What Was the Last Movie You Watched?

I watched 'Violent Night'. It's like Santa playing John Wick, with reindeer. It started out with Santa taking a break in a dive bar while on his Christmas Eve rounds. It was fun!
 

Talio said:
Living solo I watch dozens of movies monthly. This happens to be my Kathy Bates week so here goes. These are the first three.

Misery next.

Take care.
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Bates is a helluva actress, with a wide range. If you've had a chance to catch her in the "Matlock" series, it's interesting to see her new look after shedding a big amount of weight. Didn't hurt her acting a bit...;)
 
Well, we got tired of the repetitive Christmas songs played on the radio, so we put on Die Hard (1988) while we were opening gifts. But when the gifts were finished we went ahead and watched the flick to it's conclusion for the umpteenth time. Still enjoyable despite the early frequent use of dirty language.

Then with nothing else planned we watched Home Alone (1990). Still funny. So, together with The Bishop's Wife (1947) on Christmas eve, we took a chunk outta the Xmas movie repertoire, which will hold me until next year!
 
The Hunger Games. I own all four of the set, and haven't watched it for a few years. It's still an excellent story, but I lost interest after watching the three sequels, each one of which is less interesting than the last, and the fourth is so absurd that it ruined the series for me. Actually the story is complete IMO after the first movie, and there really isn't much more to say after that. The sequels, as well as the last of the books, do nothing but milk a dead horse for more revenue. But the first movie has still aged very well. I'm already looking forward to watching it again, but I won't bother with the sequels.
 
I was always a fan of Mary Ann's, proving for all us brunettes that you didn't have to be a blonde to be pretty.

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Six Triple Eight; Netflix orig.; 2024; true story starring Kerry Washington, Ebony Obsidian; 2 hr., 7 min; excellent, great acting from everyone especially Ms. Washington as Major Charity Adams, she was amazing, couldn't take my eyes off her.
 
This evening on this slow day after Christmas while lacking any productive motivations, I searched free movie listings on YouTube for something to be amused by and after about a half hour ready to give up, came upon a 1995 biblical TV miniseries I'd never seen nor was aware of probably because it was shown then on TNT while I had by that time already stopped cable TV subscriptions.


The miniseries name is Joseph and had a cast of top actors with a 185 minute length. It was also a Bible story my mother had read to me as a child that I absorbed into my core moral being. As a young adult I did re-read it at least a couple times even then grasping its great moral depth.

Joseph (1995 film) - Wikipedia

This miniseries is easily my all time favorite Bible movie now I've yet seen, superbly written, directed, and acted. It keeps close to scripture with understandable fill. More than any Biblical movie one might view, it especially reflects a deep depth of forgiveness God/Jesus teaches for those that have been gravely wronged by relative others that otherwise results in vengeance.

Its incredible Old Testament scripture worthy of coming from a god, is herein made into an incredible movie that speaks to godly guidance itself delivering such an important moral lesson. Just loved it and recommend it highly to all those with a loving human heart.
 
We went out to the theater to see A Complete Unknown this evening and I must say, I thoroughly enjoyed this movie... mainly because it brought be back to a time when the world was much simpler and innocent. I remember folk festivals during the '70s, and even saw one where Pete Seeger performed in a waterfront park after landing his sloop on the shore of the Hudson. So, in a way, it allowed me to experience something like that again. Sure, there are videos of many of those festivals, but you don't get the full experience of being there, which you do get in this movie.

It's much easier to get fully immersed in a movie when you watch it in on the big screen of a theater, and that's what happened. It took place at a time when young people didn't trust anyone over 30 and had no respect for authority. Looking back, it's funny, and there were several funny parts in the movie... to me, anyway. I didn't hear other people in the theater laughing.

I was thinking the movie was maybe 1-1/2 hours. I just checked and it was 2 hours and 21 minutes. The time flew by, and that's the sign of a good movie!

I don't think I'll ever watch it again, but I am going to read the book that it was based on.
 

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