What was the last movie you saw?

hitmouse said:
The Sellers movies have aged very badly. The first two still work as period pieces, but the following ones just seem poor now.
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I partly agree. The Pink Panther is a fine, mostly ordinary movie where they didn't know what they had until it was over because Clouseau was the one extraordinary thing in it. So then they took that and made A Shot in the Dark, which is in my handful of best movies of all-time where everything was exactly perfect. Then Return of the Pink Panther (if I've got the title of the third 1975 movie right), though maybe not essential, was good and performs the service of giving Dreyfus and Cato another chance to shine and cements them. (And I can't blame anyone for not being able to resist a sequel at that point.) But the movies after that I've never really liked and can hardly see as being related. The Pink Panther series, to me, is really the classic A Shot in the Dark and its reasonably good sequel.
 
Petite Maman (2021): A French fantasy-drama. A girl's mother runs off, leaving her to make a friend with a much younger version of her mother. I thought it was touching. There was little action, but that didn't bother me. The tone and theme made up for it.

X (2022): In this slasher film, a bunch of young adults go to a secluded house to shoot a pornographic film. The old couple finds out what they're there for and all hell breaks loose. Effectively creepy.

Frequencies, a.k.a. OXV: The Manual (2013): This is a romance film with speculative stylings, labelled sci-fi, though I think it's more fantasy-like. It takes place in a world where everyone has a "frequency" that determines their luck and success. Low frequency signifies poor luck, and high frequency, the opposite. People with high frequencies also tend to lack emotions. This is a story about a boy and a girl on opposite sides of this spectrum, and how the former changes everything. My favorite of these three.
 
Guttersnipe said:
Frequencies, a.k.a. OXV: The Manual (2013): This is a romance film with speculative stylings, labelled sci-fi, though I think it's more fantasy-like. It takes place in a world where everyone has a "frequency" that determines their luck and success. Low frequency signifies poor luck, and high frequency, the opposite. People with high frequencies also tend to lack emotions. This is a story about a boy and a girl on opposite sides of this spectrum, and how the former changes everything. My favorite of these three.
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I was starting to think I was the only person who had seen this. Not a great film but interesting. It does, I think, go a bit wrong at the end though . After I watched, it the DVD went, in its case, on the open 'watch this again someday' shelves - where it now sits between Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman and Frida - rather than getting stripped out of the case and filed in the ring binders with all the other movies.
 
paranoid marvin said:
The Beast Must Die

An interesting set up. A wealthy businessman invites 6 guests to his home, knowing that one is a werewolf. Once exposed, he will hunt it down and kill it.

An interesting premise for a movie, and some cracking actors including Peter Cushing and a very young looking Michael Gambon. The movie uniquely has a 'werewolf break' during which time the viewer is asked to consider the evidence presented so far and make a decision as to which guest is 'the beast'. The only problem with that is that there is (apparently) no way to have worked it out, and if there was we are not told what the giveaway clues were.

What disappoints for me though is that it has probably the least scary werewolf ever put in film.

It's a long time since I saw this movie last (I had pretty much forgotten everything about it apart from the 'werewolf break'). I doubt I shall bother with it again.
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When I 1st saw this post, I had not yet seen the film, which had been on my DVR for a while. Watched it before reading your post. Thoroughly enjoyed Cushing's lecture on werewolves, & Blofeld's presence (Charles Gray) was an added bonus.

I agree that the depiction of the WWs was rather disappointing, to say the least. While I was unable to predict the I.D. of the WW, I did predict that it was coming for the guy in the control room, as it seemed obvious to me, & that there were 2 WWs.

The interruption with the challenge to name the WW reminded me of the film with the FEAR FLASHER & the HORROR HORN, which gimmicks made a rather serious film somewhat silly.

I would not bother to see this again, though.
 
Dave Vicks said:
2001:A Space Odyssey.
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Co-incidentally the film I watched tonight had a ship to ship, airlock to airlock without a helmet jump as well!
Only in my case I didn't believe a sodding second of it. I started watching Black Box (2020) a while back on some Free to Air bit of Amazon. But didn't get to the end and then couldn't find it again. Until I came across a DVD copy in a charity shop for 50p. It was made in 2020 and less than two years later is already in the three for a quid bin at my local charity shop? When will I ever learn?

The first part is pretty ok. A valiant effort to make a low (zero) budget movie with an intriguing idea. A man wakes up in a tumbling escape pod with no memory of how he got there and a gaping wound in his side. He calls for help and the ground crew try to talk him back down to Earth. Good start but sadly the film is let down by an vastly overly wordy script - I have heard radio plays with less dialogue. And more 'erm... whoever wrote this doesn't read much SF do they?' moments than any SF film can bear. The technobabble is totally undercooked, trying, I guess, for some sort of realism but just displaying ignorance all round.

Technically the film looks good. For the money they had, the designers did a pretty good job of making a small enclosed escape pod set that, I presume, could be dismantled into sections to enable the camera to get in from different angles. The zero G bits aren't embarrassingly awful. Initially the relationship between the main protagonist and the flight control girl is interesting. But after a while the plot holes, and the 'wait! That doesn't make sense!' moments just kept on coming and by the end I really was itching for it to be over. I hope the long list of people listed as 'crowdunders' (sic) on the end credits felt their money was well spent.

For the rest of us worth watching only as a useful exercise in spotting 'How not to do things'. Like if your central character is going to be on screen for 95+% of the film - it might be a good idea to hire someone with some sort of charisma and screen presence. Or ask yourself if the exploding mining operation is taking place in the Asteroid Belt what, realistically, are the chances that an amateur astronomer on Earth would have a telescope powerful enough to make out and identify individual ships attached to the exploding mining station? (Though in fairness the film didn't actually say the astronomer was on Earth, they could have been on the Moon, or Mars or an orbital - but if that's the case and there are populations large enough to support amateur astronomers scattered around the Solar System why are the escape pods heading all the way from the Asteroid Belt to Earth instead of some nearer habitation. I don't think the writer realises just how BIG the space between planets is. And as for putting on a balaclava, wrapping duct tape around your head and jumping across several thousand meters of interplanetary vacuum towards a spinning target... and expecting the audience to heave a sigh of relief when a jump cut cheats him inside? Forget it.
 
Herbert Lom is hilarious. He had great comic ability.

TALES OF TERROR 1962 -Premiered 60 years ago today.

The wine tasting contest is my favorite part.
 
JunkMonkey said:
Co-incidentally the film I watched tonight had a ship to ship, airlock to airlock without a helmet jump as well!
Only in my case I didn't believe a sodding second of it. I started watching Black Box (2020) a while back on some Free to Air bit of Amazon. But didn't get to the end and then couldn't find it again. Until I came across a DVD copy in a charity shop for 50p. It was made in 2020 and less than two years later is already in the three for a quid bin at my local charity shop? When will I ever learn?
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They performed the manoeuvre in Event Horizon which I watched the other day. It also mentioned the Zero Point theory for bending space, which is guiding tenet in the Stargate franchise.
 
PANIC IN YEAR ZERO 1962 - Premiered on this day. Ray Milland directed this intense story of a family which survives a nuclear war outbreak and struggles to survive as civilization breaks down and they (and others) resort to lawless behavior. Really good.

DR. PHIBES RISES AGAIN 1972 - Yep, premiered on this day too.
 
Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022). A struggling immigrant mother finds herself amidst a battle that could destroy all the universes. A resistance group, who can travel to other universes by taking over their alter ego’s bodies, finds her and teaches her to leap to other universes.

This is multiverse done right. It’s intimate and grandiose at the same time. It has science-fiction, comedy, crazy action… a true multiverse. It comes from the same twisted minds that made Swiss Army Man (2016), but with a bigger budget (not that big though--only 25 million--, which proves that they have a lot of creativity). The leading actors are absolute legends: Michelle Yeoh, from the early Hong Kong action movies and from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; and Ke Huy Quan, who played Short Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) and Data in The Goonies (1985).

I just have to say that it is a bit too long. Cut 30 minutes and you have my 10 out of 10.
 
KGeo777 said:
TALES OF TERROR 1962 -Premiered 60 years ago today.

The wine tasting contest is my favorite part.
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Oh, I loved that story & that scene!



THIEVES' HIGHWAY (1949) NOIR ALLEY. Nico Garcos (Richard Conte; my 1st time noticing him) comes home from (the war?) bearing gifts for his family, including shoes or slippers for father. He is taken aback by the reactions, until he realizes that papa lost his legs. Learning the where & when, etc., he decides to go after the villain, Mike Figlia (Lee J. Cobb), who was responsible. Figlia runs a fruit business in the city, and buys straight from the trucks carrying produce from farmers. He always pays them less than he ought, and sometimes sends henchmen out to recover the money, using various tactics, including violence and liquor.

So, he had papa drunk, and sent him on his way, being sure he would crash & Figlia's henchmen would recover his money, while papa would be too drunk to realize he had been robbed.

Garcos must first recover papa's truck, which, he being unable to drive it, sold to Ed Kinney
(Millard Mitchell) who still owes payment to papa. Garcos ends up partnering with Kinney, buys another truck, and the two set out for the city, loaded with apples.

Definitely noir! Good show, but brutal.
 
Skeletons (2010): A fantasy-mystery-comedy in which two psychics are employed to exorcize clients' darkest secrets. I enjoyed the main conceit and premise, both quite unique, though I didn't find it particularly funny. I was trying to multi-task, though, so I missed a lot of it. It didn't help that it was quiet and my Murican ears couldn't understand what the actors were saying half the time. Subtitles were not an option, as I watched it online.
 
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