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

[The Illustrious Jerry 3,356]

1 hour ago, Chen G. said:

They are standalone. There's zero continuity between the three. Its a "trilogy" unified by genre and style, not by plot.

Yeah...

[JoeinAR 1,949]

Westerns have never been my thing and spaghetti westerns just strike me as bad filmmaking. 

Dont be shocked Jerry. Its not like he was an A-list actor back then.

And the dubbing....omg

[publicist 4,643]

 

The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms

 

Another one of those surprisingly watchable 50's monster movies from Warner Bros., featuring effects by Ray Harryhausen. An atomic bomb test wakes up a huge dinosaur. Unfortunately, nobody believes the only human who saw the monster. Only when strange accidents accumulate, and the beast finally attacks NY the truth is revealed. It's *very* linear but fun - and a blueprint for dozens of other flicks, 'Godzilla' chief among them - and a good example how talented people can make a great movie on a budget. Not quite up there with 'Them!' or 'Black Lagoon' but still a winner.

[JoeinAR 1,949]

The rollercoaster sequence still amazes

[SteveMc 2,674]

4 hours ago, JoeinAR said:

spaghetti westerns just strike me as bad filmmaking. 

The crudity captures something somehow.  It's very unpretentious in one sense, and yet, seems to be very aware in another.  I say this primarily of Leone.  Other spaghetti westerns indeed leave me unsatisfied.

[Not Mr. Big 4,639]

Not a fan of spaghetti westerns at all to be honest   They may have been bold and subversive at the time but the genre has been so thoroughly milked by pop culture by now. 

 

Without that freshness, they just come across as boring, tacky, and thoroughly uncool.

 

[SteveMc 2,674]

As long as you are able to distance yourself from "pop culture" you'll be fine.  

[John 2,032]

GB&U is cool!

[JoeinAR 1,949]

I would rather watch Beast from 20000 Fathoms than the good bad and fugly

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

You don't really like foreign films, i think.

[JoeinAR 1,949]

52 minutes ago, Stefancos said:

You don't really like foreign films, i think.

I am indifferent. I love British films. But as I said before spaghetti westerns are bad and have poor production values. I do not like movies set in America filmed elsewhere like that stupid Cold Mountain. 

[Koray Savas 2,251]

Come back to me... on cold mountain. 

[Sharkissimo 1,973]

It's the awful, out-of-sync dubbing that detracts from my enjoyment of most Spaghetti westerns. Gives the dialogue an unintentional Brechtian Verfremdungseffekt quality.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

18 minutes ago, JoeinAR said:

I do not like movies set in America filmed elsewhere like that stupid Cold Mountain. 

 

What a dumb thing to say

[JoeinAR 1,949]

35 minutes ago, Stefancos said:

 

What a dumb thing to say

No your comment was dumb. Cold Mountain did not look like North Carolina at all. Of course you would feel the same way as if some outdoor film of Holland was actually in another land. 

49 minutes ago, Koray Savas said:

Come back to me... on cold mountain. 

Doesn't look like NC. I am okay with the movie story. But Romania has a completely different look than the Blue Ridge Mountains or the Pisgah National forrest

 

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

2 hours ago, JoeinAR said:

I do not like movies set in America filmed elsewhere like that stupid Cold Mountain. 

 

You have any idea how often this happens in Hollywood films?

[Koray Savas 2,251]

The Good The Bad And The Ugly was filmed in Spain.

 

Joe’s theory holds true. 

[publicist 4,643]

3 hours ago, Sharky said:

It's the awful, out-of-sync dubbing that detracts from my enjoyment of most Spaghetti westerns. Gives the dialogue an unintentional Brechtian Verfremdungseffekt quality.

 

You would love the german dubs then, where they speak thrice as much as in the original (often you could see that the actors aren't even moving their lips). The verfremdungseffekt reaches delirious heights here, when the main dude grossly insults everyone around him for no particular reason. 

 

 

[The Illustrious Jerry 3,356]

I think that my liking for these films is more so an enjoyment of Leone's craft and direction rather than a general liking of spaghetti westerns. I haven't seen too many non-Leone ventures, but I don't think I'd like them as much. 

 

So while with Leone it happens to be a spaghetti western, it's rather Leone more so than the genre for me. 

[Disco Stu 15,495]

10 hours ago, JoeinAR said:

I do not like movies set in America filmed elsewhere like that stupid Cold Mountain. 

 

The last time I found it really distracting was Hacksaw Ridge, which was really obviously Australia, and not the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia in the first half.

[Chen G. 3,950]

That movie was shot on a shoe-string budget, though. So of course they couldn't effort going to the US to shoot, nor pass-up the tax benefits provided by the Australian authorities by filming there.

 

Gotta take you hat off to Gibson for making it look the way it does on that amount of money.

[JoeinAR 1,949]

Most every state is willing to give credits to filmmakers who use their locals. I cannot in anyway believe it was cheaper to send a film crew to Australia rather than to Virginia. 

[Chen G. 3,950]

Send a film crew? Gibson is an aussie, and it was a largely aussie crew. It only makes sense, given the budget, that they would shoot in Australia.

 

Beyond the locations, I'd be much more worried about Weaving's accent, anyway.

[JoeinAR 1,949]

Gibson is American born in Peekskill NY.

[Chen G. 3,950]

But grew up and established himself profesionally in Australia.

 

At any rate, when this movie came out, he was operating out of Australia.

[JoeinAR 1,949]

Well locals aside it was great

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

6 minutes ago, JoeinAR said:

Well locals aside it was great

 

Again, Hollywood has a long history of setting movies in locations that don't look anything like the actual place.

 

Seen Casino Royale? Montenegro looks nothing like how it does in the film. 

[JoeinAR 1,949]

Or true grit with its snow covered mountains. Ridiculous 

[Chen G. 3,950]

Yeah, don't even get me started on how locations in Kingdom of Heaven measure up to the real ones (most of which are within up to two-hours drive from my house). Do I really care? Nah.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

2 minutes ago, Chen G. said:

Yeah, don't even get me started on how locations in Kingdom of Heaven measure up to the real ones (most of which are within up to two-hours drive from my house). Do I really care? Nah.

 

My point exactly!

[Marian Schedenig 8,207]

6 hours ago, The Illustrious Jerry said:

I think that my liking for these films is more so an enjoyment of Leone's craft and direction rather than a general liking of spaghetti westerns. I haven't seen too many non-Leone ventures, but I don't think I'd like them as much. 

 

So while with Leone it happens to be a spaghetti western, it's rather Leone more so than the genre for me. 

 

Indeed. And what do I care about the actual budget if the films still *look* more impressive than most other films, old or new?

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

The World is Not Enough

[JoeinAR 1,949]

2 minutes ago, Marian Schedenig said:

 

Indeed. And what do I care about the actual budget if the films still *look* more impressive than most other films, old or new?

Except they look cheap as hell

[Marian Schedenig 8,207]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Jurassic Shark 12,082]

They're not superhero movies.

[JoeinAR 1,949]

They are not good movies either. 

They are not Shane or Dodge City and certainly not Stagecoach. 

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

Goldfinger

 

 

The quintessential Bond movie. Featuring one of the coolest guys ever in his prime with an endless supply of quips, absurdly gorgeous women parading about and being spanked, ridiculous gadgets, cool music and a thoroughly despisable impossibly powerful henchman that is so satisfyingly murdered, it makes up for the excessive runtime (a recurring issue with 007 movies). It's perfectly settled in that sweet spot between serious and camp.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Its outstanding.

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

I also enjoy when Bond forces himself on Pussy Galore. Bond will never be like that again.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Bond hasn't been like that since the late 70's, at least.

[Chen G. 3,950]

1 hour ago, Ghostbusters II said:

Bond forces himself on Pussy Galore

 

More like raped her into being straight.

 

Can you imagine the reaction of the audience, had this been made and screened in 2019?

 

Oh, the horror!

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

I love it.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

45 minutes ago, Chen G. said:

More like raped her into being straight.

 

It's not emphatically stated Pussy was a lesbian in the movie though.

 

The book ofcourse has 2 lesbians.

[Chen G. 3,950]

13 minutes ago, Stefancos said:

It's not emphatically stated Pussy was a lesbian in the movie though.

 

It was the sixties: they couldn't state that any more than Sir David Lean could state T. E. Lawrence was gay. One had to imply it through the film.

 

But with Pussy especially (god that's a wierd phrase to write), there's a ton of coy sixties hints. Her demeanor, the all-female flying troop, the fact that she doesn't instantly fall for Bond ("I'm immune"), etcetra.

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

It doesn't matter.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

I agree, we should judge a person's sexual orientation!

[bollemanneke 3,349]

The Hunger Games 2.

 

Willow Shields and Jena Malone stood out, but I found the response from the peacekeepers to Katniss' tour accident way too harsh. I know it's supposed to be a terrible regime and all, but these people actively made their subjects rebel. I thought it was all about containing the spark? It's also not quite clear whether this Quarter Quell is a real thing or something Snow just made up to get rid of Katniss: the older people apparently remember it exists while some tributes claim they were never told about it. How hard can it be for the richer kids to look up the charter? Everyone's life seems to revolve around the games there anyway. And then I'm not even talking about the fact that the Panem public have supposedly loved the Hunger Games for 74 years until Katniss finally comes along. Why does it take one 74 years to realise killing teenagers is not okay? Elizabeth Banks also had some weak moments and Katniss spends too much time crying and hyperventilating.

The score is very good, except for the overuse of the great music that underscored Katniss' journey to the Capitol in the first movie.

[JoeinAR 1,949]

6 hours ago, bollemanneke said:

The Hunger Games 2.

 

Willow Shields and Jena Malone stood out, but I found the response from the peacekeepers to Katniss' tour accident way too harsh. I know it's supposed to be a terrible regime and all, but these people actively made their subjects rebel. I thought it was all about containing the spark? It's also not quite clear whether this Quarter Quell is a real thing or something Snow just made up to get rid of Katniss: the older people apparently remember it exists while some tributes claim they were never told about it. How hard can it be for the richer kids to look up the charter? Everyone's life seems to revolve around the games there anyway. And then I'm not even talking about the fact that the Panem public have supposedly loved the Hunger Games for 74 years until Katniss finally comes along. Why does it take one 74 years to realise killing teenagers is not okay? Elizabeth Banks also had some weak moments and Katniss spends too much time crying and hyperventilating.

The score is very good, except for the overuse of the great music that underscored Katniss' journey to the Capitol in the first movie.

Why does oppression still exist. Your question is seriously naive. 

[A24 4,345]

The Company You Keep (2012)

 

 

A distracting concatenation of famous faces.

 

But I liked Shia LaBeouf. Somehow his performance reminded me a lot of how Dustin Hoffman played the role of Carl Bernstein in All The President's Men.

 

3/10

[bollemanneke 3,349]

9 hours ago, JoeinAR said:

Why does oppression still exist. Your question is seriously naive. 

That's not what I meant. I mean the movie gives the impression that everyone is completely 'happy' with the Capitol until Katniss makes a stand. The novel apparently mentions refugees who failed to overthrow the system, the movie doesn't.