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

[Jurassic Shark 14,182]

17 hours ago, Marian Schedenig said:

 

As a satire, I consider Starship Troopers to be almost on the same level as Planet of the Apes.

 

Isn't Apes quite overrated, though?

[Brundlefly 2,400]

Absolutely not.

[A24 4,712]

Was Mark Wahlberg really that great?

 

 

[Jurassic Shark 14,182]

His monkey mask is amazing.

[Naïve Old Fart 11,016]

2 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said:

Isn't Apes quite overrated, though?

The '68? No!!!

 

1 hour ago, Brundlefly said:

Absolutely not.

[Jurassic Shark 14,182]

4 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

The '68? No!!!

 

The costumes, however praised they are, look really bad. Looks like men in rubber suits. They made better costumes already in the silent film era.

[Naïve Old Fart 11,016]

The makeup, you mean? It won an Oscar, so it couldn't have been that bad.

Love PLANET OF THE APES (1968) for its wonderful Leon Shamroy cinematography, a garrulous, bellicose performance by Chuck Heston, and some great contemporary satire. Oh, yeah, and that fucking score...

[Jurassic Shark 14,182]

...with the fifth best The Hunt cue!

[Marian Schedenig 9,711]

4 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said:

Isn't Apes quite overrated, though?

 

The original one? No. And I was positively surprised by the new trilogy as well (though I've only seen the first two of those so far). I've never seen the Burton.

[crocodile 8,858]

3 minutes ago, Marian Schedenig said:

 

The original one? No. And I was positively surprised by the new trilogy as well (though I've only seen the first two of those so far). I've never seen the Burton.

Third one is my favourite. Mostly because it's a war drama that happens to have digital apes in it. It doesn't even try to be an action summer blockbuster. It's slow and contemplative. And quite thoughtful too. It's also the most visually driven entry of the three. And Giacchino did a really good job on it as well.

 

Karol

[A24 4,712]

I liked the first two of the new trilogy but wasn't too happy with the third one which is lacking nuance. 

[Jurassic Shark 14,182]

2 hours ago, Marian Schedenig said:

I've never seen the Burton.

 

That was a disappointment.

 

2 hours ago, crocodile said:

And Giacchino did a really good job on it as well.

 

Which ape did he portray?

[crocodile 8,858]

13 minutes ago, Alexcremers said:

I liked the first two of the new trilogy but wasn't too happy with the third one which is lacking nuance. 

🤔🙄

 

Karol

[Edmilson 9,772]

1 hour ago, Marian Schedenig said:

I've never seen the Burton.

 

You're lucky. The Burton Apes movie is atrocious.

[KK 3,310]

1 hour ago, Alexcremers said:

I liked the first two of the new trilogy but wasn't too happy with the third one which is lacking nuance. 

 

Visually, it's pretty impressive. But I was also disappointed by it. For how seriously it takes itself, there really wasn't much meat to it. It's too inflated for the summer blockbuster and too silly and hollow to be a profound arthouse film. It's lost somewhere in the middle.

 

Giacchino's score had some moments, from what I remember. But still pretty turgid, as his big scores tend to be. His score for the second Apes film was the one that made the best impression for me.

[Quintus 5,544]

I vaguely recall he had that one short suspense motif which he sucked the teat dry till there was nowt but a shrivelled prune remaining and which basically made up 95% of the score.

[crocodile 8,858]

43 minutes ago, KK said:

 

Visually, it's pretty impressive. But I was also disappointed by it. For how seriously it takes itself, there really wasn't much meat to it. It's too inflated for the summer blockbuster and too silly and hollow to be a profound arthouse film. It's lost somewhere in the middle.

I feel the second one is the weakest. It's too formulaic. The other two try harder. Caesar's descent into pain and darkness in the third film had a profound effect on me. Yeah, bit too serious for summer blockbuster but at least far from conventional.

 

Karol

[Jurassic Shark 14,182]

A film about a depressed ape? No thanks!

[crocodile 8,858]

Just now, Jurassic Shark said:

A film about a depressed ape? No thanks!

It is, yeah. Pretty much exactly. 😆

 

Karol

[Brundlefly 2,400]

4 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said:

...with the fifth best The Hunt cue!

No, the only The Hunt cue that is better than John Williams' The Hunt from The Lost World!

[Jurassic Shark 14,182]

Riiight!

[Chen G. 4,929]

2 hours ago, crocodile said:

bit too serious for summer blockbuster

 

There's no such thing as too serious for a summer blockbuster.

 

I like the new Apes films. I do find the third to be not quite as good, though. But that has nothing to do with its seriousness.

[Naïve Old Fart 11,016]

2 hours ago, Brundlefly said:

No, the only The Hunt cue that is better than John Williams' The Hunt from The Lost World!

2 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said:

Riiight!

Yes, he is, actually.

 

I can't make up my mind which is the better THE HUNT. PLANET OF THE APES or THE FINAL CONFLICT.

[Marian Schedenig 9,711]

5 hours ago, crocodile said:

I feel the second one is the weakest. It's too formulaic.

 

When I saw the first two, that's more or less what I said about the first one, and why I liked the second one better.

[Koray Savas 2,255]

Mulholland Drive

 

There’s some stiff writing and poor acting in the beginning, but I guess it all really doesn’t matter by the end, does it? Last 30 minutes were superb. I’ve become addicted to Lynch’s brain melts. 

[crocodile 8,858]

It's one of his best. It is also the first one I watched on big screen.

 

6 hours ago, Marian Schedenig said:

 

When I saw the first two, that's more or less what I said about the first one, and why I liked the second one better.

I thought that the fact they made it about family is quite unique actually. 

 

Karol

[A24 4,712]

5 hours ago, Koray Savas said:

Mulholland Drive

 

There’s some stiff writing and poor acting in the beginning,

 

And ... only in the beginning? How peculiar!

[Disco Stu 15,506]

When you start Twister on Netflix

 

[Jurassic Shark 14,182]

PC gone mad!

[Koray Savas 2,255]

13 hours ago, Alexcremers said:

And ... only in the beginning? How peculiar!

Some of the back-and-forth between Betty and the other characters, mainly Coco, feels like they’re in two different conversations. Unnatural pauses and inflections between sentences. But again, taking the end of the film into consideration, it could have been entirely intentional. 

[bollemanneke 3,814]

The duchess.

 

What can I say? I watched it six years ago for the first time and still love it. Fiennes and Knightley are great and Hayley Atwell is perfect too. I somehow thought I recognised Dominic Cooper from other movies, but it turns out I haven’t. He’s the least interesting character in this film, but the dynamics between all the others are just fascinating.

The score is equally good. Especially the piano cue underscoring the intimate scene between Knightley and Atwell is incredibly moving and the development of that theme is excellent, as is all the classical music, although the main theme could have done with a few more variations.

 

[Naïve Old Fart 11,016]

"There were three people in their marriage".

Sound familiar?

[Sweeping Strings 2,747]

Spaceballs - this Star Wars (although there are Star Trek, 2001 and Planet Of The Apes gags too) spoof seems to be generally regarded as the point where Mel Brooks' send-up skills began to lessen, but it's amusing enough and its goofy amiability pulls it through.

Young Frankenstein - now, this (and Blazing Saddles) are Brooks at the height of his powers. A loving parody of the Universal horrors of the black-and-white era (Brooks even went as far as sourcing the lab equipment used in those Frankenstein movies) with the likes of Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman and Teri Garr giving it their all.

[bollemanneke 3,814]

The social network.

 

Another re-watch. So Tarantino says this is the best movie ever made? It isn’t. Don’t ask me to choose the best movie ever made, but I do know that every Tarantino film I’ve seen so far is a lot better than this one. Rooney Mara was not annoying this time because she dropped the British accent, but Eisenberg is, on purpose, no doubt. Garfield is okay, but unfortunately my thoughts on The Amazing Spider-Man just became a lot less positive and I didn’t want that to happen. Denise Grayson is great, but it would have been nice if not everyone was forced to be in ADHD mode all the time. It took 26 minutes before I decided to keep watching it, but it all feels too rushed. If they wanted the pacing to make me excited, it didn’t work. I need peace and quiet now.

The score is intrusive and awful. Even the mix is bad. To think this trash won awards…

 

[Edmilson 9,772]

It's not dark and disturbing enough for a David Fincher movie.

[Koray Savas 2,255]

Anyone that thinks The Social Network is trash has never experienced bad filmmaking. 

[bollemanneke 3,814]

I said the score was trash.

[Lady Dimitrescu 9,300]

It's just so super boring. It's worse than Algebra 2.

[crocodile 8,858]

I don't mind the score actually. 

 

Karol

[A24 4,712]

Is the score counterproductive? Is Fincher clueless when it comes to music? If so, what would you have done? Another American Beauty clone? 

[bollemanneke 3,814]

Dunno, but not this. Yes, it is counterproductive unless you don't mind the idea behind Facebook to be scored as if Zuckerberg just tied up a family in a remote cabin in the woods and is about to kill them all.

[Glóin the Dark 1,453]

18 hours ago, bollemanneke said:

So Tarantino says this is the best movie ever made?

 

I gather that Tarantino said this was the best film of the 2010s, not that it was the best ever made.

[rough cut 1,760]

The Social Network is a great movie.

[Lady Dimitrescu 9,300]

[bollemanneke 3,814]

You gotta come to California, man, that's where it's happening!

[A24 4,712]

4 hours ago, bollemanneke said:

Yes, it is counterproductive unless you don't mind the idea behind Facebook to be scored as if Zuckerberg just tied up a family in a remote cabin in the woods and is about to kill them all.

 

The movie didn't strike me like that but maybe I'm an exception. 

[KK 3,310]

 

White Material

 

I wasn't especially taken with Claire Denis' High Life, but here, driven by Huppert's subtle ferocity, Denis' formidable hand really shines. This is a complex portrait of the messy relationship between the colonizer and the colonized in a post-colonial world. It's both beautiful and ugly without leaning on cliches. Score was nice too.

[Naïve Old Fart 11,016]

THE LAST JEDI

Man, I really, really, really like this movie.

A sharp, witty script, good performances, poignant scenes, sly humour, and shots that approach visual poetry.

I just don't get all the negativity, surrounding this film.

[Chen G. 4,929]

I get some of the negativity - I still think The Force Awakens is the more entertaining, kinetic and polished of the two - but next to The Rise of Skywalker Johnson’s film may as well have been Citizen Kane.

[A24 4,712]

5 hours ago, Chen G. said:

I still think The Force Awakens is the more entertaining,

 

Then why did I fall asleep?