What was the last movie you saw?

I watched an oldie from the sixties I think "Scream and Scream again" Peter Cushing and Vincent Price in a Horror about medical technology producing souless monsters.

I thougrhly enjoyed it, a sort of cold war thriller crossed with a classic scream cheapo! Worth the money I pay for cable! :D
 
Cat People (1942) I've been enjoying seeing some of the older scifi/horror movies lately and thought this one was great, they did so much with so little special effects.

Is it film noir or inspired by it? Or maybe it's just the age of the film but it seemed to have that feeling that modern films like Sin City, LA confidential etc try to achieve.
 
Just watched the rather excellen Bee Movie!
Thing is everyone involved in the movie was raving about Seinfeld yet i've never seen his show. Helen said she has but found his character really annoying! Luckily the film was brilliant!
 
I watched Sunshine. At first it seems as a good SF movie, but I disappointed with the second half of the movie.
 
Quokka said:
Cat People (1942) I've been enjoying seeing some of the older scifi/horror movies lately and thought this one was great, they did so much with so little special effects.

Is it film noir or inspired by it? Or maybe it's just the age of the film but it seemed to have that feeling that modern films like Sin City, LA confidential etc try to achieve.
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Its prolly Film noir and the genre existed famously way before two movies.


The 40's-60's was Film Noir at its best. Even Stanley Kubrick did a famous one. They even won oscars,the actors atleast.
 
Connavar said:
Its prolly Film noir and the genre existed famously way before two movies.


The 40's-60's was Film Noir at its best. Even Stanley Kubrick did a famous one. They even won oscars,the actors atleast.
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I was assuming that Sin City and LA Confidential didn't start Film Noir, I kind of half understand what Film Noir is without really knowing the specifics of what defines it but one of the things I found myself thinking while watching Cat People was how hard some movies (like those two) work at trying to achieve the same 'feel'. Whereas there's an honesty to Cat People a lot of the times modern versions not suprisingly have that staged feeling, which sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. So in the end I'm also wondering, how much of this style was the intent of the people who made Cat People and how much is a result of it being a 1940's movie with the term Film Noir being applied later?

Sorry that's probably even more confusing then my first post.
 
Quokka said:
I was assuming that Sin City and LA Confidential didn't start Film Noir, I kind of half understand what Film Noir is without really knowing the specifics of what defines it but one of the things I found myself thinking while watching Cat People was how hard some movies (like those two) work at trying to achieve the same 'feel'. Whereas there's an honesty to Cat People a lot of the times modern versions not suprisingly have that staged feeling, which sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. So in the end I'm also wondering, how much of this style was the intent of the people who made Cat People and how much is a result of it being a 1940's movie with the term Film Noir being applied later?

Sorry that's probably even more confusing then my first post.
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I know i was just saying that kind of movie was big then. Didnt even know you were dissing those two modern versions.


I dont know what kind of movie Cat People is. Some movies at time was just naturaly hard ala Film Noir without trying cause of the times. Some movies tried and did the Film Noir thing well cause those kind of movies was in vogue . I mean Humprey Bogart played every famous hardboiled PI in several of his movies. When the big stars did it of course the others follow. Marilyn Monroe became noticed in a great hiest Film Noir called Ashpalt Jungle.

By the way i recommend Sterling Heyden movies like Asphalt Jungle if you want this kind movie. I saw him for the first time like a month ago and his presence was impressing.
 
Am about to watch Hellraiser properly for the first time. I know its Clive Barker but isn't this based on a book called The Hellbound Heart? And how many movie sequels were there?
 
Oh well i finally got to watch it and well its not a horror film its a gore fest. I want to be sacred not repulsed. Are there no decent true horror films out there that don't insist on buckets of blood on set?
 
I'm just watching Along Came Polly at the moment. It's better than I thought it would be (the strange French guy at the beginning!), but has the typical cringey moments :rolleyes:
 
I will actually admit to watching Enchantment last night, its partly animated and partyly real. I actually havn't laughed so much for ages. I expected it to be terribly corney, and it was, but it was corny to the point that it was also funny. Lightweight but highly enjoyable.
 
It was a while ago now, but I'm still under the impression of it - There Will Be Blood. This is a remarkable movie; never before have I seen a human act so bloody good as Daniel Day Lewis did in this movie. Not only did he create an intriguing, unique, jaw-dropping character through his performance, but he got so into him that I honestly picture Daniel Plainview (the main character) as a separate entity from DDL. Even though I know it's only a movie, a work of fiction, I can't stop thinking how that man really existed once (he did actually, or at least someone that character was based on but that's not my point).

I've seen it three times now and I expect to watch it again, and probably again after that etc.
 
Well, finally went to see Ironman because the husband kept bugging me. :) I was actually pleasantly surprised. I thought it was much better than Spiderman.
 
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