What was the last movie you saw?

[Null_Zone]

Roge One

Liked it but given the leads upper middle class accent I couldn't help but imagine the motivational speeches about hope etc were being given to a 6th form hockey team.

 

[clovis-man]

Roge One

Liked it but given the leads upper middle class accent I couldn't help but imagine the motivational speeches about hope etc were being given to a 6th form hockey team.

There were a number of soliloquys.

 

[AE35Unit]

Last film I watched was the new Jungle Book.
I was expecting it to be terrible but quite the opposite. Christopher Walken sings and had cowbell lol

 

[J Riff]

I watched Triple 9, a new shootem'up in which bad cops, corrupt special forces, gangsters and maybe some good guys shoot hell out of each other after robbing some banks and whatnot. That's all I remember, there may have been some car chases as well.

 

[reiver33]

Rogue One - I'll give it a thumbs up

 

[kythe]

I just saw What's Eating Gilbert Grape for the first time. I thought it was an excellent and very believable portrayal of a family with a mentally disabled child. As a drama focused on character development, this isn't the type of film I normally watch. But as a mother of a mentally disabled teen, I found myself feeling very emotionally moved while watching this family's life. It is definately worth viewing.

 

[Lucien21]

La La Land

Great performance from the two leads, very charming, some decent songs and a couple of fantastic set pieces.

However it kind of loses it's charm about half way through goes a bit mad and I hated the ending.

 

[Ignited Moth]

I just saw What's Eating Gilbert Grape for the first time. I thought it was an excellent and very believable portrayal of a family with a mentally disabled child. As a drama focused on character development, this isn't the type of film I normally watch. But as a mother of a mentally disabled teen, I found myself feeling very emotionally moved while watching this family's life. It is definately worth viewing.

I could not agree with you more! I saw this in one of my classes back in high school and it floored me how much I could relate to it. My older brother has autism, very severe OCD, and is epileptic so stress was something I was very well acquainted with growing up. I love my brother very much but that does not mean it was never difficult at times. This film was like a breath of fresh air seeing that Johnny Depp's character who also loved his brother was also capable of getting upset and stressed out at times with him. As you said, it is a very believable portrayal of a family with a mentally disabled child. The honesty of it was what I liked.

 

[AE35Unit]

Captain America:Civil War
Rather silly romp in which the good guys knock seven bells out of each other. Oh hum.

 

[J Riff]

The Silent Partner 1978- E. Gould, C. Plummer, Susanna York. A quirky bank robbery, and a few other oddities, make this a fun watch.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

The Silent Partner 1978- E. Gould, C. Plummer, Susanna York. A quirky bank robbery, and a few other oddities, make this a fun watch.

I saw that one in a theater when it first came out. An offbeat thriller with a good cast.

 

[J Riff]

Rogue One is a StarWars SF-based action adventure movie with lots of adventurous action, it was allritey here, tho I still don't know the alliance from the federation.
Sing is good aminated fun.

 

[WilliamDavey627]

Arrival

 

[svalbard]

T2:Trainspotting.

Went to this last night and was not disappointed.

 

[aThenian]

I just saw What's Eating Gilbert Grape for the first time. I thought it was an excellent and very believable portrayal

I loved Gilbert Grape too.

The last film I saw was Captain Fantastic and I really enjoyed it. Like Gilbert Grape, it's a wonderful portrait of a family under pressure. (Also led me to wonder - are there really leftwing Noam Chomsky followers living alone in the wilds of America? I think of that life style as more of a right wing thing? My other observation - Vigo Mortensen has definitely aged since LoTR...)

 

[Randy M.]

I've been watching quite a few movies lately.

Love Actually (2003) -- a re-watch for me, first time for my wife. I'm not sure how she missed it before. Anyway, just as charming now as it was the first time. A top-notch British cast given something worth doing and more than doing it justice. Maybe one of my favorite romantic comedies.

La La Land (2016) -- rebooting musicals, this is a quite good bittersweet love story. I've heard criticism about Emma Stone's and Ryan Gosling's singing and dancing, but then I remember the old 1930s, '40s and '50s musicals -- think Peter Lawford, Esther Williams (supposedly dubbed by Andy Williams), Rita Hayworth among others who had to learn singing and dancing for their assigned roles -- and shrug off the criticism as either misguided or ill-informed.

Manchester by the Sea (2016) -- another love story, sort of, but of a different type. Casey Afleck's portrayal of a man who has divorced himself from all feeling after a personal tragedy is deeply affecting. I've heard this called depressing, and there's reason for that. There's also reason not to see the final effect of the movie as depressing.


Randy M.

 

[Ignited Moth]

T2:Trainspotting.

Went to this last night and was not disappointed.

I did not realize this was out already!
I'm so glad to hear that it was not a disappointment.
Awww, I just checked and it says it comes out in March in the US, so looks like I still have some waiting to do.

 

[AE35Unit]

Well this afternoon we saw Sing at the cinema. Loved it!
And earlier this evening we watched A Million Ways to Die in the West. Written and starring Seth Mcfarlane of Family Guy fame-hilarious.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

I'm working my way through a set of DVD's called Pioneers of African-American Cinema. Besides brief excerpts of lost films, there are some full features.

The Flying Ace (1928)

Silent crime/adventure drama involving the mysterious disappearance of a railroad employee and the payroll he was carrying. Our hero is a railroad detective/World War One flying ace who tracks down the criminals. Notable for containing "flying" sequences filmed entirely on the ground. The hero's sidekick is played by an actor with only one leg, who still manages to get around quite well, including riding a bicycle.

Ten Nights in a Barroom (1926)

Another silent film. This one is based on the 1854 novel of the same name, which has often been put on the stage, frequently parodied, and was adapted multiple times during the silent and early sound days. Besides the basic temperance plot (you may be familiar with the scene where a young daughter walks into the barroom and pleads for her father to come home) this one also deals with the evils of gambling and involves the drunkard being cheated out of the mine he owns. Oddly told as a flashback narrated by a travelling salesman who recalls events of twenty-five years ago (to be before Prohibition, I suppose.) Has lots of characters and subplots, making it a little hard to follow at times.

 

[HanaBi]

The Fifth Element - Wikipedia

Can't believe this film is 20 years old!

Loved it first time round in the cinema back in 1997, and on repeat viewings on dvd. But watched it again last night, and found it rather on the long side and rather shallow!

Still great fun for all that.

3/5