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

[A24 4,345]

2 hours ago, Richard said:

PIRANHA II is an I interesting film. The female lead is definitely a proto-Ripley.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Quintus 5,399]

I always prefer the rawer lo-fi feel of T1 over the sprawling big budget sequel. It's a scarier movie, too.

[Chen G. 3,950]

2 hours ago, raider said:

Attack of the Clones.

 

Oh, I'm so sorry...

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

37 minutes ago, Quintus said:

I always prefer the rawer lo-fi feel of T1 over the sprawling big budget sequel. It's a scarier movie, too.

 

Yeah I enjoy the first one a lot. I like its more oppressive, mysterious and spookier feel too.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

Irma la Douce

 

I've watched a fair few Billy Wilder films now and I've loved them all, but I'm a bit mixed on this one. It's funny and it seems he was eager to get Jack Lemmon and Shirley Maclaine back in an apartment together, but this movie runs waaaaaay too long to justify the story. About 45 minutes could have been shaved off and it would have had a lot more punch. Maclaine in all that green suggests she would have been a good Poison Ivy. Watch out for a boyish James Caan in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it shot.

[Disco Stu 15,495]

Just now, Margo Channing said:

Irma la Douce

 

I've watched a fair few Billy Wilder films now and I've loved them all, but I'm a bit mixed on this one. It's funny and it seems he was eager to get Jack Lemmon and Shirley Maclaine back in an apartment together, but this movie runs waaaaaay too long to justify the story. About 45 minutes could have been shaved off and it would have had a lot more punch. Maclaine in all that green suggests she would have been a good Poison Ivy. Watch out for a boyish James Caan in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it shot.

 

This was also my least favorite when I went on a Billy Wilder kick, years back.  Especially coming after the Wilder-Lemmon-MacLaine masterpiece, The Apartment

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

Yeah I liked The Apartment a lot.

 

Wait... does this forum make notification sounds now when someone quotes you??

[Disco Stu 15,495]

2 minutes ago, Margo Channing said:

Wait... does this forum make notification sounds now when someone quotes you??

 

Hasn't that always been a thing?  You can turn it off in Notification Settings.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

First time it's ever happened to me just now.

[Jay 37,370]

The notifications can be turned off, either the site settings or in Chrome

[The Illustrious Jerry 3,356]

Spiderman Homecoming

I am not a superhero movie guy. I know who Spiderman is but like this stuff is not like SW is to me. To be honest, this was okay. Sometimes fun, sometimes sort of serious. All that really caught my attention was the Donald Glover cameo. I thought " hmmm hey I know that guy!".

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

Wall Street

 

80s materialism in a bottle, eh? Well at least a self-aware condemnation of ze kipitilist zeal of the era. Can be a bit hard to follow all that trading stuff but you kind of get the gist of it as it's happening.

[Naïve Old Fart 9,551]

Did you pay attention to the score? I'm not surprised; no-one else did, either. He should have used Jerry Goldsmith.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

I did notice it a few times. Not sure what Goldsmith would have done differently other than some Criminal Law variant.

[bollemanneke 3,349]

HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE!!!!!!!!!! This is the first time all the shouting is really annoying me.

[Naïve Old Fart 9,551]

3 hours ago, Margo Channing said:

I did notice it a few times. Not sure what Goldsmith would have done differently other than some Criminal Law variant.

 

Listen to THE RUSSIA HOUSE, and you'll get an idea.

[Sharkissimo 1,973]

It should have been Mark Isham or Tom Newman.

[Naïve Old Fart 9,551]

Tom Newman? The man who co-produced TUBULAR BELLS?

[publicist 4,643]

On 10.5.2018 at 8:12 PM, Margo Channing said:

Yeah I liked The Apartment a lot.

 

For someone with journalist leaning, 'Ace in the Hole' is the quintessential Wilder.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

I'll be sure to catch it when it's on!

[publicist 4,643]

1 hour ago, Richard said:

Listen to THE RUSSIA HOUSE, and you'll get an idea.

 

I think we are all thankful that the theme from 'Russia House' is actually in 'Russia House', not some perfunctory love theme in effing 'Wall Street'.

Just now, Margo Channing said:

I'll be sure to catch it when it's on!

 

 

Kirk Douglas at his bleakest. And the whole media circus angle has not aged a day.

[Not Mr. Big 4,639]

Hancock

Very half-baked (or over-baked and then heavily truancated) but it clocks in at a harmless 90 minutes and has an awesome final musical cue from John Powell (that is cut tragically short by a seriously lame post-credit scene gag that feels more like a deleted scene they couldn't fit into the actual movie)

[Fancyarcher 350]

Magic Mike XXL - Surprised by how much I enjoyed this. It's like they took the complaints of the first being too dour, and not featuring enough "strip" scenes, and decided to make a dumb stupid road trip comedy out of it. Kinda amazing actually. - 8 / 10

[Naïve Old Fart 9,551]

7 hours ago, publicist said:

 

For someone with journalist leaning, 'Ace in the Hole' is the quintessential Wilder.

 

I always couple ACE IN THE HOLE, with  THE SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS. To me, they are two sides of the same coin.

[publicist 4,643]

Yup, together with 'A Face in the Crowd', '12 Angry Men' and 'Anatomy of a Murder' (all in stunning b/w) they form a marvelous portrait of US society in the 50's. It stands to reason that only 'Anatomy' was a hit. 

[Naïve Old Fart 9,551]

It was a time when filmmakers began to question certain aspects and common behaviours of society, with wit, and intelligence. They turned over the smooth stone of life, and exposed its sordid underbelly.

Where are the Wilders, the Lumets, and the MacKendricks, now?

 

[publicist 4,643]

Forest lawn.

[A24 4,345]

36 minutes ago, Richard said:

 

Where are the Wilders, the Lumets, and the MacKendricks, now?

 

 

Films that explore social and moral issues are a thing from the past (kids don't want to see that, Richard). Luckily the 'genre' or the subject has found a new life on TV. It's probably the reason why in the last 10 years I'm watching more TV series than movies.

[Sweeping Strings 2,363]

On 08/05/2018 at 8:27 PM, publicist said:

Coincidentally i just saw Tarantula again, and given its age - and that Universal was a cheapie studio to begin with - the effects are not too shabby and the movie one of the best paranoid bad science movies of the 50's (the similar Them! was good but sagged in the middle). Together with Creature of the Black Lagoon that makes two great creature movies i could rewatch at least once a year.

 

Did I read somewhere that a young Clint Eastwood is in this, playing one of the fighter pilots sent to take out the titular giant arachnid?

From more recent years, Eight Legged Freaks was an amusing update of this type of flick.  

[publicist 4,643]

Yeah, Clint is there:

 

[A24 4,345]

And here:

 

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

Thor: Ragmykok

 

Well isn't that what a good Marvel is all about, just having some plain old fun? Everyone hams it up and it's delightfully crazy. The only really weird thing is it seems Asgard isn't really all that densely populated. Anthony Hopkins in this looks like my dad. I like that Valkyrie chick. Cate Blanchett as the boss baddie is probably one of the series' most memorable.

[A24 4,345]

2 minutes ago, Margo Channing said:

Everyone hams it up 

 

A bit too much ...

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

It's all funny book madness. I didn't mind it.

[The Illustrious Jerry 3,356]

3 hours ago, Alexcremers said:

And here:

This is gold leader, standing by.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

I should also point out Thor 3 is the first one in that solo series to not be in anamorphic. I like picking which Marvel movies are and which ones aren't.

[John 2,032]

Thor: Ragnarok is great fun. Out of all the MCU movies, it's the one that feels most like a comic book.

[Holko 9,529]

Mouse Hunt

 

Dumb but very entertaining live action cartoon. Silvestri is gloriously over the top.

[A24 4,345]

2 hours ago, John said:

Thor: Ragnarok is great fun. Out of all the MCU movies, it's the one that feels most like a comic book.

 

Do all comic books want to be funny?

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

Well, they are funny book movies.

[Wojo 2,453]

8 hours ago, The Illustrious Jerry said:

This is gold leader, standing by.

More like old leader. 

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

Alex is under the impression that comic books are dark and disturbing, for some reason.

[A24 4,345]

I don't read comic books, but if I did, it would read them fartsy graphic novels with fancy hardcover, not them throwaway periodicals you all seem to be devouring endlessly.

 

Me:

 

 

You all:

 

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

I don't read comics anyway. I've tried time and again but I can't really get into them. I like the movies better.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

Hide and Seek

 

Standard thriller that promises way more than it delivers. Dakota Fanning acts her little heart out of it, but De Niro seems really bored. Definitely not a "hurry up and see" flick.

[A24 4,345]

The Commuter

 

The scores on IMDb and RT are too high. In fact, I stopped watching when the movie turned into a disaster movie (during the last 20 minutes).

 

 

But this fight was very entertaining.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

Not Without My Daughter

 

Flying Nun play beaten housewife real good. Doc Ock need to beat his woman more to make sure family know him a man. Unholy Hollywood film not make benefit while starring too many Israeli actors. Hope man get wife back prisoner in Part 2.

[Nick Parker 3,040]

4 minutes ago, Margo Channing said:

Not Without My Daughter

 

Flying Nun play beaten housewife real good. Doc Ock need to beat his woman more to make sure family know him a man. Unholy Hollywood film not make benefit while starring too many Israeli actors. Hope man get wife back prisoner in Part 2.

 

Is that what watching Titanic does to your brain?

[Quintus 5,399]

Fun and funny are two different things anyway and user John didn't say anything about the latter.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

4 minutes ago, Nick Parker said:

 

Is that what watching Titanic on a Sony Trinitron does to your brain?

 

Funny you say that because at the beginning of the movie, Sally Field and Alfred Molina own one when they're in America at the beginning. But when they're in Iran at his sister's house, it's some cheap piece of shit, probably Soviet-made.