What Was the Last Movie You Watched?

The Meg 2.

As you might already be guessing, it was awful. I mean, really awful. I love shark movies, but it's hard to find a good one in the "sea" ha, of bad ones. And this was a really, really bad one.
 

DHH said:
Yesterday I watched a noir called Moss Rose with Peggy Cummins, Victor Mature, and the great Ethel Barrymore.
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A fairly rare period noir. I'm a Peggy Cummins fan ever since seeing her great work in Gun Crazy (1950). These two may be the only noirs that she made.
 

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Question for you, ChiroDoc — What is your opinion of Lizabeth Scott as an actress and of her movies?

She’s not a favorite of mine. Her characters all seem whiny and annoying. Of course, if they’re supposed to be whiny and annoying, I guess that makes her a good actress.
 
"The Children's Train" starts in a poor southern Italian village at the very end of WW2 fighting, continues with kids sent for education & better nourishment into more prosperous and cooperative northern Italy. Lead character is a boy around 8-years old who has a talent for music. Interesting movie, gripping story (dialogue in English).
 
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DHH said:
Question for you, ChiroDoc — What is your opinion of Lizabeth Scott as an actress and of her movies?

She’s not a favorite of mine. Her characters all seem whiny and annoying. Of course, if they’re supposed to be whiny and annoying, I guess that makes her a good actress.
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Heh, heh. Lizabeth Scott was a lightweight actress, but her good looks sultry demeanor made United Artists and other studios use her as their version of Lauren Bacall.

Her best picture was probably Too Late for Tears (1949) where she played a nasty femme fatale. Generally speaking she was very wooden in her delivery, but she had an attractive voice with a slight lisp-- not dissimilar to June Allyson's. She had a rather short but famous film career.
 
Captain America: Civil War. It was better than expected but not as good as Captain America: Brave New World, which was the last in the franchise, but the first one I saw. Good cast though. Premise: The Avengers break as a team due to a disagreement on how to handle a case, with some siding with Iron Man/Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.) and others with Captain America/ Steve Rogers (Chris Evans), the Avengers leader. Lots of special effects and car chases (maybe too many) as well as killings and disaster scenes. After the first half, I fast forwarded through some of it because I was starting to get bored. Still, although I'll be viewing them out of sequence, it made me want to check out other installments in the franchise.

 
Paladin1950 said:
What a totally depressing movie. I have heard of this movie all of my life. The original 1956 version that is. I always knew what it was about, but I never saw it until today.
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My kids and I love this film. But you're right; it is depressing. What an unexpected ending, though!

This isn't a movie, but I something I watched at the local theater yesterday: The Met's production of La Bohème. The Met offers a series of their Live in HD productions that each season are broadcast in theaters around the world.

I was impressed because a father came in with three fairly young sons. I thought it was nice he was broadening their cultural horizons. That's not something people in this state often do. They were all well behaved, even the youngest, who couldn't have been more than 10. I'm not sure my own son, at that age, would have sat through a 3-hour opera so quietly.
 
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Medusa said:
The Meg 2.

As you might already be guessing, it was awful. I mean, really awful. I love shark movies, but it's hard to find a good one in the "sea" ha, of bad ones. And this was a really, really bad one.
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@Medusa, my older daughter and I adore shark movies, even the bad ones. One holiday favorite of ours is Santa Jaws, which was surprisingly good—or, should I say, not as bad as we expected. (Our expectations were pretty low.)

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On a more serious note, I thought The Requin was pretty good—I'm not sure if you've seen that one. It got terrible reviews, but I thought it was all right.
 
ChiroDoc said:
I'm looking forward to seeing the final Downton Abbey, although it'll be strange without some of the earlier actors-- especially the great Maggie Smith.
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I want to see it too Doc, but I won't pay to see it. One of my streaming services will eventually show it for free. I'm hoping they at least add some flashback scenes with Maggie Smith. I loved her in the series.
 

In a dystopian, overpopulated, and polluted New York City in the year 2022, Detective Robert Thorn investigates the murder of a wealthy executive. His investigation leads him to uncover the horrifying secret ingredient of the government-rationed food source, Soylent Green, revealing that it is made from human remains.free 7.0
 
KSav said:
@Medusa, my older daughter and I adore shark movies, even the bad ones. One holiday favorite of ours is Santa Jaws, which was surprisingly good—or, should I say, not as bad as we expected. (Our expectations were pretty low.)

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On a more serious note, I thought The Requin was pretty good—I'm not sure if you've seen that one. It got terrible reviews, but I thought it was all right.
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Thank you for the recommendations. I put Santa Jaws on my Prime watch list and, The Requin is available with a free trial of Moviesphere so I might catch that one at some point. :)

I'm guessing you've seen, 47 Feet Down and Open Water?
 

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