What Was the Last Movie You Watched?

I watched about 90% of a movie on the flight home from Mexico, called "Carmen". It was a very strange, dark movie with a lot of beautiful dancing and singing and now I'm going to have to find it on Netflix or somewhere to see how it ends. I'm pretty sure it's going to be....tragic....
 

Watched Old Henry last night

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Starring Tim Blake Nelson

Recognized his unmistakable voice
from his part in O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Quite the part swing
True talent

Good movie
Not yer typical western
 
I found the movie "Outsourced" a few days ago when looking for training video's for teaching foreigners to do telemarketing and customer support. It is a good movie, funny and very respectful. With a heart warming romance to boot.

Outsourced | Full Romantic Comedy Movie | Asif Basra ( rated 7.0- free )​

 
To Each Her Own. It's on Netflix. I thought it was very good. A lot of surprises in this one and even more for Simone's Jewish family.
 
Witness for the Prosecution is a 1957 American legal mystery thriller film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester. The film, which has elements of bleak black comedy and film noir, is a courtroom drama set in the Old Bailey in London and is based on the 1953 play of the same name by Agatha Christie.

Witness for the Prosecution (1957) ⭐ 8.4 | Crime, Drama, Mystery
 
Gran Torino 2008
Clint Eastwood

I couldn't help but see how the Tom Hanks movie, A Man Called Otto, was similar to this. But this movie had more grit. It was a true Clint Eastwood themed movie setting up for a revenge scene ending so the story was compelling.
 
@Packerjohn A great movie and the interplay between Charles Laughton (Barrister) and his nurse Elsa Lanchester, makes an enjoyable
set-up for the drama of the Trial.
Wonder if John Mortimer had Charles Laughton's character in mind when he wrote all the 'Rompole of the Bailey'
books?
Leo McKern in the TV series is almost a copy of the character and I have all the episodes of Rumpole.

We have a British Pub here in Nashville called Fleet Street and on my first visit there, I told the bartender to pour me a
Fuller's ESB (that they had on Tap) and asked him if Pommeroy’s Wine Bar was anywhere close.

'I don't think so' was the answer. I just smiled.
 
Unforgiven 1992 👍👍👍👍
Clint Eastwood

I never watched this film from start to finish. Somehow, I only caught parts of it. So I never appreciated how it won Best Picture.

But I recently bought 2 Clint Eastwood DVDs for one price.

Unforgiven was much better than I ever thought of it before. It evokes so many emotions at all different times throughout the film.

And then there is all the ambiguity of right and wrong.

Gene Hackman's best role.
Morgan Freeman very good.

Even knowing what the ending was like from having seen it before, I had a completely different reaction to the ending having seen all the events that led up to it.
 
The Eagle (2011) is now playing on Netflix, and is a great movie for fans of sword and sandals movies like Gladiator. In the movie because of honor and stuff, a Roman soldier/leader son goes looking for the lost golden eagle standard of his father’s Ninth Legion that mysteriously went missing in 2nd century Roman occupied Britain. The characters are fictitious, but the scenario is based on a true and fascinating story…

It’s a great guy movie, with lots of sword fighting and blood and testosterone flying. There’s nary a woman in sight, just manly men doing their thing ancient Roman-style…

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I like to root around and find oldies I have missed. One I watched last night is really a sorta kinda Christmas movie: "I'll Be Seeing You" (1944). It shows a slice of wartime life back home, and deals with a couple of social stigma that were even tougher to own up to back then. But it ends well! There is a chaste but sincere romantic story there. Great tune, too.
 
Asteroid City. This is my fourth Wes Anderson movie. He's an acquired taste for sure. I can't NOT watch him, even though I'm not even sure I like him. He has Hollywood actors standing in line to be in his films. Maybe it's a rite of passage to be in a Wes Anderson film. I loved Moonrise Kingdom, the rest, I don't know what to think. Sometimes I laugh at his situations. Sometimes I chuckle. But mostly I wonder. He hires the most talented actors, but then trains them to act like wooden figures speaking in robot monotones. His films are like satires of films. It's hard to describe.
 
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