What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[jimmy boo]

The Power Of The Dog

Benedict Cumberbatch is excellent as a cattle ranch owner along with his brother in Montana in 1925. He is a complete b*****d to everyone including his brother and his brothers new woman and her son.........initially. Apart from early cars it could be set 100 years earlier and is basically a western. Wouldn't be surprised if Oscar nominations follow.........8/10. 

[MSU]

Just out of Ghostbusters Afterlife and it wasn't for me. It wasn't helped by being in an audience that didn't seem to get out of the house much and when they did, they'd never been to a movie before. There were folks literally slapping the arms of their seats with laughter. There was a wee woman in front of me who seemed to be mumbling a conversation with the characters all through the movie. I was really disappointed at how much was just lifted from the first movie and it didn't make me laugh, which even the Lady Ghostbusters was able to do a couple of times. The kids seemed to enjoy it at least a bit more than me but my step-daughter was curiously very offended at the ghostly cameo towards the end.

[BFTD]

54 minutes ago, MSU said:

It wasn't helped by being in an audience that didn't seem to get out of the house much and when they did, they'd never been to a movie before.

Since the cinemas reopened, I've been in a couple of screenings where people seemed to have forgotten how to behave in the cinema, or didn't normally go but wanted to take advantage of their freedom returning. Thankfully it seems to be evening out again, but things like talking loudly to be heard over the film and phone use was commonplace for a while.

There were a couple of women doing an excellent impression of Monty Python's Pepperpots when I went to see the Candyman reboot, until one either fell asleep or had a stroke about twenty minutes in.

 

[accies1874]

He's already making another one. It's called Asteroid City and Billy Murray is in it. The cast is supposedly even bigger than TFD so they must work for relative peanuts. In the cinema the other night I was saw Elizabeth Moss at the beginning of the film and thought Yas then she was barely in it.
I think Wes Anderson, PTA, the Coens, Malick, Spike Jonze and even Schrader will get to make whatever films they want for the rest of their lives. The problem is that there aren't many decent directors under the age of 50.
 

Last year was reassuring due to how many really good films were made by first-timers or with very few under their belt.

We're probably beyond (for now) directors having much of a pull, which is why it's still good to have someone like Christopher Nolan despite his faults, but there are still promising folk out there... until Disney gets them to do a couple of blockbusters and they're never seen again.

[Stellaboz]

Red Notice 5/10

Nothing special here, wouldn't even say Thr Rock is that good. Reynolds is great mind and the twist is unexpected but I hope they don't go for a sequel.

[Detournement]

Portrait Of A Lady On Fire

A story about an 18th century female French painter who has to paint the portrait of a young aristocrat woman who is trying to avoid being married off. A brilliant movie that deserved all the praise and awards it received. I'll need to watch it again though as I watched it on iPlayer and the quality was poor for a lot of the scenes with low lighting.

 

[Detournement]

5 hours ago, accies1874 said:

Last year was reassuring due to how many really good films were made by first-timers or with very few under their belt.

We're probably beyond (for now) directors having much of a pull, which is why it's still good to have someone like Christopher Nolan despite his faults, but there are still promising folk out there... until Disney gets them to do a couple of blockbusters and they're never seen again.

Such as?

[accies1874]

From these:

Rewatched a couple of things recently so feel I can do a proper list now.
Honourable mentions:
Spoiler

• Vivarium
• The Vast of Night
• The Invisible Man
• Horse Girl
• Make Up
• About Endlessness
• Shirley
• Blow the Man Down
• Only the Animals

Top 10:
1. The Lighthouse
2. Why Don't You Just Die
3. The Assistant
4. Parasite
5. Waves
6. Saint Maud
7. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
8. Relic
9. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
10. Clemency

The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers, 38, 1 previous film)

Why Don't You Just Die (Kirill Sokolov, 32, no previous)

The Assistant (Kitty Green, 37, a few previous)

Waves (Trey Edward Shults, 33, 2 previous)

Saint Maud (Rose Glass, 31, no previous)

Relic (Natalie Erika James, 32, no previous)

Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Eliza Hittman, 42, 2 previous)

Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu, 36, 1 previous)

The Vast of Night (Andrew Patterson, 39, no previous)

The Invisible Man (Leigh Whannell, 44, 2 previous)

Horse Girl (Jeff Baena, 44, a few previous)

Make Up (Claire Oakley, 36, no previous)

Blow the Man Down (couple of c***s with no Wikipedia page)

Some/a lot/all of these won't be for everyone and at least half of the directors won't amount to anything, but it's a diverse group of films made by a load of folk under 50. And that's just last year.

[BFTD]

Detournement is a believer that all the great cinema has already been made, so you're wasting your breath here.

It's like the folk who believed The Beatles were just a fad and will be forgotten about in a few years.

[MrWorldwideJr]

To add onto the above list, obviously the Oscars aren't everything but from them this year you have.

Promising Young Woman (Emerald Fennell, 36, no previous)

The Father (Florian Zeller, 42, no previous)

Nomadland (Chloe Zhao, 39, 2 previous) - Won Best Picture and Best Director

Judas and the Black Messiah (Shaka King, 41, 1 previous)

Minari (Lee Isac Chung, 43, 4 previous)

Sound of Metal (Darius Marder, 47/48, 1 previous)

All directed by under 50s with generally few previous films to their name and nominated for Best Picture.

I'm also a fan of Damien Chazelle (36, La La Land, Whiplash) and Sam Levinson (36, Assasination Nation, Euphoria) who are both very early in their careers. That's just off the top of my head, I'm sure there are a few more.

 

[Inanimate Carbon Rod]

13 hours ago, BFTD said:

Since the cinemas reopened, I've been in a couple of screenings where people seemed to have forgotten how to behave in the cinema, or didn't normally go but wanted to take advantage of their freedom returning. Thankfully it seems to be evening out again, but things like talking loudly to be heard over the film and phone use was commonplace for a while.

There were a couple of women doing an excellent impression of Monty Python's Pepperpots when I went to see the Candyman reboot, until one either fell asleep or had a stroke about twenty minutes in.

 

American Cinema audiences are appalling. 
 

Ghostbuster Afterlife for me was a great 2 hours of entertainment. Id really like for Paul Rudd to have a role in a sequel. Was a bit of nostalgia and a good take on modernising it all. A bit more depth to Egon too. A decent tribute to Ramis imo.

[BFTD]

17 minutes ago, Inanimate Carbon Rod said:

American Cinema audiences are appalling. 

I used to hate our certification system when I was a kid as, for example, I got locked out of Gremlins which was apparently only suitable for people fifteen and older in the Eighties. I have more of a grudging appreciation for it now since seeing how many American morons take their very young children along to see the latest torture porn extravaganza because they didn't want to pay for a babysitter freedom.

The first twenty minutes of every single horror film at a multiplex spent listening to screaming kids having to be removed  

[Detournement]

1 hour ago, BFTD said:

Detournement is a believer that all the great cinema has already been made, so you're wasting your breath here.

It's like the folk who believed The Beatles were just a fad and will be forgotten about in a few years.

@accies1874

The answer to that would be how many of those films do you think will be remembered in a decade or two?

No one in the world thinks a film as good as La Dolce Vita or Stalker or Blue Velvet or The Shining is coming out anytime soon. It's easy to understand that symphony music or oil painting or poetry are dead forms but people get really worked up when you say the same about pop music or films or novels are past their peak. 

[BFTD]

Just now, Detournement said:

@accies1874

The answer to that would be how many of those films do you think will be remembered in a decade or two?

No one in the world thinks a film as good as La Dolce Vita or Stalker or Blue Velvet or The Shining is coming out anytime soon. It's easy to understand that symphony music or oil painting or poetry are dead forms but people get really worked up when you say the same about pop music or films or novels are past their peak. 

If that's how you experience art, I've nothing but pity for you, but nobody actually gives a shit. Presumably you get entertainment out of declaring that art is dead, so you've created your own fun.

Meanwhile, the rest of us will continue to enjoy what past, current, and future generations create.

[coprolite]

18 minutes ago, Detournement said:

@accies1874

The answer to that would be how many of those films do you think will be remembered in a decade or two?

No one in the world thinks a film as good as La Dolce Vita or Stalker or Blue Velvet or The Shining is coming out anytime soon. It's easy to understand that symphony music or oil painting or poetry are dead forms but people get really worked up when you say the same about pop music or films or novels are past their peak. 

Symphonies and poetry might not be the main event any more bit are still very much alive and kicking. Not easy to understand why you think they're dead at all. 

On the others, i can't see much evidence of anything having peaked. Especially if your evidence is that no one is going to replicate the self indulgent whimsy of Wes Anderson. 

[BFTD]

8 minutes ago, coprolite said:

Symphonies and poetry might not be the main event any more bit are still very much alive and kicking. Not easy to understand why you think they're dead at all. 

On the others, i can't see much evidence of anything having peaked. Especially if your evidence is that no one is going to replicate the self indulgent whimsy of Wes Anderson. 

We've had this conversation before. He just thinks all the best stuff has been written and anything new is objectively pish by comparison. Full stop.

Just so very, very happy that I still see/hear new great art. It must be awful to be disappointed by everything.

[accies1874]

@accies1874
The answer to that would be how many of those films do you think will be remembered in a decade or two?

That's a different question and my answer would probably fall on the same side as yours. I'll remember plenty from that list, others won't - that doesn't make them any better or worse. There aren't many non-franchise/sequel/remake releases that capture general audiences, either because they don't want to see them or because they're not getting to, but there are still plenty of greats out there.

Fwiw I reckon Parasite will be thought of as an all-timer in the future. There are some others from the past few years that I'd like to think of as getting the same treatment, at least within their genre, but that might be wishful thinking.

[Detournement]

1 hour ago, coprolite said:

Symphonies and poetry might not be the main event any more bit are still very much alive and kicking. Not easy to understand why you think they're dead at all. 

On the others, i can't see much evidence of anything having peaked. Especially if your evidence is that no one is going to replicate the self indulgent whimsy of Wes Anderson. 

Really? Which symphony music of the past 30 years is comparable to the most revered music by Beethoven or Rossini or Wagner? Also it's difficult to think of anyone considered as great a poet TS Elliot or Pound were in their lives. 

If you don't believe that cinema has peaked then watch L'Aventurra and La Notte by Antonioni released in consecutive years and compare them to anything that has come out recently.

I don't think Wes Anderson is an all time great filmmaker and he makes it's clear in his movies that he doesn't either. I do like them a lot though because they are mainly about experiencing older and arguably better forms of culture.

Edited November 22, 2021 by Detournement

[Detournement]

16 minutes ago, BFTD said:

We've had this conversation before. He just thinks all the best stuff has been written and anything new is objectively pish by comparison. Full stop.

Just so very, very happy that I still see/hear new great art. It must be awful to be disappointed by everything.

That's not really what I think. It's difficult to explain but I think that our experience in the digital/internet age is means that films and novels aren't as well suited to conveying contemporary experience as they once were.

I'm not going to run out of good books to read or films to watch so no need to feel too sorry for me.

[BFTD]

42 minutes ago, Detournement said:

Really? Which symphony music of the past 30 years is comparable to the most revered music by Beethoven or Rossini or Wagner? Also it's difficult to think of anyone considered as great a poet TS Elliot or Pound were in their lives. 

If you don't believe that cinema has peaked then watch L'Aventurra and La Notte by Antonioni released in consecutive years and compare them to anything that has come out recently.

I don't think Wes Anderson is an all time great filmmaker and he makes it's clear in his movies that he doesn't either. I do like them a lot though because they are mainly about experiencing older and arguably better forms of culture.

He could absolutely tell you that he greatly prefers modern examples of these forms and not be wrong, even if you think they're shit. You do understand that, right?