What Was the Last Movie You Watched?

Words on Bathroom Walls -Amazon Prime

Diagnosed with a mental illness halfway through his senior year of high school, a witty, introspective teen struggles to keep it a secret while falling in love with a brilliant classmate who inspires him to not be defined by his condition.
 
Fyrefox said:
The last movie I saw was "Road to Perdition" (2002) with Tom Hanks in the lead role; I'd been meaning to catch this one for years, but it managed to escape me. It's essentially a gangster movie set in the late 1920's, so it's not for everyone as it's violent, and people die graphically. Tom Hanks plays against his usual casting, and is actually a hit man or enforcer in the film, but one who has layers of meaning, a person in a brutal profession who is also a devoted family man. Hanks portrays his character's layers of complexities superbly, and while the film is a period piece with a revenge theme, it also focuses upon family, the relationship between a father and his young son, how we become what we are, and the pivotal choices we make in life that define us for good or ill. A most remarkable film...if you can stomach a few machine-gunnings, that is! 🙀

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One of my favorites, too. I was really surprised at Paul Newman's role - and how convincing he was.
 
Places in the Heart, on Turner Classic with Sally Fields. Seemed a bit old fashioned, but a nice movie. Surprised I never saw it before. I loved the very last scene, unusual.

Terminator: Dark Fate on Prime. LOVED it!
 
If you ever get the chance, watch one of my favorites from 1949, Mrs. Mike.
It's based on a true story and it's one of those movies you could watch on a Sunday afternoon and just relax and enjoy a good story based on real lives:

"MRS. MIKE is the story of Katherine Mary (Evelyn Keyes), a young Irish-American girl sent to visit her uncle in Canada, where she falls in love with and marries an older Mountie, Mike Flannigan (Dick Powell). (Kathy is 16 as the book opens; Evelyn Keyes was past 30 when she made MRS. MIKE and looks as though she's in her 20s. Dick Powell was likewise older than his counterpart in the book.) Kathy and Mike immediately move to his new assignment stationed in the far north of Canada, where he provides small rural communities with law enforcement, search and rescue, first aid, and even dentistry. Mike and Kathy's loving marriage is tested by isolation and tragedy." https://laurasmiscmusings.blogspot.com/2009/07/tonights-movie-mrs-mike-1949.html
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Tried watching "Bonnie and Clyde" and "Varsity Punks" at the same time last night. (maybe that was my mistake).
Found both dull and dumb.
It's slim pickins on the ol' dial these "daze". Why do I bother???
 
As I have stated, I enjoy movies and watch a lot of them. Why that is, has to do with the amount of moving I did growing up.
New school, trying to make new friends, sometimes the frustration took it's toll.
There were two things that never changed no matter where we moved to, Movies and the Library.
Both were escapes from what was going on in my life and they were a comfort zone for me.

So I watch movies and I can say I've rarely watched a really Bad movie.
Most movies have some good in them even if it's just a quick scene or the lighting, Direction, etc.
When I read the posts in this thread it starts me on a path and next thing you know, I'm pulling out a movie.

Keep 'em coming...
 
This morning on the radio I heard this poem which I remembered from a film long ago, so I started googling.

The poem.

Then I found the film, and I watched it and really enjoyed it.

The film.
 

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