What Was the Last Movie You Watched?

IMG_7543.jpeg Katie Feldman (Julianne Hough) moves to a small town on the North Carolina coast, determined to make a new life for herself. She takes a job as a waitress and keeps a low profile, but she is soon won over by the warmth and caring of the close-knit community, especially that of widower Alex (Josh Duhamel). With the help of Alex and his children, Katie learns to love and trust again -- but when a mysterious stranger arrives and starts asking questions Katie's dark past is brought into question.
 

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This is funny but my son, who is 40, and his wife, came over for lunch yesterday and we watched Flight of the Navigator. This is an old Disney movie from 1986 and we had the VHS tape when my son was little.

His wife is from a foreign country and he likes to share all the movies from his childhood. And luckily, they had Spanish subtitles because she’s only been speaking English for less than 2 years.
 
"Viy" (1967) after a novella by Nikolai Gogol, allegedly the first Sovjet horror film.

The student Khoma is asked by the father of a dead girl, if he will stand vigil with her corpse in an open coffin and pray for her soul for the next three nights. If so, he'll receive great reward, but in case of refusal will be severely punished.

Khoma is taken to the chapel where the girl's corpse lies and is locked in for the night. He lights every candle in the chapel and begins to recite the prayers. He pauses to sniff tobacco, and when he sneezes, the girl opens her eyes and climbs out of the coffin. Khoma quickly draws a sacred circle of chalk around himself, which acts as a barrier. Hearing him but unable to see him, the girl persistently tries to get to him as he prays fervently. When the rooster crows in the morning, the girl returns to her coffin and all the candles blow out.

But there are still two remaining nights ...

Viy (1967 film) - Wikipedia

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062453/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_Viy

The movie is on YouTube in Russian language with English subtitles. I liked it very much.

 
"Gaslight" (GB 1940)

I am referring to the first movie from 1940 but not the U.S. remake four years later.

Gaslight (1940 film) - Wikipedia

1880s London. Louis Bauer (Anton Walbrook), who has murdered his aunt to steal her rubies didn't find them. The police could not catch him. Years later he had changed his name to Paul Mallen and married Bella (Diana Wynyard), a mental fragile women. With her he returns to the house to search for the rubies again. Every time Paul lights the gas lamps to search the closed-off upper floors, which causes the rest of the lamps in the house to dim slightly. When Bella comments on the lights' dimming, he tells her that she is imagining things. Bella is persuaded that she is hearing noises, unaware that Paul enters the upper floors from the house next door.

This is even part of a plan to drive Bella mad. But B. G. Rough (Frank Pettingell), a former detective involved in the original murder investigation, begins to suspect Paul of Alice Barlow's murder.

There is the original black and white movie on YouTube, but I like the colored version more, since in my opinion it provides a more sinister atmosphere.

 
Hidden Figures.
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Three brilliant African-American women at NASA -- Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson -- serve as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit, a stunning achievement that restored the nation's confidence, turned around the Space Race and galvanized the world.
 
The last movie I finished was 12 Disasters. Considering I'm not crazy about Ed Quinn, the star, I'm surprised I finished it so "quickly". It was pretty decent for a B movie; engaging enough for me to watch it in a couple of days.


The last movie I watched is one. I just started it tonight.

 
Arrival (2016) or The Arrival (1996)?

Very different films. One a huge budget long-winded sob story with weak science as furniture, the other a very low budget mild scifi thriller.
I count The Arrival (2016) among my top disappointing movies. I love Forest Whitaker and really like Jeremy Rennin, but even they couldn't save that movie IMO. I was so looking forward to seeing it; I'm glad I didn't pay to see it in the movie theater.
 
"Gaslight" (GB 1940)

I am referring to the first movie from 1940 but not the U.S. remake four years later.

Gaslight (1940 film) - Wikipedia

1880s London. Louis Bauer (Anton Walbrook), who has murdered his aunt to steal her rubies didn't find them. The police could not catch him. Years later he had changed his name to Paul Mallen and married Bella (Diana Wynyard), a mental fragile women. With her he returns to the house to search for the rubies again. Every time Paul lights the gas lamps to search the closed-off upper floors, which causes the rest of the lamps in the house to dim slightly. When Bella comments on the lights' dimming, he tells her that she is imagining things. Bella is persuaded that she is hearing noises, unaware that Paul enters the upper floors from the house next door.

This is even part of a plan to drive Bella mad. But B. G. Rough (Frank Pettingell), a former detective involved in the original murder investigation, begins to suspect Paul of Alice Barlow's murder.

There is the original black and white movie on YouTube, but I like the colored version more, since in my opinion it provides a more sinister atmosphere.

I loved the American remake, in black and white with Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman. Seen it many times. Didn't even know about this version.
 

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