What was the last movie you saw?

[alexvss]

Just come back from Batman: Zodiac Capitol Insurrection and it IS as good as they say. Very good detective noir, plenty of rain, Colin Farrell is incredible. The city looks beautifully gothic. Pattinson makes a fab Batman. Go see it.

This unnoficial title killed me! I'd add: "and the SeveN of Chinatown".

Farrell said that he went to Starbucks on full Penguin makeup. People were scared and stared at him.

 

[alexvss]

Sicario (2015): A well-shot thriller about the bleak and grubby war against a Mexican drug cartel. It's good that this sort of grown-up, intelligent thriller is still made, although it's a bit more predictable than it thinks, and it gets close to being an action movie about a deadly assassin towards the end. Emily Blunt and Daniel Kaluuya are very good as two FBI agents who get drawn into the conspiracy.

From the director of the new Dune movie. It has the same slow pace--the same that he used in Blade Runner: 2049. People say that Sicario is very realistic (which is scary AF).

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

I found The Curse of the Crimson Altar rather tepid and so-so. Not good enough to be worthy of much notice, not bad enough to be worthy of mocking. Beyond the Karloff/Lee/Steele line-up, there's not much to it.

 

[Toby Frost]

People say that Sicario is very realistic (which is scary AF).

It reminded me a lot of a book called The Power of the Dog by Don Winslow (not related to the recent Western film) which is incredibly violent and grim, and was heavily researched. I wouldn't be surprised if Sicario is pretty close to the truth!

 

[KGeo777]

Godzilla vs the Smog Monster 1971 --I haven't watched this in ages. Used to see it all the time on tv and perhaps even in a drive-in.

Frogs 1972--another 50th anniversary--on this day it was premiered. I think it is very atmospheric and creepy with the use of locations and repetitive wildlife footage. I think one or two actual frogs appear, the rest are toads.

 

[JunkMonkey]

Stoker - Park Chan-wook's first English language film. A lot of people have mentioned the obvious homages to Hitchcock - especially Shadow of a Doubt (one the characters in Stoker plays a similar role as the Uncle Charlie character in Shadow of a Doubt and is himself called 'Uncle Charlie' which is a bit of a giveaway). But at the end of it, the amorality and ambiguity of all the characters (still alive at the end of the film) left me feeling that Park Chan-wook was as influenced by Claude Chabrol (another Hitchcock devotee) as much as Hitchcock himself.

 

[Draven Vertigo]

Dark City. It's my favorite Movie.

 

[AE35Unit]

Cujo (1983)
Never seen this before, its pretty horrific. Not necessarily the rabid dog but that poor kid. It always makes me wonder how they get kids that young to cry and wail like that!

 

[Stephen Palmer]

Let The Right One In.
weird and compelling!

 

[pogopossum]

Watched La Belle et la Bete last night with miz pogo. Last seen about 30 years ago. It still has about the most striking images on the screen and shows up in the top ten best fantasies ever movie lists.
Watched The Criterion Collection version which is about an hour and a half long. Other versions available on YouTube are 3-4 hours in length.

 

[KGeo777]

Amazons 1986 - Despite some decent sets, costumes, and locations, bad script and terrible casting makes this a painful experience. There's a poor man's John Vernon as the villain, a poor man's Judi Dench as the queen, and a poor man's Ursula Andress as a traitorous amazon. There are a couple of half-assed attempts at monsters --not enough to make it interesting. Funny thing is that it probably is higher budget than your average Asylum film with more recognizable people.

 

[JunkMonkey]

it probably is higher budget than your average Asylum film

Giving them what? a whole WEEK to shoot it in?!

 

[KGeo777]

Giving them what? a whole WEEK to shoot it in?!

This one took more than a week. Asylum is considered the low budget of today and yet it's much cheaper in basic things like location use. Even tv shows are known to go really cheap now and not bother to do outside location shooting.

 

[JunkMonkey]

This one took more than a week. Asylum is considered the low budget of today and yet it's much cheaper in basic things like location use. Even tv shows are known to go really cheap now and not bother to do outside location shooting.

I have (accidentally for the most part) seen more Asylum movies than I want to think about. I have never seen one I would want to watch again.

 

[KGeo777]

I have (accidentally for the most part) seen more Asylum movies than I want to think about. I have never seen one I would want to watch again.

They used to do normal films back around 2002. I haven't seen it yet but King of the Ants is one of them. And some of their titles are clever--such as their I Am Legend rip-off. I Am Omega.
That's a great rip-off title.
But I heard that they are proud to make bad movies. They want to make movies that people laugh at for being so bad.
That ambition is hard to admire.

 

[Jeffbert]

TROUBLE IN PARADISE (1932) con artists Lily (Miriam Hopkins) & Gaston Monescu (Herbert Marshall) pick each others' pockets and fall in love. They target Madame Colet (Kay Francis) who is much too trusting, and when Mosescu returns her fancy purse, which he had stolen, but claims to have found it in the stairway of the theater, she hires both, the man as a financial advisor (or some similar title) and he has the combination to her safe, into which he advises her to keep large sums of cash.

Ernst Lubitsch directed this film, & perhaps that, more than any other reason, is why I enjoy it so much.

Good supporting cast includes Edward Everett Horton (the voice of FRACTURED FAIRY TALES) & C. Aubrey Smith (who is /was the model for the cartoon character COMMANDER MCBRAGG).

 

[AllanR]

Magellan (2017) --more ambition than budget. A few times the lack of effects hurts the film, but it sure tries hard to do with what they have. Though character and dialogue are a bit lacking, overall it's a nice near future hard sci-fi.
A fast tracked NASA mission to beat the Chinese to the moons of Saturn and Neptune and then out to Eris, from where there are mysterious signals being transmitted.

 

[JunkMonkey]

The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe on the trail of a serial killer who has kidnapped Poe's fiance and, using Poe's stories as inspiration, is leaving a complex series of clues (and corpses) to her whereabouts. As stupendously crap as that sounds... the movie was even worse. (Though Luke Evans is a bit of all right, isn't he?)

 

[Jeffbert]

HOOPER (1978) Stuntman Sonny Hooper (Burt Reynolds) has been in the business too long for his own good, and several body parts, including his spine are about to fail. But, he decides to end his career as a stuntman with the biggest, best, most awesome stunt ever, even if he ends up paralyzed as a result.

O.k., so, there is the new kid, Shidski (Jan-Michael Vincent), with whom Hooper initially has a dueling-type relationship, & they each try to outdo the other, but, eventually become friends and work together on the big stunt.

Retired stuntman Jocko Doyle (Brian Keith) advises Hooper to quit while he is ahead, & marry his daughter, Gwen (Sally Field), but Hooper just cannot resist going out with a bang.

Thoroughly entertaining!

 

[KGeo777]

Saw HOOPER at a drive-in--been meaning to revisit it along with his Jerry Reed co-starring films.

SLAVE GIRLS aka PREHISTORIC WOMEN 1967 -- Hammer had a winner with the previous year's dinosaur meets beach party film One Million Years BC. It is on the cheaper side--no dinosaurs except a prehistoric rhino. Raquel Welch didn't return so Martine Beswick was promoted to star and she sure looks happy with that development. This is a bizarre one because it is a well-made film in the service of a terrible idea. The story is like a Harlequin romance in the stone age involving a magic rhino horn/time machine and lost tribes and primitive religions. It just does not work despite effort put into characterization. I am not sure it could have ever worked. Another oddity with it is that in order to save costs they must have been forced to use a rhino prop intended to be a real rhino for the stone idol version which looks far too realistic for what is meant to be a stone age sculpture. At the end when the real rhino shows up, they use the statue prop and it makes things more confusing.

Steven Berkoff arrives at the very end. I wonder if Putin has seen Rambo 2 and if so, was he amused with Berkoff's Russian character.