What Was the Last Movie You Watched?

Chloe on Netflix. Starring Julianne Moore and Liam Neilson. This movie is certainly different than what I am used to watching. There are some surprises in it. It's about a jealous wife who decides to tempt her husband to see if he will cheat on her.
 

Bed and Breakfast

The story is undeniably slight, but diverting all the same. It tells of a con man (Moore) who is washed ashore - bruised and beaten after being thrown off a gangster's yacht - on a beach in Maine. The nearest building is a ramshackle bed and breakfast hotel run by three generations of women, all from the same family and all constantly bickering about their (unimpressive) lot in life. Moore talks his way into their lives and awakens long repressed sexuality in all three of them. Then, predictably, the gangsters he was involved with earlier turn up and threaten his ruse....

The gangster subplot is quite hokey and does little to increase the interest of the picture. The film would have been enjoyable enough without it. However, the inter-relationship between Moore and the three isolated, frustrated women makes for intriguing and occasionally heart warming viewing, and gives all the actors the chance to deliver some excellent dialogue. The background photography, capturing the lovely Maine seascapes, is a treat throughout.

Bed and Breakfast is a film that everyone should see. No classic, true enough, but definitely one of Moore's best films and a totally harmless and civilised way to while away a lazy afternoon.

 
I found Don Juan DeMarco with no case slipped down between some other cd's in the cabinet and could not remember ever seeing it. I enjoyed watching it and still have no memory of seeing it before. The song, Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman, was in this movie and now I can't get it out of my head. 😄
 
On Netflix --Turning Point. Very good movie. About 2 guys who meet under strange circumstances and become good friends. They learn from each other.
 
Sin City..A Dame to Kill For.. (2014)..a large cast. Micky Rourke,
Probably Bruce Willis' last film
It was interesting..as the photography was as if in comic book form.
Mostly black and white..but some touches of vibrant color (s)

I wondrred how it was filmed that way.

There were a few of them...anyone else see?
 
It was billed as a two part T.V. movie. I caught my eye on one of my streaming services because I am a disaster movie fan. I don't know how scientifically accurate it is and don't care because it held my interest and made me (who breaks movie watching into parts) want to get right back to it when I sat in front of the TV again. There was a lot going on. The cast was another draw. Ernie Hudson, Stacy Keach and Christopher Lloyd. Here is the entire movie.



@PeppermintPatty I started Avatar: The Way Of Water a few days ago, but haven't gotten back to it yet. I probably will during the coming week.
 
Jace said:
Sin City..A Dame to Kill For.. (2014)..a large cast. Micky Rourke,
Probably Bruce Willis' last film
It was interesting..as the photography was as if in comic book form.
Mostly black and white..but some touches of vibrant color (s)

I wondrred how it was filmed that way.

There were a few of them...anyone else see?
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Yes! It was taken from the graphic novel series "Sin City', written by Frank Miller. The film was directed by Frank Miller and Robert Rodriquez and has an all-star cast. It's a sequel to "Sin City". If you liked "A Dame To Kill For" definitely see "Sin City". I'm a huge Robert Rodriquez fan. He's a rebel!

How it was filmed is complicated. This article explains it.

The Man Who Shot Sin City > https://www.wired.com/2005/04/sincity/

An excerpt from the article -

"Rodriguez says, "I was looking for a good effects challenge." That’s what led him to Miller’s Sin City. The series takes readers on an eye-popping tour of an underworld packed with tough cops, femme fatales, and seedy lowlifes. "The stories were great," he says, "but what grabbed you was the look." Miller’s black-and-white chiaroscuro style reflects an artist raised on pulp fiction and old crime movies. Every scene takes place at night or in some back alley.

Frank Miller’s noir makes Raymond Chandler look almost Techni-color. There are absolutely no midtones in the graphic novels, a trait that makes them especially problematic to portray on celluloid. "This movie wouldn’t even be possible if I shot it on film," Rodriguez says, explaining how difficult it is to capture pure black and white on camera. His workaround: Shoot the actors against a green screen and add most of the backgrounds digitally in postproduction ("All of the guns and cars are real," Miller points out). Even small details like Sin City’s signature "white blood" proved to be an effects challenge. Regular movie blood didn’t cut it. Instead, the crew used fluorescent red liquid and hit it with a black light. This allowed Rodriguez to turn the blood "white" in postproduction. Likewise, the novel’s few splashes of color proved troublesome. Yellow and green react with green screens, causing color to spill into the background and making them impossible to separate. So during shooting Rodriguez painted the villain, Yellow Bastard, blue - and then colored him yellow in post."
 
The Dinner... (2017)..Richard Gere
Horrible..
Story??
Glad I didn't pay money to see it!
 
On Sacred Ground
Based on the true events during the 2016 construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline that runs through Standing Rock on the land that is owned by the Lakota Sioux Tribe.

This movie is about a journalist and an oil company executive who find themselves on opposite sides during the construction of the contentious Dakota Access Pipeline running through the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota and what transpires.

It’s horrible how these Indians were treated.
Pipeline workers signed treaties they didn’t abide by, raped and tortured Indian women and killed needlessly.

A tough movie to watch but worth it to discover the truth that goes on and is covered up.
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