What was the last movie you saw?

Prince of Darkness 1987

Terrible film with cool music (its a John Carpenter film)
Noteable for featuring a cameo by Alice Cooper.
Never seen it before, never want to see it again...
 
AE35Unit said:
Prince of Darkness 1987

Terrible film with cool music (its a John Carpenter film)
Noteable for featuring a cameo by Alice Cooper.
Never seen it before, never want to see it again...
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I like the idea more than the execution.
I think it is inspired by The Stone Tape, a 1972 Nigel Kneale tv-movie.
It also has the ultimate 80s nerd in it, Thom Bray.
 
Invasion of the Neptune men (MST3K) - with the kids. There was much hilarity and ice cream
Devils of Darkness (1965) - sub Hammer studio-bound British horror nonsense which wobbled about between being a vampire movie and a Dennis Wheatly type satanism movie without making its mind up which it wanted to be and failed to be at all interesting in either direction. There was something achingly familiar about every set up too. It looked like it was shot in standing sets in Pinewood studios . The day after this crew was out Diana Rigg as Mrs Peel would be wandering around in the same sets on the trail of some eccentric megalomaniac. There was one moment tough that I will remember. Nothing special really to look at but a beautifully timed edit. One character walks out one of those double-hinged doors that swing both ways (oeeer! missus!). He exits. The door swings back and just as the door swings back into the room, as we know it's going to - there is a cut to a different character entering a different location through a different door. The action matches perfectly. The editor must have been pleased as punch when he got that one right.
 
KGeo777 said:
I like the idea more than the execution.
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I feel the same. It started off with an interesting idea but just descended into a slash-fest. I still watch it now and then. I think it is a kind of cinematic itch….by scratching it, I hope that, this time, it will be better.
 
Devils of Darkness--man is so boring. As a Hammer wannabe--it really drags. Bad casting.

The Sword and the Sorcerer 1982 -- I always forget most of this movie when I watch it. It's not a big outdoor adventure--it is mostly set-bound. What it really has going for it is the soundtrack. This has an unusually big sounding score (thanks to a Munich orchestra). It feels like a 1930s Errol Flynn movie at times. It doesn't have much sorcery when you think about it. There's a lot of sword though.
 
KGeo777 said:
I like the idea more than the execution.
I think it is inspired by The Stone Tape, a 1972 Nigel Kneale tv-movie.
It also has the ultimate 80s nerd in it, Thom Bray.
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I agree. The movie had a great premise and Donald Pleasance was a tremendous actor. The the movie seems to lose it's focus part way through and ends up quite disappointing.
 
Detective Byomkesh Bakshi! (2015, on Prime)
Those with an aversion to subtitled movies can give this a miss, but highly recommended to anyone who enjoys a decent murder mystery. Based on a popular series of Bengali detective novels which started publication in the 1930s, this is set in WWII Calcutta.It is the story of amateur sleuth Bakshi who is hired to find a missing industrial chemist by his son. What starts as a basic missing person case develops unexpected layers and twists. The characters are interesting and well-developed and fall a long way from the standard Western whodunnit cliches. The production is excellent. Really satisfying.
 
Mood Indigo (2013): a French surrealist film by Michel Gondry in which a woman has a water lily growing in her lungs. The sets and props were all freakishly whimsical and most of it made little sense. I did like it, but there wasn't much substance to it. Guy falls in love, marries a woman, then she dies. Some parts just seemed like padding (no pun intended). Visually, however, it was very satisfying. I haven't read the source material. I caught it on Hulu. Worth a watch. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) and The Science of Sleep (2006) are, imho, much better films by Gondry.
 
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The Changeling 1980 George C. Scott
An above average horror movie. Canadian, though there is something British about the feel of the production.
Not a gore fest like so many from that era but frightening none the less. The plot is complex enough to single it out from the ususal.
 
The director of the Changeling wasn't Canadian.


The Wild World of Batwoman 1966 - Terrible.


Frenzy 1972 (50th anniversary of its US release today) - I think it is one of Hitchcock most enduring movies. It doesn't feel as dated as his American films. The score is really good--he had severed his relationship with Bernard Herrmann but this composer is really good. There's a certain "haunting sound" to English composers of this era. The potato truck scene is very funny.
The trailer I had never seen before--he obviously shot it as he was filming the movie.

 
Astro Pen said:
The Changeling 1980 George C. Scott
An above average horror movie. Canadian, though there is something British about the feel of the production.
Not a gore fest like so many from that era but frightening none the less. The plot is complex enough to single it out from the ususal.
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I don't know if that movie invented the spooky 'kid's ball coming down the stairs' shot (it was probably Eisenstein) but it has never been better used. I just wish the ending hadn't been so pat.
 
Ran out of newer films so I re-watched the 1959 version of Ben Hur ... Heston, Hawkins and even Frank Thring ... still a great movie.

Moonfall (2022, DVD) should be coming from Netflix this week...

Enjoy!
 
Dunkirk [1958]
The most interesting thing I found in this film, was the absence of music during the military scenes. The actions of the little boats with their valiant crews are met with a beautiful Malcolm Arnold score that aims to stir the heart, but most if not all of the fighting and interaction between the soldier is done with diegetic or natural sound.
 
Ready or Not

A horror-comedy that succeeds on both counts. A newly-wed bride meets the in-laws from hell, and it's a wild ride from start to finish. There are probably a number of deeper symbolic meanings to some of the stuff that goes on in this movie, but I just enjoyed it for what it was. One of the most enjoyable movies I've seen in quite some time.
 
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