What Was the Last Movie You Watched?

OldFeller said:
I think I might have seen it before because I knew the "Love Means Never Having To Say You're Sorry" line at the end.

Do you think they had enough chase scene cliches?

I'm trying to remember another movie I saw that had a duffle bag mix up. Wait....Sylvester Stallone, Oscar.

This What's Up Doc movie made me laugh at some parts and Barbara Streisand was lovable but the whole second half was painful to sit through.

I'm suing IMDB for the false 7.6 rating it gave this. I would have given it 6.5 or less.
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[chuckle] Well, those chase scenes weren't cliche in 1972. The scenes with the characters going in and out of hotel room doors was very clever. And I roared during the lost cart careening down the hill through a Chinese parade, and missing an enormous pain of glass across the road [you know what happens]. A guy runs away from the unleashed barrels, jumps over a wall, only to land on a patron's restaurant table had me gasping from laughter.

I'm not even a Steisand fan, but she was first rate in this one.

Screwball comedies are very difficult to pull off. I can't think of a good one in the past 50 years, although there may be 1 or 2 that I'm not recalling.
 
ChiroDoc said:
[chuckle] Well, those chase scenes weren't cliche in 1972. The scenes with the characters going in and out of hotel room doors was very clever. And I roared during the lost cart careening down the hill through a Chinese parade, and missing an enormous pain of glass across the road [you know what happens]. A guy runs away from the unleashed barrels, jumps over a wall, only to land on a patron's restaurant table had me gasping from laughter.

I'm not even a Steisand fan, but she was first rate in this one.

Screwball comedies are very difficult to pull off. I can't think of a good one in the past 50 years, although there may be 1 or 2 that I'm not recalling.
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This film seems like they didn't have enough money to do it right. The script was all over the place without any coherency. That courtroom scene could have been left on the cutting room floor. But with all its bloated scenes, it still was only an hour and a half.
I was glad to watch it because the early scenes were hilarious and showing some real promise. It just looks like they had no script after a certain point in the movie and had to extend action without dialogue.
 
ChiroDoc said:
[chuckle] Well, those chase scenes weren't cliche in 1972. The scenes with the characters going in and out of hotel room doors was very clever. And I roared during the lost cart careening down the hill through a Chinese parade, and missing an enormous pain of glass across the road [you know what happens]. A guy runs away from the unleashed barrels, jumps over a wall, only to land on a patron's restaurant table had me gasping from laughter.

I'm not even a Steisand fan, but she was first rate in this one.

Screwball comedies are very difficult to pull off. I can't think of a good one in the past 50 years, although there may be 1 or 2 that I'm not recalling.
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@ChiroDoc Don't forget the court room scene at the end-- the cherry on top! LOLOL

Edit--ah I see where @OldFeller panned the court room scene... oh well...
 
I watched The Sting tonight. I noticed it was offered for free on the official YouTube Movie section and since I haven't watched it in a very long time I decided to watch it. I enjoyed watching it just as much as when I last watched it years ago :). I know that Redford and Newman got all the publicity for the movie but on this watch I noticed how great Eileen Brennan was in her role. I'm glad I took the nostalgic trip tonight.


On a side note, YouTube is offering a good selection of movies for free this month. Just hit the Movie and TV tab on the left and then select the Free Movies that are offered. If you don't hit the free tab, you will see many movies that are offered on other streaming services and will have to sub to the service to watch the movie, much like Prime does when going through what is offered on that interface. I'm a Premium YouTube member so there were no commercials when I watched the movie but I am assuming there are for non Premium members.
 
Watched the 1993 BBC screenplay of "The Countess Alice" with Wendy Hiller and Zoe Wanamaker. Some of the writing (letters, tombstones) was hard to make out b/c of the very soft/blurry 90's photography and I didn't catch the drift of the mystery at first. But a subtle, well-acted movie.
 
I watched the remake of Dune the other night. I was impressed by the use of cgi that blended in so well with the action, and indeed there was a lot of action in the film. In fact there was more action than story in this version. In the original film they stuck very close to the book, and there was quite a lot of the darkness of the Harkonnen family and their propensity for nasty stuff. That seemed to be missing almost entirely from the remake.

For instance, there was no fight between Paul Atreides and Fayed (played by Sting), and very little of the story line about Dr Yueh. Furthermore, I thought the Bene Gesserit witches in the original were far more menacing than those shown in the remake. Also, we never see the Emperor in the remake, whereas in the original there was a scene in which the spacers guild turn up at his court and tell him that if he doesn't follow their orders he'll spend the rest of his life in a pain amplifier. :eek:

So the remake is long on fight scenes and short on the deception and intrigue of the original. Furthermore, the remake ends just as Paul meets Chani, whereas in the original their romance is shown, along with how Paul gets the name Muah'dib, and then goes on to teach the Fremen how to use the weirding weapons that kill by calling his name.

All of that is missing, despite it being quite a long film, but I think the idea was that it would be shown in a sequel, which to my limited knowledge doesn't yet exist, or if it does, I've not seen or heard about it.
 
Coconut said:
I also watched "Remarkably Bright Creatures". I love Sally Fields.

I do not want to ruin the movie by saying too much.
I enjoyed it, Marcellus was great!
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My book group read the book last month and all fifteen gave it five stars, even the ones who usually hate everything.
RambleTamble said:
My wife wanted me to watch The Apartment, so I sat down and watched the first half and that was all I could handle, so I went and took a nap while she watched the rest of it. What a godawful movie. I give it a 1 out of 10.
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My Classic Movie group loves that movie. I agree with you. So depressing. For one thing, I think anything made past 1950 is too modern to be "classic."
 
I watched "The Mystery of Richard Simmons" : A Diane Sawyer Special 45 mins.
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Either you liked Richard Simmons, or you did not.
Just posting what I watched.
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Richard Simmons was born on 12 July 1948 in New Orleans,Louisiana.
He was an actor and producer,known for What Women Want (2000),General Hospital(1963) and CHiPs(1977).
He died on 13 July 2024 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Sample:
Richard SImmons 'Party Off The Pounds!' 1.52 mins
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Since I haven't been to the movies forever and I don't get Direct TV, when I do watch movies, it's usually an older movie on Roku. The last movie(s) I saw was Secondhand Lions with Robert Duvall and Michael Cane and A Family Thing with Robert Duvall and James Earl Jones. If you can't tell, Robert Duvall is one of my favorite actors.
 
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