What was the last movie you saw?

HELL NIGHT (1981; dir. Tom DiSimone; starring Linda Blair, Vincent Van Patton, Peter Barton)

Merge The Texas Chainsaw Massacre with a tepid version of Animal House and voila! Frat/Sorority hazing, get the pledges to spend Halloween night in a supposedly haunted house, and what could go wrong?

I'm not confident Blair is exactly a good actress, but she more than held her own with the kind of hammy Van Patton (mainly the role, though I kind of remember him as hyper in other roles, too) and the pop-star good looking Barton, in spite of much of her role being passive damsel in distress.

Not exactly a recommendation, but I have seen worse.
 
I heard Goebbels was the one who was the film enthusiast who approached Lang--in fact, the 1943 Munchhausen which he supervised-- is fascinating-it explodes falsehoods I had been told in school about how restricted media in Germany was. It was not as bad as the USSR for content restrictions.
I have to say, Metropolis is a cold experience. I think the workers unite aspect to it may be considered communistic--but the idea of a society relying too much on technology is not. That's a universal message. The story of Icarus is an example of that in some ways. Tower of Babel, a society disconnected from its people. There's a class element to it though. You have the ruling class.


Another thing-what is a communist message? Is Last Night in Soho a communist message?
Because the plot of that film does fit into the "your society is bad-the revolution is coming" theme which we get routinely.

In the film, the theme is something like Georgy Girl was a righteous serial killer of toxic masculine white men. They even throw in a mean roommate who is Scandinavian. I hope she isn't blonde at least to lessen the obvious.


In the days of the giallo-the killer was usually a maniac--and there was at times a gender-bender aspect to that. Those giallos were not LGBT approved.

I think, ultimately, a communist message is just a reflection of the biology of the creators more so than a deliberate calculated ideological intention.
It may seem like a deliberate political insert but I think it is an inevitable result of creative tastes and restrictions that comes from filtering out a wide range of artists.
That is what is obvious now. The lack of variety in big scale media.
The exotic is pampered much more than the native and that is why it feels so closed off. The native can be boring compared to the exotic but too much of the latter can also be dull and chaotic.
 
Randy M. said:
I recently saw online a picture of -- I think -- Ariana Grande wearing something acknowledged to be based on Barbarella (it would have been obvious anyway). So the influence continues.
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It's kind of nice being old enough to be my kids' grandfather - I had my first when I was in my 40s. All that stuff I grew up liking is now so old it's stylish (or at least not totally naff) enough to be interesting to them. Ferinstance the other day I rediscovered the Au Pair's "It's Obvious". Thought Number One Daughter would appreciate it and sent her the link. "One of my favourite tracks!" she texted back. "I've got it on a 7" single...."
 
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I thought that this had to be photo shopped because of the hand held hair dryer. But the hand held hair dryer dates from 1920. But that begs the question of how a hair dryer helps "cool off?" Was there a no heat setting? It was drying her sweat? ---- All in all. it's a great image of what had to be a very athletic young woman.
 
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I thought that this had to be photo shopped because of the hand held hair dryer. But the hand held hair dryer dates from 1920. But that begs the question of how a hair dryer helps "cool off?" Was there a no heat setting? It was drying her sweat?
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From my experience movie technicians are very resourceful and inventive people used to repurposing kit for different uses. They probably found they needed a small hand held fan and just pulled the heating element out of a hair dryer.
 
MAN IN THE WILDERNESS 1971 - Last time I watched this I missed Scotty but this time I spotted him.
Kind of dreary and very much a slow burner but I don't know, it is watchable. Some of the movies of this period are as art house as they get. John Huston has a Cat in the Hat type look-he could have been Dr Seuss.
 
Vamps [2012]
An entertaining diversion for 90 minutes. Not a great movie but fun to watch. Once or twice.
Alicia Silverstone and Krysten Ritter are good as the leads [young vamps trying to stay hip] and Amy Heckerling keeps it all moving but it is Sigourney Weaver [their stem/sire] hamming it up for all she is worth that makes the film... Oh, and there is Vlad the Impaler knitting.
 
The Final Programme (1973)
It’s been quite a few years since I’ve seen this and rewatching it this time around is not a great experience. It just feels a bit of a mess. It does have a certain quirky and surreal humour about it (given that director Robert Fuest also directed some episodes of The Avengers, this should come as no surprise).

I like Jon Finch as an actor and he plays a pretty decent Jerry Cornelius but even he can’t really save this movie.

So why did I watch it? Mainly because it’s the only movie adaptation I know of regarding Michael Moorcock’s work. He wrote the screenplay for The Land That Time Forgot but that wasn’t an adaptation of his own work so that doesn’t count as far as I’m concerned.
 
The Emperor's New Clothes

Ian Holm once again dons the bicorne to play both the Emperor and his double in a fantastical, but marvellous, alternative history of what happened to Napoleon after Waterloo. Well worth a watch.
 
No Time to Die (2021)
A fitting end to Daniel Craig's time as 007. It's the usual smash, bang, car chases etc but there is a story beneath the action that should appeal to fans and newcomers alike. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
 
MARKED WOMAN (1937) I just had to see this film! District Attorney David Graham (Humphrey Bogart!? Who'da thought that?) Mary Strauber (Bette Davis) works in a clip joint as a hostess, whose job is to entice men into spending money, gambling, losing, & yet, continuing to gamble. So, this one guy runs up a very large debt, pays with a rubber check, and attempts to flee the city. But the crooks who run the joint catch, kill, & dump him in the river. Strauber, being familiar with the mobster Johnny Vanning (Eduardo Ciannelli) who owned the joint, advised the gambler to leave the city ASAP, & was called to testify against him. But, fearing for her life, she lied about the incident, giving a story that two henchmen had killed the guy. But, these two were in jail at the time, so she now becomes an unreliable witness; odd that she was not charged with perjury. Bogart is determined to get the boss, though he is very distressed at this outcome.

Strauber has a younger sister, whom she supports in college,& whom she wants to believe big sis is a fashion model, rather than a hostess in a clip joint. She comes to visit just at the worst time, and is in the courtroom when big sis not only reveals her profession, but lies on the stand. Little sis is devastated; her respect for big sis is gone, & she will be ashamed to return to college, etc., so she decides to live the high life, just like big sis. Bad things happen to her, and her corpse is found in the river. Bogart wants to get the boss, but witnesses are intimidated or disappear.

Nice that I never saw this before! Good drama, good supporting cast.
 
Finch (2021), starring Tom Hanks. This is an entertaining and sweet Apocalyptic movie. (sweet apocalyptic movie sounds like an oxymoron!) It stars Tom Hanks as Finch, a robot, and a dog. At it's most basic level it is a story of an oddball family struggling to survive in a world almost completely devastated by a solar flare. (at least some kind of solar activity). You can't look at this movie with too critical an eye to detail, because key issues, like "Where does the diesel for the bus come from?" and "How is this homemade robot so capable?" and others are addressed incompletely if at all. Given the state of the world, the ending of the movie is perhaps too hopeful.

It is clear that Tom Hanks has returned to his role in Cast Away, not literally, but in spirit. If you liked him in that you'll like him in this.
 
RED DRAGON 1966 - I am pretty sure I saw this before--but it is rather boring despite a well known cast and typical espionage antics. These 60s spy flicks set in Hong Kong or Beirut do tend to blur together.
 
Little Things

A movie that promises much but delivers little. We've seen Denzel before tracking down a serial killer, but this time it's a bit different, and a bit disappointing. Unnecessarily confusing and with an ending that is very weak. Poor movie for a such a fine actor.
 
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