What Was the Last Movie You Watched?

Pamela, A Love Story (2023)

I'd been looking forward to this documentary on the basis of how impressed I was with The Last Showgirl (2024) in general and Anderson in specific. Unfortunately before watching, it dawned on me that the documentary was made before "Showgirl", so there wouldn't be any references to it.

The documentary was pretty well made by Ryan White, but it could have been trimmed by 15-20 minutes with no ill effect.

Anderson is fascinating enough, and she certainly has had a checkered past, but after awhile her narcissism started wearing thin, to the point that I fast-forwarded a few times.

If you're a fan of hers then you'll enjoy it. I think that women would find it more compelling than would men.

I believe it's on Netflix.
 

@seadoug Yes but that's how it is for aging actresses. Either they get no parts or they have to play cliches like brooding sex=starved older woman. I loved Big Little Lies and liked The Perfect Couple. Didn't see the Undoing. My point is, don't blame the actress, blame the system.
 
Marcy Sheiner said:
@seadoug Yes but that's how it is for aging actresses. Either they get no parts or they have to play cliches like brooding sex=starved older woman. I loved Big Little Lies and liked The Perfect Couple. Didn't see the Undoing. My point is, don't blame the actress, blame the system.
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True that. Nicole Kidman seems to be a victim of stereotyping. Just glad she is still acting.
 
The Big Lebowski. I finally watched it after several failed attempts to get through it over the years. It's not a bad movie, but I can't understand why it keeps showing up on lists of "Widely acclaimed must see films." That's the only reason I watched it in the first place.
 
JustDave said:
The Big Lebowski. I finally watched it after several failed attempts to get through it over the years. It's not a bad movie, but I can't understand why it keeps showing up on lists of "Widely acclaimed must see films." That's the only reason I watched it in the first place.
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Same here; I finally watched it a few months back and think the same way you do about it.
 
JustDave said:
The Big Lebowski. I finally watched it after several failed attempts to get through it over the years. It's not a bad movie, but I can't understand why it keeps showing up on lists of "Widely acclaimed must see films." That's the only reason I watched it in the first place.
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They used a song --"Your Eyes Are a Blue Million Miles"-- recorded by a band I was in. It plays right about the time early in the film where "The Dude" mixes his first White Russian cocktail. Happily I still get a little check every year...;)
 
Not the last movie but the last scene from a movie...

"I've noticed that a lot of films these days don't have the dialogue that films from classic Hollywood had. The dialogue just has so much more strength and thought, every line has a purpose and is beautifully written. It has character. Not to mention not one swear word in sight"​

-- from the comments below the video.

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Sabrina- Humphrey Bogart & Audrey Hepburn​


 
Sinners
Rated by RT at 98 and 96 by critics and audience

I don't know if it's worth that, but I can't stop thinking about it. It is "surreal" and I don't use that word lightly. If Salvador Dali were a director, this is the movie he would make. I had to go to the internet and find a review with spoilers to explain the movie. I the review confirmed what I guessed. It passed no judgement, but just explained.

Part of it drags a bit, and part of it seems like a story that has interesting merit, and it goes in that direction for 54 minutes, where a five minute scene blows my mind. I watched that scene three times. A blues man begins a low key blues song while people dance. He accompanies himself on an acoustic guitar, because the year is 1932 and the joint has no electricity. Slowly it turns into the equivalent of a dream and becomes a perplexing but visual force. I don't think I've seen anything like it film before.
 
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JustDave said:
Sinners
Rated by RT at 98 and 96 by critics and audience

I don't know if it's worth that, but I can't stop thinking about it. It is "surreal" and I don't use that word lightly. If Salvador Dali were a director, this is the movie he would make. I had to go to the internet and find a review with spoilers to explain the movie. I the review confirmed what I guessed. It passed no judgement, but just explained.

Part of it drags a bit, and part of it seems like a story that has interesting merit, and it goes in that direction for 54 minutes, where a five minute scene blows my mind. I watched that scene three times. A blues man begins a low key blues song while people dance. He accompanies himself on an acoustic guitar, because the year is 1932 and the joint has no electricity. Slowly it turns into the equivalent of a dream and becomes a perplexing but visual force. I don't think I've seen anything like it film before.
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The music in it was so phenomenal.
 
JustDave said:
Sinners
Rated by RT at 98 and 96 by critics and audience

I don't know if it's worth that, but I can't stop thinking about it. It is "surreal" and I don't use that word lightly. If Salvador Dali were a director, this is the movie he would make. I had to go to the internet and find a review with spoilers to explain the movie. I the review confirmed what I guessed. It passed no judgement, but just explained.

Part of it drags a bit, and part of it seems like a story that has interesting merit, and it goes in that direction for 54 minutes, where a five minute scene blows my mind. I watched that scene three times. A blues man begins a low key blues song while people dance. He accompanies himself on an acoustic guitar, because the year is 1932 and the joint has no electricity. Slowly it turns into the equivalent of a dream and becomes a perplexing but visual force. I don't think I've seen anything like it film before.
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I saw this in theater with 2 friends. After, we went out to dinner and to rehash the film. I said I could've done without the vampire stuff, and one of my friends said, Well it's about racism, it's all horrible...(we are all white). I think that basically that was what the movie was about. If you are black, it's all so horrible.

What did you discover in your research?
 
Marcy Sheiner said:
I saw this in theater with 2 friends. After, we went out to dinner and to rehash the film. I said I could've done without the vampire stuff, and one of my friends said, Well it's about racism, it's all horrible...(we are all white). I think that basically that was what the movie was about. If you are black, it's all so horrible.

What did you discover in your research?
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It wasn't deep research. In 1932 the KKK was at the height of it's power in the deep south, but I don't think that was meant to be the central theme. There was too much going on to claim the whole point of the film was just one thing. And what I read (just one article, not hard research) didn't attempt to point out some central meaning.

I wondered if it was a fictionalized story about some early blues man I didn't know. The credits at the end implied he was still entertaining in 1992 some place in Chicago that I'm not familiar with either. He would have been in his 80s. I think the point of the film was just implausible fiction. I still don't know what I think about it. It's just something that makes me wonder. I'll give it credit for that.
 

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