What was the last movie you saw?

Skiptrace (2016)

Going against my better judgement (not helped by a pretty awful rating on "Rotten Tomatoes"), I decided to give this a go on Kodi last night.

But clearly I came away thinking "what a waste of time that was!" Which is a shame because I was hoping for something better from Jackie Chan. But this "buddy" action thriller just doesn't click. And Chan really should know better given his advancing age and his need to keep up with the latest martial arts tricks.

Seen it all before really. Chan just seems to be doing it for the money these days. Which might please his fans, but for the casual viewer expecting something special it's a bit of a disappointment

2/5
 
J Riff said:
Hated the 8, who cares who poisoned the bloody coffee and just nevermind, I watched uhh, Monster House... where the house, the whole house... is the monster. The title was a giveaway but no projectile vomit in this house please. )
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Ditto. It was awful...I decided that they started filming a sort of modern spaghetti western but decided, halfway through, that they didn't know how to end it. Alas.
 
Well, whatsisname should be quarantined in Trenton, that's my idea... * ? ./... watched some cartoons instead of movies - Oscar's Oasis, a little lizard named Oscar.... and a warthog and a fox and a buzzard... and it's like the Bugs Bunny vs. Wile E. Coyote setting, with the mesas and high cliffs to fall off, and next thing I knew I'd watched hours of it. The Warthog pushes this shopping cart, see, with the little Fox and the buzzard in it.. at 50 MPH and they use grappling hooks to catch onto trucks so they can steal food or water... and they fly off cliffs and smash into things and boy, wow,..*
Hotel for Dogs was arful.
 
Hotel for Dogs bore almost no resemblance to the book on which it was supposedly based.

We went to see Fantastic Beasts last week and enjoyed it. Utterly ridiculous, but entertaining.
 
The Towering Inferno - Wikipedia (1974)

From an era when action/disaster movies were all the rage. And one of the of the bunch is this. A star-studded cast, including Steve McQueen and Paul Newman, Faye Dunaway and William Holden.

Did very well at the box office, but on viewing it some 40 odd years on it is showing its age: decent sfx and tight action mask a rather silly story and not the most convincing acting in the world. But an enjoyable romp for all that.

Long overdue for a reboot perhaps.

3/5
 
BLACK SABBATH (1964; dir. Mario Bava, starring Boris Karloff, Mark Damon, Michele Mercier)

Horror movie, pretty nicely done, with Karloff introducing three stories and starring in the final one. Bava did a pretty good job of posing Karloff effectively, thus getting around Karloff's limited mobility -- late in life injuries he'd sustained, I believe, while playing Frankenstein's monster, made walking an issue for him. First and last are historical fictions, one based on Chekov (Ivan, according to IMDB, not the other one; Google doesn't find an Ivan Chekov) and Tolstoi (Aleksei, not Leo). On the whole, entertaining, reasonably well-acted for an AIP production and well-filmed (Bava was a skilled director of movies without much of a budget), but very 1960s.

Randy M.
 
Tonight I abandoned Flesh Gordon and the Cosmic Cheeleaders at about the 30 minute mark. - don't tell anyone but I quite like the original Flesh Gordon. It's stupid, sexist, shoddily made soft porn garbage - but it's funny. The sequel is all of the above... apart from the funny bit. In fact it's a film so lacking in anything like a joke and badly made that even the fact that the screen was full of tits for a lot of the time couldn't keep me interested. That bad.
 
Dint even know there was a sequel. * I am in cartoon mode, 2nd childhood, Pow, Fwam! Really, its the cool guitar music in Oscars Oasis that makes me put it on. Really. Otherwise I'd dig into this pile of classics here... just a big book fulla DVDs, of serious kwality flix.
 
Enter the Dragon - Wikipedia (1973)

Perhaps Bruce Lee's most well known, successful and accomplished film; although not necessarily his best in my opinion.

On first viewing this 'x' rated film back in 1979 most of the audience in the cinema - myself included - were in stunned silence at Lee's brilliant martial arts & stuntwork. The story didn't matter, we were all there because of this new fad called "kung fu", and we didn't leave the cinema disappointed. In fact I recall my friends and I were trying to replay some of Lee's moves while waiting for the late night bus!

The film still stands the test of time in terms of Lee's industry. However, the production values are pretty poor, along with a mundane plot.

Good support from Jim Kelley and John Saxon - both accomplished martial arts experts as well as decent Hollywood actors.

Regrettably Bruce Lee died during post production, and never achieved the success in Hollywood he so longed for.

2/5
 
Vince W said:
Rogue One. Slow to build up, but in the end it was a great film. Much better than The Force Awakens.

I predict 1970's style facial hair is about to make a comeback. :)
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I'm getting hyped over going to see this one, but I think this weekend it's not gonna happen -- heavy snow tomorrow and minus-25 windchills on Sunday...it's the walk across the parking lot, you see...

I have to say that almost all of the reviews I've read or heard have been really positive -- except for one: the reviewer in the Minneapolis paper really panned R1 -- but then, I have for years made a point to going to movies that he doesn't like (alas! sometimes he's right...) -- but for the most part, he seems to be a fool (so at least that gives me a base of sorts for deciding whether or not to go to movies...).
 
Enjoyable film, great droid and an awesome finale.

Having said that it was overcomplicated with too many characters, and what was that with all those planet names?

A throwaway line from A New Hope suddenly takes om tremendous significance .
 
Florence Foster Jenkins, hilarious, sad, moving. Meryl Streep is brilliant as usual, Hugh Grant and Simon Helberg are superb too in their roles.
 
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