What was the last movie you saw?

[Dave Vicks]

I watched GALAXY QUEST and EATING RAOUL. Both ververy

 

[Dave Vicks]

Very good films

 

[Dave Vicks]

Did anyone like HIGH RISE a 2015 film?

 

[Droflet]

If that's the one with the Rock, I saw it. Meh.

 

[hitmouse]

Did anyone like HIGH RISE a 2015 film?

The Ballard adaptation? Pretty good as an adaptation of abook I like. Probably not to everyone’s taste.

 

[Rodders]

I started to watch it and enjoyed what i saw, but never finished it. It was weird, though.

 

[Randy M.]

But then I liked the Spice Girls' movie.

Me, too, though not enough to watch it a third time (what can I say? my daughter was young). My favorite bit is after they rehearse one of their numbers, their manager is ecstatic and says something like, "That was perfect! Of course, it wasn't any good, but it was perfect!"

Pretty good summary.

 

[paranoid marvin]

Bill & Ted Face The Music

I'm undecided whether this is a most excellent film or 25 years too late. I suppose for the basis of the story it had to be set some years on.

The best bit of the film is definitely their future selves. I didn't laugh as much as I did in Excellent Adventure and Bogus Journey, but there were still some very funny moments.

 

[KGeo777]

Somebody's Out to Get Jennie - 1971 McCloud mystery movie. Cameron Mitchell is almost killed in an explosion and disappears--his secretary with mental problems is targeted by a corrupt insurance investigator (Gabriel Dell)--who uses theatrical gimmicks in an effort to drive her over the edge. Dell is watching a Lugosi Karloff movie at one point and coincidentally, Dell could do a really good Lugosi impression. Sometimes it sounded more like Ricardo Montalban but when he was getting it right, it was perfect.
Mitchell is found living in seclusion in Mexico and he has a small dog with him who. for some reason, is included in his closeup moments.
In the 1980s, Mitchell did a movie (Killpoint) where he has a monologue to a small dog.

 

[JunkMonkey]

Somebody's Out to Get Jennie - 1971 McCloud mystery movie. Cameron Mitchell is almost killed in an explosion and disappears--his secretary with mental problems is targeted by a corrupt insurance investigator (Gabriel Dell)--who uses theatrical gimmicks in an effort to drive her over the edge. Dell is watching a Lugosi Karloff movie at one point and coincidentally, Dell could do a really good Lugosi impression. Sometimes it sounded more like Ricardo Montalban but when he was getting it right, it was perfect.
Mitchell is found living in seclusion in Mexico and he has a small dog with him who. for some reason, is included in his closeup moments.
In the 1980s, Mitchell did a movie (Killpoint) where he has a monologue to a small dog.

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...is it the same dog?

 

[KGeo777]

Wouldn't that be amazing.
No it's not.
And in the 80s movie he is ranting to the dog, while in this one he's just holding the dog in the scene. The dog yawns at one point during his dialogue.

 

[Achaius]

"Les Miserables," the Hugh Jackman version. Feel a bit late to the party on that one, since it came out in 2012, but it would almost be a full-time job just to keep up to date on all the classics.

 

[REBerg]

Cry Macho
Playing a grumpy, old man might have been a challenge to Clint Eastwood a half-century ago, but these days it seems that he's just being himself. As star, director and producer, he may be the reason that this film failed to realize its storyline potential.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

For You I Die (1947)

Poverty Row crime melodrama with some unusual aspects. Starts with two guys who have just escaped from prison. One of them actually forced the other to come along at gunpoint; the reluctant one is our protagonist. They split up, with the Bad Buy telling the Good Boy to look up his old girlfriend until he shows up to take them both off somewhere. The rest of the film is set in a little diner/cabins-for-rent/gas station kind of place. It's run by a motherly type with the help of her two nieces, a blonde Bad Girl and a brunette Good Girl. Good Boy thinks the Bad Girl is the Bad Boy's girlfriend, so he spills the beans to her. It's a case of mistaken identity, as he was supposed to give the message to the Good Girl. (She was briefly mixed up with the Bad Boy some time ago, but doesn't want anything to do with him now.) We've also got the diner's cook, who gets a surprisingly large amount of back story. Adding some color and comedy relief are a Russian and his Spanish wife staying at the place. Adding some tension are a couple of cops who show up twice a day. Adding a touch of irony is a hoodlum who robs the Good Boy at gunpoint. Of course, love blossoms between our Good characters, but their happiness is threatened by the Bad Girl's interest in the Good Boy, and the return of the Bad Boy. It's an interesting, character-driven little film, with some quirky aspects.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Satan in High Heels (1962)

Short version: The cheap, black-and-white, early Sixties version of Showgirls.

Our outrageously curvaceous antiheroine starts off as a burlesque dancer in a carnival. Her drug addict husband shows up, wanting to get back together, with nine hundred bucks. She takes his cash and runs off to the big city. She uses her feminine wiles to get an audition at a nightclub from some guy she meets on a plane. (The nightclub manager is second-billed Grayson Hall, of Dark Shadows fame, pretty much stealing the picture with her cigarette holder and man-styled clothing; 1960's-coding for the character's sexual orientation, I suppose. Oh, the equally coded piano player Paul -- our antiheroine calls him "Paulette" -- is played by Del Tenney, who went on to direct things like The Curse of the Living Corpse and The Horror of Party Beach.) She winds up romancing both the wealthy owner of the club, who dumps his current girlfriend as soon as he sees her, and his son. Late in the film, we see the even more outrageously curvaceous British Bombshell who called herself Sabrina belt out a mildly bawdy song, followed by the movie's highlight, when the antiheroine appears dressed in a leather pantsuit and sings "the female of the species is more deadly than the male" while wielding a riding crop. There's definitely some fetishism going on in this film, as she wears other leather outfits as well. Anyway, the junkie husband -- remember him -- shows up near the end, out to settle the score. Add a cool jazz score and you've got something that manages to be both innocent and sleazy at the same time.

 

[KGeo777]

TOMORROW NEVER COMES 1978 -- A UK Canada co-production. Funny to see a Canadian Tire store at the start since I went in one today.
Oliver Reed, Donald Pleasence, and Susan George put on accents--DP does a French-Canadian one. How genuine they are I can't say. I think their accents are probably designed as standard American as opposed to specifically Canadian. But they have actual Canadians in the cast such as Raymond Burr (who owned a house in my hometown) and John Ireland who also hails from British Columbia (Lily Munster does too).

This is a bizarre film--a man gets beat up and suffers a head injury and through a series of events is under threat of being shot by police. There is weird humor throughout--such as when Raymond Burr and Oliver Reed have a serious discussion around a hotel pool and a swimmer suddenly appears in the water...and at the end Reed is walking off looking very serious and then suddenly he bumps into someone--I don't think it was an accident.
A good movie? Not really but George is very good at going into a hysterical freak out.

 

[CupofJoe]

Black Widow 2021
It is an effective but not outstanding addition to the MCU. It is good to see Scarlett Johansson get her own movie at last.
She as Natasha Romanoff and Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova are more than up to the acting tasks given them, as were the other actors. But I felt that Alexei Shostakov aka Red Guardian, played by David Harbour, was played too much for comic relief. It felt out of tone with the film. It was as if they were trying to make a comedy and a hardcore thriller at the same time. So it kind of misses at both. That said there were some cute digs at the way Johansson's Black Widow has been handled by the MCU. One thing I didn't like was the post-credit scene. It left a bad taste in my mouth. It seemed to nullify the apparent point of the film. I admit I may be overthinking that. But unlike WW84's post-credit scene which lifted my appreciation of the film, the Black Widow's dropped it.
My favourite part of the film was spotting locations I know that I have walked over and around.

 

[Danny McG]

I watched this one in it's entirety yesterday, I'd only ever seen bits and pieces of it over the years.

Tora Tora Tora (1970)

 

[Jeffbert]

DRIVE A CROOKED ROAD (1954) Last week's NOIR ALLEY. Very similar plot to the one with COLOR FILM a few months ago. Race driver/mechanic Eddie Shannon (Mickey Rooney) lured into being the getaway driver by femme fatale Barbara Mathews (Dianne Foster). So, being short, the guy takes a lot of abuse from his coworkers, & racing may be his way of establishing his macho. He needs $15k to race in France, and they offer him that much of a cut.

So, they get away with the money, etc. Then comes the twist. She never loved him. She had vacated her apartment (where she lived exclusively for the sake of the seducing him), he gets no answer when calling her.

Spoiler

He goes to the guy's beach house, and naively asks them about her. She is in the other room, as ordered by the boss. He is heartbroken already, then she emerges, and breaks his heart even more. But now he knows it was all a trick, to get his cooperation in the crime that he otherwise would not consider. Boss says she just killed him, because now they cannot trust him not to go to the police. Tells the other guy to take him for a ride. Instead of conking him and stuffing him in the trunk, the guy makes him drive. He flips the car, the other guy is conveniently dead, but the driver/mechanic walks away, taking the dead guy's gun. Goes down the beach toward the beach house-- kills the boss. Cops following his footprints from the crash site arrest him. Ending shot of his trophies.

Not bad, but Mickey Rooney is just not my idea of a NOIR anti-hero.

 

[dask]

Exciting crime caper about the best getaway driver in the world discovering paying off a debt means different things to different people. Well plotted and beautifully filmed. No short cuts here.