What was the last movie you saw?

[JunkMonkey]

The Doomsday Machine is a cracker.

Captain: What do you read on the Doplerscope?

Crewman: It's been throwing out a good spectrum - the ship is declining. Velocity seventeen thousand five hundred ... I'd say we were forty thousand miles out.

Captain: Hmm... Put it in the ship's computer and see what we get...

This is great stuff, pure Grade A meaninglessness. This isn't SF movie babble written by people who had English as a second language, or who had to make whatever they wrote fit the mouth movements of existing footage. This is the real thing. Pure Gibberish.

 

[J Riff]

Doomsday Machine is up for mangling here, it's a crocker all righty. Revenge of the Virgins ist anudder cheapie - the music is the same as Beast of Yucca Flats.... so...* In this one, nudey Injun gals go 'round, and they massacre every single gold poacher with apparently little effort. A very positive statement for 1959, and there's a dance routine too.

 

[SilentRoamer]

Last film I saw was Ant-Man fairly recently.

I found it ridiculous and stupid and also highly entertaining.

 

[Starbeast]

Evil Dead (2013)

WHOA-NELLY!!! It's been I while since a horror flick creeped me out, and this was it. I really like the new approach to the film, it made it more of a frightening movie, like watching the original Exorcist. Plus, I smiled, at what lurked beyond the credits. I wouldn't mind seeing it again, without popcorn.

Recommended for only hardcore horror fans.

 

[Ajid]

The Revenant after the better half insisted we see it at the cinema. It was visualy stunning, some scenes were shot and directed so very well that they took my breath away. One particularly good example sees the camera follow down the right hand side of a rifle, pan slightly to the left, it finds two young bear cups walking to the right of shot and follows them, the camera continues to the left but in a way that you still feel to the right of the original view point but then it comes round to the left of the rifle and follows it uo back to the characters face. All in one shot so exceptional and unique. The rest felt lacking. I was impressed by tom hardy but actualy I found Leonardo a little lacking. Still probably the best acting performance of the year but honestly I felt Tom Hardy gave a better performance if I was to compare them side by side. He seemed to have more work to do to establish the character than LD did. I felt at the end that I had seen some wonderfull scenes that were well shot but that the story lacked something fundamental. It is hard to say if this "missing piece" was due to my expectation or the story telling. In terms of the oscars this year it certainly is better than most and the directorship is sound. Best actor?? Probably as there has been nothing provoking enough to challenge it but this would not be a contender in a good year for film. I expect like Dances With Wolves and The Last Of The Mohicans Before it will do will for it's good enough historical portrayel and the idea that white men can unterstand native americans. I hope that doesn't offend.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Link to another long review of an old stinker.

Body of the Prey (1966) : Reader Reviews

 

[JunkMonkey]

Link to another long review of an old stinker.

Body of the Prey (1966) : Reader Reviews

Ooh that looks like fun! Is it public domain?

EDIT:
it is! The Revenge Of Dr. X : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive

"Lift off to countdown now at three hours and... "

20 seconds in and I love it already. Thanks!

 

[J Riff]

I did not enjoy the EvilDead remake one bit. SB is right, only for HC horror/gore types. Retains none of the charm of the original series. I'm not even terribly taken with Ash vs. EvilDead, now that season one is in the bag. A bit gratuitous, a bit 'look at our cool gore FX!" But still fun I guess. Yep.
Dr. X is inbound.

 

[Edward M. Grant]

Pixels. Hardly a cinematic classic, but still pretty entertaining if you played any of those old video games.

 

[Edward M. Grant]

Journey 2: Mysterious Island. Felt like they knocked the script together in a weekend and shot the movie the next day, but I only watched it because someone said it had good 3D, and it was certainly one of the more 3D movies I've seen.

 

[JunkMonkey]

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Journey 2: Mysterious Island. Felt like they knocked the script together in a weekend and shot the movie the next day, but I only watched it because someone said it had good 3D, and it was certainly one of the more 3D movies I've seen.

I saw this in the cinema with my kids. I spent most of the time being thankful for the cameraman's obvious fascination with Vanessa Hudgens's bum. That was worth watching.

 

[J Riff]

Ah, I hacked up Battle Beyond the Stars and it was a real laff. It seems that, the worserer the movie, the more spaceship footage it has, and this one had plenty. SpaceTruckers is next*

 

[svalbard]

Bone Tomahawk.

I was blown away by this movie. Kurt Russell is great in it, the dialogue is good, humorous in parts and absolutely terrifying in parts. This will end up as a bit of a cult classic.

 

[Overread]

My Neighbour Totoro - one of the classic Ghibli film that I've finally gotten on DVD and to see. A very fun if quaint adventure. What I like about it is that its what you could call an ideal childrens adventure without being condescending. Kind of reminds me of novels/films like the Railway Children and such which didn't talk down in such the same way as many more modern shows can.

Anyway Totoro - well worth watching for people of any age

 

[Jaxx]

Bone Tomahawk.

I was blown away by this movie. Kurt Russell is great in it, the dialogue is good, humorous in parts and absolutely terrifying in parts. This will end up as a bit of a cult classic.

I've heard good things about this. First time director I believe who laid into The Revenant and also the last film I watched The Hateful Eight, it felt like watching a panto/theatre performance, Sam L Jackson was almost a parody of Tarantino's previous incarnations of him. H8 would lend itself well to Theatre, very disappointing for me, whilst I found the intensity of Revenant breathtaking.

So I will add Bone Tomahawk to a list of must see's, thanks.

 

[J Riff]

Bone Tommerhock reviews... Extreme gore wArning.. violent mess... bleak stylish curiosity... brutally violent.... but, Kurt Russel. The roomie is a big Kurt fan, I'll wait for the screaming to start in the other room.

 

[AE35Unit]

Apocalypto
Superb film!

 

[J-Sun]

The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)

Wanna see a film with Ava Gardner and Gregory Peck based on Hemingway? Sure!

Wrong.

Not sure if this counts as a movie I "saw" as I watched a half hour of this of a couple of weeks ago or so and it was so painful I gave it a rest. Just watched another half hour, making it to the halfway point, and had to give up entirely.

A guy lies around suffering from gangrene and complaining about how miserable he was and is while Susan Heyward nurses him in a simultaneously cloying, martyred and waspish, foul-tempered way (the latter part understandably). All the while, the guy flashes back to his One True Love whom he sort of treats as attractive furniture while he shoots critters and whatnot on the road to Becoming a Writer. Very soap opera sensibility. Very unlikable characters. If you squint real hard and use your imagination, you can see how this didn't necessarily have to suck but the writing and directing were so poor that it did.

<opus>Well, maybe it wasn't that bad but, lord, it wasn't good.</opus>

 

[Rodders]

Despicable Me 2. I loved this (although I knew I would).

I Am Number Four. Surprisingly enjoyable.

 

[Vaz]

The Conversation

My favourite Francis ford Coppola movie by far. Tense thriller starring Gene Hackman as a private surveillance operative. Really smart movie, love it.

One flew over the cuckoos nest

Hilarious and sad, jack Nicholson stars in a career defining role as McMurphy a man who gets himself sent to a mental institution as a way of getting out of work detail in prison.