What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

[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. 

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[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

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[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.

 

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[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.

[BFTD]

The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue (DVD) - farm machinery starts to bring the dead back to life in rural Lancashire, with super strength and the standard zombie desire for tasty human innards.

Despite having quite a dull and generic script, with few memorable set pieces, this is a pretty worthy entry in the Italian zombie genre. The score and ambient sound do a great job of setting a spooky atmosphere and, despite being filmed in the UK, the actors are mainly dubbed Italians, with lashings of comedy British accents scattered about at random. There are some unusual elements too, like the aforementioned necromancing combine harvesters, and police investigators who completely refuse to believe that zombies exist, despite the old corpses with cranial wounds lying around, and the recently-living (and munched on) bodies lying next to them.

Also, it has a tremendous title that sounds more like a classic live album.

[Scotty Tunbridge]

Went to see Pulp Fiction at the cinema recently, haven’t seen it before. I liked it. The part with Mr Wolf and the clean up was the best bit IMO.

[54_and_counting]

On 21/09/2022 at 17:54, 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.

 

Ive never seen avatar

[coprolite]

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. 

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. 

They Live has been on Netflix or Prime for ages. I've watched it twice in the last year. 

[Miguel Sanchez]

Leap Year (2010)

I watched this based on Kermode's review

It's infinitely worse than I could have imagined. I don't understand how something like this can exist. I don't know why Amy Adams read the script and thought yes, I should be in this film. Nothing about it makes any sense.

[DA Baracus]

Avatar was so popular because it was a gimmick film.

But that gimmick is old hat now. Avatar 2 will probably do pretty well at the box office, but reckon it will be received pretty poorly in terms of ratings.

[centralTon]

Moonage Daydream - MacRobert Arts Centre, Stirling.

I absolutely loved this, not really surprising as I've been a Bowie fan for 50 years. However, what was surprising was that Mrs. cT also loved it, despite not being a Bowie fan at all.

10/10

[MSU]

124 Backstabbing for Beginners (#64 in the A24 series) Thought this was going to be a romantic comedy along the lines of Perks of Being a Wallflower. Instead it's a true story about the corruption within the UN's Food to Oil program in the early 2000s in Iraq. A24 really will throw money at anything. A worthy topic but unsure why this isn't just a documentary. 4/10

125 First Reformed (#65 in the A24 series) -- Ethan Hawke and Amanda Seyfried are outstanding in this story of the minister of a declining church struggling with his faith and his health in the aftermath of an environmentalist parishioner's suicide. Paul Shrader, whose writing I typically prefer over his directing, presents lots of ideas here, and nothing much in the way of solution, and it works well. Not many chuckles to be found so it's definitely one that depends on your mood. 7/10

126 How to Talk to Girls at Parties (#66 in the A24 series) -- In 70s London, a band of punks run into an alien cult. I'm not sure if this is meant to be funny because no one in it is acting well enough to tell. I would, however, put five crisp English pounds that not one of the punks in the movie has listened to a Ramones album all the way through. Punk is all about authenticity and this has none of it. Having extra-terrestrial Elle Fanning running around demanding "Show me the punk" makes a damn fine point, tho. 3/10

127 All Quiet on the Western Front (#3 in the Best Picture Oscar series) From 1930, it's the first of the Academy Award Best Picture winners that is genuinely still a great movie. The script, and its delivery, are very much on the nose, as was the style of the day, but it actually adds to the helplessness of the situation and the blind obedience of its participants. 8/10

128 Camp (#1 in the Anna Kendrick series) Anna Kendrick movies, because why not shut up. Her first appearance comes in this well-intentioned collection of stories about a diverse group of kids who get together for a Summer Theatre camp. It struggles along for a surprisingly long time with plenty of over-enthusiastic acting from the young cast. Kendrick is in a supporting role as the lackey for the camp bitch but she still gets the best scene in the movie. 4/10

129 Rocket Science (#2 in the Anna Kendrick series) Quirky indie comedy with echoes of Juno sees Hal, Reece Thompson, a stuttering high school student, who is convinced to join the debate team by super confident Ginny, played by Kendrick. Thompson is wonderful as the socially awkward Hal who struggles to overcome his affliction, while Kendrick's speed and precision of delivery is something to behold, and there's real heart to the story without going too far in the wrong direction. If I'd seen Rocket Science when I was 15 or 16 I reckon I'd have seen it a hundred times by now. A perfect movie for a rainy Saturday afternoon. 9/10

130 Confess, Fletch -- It's been 33 years since Fletch Lives, so why they didn't give Jon Hamm a different cap and trainers and call it something else, I have no idea. I have fond memories of the Chevy Chase movies from the 80s and this lacks their charm and the invention. Gone are the disguises and the wisecracks, and if Fletch did nothing for most of the movie I'm not sure it would've ended all that differently. Not bad, as such, just not all that interesting. 5/10

[Flybhoy]

Sicario

 

2015 crime thriller with fantastic performances from Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin and a chilling and wicked Benicio Del Toro, also featuring a fantastic cameo from Jon Favreau of The Walking Dead and Fury.

Hadn't seen this film till I stumbled upon it on Netflix when I was off work a bit unwell at the beginning of the week but a superb watch, without spoiling it for those yet to see it, the basic synopsis is the FBI and a few other criminal prevention groups try to infiltrate and stop Mexican drug cartels in and around the border, in particular one absolutely brutal, evil crime lord obviously loosely based on Pablo Escobar, it soon becomes clear to Emily Blunt's character that Brolin and Del Toro are not exactly playing things by the book, nor even pretending to be closely following the law in the pursuit of what they perceive as 'justice', the real reason for which becomes apparent towards the end.

Special mention too for the chilling opening where the feds discover several dead bodies concealed within the walls of the house they bust

9/10

[BFTD]

3 hours ago, MSU said:

130 Confess, Fletch -- It's been 33 years since Fletch Lives, so why they didn't give Jon Hamm a different cap and trainers and call it something else, I have no idea. I have fond memories of the Chevy Chase movies from the 80s and this lacks their charm and the invention. Gone are the disguises and the wisecracks, and if Fletch did nothing for most of the movie I'm not sure it would've ended all that differently. Not bad, as such, just not all that interesting. 5/10

I'm amazed they actually got around to making another of these; they've been trying for decades. I remember Kevin Smith being approached to make one with Jason Lee in the Nineties.

I can't imagine many people under the age of 30 having seen those films.