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

[The Great Gonzales 6,200]

[John Dutton 7,251]

He doesn't have any super abilities. 

[The Train Station 8,558]

He's the caped crusader.

[The Great Gonzales 6,200]

2 minutes ago, Brock Lovett said:

He doesn't have any super abilities. 

[Edmilson 8,680]

Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if they included other DC heroes in Superman '78... Doesn't need to be characters that would've been hard for 1970s special effects like Flash or Green Lantern, just Batman and Wonder Woman (who could've been played by Linda Carter).

[John Dutton 7,251]

I'm no Superman 

[The Train Station 8,558]

This is why Superman works alone

[The Great Gonzales 6,200]

I wonder what it's like to be a superhero...

[The Train Station 8,558]

1 minute ago, The Great Gonzales said:

I wonder what it's like to be a superhero...

 

 

 

[Naïve Old Fart 10,297]

Based upon @Sweeping Strings's recent viewing, I decided to give NO TIME TO DIE another chance.

(sigh) Why did I ever bother?

It's an "almost" film. It's almost good, it's almost exciting, it's almost got good cinematography, it's almost got a good score, everyone almost looks like they are interested in what they are doing, but... really it's a giant bollock-bag of dog shite.

Only the very, very cute Ana de Armas brings anything like fun to the film.

To say this about a Bond film is inexcusable. I wouldn't go so far as to say that it's the DIAL OF DESTINY of Bond films, but it's not far off.

It just looks, sounds, and feels so hackneyed, tired, and worn out.

The romance is unconvincing, the comedy falls flat by several miles, the action is meh, and has been done far better, and the villain is just a mopey dick, who dies in such a perfunctory fashion that you don't care what happens to him, anyway. Even Dominic Greene's off screen death was better served.

It's better to accept SPECTRE as the last of the Craig Bonds, with the two of them driving into the morning.

 

[Sweeping Strings 2,572]

Bond's 'Where'd you find the Book Of Mormon?' to Leiter about Logan Ash did make me chuckle, but not much else in it did. A Bond film that opens with a depressed woman (who's coping with same with pills and drink) being shot dead in front of her child shows how far we've strayed from escapist fun. Give me SPECTRE's pre-credits sequence over NTTD's any day of the week (well, until Sam Smith spoils the mood anyway).

Safin's wanting to vengefully take out all of SPECTRE does at least make sense. What doesn't is why he then wants to take Heracles 'global' ... I don't recall it being satisfactorily being explained, maybe you're just meant to think 'He's a Bond villain, it's what they do'. 

[The Train Station 8,558]

In Country

 

The shit I put myself through just to watch every last film James Horner scored. Fairly dry and largely forgotten melodrama. Cute blonde who had barely a career after this.

[Nick1Ø66 5,714]

1 hour ago, Unlucky Bastard said:

The shit I put myself through just to watch every last film James Horner scored

[The Train Station 8,558]

Maybe I'm a bit hard on In Country, because I enjoyed Moonstruck a lot. But this flick meandered a lot and could be improved by about 15 minutes being trimmed out.

[Edmilson 8,680]

I know the feeling. I've sat through a lot of crap movies as well just because I liked the composer and was curious to hear the score in context.

 

I don't do that anymore though. No amount of love for John Williams music will make me watch Heartbeeps.

[Tallguy 4,212]

25 minutes ago, Edmilson said:

No amount of love for John Williams music will make me watch Heartbeeps.

 

I'd rather watch it than Crystal Skull. I'd WAY rather listen to it.

 

(I remember liking Heartbeeps when I saw it in the theater. But I was very young and incredibly stupid.)

[The Train Station 8,558]

Oh Heartbeeps, there's one I need to find. I watched Monsignor recently just because it was on my JW checklist.

[John Dutton 7,251]

I just watch the same old crap that I already know is good, that way I'm never disappointed. 

[Tallguy 4,212]

5 minutes ago, Unlucky Bastard said:

Oh Heartbeeps, there's one I need to find. I watched Monsignor recently just because it was on my JW checklist.

 

Somehow I feel that watching Monsignor before I've ever seen Somewhere in Time would be wrong.

[The Train Station 8,558]

3 minutes ago, Brock Lovett said:

I just watch the same old crap that I already know is good, that way I'm never disappointed. 

 

I'm trying to hit 3,000 on my watched movies tally. I'm up to about 2,500 or so.

[Naïve Old Fart 10,297]

I saw MONSIGNOR at the cinema, in 1982.

Yes, reader, I was that dedicated 

 

Come to mention it, I've sat through a sackful of gob shite, at the flicks, just because John, or Jerry, scored it.

In no particular order:

MIDWAY 

THE SWARM 

THE BOOK THIEF 

CRYSTAL SKULL 

THE FORCE AWAKENS

SUPERGIRL 

POLTERGEIST II

FAR AND AWAY

HOME ALONE 2

THE PATRIOT

SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET

 

Soul-destroying stuff, and I shudder to think how many trillions of brain cells I lost, but at least they all had good scores.

[John Dutton 7,251]

The Patriot rules

[Nick1Ø66 5,714]

4 hours ago, Unlucky Bastard said:

 

I'm trying to hit 3,000 on my watched movies tally. I'm up to about 2,500 or so.

 

Have you really kept a list of every film you've seen? A friend of mine did that with books. I did neither, but wish I'd done both, it would be cool to look over that.

[tomsmoviemadness 3,466]

Born On The Fourth Of July

 

Fantaatic performance by Tom Cruise, one of his best!

The scenes in Vietnam were incredible, so visceral and well shot. The first part after he comes home sags a bit in my opinion, but other than that it's a great film.

 

And I wonder if there will ever come a day that I'm not going to be amazed by John Williams' craft. The solo trumpet theme in this sounds so simple, but it's just incredible how those few notes absolutely perfectly encapsulate the character in every aspect of his life. It's astonishing. Add to the the beautiful string work and the avant garde and horrific sequences for Vietnam and you have one of Williams' best dramatic score. Brilliant!

[Edmilson 8,680]

I've sat through The Patriot because of Williams as well. It's a meh movie, but I'm thankful I did because JW's score works beautifully in context.

 

But in terms of "movie I regret I saw because I like the score", nothing beats Maleficent. I actually bought a movie ticket for that crap just because of JNH and his music. The album was great and I wanted to see how it worked in context, too bad the movie is dogshit.

 

Here's some movies I was dumb enough to see in theaters and now I have nothing but regret for it:

 

• Battle: Los Angeles (I had to choose between that and Sucker Punch);
• Transformers 1-3;
• Fast & Furious 7 and 8;
• Maleficent;
• Dragonball Evolution;
• Angels & Demons;
• X-Men Origin: Wolverine;
• X-Men: Apocalypse;
• Terminator: Salvation;
• Terminator: Genisys;
• Angels & Demons;
• Tim Burton's Alice in CGILand;
• Green Lantern;
• The Amazing Spider-Man 1 and 2;
• Fantastic Four (2015);
• Independence Day Resurgence;
• Warcraft
• Justice League 2017;
• Fantastic Beasts 2
• That Bourne movie starring Hawkeye
• Maze Runner 2

And movies I'm thankful I didn't spend any money to see them in theaters:

 

• Die Hard 5
• G.I. Joe 1 and 2;
• Transformers 5
• Lady Ghostbusters;
• Eternals;
• The Marvels;
• Any Fast and Furious since the eighth one

[Nick1Ø66 5,714]

The only movie I regret seeing only for the score was M. Night Shyamalan's The Visit.

[Naïve Old Fart 10,297]

I saw Shyamalan's film about the talking trees that make people kill themselves.

Afterwards, I turned to my friend, and we both shrugged in disbelief, and went for a pizza.

 

@Edmilson, T SALVATION is shite. T GENISYS is even shiteier.

[Edmilson 8,680]

39 minutes ago, Nick1Ø66 said:

The only movie I regret seeing only for the score was M. Night Shyamalan's The Visit.

You mean The Village? I'm not sure if The Visit (the 2015 movie) had any score. I think it was a found footage flick...?

 

14 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

@Edmilson, T SALVATION is shite. T GENISYS is even shiteier.

They may be crap, but I still prefer them to Dark Fate. The sequel supposedly "blessed" by Cameron who killed John Connor in the prologue while he was still a boy just to replace him for some generic other Chosen One or whatever.

[Nick1Ø66 5,714]

5 minutes ago, Edmilson said:

You mean The Village? I'm not sure if The Visit (the 2015 movie) had any score. I think it was a found footage flick...?

 

 

[John Dutton 7,251]

Mishinfawmed

[The Great Gonzales 6,200]

14 minutes ago, Brock Lovett said:

Mishinfawmed

And scarred.

[Tallguy 4,212]

2 hours ago, Nick1Ø66 said:

 

 

 

That is my absolute favorite line in all of Casablanca. And I have a lot of favorite lines from Casablanca.

[The Train Station 8,558]

3 hours ago, Nick1Ø66 said:

 

Have you really kept a list of every film you've seen? A friend of mine did that with books. I did neither, but wish I'd done both, it would be cool to look over that.

 

About six or seven years ago, I decided to just write down every flick I'd ever seen in my Samsung Notes, to the best of my knowledge and memory over the course of my lifetime. I've been adding to it ever since. My rule is they must be feature-length movies. Short films don't count. And I've been transcribing my list to my Letterboxed account, because I get a little bored and sad at nighttime.

[Nick1Ø66 5,714]

14 hours ago, Unlucky Bastard said:

 

About six or seven years ago, I decided to just write down every flick I'd ever seen in my Samsung Notes, to the best of my knowledge and memory over the course of my lifetime. I've been adding to it ever since. My rule is they must be feature-length movies. Short films don't count. And I've been transcribing my list to my Letterboxed account, because I get a little bored and sad at nighttime.

That’s pretty cool.

[John Dutton 7,251]

It's a bit sad and demented isn't it? Anyway, I gotta get back to cataloging my Buffy dolls and watching the same old crap on cable edited with ad breaks even though I own it, alone in an air-conditioned chamber.

[The Train Station 8,558]

I am really deranged and disturbed.

[John Dutton 7,251]

[Bellosh 3,839]

Um half 

 

Went to a local bar for a burger tonight and they're usually playing random movies on their tv (hipster shit) but today they had Terminator 2 going 

 

That movie on mute is still 1000 times better than 99.9% of everything released today.

 

So. Good.

[John Dutton 7,251]

Sound is 50% of the experience

[Bellosh 3,839]

Yeah but when the movie is 500% amazing it don't matter 

[John Dutton 7,251]

If you've seen it enough times you can hear it in your brain anyway 

[Bellosh 3,839]

The practical effects. The fuckin helicopter on the freeway 

 

Modern movies wouldn't dare (no clue if it was a miniature) but fuck it 

[John Dutton 7,251]

I make regular drives through that overpass the chopper flies under.

[Bellosh 3,839]

'are you alright?!'

41 minutes ago, Brock Lovett said:

It's a bit sad and demented isn't it? Anyway, I gotta get back to cataloging my Buffy dolls and watching the same old crap on cable edited with ad breaks even though I own it, alone in an air-conditioned chamber.

 

Replace Buffy Dolls with Indy figs but holy shit this post hits home.

 

I literally just watch the same stuff over and over and don't even check out new stuff anymore.

 

Goddamn 

[Sweeping Strings 2,572]

Slipstream - otherwise known as the 80s sci-fi flick with Mark Hamill that isn't TESB or ROTJ. Pretty mediocre dystopian eco-fable (the title refers to a post-climate change wind current that encircles the globe) with bounty hunters pursuing an android blah blah blah. Nice Elmer Bernstein score, though. With Bill Paxton and Bob Peck. 

Maverick - big-screen adaptation of the comedy Western TV series, with Mel Gibson as the titular wisecracking card player and con artist getting into various scrapes as he attempts to raise the buy-in fee for a high-stakes riverboat poker tournament. Lots of fun with Jodie Foster, James Garner (one of the show's leads, of course) Alfred Molina and James Coburn plus cameos too numerous to list here.     

[Tom Guernsey 2,609]

9 minutes ago, Sweeping Strings said:

Maverick - big-screen adaptation of the comedy Western TV series, with Mel Gibson as the titular wisecracking card player and con artist getting into various scrapes as he attempts to raise the buy-in fee for a high-stakes riverboat poker tournament. Lots of fun with Jodie Foster, James Garner (one of the show's leads, of course) Alfred Molina and James Coburn plus cameos too numerous to list here.     

Shout out to Randy Newman's terrific score for this one. His only full on western score, but clearly musically very well suited to the genre. It also comes with an excellent anecdote from Randy who, when asked by Richard Donner to make the music funnier, suggested that Mr Donner may wish to stick his conductor's baton up his fundament... (as told to me by Randy Newman himself).

[karelm 3,013]

Over the weekend, I finally saw The Magnificent Seven (1960).  A great, great film that is a retelling of Kurosawa's Seven Samari (1954).  This one stars lots of tough guys like Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, and a bunch more.  What I loved about this film is how much charm, wit, and depth all the characters have.  They all have vulnerabilities and longings while never weighing the film down.  For example, the tough guys make fun of the villagers for being so weak and unprepared to defend themselves, but they later realize how a life of peace and joy has eluded them as gunmen, making them long for the peace and simple life the villagers enjoy.  Chuck Bronson laments not having a family and no one to remember him once he's gone.  Even the villain, Eli Wallach, has motivation, depth, and charm.  Very good movie with high stakes, charm, and fun.

[The Train Station 8,558]

The Name of the Rose

 

Featuring the most handsome cast ever assembled for a film.

[Nick1Ø66 5,714]

14 hours ago, Tallguy said:

 

That is my absolute favorite line in all of Casablanca. And I have a lot of favorite lines from Casablanca.

It’s also my favourite line from this, my favourite film. Quite possibly the finest delivery of a line ever by any actor in any role. 

 

Hollywood peaked with Casablanca in 1942 and has been playing catch-up ever since.

[The Train Station 8,558]

WB made tons of fun flicks in the 40s.