What was the last movie you saw?

Le guetteur (The Lookout) - I have some general rules of thumb about watching movies. One of them is "If X is involved I'll watch it at least once" X is variously Rutger Hauer, Eiko Ishoka, Ennio Morricone, Alan Arkin etc. Le guetteur starred Daniel Auteuil. I'll watch anything with Daniel Autuil in it at least once. I don't ever want to hear him 'sing' again but I find something strangely compelling about his screen presence. Le guetteur is a violent French slice of cops and robbers that starts off well but ends up wandering all over the place before coming to one of those unbelievable ambiguous endings which makes you wonder why you'd bothered with the previous 89 minutes. (It felt a lot longer).
 
JunkMonkey said:
I have some general rules of thumb about watching movies. One of them is "If X is involved I'll watch it at least once"
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You should start a thread on either the more general or more specific ideas there, or both. Probably make for pretty interesting discussions.
 
THE WEB 1947 - Edmund O'Brien gets hired as a bodyguard for Vincent Price and has to shoot Fritz Leiber Sr. but William Bendix as a police detective suspects foul play.

Hallelujah for Django - 1967? George Hilton as a drunkard who has to fight a gang of bank robbers who come to town and kill his sheriff brother. Inventive, with some amusing twists.
 
BREATHLESS (1960) Another French crime film, about a young guy who is just scum. He steals cars, speeds, and when the motorcycle cop confronts him, he just shoots him dead, foolishly leaving his coat in the stolen car, which he abandons. Made the guy a star, & greatly helped improve the director's rep. also. Intense
 
WAXWORK 1988 - David Warner sets up a wax museum in town and invites some college students to check it out and they get sucked intot he exhibits. Nice idea but it was more comedic than serious. I think it would have worked better if it was straight. The film is dedicated to Hammer, Argento, George Romero etc. and the influences are evident.

BURKE AND HARE 1972 - Body snatching and whore houses are mixed in this version. I have seen at least two others (from 1960 and 1984). This puts a lot of emphasis on T and A although Harry Andrews has a larger part than I usually see him do.

Burke and Hare!
Beware of em!
Burke and Hare!
The pair of em!

 
The Platform (2019). A Spanish film that was very bleak and depressing. In an extremely tall building with over 200 floors containing one cell each, one man must contend with starvation and cannibalism.

Cool Runnings (1993). I finally watched it in its entirety. Four Jamaican men follow their dreams of becoming bobsledders. Based on a true story. Some scenes are quite funny. Nice to see John Candy. This was just what I needed.
 
Cybertracker 2 - BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! KABLOOOM!! "Let's get outta here!"... BLAM! BLAM! BLAM "Let's go!" Blam! Kaboom! Blam Blam! "Let's get outa here!" Blam! Kaboom! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! - for 90 minutes . Then it stopped. And everyone laughed like the end of an episode of Police Squad - in color![/i]
 
THE TURNING POINT (1952) The local crime syndicate is run by a respectable business man Neil Eichelberger (Ed Begley), which is threatened by newspaper guy Jerry McKibbon (William Holden) & DA John Conroy (Edmond O'Brien)'s activities, etc. Yet, he resists using hardball tactics against them personally. One of his subordinates has no such scruples, though.

A very intense NOIR ALLEY film!
 
The Andromeda Strain [1970]
Still taut and well paced. Some of the science and acting feels a little dated now but the script and film are over 50 years old and still hold up remarkably well. I liked the mix of official hearing and flashback, that drag you along quiet nicely. I haven't read the book, but I might now.
I must have seen this film years ago, probably when it was first broadcast on TV as I kept remembering scenes just before they happened.
 
I saw it in the cinema when it first came out. Edge of the seat stuff! Avoid the 'remake' TV miniseries. It sucks. Really really sucks.

The climax involves one of our heroes throwing the severed thumb of another character two stories straight up into the air where it is caught by another character hanging off a ladder before being pressed to the Fingerprint ID reader that enables them to stop the bomb. Pure Grade A Hollywood bullsh** of the first water.
 
Don't Look Up On Netflix.
I had avoided this due to less than stellar reviews. Checking back, I see that there were also a few raves.
Also, I am not in love with Leonardo Di Caprio.
Well, I liked it. DiCaprio has matured so that his anguished acting actually looks realistic.
But it was the mix of politicos for whom reality is what shows up in the latest poll with scientists at their wit's end trying to inject reality in the aformentioned politician pea brains that was fun to watch. And each time (I have forgotten how to do a spoiler so I'll talk around it) you think reality has actually taken root - not.
Of note is the cast imaged on the pic below. Not a clinker in the bunch. I particularly appreciated the minor role played by Mark Rylance, proving that a great actor can even play a bland idiot to good effect.
And loved the satisfaction seeing a walk on character dealing with Prez Streep at the end.

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SWORDSMAN OF SIENA 1962 -- Stewart Granger is a roaming mercenary seeking to make enough money to hire an army to free his English hometown from a tyrant. He is hired by a duke to protect his bride-to-be, who is hated by her sister and people as a sell-out (the city is Tuscany, the duke is a conqueror from Spain). There is an annual horse race through the city and the duke rigs it every year to be sure that his evil cousin wins. This has some good sword duels (since Granger does his own fencing) and the horse race is suspenseful. The characterization is very good in this--emotionally involving and complex for the genre. When it comes to the 60s, thank goodness Europe was making some interesting historical adventure films like this. There ought to be a HD release--it is very colorful.
 
Ghostbusters Afterlife [2021]
The grandkids of one of the Ghostbusters, discover that he wasn't just a crazy old man and was right all along...
Cue associated mayhem. With pretty lights.
Enjoyable with enough laughs to make it worth the time. And the expected cameos were nicely done.
But I fear that Ghostbusters as a franchise is getting lost in it's own mythos. If you didn't know the first film, I don't know how much of this film made sense. Unless there is a real break with the past I can't see that there are any new stories to tell. As films. It seems ripe for a short TV series or two.
 
Don't Fu** With Cats. An absolutely riveting Netflix doco made with three one hour episodes. When I say riveting I ain't whistling Dixie. A must watch doco that has Hitchcockian overtones. Greatly recommended.
 
Droflet said:
Don't Fu** With Cats. An absolutely riveting Netflix doco made with three one hour episodes. When I say riveting I ain't whistling Dixie. A must watch doco that has Hitchcockian overtones. Greatly recommended.
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Did you also get the feeling that the internet people helped nothing? Actually, they made it worse :ROFLMAO:
 
Prisoners of the Ghostland (2021). A Nicolas Cage movie. Period. I could stop here. But this one is crazy even for Cage's standards. It's not a story, but a concept. I liked the themes, but I could barely understand it.
 
THE WATERMELON MAN (1970) This white guy is a racist, uses a sunlamp & his own concoction as tanning lotion. One morning, he awakens to find himself a black man. a similar thing happened to a villain in an episode of MISSION IMPOSSIBLE. Anyway, it is rather funny. Some might be offended by the N-word.

They ought to run this along with BLAZING SADDLES.
 
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