What Was the Last Movie You Watched?

[gilead]

'Buy Now' Documentary - is not just about the mechanisms of modern hucksterism. It also examines the results of the addictive consumption and excessive production that drive each other in an ecologically catastrophic vicious circle. A real eye opening experience for me!

 

[Paladin1950]

The next 2 on TCM last night.

 

[Paladin1950]

 

[Marcy Sheiner]

Last night I wathed Tom Cruise in Top Gun. I know, don't laugh. I love the planes in flight and on the ship. I just love watching those planes! My brothers and father were all Navy and 3 of them were on carriers. Plus my father named me after the Enola Gay, because he was a Pearl Habror on 7 Dec 1941.

How did he get Dusty from Enola Gay??

 

[Marcy Sheiner]

I watched Dead End last nite, a 1936 film noir with Bogie and Sylvia Sydney. A little bit slow, of course, but good overall.On Prime.

 

[ChiroDoc]

Last night I watched 'Arrival'

Not at all what I expected. Slow start but a definate 9/10 - recommended.

I too enjoyed the picture, although it was rather a waste of Jeremy Renner. His part wasn't much, but I guess they wanted a name.

 

[ChiroDoc]

I finally broke down and upgraded my Prime Video subscription to eliminate the ads. It's worth the $3.00 a month since we watch a lot of videos on Prime. A YouTube upgrade to eliminate ads is $14.00, which is too frickin' much at this time, but I may give in eventually.

Yeah, with the subscription streaming services all adding commercials, it's almost back to the way it was in the days of 100% commercial TV. Except that commercial TV stations were free to watch! So putting up with commercial messages was part of the deal.

I have Amazon Prime simply because it's added as a feature for the "free" shipping deal on Amazon. If it weren't for that I wouldn't subscribe.

 

[ChiroDoc]

I watched Dead End last nite, a 1936 film noir with Bogie and Sylvia Sydney. A little bit slow, of course, but good overall.On Prime.

Great cast, including the Dead End Kids. Claire Trevor, Joel McCrea, and of course Bogie, who hadn't really hit the big time yet. The film was several years before the noir movement, but it was a black & white crime film.

 

[hearlady]

'A Merry Scottish Christmas' on Netflix. The kind of movie I like to watch while making holiday food.

 

[Magna-Carta]

I watched the movie Duel, directed by Steven Spielberg. I remember first watching it as a child and thinking at the end, "What the hell was that all about?"

I watched it again this Friday, and at the end of the movie, I thought, "What the hell was that all about?"

 

[feywon]

Just watched The Whale, Brendan Fraser 'comeback'. Emotionally honest and powerful. Still 'processing' it really.

 

[seadoug]

We went to watch Wicked at the theater on Thanksgiving. The theater wasn't very crowded and the movie was exceptional. It is very long so I got a couple of naps in!

We've seen the play twice so it was good to see how it was interpreted into a movie.

 

[JeeperDon]

'Long Shot', Charlese Theron and Seth Rogan.

 

[Paladin1950]

I watched the movie Duel, directed by Steven Spielberg. I remember first watching it as a child and thinking at the end, "What the hell was that all about?"

I watched it again this Friday, and at the end of the movie, I thought, "What the hell was that all about?"

That was by far the best of ABC's made for TV movies. I remember watching it when it first aired. I also used to have it on VHS or DVD.

 

[Gemma]

Crazy Rich Asians

 

[Sunny]

A beautiful Irish movie called The Quiet Girl. I think it was on Hulu.

 

[feywon]

Last movie I watched was "Fatal Attraction", really good but quite shocking at times.

I am kind of on a Michael Douglas binge right now, it started with "The Game", then "A Perfect Murder"
and now I think I will watch "Basic Instinct" next.

He always plays a very similar character (i.e. wealthy, serious business man) which I find funny, but his movies are really entertaining!

Have you ever seen 'The China Syndrome' ? 1979, Different kind of character-- cameraman to Jane Honda's TV news reporter character.

 

[Magna-Carta]

That was by far the best of ABC's made for TV movies. I remember watching it when it first aired. I also used to have it on VHS or DVD.

From what I read recently, it was originally a Short Story published in (for some) a well known magazine. Then adapted for TV. Soon after, due to the acclaim of the TV movie, it then had more scenes filmed and added, and was then released in cinemas.

 

[KSav]

Muriel's Wedding, a long-time favorite.

 

[OneEyedDiva]

A film people have told me I MUST watch over the years and I never got around to it. Quentin Tarantino's 'Pulp Fiction'. I put it on Netflix last night and turned it off after 50min. Rubbish.

I couldn't finish the movie either. Same with Kill Bill. I don't like Tarantino nor his films.

 

[Warrigal]

Last night I watched the Kentuckian starring Burt Lancaster. I am amazed by the standard of cinematography of films made before CGI came on the scene.

I had seen it before, but long ago.

 

[Lady]

Paddington in Peru at the Cinema..

 

[Pepper]

Watched The Whale yesterday, after being reminded above by @feywon. Though mesmerized by it, I hated it. Depressing mumbo jumbo with all kinds of tricks: fat, gay, reunion with daughter, flotation, what's next?

 

[feywon]

Watched The Whale yesterday, after being reminded above by @feywon. Though mesmerized by it, I hated it. Depressing mumbo jumbo with all kinds of tricks: fat, gay, reunion with daughter, flotation, what's next?

That's why all art forms are, like food and clothing choices, matters of individual taste. People react highly individually and often quite differently to the same stimulus (stimuli?).

I went into it expecting it to be depressing. But i found bits of humor and the honesty of how almost no-one in this world is all any one thing--because relationships are interactive so we can be 'heroes' in some people's lives and villains in other's without any intentional duplicity-- and sometimes only in either the other's perception or our own.

How many parents see themselves very differently than their children them and vice versa? How many people see themselves as selfless givers, constantly 'doing' for others. Yet to many of those on the receiving end of their 'generosity' they come off as controlling?

And it was beautifully filmed, the way the lighting changed over time in particular. And no doubt there will be debates by some of the meaning of that final shot, tho the interpretations may say more about each viewer.

 

[Pepper]

And it was beautifully filmed, the way the lighting changed over time in particular. And no doubt there will be debates by some of the meaning of that final shot, tho the interpretations may say more about each viewer.

Oh yes, beautifully filmed, extremely well acted, absolutely. The End? SPOILER ALERT
I hope he didn't fall on her when he died.