What was the last movie you saw?

[Jeffbert]

FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE (1965) Ben M. said that Eastwood agreed to do this film, even before Fistful had been dubbed in English. The progression seems to be that they added an American actor with each new film. Fistful had only Eastwood, here they brought in Van Cleef, & in TGTB&TU, Eli Wallach.

Anyway, the one thing that really got my attention was Mortimer (Van Cleef) flipping through the newspaper morgue's contents, and finding the one with the man with no name pictured.

Coupled with the Confederate currency, places the time between 1860 ~ 1865. Did they even have newspaper morgues then? Did they even have photos in newspapers then?

Anyway, it has been quite a few years since the last time I saw this film. It never gets old.


What!? There is a parody? I must see this:

For a Few Dollars Less​

 

[JunkMonkey]

Anyway, the one thing that really got my attention was Mortimer (Van Cleef) flipping through the newspaper morgue's contents, and finding the one with the man with no name pictured.


Coupled with the Confederate currency, places the time between 1860 ~ 1865. Did they even have newspaper morgues then? Did they even have photos in newspapers then?

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...that and the date 'Monday June 15 1872' is printed on the top right of the newspaper. (Though June 15th 1872 appears to have been a Saturday:

1872 Calendar

1872 CALENDAR. Find what day of the week is a particular date. Get full 12-month 1872 Calendar plus BONUS info.

www.dayoftheweek.org

 

[Guttersnipe]

Fatman (2020): a fantasy/thriller/black comedy film, a production of Canada, the US and the UK. This is one of those films that critics hate and audiences love. Mel Gibson plays Chris Cringle, a.k.a. Santa Claus, who has become disillusioned about Christmas. The A plot is that a rich kid who receives coal on Christmas hires a hitman to take out Santa. The B plot is that, with so few toys being made (lots of bad kids), Santa is forced to join into a partnership with the US military. I kind of liked it; the realism added to such an otherwise fluffy story was disarming, and I think it has to offer something more than laughs. A truly unique film.

 

[hitmouse]

FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE (1965) Ben M. said that Eastwood agreed to do this film, even before Fistful had been dubbed in English. The progression seems to be that they added an American actor with each new film. Fistful had only Eastwood, here they brought in Van Cleef, & in TGTB&TU, Eli Wallach.

Anyway, the one thing that really got my attention was Mortimer (Van Cleef) flipping through the newspaper morgue's contents, and finding the one with the man with no name pictured.
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Coupled with the Confederate currency, places the time between 1860 ~ 1865. Did they even have newspaper morgues then? Did they even have photos in newspapers then?

Anyway, it has been quite a few years since the last time I saw this film. It never gets old.


What!? There is a parody? I must see this:

For a Few Dollars Less​

You should try A Fistful of Travellers Cheques. Probably on Youtube.

 

[KGeo777]

THE REBEL 1980 Maurizio Merli--"the Italian Dirty Harry" in a undercover cop action film set in Venice. I had seen it before. It's not over the top like an Umberto Lenzi cop crime movie but ok. It's funny watching euro car stunts because the cars are tiny compared to American ones.
Volkwagens flipping over in slow motion. There's an American cop movie Policewomen and a bunch of gang cars come out of a residence under police surveillance and the police follow a fancy decoy car when the ringleaders are actually in a modest vehicle and ignored-and inside it, the matriarchal boss says to her gang: "let this be a lesson girls, no one gives a sh*t about a volkswagen.").

 

[KGeo777]

FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE (1965)

Coupled with the Confederate currency, places the time between 1860 ~ 1865. Did they even have newspaper morgues then? Did they even have photos in newspapers then?

Also the wanted poster for Indio has him laughing--would they really have a stylish mug shot like that?

 

[JunkMonkey]

Push - a 2009 SFish/Superheroish messy mess that had its moments. (some of the scenery was nice and there were a few bits of business that worked). Set in a 'two years from tomorrow' future, second and third generation psychics of all kids (some can do TK, some wipe people's memories, some see into the future etc.) are on the run from evil government organisations of evil government psychics and everyone is after the McGuffin suitcase which has got a syringe of something in... and it all gets very confused. If the script did make any sense to the film-makers at any point they singularly failed to let me in on the act. In the end everything turns out all right. The whole elaborate scheme, in which lots of people do things on the written instructions of our hero who then had his mind blanked so he couldn't remember what he had told them to do (so that the bad guys who could see into the future that were chasing them would be as confused the audience) had all been predetermined by an off screen character... maybe... I think. Whatever actually happened, the good guys walked away with the suitcase of McGuffin and wandered off with it leaving hundreds of dead bodies in their wake, hoping that the sequel they spent the last couple of minutes setting up got the go ahead. (It didn't.)
I suspect the writer was going for a Philip K Dick meets Ocean's Eleven kind of pitch.
It didn't work.

 

[JunkMonkey]

La cité de la peur - A terrible American horror film is propelled into the headlines and a gala premier when a masked serial killer bumps off the projectionist every time it is shown at the Cannes Film Festival. Stupidly silly French comedy with some serious laugh out loud moments.

 

[Dave Vicks]

Watched THE BOOST @1988.
GOOD.

 

[KGeo777]

NAZI-SS aka BORMANN 1966 - As spy movies go it's a bore, man. Although it does include an interestingly topical speech about US race relations and the pressure that would come from China. This isn't the first film of the 60s that has that Manchurian boogeyman. One thing it does is have the night torch parade with skiers that shows up in later spy movies. Tirol Austria? I have seen it in The Double Man, Assignment K, and On Her Majesty's Secret Service. I can't ski but it sure looks nice.

 

[JunkMonkey]

Behind the Candelabra - I loved it. Pretty wonderful performances and confident direction. A real treat. Very funny and touching ... and my second film in a row to feature performances of the carioca - what ARE the chances?

 

[KGeo777]

SPACE PROBE TAURUS 1965 I was expecting a Horrors of the Red Planet kind of awful but it was much better made than that. I think it was pretty good for the mid 60s-the sets were decent (flashing light consoles) and at least the space helmets looked airtight. The typical drama of the crew--I didn't mind it. The cast takes it seriously and that helps a lot. It was competent--the alien they encounter on the ship was rather effective with the tongue flicking. The alien sea creature recycled from Wargods of the Deep was tolerable. I don't know about the giant crabs though.

THE 10 MILLION DOLLAR GRAB 1967 - So many heist movies. This one was bearable. Someone was reading a James Bama Doc Savage novel as they were waiting for a plane.

 

[Guttersnipe]

Ingrid Goes West (2017): This is a black comedy starring Aubrey Plaza as a mentally unstable young woman who travels to California to stalk her new favorite Instagram influence and attempt to befriend her. I didn't read anything about the plot prior to watching it, which is unusual for me, and so I was completely blown away by Plaza's performance. It can be found on Hulu.

 

[KGeo777]

THE DETECTIVE 1968 -- The last non-horror movie until November for me. Though it is pretty horrific--it's about a murder of a homosexual --very grisly for 1968--Frank Sinatra is trying for his Academy Award nomination performance here--the story is very standard for the era--it ends with him turning in his badge--what movies didn't end with the cop throwing away the badge? Weirdly, Lee Remick portrays his nymphomaniac wife--and a few years later she's a similar character to William Holden in THE BLUE KNIGHT tv-movie--which doesn't end with the cop throwing away the badge--it ends with him throwing away Remick.

But for 1968, this is a very direct exploration of gay culture--probably seen as a little too theatrical now but back then it must have been ground-breaking. William "Commander Decker" Windom has an important role as does Lloyd "It's a cookbook" Bochner.

 

[Mon0Zer0]

Austin Powers - International Man of Mystery - Groovy Baby! Being as the film is based on Myer's mugging to camera, the film still holds up incredibly well. I wonder if most of the genre parodies are lost on the young uns, but there is still a lot to love in this.

 

[AE35Unit]

The Quiet Ones 2014
Jared Harris in a film set in 1974 about a paranormal investigator experimenting on a young girl in order to release a paranormal entity.

 

[Mon0Zer0]

The Green Knight - stunningly beautiful movie that is oddly glacial for a story about knights and supernatural forces. Ultra pretentious in parts. The direction is so soporific and the characters disconnected. But, its all so pretty. The acting is generally great - even if there is a lot of blankly staring into space.

None of the environments feel British, the soil is the wrong colour and the foliage is wrong. The accents are all a bit bizarre - King Arthur with his west country accent, strange side characters with Irish brogues, odd cod-northern accents and Gawain himself with a neutered modern London accent.

I can't work out if I liked this movie. It's not a movie with a tremendous amount of plot.

But it DOES look very, very pretty.

 

[KGeo777]

The Green Knight - stunningly beautiful movie that is oddly glacial for a story about knights and supernatural forces. Ultra pretentious in parts. The direction is so soporific and the characters disconnected. But, its all so pretty. The acting is generally great - even if there is a lot of blankly staring into space.

None of the environments feel British, the soil is the wrong colour and the foliage is wrong.

Have you seen the 1973 version? I think that influenced Excalibur--especially the generic armor.

I prefer it to the bloated 1984 remake. The lead is boring but I think he is supposed to be "green." Speaking of Green, Nigel Green's last role. Good swan song for him.

 

[Mon0Zer0]

Have you seen the 1973 version? I think that influenced Excalibur--especially the generic armor.

I prefer it to the bloated 1984 remake. The lead is boring but I think he is supposed to be "green." Speaking of Green, Nigel Green's last role. Good swan song for him.

I haven't seen the 1973 version, tbh. I'll check it out!

 

[KGeo777]

THE HOUSE THE DRIPPED BLOOD 1971 - I watch it almost every Halloween. One of the best Amicus films. Vincent Price was mad he couldn't do the Paul Henderson role. "Frankenstein! Phantom of the Opera! Dracula--the one with Bela Lugosi not this new fellow."

CHOSEN SURVIVORS 1974 - Seen it before--interesting idea--kind of an extended Twilight Zone story but more of an exploitation story with some real bat killing in it. Sometimes actors end up repeating the same kind of role--Lincoln Kilpatrick uses a grappling hook in this just like the Omega Man and also falls in almost the exact same way (and also provides the means for the story to be resolved in both films).