What was the last movie you saw?

[Toby Frost]

Justice League. Mediocre and forgettable.

 

[WarriorMouse]

STAR WARS
The Last Jedi

*SPOILERS*
Luke Skywalker is a grumpy old fart
Emperor Snokes dies
Everyone in the rebellion gets stupid

There, your all caught up, you don't have to watch this poorly written, badly edited wreck of a movie.

 

[Starbeast]

Final thoughts on BREAKING BAD (2008 - 2013) After watching the entire series.

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I took me a decade to finally watch this series, mainly because I've lost friends to drug addiction (sometimes involving death). However, after getting beyond my personal feelings, I checked out the first episode......and was surprised that the show was quite different than I thought it would be like.

After I "binge watched" episodes until I finished on Thursday night. My verdict: I enjoyed this saga. Excellent actors, directing, dialogue and special effects. I usually don't care for heavy drama, but this one, is tremendous.



Re-watched Favorites:

The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004) - Still a great animated flick that puts a smile on my face.

The Boondock Saints (1999) - Two brothers become vigilantes, and go after crime lords and scum. I love the soundtrack too.

 

[Rodders]

James Bond: Skyfall.

Was very enjoyable.

 

[AE35Unit]

Star Trek:the Motion Picture(1979)
We've been watching all of the original ST:TOS series thru Netflix and today we decided to watch the first film (Director's edition)
It's weird hearing Goldsmith's theme from TNG used throughout the film-I'd forgotten it was used back then first!

 

[dask]

The Shape Of Water. Good. In fact very good. But best picture? Not really sure but still worth watching.

 

[HanaBi]

"Oh, Mr Porter!" - Will Hay, Graham Moffatt, Moore Marriott (1937)

Summary:-

Through the influence of a relative, a hopeless railway employee is made stationmaster the sleepy Irish station of Buggleskelly. Determined to make his mark, he devises a number of schemes to put Buggleskelly on the railway map, but instead falls foul of a gang of gun runners.- Courtesy, IMDb

This is perhaps my favourite Hay film, ably supported by the regular duo of Marriott and Moffatt. A very gentle comedy that somehow feels far older than its 1937 production would suggest. But it is an entertaining couple of hours with Hay in fine form as the bumbling yet lovable stationmaster keeping the - improbable - storyline ticking over nicely.

4/5

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Philadelphia, Here I Come! (1970)

This is considered to be part of the American Film Theatre series, although it was not released with the others back in 1973-1975. Apparently it was released in Ireland in 1970 and had no American release until the AFT series came out on DVD.

Anyway, it takes place on the day before a young man working in his father's store is going to leave Ireland for a new life in the United States. It shows his relationship with his distant father, their housekeeper who is something of a replacement for his mother, who died when he was three years old, his friends, and the woman he loves but lost to a successful doctor. What keeps this from being a realistic play of the "kitchen sink" type is the fact that the young man is played by two actors at the same time, one portraying his public self and the other his private thoughts.

 

[AE35Unit]

Star Trek VI:The Undiscovered Country
This is the last film featuring all of the original crew and has some interesting cast members and characters. Also the only ST film to win a Saturn Award. Also Roddenberry died just before release.
Next up Star Trek VII:Generations

 

[HanaBi]

"The Dirty Dozen" - Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson (1967)

Summary:-

As D-Day approaches, Colonel Breed hands the roguish Major Reisman (Lee Marvin) an important assignment: He must train a team of soldiers to parachute across enemy lines and assassinate German personnel at a French chateau. The soldiers, recruited from murderers, rapists and criminals on death row, are promised commuted sentences. In spite of their history, the 12 men prove a spirited and courageous unit. Led by Major Reisman, they will exact revenge.- Courtesy, Wikipedia

Historically in my household, it's always "The Great Escape" at Christmas, and "The Dirty Dozen" for Easter, and I never get tired of watching either (and I still keep on wishing Steve McQueen could jump over those barbed wire fences on his motorcycle!)

Dirty Dozen, is a terrific, no-holds-barred, war film - plenty of guns, explosions, violence and amoral deaths. And all male cast cuts short any notion of romantic interludes with WAGs, and just suits up with a sackful of testosterone, bullets and hand-grenades.

The final battle scenes at the aforementioned chateau near the end of the film, drew lots of criticism with its almost throwaway attitude of killing innocent men and women along with the targeted Nazis. And even though War is indeed Hell, it does leave a rather bitter aftertaste in the mouth and spoils the purpose of the film somewhat.

Despite being a box-office hit in 1967, and becoming one of Lee Marvin's best films, he didn't much care for it, famously calling it a piece of crap (Marvin being a WW2 US army veteran) Nevertheless, time is a great healer, and eventually he admitted a great fondness for the film.

4/5

 

[AE35Unit]

Star Trek:Nemesis
The last pre-reboot ST film, and one of the best

 

[HanaBi]

"Ask a Policeman" - Will Hay, Graham Moffatt, Moore Marriott (1939)

Summary -

Will Hay plays Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot, an inept policeman, stagnating in the sleepy village of Turnbotham Round (pronounced Turnbottom), where there has been no crime for a decade. After the Chief Constable tells them that there is not enough local criminal activity to justify their station's existence, three incompetent policemen decide to start manufacturing crimes to "fiddle the figures". Dudfoot, together with Albert Brown (Graham Moffatt) and Jerry Harbottle (Moore Marriott) create a crime wave by framing motorists in a speed trap and concocting false evidence.

They also leave a keg of whisky unattended in order to frame someone as a smuggler - and then accidentally discover a real smuggling ring!
- Courtesy, Wikipedia

Continuing my Will Hay film collection this month, "Ask a Policeman" follows a very similar storyline to another Hay film I reviewed a few days ago - "Oh Mister Porter". In this case its bootlegging criminals instead of gunrunners that our intrepid trio find themselves in. But despite this, the film still contains many funny scenes, pratfalls and one-liner gags. Hay, Marriott and Moffatt are all in top form and carry the film from start to finish with perfect comic timing.

4/5

 

[Lumens]

The Titan

Good premise, terrible execution.

 

[Cathbad]

Let Me In (2010)

The opening of this movie really irked me: Opening credits roll, then the screen goes black - and stays that way far too long. Then the barely readable title, followed by the words:

Los Alamos, New Mexico
March 1983
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This means, apparently, nothing, as it could have been Johannesburg, South Africa, 1991 (or any forested place, pre-1999). And apparently, the creators think their audience are very slow readers.

The screen goes black again - for way too long.

Finally we are treated to a scene of a woods/forest, with emergency vehicles travelling down a road in the middle of the trees - which appear to be travelling very slowly, despite the red lights strobing. We are looking at a very long shot, so we cannot discern if it is police, ambulance, FD, or a combo.

We are finally treated to action - in the ER.

Somewhere, a writer is pulling out is air: I'd place a bet that he started the story in the ER, before the Production Company ordered the Director to add some minutes.

There's more filler, but the story is a good one, performed by some great child actors.

 

[Droflet]

Marrowbone. (2017)
A conventional ghost story takes a wild turn toward the end. Highly entertaining twist on an old genre.

 

[Lucien21]

Let Me In (2010)

The opening of this movie really irked me: Opening credits roll, then the screen goes black - and stays that way far too long. Then the barely readable title, followed by the words:

Los Alamos, New Mexico
March 1983
​

This means, apparently, nothing, as it could have been Johannesburg, South Africa, 1991 (or any forested place, pre-1999). And apparently, the creators think their audience are very slow readers.

The screen goes black again - for way too long.

Finally we are treated to a scene of a woods/forest, with emergency vehicles travelling down a road in the middle of the trees - which appear to be travelling very slowly, despite the red lights strobing. We are looking at a very long shot, so we cannot discern if it is police, ambulance, FD, or a combo.

We are finally treated to action - in the ER.

Somewhere, a writer is pulling out is air: I'd place a bet that he started the story in the ER, before the Production Company ordered the Director to add some minutes.

There's more filler, but the story is a good one, performed by some great child actors.

I prefer the Swedish original, but it's ok.

 

[HanaBi]

"Death Wish" - Bruce Willis (2017)

Summary -

Dr. Paul Kersey (Bruce Willis) is a surgeon who often sees the consequences of the city's violence in the emergency room. When home intruders brutally attack his wife and young daughter, Kersey becomes obsessed with delivering vigilante justice to the perpetrators. As the anonymous slayings grab the media's attention, the public begins to wonder if the deadly avenger is a guardian angel -- or the Grim Reaper itself - Courtesy, Wikipedia

Unnecessary, ill-conceived, ill-timed pile of bilge, directed by Eli "Hostel" Roth, and starring Bruce "what am I doing here?" Willis.

The original 1974 "Death Wish" had far more class and subtlety on the subject of an innocent man becoming a ruthless vigilante, not least because Charles Bronson understood the character, understood the director (Michael Winner) and understood the story. Whereas, this awful reboot we find hapless Roth taking the path of least resistance, dumping any character development and more or less deciding that Willis is somewhat entitled to go round taking potshots at bad guys (most of them not white); not only that but in no time at all he knows how to handle guns and shoots like a veteran marksman, even though he is just a humble doctor.

Willis must be hard up to want appear in trash like this; in fact he doesn't even act! Instead he just shuffles around, grunting and swearing and putting on a steely glare at all and sundry.

Hard to believe this is the same guy that did a marvellous job playing John McClane in the far, far superior "Die Hard"

1/5

 

[Vince W]

not only that but in no time at all he knows how to handle guns and shoots like a veteran marksman, even though he is just a humble doctor.

Martial arts films have proven conclusively that any novice can become a super master in only a few weeks provided you have a decent training montage and appropriate music. Why not with guns?

 

[Cathbad]

Martial arts films have proven conclusively that any novice can become a super master in only a few weeks provided you have a decent training montage and appropriate music. Why not with guns?

As to this: The first time I ever fired a weapon was in Basic Training (Army). Two weeks later, I was one of five men in our platoon (of 110 men) to score as Expert. So yeah, it actually is possible!

 

[Cathbad]

Taking Earth (2017)

Frankly, I found the movie boring, due to predictability and a ridiculous amount of sentimentality.