What was the last movie you saw?

The locations throughout the trilogy are unbelievably brilliant. Just about every one of the major locations is just how I imagined it would be, both from the writing of Tolkien and the illustrations of Alan Lee. Then for the bits in between it feels like they just got in my head and produced the shots exactly as I thought they should be. Truly remarkable.

Some of the (added) dialogue can be a little ropey, but some of it is very funny (especially Gimili, Merry and Pippin) and many of the alterations that were made to the proceedings understandable (the Scourging of the Shire and Bombadil were never going to be practical in a big budget movie). But there were one or two things such as Faramir's taking the Hobbits to Osgiliath that just didn't sit right with me.

I also thought there was a good opportunity to improve the story by reducing the effectiveness of Aragorn's 'army of the dead' but instead he made them even more super-powerful than they were before.
 
THE AMITYVILLE CURSE (1990)
Based on the book by renowned paranormal investigator Hans Holzer. Its dreadful. I haven't seen such wooden insipid acting in a long time.
 
OPERATION WHITE SHARK- 1966. I have seen some bad secret agent movies and this is definitely one of the contenders for the worst. The hero (selected by a computer named Jerry?) is an expert at Judo, nuclear physics, languages, basically everything-and when we see him--one imagines he might be a skinny fusion of John Wayne and Rutger Hauer but one quickly realizes the resemblance is closer to a Frank Gorshin without any talent. They try to make up for the deficiencies in script, direction, action, and art direction by inserting pretty women but it doesn't do much to help. A lesbian boss is a little too late and just cries "bargain basement Thunderball."
PS
There are no sharks in the movie.
 
Holiday Inn, holiday classic. Searched jaw dropper Marjorie Reynolds at public library website, came up with Mr. Wong, Detective, the complete series. Put it on hold and next in line.
 
dask said:
Holiday Inn, holiday classic. Searched jaw dropper Marjorie Reynolds at public library website, came up with Mr. Wong, Detective, the complete series. Put it on hold and next in line.
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An old favorite in spite of the uncomfortable Lincoln's Birthday scene. Astaire and Crosby were never better together, each having a light touch with comedy.
 
AE35Unit said:
I thought the Silmarillion was a novel?
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No, it's more like a history book (and sometimes about as exciting) in which several stories are told.
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The Silmarillion - Wikipedia

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It starts with a creation story, and goes on to tell stories from the first age, then on to stories from the second age, and finally the third age, which includes LOTR

It's a bit of a slog, but it comes with a great sense of achievement when you finish it. A bit like running a marathon (I assume, because I've never run a marathon) ;)
 
M. Robert Gibson said:
No, it's more like a history book (and sometimes about as exciting) in which several stories are told.
en.wikipedia.org

The Silmarillion - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org

It starts with a creation story, and goes on to tell stories from the first age, then on to stories from the second age, and finally the third age, which includes LOTR

It's a bit of a slog, but it comes with a great sense of achievement when you finish it. A bit like running a marathon (I assume, because I've never run a marathon) ;)
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I'm more intrigued now...
 
SILENCE
Stanley Tucci in a film about weird winged creatures called Vesps that attack people in droves. Turns out they are blind but are attracted by sound, so everyone must not make noise. His character's daughter is deaf
Not bad, I could see it as series a la Walking Dead.
 
PILLOW TO POST (1945) rare comedy appearance for Sydney Greenstreet; here he portrays Colonel Michael Otley, the C.O. of Lieutenant Don Mallory (William Prince; AN OBSCURE ACTOR), who is dragged into a scheme to pass himself as the husband of Jean Howard (Ida Lupino), who cannot get lodging because of the war shortages. Yet, if she were married to an officer, she could get a cabin at this place.

There seems to have been a frequent theme of harmless fraud in the films of that era. This is one of them. But, it is very serious to do such a thing when one is an Army Officer! Greenstreet seems to chuckle in every film I have seen him.
 
Matrix Resurrections -

Been trying to avoid writing negative reviews recently, and highlight positive stuff, but, the original Matrix is a genre defining movie, and a new episode is noteworthy. Matrix: Resurrections is pretty awful.

Unsurprisingly, because the director makes very clear, through some heavy handed scenes, that they are not a fan of reboots. As you would expect, the movie seems to have been slapped together shoddily with some terrible writing, acting and directing. The action scenes are half hearted.
It all looks pretty bad, and the music is like something from a low budget tv series - which is how it feels.
 
THE ALMOST PERFECT CRIME 1966 - Italian comedy about a reporter who escorts a nun to collect her inheritance but an imposter surfaces and various double crosses and bizarre twists. It's diverting enough.
 
I watched Swan Song yesterday. It was like an average episode of Black Mirror. Apple has really disappointed me in its movies so far. They're fine but nothing special.
 
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