What Was the Last Movie You Watched?

Ruthanne said:
On Netflix--An El Camino Christmas. ...... Didn't like it. Too violent for me.
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I too dislike violence. I haven't seen that film and I definitely won't. I started watching two films back-to-back recently and I stopped them both in the first 5 minutes because of violence. Don't need it, don't want it. The same with sex scenes. I don't need to see 10 or 15 minutes of bumping and grunting in the bedroom in order to accept that two characters in the film are having an affair or that they love each other. If I have the urge to see a porn film I can do that instead .... and not be distracted by "a plot". BTW: Car chases and long, drawn-out fist fights put me to sleep zzzzzzzzz ........
 

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Verisure said:
I too dislike violence. I haven't seen that film and I definitely won't. I started watching two films back-to-back recently and I stopped them both in the first 5 minutes because of violence. Don't need it, don't want it. The same with sex scenes. I don't need to see 10 or 15 minutes of bumping and grunting in the bedroom in order to accept that two characters in the film are having an affair or that they love each other. If I have the urge to see a porn film I can do that instead .... and not be distracted by "a plot". BTW: Car chases and long, drawn-out fist fights put me to sleep zzzzzzzzz ........
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I have been steering clear of violent films for some time so when I watched El Camino I was repulsed. I don't even know why I watched the entire movie. Only good thing about it was that at the end it got a bit better.
 
Good Sam on Netflix. I really liked it a lot. About a good Samaritan and what he does to help others.
 

Ruthanne said:
I have been steering clear of violent films for some time ......
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I don't even understand why such films are made. What is their purpose? Maybe I'm just an old fuddy-duddy but there are several more things in modern films that turn me off:

* 20-minute fight scene at the end of a film. He's dead! No, he's not! Now he is! No, he's still not! Yes, he is! Nope!
* The fight scene in darkness.
* The "hand-held" camera technique & the quick snip, almost strobe-flash sequences that give me a headache.
 
Ruthanne said:
Good Sam on Netflix. I really liked it a lot. About a good Samaritan and what he does to help others.
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Thanks for that recommendation. I'll keep an eye out for it. (I don't have Netflix, but I have a few channels that show movies.)

I dislike violence in movies, too, nor do I enjoy sex scenes, and I especially do not like the two in combination. :cautious:

Therefore, it counts out a lot of movies and shows. :(

I think I might like Good Sam. (y)
Thanks again, Ruthanne.:)
 
News Of The World. Tom Hanks stars as a man who is making his way to his home in south Texas after the Civil War. Along the way he stops in towns and reads newspapers to the citizens to make a little money. At one stop he is convinced to escort a young girl who had been a captive of Indians for several years to her relatives along the way. The trip was dangerous and they encountered difficulties. The movie was based on the book of the same name by Paulette Jiles (one of my favorite authors). The book was much better than the movie, IMO.
 
Kaila said:
Thanks for that recommendation. I'll keep an eye out for it. (I don't have Netflix, but I have a few channels that show movies.)

I dislike violence in movies, too, nor do I enjoy sex scenes, and I especially do not like the two in combination. :cautious:

Therefore, it counts out a lot of movies and shows. :(

I think I might like Good Sam. (y)
Thanks again, Ruthanne.:)
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I think Good Sam would be a good film for you. It's mysterious, too, but no violence and I don't believe it had any sex scenes either. I really enjoyed it.😃
 
Winter's Bone
Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes - excellent.
cinematography is great, captures the landscape, the people and the hopelessness of people who do not know their hopeless.

A meth cooking father makes bond and gets out of jail, then disappears.
His shack and land was used as surety for his bond, if he fails to appear for court date, forfeiting his bond-he does not appear.
If daddy does not appear in court and explain why he missed his court date, the bails bondmen will seize the house, putting
his family out in the winter.

The other household members, a senile mother, a young boy and girl and a teenage daughter.
The movie is about search for daddy by the teenage daughter.

Movie is bleak, harrowing and not for the easily disturbed. It is Grit Lit at it's best.






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Pepper said:
I'm loving it! Will see second half tonight. Ashamed to say I can't sit through a whole movie at home. I get distracted.
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I think I would have liked a better story, not just about the bad stuff at the end of their marriage. I have watched the documentary their daughter did of their home movies over and over. I think a movie about them meeting and falling in love would be better, at least for me. I love romance! Even if it doesn't last.
 
Due to my ADD, I tend to watch more than one movie at a time, usually getting through about 23-25 minutes of each per viewing until I finally see the end. This happens with rare exceptions. I'm currently watching Blood Moon (have about 20 minutes left) and The Titanic with more than an hour to go. I just finished watching Crawl. Wasn't impressed so FF through some of the movie.
 
Pepper said:
I'm loving it! Will see second half tonight. Ashamed to say I can't sit through a whole movie at home. I get distracted.
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I saw it at the theater. Loved it. Thought the Lucy, Desi, Fred and Ethel actors were great and the whole back story about the production of the show was very interesting. Especially the part about introducing Lucy's pregnancy, but I won't spoil it.
 
Child 44
Serial killer targets young boy...during the Stalin era where there was no crime in Russia...
Policeman tries to investigate murders, difficult as he has to do it not attracting his superiors notice-how to investigate
crime if there is no crime in Russia?

(Also depicts of the pressure to denounce people in the Stalin Era-the policeman's wife has been denounced as a spy. If he too does not denounce her there will be repercussions. He chooses not to denounce his spouse; shipped to Siberia, stripped of rank...
This was secondary plot, but far more interesting that the search for the serial killer.)

Movies is grubby, life is daily struggles and always the suspicion that you will be denounced and carried off to gulag .
He finds killer... I was much more interested in the depictions of people fear of being reported as anti-revolutionaries.
 
Kaila said:
Thanks for that recommendation. I'll keep an eye out for it. (I don't have Netflix, but I have a few channels that show movies.)

I dislike violence in movies, too, nor do I enjoy sex scenes, and I especially do not like the two in combination. :cautious:

Therefore, it counts out a lot of movies and shows. :(

I think I might like Good Sam. (y)
Thanks again, Ruthanne.:)
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I cancelled Netflix and Hulu. I will have to wait unless I can find some of these movies on Amazon Prime. Watching sex scenes in movies is boring to me. I am o.k. with some violence if it is not gratuitous. For instance, I love the John Wick movies where the violence appears to be righteous. Besides, I adore Keanu Reeves who works very hard to do his own physical work in a scene. He is almost a Senior!:)
 

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