What was the last movie you saw?

I watched Dunkirk last night and while some critics have been critical of it (well...I suppose that's their job:D), I thought it was superb.

It's never easy to take such an event and cover every aspect so I loved the way Nolan focussed on the smaller battles taking place within the big picture. Also, the way he played with time frames before finally bringing them all into convergence really worked well. It was nicely shot, quite visceral in places and (I think) dealt compassionatelyl with the fear that many of these people must have carried with them as they lived through such an event. Nolan also has a tendency to go long with his movies but this one was just the right length to keep up the pace. A word of credit must go to the score, which was suitably discordant in certain places and enhanced the jarring sense of urgency that must have been ever-present in such an event.
 
Foxbat said:
some critics have been critical of it (well...I suppose that's their job:D),
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It's really not - though that is how most seem to take on their job. A Critic's job is supposed to be to critique the work presented them. This is a beef I've had with many of them forever. Siskel and Ebert used to irk me to no end!
 
Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
Saw it yesterday. I'm not going to say much, as *no spoilers*, but it is amazing. A couple of minor notes that might have been played better but, in a symphony of such size, they were inconsequential. Good story development, with the older generation passing on the mantle, as it should, but still being active.

It took me back forty years, to when I first saw Star Wars as a young child, in 1977. Still a fan.
 
Jurassic World was on last night. I thought it was pretty entertaining.

Lego Batman movies was great fun. Totally recommended.

Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets. I don’t know why, but I really wanted to not enjoy this movie. It had a poor start, but in the end I got sucked in and it turned into a rather enjoyable space romp. Not a classic, by any means.
 
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) & one other Film Noir, both starring John Garfield, The Breaking Point (1950). The former was about a drifter who seduces a young woman married to an older man, & the two plot to murder her husband. Twists & turns! The latter was said to be a film closer to the Hemingway novel than the film using its name, To Have and Have Not (1944). Granted, it is tough to beat Bogart & Bacall. Perhaps The Breaking Point does not quite beat it, but it comes close! I highly recommend it & The Postman Always Rings Twice!
 
Last night we watched 1922, a film set in that year based on a Stephen King novella. Farmer struggling to cope decides to bump off his wife for the insurance money. But there's a cost....Thomas Jane from the Punisher stars with a really hard southern accent.
 
Good Time - no it isn't. It's a gritty heister movie with a few unlikely bits, but not totally unbelievable.
Downsizing - people are shrimped down, ysee, reaally tiny, and they live in these special bubbles, and it could have been really cool, but for some reason that I can't remember already, it wasn't. *
 
Watched the 3D edition of The Walk (2015) yesterday. If you want a film that is part cliff hanger (pun intended) and part homage to the World Trade Center, then this is the one for you. A thriller with no chase scenes or gunfire. A rarity these days. Highly recommended.

The Walk (2015) - IMDb
 
I just got back from seeing Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Personally, I enjoyed it very much.
 
I too enjoyed Logan Lucky a quirky little film with a few really nice twists.

JL - I really wanted to like this but ended up severly disappointed, indeed I even preferred The Last Jedi (and I preferred The Phantom Mence to both!)

Bright - a real mishmash of a film, a lot of negatives but it did keep me interested and I really want to see more from that world

Murder on the Orient - I couldn't remember the twist so in that regard it worked, however I do think that it was somewhat self indulgent (and KB's 'tache needed its own trailer!!) and a bit wooden.

Jumanji 2 - absolutely loved it! Jack Black was perfect in this, the Rock is usually good value and does not disappoint, Kevin Hart could get wearysomeif over exposed but he jsut about managed to contain himself and Karen Gillen was also good. Great family fun
 
Con Air (1997), The Great Wall (2016), Cell(2016), John Wick II (2017). Con Air was an action film, perhaps typical of the genre. It was almost believable, until the hero went after the boss villain. Then, the way over the top, beats all previous action films chase sequence made it enjoyable, but fantastic. The Great Wall was also a fantasy, a couple of mercenaries go to china seeking the explosive black powder, & become involved in defending the wall from creatures. Cell was my favorite, seemingly a zombie apocalypse, but it all starts with cell phones simultaneously emitting a strange 'pulse' that turns the users into homicidal maniacs. John Wick II an action film, over the top shootouts, car chases, etc. I liked all of them.
 
Luther (1974)

Another offering from the American Film Theatre. This adaptation of John Osborne's play is a little under two hours long, so I assume it cuts the text a bit. Anyway, it's a handsomely filmed account of Martin Luther, filmed in a way which is partly cinematic and partly theatrical. Stack Keach has the title role, supported by many familiar British actors. Luther is depicted here as tormented by his own sense of unworthiness as a young monk, then outraged by indulgences and other abuses of the Church, then horrified by the violence unleashed by the beginning of the Reformation. These issues are not at all dead, as the 500th anniversary of Luther's famous nailing of 95 theses to the door of the church unleashed a series of letters to my local newspaper, some celebrating it as the best worldly event in the history of Christianity, others denouncing it as the greatest disaster. In any case, it's a fine film.
 
Before I Wake (2016)

Kate Bosworth. Thomas Jane and Jacob Tremblay all do a great job making the premise of this thriller believable.

[***DISCLAIMER***] I swear on my good (okay, so-so) name, that I did not see this movie before writing Killer Dreams last October!! [End Disclaimer] Yeah, a somewhat similar storyline -
murders occurring through an individual's dreams. It ended much better for the perpetrator in this movie than the one in my novelette!

Definitely worth watching. A truly horrifying monster, with whom we sympathize in the end!
 
Dunkirk - Christopher Nolans most confusing movie ever, might have to give it another watch but not impressed like I was with Interstellar
 
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