What was the last movie you saw?

"The Last Picture Show" (1971)

It has been at least 20 years since I last got round to watching a Peter Bogdanovich-directed film. And out of all his films, I would class this one as his very best.

A typical coming-of-age, angst-ridden teenagers growing up in a small American town out in the middle of nowhere. Peer pressure from all sides, the emphasis on trying to lose one's virginity, and to get drunk and generally fool around.

This has been done many times in other films, but this one really set the mood, and not always a happy one either. And I think filming it in black & white just added to the sense of drama, and the sense of isolated hopelessness.

A film nominated for several Academy Awards & BAFTAs; it also received extremely good ratings on IMDb and RT.

Looks a little dated now perhaps, but probably still has some relevance even today

4/5



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Thanks for warning, JM. It-was-Earth-all-along...* I tend to watch them all, all the new SF flicks , just to be safe, but now and then a warning from space, or from JM, can save one from needless pain.
 
Last one I saw was Moana the latest Disney movie. It was pretty decent. "The Rock" was good as the Demi God character and it was nice to see that the main character was a strong female that didn't require a male romantic character like most of the older movies.

Before that I went to see Rogue One twice over the Christmas break.
 
The Lost Weekend (1945). The poor guy is hopelessly alcoholic,
and though he occasionally makes feeble attempts to overcome the addiction, he wallows in self-pity. I do not know about hallucinations being associated with anything but narcotics, but they made the drunk tank scene rather intense!
4/7 ACADEMY AWARDS!
 
Rogue One. Prior to that was Episode VII, prior to that I don't know, but the carpeting, prices, sound system, chairs and exits to the cinema had all changed in the meantime.
 
The Sweet Smell of Success (1957) was not about war, gangsters, space aliens or zombies, so I was not sure I would like it, or ever watch more than 20 minutes of it. But it did hold my interest, and did so very well. Tony Curtis is a press agent, who must kiss up to Burt Lancaster's Walter Winchell-type newspaper columnist, in order to get his clients mentioned. It was a rather tense drama.
 
"The Return of the Pink Panther" (1975)

Peter Sellers and Herbert Lom reprise their roles some 11 years after my personal favourite Pink Panther film "A Shot in the Dark"

This time bumbling Inspector Clouseau is on the trail of diamond thief Christopher Plummer & femme fatale, Catherine Schell.

Plenty of slapstick humour and dodgy French accent ensues.

Sellers is in top form, and seems to have enhanced his role of Clouseau to be far more likable purely because of his naive incompetence played in such a sincere way.

Every time he utters/mispronounces the words "Minkey" (monkey) or "troubleshi**er" (troubleshooter), I can't help but laugh out loud time and time again!

4/5

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HanaBi said:
"The Return of the Pink Panther" (1975)

Peter Sellers and Herbert Lom reprise their roles some 11 years after my personal favourite Pink Panther film "A Shot in the Dark"

This time bumbling Inspector Clouseau is on the trail of diamond thief Christopher Plummer & femme fatale, Catherine Schell.

Plenty of slapstick humour and dodgy French accent ensues.

Sellers is in top form, and seems to have enhanced his role of Clouseau to be far more likable purely because of his naive incompetence played in such a sincere way.

Every time he utters/mispronounces the words "Minkey" (monkey) or "troubleshi**er" (troubleshooter), I can't help but laugh out loud time and time again!

4/5

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Sellers, Lom, and Burt Kwouk! (And the guy with glasses, I think - Henri? and probably more.)

The first movie was good but was "just a movie" with Niven as the star. It was like Clouseau was an accidentally outsized part and they realized he had to *be* the movie, so they made the perfect A Shot in the Dark. Then it wasn't so much a series but they decided to return to it and, I agree, the sequel was great. I'm actually not a fan of the rest of the movies comparatively, but Shot and Return are indispensable. The original scene in Shot where he's talking about it not being clear who was the criminal, the man or his minkey, is one of the all-time classics. And I can hardly say "moth" now, because it always comes out "muth." And, for some reason. what he tells the bellboy in Return just cracks me up: "
I shall see to it that you are made a bellman!
" And Catherine Schell was great. I love how she loses it in the scene where he says, "
Here's lurking at you, kid.
"

Agh, Some of the funniest movies ever. :D
 
Yesterday I saw Lion at the cinema. This is a superb film. It is basically about a young Indian boy who gets lost and eventually is adopted in Australia. Later he wants to find his biological family. Really well done and based on a true story.

A couple of weeks ago we went to watch Hidden figures which is also a very good drama.
 
Terror in the Midnight Sun (1959) seems like my kind of movie! Youtube has it, but I have a ton of stuff on my DVR, so it will wait until later.

Boomerang (1947) is about a murder on a street corner, in which some 7 people had been present. No evidence could be found, and after about two weeks, the politicians were pressuring the detectives for an arrest. The elections are coming, and we must win. It showed a part of the criminal justice system that is seldom depicted, the indictment of the suspect. The prosecutor (Dana Andrews) detailed the evidence for the indictment of a certain man, laying out the positions of the witnesses, victim, and such on a diagram.
But then, to the surprise of all present in the courtroom, he said he believed the suspect was innocent! The judge recessed the court, and ordered the prosecutor to meet him in his chamber. It was not a social call.
Very interesting story!
 
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"Theatre of Blood" (1973)

After thoroughly enjoying/reviewing another Vincent Price offering in "The Witchfinder General" a couple of weeks back, I decided to go through my horror library and dig out another Price classic, Theatre of Blood.

This time we have Price playing stage actor Edward Lionheart in contemporary London society. However, even though he has a very high opinion of his acting skills, he is severely panned by theatre critics at an awards ceremony.

Feeling disillusioned he commits suicide in the River Thames. But is rescued by two tramps, and after fully recovering begins plotting his revenge against those very same critics. But not just any old revenge. Instead, he recites certain passages from various Shakespearean plays that represents a certain method of torture and subsequent murder against his hapless victims.

A wonderfully campy performance by Price, ably supported by some very familiar British thespians - Ian Hendry, Robert Morley, Harry Andrews and Diana Rigg to name but a few.

Plenty of tension and laughs, mixed with some suitably gruesome murders; Price seems to be in his element here, not least for his longstanding acting desire to play Shakespeare. And Theatre of Blood, was the perfect opportunity for Price to immerse himself completely!

4/5

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And if you like Rabbits, then Night of the Lepus 1972, has quite a few. It's disturbing though, footage of actual rabbit infestations, guys chasing them down, it's awful. Then, when the giant mutant rabbits appear, they run around smashing miniature sets, in slow-motion. Everyone else, like the horses the bunnies chomp down on, move at regular speed. IF the rabbits had been able to run at full speed, this planet would be theirs.
 
HanaBi said:
"Theatre of Blood" (1973)

After thoroughly enjoying/reviewing another Vincent Price offering in "The Witchfinder General" a couple of weeks back, I decided to go through my horror library and dig out another Price classic, Theatre of Blood.at represents a certain method of torture and subsequent murder against his hapless victims.

A wonderfully campy performance by Price, ably supported by some very familiar British thespians - Ian Hendry, Robert Morley, Harry Andrews and Diana Rigg to name but a few.
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I loved this film, especially the revenge on Morley's character!
J Riff said:
And if you like Rabbits, then Night of the Lepus 1972, has quite a few. It's disturbing though, footage of actual rabbit infestations, guys chasing them down, it's awful. Then, when the giant mutant rabbits appear, they run around smashing miniature sets, in slow-motion. Everyone else, like the horses the bunnies chomp down on, move at regular speed. IF the rabbits had been able to run at full speed, this planet would be theirs.
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I saw this years ago, only recall the fact that I disliked it.

Monday night I performed a full system scan on my PC, so I was watching a few films I had on my DVR. They both had been on TCM's Underground feature, The Hidden (Wikipedia) (1987) was about an alien creature that possesses humans & takes over completely. It kills remorselessly, and whe the host is damaged to the point it is unable to serve it purpose, it just finds another.

The Terminal Man (wikipedia) (1974) was about a man who suffers from occasional fits of homicidal rage. Neurosurgeons implant a set of electrodes in his brain that are intended to stimulate pleasure centers when the fits occur, thus stopping them. I took particular interest in to mapping of the brain by applying electrical currents in these various electrodes & noting the effects on the patient, because I had had a very similar procedure in 1990, in order to find and by means of a heated probe, destroy the area in my brain that was causing the involuntary movement of my left arm & leg. :oops: In the film, they had seemingly competed the surgery in a rather short time, but in my case, :devilish: it took about 8 or 9 hours, that is, once they had their equipment functioning! So, anyway, this guy's brain works against him, as it finds the stimulation of the pleasure neurons so good, that it activates the fits more frequently, in order to cause the stimulation.
 
xXx: The Return of Xander Cage....

ok I'll fess up - I loved the 1st xXx movie. Big dumb fun. This though is very much a missed opportunity.


The good:

Donnie Yen
Tony Jaa
Deepika Padukone
Ruby Rose
The women are not just there as a love interest (though Nina Dobrev's character is a cracking parody of that)
quite ethnically diverse (if such matters to you)
Some good stunts


The bad

wasted opportunity for DY and TJ
logic fails (mind you you could level the same accusation at most Bond movies)


Overall it passed the time maybe 45%
 
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