What Was the Last Movie You Watched?

"The Handmaiden" (2016) Korean film, subtitled. I watched it on Amazon Prime. It's a psychological thriller with wonderful actors and absolutely gorgeous cinematography. I'm calling it a love story. It won't be to everyone's taste, but it's an excellent film.

The Times - Kate Muir - "The South Korean director Park Chan-wook is better known for twisted masterpieces of balletic violence such as Oldboy. Here, he adapts the Sarah Waters novel Fingersmith, which was set in Victorian England, and reimagines the tale in Japanese-occupied Korea in the 1930s. The result is a lush, silken, erotic, disturbing, beautifully photographed drama of betrayal and passion."

 
The Takeover on Netflix. Takes place in the Netherlands. About a hacker who gets framed for murder after discovering something important. I thought it was good.
 
Winter Hunt, streamed on Prime Video last night.

On a cold, wintry night, Lena shows up on the doorstep of the Rossberg family mansion. She claims her car has broken down, but her arrival is intentional. Lena is in pursuit of Anselm Rossberg, an aged Auschwitz guard who lives with his daughter, Maria. Anselm and Maria both deny Anselm's past, but Lena is determined to get him to confess, even as her own weapon is turned on her and she is forced into a moral dilemma.

Pretty good movie.
 
Watching this one right now

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Couple guys are the real deal
The third guy just plays at it
But, good show

Heh
One comment that struck me;

'At sixty, I'm not a young man anymore.
I've gotta be careful up here'

He was using gin poles to put up his rafters

Wife and I just used our backs and braun....I was pushing 70



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It's funny, when you know winter snows are comin', you don't think much about how you get things done ....as much as when..


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You Light Up My Life (1977) with Didi Conn, Joe Silver, Michael Zaslow (Roger Thorpe on The Guiding Light) and Stephen Nathan. Amazon Prime.

A romance about a young woman in show business. I enjoyed it.
 
For this person that doesn't watch much tv much less movies, last night was an unusual binge as I needed to get away from endless hours typing sitting at my computer that was stressing a visceral area. Had not seen any of the 3 movies. Youtube is a complicated place to be searching and browsing about in and somehow after going around in circles moving through windows, the full movies started up even though I was not Google logged in and was just supposed to be looking at a short preview clips. Today I wasn't able to bring up any of the below 3 (buy or rent) movies for free showing I'd gotten into some weird mode haha.

First movie was a 90 minute 2022 low budget Deus: The Dark Sphere with Claudia Black who was a frequent (annoying) member of the TV Stargate cast, I've much watched. Not recommended. Plot is a small group is sent from Earth that is overpopulated with 22 billion humans to a black sphere orbiting Mars. Part of a maniacs's plan to dupe 15 billion of them back on Earth into walking into nothingness they think is Heaven. Usually dislike sci-fi that sends out space crews with a bunch of overly emotion lunatics without much common sense. Dialogue of a drunk person with unnecessary F!@# language. Film makers think that mirrors their comic book level audiences.

Second movie was the well received by intelligent folk, 2013 Sci-fi, Oblivion with Tom Cruise. A complicated plot with a surprising entertaining AI twist. Well produced and directed at the level of the award winning Gravity. Terrific sun illuminated photography without usual dim darkness, mostly shot at Iceland volcanic wastelands.

The last movie was the extremely popular action 2 hour 2007 Live Free or Die Hard with Bruce Willis that kept me up till midnight. Everyone likes the way he plays his character with constant fun dialogue as he deals with bad guys. The plot of a Internet era cyber criminal organization taking over a whole range of cluelessly run USA infrastructure greatly exaggerated what is possible with hacking. His at first unwilling sidekick is of course the wonder boy that miraculously is able to get into any computers or devices. In reality nonsense, but what an unsavvy public audience would easily believe 15 years ago. But very entertaining with a constant series excuses for unlikely gun and explosive action scenes that tends to dominate that genre started with James Bond films.
 
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Today, I watched ‘Where The Crawdads Sing’ on Netflix. I have read the book. The book is good.
The movie was one of the worst adaptations of a novel I’ve ever seen.
On the plus side, the cinematography was good. And the actors were good.
I can’t recommend the movie.
 
I watched the series called Finding Ola on Netflix. I really enjoyed it. It takes place somewhere in the middle east. The next season will be coming out soon. So far there is one season.
 
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