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

[LSH 969]

32 minutes ago, bruce marshall said:

I hate posters that feature the stars holding guns!

Especially these days.

 

I honestly can't tell if you're being sarcastic.

 

 

[bruce marshall 1,315]

38 minutes ago, LSH said:

 

I honestly can't tell if you're being sarcastic.

 

 

I'm serious.

I've always been bothered by the glorification of firearms in Hollywood advertising.

 

[LSH 969]

24 minutes ago, bruce marshall said:

I'm serious.

I've always been bothered by the glorification of firearms in Hollywood advertising.

 

 

I honestly can't tell if you're being sarcastic.

[bruce marshall 1,315]

THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN

 

The basement section is still thrilling and suspenseful.

The ending poetic and haunting.

 

But, that corny library score😒!

 

If only Bennie Herrmann scored this.

 

 

[Edmilson 7,466]

Sphere (1998)

 

It has a nice premise that could've been a cool, thought-provoking sci-fi in the hands of a more competent screenwriter. Unfortunately, the movie we got is boring and a little silly.

 

Goldenthal's music is great though. I miss the days when even crap movies like this one had awesome scores.

[Raiders of the SoundtrArk 2,433]

Jackson was great too, while the end was really disappointing, like if the writer didn't know how to explain is idea

[filmmusic 1,836]

Terminator 2: Judgment day

Still a masterpiece!

I don't watch recent films. Do they make blockbusters like this still?

[Naïve Old Fart 9,542]

No, they do not.

[A24 4,338]

25 minutes ago, filmmusic said:

Terminator 2: Judgment day

Still a masterpiece!

I don't watch recent films. Do they make blockbusters like this still?

 

You don't watch Marvel flicks?!

[filmmusic 1,836]

2 minutes ago, AC1 said:

 

You don't watch Marvel flicks?!

No, I don't.

[A24 4,338]

Do you think movies are like wine and you need to wait before they have they right age before you consume them?

[filmmusic 1,836]

Just now, AC1 said:

Do you think movies are like wine and you need to wait before they have they right age before you consume them?

Well, I don't think I will ever watch them.

I generally don't watch films post-2010.

I don't like digital (the lack of grain that is), I don't like the soundtracks, I don't like lots of CGI etc.

[Jurassic Shark 12,079]

There's few movies made nowadays that interest me.

[A24 4,338]

But you are interested in their scores, right?

[Jurassic Shark 12,079]

Very rarely. Now I'm looking at old scores over at Kritzerland.

[Edmilson 7,466]

6 hours ago, filmmusic said:

I don't watch recent films. Do they make blockbusters like this still?

Nope, they absolutely don't. I like some of Marvel movies, but they're not on the same league as the classics from the past.

[Raiders of the SoundtrArk 2,433]

I would say that there are still great blockbusters today but because they are recent none of them receive the aura of a Terminator, a Back to the Future or a Predator just to quote some great hits of the 80's/90's. They are mostly trash as bad pop-corn flicks made only to earn money to the big majors.

It's sad.

[Jay 37,369]

 

Drop Dead Gorgeous

 

LOLOL!  I had never seen this film before, and boy have I been missing out - it's great!  It's a mockumentary sort of like the Christopher Guest ones, but with more plot and zippier pacing. 

 

The cast is utterly stacked - Kirsten Dunst, Denise Richards, Amy Adams, and Brittany Murphy are high school seniors competing in a local beauty pageant in small Minnesota hometown with dreams of going to the state, and then national pageant; Then you also got Kirstie Alley, Allison Janney, Ellen Barkin (Hilarious!), Sam McMurray, Mike McShane, Will Sasso as their parents or judges, not to mention appearances by Adam West, Nora Dunn, Mo Gaffney... just top to bottom full of hilarious people, or people not normally known for being funny, being funny here.  We both liked it a lot - check it out!

 

It's on HBO Max

[bollemanneke 3,349]

The last of the mohicans, 1992.

 

War is still boring, although I will admit the finale was really moving, especially given the fact that Alice never said one word in the entire movie. Which leads me to the first problem: nobody is likeable. Cora is overly dramatic, Waddington is annoying… Okay, I guess Hawkeye was kind of good. The first half was over before I realised it too.

Now, the score. I already knew the main theme and it’s great and all, but for a score written by two composers, it’s a huge failure. The themes are repeated ad nauseum and hardly change keys. Also, why does most of it sound like some kind of mournful Irish jig? It’s all too Zimmeresque too and I am immensely grateful to the person who decided to record the sound of this movie at 32KBPS. Really? As if having to use one earbud wasn’t enough. Off to worry about my seed now.

[Jay 37,369]

 

My Cousin Vinny

 

I've always loved this movie and am happy to report IT. HOLDS. UP!! 

 

I hadn't seen it since I was a kid, but goddamn, it's great - extremely well-paced, all the actors are great, the story is sound, and it's funny as hell.  This film has so many classic, memorable lines and bits.  And this time I got stuff that either flew over my head as a kid, or were cut out of the TV versions I saw, like when Pesci visits them in jail and Karate Kid's buddy thinks he's talking about something different than he actually is - ha!

 

It's on HBO Max

[LSH 969]

1 hour ago, Jay said:

IT. HOLDS. UP!! 

 

It really does. Much like Marisa Tomei. 

[bruce marshall 1,315]

On 03/02/2022 at 12:05 AM, Jurassic Shark said:

There's few movies made nowadays that interest me.

There are few posts by you that interest me.

😎

[Jurassic Shark 12,079]

2 minutes ago, bruce marshall said:

There are few posts by you that interest me.

😎

 

Yet you love them.

[bruce marshall 1,315]

5 minutes ago, Jurassic Shark said:

 

Yet you love them.

God help me, I do love them so!*

 

 

 

 

* let's see if any of the cinema illiterates here can identify that quotes origin😉

 

[Jurassic Shark 12,079]

The Ray Charles biopic?

[Holko 9,529]

How to Steal a Million - pretty fun! Just by ear I think roughly half the released score cues are unused, and half the used cues are unreleased because mono is evil.

[publicist 4,643]

On 30/01/2022 at 3:30 PM, Edmilson said:

Sphere (1998)

 

It has a nice premise that could've been a cool, thought-provoking sci-fi in the hands of a more competent screenwriter. Unfortunately, the movie we got is boring and a little silly.

 

Goldenthal's music is great though. I miss the days when even crap movies like this one had awesome scores.

 

It's based on a Michael Crichton book that could be great or awful, depending on when it was actually written, but the score is probably the last really brilliant sci-fi score in existence.

[bruce marshall 1,315]

22 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said:

The Ray Charles biopic?

At 2:30

A cinematic masterpiece.

Watch it,  even if it doesn't have a JW score or Marvel super heroes.

😎

[Tallguy 3,398]

8 hours ago, bruce marshall said:

Watch it,  even if it doesn't have a JW score or Marvel super heroes.

 

So you're saying it has Batman?

[GerateWohl 4,370]

I recently watched Jaws with my wife. Was a first time experience for her. And that was actually quite interesting.

Basically, she was shocked, what cruel things these people are doing to this poor animal, that just follows its nature. So, they decide to brutally kill this rare special animal just because they want to have fun on the beach.

 

What I found interesting, that the film actually allowed that compassionate view for the animal.

[Bespin 8,483]

The shark is called Bruce.

 

Bruce is in plastic.

 

Bruce didn't worked well.

 

Did you say that to her?

[Tallguy 3,398]

22 minutes ago, GerateWohl said:

I recently watched Jaws with my wife. Was a first time experience for her. And that was actually quite interesting.

Basically, she was shocked, what cruel things these people are doing to this poor animal, that just follows its nature. So, they decide to brutally kill this rare special animal just because they want to have fun on the beach.

 

What I found interesting, that the film actually allowed that compassionate view for the animal.

 

That sounds like the point of view that Peter Benchley took later in life.

[publicist 4,643]

31 minutes ago, GerateWohl said:

Basically, she was shocked, what cruel things these people are doing to this poor animal, that just follows its nature.

 

Yeah right, because the shark in 'Jaws' portrays very typical shark behaviour, right down to dragging a 10 meter boat under water and exploding when a quarter-full oxygen tank goes off in its mouth (sarcasm alert!).

[Disco Stu 15,495]

I remember back in the 90s watching that weird Peter Benchley TV mini-series with Craig T. Nelson about the mutant shark-person-monster.  Weird.

[GerateWohl 4,370]

53 minutes ago, publicist said:

 

Yeah right, because the shark in 'Jaws' portrays very typical shark behaviour, right down to dragging a 10 meter boat under water and exploding when a quarter-full oxygen tank goes off in its mouth (sarcasm alert!).

Yeah, your view would have been the alternative: What a stupid unbelievable unrealistic story and crap of a movie.

But I think, not eveyone has such high standards about movie stories as you that they even call Jaws crap (sarcasm alert!)

[Bespin 8,483]

I never saw the ecological issue with Jaws.

 

This conversation is so interesting! (sarcasm alert take III).

[publicist 4,643]

1 hour ago, GerateWohl said:

Yeah, your view would have been the alternative: What a stupid unbelievable unrealistic story and crap of a movie.

But I think, not eveyone has such high standards about movie stories as you that they even call Jaws crap (sarcasm alert!)

 

Jaws is a masterpiece, but that hasn't got anything to do with it depicting realistic shark behaviour, which you were referring to. It's a demon shark and for the sake of the movie, we are willing to suspend our disbelief up to a point. But certainly we don't believe for a minute that the things how they happen in this movie are shark-istiky possible, or at least i hope we don't.

[GerateWohl 4,370]

1 hour ago, publicist said:

 

Jaws is a masterpiece, but that hasn't got anything to do with it depicting realistic shark behaviour, which you were referring to. It's a demon shark and for the sake of the movie, we are willing to suspend our disbelief up to a point. But certainly we don't believe for a minute that the things how they happen in this movie are shark-istiky possible, or at least i hope we don't.

I tend to disagree. The shark was in the mid seventies realistic enough to empty the beaches.

Maybe from today's point of view you and after seeing the movie several times you came to that demon shark interpretation. But I have luckily not seen to many shark movies, but usually sharks there behave very unnaturally, and Jaws is one of the more realistic ones, even though it is of course very exaggerated.

 

[publicist 4,643]

1 hour ago, GerateWohl said:

I tend to disagree. The shark was in the mid seventies realistic enough to empty the beaches.

Maybe from today's point of view you and after seeing the movie several times you came to that demon shark interpretation. But I have luckily not seen to many shark movies, but usually sharks there behave very unnaturally, and Jaws is one of the more realistic ones, even though it is of course very exaggerated.

 

 

The shark, never mind it's a rubber model, as it is portrayed in the movie, does things that are neither physically possible (not even in the 70's, whatever that means) nor in the nature of the shark as a maritime being. No, a shark couldn't drag three barrels below the waterline, wouldn't follow and attack the boat like a stalker and wouldn't explode (i think Mythbusters did an episode on it). I didn't think anyone would actually watch this movie and come away from it even remotely thinking that could be the case. Be that as it may, even its makers considered the shark a supernatural force, but you can read or watch several very entertaining essays clarifying that. 

[Bespin 8,483]

We have a title for a reboot: Jaws - The Demon Shark

[Naïve Old Fart 9,542]

A man walks into a bar and says to his friend: "Have you see the movie Jaws?". The friend says: "What's Jaws?". The man says: "Thanks, I'll have a pint" 

[Marian Schedenig 8,200]

9 hours ago, GerateWohl said:

I recently watched Jaws with my wife. Was a first time experience for her. And that was actually quite interesting.

Basically, she was shocked, what cruel things these people are doing to this poor animal, that just follows its nature. So, they decide to brutally kill this rare special animal just because they want to have fun on the beach.

 

What I found interesting, that the film actually allowed that compassionate view for the animal.

 

I've always thought the film actually supports that view, to an extent, at least until they get on the boat. Or rather, Hooper's character does, but he doesn't let that bother him as far as dealing with that specific individual shark goes.

[bruce marshall 1,315]

8 hours ago, GerateWohl said:

Yeah, your view would have been the alternative: What a stupid unbelievable unrealistic story and crap of a movie.

But I think, not eveyone has such high standards about movie stories as you that they even call Jaws crap (sarcasm alert!)

ORCA was realistic.

Not JAWS

😎

[A24 4,338]

The Bad Batch (2016)

 

 

Female version of Max Max in a world that is not searching for gas but where people eat people. Keanu Reeves' sewer monologue is a highlight. Also starring Jason Mamoa. 5/10

 

 

[Naïve Old Fart 9,542]

2 hours ago, AC1 said:

Also starring Jason Mamoa.

Thanks for that, Alex. I'll avoid it.

[A24 4,338]

[A24 4,338]

Annihilation (2018)

 

 

Hard to believe Alex '28 Day Later' Garland wrote the weak dialogue of this movie. Also, and maybe I missed something, but why is it an all-female team that goes into the danger zone? Watchable but not good at all.

[Sweeping Strings 2,363]

On the Jaws discussion - surely the ultimate 'shark wouldn't/can't do that' thing in the franchise is another Great White bearing a grudge against the remainder of the Brody family and following them to act on it in the terrible Jaws : The Revenge.   

[Naïve Old Fart 9,542]

I watched a film, last night. I liked it, but the first rule of this film is, I can't talk about it. The second rule of this film is, I can't talk about it. The third rule of this fi- 

 

("Shut up!" The moderators)

 

 

[JNHFan2000 2,966]

Started watching some 'older' movies I've never seen before.

3 quarters into Star Trek: The Motion Picture. It's kinda slow, but enjoyable.

Goldsmith's score is amazing tho!