What Was the Last Movie You Watched?

Ruthanne said:
Watched The Weekend Away on Netflix this morning. A woman goes to see her girlfriend for the weekend and parties and all sorts of things happen. I liked it enough.
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I enjoyed it too. Best part, it was only 1hr 40min. I hate long movies.
 

Just watched In The Cut on Netflix. I thought it was good. For those of you who it matters to it is rated R.

It's a thriller about a serial killer who kills a bunch of women. It gets very personal for some.

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I watched The Many Saints of Newark last night, the prequel movie to The Sopranos TV series. It recreated the late 60’s time period really well, with all of the racial unrest. It was a kick to see all of the major characters from the series as younger people, which foreshadowed and hinted at their later development. Like the series, however, the prequel was a bit bloody and violent for my taste…

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Watched Did You Hear About The Morgans? It's on Netflix. I liked it a lot. About a couple who witness something and have to go into a witness protection program to stay alive. Pretty good.

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The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (Full Movie, Western, English, Entire Film) *free full westerns*​

Full Western Movie, Full Length Cowboy Film, English: The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (original title), Runtime 1h 31min, Western, 9 August 1972 (West Germany). The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid is a 1972 Technicolor Western film about the James-Younger Gang distributed by Universal Pictures. It was directed by Philip Kaufman in a cinéma vérité style and starred Cliff Robertson as Cole Younger, Robert Duvall as Jesse James, Luke Askew as Jim Younger, R. G. Armstrong as Clell Miller, John Pearce as Frank James, and Matt Clark as Bob Younger. The film purports to recreate the James-Younger Gang's most infamous escapade, the September 7, 1876, robbery of "the biggest bank west of the Mississippi" in Northfield, Minnesota. The gangs of Jesse James and Cole Younger join forces for a bungled robbery of the bank in Northfield, Minnesota. Director: Philip Kaufman Writer: Philip Kaufman Stars: Cliff Robertson, Robert Duvall, Luke Askew

 
I'm watching nothing good, finished The Scarlet Letter.
Watched the 1st season of The Last Kingdom.
The 1st season of Ragar Lothbrok.
Netflix by mail.
 
Yesterday Sunday March 13, 2022, the first day of Daylight Savings Time this year, I woke up in the dark wee hours like I’ve been doing for weeks now as I wrestle with a painful affliction I’ve been dealing with since Monday January 3, 2022 that tends to make sleep difficult. Well as is my habit, I got up from the living room couch I chose to sleep on last night and turned on two computers before returning to the couch for another hour I can use the sides of to not aggravate the right shoulder supraspinatus tendonitis I’d developed January 6 on only my second ski day this droughty winter. And sadly, have not been back since as my health is far more important.

Instead, I grabbed my smartphone and on email saw another message from my senior medical provider, Kaiser Permanente about the last of 17 blood test reports to come in? Ok, so logged on and found yet another report showing yet another factor in my blood out of normal range. Back to 1/3/2022, something really strange made all my right hand fingertips quite painful that for the last 3 months I’ve been experimenting taking Ibuprofen and an NSAID cream for the pain, wondering if like the tendonitis would heal and go away. And note, healthy fit me, not only rarely takes medicines, I avoid doing so if at all possible. Well, that didn’t work as March began. Doing web research, I thought I might have a condition termed asymmetric distal interphalangeal predominant (DIP) psoriatic arthritis, so printed out a technical sheet of my fitting symptoms, I gave to my doctor. Upon the appointment, she needed a lot more info so immediately had me filling up tubes of blood and getting X-rays.

And that latest test factor pointed me to several more web pages with complex molecular biology I can somewhat absorb. That led me to a page that mentioned AML so had me thinking I was developing the same genetic acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cancer disease that killed my beloved mother in 2011 at age 84. That was rather technical and I would need to re-read it more and in any case would know much more over my follow-up doctor's appointment Wednesday. So spent the day with a sad empty feeling, thinking my sunset was approaching much sooner than I expected. Mid day walked a few blocks to our town’s crowded outdoor Sunday farmer’s market where I ran into a fellow photographer I’ve known for years in his art booth. I told him about my coming doom that ended all the public exhibition plans I’d talked about in the past that now would never happen. Walked home with an unpleasant empty disconnected feeling in the pit of my stomach.

After watching a half hour TV mass, I went back to re-read the technical web pages and that is when I noticed I had not read enough the first time and although my condition might end up as AML, that is only a late stage possibility. Actually, the blood tests pointed to an opposite blood condition than leukemia with too many blood cells called polycythemia vera, though still need to wait for the far more expert diagnosis from my doctor. Also, a fatal condition if untreated but with modern medicine and occasional phlebotomy blood letting, not so. I’m going to LIVE!

That brought me to this evening, sluggish, sleepy, so tv off, looked on youtube for a sci-fi movie I could watch on my 24” external monitor from my laptop, while curled up on my couch. Since I’d already seen almost all the free sci-fi movies, went past dozens before seeing the below Beyond The Stars. A 1989 UK film with Martin Sheen and Sharon Stone I expected was likely well done? Dated yeah but I don’t think I’d ever watched it, so what the heck. Rottentomatoes snippets:

Beyond the Stars

1989, Drama, 1h 28m. Plot:
This science fiction drama centers on Eric, teenage son of a computer scientist who worked for the Apollo program which sent the first humans to the Moon. Eric, determined to become an astronaut himself one day, befriends Paul Andrews, the thirteenth man on the Moon. Paul is avoided by other astronauts nowadays because he was very rude and rebuffing when he returned from space. Eric slowly learns that Paul discovered something during his excursion on the Moon that he keeps as a secret.

The movie was filmed in and around Huntsville, Alabama and the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, and outside of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Cast:

• Christian Slater as Eric Michaels
• Martin Sheen as Paul Andrews
• Robert Foxworth as Richard Michaels
• Sharon Stone as Laurie McCall
• Olivia d'Abo as Mara Simons
• F. Murray Abraham as Dr. Harry Bertram
• Don S. Davis as Phil Clawson
• William S. Taylor as Dr. Willis
• Babz Chula as Anne Michaels
• Terence Kelly as Al Fletcher

Movie begins with flashback decades earlier while astronaut Paul Andrews in a small crater is trying to extract some weirdly glowing object under a boulder that apparently made the crater from some extraterrestrial collision. A solar radiation storm is approaching and he doesn’t make it back inside the LEM spacecraft in time. What happens to him or the object is not clear, but clues slowly appear in the film till the end. Andrews has strongly negative memories of NASA after returning he dislikes recalling and apparently has some fatal affliction.

Much of the story follows various human relationship issues like the communication issues between Eric and his father Richard that as a NASA scientist had issues with the astronauts. Richard is divorced from Eric’s mom Anne, while both parents have new prospective mates. Eric meets Mara a friend of bitter recluse alcoholic Andrews and after a warm beginning have usual immature communication teen-aged falling outs. Eric who has a dream of becoming an astronaut, sees Andrews as a hero. Laurie, in love with Richard, in particular has a key role bringing people together. Eric and Mara’s obvious growing love is well presented in a wholesome way without the way one usually sees in this over-sexed centric era.

During a party with all, along the beautiful Pacific Coast setting, Andrews becomes so drunk, he begins opening up crudely about revelations he had in the crater about love being the most important aspect of human existence that an audience would have trouble making sense of. Another scene has Andrews bringing Eric to meet Al, an eccentric humpback whale communication scientist where Al rants about a lack of human respect for our fellow Earth creatures. The ending brought this well crafted story to an end that had this man that had been in such a sad state this day of losing my supremely precious existence into tears. Yes I, an admitedly skeptical science person, but as someone seeking eternal life as offered by Jesus, believe THEY are out there, though not quite as our religious ancestors have recorded and religions demand dogma be, but rather a race of UIE’s. How remarkable a coincidence, I would be guided to watch this movie on such a day of my life!
 
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On Quite on The Western Front-1930 with Lew Ayres

One of the first films of merit depicting young men dying for no real reason...
Poignant, especially in 1930
Pitiable scene of solider trying to avoid being carried to the 'dying room'- unsuccessful.

A film of a quaint time when soldiers only killed other soldiers
 
Cry Macho 2021, with 91 year old Clint Eastwood

Eastwood transports kid in Mexico back to father in states (yawn)
Romantic interest, old Eastwood hooks with with female. (yawn)

I guess the old rascal gets praise for doing anything at his age.
 
Just finished 'Greyhound', a Tom Hanks movie about a Captain of a Destroyer escorting a convoy to Britian, WWII.

No fluff, not much backstory, but it works.

Just an intense story about Command in a critical time.
Screenplay by Tom Hanks.

Once again, I was drawn in, where I forget he's an actor and he IS the character.

A very rare thing in today's movies.
 
I started watching "In the Valley of Elah" with Tommy Lee Jones. It was awful. I gave up after 10 minutes. Definitely not my type of movie; bad language. I suppose a certain class of people might like it. Not me; sorry!
 

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Finished The Client
Nomad Land
Now watching in parts while for lunch or dinner.
Macbeth
One Day
Watched last year.
 
I am kinda a film critic and m drawn to the independent movies on youtube. One such channel is called

Indie Rights Movies For Free
86K subscribers

They almost all have new cell phones, and the plots are sometimes very intriguing. They are very low budget, with B/B- actors. I am intrigued with what the support as worthy films to present, and some are very good. I just finished this one....i thought it was a very modern plot, and well scripted.

 
The Guilty, American remake of a Euopean film i watched months ago. Both very good, tho slight changes in American version which is just a few minutes longer. This version stars Jake Gyllenhall, who doesa ggood job of it.

Basically a character study of troubled Police officer manning 911 phone, while awaiting hearing on shooting a civilian. It also makes some good points about assumptions easily made and how important as!ing the right questions can be. Can't say much more without giving spoilers. But if you like intense, taught dramas this is onea, but not a heavy with action.

There is a line near the end that adds a dimension to discussions of how traumatized people can traumatize others: "Broken people fix broken people." I would have qualified it with the word sometimes. It was synchonistic because earier in the day had been part of discussion about how no matter how compassionate you are it is wise to have boundaries. Just because somone has or is suffering doesn't make it ok for them to hurt others.
 
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David777 said:
Yesterday Sunday March 13, 2022, the first day of Daylight Savings Time this year, I woke up in the dark wee hours like I’ve been doing for weeks now as I wrestle with a painful affliction I’ve been dealing with since Monday January 3, 2022 that tends to make sleep difficult. Well as is my habit, I got up from the living room couch I chose to sleep on last night and turned on two computers before returning to the couch for another hour I can use the sides of to not aggravate the right shoulder supraspinatus tendonitis I’d developed January 6 on only my second ski day this droughty winter. And sadly, have not been back since as my health is far more important.

Instead, I grabbed my smartphone and on email saw another message from my senior medical provider, Kaiser Permanente about the last of 17 blood test reports to come in? Ok, so logged on and found yet another report showing yet another factor in my blood out of normal range. Back to 1/3/2022, something really strange made all my right hand fingertips quite painful that for the last 3 months I’ve been experimenting taking Ibuprofen and an NSAID cream for the pain, wondering if like the tendonitis would heal and go away. And note, healthy fit me, not only rarely takes medicines, I avoid doing so if at all possible. Well, that didn’t work as March began. Doing web research, I thought I might have a condition termed asymmetric distal interphalangeal predominant (DIP) psoriatic arthritis, so printed out a technical sheet of my fitting symptoms, I gave to my doctor. Upon the appointment, she needed a lot more info so immediately had me filling up tubes of blood and getting X-rays.

And that latest test factor pointed me to several more web pages with complex molecular biology I can somewhat absorb. That led me to a page that mentioned AML so had me thinking I was developing the same genetic acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cancer disease that killed my beloved mother in 2011 at age 84. That was rather technical and I would need to re-read it more and in any case would know much more over my follow-up doctor's appointment Wednesday. So spent the day with a sad empty feeling, thinking my sunset was approaching much sooner than I expected. Mid day walked a few blocks to our town’s crowded outdoor Sunday farmer’s market where I ran into a fellow photographer I’ve known for years in his art booth. I told him about my coming doom that ended all the public exhibition plans I’d talked about in the past that now would never happen. Walked home with an unpleasant empty disconnected feeling in the pit of my stomach.

After watching a half hour TV mass, I went back to re-read the technical web pages and that is when I noticed I had not read enough the first time and although my condition might end up as AML, that is only a late stage possibility. Actually, the blood tests pointed to an opposite blood condition than leukemia with too many blood cells called polycythemia vera, though still need to wait for the far more expert diagnosis from my doctor. Also, a fatal condition if untreated but with modern medicine and occasional phlebotomy blood letting, not so. I’m going to LIVE!

That brought me to this evening, sluggish, sleepy, so tv off, looked on youtube for a sci-fi movie I could watch on my 24” external monitor from my laptop, while curled up on my couch. Since I’d already seen almost all the free sci-fi movies, went past dozens before seeing the below Beyond The Stars. A 1989 UK film with Martin Sheen and Sharon Stone I expected was likely well done? Dated yeah but I don’t think I’d ever watched it, so what the heck. Rottentomatoes snippets:

Beyond the Stars

1989, Drama, 1h 28m. Plot:
This science fiction drama centers on Eric, teenage son of a computer scientist who worked for the Apollo program which sent the first humans to the Moon. Eric, determined to become an astronaut himself one day, befriends Paul Andrews, the thirteenth man on the Moon. Paul is avoided by other astronauts nowadays because he was very rude and rebuffing when he returned from space. Eric slowly learns that Paul discovered something during his excursion on the Moon that he keeps as a secret.

The movie was filmed in and around Huntsville, Alabama and the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, and outside of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Cast:

• Christian Slater as Eric Michaels
• Martin Sheen as Paul Andrews
• Robert Foxworth as Richard Michaels
• Sharon Stone as Laurie McCall
• Olivia d'Abo as Mara Simons
• F. Murray Abraham as Dr. Harry Bertram
• Don S. Davis as Phil Clawson
• William S. Taylor as Dr. Willis
• Babz Chula as Anne Michaels
• Terence Kelly as Al Fletcher

Movie begins with flashback decades earlier while astronaut Paul Andrews in a small crater is trying to extract some weirdly glowing object under a boulder that apparently made the crater from some extraterrestrial collision. A solar radiation storm is approaching and he doesn’t make it back inside the LEM spacecraft in time. What happens to him or the object is not clear, but clues slowly appear in the film till the end. Andrews has strongly negative memories of NASA after returning he dislikes recalling and apparently has some fatal affliction.

Much of the story follows various human relationship issues like the communication issues between Eric and his father Richard that as a NASA scientist had issues with the astronauts. Richard is divorced from Eric’s mom Anne, while both parents have new prospective mates. Eric meets Mara a friend of bitter recluse alcoholic Andrews and after a warm beginning have usual immature communication teen-aged falling outs. Eric who has a dream of becoming an astronaut, sees Andrews as a hero. Laurie, in love with Richard, in particular has a key role bringing people together. Eric and Mara’s obvious growing love is well presented in a wholesome way without the way one usually sees in this over-sexed centric era.

During a party with all, along the beautiful Pacific Coast setting, Andrews becomes so drunk, he begins opening up crudely about revelations he had in the crater about love being the most important aspect of human existence that an audience would have trouble making sense of. Another scene has Andrews bringing Eric to meet Al, an eccentric humpback whale communication scientist where Al rants about a lack of human respect for our fellow Earth creatures. The ending brought this well crafted story to an end that had this man that had been in such a sad state this day of losing my supremely precious existence into tears. Yes I, an admitedly skeptical science person, but as someone seeking eternal life as offered by Jesus, believe THEY are out there, though not quite as our religious ancestors have recorded and religions demand dogma be, but rather a race of UIE’s. How remarkable a coincidence, I would be guided to watch this movie on such a day of my life!
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I just read this about your condition, David777. Sorry that you're experiencing it. I tend to do the same thing - read articles on any conditions I may be experiencing. I've been told not to base a diagnosis on just blood tests, but to see the overall picture and followup with other tests. Good luck!
 
One tube of blood is still out for key testing but won't return for a week or two. That is for DNA genetic testing where they will be looking at about a dozen different sequences. That will point to whether my fate is optimistic as is most probable or in less likely mutation situations, pessimistic with life more likely short. Until those test arrive, Monday I meet with a talented hematologist who is likely to initially set me up for a bone biopsy with a big needle into my pelvis.

And as for that Beyond The Stars movie, highly recommended and is free to watch on that above youtube link.
 

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