What was the last movie you saw?

That's the one I was thinking of. Thanks Greg!
 
Oh, I'm not criticizing Shock Waves... I mean, these guys, in SS unis, with goggle-style glasses, some of them, well they just.... lay there, in this swamp... and they must have had to just get in the water, then sink down and lay in the mud, looking mindless, and then stand up and walk towards people, who scream and run, or shoot them , but it does no good... and it is, as Victoria says, pretty creepy. It's much creepier than Alien Cargo, which is about some 'space junk' brought aboard a freighter spaceship, which turns out to be blue goop, which we don't see for a long time - goop that turns out to be inside an ancient NASA probe of some kind, that... well it causes bad things to happen, and at the end we might learn what the bio-goop is, but No, I can't remember, because of the sadness of the ending, where our couple just floats away in the ship, no air left, because they are infected and don't want to kill us all by coming back to Earth.
 
The Nice Guys - which was unexpectedly good and quite funny. The day before we saw GitS, which was, on its own terms, a great action film with a superb aesthetic.
 
Just watched The Nice Guys last weekend. It did capture the '70s flavor and Gosling and Crowe were unexpectedly -- by me at least -- pretty good together.

Randy M.
 
Pale Rider, a lesser-known Clint western, in which the man with no name, a preacher no less, shows up and helps out a group of miners being claim-jumped by wealthy strip-miner types. Is Clint a ghost? Well judging by the bullet holes we see in his back at the beginning, very likely yes.
 
Logan. It was pretty good. Glad they took a more mature route for this movie.
 
The Way Back - it's a long long way back, over the Himalayas in 1941, after escaping from camp. Beautiful scenery.
 
Going in Style. It was a fun movie. I really enjoyed it. :) It was also a pleasant surprise to discover that the movie theater I went to had installed comfy recliner chairs since the last time I'd been there. :p
 
Had a day off yesterday so watched Das Boot. Such a good film and always a pleasure to go back to it:)
 
Well I started watching Diagoro Vs. Goliath and wow, just wow. I mean.. if you like Japanese monster movies, with ridiculous monsters, kinda for kids-type-monster-stuff, then Diagoro must be seen. He has weight issues, and is unhappy, and the subtitles are kooky, and the music,... and it's awfully good.
Up next - Quick-freeze Monster Barugon. Yup, I'm on a roll.
 
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Recently had a granddaughter, so checked out Beauty and the Beast for a few year's time. Very nice little film - Emma Watson is really good.... then immediately after I saw The Promise. Very good film... but when will Christian Bale stop mumbling...?
 
"The Thing" (1982)

Have seen this film many times over the years, and the reason for this is because its A BLOODY GOOD FILM!!

We all know the story, the characters, the original book etc etc, so won't bother going over the same ground here.

My favourite quote: "There is still cellular activity in these burned remains. They're not dead yet!"

5/5
 
Space Amoeba 1970. More fun with kooky monsters. Only half-watched it but fully enjoyed it. Giant Octopus, giant Crab, others.
 
Saving Mr. Banks
There were lots of Mary Poppins spoilers (which I haven't seen), but other than that, it was very good.

Yes, apart from having an inkling that Walt Disney was in it, I didn't actually know what it was about before I watched it, which is how I usually like to go into films.
 
Right. The new Alien flik is due, and when the ads come on TV, I look away and go 'HMMMMALADEEEDOOOO" until it's over.
Also watched The Lineup, 1958, in which Eli Wallach and others are smuggling heroin inside statues, using innocent tourists as mules, until the G-Men close in and justice prevails. Pretty good.
 
Guardians of the Galaxy. Quite liked it, but perhaps not as much as I thought I would. Rocket and Groot are excellent.
 
Hi,

Passengers - the Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence sci fi flick. Have to say this movie was not whatI expected. I was thinking at the outset that this entire adventure would turn out to be one of those dreams that happen in long term hyper sleep things and they'd all wake up at the end of the movie. But it's not. They actually do wake up thirty years into a one hundred and twenty year mission and can't go back in the pods. And then it turns into this truly bizarre romance in space where Pratt is busy hiding a secret from the woman he loves - that he woke her up and doomed her to a life alone with him!

Loved the ship and the special effects. But I wasn't convinced by the plot. The romance thing was - well a frankenstein thing. And there were all these things that didn't make sense. Yes I understand that the crew needs to sleep - but they really can't be woken up in case of an emergency? And you can just fix a fusion reactor by venting it to space?! Who knew?!!! Personally I would have thought the easier idea would be to just stop feeding the reactor fuel - but hey, what do I know! And how that relates to a ship's computer going nuts, I still don't know. And then there's this whole business model of the company that's running these century long trips to other planets. First I don't believe the economics would ever work out. And second if this is the ship's third(?) flight then five centuries have passed and no ones come up with a faster means of transport in all that time?

So many issues. But I love the ship and special effects.

Cheers, Greg.
 
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