What Was the Last Movie You Watched?

@Medusa, you are so right. I need to be reminded sometimes. But how do you know I did anything fabulous? (actually, I did, in the journalism field...but when I was younger my goal was to be a best seller,ling popular fiction author.)
 

Just saw Bicycle Thieves. I saw it years ago but today I read an obit for Enzo Staiola, the kid who played Bruno, the son, and wanted to see it again. A great movie. The end is so devastating.
 
I watched Joker 2. Boy, did that bomb, especially after Joker 1, which may have been DC Comics greatest movie ever. I knew it didn't get great reviews, but I had to see the sequel. I looked it up again after watching it, and the reviews were worse than I remembered. DC is an odd outfit. They can make a good movie and then follow up without seeming to have learned anything about how to make a movie.
 
Meringue said:
The Blue Lagoon (1980) about 2 children marooned on a tropical island, starring Brooke Shields
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I kind of like the director, Wes Anderson. He's not always on the mark, but he made a great film called Moonrise Kingdom, which could almost be a satire of Blue Lagoon, which I don't think I've seen. But Moonrise got me to become a fan of Wes Anderson. But I don't think his other films have risen to that level.
 
JustDave said:
I watched Joker 2. Boy, did that bomb, especially after Joker 1, which may have been DC Comics greatest movie ever. I knew it didn't get great reviews, but I had to see the sequel. I looked it up again after watching it, and the reviews were worse than I remembered. DC is an odd outfit. They can make a good movie and then follow up without seeming to have learned anything about how to make a movie.
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Totally agree. I loved, Joker, but Joker Part II was absolutely awful. So bad.
 
New streaming service watched docs, The war on Okinawa, The battle of Little Big Horn & The Real Myth of Pocahontas & John Smith. Now I know the real truth. Did watch 'White Fang' on Disney+.
 
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I just watched Mikey and Nicky on MAX. Elaine May wrote and directed. Not her best work ever, but it was interesting.
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I've had that picture on my watch list for years, but never have gotten around to it. I can talk Peter Falk only in small doses, but I'd like to see it for May's screenplay and direction.

As a general rule I don't think people should direct their own screenplays, because they oftentimes don't have enough distance from them. But there are a bunch of exceptions.
 
The Shrouds (2025).

A David Cronenberg movie, as only he could have made it. A reaction to the death of his wife in 2017, this is the story of the merger of technology and death in networked graveyards where one can watch, in real time, as your loved ones decay. (It's a Cronenberg movie, so if that sounds morbid to you, it probably is, but it's all part of his oeuvre and isn't the most shocking thing he's done).

I loved it. Yes, it's an odd film. Yes there are a couple parts I'd change, but that's easy to say from my armchair. Plus, frankly, I just love this guys work no matter what he's doing.
 
Affair In Trinidad 1952
Glenn Ford
Rita Hayworth

What I found interesting about the film was that it involved a plot to create missiles that could be located in the Carribean to threaten the United States. 10 years later we had the Cuban missile crisis.
 

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