What was the last movie you watched?

V

vokazu

Hall of Fame
Arrival (2016). I don't like the plot but I love the message it's trying to convey.

movies.fandom.com

Arrival

Arrival is a 2016 American science-fiction film, directed by Denis Villeneuve and written by Eric Heisserer, and based on the short story "The Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang. It stars Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg and Tzi Ma. The film is about a linguist who is...
movies.fandom.com movies.fandom.com
 
ollinger

ollinger

G.O.A.T.
American Fiction (2023)

A chaotic look at cultural mandates in contemporary literature, meanders between drama, fantasy, and romantic comedy. They called this Jeffrey Wright's finest performance, I'm not so sure, found him more convincing as the third (fourth? fifth?) Felix Leiter in the recent Bond films. Some pointed satire at times.
 
B

Bagumbawalla

G.O.A.T.
The movie Office Christmas Party Was on the TV while I was working in the kitchen yesterday.
Though I would have preferred a good movie over washing dishes; the dishes won.
It was as though this movie was pieced together out of scraps and outtakes of a film that never made it
to the the theaters. Did I miss something?
 
Ronaldo

Ronaldo

Bionic Poster
Bagumbawalla said:
The movie Office Christmas Party Was on the TV while I was working in the kitchen yesterday.
Though I would have preferred a good movie over washing dishes; the dishes won.
It was as though this movie was pieced together out of scraps and outtakes of a film that never made it
to the the theaters. Did I miss something?
Click to expand...
The Office?
 
milk of amnesia

milk of amnesia

Legend
Past Lives (2023) I noticed this was up for best picture and best screenplay at the Oscars. It didn't win either, but it has won a host of other awards during the past year. It is a thoughtful and sentimental film in which two people who had a serious crush on each other in childhood re-connect after twenty-four years.
 
MichaelNadal

MichaelNadal

Bionic Poster
p21033267_v_h8_ae.jpg
 
B

Bagumbawalla

G.O.A.T.
Just watched The Quiet Man (John Ford).
In some ways it is kind of a sappy movie, full of stereotypes and cliches.
It basically follows the rom-com formula.
There was a part where the John Wayne character drags the Maureen O'Sullivan
character five miles cross-country that was hard to watch and the ending reconciliation
was unrealistic.
However, for reasons I can't fully explain, I liked the movie.
I liked how each person, bystander, passer-by, even those with no speaking part were
individuals with their own story, I liked the camera work, the scenery, the acting, the little side
issues and, despite the conflicts, an overall sense of community.

I had seen the movie once before- a long tome ago- and one part that I remembered was when the
predominately Catholic town-folk pretended to be Protestants to save the vicar's job. It was that
kind of movie.
 
ollinger

ollinger

G.O.A.T.
"Perfect Days" (2023)

A man who cleans public toilets in Tokyo is the focus of this fascinating film with a Japanese cast directed by a German director who has a predilection for making films in Japan. Slow but very worthwhile.
 
E

EddieBrock

Hall of Fame
Just watched the new Willy Wonka movie.

It was ok, but Wonka was too cheerful and positive and none of the craziness of the original. Also, the DEI characters were annoying and even though it had some of the feel of Paddington it didn't quite have the same charm and the characters were too much like caricatures.

There was some creative set designs, fun songs and great moments.

Overall I enjoyed it, but it could have been better.

 
E

EddieBrock

Hall of Fame
sureshs said:
Is it because of your prior expectations or were they really annoying for objective reasons?
Click to expand...
Something odd about me is I don't like to look at trailers or know much about movies going in because I enjoy being surprised. So I didn't expect to see any in the movie given the time period and location, but the minute I saw the main one I knew 100% what to expect and she delivered exactly that

Going in I expected the focus of the movie to be on Willie Wonka and I thought it would show how he learned to make chocolate and what made him act the way he did in the original.
 
S

sureshs

Bionic Poster
EddieBrock said:
Something odd about me is I don't like to look at trailers or know much about movies going in because I enjoy being surprised. So I didn't expect to see any in the movie given the time period and location, but the minute I saw the main one I knew 100% what to expect and she delivered exactly that

Going in I expected the focus of the movie to be on Willie Wonka and I thought it would show how he learned to make chocolate and what made him act the way he did in the original.
Click to expand...
I was asking about the DEI part. People feel uncomfortable with a Black Macbeth or a White Rama in the Ramayana. Some say movies should be true to their times, others say that is only one option and the other is to modernize it.
 
E

EddieBrock

Hall of Fame
sureshs said:
I was asking about the DEI part. People feel uncomfortable with a Black Macbeth or a White Rama in the Ramayana. Some say movies should be true to their times, others say that is only one option and the other is to modernize it.
Click to expand...
That part I was not expecting, but once I saw a young black female character it didn't take much "pure imagination" to see the kind of role she would play. Same as any young female character put along side a male one in a modern movie. Same with the black cop being kind and competent and the white one being a buffoon and incompetent. Very boring, predictable, by the numbers for movies produced in 2024

Songs like this I did like:

 
S

sureshs

Bionic Poster
EddieBrock said:
That part I was not expecting, but once I saw a young black female character it didn't take much "pure imagination" to see the kind of role she would play. Same as any young female character put along side a male one in a modern movie. Same with the black cop being kind and competent and the white one being a buffoon and incompetent. Very boring, predictable, by the numbers for movies produced in 2024
Click to expand...
If there were 10 Black and 10 White cops in a movie, you could show 5 of each type. But if you have only 2 cops, you have to show one of them as incompetent for purposes of humor, and then who do you show? You obviously go with whoever has been less marginalized historically.
 
Nostradamus

Nostradamus

Bionic Poster
So Do we all agree that Dune 2 is the best movie of the last 10 years and last decade ?? Also director danny villaneu said he won't make Dune 3 unless he's 110 % sure he can make better movie than he did in Dune 2. very lofty goal, and Holliwood insiders are saying,, If he doesn't want to make it,,, they will find someone else that will direct it for sure........ cause it made so much money already,,, its like holliwood cash cow that is sure bet


 
Bhagi Katbamna

Bhagi Katbamna

Legend
Nostradamus said:
So Do we all agree that Dune 2 is the best movie of the last 10 years and last decade ?? Also director danny villaneu said he won't make Dune 3 unless he's 110 % sure he can make better movie than he did in Dune 2. very lofty goal, and Holliwood insiders are saying,, If he doesn't want to make it,,, they will find someone else that will direct it for sure........ cause it made so much money already,,, its like holliwood cash cow that is sure bet


Click to expand...
You misspelled "Godzilla Minus One" in the first sentence.
 
Ronaldo

Ronaldo

Bionic Poster
Day Of The Triffids (1962) Wowow, opening of the Walking Dead! Once in a Lifetime specticle April 8th
 
Last edited:
V

vokazu

Hall of Fame
The Infiltrator (2016)

It's funny to watch Bryan Cranston acting as a Federal Agent catching drug dealers instead of acting as a drug King Pin like in Breaking Bad.
 
ollinger

ollinger

G.O.A.T.
"Killer Joe" (2012)

Let's remember William Friedkin for "The French Connection" and "The Exorcist" rather than this blood-spattered spectacle, but McConaughey's tight performance provides some interest and Thomas Haden Church is dryly amusing.
 
ollinger

ollinger

G.O.A.T.
"The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare" (2024)

Guy Ritchie seems like a British version of Tarantino, and this film reminds me of "Inglourious Bastards" done a little more for laughs, though apparently based on a true series of events. Both films even dangle a pretty woman as "bait" for a Na-zi officer. Fast paced, very violent, and curiously satisfying.
 
ollinger

ollinger

G.O.A.T.
(^^ I'm not sure this film has fully "opened" yet, there was just one screening of it last night at an AMC Theatre in Wayne, NJ)
 
The Green Mile

The Green Mile

Bionic Poster
The Void (2016). Could definitely feel it's low production values at times, but it was really quite something to watch a group people suddenly have to deal with a cosmic horror like setting out of nowhere.
 
milk of amnesia

milk of amnesia

Legend
After Life (1998) About an after life in which the newly dead end up at a bureacratic-like building and meet the staff there who inform them that they must stay for one week. The staff tell them that during that week each individual must select one and only one memory that they would like to take with them to eternity. The staff then does their best to re-create that memory for the person to take with them. Lovely film. Japanese with subtitles.
 
ollinger

ollinger

G.O.A.T.
"Leave The World Behind" (2023)

Weird things are happening to Julia Roberts, Ethan Hawke, Mahershala Ali, and Kevin Bacon, and some very good acting by all of them keeps this film interesting for a while, but the script begins to fail and the weirdness becomes less credible. Also, too long at nearly two and a half hours.
 
B

Bagumbawalla

G.O.A.T.
I didn't actually "watch" this movie, but while scanning through the channels I came across Dirty Harry
and the "Well, do you feel lucky, punk" scene. It made no sense because the gun was not that close to the
criminal, and it seemed that Harry could have just kicked it away- a meaningless dramatic scene.
What actually caught my attention was the ugliness of the cars in the movie (1971). They were long,
rectangular, clunky, unresponsive, barge-like behemoths. I can't remember anything else I saw.

 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

Northern
The Movie Recommendation Request Thread
2
Replies
87
Views
3K
acintya
acintya
J
Best movie you ever watched
4 5 6
Replies
293
Views
21K
mmk
mmk
BreakPoint
Saw the new movie "Wimbledon" tonight - my comment
Replies
33
Views
4K
AndyC
A
T
Hot Tub Time Machine
Replies
10
Views
1K
downs_chris
downs_chris
Raining hopes
So even Jim carrey can act brilliantly in a meaningful movie.
Replies
13
Views
779
natalia
natalia
Top