What was the last movie you saw?

[the_evil_ted]

That's the one

10 Cloverfield Lane.

I really fancy this, do they keep it just to the three of them? Wait - don't answer that. Is it connected to the first film? Wait - don't answer that either. Is it out in the UK?



Last night's Saturday Movie - A Most Violent Year.

Felt fantastic tension all the way through. DESPITE the Blu-Ray title screen. If you purchase this, and have not seen it - press PLAY AS SOON AS YOU CAN.

I waited for my darling wife, who was slicing up some luscious home-made chocolate cake (she is an angel), and watched the snippets of film footage on the montage. Most of which happened in the last twenty minutes of the film! I mean come on!

Thankfully, Isaac and Chastain were both superb in it and it was only when the first of the scenes happened that I remembered the 'random sequences' which basically had told me how the end was going to play out because there was so little time left in the film.

 

[Starbeast]

The Amazing Spider Man 2 (2014)

Overwhelmingly Boring (I forced myself to watch an hour and twenty minutes of it - I just couldn't finish it)
Uninteresting Characters (I couldn't stand anyone in the movie)
Poorly Directed (even the director apologized later)
Lots of people wearing glasses (that seemed strange to me)
Ridiculous use of a classic villain (goodbye forever Electro - your big screen chance is destroyed)
Why does everything have to center around Oscorp Industries. Isn't there anything interesting happening anywhere else?
Stan Lee looked confused and unhappy in his cameo.
Far worst than Amazing Spider Man 1 (which was not worth watching again as well)


This video sums up my review:

 

[JunkMonkey]

Ghosts of Mars - I think John Carpenter may have been asleep when he wrote/directed/scored this one.

 

[Ajid]

The last film I watched was one I've seen only once before and I wonder why I haven't watched it more often, Chinatown.

Jach Nicolson plays a Gumshoe not to far removed from the iconic Philp Marlowe of the Raymond Chandler books. One key difference is that unlike Marlowe Nicholsons character "Gittes" does take on the divorce or simmilar type cases that come to him.

There are some exceptional performances in this film from Faye Dunaway, Jack Nicholson and John Huston.

We open with Gittes hired to probide evidence of adultry. The situation soon heads in a different direction after the revelation that the woman who hired him was not the wife of the adulterous husband.

Murder, corruption and a family complications ensue.

The film has the advantage of being written as a screenplay and it certainly bennifits from it. The story line is compact enough for screen but also complex enough to hold interest.

The film builds to a climax that to some may let it down a little but others will love. In my opinion the ending is perfect wraps up all charachters and still manages to leave amiguity. It's a shame that a sequel was filmed.

In conclusion this film is probably amoungst the finest of Jack Nicholsons work, faye Dunaway is exceptional and effectivley every woman I have visualised from any PI story I have ever read. there are few plot holes and the ending, if you can take it, will keep you thinking about it for hours.

 

[aThenian]

Frost Nixon.

Well done but somehow underwhelming, I think because the story itself was a bit lacking - so David Frost interviewed Richard Nixon, so what? So much less exciting than Watergate itself.

 

[gdoc]

Batman V Superman. Abysmal. Avoid if you can

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

The Villain Still Pursued Her (1940)

This charming spoof of mid-19th century melodramas (particularly those dealing with Demon Rum) was quite a pleasant surprise. It's got the deadpan mock-seriousness of something like Airplane! and quite a bit of clever wit. It's not above throwing in a pie fight for laughs, but most of the time it relies on outrageously florid dialogue and subtle sight gags. It also breaks the fourth wall quite often. The great Buster Keaton has a good supporting role. Recommended.

 

[J Riff]

Tx again Victoria, for sorting through oldies and pulling up the good 'uns. I am tryin to get to Fury of the Wolfman, but reality is interfering again.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Silent Night, Bloody Night (1972)

Stylish and moody slasher with a remarkably complex back story, portrayed in sepia-toned flashback sequences. Very nicely filmed. The body count is quite high, and there are some bloody scenes, but the camera does not dwell on the gore. More time is spent on character development. Notable for featuring several actors associated with Andy Warhol, as well as John Carradine in a fairly important, but non-speaking role. Recommended.

 

[Lew Rockwell Fan]

Serenity.

Basically, I quit watching TV or movies after grammer school, sometime after the Permian extinction. But a bookstore lady whose opinions I respect insisted that Firefly was worth while, so I eventually got around to watching it from Youtube. She was right. So I bought the DVD. Way better than 2001, which wouldn't have made a lick of sense if I hadn't read the book first.

 

[the_evil_ted]

Go Browncoats!

Watched 'Begin Again' last night, Keira Knightly (e?) & Mark Ruffalo - sweet and real.

You think it's about music producing, but it's not. It's about relationships and the love of music. I love finding little gems on Netflix without having seen any trailers.

All the cast was good, pacing was chilled, there's some real moments in it and I never knew Keira could sing!

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Vengeance of the Zombies (1973)

This Paul Naschy flick lacks the insanity of Fury of the Wolf Man, the silliness of Assignment Terror, the effective Gothic appeal of The Werewolf vs the Vampire Woman, or the intriguing plot elements of Count Dracula's Great Love. So what's left? A pretty lame zombie movie. The confusing story mixes up voodoo, Satanism, and the Thugee cult. Naschy gets to play three roles; a good Indian mystic, his evil brother, and, in a brief, weird dream sequence, Satan. Add an inappropriate upbeat jazz/rock soundtrack, and you have a fairly dull affair. The zombies are just ordinary women in black nightgowns and blue-gray makeup.

 

[psikeyhackr]

1936 - The Amazing Adventure - CARY GRANT

The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

psik

 

[psychotick]

Hi,

I just watched the new Bond - Spectre. I don't know if I'm disappointed or gravely disappointed! What went wrong? There's major plot issues (spoilers alert). For example when they find the tracker tracking a sat phone and set out to follow it - why's the phone still running however many years later? Why when they get there on the train of all things - is the bad guy waiting for them? Why does he send just a driver if he's expecting them? And why do they get in the bloody car? And then there's the torture scene - why does the DIY brain surgery not work on Bond? And the watch bomb goes off but why do the manacles on his chair simply click open?

There's the stupid parts too, like attending the meeting of Spectre. How again does the bad guy know he's there in the crowd? Turn to face him and have a conversation when he's in shadow? And the escape is simply ludicrous. Not to mention destroying the bad guys lair a bit later. One bullet into some sort of fuel pump(?) and it goes bang, then five minutes later they walk out (ok maybe they hurried and shot a few guys but it really didn't seem very tense) and the whole damned lair goes boom? What's that about?

Then of course there's the DB10 - yeah pretty - but looks to have an awful ride through the city - no suspension! And where were the toys? The babes?

It's like they completely forgot what a Bond film was all about.

Cheers, Greg.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Haunts (1977)

Intriguing low budget psychological drama disguised as a slasher. May Britt stars as a woman living on a farm near a small town somewhere near the ocean. The area is terrorized by a series of brutal rape/murders. Meanwhile, the woman has flashback memories of something that happened during her childhood. At times the film almost has the feeling of a documentary, as we see folks in this blue collar community go about their daily lives. At other times there's a touch of surrealism. There's a major twist ending which changes everything we've seen. There's a final twist at the very end which makes things much stranger. Also features a good role for Cameron Mitchell which proves to be more important than it might seem. Recommended.

 

[JunkMonkey]

Maze Runner - which I really quite enjoyed... right up until the end when the 'explanation' made me wonder why I had bothered.

 

[Rodders]

I watched something called the Cobbler with Adam Sandler.

A little predictable, but it turned out to be a nice film.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

The Head (1959)

It's easy to dismiss this Euroshocker as The Brain That Wouldn't Die with a German accent. Certainly, there are similarities. You've got the living decapitated head that only wants to die (although here it's an older man instead of a young woman.) You've got the mad scientist who plots to make use of the beautiful body of a stripper. (No, not to transplant onto the man's head! I have to admit that would make an remarkable plot twist, though.) You've got an assistant who not's quite right in the head (although he's Mister Sanity compared to the mad scientist.) You've got a lab going up in flames.

However, there are several differences. The Head takes itself about as seriously as a disembodied head movie can. The man without a body, although he plays an important part in the plot, isn't actually the main concern of the film. Rather it deals mostly with a hunchbacked nurse. (And now you've figured out what the mad scientist wants to do with the stripper's body.)

The Head has some interesting characters. It also features a really nifty futuristic house belonging to the man who loses his body. It's worth a look if you like this kind of thing.

 

[gdoc]

The Head (1959)

It's easy to dismiss this Euroshocker as The Brain That Wouldn't Die with a German accent. Certainly, there are similarities. You've got the living decapitated head that only wants to die (although here it's an older man instead of a young woman.) You've got the mad scientist who plots to make use of the beautiful body of a stripper. (No, not to transplant onto the man's head! I have to admit that would make an remarkable plot twist, though.) You've got an assistant who not's quite right in the head (although he's Mister Sanity compared to the mad scientist.) You've got a lab going up in flames.

However, there are several differences. The Head takes itself about as seriously as a disembodied head movie can. The man without a body, although he plays an important part in the plot, isn't actually the main concern of the film. Rather it deals mostly with a hunchbacked nurse. (And now you've figured out what the mad scientist wants to do with the stripper's body.)

The Head has some interesting characters. It also features a really nifty futuristic house belonging to the man who loses his body. It's worth a look if you like this kind of thing.

Wow. That sounds great actually

 

[JunkMonkey]

The Head is great. A really odd little film. I would dearly love to see the original version - the only copies I have been able to find are of the American edit. There are several obvious cuts where European sleaziness was obviously on the horizon and deemed too rude for the delicate sensibilities of Middle America.

Talking of sleaze, last night I watched: Skin Eating Jungle Vampires - a film that makes the average Troma film look like Ben Hur. A woman goes in search of her sister who has been taken captive by a bunch of bikini-clad aliens in the jungles of deepest Costa Rica. After lots and lots of footage of the woman on holiday in Costa Rica (occasionally she takes her top off to remind the audience why they're watching the film) she too is captured then taken to a papier mache cave and forced to take part in a half-hearted lesbian orgy (lots breast fondling and sticking their tongues out kissing while trying not to giggle or look into the camera). Eventually something happens and the film ends but by that time my finger was so firmly on the FF button I couldn't tell you what exactly it was. It did involve a Mexican Skull Mask revolving very rapidly and exploding.

I should have stopped watching after noticing the opening subtitle telling us we were in Costa Rica was in Comic Sans but I didn't. Will I never learn?