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

[A24 4,345]

3 hours ago, Bespin said:

See what GPT chat have to say about him: Roy Budd (1947-1993) was a British jazz and film composer

 

 

I thought it was him! Don't remember the title but I remember watching a movie that had some wonderful jazz harmonies and that's how I first encountered the name Roy Budd. I probably mentioned him before but I'm not going to search through my old posts. 

 

1 hour ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

 

You haven't seen GET CARTER?

 

I probably have but I don't remember all the movies that I saw when I was a kid. I do remember that, as a kid, I wasn't a huge fan of Michael Cain.

[Naïve Old Fart 9,551]

Alex, that's "Caine", and you need to watch GET CARTER, again.

 

GPT Chat can't even spell "haemorrhage" correctly.

Fucking robots.

 

[Edmilson 7,468]

My Cocaine.

[Bespin 8,484]

[Edmilson 7,468]

Adventure Time
Come on grab your friends
We'll go to very distant lands
With Jake the Dog and Finn the Human
The fun will never end, it's Adventure Time

[Raiders of the SoundtrArk 2,433]

Face/Off

 

A fun action movie, with some nice stunts. I've mainly watched it for Powell's score which is truly terrific. I really hope that he tackles its expansion with Intrada, it would be an instant buy

[Sweeping Strings 2,363]

Some of the most noticeable stunt doubles I've ever seen outside of Roger Moore's last couple of Bonds are in Face/Off. 

Angel Has Fallen - the third in the ' ... Has Fallen' franchise, this sees Gerard Butler's Secret Service agent Mike Banning framed for an assassination attempt on Morgan Freeman's President Trumbull and him going on the run to clear his name and to take out those really behind the plot. Nothing Earth-shattering, but perfectly acceptable Saturday-night-with-beer action entertainment. Also starring Danny Huston, Jada Pinkett-Smith and (in a hoot of a turn) Nick Nolte as Banning's 'off-grid' Dad.

X - (I know there's a 2022 movies thread, but I can't be arsed seeking it out to post this in it. So sue me) - in the summer of '79, a group of aspiring porno film-makers rent a guest-house on a Texan farm intending to use it to shoot a movie. However, when the elderly farm owners discover what they're up to they're none too happy ...

This take on slasher flicks contains the expected splattery gore and nods to other horrors whilst also working in themes like the elderly being jealous of youth having their whole lives in front of them (and of youth being freaked out by the old providing a unwelcome glimpse of their potential future). Pretty good stuff. 

[Bespin 8,484]

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[filmmusic 1,838]

 

I was searching for springtime movies, and in many lists I saw this.

Now, I've watched it in the past, but I didn't remember anything at all.

I'm at 45 minutes now but is this film weird/crazy or what? (let me remind you that it was Oscar nominated for best picture)

I am unsure where it's going and what is its point. Anyway, I'll come again here after I've finished it.

[Jurassic Shark 12,082]

Looking forward to your review!

 

9 hours ago, Sweeping Strings said:

I know there's a 2022 movies thread, but I can't be arsed seeking it out to post this in it. So sue me

 

Ooh, you didn't...

[Bespin 8,484]

[filmmusic 1,838]

1 hour ago, Jurassic Shark said:

Looking forward to your review!

Well, I just finished it.

I don't know. This film doesn't make ANY sense to me.  It feels all over the place, if this means anything.

By the way, I have never understood how baseball is played, but I guess it doesn't really matter here.

The James Horner score is quite good, but not Oscar nominated worthy if you ask me.. I would have definitely replaced it with Elfman's Batman.

 

[Edmilson 7,468]

1 hour ago, filmmusic said:

By the way, I have never understood how baseball is played, but I guess it doesn't really matter here.

 

Me neither. I've seen lots of American movies/TV shows that have scenes of characters playing baseball and that thing that they call football (for me football, or "futebol" in Portuguese, is what they call soccer) and I still don't understand the rules about those sports.

 

Ice hockey is the only North American sport I have no problem watching mostly because the sheer brutality is fun.

[Faleel 5,359]

I am American and I barely understand Baseball myself!

[Sweeping Strings 2,363]

The Spy Who Loved Me - after the lacklustre response to TMWTGG and the exiting of Harry Saltzman from their producing partnership, Cubby Broccoli thought 'Right, this thing needs a kick up the ass'. And kick it he did, beginning with the construction of the world's biggest soundstage in order to house the Liparus tanker interior set. 

Bond as 2 hours of sheer fun escapism ... Roger Moore is saving the world without also having the weight of it on his shoulders (unlike Bond of late), and goes through it all with his particular brand of suave but tongue-in-cheek unflappability. I don't care if Barbara Bach isn't that great of an actress ... she's gorgeous and we get some shower sideboob, yay! Plus there's the equally stunning Caroline Munro and Valerie Leon. 

The underwater Lotus, Jaws, some absolutely brilliant modelwork by Derek Meddings in the days before these things could be conjured up in a few mouse-clicks, Curt Jurgens with a suitably grandiose eeeeevil plot, THAT amazing pre-credit sequence stunt (leading into one of series' best ever songs) and even a couple of moments of suspense (the removal of the detonator from the nuke and the bit where the mechanism for the movement of the CCTV camera thingy jams while Bond is hanging from it close to a bomb he's just planted) ... it's a heady mix. And they could do worse than start making them a bit more like this again, unless they're happy to have other franchises (Mission Impossible, Kingsman) reminding them of what they used to do without self-consciousness.     

[Naïve Old Fart 9,551]

Agreed, on all counts, Sweep!

There's a very good reason that TSWLM is my third favourite Bond film.

[Sweeping Strings 2,363]

And then they went and took it all too far with Moonraker, lol. 

[Tallguy 3,401]

1 hour ago, Sweeping Strings said:

And then they went and took it all too far with Moonraker, lol. 

 

The double taking pigeon is apparently "too far". I'm pretty sure if you take out the gondola scene and... I forget which one had the stupid Lawrence of Arabia quote and which one had the stupid... Was it Magnificent Seven? Anyway, without the REALLY dumb bits Moonraker is the perfect Bond movie. For a more Roger Moore-ish Bond.

 

Oh, and the scene where the scientists all die because Bond left a vial out freaked me the hell out as a kid.

[Sweeping Strings 2,363]

Spy has the Lawrence bit and Moonraker the Magnificent Seven (Magnificent Double-Oh Seven, lol). Moonraker also has the 'nod' of the buttons of the keypad used to enter the lab playing the tune used to communicate with the aliens in Close Encounters. 

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57 minutes ago, Sweeping Strings said:

Moonraker also has the 'nod' of the buttons of the keypad used to enter the lab playing the tune used to communicate with the aliens in Close Encounters. 

 

That one I didn't mind because while I stopped finding Moore all that funny after I was 17 his reaction is priceless. HE is the one reacting with "Oh, come on! Seriously?"

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5 hours ago, Sweeping Strings said:

And then they went and took it all too far with Moonraker, lol. 

 

it has that space cue so it's fine

[Sweeping Strings 2,363]

A fine score indeed ... still waiting on another usage of 007, the 'secondary Bond theme'. Moonraker was the last time, so far. 

[Naïve Old Fart 9,551]

Agreed, Sweep. It seemed to fit the boat chase scene, even with its leisurely pacing, and its lush arrangement.

 

 

15 hours ago, Brónach said:

it has that space cue so it's fine

 

"Flight Into Space" is is right up there with"Journey To Blofeld's Hideaway", and "Space March", as among Barry's greatest individual cues.

[Sweeping Strings 2,363]

Cubby insisted that 'you let the audience know what a gadget is going to do in advance, then you let them see it doing it' but that doesn't happen with the 'Q Boat' in Moonraker (or with the explosive-containing watch with which Bond and Holly escape the shuttle blast chamber, if memory serves). 

[Naïve Old Fart 9,551]

The Q Boat is a nice surprise.

Is the watch that is used in MOONRAKER, the same "ticker tape" watch at the start of THE SPY WHO LOVED ME?

[Brónach 1,302]

i want the disco version of the space cue developed into a whole thing

[Sweeping Strings 2,363]

1 hour ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

The Q Boat is a nice surprise.

Is the watch that is used in MOONRAKER, the same "ticker tape" watch at the start of THE SPY WHO LOVED ME?

Same make, certainly - Moore wore Seikos from Spy through to AVTAK. Tag Heuer and then back to the Rolex for Dalton in TLD and LTK. Omegas for both Brosnan and Craig, I think (there's the reference in CR during Bond and Vesper's first meeting on the train). 

[Naïve Old Fart 9,551]

2 hours ago, Brónach said:

i want the disco version of the space cue developed into a whole thing

No. You don't. Believe me. You don't.

 

 

 

 

24 minutes ago, Sweeping Strings said:

 (there's the reference in CR during Bond and Vesper's first meeting on the train). 

 

"Rolex?"

"Omega".

"Beautiful".

[Brónach 1,302]

2 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

No. You don't. Believe me. You don't.

 

please tell me it's just a loop of those few seconds over and over

[Naïve Old Fart 9,551]

Still "no"...but I see where you're coming from.

[Sweeping Strings 2,363]

1 hour ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

No. You don't. Believe me. You don't.

 

 

 

 

 

"Rolex?"

"Omega".

"Beautiful".

Outside of champagne or whatever, brands are actually fairly rarely namechecked in the scripts (I can only assume Omega paid handsomely for the privilege). That said, I guess you could say it was a throwback to Fleming being broadly credited with the invention of product placement by always naming brands in the novels. 

[Tallguy 3,401]

40 minutes ago, Sweeping Strings said:

Outside of champagne or whatever, brands are actually fairly rarely namechecked in the scripts (I can only assume Omega paid handsomely for the privilege). That said, I guess you could say it was a throwback to Fleming being broadly credited with the invention of product placement by always naming brands in the novels. 

 

TBF, Flemming just named all of the stuff that HE liked that he thought YOU should like, too.

[Naïve Old Fart 9,551]

Not everyone has Flemming's taste...or bank balance 

[filmmusic 1,838]

 

Entertaining 80s adventure, when films had a heart (compare eg. the car chase here with the chase in that awful Indy 5 scene I witnessed in that other thread).

 

[Brónach 1,302]

when films had a heart, like RAN and KAGEMUSHA

[Tallguy 3,401]

5 minutes ago, filmmusic said:

Entertaining 80s adventure, when films had a heart (compare eg. the car chase here with the chase in that awful Indy 5 scene I witnessed in that other thread).

 

Well. Romancing the Stone was the kind of film that people talking about it in the 80's would say things like "This is a throwback to when films had a heart!"

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24 minutes ago, Brónach said:

when films had a heart, like RAN and KAGEMUSHA

Haven't seen those. I generally don't like samurai films, but I guess I will watch them at some point since it's Kurosawa.

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[Naïve Old Fart 9,551]

You watched a menu? How was it?

[Chen G. 3,950]

4 hours ago, filmmusic said:

Haven't seen those. I generally don't like samurai films, but I guess I will watch them at some point since it's Kurosawa.

 

Seen a King Lear? That's Ran, basically.

[Bespin 8,484]

Now I only watch movies according to their scores.

 

Yes, some are very dull... I focus on the music, and the menus!

[Marian Schedenig 8,207]

42 minutes ago, Chen G. said:

Seen a King Lear? That's Ran, basically.

 

Yes, but King Lear had Sir Ian McKellen spill water on my jacket, no Kurosawa film can do that.  (I admit that seeing any Kurosawa at all is still on my todo list though).

[Romão 2,274]

46 minutes ago, Bespin said:

Now I only watch movies according to their scores.

 

Yes, some are very dull... I focus on the music, and the menus!

 

Well, Ran has one the all time greatest film scores, so you're safe in that regard

[Jurassic Shark 12,082]

Not familiar with that.

[Naïve Old Fart 9,551]

JS, RAN is superb!

 

 

Ok, guys, and guyesses, I'm about to start an X-Men marathon.

Which films do I watch, first?

Do I watch the original films, or the reboot stuff?

Bear in mind that I do not own DARK PHOENIX, and I absolutely refuse to watch LAST STAND. That still gives me five films to play around with.

So...choices are:

A) original stuff 

B) reboot stuff

C) they're all gobshite, anyway.

 

 What say you, good JWfaner?

 

[A24 4,345]

You only need to watch the first one from 2000.

 

[Naïve Old Fart 9,551]

Thanks, Alex.

Tbh, that was probably my decision, as well.