What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[BigDoddyKane]

There was some good lines in it at times

[BFTD]

2 hours ago, DeeTillEhDeh said:

Keanu Reeves and emotion is not something you don't see too often.

Every now and then, he knocks it out of the park. Dunno if he needs the right roles, or has to be working with the right people.

He's almost ruined a few films, though.

On 19/09/2022 at 10:51, accies1874 said:

149. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)* - Arrow

Horrible stuff that made me feel guilty about watching a piece of fiction. Wasn’t quite sure of the point of it but reading Roger Ebert’s review I can see how it might have been revered as an anti-slasher, a response to a lot of the horror films coming out around that time. It’s quite interesting to view it through that lens but I’m not gonna rewatch to find out.

Your opening line is kind of the point. There weren't many films that presented violence so starkly by the mid-Eighties, nor that characterised murderers as being so dull and uninteresting. We were supposed to thrill at the killing, and laugh at the superhuman, wise-cracking perpetrators. Henry gave us a cold dose of reality, and it's really, really effective. Just grim, dirty, and utterly miserable, which is a lot harder to do than people realise - there have been lots of films that have tried to pull off the same thing, but have failed as they couldn't engage the audience in the same way that John McNaughton managed. And obviously, Michael Rooker is quite something, as ever.

It's on the "won't be watching that again" list, but I did give it another spin on Blu-Ray as it was finally uncensored in the UK. The story of the cut version we got is quite interesting, as the director of the BBFC basically gave personal notes on how he thought it should be edited to get an 18 certificate here, and the distributors went along with it or risk the film being banned. More than a little strange.

[BigDoddyKane]

whats the best website for renting movies on an individual basis. Netflix movies doesnt take long to watch everything thats of interest and I dont want to add another streaming platform, i would rather just pay for single movie. Plus new movies or indie movies are harder to find on streaming platforms

[SweeperDee]

whats the best website for renting movies on an individual basis. Netflix movies doesnt take long to watch everything thats of interest and I dont want to add another streaming platform, i would rather just pay for single movie. Plus new movies or indie movies are harder to find on streaming platforms

I’d say YouTube, tbh

[BFTD]

3 hours ago, BigDoddyKane said:

whats the best website for renting movies on an individual basis. Netflix movies doesnt take long to watch everything thats of interest and I dont want to add another streaming platform, i would rather just pay for single movie. Plus new movies or indie movies are harder to find on streaming platforms

The Pirate Bay. According to a mate. Who also says that he knows there are better sites for downloading films, but he doesn't know them, so perhaps other P&Bers can help.

Also it's illegal, so don't do it. Hiya mods, hiya pals!

[jimmy boo]

whats the best website for renting movies on an individual basis. Netflix movies doesnt take long to watch everything thats of interest and I dont want to add another streaming platform, i would rather just pay for single movie. Plus new movies or indie movies are harder to find on streaming platforms

Pay? Please explain this concept.

[Detournement]

Avatar is coming back out in the cinema.

Peter Bradshaw in the Guardian reviewing it today.

Quote

This film came out in 2009, on a political cusp: it couldn’t quite make its mind up about whether it was a gung-ho shock’n’awe action movie or not: a Dubya film that had entered the more caring world of Obama. 

The fact that it's the Pocahontas story but John Smith helps the indigenous people fight back and kill all the colonialists couldn't be more explicit but working for the Guardian obviously requires some sort of lobotomy of any political acumen.

[Detournement]

3 hours ago, BFTD said:

The Pirate Bay. According to a mate. Who also says that he knows there are better sites for downloading films, but he doesn't know them, so perhaps other P&Bers can help.

Also it's illegal, so don't do it. Hiya mods, hiya pals!

It's pretty rare that I can't get whatever I want off PB. 

@BigDoddyKane

You can buy/rent a huge selection of films on Amazon and Youtube usually for a 3 or 4 quid a pop. I subscribe to BFI which is a fiver a month and has a big selection of arty movies and MUBI which is £9.99 and a bit more modern.

[BFTD]

I still don't get how Avatar is one of the highest-grossing films of all time.

I'm going to be even more stupefied when Avatar 2 comes out and is an even bigger success. We've no excuse this time; apparently everyone saw the first one, thought it was the very definition of 'meh', and immediately stopped giving a shit about it.

1 minute ago, Detournement said:

It's pretty rare that I can't get whatever I want off PB.

I've had a few lately that I had to find on other sites. I remember a lot of the big film uploaders deserting them years ago for reasons that escape me now.

Of course, not everyone is looking for the kind of horrifying stuff that I'm after.

Spoiler

It was Limmy's Homemade Show today.

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

8 minutes ago, BFTD said:

I still don't get how Avatar is one of the highest-grossing films of all time.

I'm going to be even more stupefied when Avatar 2 comes out and is an even bigger success. We've no excuse this time; apparently everyone saw the first one, thought it was the very definition of 'meh', and immediately stopped giving a shit about it.

I've had a few lately that I had to find on other sites. I remember a lot of the big film uploaders deserting them years ago for reasons that escape me now.

Of course, not everyone is looking for the kind of horrifying stuff that I'm after.

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It was Limmy's Homemade Show today.

 

All three episodes of this are on youtube

 

[BFTD]

Nice one Miguel.

[Detournement]

48 minutes ago, BFTD said:

I still don't get how Avatar is one of the highest-grossing films of all time.

I'm going to be even more stupefied when Avatar 2 comes out and is an even bigger success. We've no excuse this time; apparently everyone saw the first one, thought it was the very definition of 'meh', and immediately stopped giving a shit about it.

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It was Limmy's Homemade Show today.

 

I think the fact that's it politics are outside the MSM Overton window is partly why it was memory holed.

The best example of that is the John Carpenter film They Live which basically says "Kill The Rich!" and never seems to be on TV or streaming. Scorsese's After Hours is another one which is pretty hard to find due to its content. 

Right now I'm watching a 1970 BBC Sartre adaptation called Roads To Freedom that wasn't broadcast or released for video/DVD for the suspiciously round number of 50 years which makes me think the Heath government slapped some sort of legal restriction on it. It's got straight sex, gay sex, abortion, drug taking, nudity, rape, self harm, communists and it completely skewers Neville Chamberlain. It's well worth a watch, it's off iPlayer now but its all on YouTube. 

Edited September 21, 2022 by Detournement

[Thistle_do_nicely]

All i can remember from Dances With Smurfs is that the rare, precious metal (or element, idk) was called fucking unobtanium. Sigourney Weaver was in it too, i think.

Also thinking about it, the space marine aesthetic is timeless, to give it some credit. Colonel Quidditch was the most memorable thing from the whole film, i genuinely cant remeber any of the set pieces. 

Edit; fine i knew it was Quaritch i just wanted to do a Mark Kermode

They Live is class tbf

Edited September 21, 2022 by Thistle_do_nicely

[BFTD]

I think Avatar was just really dull TBH. I can't even remember much about it.

They Live and After Hours weren't particularly successful, although the former's always getting re-released on different formats, and it's appreciated much more now. Could be wrong, as I wasn't even a teenager when it came out, but I get the impression that people didn't really get it in the late Eighties. I certainly don't think I did at the time, although I still thought it was great. I remember liking After Hours a lot too, although I only saw it once on the TV years ago.

Throw in some cannibalism and incest, and Roads to Freedom sounds like it would be just my cup of tea.

[Ewan8472]

Clips of movies I have been watching.

1 ). Casablanca.

2 )  the Departed.

great stuff , from different eras

 

 

 

[Paul Kersey]

On 21/09/2022 at 18:39, Detournement said:

I think the fact that's it politics are outside the MSM Overton window is partly why it was memory holed.

The best example of that is the John Carpenter film They Live which basically says "Kill The Rich!" and never seems to be on TV or streaming. Scorsese's After Hours is another one which is pretty hard to find due to its content. 

 

They Live is fecking amazing.

After Hours is available for rent on Google TV. I watched it a few months ago.

[Detournement]

23 minutes ago, Paul Kersey said:

They Live is fecking amazing.

After Hours is available for rent on Google TV. I watched it a few months ago.

Pretty much everything is available for rent.

I've got some very strong opinions about After Hours. To me it's a film which is overtly about the CIA MK Ultra project, there is also a weird similarity between it and Eyes Wide Shut.

[Detournement]

Anyway just watched Full Metal Jacket for the first time in a long time

Watching it now it seems obvious that Animal Mother and Pyle are the same character and that the first hooker you see shaking her ass to Nancy Sinatra when the movie moves to Vietnam is a Ladyboy.

 

Edited September 22, 2022 by Detournement

[Fullerene]

9 hours ago, Detournement said:

Anyway just watched Full Metal Jacket for the first time in a long time

Watching it now it seems obvious that Animal Mother and Pyle are the same character and that the first hooker you see shaking her ass to Nancy Sinatra when the movie moves to Vietnam is a Ladyboy.

 

"The Making of Full Metal Jacket" was also interesting.  R Lee Ermey was not the original choice for the role he made famous.  He was a real Drill Sergeant and when he was used to audition the other parts he could ad lib better stuff than any scriptwriter could think up.

The original actor for the part got to be the helicopter gunner instead.

Also "Vietnam" is actually the East End of London with some palm trees.

[UpInTheAyr]

Conspiracy (2001)

Kenneth Branagh leads a star studded cast of the senior Nazis that met to discuss the final solution in 1942. Basically just sitting round a table for 90 minutes talking but very well acted and chilling stuff.