What was the last movie you saw?

Cell
Weird horror based on the Stephen King book about something transmitted over mobile phone networks making people attack each other. Not bad, weird ending.

Lucy
Luc Besson sci fi flick about drug enduced evolution. Good fx, little in the way of story
 
Welt am Draht (1973 - West Germany): Finally got to watch this film. The Germans sure know how to break grounds. Think of Gershon Kingsley and his track Pop Corn...

Well, it was a powerful movie. Of course The Thirteenth Floor (1999) comes to mind for obvious reasons, lol. I can understand its being likened to The Matrix (1999) too. But, I believe in this movie, the sci-fi aspect was less dominant. Also, The Matrix has a quest feeling to it and there's a strong companionship theme there. Whilst, Welt am Draht is utterly protagonist-centered so it is more like Impostor (2001) in this vein. What is more, the protagonist is more like an unfortunate victim on the brink of losing his mind, rather than a typical hero. So, John Trent from In the Mouth of Madness (1994) comes to mind. Sam Neill's and Klaus Löwitzch's sharp features are also quite alike! Moreover, Dark City (1998) also comes the mind and Fred Stiller could have been the guy that went mad there! (Remember that tragic scene that ended under a train...)

I think this is a very important film, but not flawlessly engaging. From my perspective, some of the scenes were plain ridiculous, some were overlong. Also some of the tunes and rhythmic sounds don't seamlessly mingle with the film. They rather distract. I like the 70s' tunes with the use of sequencers, but I really found plenty of them quite outplaced.
 
JunkMonkey said:
Tonight I watched The Cars That Ate Paris (which just gets better every time I see it) with Daughter Number Two. I drive a shabby white van. I've told her if it passes its MOT this year she can paint it. I may live to regret this.
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While the title did not resonate, the synopsis did; I am sure I have seen this film. I do not recall if I liked it, though.
 
CROSS SHOT 1976 - John Saxon is a cop who gets frustrated by the criminals walking free and doesn't get help from a newspaper publisher who believes education is the way to reform criminals. The nuance in the story helps it from being too slanted in either direction. They show how newspaper plates are prepared for printing. It's neat when they show little production stuff that one may have wondered about but never seen being demonstrated.
Usually a newspaper story just shows them going "put on the first page!" and "roll the presses!"
Here we actually see them printing out the test run from the metal plates.
 
Inside Job (2010), documentary about the 2008 crash. Did not improve my already low opinion of the financial sector and those who "regulate" them.

Ironically for the narrator of a film about dodgy investments, Matt Damon was in the news yesterday for shilling crypto investments that lost people a lot of money.
 
The Big Heat

I thought I'd seen this movie before , but I hadn't . Quite brutal for its time in portraying a cop trying to fight corruption in his hometown city despite the danger to himself and those around him. An early role for tough-guy Lee Marvin who plays his part very well, and at 90 minutes just the right length for this time of movie. The fact that it's filmed in black and white adds to the 'film noir' elements, and it so much more atmospheric than if it had been in colour.
 
Whisky Galore!

There's something about old, b&w British movies that I simply adore, and Ealing Studios were amongst the most prolific and iconic. They portray an idealistic view of Britain that in reality probably never was, but they are so full of charm and gentle humour that I could watch them far more than the big blockbusters of the 21st century.

This is amongst the best, and tells of a remote Scottish island community running dry of whisky in WWII. When suddenly (and quite conveniently) a ship carrying thousands of cases runs aground off their coast.
 
paranoid marvin said:
They portray an idealistic view of Britain that in reality probably never was
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And yet based on a true story when the SS Politician ran aground on Eriskay in the Hebrides and the islanders did indeed loot the whisky.

About 30 years ago, a ship lost some of its cargo of old sherry casks headed for a distillery. Within days, many folk in a small fishing town near where I live had barrels cut in half and filled with flowers decorating their gardens;)
 
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

It was ok (3 out of 5 stars). What was unexpected for me was
Scarlet Witch being the villain. I didn't know about that before I saw the movie. Elizabeth Olsen did a nice job playing a heroine that became messed up.
 
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Hollywood loves the woman assassin now.
I have lost count of how many they have made on this theme in recent times. Not just the obvious ones like Black Widow, even
Last Night in Soho has that theme. "Kill the men!"

It's not a very subliminal message.
 
JunkMonkey said:
Hollywood loves serial killers praying on women and slicing them up for our 'entertainment' more. I've lost count of the number of serial killer / slasher films with "Kill the Women" as the theme blah blah blah.... different thread.
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Yeah but men get killed in those movies too-and also involve women empowerment against male killers--very rare for a male character to come to the defense of a woman character in those films.
In SCREAM the father is put into the closet instead of the most logical and practical action of using a kitchen knife to untie him so he can try to defend his daughter against the killers! Instead, she drags this 200 pound man out of the kitchen and lifts him up vertically and places him in a closet.
Why didn't they make him unconscious? The only thing he contributes is a jump scare.
 
KGeo777 said:
Yeah but men get killed in those movies too-and also involve women empowerment against male killers--very rare for a male character to come to the defense of a woman character in those films.
In SCREAM the father is put into the closet instead of the most logical and practical action of using a kitchen knife to untie him so he can try to defend his daughter against the killers! Instead, she drags this 200 pound man out of the kitchen and lifts him up vertically and places him in a closet.
Why didn't they make him unconscious? The only thing he contributes is a jump scare.
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blah blah blah.... different thread.
 
Edge of Extinction (Brink): An indie film from the UK. The budget seems to be low but not the quality. Pretty good, really. Quite impressive portrayal of an imagined post-apocalyptic world. It was thrilling, I must say. 81/100
 
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