What Was the Last Movie You Watched?

We watched the new release of "THUNDER FORCE" - with Melissa McCarthy, Octavia Spencer and Jason Bateman. Kind of a spoof on the super-hero theme, it was laugh-out-loud funny! The two women did a pre-opening interview on Stephen Colbert and it was hilarious how Melissa played a prank on Octavia with the Lamborghini. The car is so low to the ground, both women had trouble getting in and, especially, out of it. Jason Bateman's character began as a joke but he took it in stride and made it funny too! Light hearted distraction.
 
Finally got around to watching Radium Girls on Netflix. It is also on Amazon, but for a rental fee. It is based on the true story of girls who worked in a watch factory, painting the numbers on the dials with luminescent paint containing radium. The proper process was to dip the brush into the paint, lick the brush to make a point, then paint. This was back in the 20's
Many girls became sick and died from radium poisoning, though the company denied it. It is said, that if you go over the graves of the girls with a geiger counter, it will register the radium in their bodies...and will for the next thousand years.

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Marie5656 said:
Finally got around to watching Radium Girls on Netflix. It is also on Amazon, but for a rental fee. It is based on the true story of girls who worked in a watch factory, painting the numbers on the dials with luminescent paint containing radium. The proper process was to dip the brush into the paint, lick the brush to make a point, then paint. This was back in the 20's
Many girls became sick and died from radium poisoning, though the company denied it. It is said, that if you go over the graves of the girls with a geiger counter, it will register the radium in their bodies...and will for the next thousand years.

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It's amazing some of the dangerous chemicals people had to work with years ago that died as a result. Yet they showed up and did the work anyway despite the danger.
 
MarciKS said:
It's amazing some of the dangerous chemicals people had to work with years ago that died as a result. Yet they showed up and did the work anyway despite the danger.
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Thus the term "mad as a hatter" or "the mad hatter". Hats were made of felt, mercury was often used in the production of felt. The hatters absorbed the mercury through the skin of their hands and suffered from mercury poisoning, which can lead to strange behavior. The poor workers also suffered from balls of fiber building up in their stomachs, from licking their fingers to pick up pieces of felt. The fibers would form balls in the stomach, irritating the stomach.
 
We just finished The Robbery four part series on Netflix. It's the true story of a $500 million art heist, from a museum in Boston in 1990, which remains unsolved. None of the art has been found. The Mafia is suspected of perpetrating the crime, and the series focuses on some likely characters, but no one has ever been charged, partially because most of them have been murdered or died of natural causes. It's pretty well done and intriguing. Maybe someone will see it and recognize some of the artwork and provide some info.
 
We just got done with Nomad. It didn't live up to the hype at all. I got bored with it half way through and wanted to turn it off, but since we bought the damn movie, I stuck it out.

Part of the problem was they didn't explain what the main character's problem was. Why was she such a loner?
 
I've always liked Johnny Depp. Tonight I saw him in a movie based on a true story. It was a mob movie called Black Mass. On TubiTV. It was good. If I hadn't know it was a Depp movie I wouldn't have recognized him.
 
K9--K9 PI--K9 911 Jim Belushi (Netflix)

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We just watched the Sound of Metal, which has been nominated for several Academy Awards. It was okay—somewhat thought provoking, but still just okay.

So far, my pick for best picture is The Trial of the Chicago 7. That was highly entertaining. Mank was pretty good, but not as entertaining.
 
Myquest55 said:
We watched the new release of "THUNDER FORCE" - with Melissa McCarthy, Octavia Spencer and Jason Bateman. Kind of a spoof on the super-hero theme, it was laugh-out-loud funny! The two women did a pre-opening interview on Stephen Colbert and it was hilarious how Melissa played a prank on Octavia with the Lamborghini. The car is so low to the ground, both women had trouble getting in and, especially, out of it. Jason Bateman's character began as a joke but he took it in stride and made it funny too! Light hearted distraction.
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Bateman was hilarious in that movie. The date seen with Melissa McCarthy had me in stiches.
 

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