What Was the Last Movie You Watched?

I'm thumbing through these pages, looking for a movie to watch, I see something interesting and our member reviewer gives the ending. With no spoiler alert. Now, why should I watch? But who's complaining? Not me.
 

I watched Guess Whose Coming to Dinner with the gorgeous , handsome , Sidney Poitier.

Apart from the very good speech Spencer Tracy makes at the end I found it very boring
and everything was jut too tidy ,too perfect , if you know what I mean.

It was a movie we all had to see in its time and got rave reviews but for me now , well, I thought the acting was terrible.
 

Pepper said:
I'm thumbing through these pages, looking for a movie to watch, I see something interesting and our member reviewer gives the ending. With no spoiler alert. Now, why should I watch? But who's complaining? Not me.
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It bugs me when people give spoilers for books or movies. Even something as simple as "and then there's the surprising twist at the end."

Gee, thanks (not) for the head's up.

I think they don't realize that their fervor for providing full reviews ends up ruining the experience for someone else.
 
Left Behind. It kept me engaged. I watched it on the Roku channel. Here's the full movie which I didn't realize that YT has until I went looking for the trailer. People on the planet including on an airplane just suddenly disappear. Religious theme woven throughout.

 
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
Was not sure I would watch this one. After a few minutes I noticed I was slightly engrossed (is that an oxymoron) and continued to watch this film set in Shropshire in 1657.
I found it a film about resilience of a down trodden, suppressed wife of a puritanical husband. Go Fanny Lye.
 
Seeking a Friend for The End of The World

Steve Carell and Keira Knightley...surprisingly good movie.

I was never a fan of Carell but he is really good in this role.
Not my usual choice of movie but was looking for something different and this one did the trick...
 
Mizmo said:
Seeking a Friend for The End of The World

Steve Carell and Keira Knightley...surprisingly good movie.

I was never a fan of Carell but he is really good in this role.
Not my usual choice of movie but was looking for something different and this one did the trick...
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Where can this be seen Mizmo?
 
Mizmo said:
Seeking a Friend for The End of The World

Steve Carell and Keira Knightley...surprisingly good movie.

I was never a fan of Carell but he is really good in this role.
Not my usual choice of movie but was looking for something different and this one did the trick...
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I also quite liked this movie and agree fully about Carell. Could absolutely see the basic plot's scenario playing out in the way the movie depicts.
 
Creature Features is a hosted horror movie program which posts its programs on YouTube for all to see.

Here we have 1972's The Night Stalker in its entirety:


Many episodes have a guest interview, usually somebody from the horror film industry.
 
The Blob (1958). I think this was the third time I saw it. The casting, directing and acting all could have been better but I still thoroughly enjoyed this movie. Steve McQueen was 28 when he played a teenager. IMO no way could he pass for a teenager!

 
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OneEyedDiva said:
The Blob (1958). I think this was the third time I saw it. The casting, directing and acting all could have been better but I still thoroughly enjoyed this movie. Steve McQueen was 28 when he played a teenager. IMO no way could he pass for a teenager!
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I love this movie, and find it superior to the remake. The kooky opening song and graphics, this whole "teens roaming the night" vibe of so many 1950s drive-in flicks, the old man, the cops, the doctor, and of course the Blob itself.
 
dilettante said:
I love this movie, and find it superior to the remake. The kooky opening song and graphics, this whole "teens roaming the night" vibe of so many 1950s drive-in flicks, the old man, the cops, the doctor, and of course the Blob itself.
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I like that song too. I don't remember or didn't know there was a remake. My son told me after I finished watching the movie. I'd like to see the remake though because Joe Seneca is in it and I've always liked him and love the character in his face. In fact, I drew a charcoal picture of him that I can't find now. I do want to find it though because my son mentioned that Joe something with a white mustache and beard was in the movie. I knew immediately who he was talking about. May he R.I.P. Anyway...I digress. I tried to find the remake on free platforms but it seems to be only for rent or for sale right now.

@DaveA Glad you enjoyed it too. :D
 
I saw LIFE on Netflix, a suspenseful science fiction film in which a team of astronauts bring back into their orbiting station a Martian soil sample that contains microbial life. Exciting discovery, right? Exciting, yes, but good, no! The life form which appears mollusk-like grows, and begins attacking the astronauts, invading them bodily and in some way feeding off them. It seems like this life form had killed off all life on Mars, then went dormant in the soil. If it makes it to Earth, it will do a repeat performance. Astronauts die, often gruesomely, in the increasingly desperate battle against the malignant alien life form. A good movie for science fiction aficionados…

 
OneEyedDiva said:
The Blob (1958). I think this was the third time I saw it. The casting, directing and acting all could have been better but I still thoroughly enjoyed this movie. Steve McQueen was 28 when he played a teenager. IMO no way could he pass for a teenager!

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Music, teenagers, & a monster. Perfect movie for a drive-in on a Friday or Saturday. I saw it in Florida as a kid with my family. Drive-in theaters usually had 4 movies on Friday and Saturday. When I saw The Blob, it was with The Bat (a Vincent Price movie), The Spider (aka Earth Vs The Spider), and The Fly (another Vincent Price movie).
 
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I watched the last half of “The Big Short”. Movie about the 2007-2008 intentionally planned real estate meltdown.

It made me angry all over again at how many evil people get into power in our government and at Wall Street, and made me wonder once again, WHY the &*^% do we give billions and billions of dollars to the drunk-as-skunks banks, but we surely cannot build affordable housing so 2007-08 never happens again?

WHY? In my opinion, it’s still because so many evil people get into power in America. And the few good people in gov’t. listen to them because they fear them.

In other words, they “obey” the bad people for the same reason an abused wife will obey her abusive spouse - because she is afraid of him.
 

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