What Was the Last Movie You Watched?

Good one for scary season. Not too scary or gory. Spiders but not another comedy. Kelsey Grammer.

Nest (2018). Watched it on the Roku Channel but it's also on Tubi and Pluto TV and others.

A.k.a. "7 Guardians of the Tomb"

 

The Beyond (2018).

Science fiction. Near-future space travel. Mysterious alien contact. Mostly about transhumanism though, i.e. human brains placed into cyborg bodies.

Not horror, more drama. Not a high budget, not a blockbuster, but better than B grade.

Prime Video, The Roku Channel, Tubi, others.
 
Last night viewed 2 free sci-fi YouTube movies I missed after original releases.

First was Solar Crisis a $43M budget 1990 movie about trying to save the Earth from a Sun solar flare by exploding an antimatter bomb inside. Many scenes, not science believable, annoying dialogue, and inside ship failure nonsense, plus useless sub-plot with Heston's teen grandson kid that acted like a 7 year old. IMO not worth watching.

Solar Crisis - Wikipedia

Second was the Spielburg 2011 $160M budget Cowboys & Aliens, a science fiction Western action thriller film directed by Jon Favreau and starring Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde. One of the most divisive Rotten Tomatoes movies ever, split between those that were reasonably entertained popcorn style versus those that most enjoyed practicing their film criticism skills because the complex plot would have better been served by say a 2 movie set. IMO worth watching.

Cowboys & Aliens - Wikipedia
 
JustDave said:
Last Stop in Yuma County was a bit better than average, I thought.
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I was very impressed with that picture! Unfortunately writer/director Francis Galluppi could not get a top distributor, so it made very little dough. But it was an innovative and quirky story. No stars, just good writing, dialogue and acting. Very enjoyable if you can find it anywhere.
 
ChiroDoc said:
I was very impressed with that picture! Unfortunately writer/director Francis Galluppi could not get a top distributor, so it made very little dough. But it was an innovative and quirky story. No stars, just good writing, dialogue and acting. Very enjoyable if you can find it anywhere.
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I agree. I like stories that have something unique about them. I probably underplayed my enthusiasm because the violence might be offensive to some. However, the blood shed was carried to such an absurd extreme that it might qualify as dark humor.
 
In the Name of the Father on Prime Video.

Excellent movie about a young man and his father, and several others who get convicted of an act of terrorism they didn't commit.

There's also a documentary about the main character called In the Name of Gerry Conlon that I found on Kanopy.
 
I finally seen this movie in its entirety. The controversial silent movie from 1915. As I was watching it, I was totally amazed at the thought that people were watching this movie in theaters 109 year ago! There were plenty of black actors in the movie, but all of the main black characters were played by white actors and actresses, in black face. It was so very obvious just watching the movie.
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The one bright spot for me was an actress that I have never heard of Miriam Cooper. If I was a theater goer back then, I think I would have gone to see all of her films.:love:

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Paladin1950 said:
I finally seen this movie in its entirety. The controversial silent movie from 1915. As I was watching it, I was totally amazed at the thought that people were watching this movie in theaters 109 year ago! There were plenty of black actors in the movie, but all of the main black characters were played by white actors and actresses, in black face. It was so very obvious just watching the movie.
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The one bright spot for me was an actress that I have never heard of Miriam Cooper. If I was a theater goer back then, I think I would have gone to see all of her films.:love:
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This was probably the first great American film, and the longest to date-- with an intermission! D.W. Griffith was a genius film maker for his day, and he innovated many technical achievements that are still in modern use: an orchestral score; close ups; fadeouts; and a huge battle scene.

It's a shame that much of the subject matter of the film causes many today to dismiss this great film production. He followed it up in 1916 with another great one: Intolerance.
 
I just watched The Lunar Rover: Apollo's Final Challenge on Prime Video.

It's about how the Lunar Rover was developed and deployed.

I got to see one of the Lunar Rovers — probably a prototype — when I went to the Air and Space Museum in Virginia a couple weeks ago when we took a vacation to D.C. I never knew how it was stored in the Lunar Module and some other tidbits of information that should be interesting to anyone who is interested in the Apollo space program.
 
The Beekeeper. My oldest grandson kept telling me to watch. It was already on my Prime watchlist, so I finally did. I even finished it within 24 hours. I liked the premise of making scammers pay for draining people of their assets although he went a bit too far. What I didn't like is what seems to be trending these days...overuse of the F and MF words. Jason Stratham is eye candy, liked his accent and the kick a*s action, albeit belief has to be suspended during many scenes, as with other action films. I'll definitely be checking out more of his movies though.

 
dilettante said:
I'd seen this previously and I don't like to just repeat movies rather than explore new ones, but I really liked this one when it was new.

Battle: Los Angeles (2011)


I sought it out tonight, didn't find it anywhere free with ads, but I had media credit with Amazon so I rented it on Prime Video in HD for 59 cents. It didn't disappoint. I think other streaming sites had it for about the same price (YouTube, Fandango, Google Play) and SlingTV Premium has it for no additional charge.

Alien invasion battle movie, but a localized close up and personal view by a team of Marines on the ground engaged in urban rescue of a group of civilians.

Not campy like Independence Day. Gritty military action but not gory.
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I saw that one and this one. Did you see this one D?

 
I'm a sucker for these kind of movies. And I thought this one was really good. Especially when you consider it was done on a very small budget. $18,500. It's on TUBI and Youtube.

 
OneEyedDiva said:
The Beekeeper. My oldest grandson kept telling me to watch. It was already on my Prime watchlist, so I finally did. I even finished it within 24 hours. I liked the premise of making scammers pay for draining people of their assets although he went a bit too far. What I didn't like is what seems to be trending these days...overuse of the F and MF words. Jason Stratham is eye candy, liked his accent and the kick a*s action, albeit belief has to be suspended during many scenes, as with other action films. I'll definitely be checking out more of his movies though.
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Yes, one knows what one will be getting in a J. Statham movie, and he delivers every time. In a way he puts me in mind of Clifton Webb, who, after starring in Laura, he played the identical character in every role in film after that.

Granted Statham has played some good comedy roles, but he's almost always called upon to play a vengeful bad dude. Here, the story was pretty cookie cutter trite, although with a decent hook.

And I too am sick to death of the prurient and exaggerated use of foul language in film. It's become like fingernails scraping on a black board. Evidently producers and writers think that foul language makes films "hip". Good films don't need it.
 

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