What was the last movie you saw?

Chronical 2076 (2020): In the near future all the plants have died and people are breathing 'synthetic oxygen' manufactured by a powerful corporation that also does time machine research. (I think in business this is known as 'synergy'.) But things are getting worse by the day. Humanity is doomed unless... The first message that comes through from the future demands they send a specific low-grade service engineer... who we find out a bit later in the movie is the son of the (dead before the start of the movie) lead scientist of the time travel research - oh and he has an unremovable dingus on his wrist his daddy put there before he disappeared... and a sick wife.

You now have most of the information you need to reconstruct this movie in its entirety.

Pretty predictable if you have read any time travel stories but not badly done for all that. The hero was a bit of a snivelling wimp but that made him more human and real and believable. Some of the SFX was pretty. Some of it was pretty good. And, as this was an Australian film, the woods our protagonists wander around in for a great chunk of the movie are lush and green and far more interesting than the deciduous woods most low budget American films' protagonists get to wander around in.

The second film in a row in which the main character wanders around woodlands on an uninhabited planet, eats unknown fruit, and has hallucinations.
 
Titane (2021). From the same director of Raw (2016), this Frech movie won the Palm D'or at Cannes last year.

This is brutal, as expected from the New French Extremity movement. This movie knows no limits. It's one of the most disturbing flicks ever. And I liked it lot. I just couldn't stop watching, despite all the craziness in front of me (I grimaced many times though).
 
THE EDGE OF DARKNESS (1943) Norwegians are suffering under you know who's rule, & are waiting for weapons from Britain so they can revolt. Gunnar Brogge (Errol Flynn) leads the revolt against well-trained professional soldiers. I hate to be overly critical, but, even with the best weapons, untrained civilians would stand little chance. Suppose some had been in WWI, they might be able to instill discipline in the rabble, but just try target practice, and the report from the guns would bring the enemies running.


O.k., that out of the way, a fairly good WWII film. Very intense drama! Even had one sell-out guy, who thought cooperation with the invaders was the best way to ensure survival.
 
Yeah, not a bad flick but a little heavy on the evil Nazi propaganda, as you'd expect for a movie made during the war.
 
STAR 80 (1983) Playmate Dorothy Stratten married the wrong guy. He would do anything to make money, except work. He meets a lovely young 17 year-old honey, forges her mother's signature, and she becomes PLAYMATE of the month. He cashes-in on his fee for finding her [or whatever it was] & now must use her again, or actually get a job.

That is how the film depicted the guy. He did eventually murder her.

TCM ran murder films Thursdays in January, & this was among them.

So, according to the film, this lowlife guy had expected to be inducted into Hef's inner circle because of bringing her to his attention. But Hef ['Heff'?] took him for the lowlife he was, and would have nothing to do with him. The guy was very upset about this. Everything he tried to make money, involved Stratton, at the very least he wanted her name on the fitness business, but she had had enough of that.

Sad.
 
Zombieland (2009) for the fourth or fifth time. It's pretty endearing, but I still don't get what's so great about Twinkies. I never liked them.
 
Kirk acts weak-minded at times which seemed forced by the script. The prefix code thing was neat for turning tables and satisfying action but it was shortchanging the characters.
Khan was smarter in the tv series. At least if they explained that something happened which made him lose his mind.

Also when Kirk says "I know what he blames me for." Did he? I don't remember a detailed conversation.
The movies never captured all the philosophical or character aspects that the episodes had.

SHADOWS IN AN EMPTY ROOM 1976 --Canada has never been this exciting--well except for today's headlines--but in this Italian-made action film, Stuart Whitman is a maniac cop who, with partner John Saxon, seeks to learn who killed his innocent sister. But was she as innocent as he believes or a chip off the old block?
Good car chases and one particularly memorable scene where Whitman fights a transvestite trio in a penthouse.
 
Another issue with ST 2 is when they say Kirk never faced death before.
What the hell? From Edith Keeler to every character that got McCoy to say "he's dead Jim."
How many red shirts died on the series and even his brother?
 
CAUGHT (2017)
Weird horror/sci fi set in the early 70s about a couple living on the yorkshire moore who are visited a strange couple who are definitely not normal...
It was ok, then it just...ended
 
WINTER A GO-GO (1965) An awful film about young nearly adults who open a ski lodge, & the difficulties they face, luring customers, etc. Featured a "professional band" whose name was unfamiliar to me, & apparently used a tried & true formula, etc., but still stinks. I could not bear to watch it in full screen, but ran it in a small window while doing other things on my PC.
 
The Last Dual.

I found this to be an accomplished movie and at times a difficult watch. IMHO it is Scott's best work in years. The actual fight of the title is well done and it is not far from the actual historical descriptions of the duel.

The treatment of women is horrendous to view and doesn't shy away from the misogyny of the times.

Touches of Rashomon about it, although I am not comparing it to that masterpiece.
 
Batman Vs Two-Face (2017) - a straight to DVD animated movie which was a whole lot of fun. Camp and funny. Cleverly and lovingly riffing on all the old 1966 TV series jokes without going over the top. Some nice voice work. Adam West and William Shatner in one movie!
 
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Batman Vs Two-Face (2017) - a straight to DVD animated movie which was a whole lot of fun. Camp and funny. Cleverly and lovingly riffing on all the old 1966 TV series jokes without going over the top. Some nice voice work. Adam West and William Shatner in one movie!
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& not to forget, the fabulous FUTURA BATMOBILE!



HIGH FLYERS (1937) Wheeler & Woolsey's final collaboration, in which they portray two boardwalk 'pilots' who talk customers through a faux flight school on a fake airplane that swivels around, but never leaves the ground.

They take a job as real pilots, & the trouble starts. Musical comedy.



MARINES FLY HIGH (1940) Lt. Danny Darrick (Richard Dix) is stationed in a central American nation in which a man calling himself El Vengador is about to start a revolution. Lt. Jim Malone (Chester Morris) arrives and begins competing with Darrick for the affection of Joan Grant (Lucille Ball), a plantation owner. El Vengador is actually John Henderson (John Eldredge) another plantation owner, but the identity is a secret.

Drama/comedy/ romance.
 
Gordon the Black Pirate 1961 --Ricardo Montalban vs Vincent Price who is his usual "evil and loving it" self. Short and dubbed an full of stock footage but works for a viewing thanks to the main cast.
 
The Girl Most Likely to . . . (1973)

Made-for-TV film. Stockard Channing has her first starring role as an unattractive college student who is abused by everyone around her. After a car wreck, surgery makes her beautiful. She gets her revenge on those who were cruel to her by murdering them. Put that way, it sounds very dark indeed, but the way the plot is handled is so light and silly, that it's more of a pale gray comedy than a black comedy.
 
TOP SECRET 1967 - The title narration suggest a film starring "Conn Seannery" but then Gordon Scott appears instead. I was expecting to be more bored as it progressed but it won be over by some of the jokes. At one point he interrupts the filming of an italian spy flick like this one. Scott keeps losing throughout the story--he gets beat up by a woman agent and kids steal the tires off his car. Silly but watchable.
 
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The Girl Most Likely to . . . (1973)

Made-for-TV film. Stockard Channing has her first starring role as an unattractive college student who is abused by everyone around her. After a car wreck, surgery makes her beautiful. She gets her revenge on those who were cruel to her by murdering them. Put that way, it sounds very dark indeed, but the way the plot is handled is so light and silly, that it's more of a pale gray comedy than a black comedy.
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Saw that a couple of times back when it first aired. I recall Channing and Ed Asner being great in it, the sort of movie that leaves you grinning in spite of -- or maybe because of -- the absurdity. Checking IMDB, impressive supporting cast, too.
 
Pyewacket 2017
Dreary cliché-ridden horror about a moody teenage girl who hates her life and her mom and sets out to do something about it. Yawn.
The title was the name of a cat in a comedy film called Bell Book and Candle. That was good, this isn't.
 
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