What was the last movie you saw?

He Knows You're Alone (1980)

Slasher movie starts with a victim being killed while watching a slasher movie in a theater. Post-modern! It seems some nut was jilted by his bride-to-be three years ago, so he killed her just before the wedding. Now he goes around killing women who are soon to be married. There's a cop obsessed with tracking him down because he was supposed to be married to the women who jilted the killer and became his first victim. The rest of the movie is the killer very slowly stalking one intended victim, killing other folks along the way. It's relatively bloodless, the camera usually cutting away just before the murders. The one big shock scene (severed head in a fish tank) occurs about fifteen minutes before the end, and the tension doesn't really build until about ten minutes prior to the credits. There's an unpleasant twist ending. Mostly remembered nowadays for offering Tom Hanks his first role, a tiny part as a student.
 
Iron Man 2.

Yes, I am very up to date. Thought it was reasonable but not as good as the first film by some distance.
 
FRIGHT 1971 (rewatch)- despite the distinguished thespian pedigree of Honor Blackman, Ian Bannen, and Susan "I can't get through a movie without a mental breakdown showcase" George, it doesn't fire on all cylinders despite some spooky bits in the early parts of the movie. Considered a proto-slasher since the plot is a virginal babysitter and an escaped asylum killer, there's too much scene-chewing and montage editing fun in the second half for it to work as either a drama or a thriller. The ending twist is a very poor commentary on the lax English police firearm handling protocols in the early 70s. The made-up horror film playing on a tv uses some snippets of Plague of the Zombies but it is edited in a way to suggest an alternate universe version of it.
 
Sunshine on Leith - A musical set to the songs of the proclaimers about 2 ex army buddies and their return to civilian life after an encounter with a roadside bomb out in afghansistan. Nice songs decent acting and a good cast made it quite enjoyable. Its Grease with Scottish people.
 
X-Ray aka Hospital Massacre (1981)

Slasher starts in 1961. Young brother and sister at home. Girl gets a Valentine's Day card from a kid named Harold, they make fun of him and laugh at it, somehow Harold kills the brother and hangs his body up on a hat rack.

Nineteen years later, the little blonde girl is now brunette Barbi Benton. She goes to a hospital for a routine checkup. Lunatic disguised in surgical clothing kills her doctor and messes with her medical records so it looks like she's got some terrible disease. The hospital makes her undergo more tests, keeps her in a room, etc. Meanwhile, our old pal Harold kills more folks, leading up to big battle to the death with Benton.

An undistinguished example of the genre, for the most part, but it can also be seen as a very dark satire on the health care system. The medical staff treats Benton like their property, telling her nothing, keeping her in restraints, and so on. All the other patients seem to be lunatics, although this isn't a mental hospital.
 
Victoria Silverwolf said:
X-Ray aka Hospital Massacre (1981)

Slasher starts in 1961. Young brother and sister at home. Girl gets a Valentine's Day card from a kid named Harold, they make fun of him and laugh at it, somehow Harold kills the brother and hangs his body up on a hat rack.

Nineteen years later, the little blonde girl is now brunette Barbi Benton. She goes to a hospital for a routine checkup. Lunatic disguised in surgical clothing kills her doctor and messes with her medical records so it looks like she's got some terrible disease. The hospital makes her undergo more tests, keeps her in a room, etc. Meanwhile, our old pal Harold kills more folks, leading up to big battle to the death with Benton.

An undistinguished example of the genre, for the most part, but it can also be seen as a very dark satire on the health care system. The medical staff treats Benton like their property, telling her nothing, keeping her in restraints, and so on. All the other patients seem to be lunatics, although this isn't a mental hospital.
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I saw that a while back and was confused by the tone, which occasionally switched to comedic, as when Barbi is running around screaming for help and opens a door to find three guys wrapped like mummies and in traction. If they'd gone with the inclination to comedy, it might have been better.
 
THE LAST WALTZ (1976?) A Band called THE BAND's documentary. I always use the captions, & as such, song titles are given. Otherwise, I would have little if any clue to the titles.
 
Daughter Number two and I have an Animated Batman double bill with the okay, but slightly disappointing, Batman: Gotham by Gaslight (2018) which has a Victorian Batman battling Jack the Ripper and the frankly hysterically funny Batman vs. Two-Face (2017 ) which has Adam West, Burt Ward, and Julie Newmar reprising their 1966 roles as Batman, Robin, and Catwoman - joined by William Shatner as Harvey Dent.

!!! Just checking my spelling on Wikipedia I just spotted another joke I'd missed while watching. In the film a female public defender, Lucilee Diamond, tells the imprisoned Catwoman that she hasn't got parole. She is then knocked out. Catwoman swaps clothes with her and makes her escape from jail. The public defender wakes up, tries to raise the alarm but is not believed. She turns back into the cell and catches sight of herself in a full length mirror, decides she looks pretty darn sexy in the leather cat woman costume and preens. It's a funny visual gag. It's funnier when you realise that public defender Lucilee Diamond is played by Lee Meriwether - who replaced the TV show's Julie Newmar as Catwoman in the 1966 movie.
 
JunkMonkey said:
Daughter Number two and I have an Animated Batman double bill with the okay, but slightly disappointing, Batman: Gotham by Gaslight (2018) which has a Victorian Batman battling Jack the Ripper and the frankly hysterically funny Batman vs. Two-Face (2017 ) which has Adam West, Burt Ward, and Julie Newmar reprising their 1966 roles as Batman, Robin, and Catwoman - joined by William Shatner as Harvey Dent.

!!! Just checking my spelling on Wikipedia I just spotted another joke I'd missed while watching. In the film a female public defender, Lucilee Diamond, tells the imprisoned Catwoman that she hasn't got parole. She is then knocked out. Catwoman swaps clothes with her and makes her escape from jail. The public defender wakes up, tries to raise the alarm but is not believed. She turns back into the cell and catches sight of herself in a full length mirror, decides she looks pretty darn sexy in the leather cat woman costume and preens. It's a funny visual gag. It's funnier when you realise that public defender Lucilee Diamond is played by Lee Meriwether - who replaced the TV show's Julie Newmar as Catwoman in the 1966 movie.
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I need to watch Batman vs Two-Face. Thanks for summary; the original cast plus The Shat sounds like an awesome combination.
 
I love the Batman animated series but haven’t seen either of the aforementioned. That must be remedied.

And still on a Batman theme, I watched The Batman last night. The cynic in me was asking…do we really need another version of Batman? Of course, my cynicism didn’t stop me buying it:rolleyes:

So here’s what I think. The voice over in the opening scenes made me feel like it was an opening to Watchmen. Even the style of the language made me think it had been written by Alan Moore (it wasn’t - I checked the credits at the end). The whole thing moved into a very dark and possibly the darkest version of Batman. Not only that, cynic that I was, by the end of the movie I had been infected by the zealousness of a convert. I need to watch this again but my initial feeling is that this is now my favourite Batman movie.:)
 
Foxbat said:
I love the Batman animated series but haven’t seen either of the aforementioned. That must be remedied.

And still on a Batman theme, I watched The Batman last night. The cynic in me was asking…do we really need another version of Batman? Of course, my cynicism didn’t stop me buying it:rolleyes:

So here’s what I think. The voice over in the opening scenes made me feel like it was an opening to Watchmen. Even the style of the language made me think it had been written by Alan Moore (it wasn’t - I checked the credits at the end). The whole thing moved into a very dark and possibly the darkest version of Batman. Not only that, cynic that I was, by the end of the movie I had been infected by the zealousness of a convert. I need to watch this again but my initial feeling is that this is now my favourite Batman movie.:)
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Is this the most recent Batman movie?
 
THE GUILTY (1947; dir. John Reinhardt; starring Bonita Granville, Don Castle, Wally Cassell, Regis Toomey)

Mike (Castle) and Johnny (Cassell) were in the war together. The latter is suffering from PTSD, the former trying to help him out, but each has fallen for Estelle (Granville). Estelle's twin, Linda (also Granville), is also in the mix and when she ends up murdered, all three are suspects for Detective Heller (Toomey, in one of many, many cop rolls -- I remember him as a regular on Burke's Law; he was also a cop in the Bogart/Bacall The Big Sleep).

Based on a Cornell Woolrich short story, featured in Noir Alley on the Turner Cable Network, this is a well-paced, atmospheric little B-movie. You probably won't guess who the killer is before the end.
 
Guess we had a bit of a binge at Christmas, holed up in a cottage in the Schticks. :giggle: o_O That was ve-ry cosy. But basically my film-watching tends to be in the cinema with a girlfriend who also enjoys art-house and foreign-language films - and that hasn't happened for two years.

However, having said this, partner & I did watch Rain Man last Sunday. Neither of us had seen it since it was released (1988), so it was delightfully new! IIRC Hoffman got the Oscar but I felt - and feel - that Cruise's acting is superb. Imperceptibly, he makes the transition from shallow, selfish tosser into ...well, a human being capable of thinking about someone other than himself. One down-side: I'm not sure autism is well-depicted: the scriptwriter and director made its symptoms quirky, comical & endearing, whereas IME it is none of those things.
 
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DEVIL'S DOORWAY (1950) Lance Poole (Robert Taylor) returns from the Civil Way wearing a decoration for courage, etc., to his Western town. Nothing unusual about that, but when his father comes to welcome him, papa (Fritz Leiber) is clearly an Indian! Things have changed in town since Poole left, & now the saloon no longer serves alcohol to Indians, and the townsfolk have clearly changed their attitudes toward them. Moreover, Attorney Verne Coolan (Louis Calhern) is advising homesteaders to simply lay claim to Poole's land, which he no longer is recognized as owning, since he is an Indian. Bad things will happen.

A very different Western movie!
 
The last movie I tried to watch was called Phoenix 2 (1995)- aka Cyberzone aka Droid Gunner - starring Marc Singer. A very cheap, very bad Blade Runner knock off that makes some of the crud Rutger Hauer ended up doing around this time look top quality stuff. I lasted about 10 minutes. I should have given up about eight minutes before that when Fred Olen Ray's name cropped up in the 'director' credit.

Very avoidable.
 
DESPERATE (1947) Steve Randall (Steve Brodie) is a truck driver/owner, & receives a call one evening promising $50 for just an hour's work. Little did he know, his old friend Walt Radak (Raymond Burr) was stealing fur coats, & thought that if Randall knew, he would surely refuse. Randall naively pulls his truck up to the loading dock, only to be confronted by Radak & gang, insisting he take part. At 1st chance, Randall attempts to drive away, but, is the only one of two faces associated with the killing of a police officer. The other is Radak's younger brother, who had been caught. Radak is furious, blaming his brother's capture on Randall & demanding Randall confess to killing the cop, else bad things will happen to Randall's wife (Audrey Long).

Tense!
 
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