong dead. Such profound words from a dead thing.

[Naïve Old Fart 9,496]

Agreed. The so-called "monster", is the character with the most humanity.

[Bespin 8,478]

I'll try to coninue the movie tonight, lowering my expectations.

 

Yesterday I rewatched a movie I liked when I was a teen: Fright Night.

 

It remains a movie with plenty of dull moments, but also classical ones!

 

[Bespin 8,478]

I rewatched Ed Wood by Tim Burton.

 

Delicious. Like the filmkaker already said, the goal of this movie was not to ridiculize again people that have already been in ther times, but to present their story with a more intimate perspective.

 

It's not an accurate biopic of the joyous band that accompanied Ed Wood in his crazy ideas of movies, but Tim Burton found a way to make them endearing.

 

And well, the portraying of an old, sick, broke and addicted Bela Lugosi in his last years, by Martin Landau, is a must watch.

 

BEVAAAARE! BEVAAAARE!!!

[Jurassic Shark 12,028]

Pull the strings!

[GerateWohl 4,330]

On 28/09/2021 at 3:11 PM, JoeinAR said:

I guess you missed all the little moments of creepiness. The fact that the movie ooens when Carrie is having her first period is something no movie had ever shown, nor has it shown since. Not even the remakes go there. 

I started to read the book before. And the scene with Carrie's first period was a 1:1 adaptation from the book, so I was neither surprised nor impressed.

I liked The Fury much better, probably had less expectations.

[JoeinAR 1,949]

Comparing Carrie to the Fury is odd. Its like comparing MNS The Sixth Sense to The Happening.  

When you realize the director has lost what he had.

[Jurassic Shark 12,028]

C'mon, a girl having her first period doesn't qualify as creepy.

[A24 4,326]

 

About Carrie, that's how I remember it too (à la Geratewohl) but it has been a gazillion years since I've seen it. The only scene that impacted me in The Fury is the slow motion car scene (that is, if there's such a scene in it). De Palma's slow motion scene are always impactful. 

[Marian Schedenig 8,172]

5 hours ago, GerateWohl said:

I started to read the book before. And the scene with Carrie's first period was a 1:1 adaptation from the book, so I was neither surprised nor impressed.

I liked The Fury much better, probably had less expectations.

 

I'm of the extreme minority (or perhaps alone) that thinks The Fury isn't very much worse, and perhaps even "better" than Carrie. There's certainly much to like about Carrie, but it never fully convinces me. The camp is too artificial for me (Fury may be campy, but in a more (to me) believable way), and like with The Exorcist, I find much of the religious stuff more goofy than frightening (though at least some parts of Carrie still work better for me). Technically (or budget wise?), De Palma also advanced between the two films. And while Donaggio's score is perfectly good (though you have to be in the right mood for his syrupy soft-porn style main themes), few scores ever have achieved what Williams' score does in The Fury, and in many different ways.

[JoeinAR 1,949]

6 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said:

C'mon, a girl having her first period doesn't qualify as creepy.

Really? So women bleed out of their vajajas and getting telekinesis is normal in your experience.