What Was the Last Movie You Watched?

Trip to Bountiful, Cecily Tyson, Vanessa Williams, Blair Underwood. Excellent!! I am just in the nostalgic mood. I think many of our children, grandchildren just don't understand our desire to revisit a place that was such a big part of our lives.
 

Remy said:
I was channel surfing Sunday and Die Hard was starting. I'd never watched it. Typical stupid action movie but it wasn't too bad.
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I love that movie, "Come to LA, it will be fun they said" not so much!
 

moviequeen1 said:
Last night, I was 'channel surfing, stopped at cable channel, TNT, movie was' Field Of Dreams' which wasn't on the schedule. I figured it was being shown due to Mon's passing of actor James Earl Jones who played' Terance Mann'. At the end while the credits rolled a picture of Jones saying' In Memory'
It's one of my favorite movies, never get tired of watching it
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I enjoyed the picture in '89. It was a good role for Kevin Costner, and had some great cameos.
 
ChiroDoc said:
You must have a pretty decent retirement income!..;)

Hey, I never heard of Porlock, although I've heard of Turlock. I'm sensing an inside joke here...:D
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Yeah, well, when you live out in the middle of nowhere, some entertainment is nice.

Porlock is not an inside joke, rather it's an English literature joke, I guess; I'm the Anti-muse? (No one's caught on but someone here, when I mentioned "English literature", asked me if it was to do with Harry Potter. :) )
 
Watched free on Youtube this 2018 Canadian film originally named Clara that did not receive much notice after its release. It really is an excellent well directed lower budget film with well thought out dialogue. Highly recommended for any that posted in our recent long thread "Why do we believe in God?" that should leave any viewers on any side of that question with a good feeling.


Clara (IMDb synopsis, renamed Voyager)

Isaac Bruno is an astronomer consumed with searching the cosmos for evidence of life. When his obsession jeopardizes his career, he ignores a friend's advice to get his life back on track and instead delves deeper into his research - in part to escape from a tragedy in his past. After Isaac meets an artist named Clara, the two begin an unlikely collaboration sifting through mounds of newly released stellar data in the hopes of making a monumental discovery.

A good review with an interview with the director, here:

Clara Is a Story of Exoplanets, Existential Longing—and Real Science
 
Manhunter on Prime Video (1986)

I believe this was the first of the Hannibal Lecter movie franchise. It was okay... almost like a made-for-tv movie about a serial killer. Somehow it has an IMDB rating of 7.2. I'd give it about a 6.2.
 

What Was the Last Movie You Watched?​


Be patient, I've got the name of the film on the tip of my tongue..... oo 'eck, what was his name, the actor.... if you were to look at a clock, then you would say he had quarter to three feet... and he wore a bowler hat.... and he had a little moustache.... and he sometimes carried a brolly.... and he never talked, well nobody did in his films.... and he was known to boot folks up the rear end, but he had a nice smile.... now don't tell me his name, it will come to me before Christmas. 😊
 
My wife and I tried watching Doctor Sleep, which was the sequel to Stephen King's The Shining. It sucked. We turned it off after about 20 minutes.

The reason The Shining was so great wasn't so much the story but the characters — especially Jack, the Jack Nicholson character. But Shelly Duvall and the other characters were great, also. And it was directed by the late great Stanley Kubrick.

Doctor Sleep had none of that. We didn't care about any of the characters and some of them were just plain annoying. It was rated 7.3 on IMDB. The Shining has a rating of 8.4. It used to be that if a movie had an IMDB rating over 6.5, it was generally watchable. Anything over 7.0 was a good movie. I guess maybe 7.3 is the new 6.3.

What happened to IMDB that the ratings are so screwed up?
 
HermitHogan said:
My wife and I tried watching Doctor Sleep, which was the sequel to Stephen King's The Shining. It sucked. We turned it off after about 20 minutes.

The reason The Shining was so great wasn't so much the story but the characters — especially Jack, the Jack Nicholson character. But Shelly Duvall and the other characters were great, also. And it was directed by the late great Stanley Kubrick.

Doctor Sleep had none of that. We didn't care about any of the characters and some of them were just plain annoying. It was rated 7.3 on IMDB. The Shining has a rating of 8.4. It used to be that if a movie had an IMDB rating over 6.5, it was generally watchable. Anything over 7.0 was a good movie. I guess maybe 7.3 is the new 6.3.

What happened to IMDB that the ratings are so screwed up?
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Well, IMDB's ratings aren't too screwed up since in this case, it represents me and my huzz: we liked Doctor Sleep and hated The Shining, lol.
 
officerripley said:
Well, IMDB's ratings aren't too screwed up since in this case, it represents me and my huzz: we liked Doctor Sleep and hated The Shining, lol.
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You're lucky. I used to rely on IMDB ratings to some extent when I was looking for something to watch. Not so much any more, although I still look at them. I need to find a movie critic that shares my tastes. :)
 
HermitHogan said:
You're lucky. I used to rely on IMDB ratings to some extent when I was looking for something to watch. Not so much any more, although I still look at them. I need to find a movie critic that shares my tastes. :)
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I always suspect that those ratings are fiddled with. I could be wrong.

Contemporary critics are mostly skewed toward the artistic and woke. Rex Reed surprises me sometimes. Have you tried Michael Medved reviews?
 
ChiroDoc said:
I always suspect that those ratings are fiddled with. I could be wrong.

Contemporary critics are mostly skewed toward the artistic and woke. Rex Reed surprises me sometimes. Have you tried Michael Medved reviews?
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I remember Michael Medved from the '90s. I didn't know he was still doing reviews. You're right about movies being "woke." It seems like they have to have a bi-racial couple these days; it's required for some reason.
 
HermitHogan said:
I remember Michael Medved from the '90s. I didn't know he was still doing reviews. You're right about movies being "woke." It seems like they have to have a bi-racial couple these days; it's required for some reason.
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It's a reflection of the times, at least in Los Angeles where most American movies and TV shows are conceived, though not necessarily filmed.

In the 70s I knew very few biracial couples, these days nearly a third of the Millennials I know are in biracial relationships or marriages. Also gay and lesbian marriages in that same age group.

It's gratifying to know people are feeling free to openly love whomever it is they happen love. Movies tend to reflect the leading edges of societal changes, not create them.

p.s. My parents' marriage was considered "mixed" back in the early 1940s and there was plenty of pushback by pearl-clutching relatives. She was brought up Lutheran and married a Roman Catholic. Scandalous!!!
 
Last night I watched "Wit" starring the always excellent, Emma Thompson, who was truly superlative in this role. She depicts the journey of a highly educated English Lit professor (specializing in John Donne works) who is diagnosed with stage 4 ovarian cancer.

I borrowed the DVD from my library.
 
Billy Elliot. In 1984, while the miners' strike rages, Billy Elliot (Jamie Bell) is a young boy living in a small County Durham town, who discovers he has a talent for ballet, much to the chagrin of his widowed father Jackie (Gary Lewis), leaving him torn between his dreams and the only life he's ever known. The story was fictional, but there are still bitter memories of the miners' strike.
 
Capt Lightning said:
Billy Elliot. In 1984, while the miners' strike rages, Billy Elliot (Jamie Bell) is a young boy living in a small County Durham town, who discovers he has a talent for ballet, much to the chagrin of his widowed father Jackie (Gary Lewis), leaving him torn between his dreams and the only life he's ever known. The story was fictional, but there are still bitter memories of the miners' strike.
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I somehow missed seeing this movie, though I clearly recall the trailers. Will order it from the library. Thanks for the recommendation!
 

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